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 ...

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. 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.

Last week I noted how YouTube Has Become Bigger Than MTV Ever Was For Music Videos, and YouTube already offers more videos on history than The History Channel (or its spinoffs) ever could.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Timothy D. Rives holds an M.A. in American history from Emporia State University and is the deputy director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. I am the deputy director and ...