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 ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

James A.S. Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His DPhil, from Merton College, Oxford, ...

Mr. Miller received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University this May. He is turning his dissertation, titled “The Politics of Decency: Billy Graham, Evangelicalism, and the End of the Solid ...

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 ...

Mr. Furnish, Ph.D (Islamic History), is Assistant Professor, History, Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody, GA 30338. Mr. Furnish is the author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama ...

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 ...