Lynn Hunt, one of America's greatest historians, tells what she likes to read, why she became a historian, and the historian she'd most like to talk to over dinner.
In fairness to the president, it could be argued that he doesn’t actually believe this claptrap, but simply dons a star-spangled uniform to sell his foreign policy to the American public.
Back in July HNN published an article about the historians who have the most followers on Twitter. Here we draw attention to the historians who lack larger numbers of followers, but are worth a try.
It's twenty years since the US Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act which right-wing conservatives targeted as subversive, but which helped ignite a global movement against all kinds of violence against women and girls.
The conventional assumption among the public is that the success of bottled water is the result of clever advertising, a naïve consuming public, and a lax regulatory environment. It's not true.
In honor of his many contributions to the understanding of history HNN asked several of his former students and colleagues to provide their reminiscences in a kind of informal electronic festschrift.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be no more successful in winning the support of the Muslim world than Husayn of Mecca, the last person to claim the caliph's mantle.
