The Early American Origins of Political Terms
What does stump speech and pork barrel mean? A short lexicon of American political terms.
Reading the Landscape
For the past two months, I have been on a researching road trip through the West and Southwest—Colorado, ...
Visualizing History
Nineteenth-century visual images, then, had power to move people to action, to convert ideas into policy.
Finding Your Place in Letters
For scholars of American history, letter-writing makes historical research possible.
Adventures in Historical Research
Megan Kate Nelson, a historian of Civil War and the American Southwest, is behind the (Un)Catalogued Column for JSTOR Daily.
Green Burial and the North-South Divide
Embalming practices were first introduced in the US during the Civil War to preserve bodies for transportation.