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 ...

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. Castagnera, a Philadelphia journalist and attorney, is the Associate Provost at Rider University and author of the weekly newspaper column “Attorney at Large.” Clarence Darrow, arguably the most ...

Ms. Coleman is Assistant Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. "Barack has a handicap the other candidates don’t have: Barack Obama has a black wife. And I don’t think a ...

Mr. Small is a professor of history at Wayne State University and is the author of The Presidency of Richard Nixon (University Press of Kansas American Presidency Series, 1999). In 1978, as he was ...

Robin Lindley is a Seattle attorney and writer who contributes to Crosscut, the History News Network, Real Change, and other publications, with articles on history, law and justice, medicine, news ...

Mr. Kimball is a professor of history at Miami University and the author of several books including To Reason Why and Nixon's Vietnam War. His most recent book is The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the ...

Mr. Mallon is a student at George Mason University and an intern at HNN. The origin of the term Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) is almost as elusive as Iraq's weapons themselves. In 1925, the Geneva ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung function ...