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. Raphael is the author of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION, and FOUNDING MYTHS, which was just published. It’s been a quarter century since Frances ...

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.

Mr. Cox, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States ...

Maury Klein is author of "Union Pacific: The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present" and professor emeritus of history at the University of Rhode Island. Chances are ...

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 ...

Mr. Mayzel is a professor of history at the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Three factors shaped the borders of present-day Israel: the British ...

I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

Carlton F.W. Larson is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor Law at the UC Davis School of Law. He is the author of On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law and The Trials of Allegiance: Treason ...