Will Teague is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

On December 8, 1876, Bristol police arrested the bookseller Henry Cook for selling the American birth control booklet Fruits of Philosophy. (Victorian readers knew the latter noun was a byword for ...

Garrett Epps is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He teaches constitutional law and creative writing for law students at the University of Baltimore. His latest book is American Justice 2014 ...

[Gerard W. Gawalt is the manuscript specialist for early American history in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.] Ruthless, unconventional foes are not new to the United States of America.

Twenty-eight years ago this month, President Reagan introduced the world to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) saying that he was challenging the scientists “who gave us nuclear weapons ...