Eric Jager is Professor of English at UCLA and author of several books including The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France. People today often have a hard ...

The shah of Iran faced a secular opposition that wanted to restore constitutional government. Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems ...

John Reeves is the author of the forthcoming book The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: the Forgotten Case Against an American Icon (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). He was accused of treason. Only the ...

Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.

Fatima Ahmed-Farouta is a former HNN intern. Credit: Wiki Commons. Was Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of President John F. Kennedy, really an anti-Semite? David Nasaw, Kennedy's recent biographer, ...

W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief overview of the Sixties ...

Aileen Teague is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Vanderbilt University and formerly a U.S. Marine Corps Officer. She is currently a Researcher with the Fulbright Program in Mexico City. This June ...

For centuries, the Irish provided manpower to the British military, never more notably than on June 18, 1815.

Mr. Stern taught African American history at the college level for a decade before becoming historian at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (1977–1999)—where he designed the museum’s first civil ...

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration ...

Kurt Stennhas over 30 years of expertise studying hair. He had a distinguished twenty-year academic career as a Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine and was ...

Ludovic Rembert has had a career as a network security engineer working in both industry and academia, and currently writes on technology issues. The 20th-century futurists were susceptible to making ...