Reader, Joan wore a bowl cut. Haters have attempted to erase the memory of this bowl cut from our collective memory, but I am ...

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. Ellis is a PhD candidate at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His article 'An Alternative Politics: Texas Baptists and the Rise of the Christian Right, 1975-1985' will be published in April by ...

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. Pompeian is HNN's Assistant Editor for Breaking News. Many critics of the Iraq War are struggling to oppose the war while continuing to sound patriotic. How have leading figures in the past ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN. Mr. Kater is Distinguished Research Professor of History, York University, Toronto and author of the book, Hitler Youth (Harvard University Press, 2004). 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).

The isolationism that was employed to undermine American will and self-confidence in fighting the fascist and militarist aggressors in World War II has been revived, this time targeted against our ...

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 ...