Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University. His book, Morning In America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, will be published next year by Princeton University Press. Mr. Troy is a ...

Mr. Fea teaches American history at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, and is a writer for the History News Service. Americans love their history, but seldom think historically. The problem is ...

Mr. Payne is an Assistant Professor of history at St. Bonaventure University in New York. The Enron scandal has been exploding, to the point where it is threatening to eclipse the War on Terrorism, ...

Mr. Byington is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Korea Institute. He completed his PhD program at Harvard in the field of Korean history, though he also trained in archaeology. His research ...

In the past few months there have been a rash of media reports on the Carlyle Group, a private equity investment group with billions of dollars of assets in the defense industry and a roster of ...

The Israeli historian Benny Morris did it again. Morris is not only a historian with impressive achievements but also an Israeli and international icon. One year after the publication of his book The ...

Mr. Abrams is the author of The Nobel Peace Prize 1901-2001 and is eligible to nominate candidates for the prize as a university history professor emeritus at Antioch College and University. Below is ...

Mr. Gruhl is the author of the recently published book, Imperial Japan's World War Two 1931-1945 (Transaction Publishers of Rutgers University). His website is: http ...

That our politics have been shifting rightward for more than thirty years is a generally acknowledged fact of American life. That this rightward movement has largely been accomplished by working-class ...

Mr. Matthews is a free-lance writer. In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, one commentator noted that the attacks climaxed almost two decades of terrorist acts committed in the name ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

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 ways in ...