Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian ...

Why does HNN feature blogs? Aren't they just vehicles for people who want to sound off? The challenge of writing a blog is particularly great given the pressure to keep it up to date. But doing a blog ...

Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight when students were targeted not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech. In the Tidewater region of Virginia, ...

Mr. Eisele is the editor of The Hill. George F. Kennan, the chief architect of the containment and deterrence policies that shaped America foreign policy during the Cold War, said Sunday that Congress ...

If you like the service HNN provides, please consider making a donation. The Central Intelligence Agency has an almost unblemished record of screwing up every "secret" armed intervention it ever ...

Ms. Holt is the author of the recently published, Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady (University Press of Kansas, 2007). Speculating on what sort of first lady Mamie Eisenhower would be, ...

Ms. Hart is an award-winning journalist who has covered international affairs and historical topics in her writing. In a series of discoveries unfolding over seven years, a professor of English at the ...

Mr. Szasz was a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. He died in 2010 at the age of 70. He assembled this list of historical quotations for HNN in 2005. Historical sense and poetic ...

Following is an interview with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, authors of In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage (2003). The interview was conducted by historian Jamie Glazov, the managing ...

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 ...

Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University Press, ...

The origins of the Electoral College are entwined with slavery, but not in the way that recent accounts have suggested.