A look back on Nellie Bly and the era of "stunt-reporting."

In spring 1920, three men disembarked from a train in a high desert town. They had come on behalf of their friend Anson Mills, who had asked them to find his brother's grave.

Rediscovering the Gustavinos contributions to architecture.

How claims records and other documents serve as historical sources.

How could John Baylor have done such terrible thing and simultaneously be so effusively affectionate in his letters home?

What does stump speech and pork barrel mean? A short lexicon of American political terms.

For the past two months, I have been on a researching road trip through the West and Southwest—Colorado, ...

Nineteenth-century visual images, then, had power to move people to action, to convert ideas into policy.

Where did the Secret Service come from?

For scholars of American history, letter-writing makes historical research possible.