Livia Gershon

As more Black men gained the right to vote in New York, the state began to change its laws to reduce their power or disenfranchise them completely.

In the 1960s and ’70s, guides began wearing period costumes and farming with historical techniques, a change that coincided with the back-to-the-land movement.

As the United States prepared to enter World War I, the government created the first modern state propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information.

The history of garbage dumps is the history of America.

The nineteenth-century establishment of mid-Atlantic coal mines and canals gave America its first taste of abundant fossil fuel energy.

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity helps us understand how capitalism emerged.

Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

In the late 1800s, advice writers targeting white, middle-class Americans began encouraging men to become more engaged in the emotional lives of their households.

In the 1960s, the government proposed the construction of two dams in the Grand Canyon, potentially flooding much of Grand Canyon National Park.

Native to Paraguay, Ka’a he’e followed a circuitous path through Indigenous medicine, Japanese food science, and American marketing to reach the US sweeteners market.

Many servicemen became addicted to opioids prescribed during the war. Society viewed their dependency as a lack of manliness.