We risk losing not just the images but also our ability to bear witness to history itself. The missing Black history of upstate New York challenges the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Pach is author of The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is writing a history of the presidency of Ronald Reagan. As we begin a new year and a new millennium, it is time to just say no to ...

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 ...

HNN recently asked 203 American historians to grade Barack Obama's presidency on an A-F scale. The results are in: President Barack Obama gets a B-. Historians graded the president on sixteen ...

Robin Lindley is a Seattle attorney and writer. He contributes to the History News Network, Crosscut, Real Change, and others, on history, human rights, international affairs, law, politics, the media ...

Mr. Black is the author of the award-winning IBM and the Holocaust and the recently published Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

Mr. Stern, historian at the Kennedy Library from 1977 to 1999, is the author of Averting ‘the Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings, 2003, and The Week the World ...

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