Henry Ford

The two decades leading up to WWII featured numerous connections between America and Nazi Germany that reveal Nazism was never simply a foreign or enemy force.

On William Gibson, Sonic Youth, and the genesis of the American suburb.

Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.

The inventor did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.

In 1790, as the First Amendment was being ratified, George Washington made a promise to American Jews.

The National Conservatism Conference in Washington had a very 1930s vibe.

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.

Long before “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” holiday songs played a part in the War on Christmas.

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.

Well off Savannah's tourist trail, there's a replica of an antebellum plantation home in the middle of a public housing project.

It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.

The word 'history' evolved from an ancient Greek verb, but its definition has changed over the years

By all accounts, young Bill Owens was a natural song-catcher, trawling across Texas in the 1930s, the golden era of American field recording.

If radicalism meant insecurity, and immigration meant radicalism, the government's course was clear.

Why has Michigan continued to draw so many immigrants from the Arab world, creating one of the largest Arab communities outside the Middle East?

Why we pay.

How a cartoon gamine midwifed the graphic novel—and the modern conservative movement.

Tracing the long strange trip of the American Southwest, from military camels to retirees in RVs.