Andrew W. Kahrl is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. His book, "Set in Sand: African American Beaches in the Age of Coastal Capitalism," is expected to be published by ...

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to ...

This is the second installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first installment here. The Name of the Rose has a straightforward enough premise.

Fatima Ahmed-Farouta is a former HNN intern. Credit: Wiki Commons. Was Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of President John F. Kennedy, really an anti-Semite? David Nasaw, Kennedy's recent biographer ...

Mr. Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University, UK. His most recent book is Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (Yale UP, Spring 2006), which ...

James Bryce was a nineteenth-century English writer who loved America and wrote passionately about politics. The following excerpt, from his book "The American Commonwealth," is still widely cited ...

Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Crusading History, Royal Holloway, University of London, is the author of Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades (Random House, 2010). On October 2, 1187 ...

Mr. Bates graduated from San Francisco State University in May 2004. He is an HNN intern. 1. Why do reformers propose abolishing the Electoral College? Reformers argue that the Electoral College ...

Mr. Ellis is a historian at Mount Holyoke. This essay is drawn from his introduction to the Encyclopedia Britannica's Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America (paperback ...

Mr. Szasz was a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. He died in 2010 at the age of 70. He assembled this list of historical quotations for HNN in 2005. Historical sense and poetic ...

Mr. Offner is Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History at Lafayette College and past president, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His latest book is Another Such Victory ...