All of this was true, the product of Ronald Reagan’s covert war against Nicaragua’s revolutionary ruling party: the Frente ...

If you are a writer with insights to help readers make sense of the ways in which currents from the past continue to swirl ...

Mr. Todd is a graduate student in history at West Virginia University. There has been a more or less considerable furor over Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-WV) usage of the term "white nigger." Everyone seems ...

James Bradley author of “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Flyboys” has just published The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War. HNN contributor Aaron Leonard recently sat down with him in New ...

Is the Ambrose story bigger than it appeared at first? Initially, Ambrose's chief offense seemed to be that he had simply forgotten to put quotation marks around a few select sentences. Now evidence ...

Mr. Butler, former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Yale University, is the author of "Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People" (Harvard University Press, 1990).

Ms. Young is a professor of history at New York University. This excerpt originally appeared in Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History edited by Yuki Tanaka and Ms. Young. Airpower embodies ...

Professor Tise’s most recent book is Conquering the Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk published by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2009. Just a year ago—on the occasion of ...

This article was adapted from a presentation at the fiftieth reunion of the Hotchkiss Class of 1954, which was held at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT, on October 30, 2004. After I left here a ...

Ms. Jensen is a historian at New Mexico State University and the author of many books on civil liberties. In March 1917, with the United States on the brink of war with Germany, the administration of ...

Mr. Wilentz is a professor of history at Princeton University. In his interview with the right-wing web magazine FrontPageMag.com, re-posted on HNN, Christopher Hitchens claims that his moment of ...

Mr. Kutler is the author of The Wars of Watergate. Reports circulated recently that Congress is considering a proposal to give former President Richard M. Nixon's Yorba Linda museum possession of his ...