Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” ...

Adam Hochschild’s haunting yet illuminating assessment of World War I (mainly concentrating on Great Britain) is a welcome addition to the vast historical and literary output literature of that ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN. Mr. Burstein is the author of the book, Jefferson's Secrets. In your book you look at Jefferson’s last years, the most neglected of his life. When did you reach the ...

Mr. Thompson is Professor of Public Administration and author of Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society. Ms. Friedberg Professor of Political Science and Director, ...

Let me begin by stating at the outset that I do not agree with Harold Bloom’s ideological construction of the Western Canon nor do I support his notion that literature must be evaluated purely by its ...

Mr. Zelikow is a professor of history at the University of Virginia. The executive director of the 9-11 Commission, he subsequently served as State Department Counselor under Condoleezza Rice. Gordon ...

George Szpiro holds an MA in mathematics and physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, an MBA from Stanford University, and a PhD in finance and mathematical economics from the Hebrew ...

HNN is a valuable resource and provocative opinion pieces that it publishes are useful in classes and discussion groups I teach or facilitate. However, by repeatedly running articles by someone as ...

The challenge of finding good leaders has preoccupied people since human beings first formed groups in the days of hunters and gatherers hundreds of thousands of years ago. Plato held that one of the ...

FACT "There is nothing at all unprecedented about the arrival of the Republicans in a politically inhospitable city. True, they have never come to New York before, not in all the many quadrenniums ...

Dr. Harrington has a Doctorate and Master’s in modern history from Oxford University and a B.A. in history from London University, and has taught, researched and published widely on themes in the ...

Mr. Speer, a political historian, is a freelance writer. This semester he is teaching in China. When you arrive in Auschwitz, you leave the train station and see just another small Polish town.