Nicolaus Mills

This Mother’s Day, as she struggles to manage her cancer diagnosis and parent her children, the Princess of Wales is still the focus of unwanted media scrutiny. As someone who...

When it comes to food airdrops like the one in Gaza that President Biden recently authorized, the United States has a long history to draw on. Seventy five years ago,...

Like college teachers around the country, I’ve found the war in the Middle East has pitted my students against each other in ways that have turned many of them into...

Before he ever ran for office, John F. Kennedy was a war hero, and this Veterans Day the events that first brought Kennedy to national attention 80 years ago are...

In the summer of 1863, five years before she gained fame as the beloved author of "Little Women," Louisa May Alcott published "Hospital Sketches," a first-hand account of her experiences...

Jim Thorpe is back in the news. Last week, the International Olympic Committee declared him the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics. Thorpe, a Native...

When on Thanksgiving eve the three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery as he ran through their Georgia neighborhood were found guilty, their convictions were hailed as a victory...

This Labor Day, with both voting rights and democracy under siege across the country, the legacy the late AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka left behind has never been more important. At...

This Fourth of July, in a year when America is once again bitterly divided over how to deal with race, there's a long-forgotten speech worth recalling. It's the address given...