As a historian of American culture and of the Civil War in particular, it has been hard to know how…
Daniel Gorman Jr. If there is an upside to the first two months of the Trump administration, it is…
This past weekend’s football frenzy—the NFL playoffs (huzzah for the Patriots!) and the college football championship game (congratulations to THE…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that historians are not particularly fashion-forward. The sartorial stereotypes persist: the tweed jacket with…
Beginning this week, I will be writing a regular column for JSTOR Daily, a new online magazine that “features topical…