And yet there is one aspect of the historian’s craft that overlaps with the realm of genius: the art of writing. Given the centrality of writing to the way historians think and share their knowledge, ...

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, historians and archaeologists are working to recover the names of those who fought ...

Van Gosse is Professor of History Emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College, co-chair for Historians and Peace and Democracy, and author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the ...

The women who founded the 1980s-era Parents Music Resource Center portrayed it as being beyond politics. Its actions, funding, and legacy suggest otherwise. The PMRC endured through the 1990s, ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Lauren Duval is assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. Mount ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

Mr. Matz is an HNN intern. David Horowitz’s campaign against ‘the insularity of a predominantly left-wing academic environment’ achieves its most specific manifestation yet in his latest book, The ...

Robert A. Gross is James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. His first book, The Minutemen and Their World received the Bancroft ...

Sociologist James W. Loewen is the author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me." Like our textbooks, this monument to Jefferson Davis in Richmond, VA, mystifies the Confederate cause. Dear David, Recently you ...

Catherine Phipps is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published a book on Histories of Sex Work Around the World.