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 ...

An interview with the author of Cahokia Jazz.

Santiago Flórez is a bilingual Colombian journalist, educator, illustrator, and anthropologist based in New York City. Currently, he works at Science Friday. He has an MA in bilingual journalism ...

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 ...

Greg Bailey, a St. Louis attorney, is a correspondent for the Economist: As Abraham Lincoln's birthday approaches Republicans around the nation gather together in country clubs and halls for their ...

Mr. Dresner teaches East Asian history at Pittsburg State University, Kansas. His research examines Meiji-era (1868-1912) social history. A quick summary of the movie for those who haven't seen it.

Mark Crispin Miller curated the Forbidden Bookshelf. Miller is a professor of media studies at NYU and an accomplished author of several books, from "Boxed In: The Culture of TV" (1988) and ...

Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust (Crown, 2001). This article is an adapted version of a longer piece that appeared on The Cutting ...

CHRIS MYERS ASCH is a historian at Colby College. GEORGE DEREK MUSGROVE is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. They are the co-authors of Chocolate ...

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 ...

Novelist Jack London (1876-1916), by far the most popular American writer a century ago, is these days remembered for his novels and short stories on the Yukon. The Call of the Wild, White Fang ...

The worship of military technocrats underwrites American failures abroad.