“If you remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there.” This famous quip says much about our rose-tinted nostalgia for the decade. The fun-loving hedonism of Woodstock and Beatlemania may be etched into ...

Nonviolence -- Workers unite -- Civil rights -- The rights of women -- The environment -- Freedom of speech -- Gay pride -- Immigration and the "other" -- No nukes -- Into the twenty-first century ...

In 1926 Carter G. Woodson, the son of former slaves and a college professor, started Negro History Week, which eventually became Black History Month. Woodson chose February for this event because that ...

Two SUNY Cortland history professors have won a large, competitive grant to introduce schoolteachers from across the country to late 19th and early 20th century American history from the unique ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," as publisher Henry Luce dubbed it, a long period in which the United ...

In the last five years, the number of tenured history department faculty whose research and teaching focuses on the United States has fallen from a recent high of nine in 2002 to five this year. "We ...

The 20th century produced some of the most incredible musicians, bands, songs, and albums in music history. And with such a wealth of genres and productions from back then, plenty of records have ...