An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

Mr. Beinin is Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University and is named on the Campus Watch website. He is currently serving as President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)of ...

Santiago Flórez is a bilingual Colombian journalist, educator, illustrator, and anthropologist based in New York City. Currently, he works at Science Friday. He has an MA in bilingual journalism ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

Mr. Raphael is the author of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION, and FOUNDING MYTHS, which was just published. It’s been a quarter century since Frances ...

Mr. Dresner teaches East Asian history at Pittsburg State University, Kansas. His research examines Meiji-era (1868-1912) social history. A quick summary of the movie for those who haven't seen it.

Mr. Flynn is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia and author of the newly released, :Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness." Who is ...

Mr. Leonard is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to HNN. For more information please visit his website at www.aaronleonard.net James Bradley author of “Flags of Our Fathers” and ...

In December 2023, HNN transitioned to a new editorial model that centers on its weekly email newsletter. Each week, the newsletter serves up short-form essays to help readers make sense of the ...

Karen Graves is professor of education at Denison University and author of And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida’s Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers, University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Daniel Mallia is an HNN and an undergraduate at Fordham University. "Was Hitler Jewish?" is a frequently asked question but it is one that requires clarification to answer correctly. In essence ...

Trump's foreign policy is not as unprecedented as it seems. After the Civil War, Andrew Johnson issued the biggest act of presidential clemency in our history. It angered his party and led to his ...