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The Former Community Organizer and Activist Who Became a Historian

by Erik Moshe

An Interview with Georgetown University’s Maurice Jackson.

The Shameful Practice of Buying and Selling Babies Doesn't Only Happen Overseas, but Here in the US, too

by Janet Golden

In what might be called infant economics, here’s a brief history of the black market baby trade.

Why I’ve Got the Reference Book Blues

by A.D. Harvey

Don’t facts matter any more?

Remember the Late Sun Myung Moon? A Remnant of His Church Is Now Pro-Trump.

by Matthew Bowman

It’s run by his son. (But Moon’s wife objects.)

What’s Missing from the Centenary Celebration of Women’s Suffrage in Britain?

by John Edmonds

No one’s talking about the violence.

War Was Avoided During the Cuban Missile Crisis, but One Man Died

by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias

It’s worth remembering his story, too, to show us the danger of superpower conflict.

“Maybe It’s Time That We Had a Chaplain that Wasn’t a Catholic”

by David B. Parker

There was a time when Southern Baptists thought we shouldn’t have a House of Representatives Chaplain at all.

The Implications of Voiding the Iran Nuclear Deal

by William R. Polk

Even if it is not immediately a world at war, it will be a sort of concentration camp of terror, enervating fear of accident or design, of death and destruction.

Trump Nixes Iran Deal: What Historians Are Saying

Tweets, retweets, and commentary. 

Why Are the Green Berets Now Operating on the Saudi Border with Yemen?

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

It's because imperial ambitions are once again driving large countries to decide the fate of small ones.

HNN's Student Research Paper Contest: And the Winner Is ....

by David L. O'Connor

Ibrahim Mammodov of Brooklyn Technical High School in New York for his paper, "Zoroastrian Revivalism and the Rise and Fall of the Khurramite Movement."

The Great Thing the Allies Did as Germany Crumbled

by William Lambers

They decided to feed the starving children.

Stuart Eizenstat Remembers the Carter Years Differently than Most People

by Chris Riback

The Carter White House advisor argues his case in his newly-published memoirs.

Monticello Claims to Have Found Sally Hemings’s Room. Is This True?

by M. Andrew Holowchak and Vivienne Kelley

No one knows. But because sex fascinates and it sells, Monticello is ripping up floors and preparing to establish a new tourist attraction.

We Shouldn’t Be Shocked by Russia’s Laundering of Information Through Fake Facebook Accounts

by Ann Pfau

In 1940 the Nazis adopted similar tactics.

It’s 2018 and Still High Schools Aren’t Teaching World History?

by Jeremy Greene

They call it world history, but it’s really just Western Civ. Case study: Massachusetts.

The Founders Worried too, About Foreign Meddling in Our Elections

by Jeanne Abrams

John Adams went so far as to advocate the holding of fewer elections on the grounds that would give foreigners less opportunity to interfere.

Memories of Life in a Small Town in the 1920s

by Vaughn Davis Bornet

A centarian looks back.

Trade Wars Don’t Have a Good Track Record

by Suzy Evans

Case in point: Jefferson’s embargo of France and Great Britain.

Do We Really Need a National Day of Prayer?

by Michael Anthony Novak

Yes, we do.