New perspectives on how history is made
It was an event everybody in America paid attention to. In our fragmented media environment today that wouldn’t happen. That’s unfortunate.
Using DNA can help reveal the hell that was slavery.
The short answer: Schools still seem to be placing their emphasis on research degrees.
Trump’s triumph marks the end of a once great (but flawed) American party.
The documentary is “Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.”
TJ Stiles thinks you don’t, as he explains in this interview about his new book.
That was the discovery Richard Rashke made after bringing the horror to public attention.
It’s about the role of Mulberries in the invasion and it’s just plain misleading.
120,000 Jews lived in Iraq at the end of World War II. Within a few years nearly all were forced to evacuate.
In an interview with HNN David Greenberg explains why he retains confidence in the public’s ability to see through spin.
It’s because the GOP has refrained from attacking him. Remember Dukakis?
It’s just as fascinating and sometimes as horrifying, but this game’s no show. It’s for real.
As a nation, we can only hope that come November we will not be heading toward the disgrace that Donald Trump’s pride and arrogance would surely produce.
MC’s historical drama, TURN, is set in New York, but Virginia is grabbing all the attention. What gives?
The Democratic approach is to go for senators. Not so with the GOP.
In an interview with HNN writer Steve Berry, the author most recently of “The 14th Colony,” accounts for his interest in history.
August 6, 1945 is a date which will live in infamy, too.
We should celebrate the coming visibility of women and African-Americans on our national currency. Symbolism counts.
Their support came in the wake of a decade of soaring crime rates.
A 99 year old historian shows there’s still plenty about which to be hopeful.
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