New perspectives on how history is made
What Hiroshima means to this historian who interviewed Truman about the decision to drop the bomb.
Historian Hal Elliott Wert on the poster art of George McGovern and the Democratic insurgents.
A retrospective, 50 years after the official start of the Cultural Revolution.
The wrenching story of what they did to one group of Africans who got in their way.
It happened in 1864 in Virginia and now it’s the subject of a novel, as the novel’s author explains.
The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.
TJ Stiles thinks you don’t, as he explains in this interview about his new book.
And which is better?
MC’s historical drama, TURN, is set in New York, but Virginia is grabbing all the attention. What gives?
That was the discovery Richard Rashke made after bringing the horror to public attention.
In an interview with HNN writer Steve Berry, the author most recently of “The 14th Colony,” accounts for his interest in history.
It’s gutta-percha. Here’s why it was vital.
The answer is in her last book, which almost no one reads or remembers. But her biographer thinks it’s the one we need now.
Abundance. For 5 centuries we’ve enjoyed abundance. Now that’s ending and we’re dealing with the consequences.
This? Romance novels. The academy should pay attention.
How the standard account of what happened changed.
#4: He wasn’t a conservationist.
The biographer of Harriet Tubman recalls the long struggle to gain academic recognition of Tubman's contributions.
A generation before the sixties another group of young people resisted their elders’ entreaties to prepare for war. These were the people who became the Greatest Generation.
And he was the only available leader around in 1942.
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