Bronwen Everill teaches writing at Princeton and is a Research Affiliate at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.

Corinna Barrett Lain is S.D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law. We know how to euthanize beloved pets — veterinarians do it every day. And we know ...

A reading list tracing the history of the birth control movement through novels.

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992), a novel that channeled perfectly the libertarian imagination of the post–Cold War moment, the territory once known as the United States has been ...

Eran Zelnik teaches history at Chico State University in California. His book American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750-1850, came out earlier this ...

Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. John Quincy Adams, by Philip Haas, 1843. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ...

Camille Walsh is an associate professor of American and Ethnic Studies and Law, Economics and Public Policy and the director of the Masters in Policy Studies program at University of Washington ...

On the constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024.

Daniel Mallia is a former HNN intern. The suspicious nature of Tycho Brahe's death in 1601, and Johannes Kepler's possible role in his end, constitutes one of history's greatest unsolved murder ...

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his ...