Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: This summer HNN devoted a special edition to Israel's attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 during the Six Day War, which resulted in the deaths of 34 Americans. Israel insists the attack ...

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 ...

In 1841 the showman Phineas Taylor Barnum opened his American Museum in NewYork City. Dominating lower Broadway at Park Row, in no time Barnum'sAmerican Museum became the"most visited place in America ...

FACT "There is nothing at all unprecedented about the arrival of the Republicans in a politically inhospitable city. True, they have never come to New York before, not in all the many quadrenniums ...

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 ...

Mr. Warshauer is an assistant professor of history at Central Connecticut State University. Editor's Note: Mr. Warshauer participated in a Faculty Senate Committee focused on rewriting Central ...

The challenge of finding good leaders has preoccupied people since human beings first formed groups in the days of hunters and gatherers hundreds of thousands of years ago. Plato held that one of the ...

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 ...

Mr. Richards teaches modern European and world history at Sweet Briar College in Virginia and is a writer for the History News Service. Sixty years ago, in August and September of 1941, the fate of ...