Famous for his books about the founders, Gordon S. Wood’s true legacy may have been about showing how futile their efforts ...

A historian stumbles upon an article that provides a fascinating glimpse into how the world thought about witchcraft and sex in 1963.

Jordan Sand is a professor of Japanese history at Georgetown University. He writes widely on topics in the social and cultural history of Japan and the Asia-Pacific. His most recent book is A History ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the late 1870s, the 70-year-old newspaper editor Henry Boernstein sat down to write about German immigrants’ efforts to shape the United States into a less brutal, more enlightened republic in the ...

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.

John Murphy, in the Balt Sun (June 30, 2004): GOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Standing in a narrow doorway opening onto the Atlantic Ocean, tour guide Aladji Ndiaye asked a visitor to this Senegalese island's ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is now barely a half-century since the publication of Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). If the Motor of the World has not yet stopped in the emerging, and on-going, financial crisis of the ...