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

An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

Blue plaque honoring Marie-Louise Christophe in Hastings, 2024. Photograph by Maraelizabeth. [Wikimedia Commons] Although the queen had stood by Henry Christophe’s side since the earliest days ...

This is the third installment in Emma Garman’s series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first and second installments in the series. So Pale Fire masquerades as an account ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

Mr. Raphael is the author of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION, and FOUNDING MYTHS, which was just published. It’s been a quarter century since Frances ...

William N. Tilchin, an associate professor of social sciences and history at Boston University, is the author of Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft (1997 ...

Mr. Cox, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States ...

In December 2023, HNN transitioned to a new editorial model that centers on its weekly email newsletter. Each week, the newsletter serves up short-form essays to help readers make sense of the ...

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 ...

Note: Due to a number of anti-Semitic comments that have been posted, comments have been disabled for this article. Arriving at London in early 1938, newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador Joseph P.