We risk losing not just the images but also our ability to bear witness to history itself. The missing Black history of upstate New York challenges the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far ...

Mr. Holland is the author of The Kennedy Assassination Tapes, and is completing a history of the Warren Commission for Alfred A. Knopf. Conventional wisdom attributes Gerald R. Ford’s presidency ...

Will Teague is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

Mr. Rees is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University - Pueblo. He is the author of MANAGING THE MILLS: LABOR POLICY IN THE AMERICAN STEEL INDUSTRY DURING THE NONUNION ERA(University ...

If you like the service HNN provides, please consider making a donation. The case of Mr. Poindexter and latest move of the federal government to get into the gambling business is troubling, but there ...

One of the first black women to reach millionaire status did so by launching a hair care empire — and her name wasn’t Madam C.J. Walker. Entrepreneur Annie Turnbo Malone reached this milestone at the ...

Last week the Weekly Standard published an article claiming that newly-released tapes from the LBJ presidential library included "a bombshell" ... "Johnson himself believed what Richard Nixon always ...

The debut Bachmann Award does not, surprisingly enough, go to Michelle Bachmann herself. Instead, the honor goes to Democrat Yvette Clark, who represents part of Brooklyn in the U.S. House, for her ...

Mr. Greenberg is the author of NIXON'S SHADOW: THE HISTORY OF AN IMAGE (2003). He teaches history and political science at Yale University Democratic activists worry that their party is marching ...

Mr. Baigent, author of Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World, was born in New Zealand in 1948. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from ...

Mr. Stoll is the author of The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth (2008) and Associate Professor of History at Fordham University.

Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule and Feyi Fawehinmi. Cassava Republic Press, 357 pages. What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule by ...