For Orthodox Christians in America, the 20th century was shaped by waves of believers fleeing wars, revolutions and persecution in lands such as Greece, Syria, Russia and Romania.
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How at the turn of the century, American Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’
A new book by historian Scott D. Seligman recalls the 'The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,' when immigrants fought for the ...
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Who Invented the Story of the Lost Giants of North America?
Nineteenth-century newspapers regularly published sensational accounts of giant human bones discovered across the United ...
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MORNING GLORY: Israel is America’s most important ally
How Israel's role in the Western alliance has evolved to become indispensable for America's strategic interests against ...
The typical Greek-American historical narrative focuses on the 19th-century immigration but the first Greeks arrived in ...
A Space Odyssey and Gattaca are among the best examples of 20th-century hard sci-fi, grounding their plots in logic and plausibility.
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...
Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans together warrants our attention. But as a historian of ...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...
In 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school ...
A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for ...
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