Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park, but was too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan. Jewish-led Palestine solidarity ...

Literary criticism and the practice of law would seem to have little in common. One embraces its subjective stance, while the other appeals to a fixed code of conduct. Yet there are signs of overlap ...

Carolyn Barske Crawford is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Alabama. Chestnut Trees in Bloom, by William Henry Holmes. [Smithsonian American Art Museum] At one time, more than ...

In the late 1870s, the 70-year-old newspaper editor Henry Boernstein sat down to write about German immigrants’ efforts to shape the United States into a less brutal, more enlightened republic in the ...