Dennis Hastert is the 59th Speaker of the House of Representatives. He is second in line to the presidency. Should he be forced out of Congress for allegedly looking the other way when evidence ...

Mr. Tremblay is an HNN intern and Breaking News Editor. James Bradley, in his recent book The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War, alleges that President Theodore Roosevelt encouraged ...

Mr. Matthews is a free-lance writer. Sacajawea? Sakakawea? or Sacajawea? What is the correct spelling of the name of the American Indian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their western journey ...

Mr. Benjamin, PhD University of Pennsylvania, is a retired professor of history (Foreign Policy and International Relations). He is the author of A Student's Guide to History. I was thinking the other ...

Mr. Marina is Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA. “God’s blessing is on him [George W. Bush]. It’s the ...

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. Zimring is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Roosevelt University. He is the author of Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005).

Mr. Ford is a Professor f History and Chair of the Department at the University of South Carolina. His most recent book is Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South, was published by ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN. Mr. Polk taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1961 when he was appointed a member of the Policy Planning Council of the US State Department. He is the author most recently ...

That our politics have been shifting rightward for more than thirty years is a generally acknowledged fact of American life. That this rightward movement has largely been accomplished by working-class ...

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. As Congress recesses for the 2006 campaign season, the President hopes to resurrect Republican electoral hopes by once again appealing to ...

Mr. Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning investigative reporter and author of IBM and the Holocaust. His latest book, Banking on Baghdad (Wiley), which chronicles 7,000 years of ...