For all the gravity with which the presidency is written about, assessments of presidents are often at least partly based on fluff more suitable for Hollywood than Washington. Among the criteria ...

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish … it was so fragile.” So says the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the ...

Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief overview of the Sixties ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

Nineteenth-century British depiction of a cholera outbreak. Credit: University of St. Andrews. Because it appeared in the midst of the ongoing debate over the workings of the Affordable Care Act ...

Launch of a V2 in Peenemünde; photo taken four seconds after taking off from test stand, Summer 1943 The journalist Annie Jacobsen recently published Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence ...

John Reeves is the author of the forthcoming book The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: the Forgotten Case Against an American Icon (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). He was accused of treason. Only ...

Is it Muslim or Moslem?When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage ...

The series explores what happens when a fictional French village during World War 2 is occupied by Nazis. Some people resist. Others collaborate.

Comparisons between Trump (ism) and Fascism have become frequent, and with good reason. These comparisons are strongest between Trump and Mussolini — stronger than with Hitler and Nazi-ism ...

Daniel Mallia is an HNN and an undergraduate at Fordham University. "Was Hitler Jewish?" is a frequently asked question but it is one that requires clarification to answer correctly. In essence ...