New perspectives on how history is made
This video explains the history of the controversial comma.
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
Tweeting and Facebooking This Week ... Rick Perlstein, Annette-Gordon Reed, Henry Louis Gates, Blair Kelley, and Brits on Brexit.
This week ... the photo that changed South African history, a brief history of sex in ancient Greece, Brutalism, Medieval graffiti and more!
The history of the term “working class” in American political conversations behooves us constantly to attend to the particular way the term is used.
How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
This week ... Buster Keaton, Charlotte Bronte, FDR's last painting, X-Men, Wonder Woman, Deborah Lipstadt documentary, and more!
Air Supremacy Isn’t What It Used to Be
Britain’s referendum on the EU marks another step in the country’s long and troubled history with its European neighbours.
Disruptions in Copernicus’s day offer lessons today.
It was thanks to this man more than any other: Jean Monnet.
The pressure to be politically correct, in his mind, is the cancer that eats away at America.
Class prejudice has a history at least as old as the Jamestown settlement.
The Trumps could have been Palmer’s victims, themselves.
Those who favor Brexit imply it would be followed either by a European superstate or the collapse of the EU. Here's why neither is in UK's interests.
A year into his campaign, it’s still not clear exactly where he’s coming from or where he’s going.
It was the establishment that installed Willkie and it was over the objections of conservatives.
After researchers at Yale published digitized, geocoded data that maps documented urban settlements from 3700 B.C. to 2000 A.D., data enthusiast Max Galka created a visualization of it for Metrocosm.
And just like now the incident led to calls for a ban on certain immigrants.
Historically, the comparative peace that Western Europe has enjoyed since 1945 is an aberration and cannot be counted on for the future.
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