With estimates ranging between 60 and 90 million dead worldwide, including the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis, World ...

In his indigenous futurist project “Revolt 1680/2180,” artist Virgil Ortiz honors the Pueblo of the past and proposes: “What if that resistance never stopped?” ...

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 ...

Eran Zelnik teaches history at Chico State University in California. His book American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750-1850, came out earlier this year ...

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.

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 ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

No Place Like Home—Interview with Historian Susan J. Matt on Homesickness in American History ...

David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele are the authors of the new book The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe. Detail, Cathedral of Notre Dame de Laon It is ...

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 ...

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 ...