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 ...

Tucked away near the intersection where the bustling highways of I-35W and I-20 meet in the southeastern corner of Fort Worth, Texas, sits an expansive, if initially unassuming, institution.

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. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University and the author, most recently, of Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (Princeton University Press). He is a member of HNN ...

Karen Bloom Gevirtz spent nearly three decades as a professor of English at American universities while also specializing in gender studies and medical humanities. Venetia, Lady Digby by Sir ...

Two newspaper workers flip a first proof of a page off the printing press at the offices of the Daily Mail, 1944. © IWM The ending of the circulation-boosting gift ...

Every college world history textbook discusses the early 15th c. CE Chinese naval expeditions, commissioned by the Ming Emperor Zhu Di and commanded by the legendary admiral Zheng He, that sailed ...

Mr. Loewen is a sociologist and author of Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, published by The New Press. Even before Honda announced Greensburg, Indiana, as the site for its new ...

Mr. Shenkman, the author of Presidential Ambition and other books, is the editor of HNN. In 1964 Barry Goldwater lost the presidency in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson in part because of the ...

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 ...

Mr. Latimer is the author of the recently published book, 1812: War with America ( Belknap Press, 2007). In their Beginner’s Guide to Canadian Humour, Lynne Stokes and Pamela Chichinskas list 15 ...