Livia Gershon

Abortion was first criminalized in the mid 1900s amidst concerns that too many white women were ending their pregnancies.

Today, we tend to assume dieting is for women, but in the 1860s, it was a masculine pursuit.

Trump ally Carl Higbie recently cited Japanese internment camps during World War II as a “precedent” for a proposed registry of Muslims in the U.S.

Ever since Kennedy-Nixon, televised debates have given viewers an insight into candidates' policies—and their personalities, too.

Sociological data from immediately after the riots in Watts, Los Angeles, in 1965 show major disparities in attitude by race.

How history textbooks reinforced narratives of racism, and the fight to change those books from the 1940s to the present.

The holiday emerged not from the 17th century, but rather from concerns over immigration and urbanization in the 19th century.