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.

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

Mr. Spivak is an attorney in New York, and received a Master's in History from Brooklyn College. His Master's thesis explored the history of the recall. Even though 26 states authorize the recall in ...

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 ...

Dr. Yanek Mieczkowski chairs the History Department at Dowling College. A specialist in post-World War II U.S. history, he is the author of Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (2005) and The ...

Ms. Horn is an HNN intern. She received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Recently, during the Super Bowl XLV, there was a commercial by Chrysler declaring that Detroit was not yet defeated ...

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 ways in ...

Following is a list of articles and press releases appearing on HNN that concern bias in the teaching and writing of history. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.

Mr. Black is the author of the award-winning IBM and the Holocaust and the recently published Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the ...

A Nightmare Tale of Ruthless Accusers, A Misused 'Plagiarism Machine,' An Orwellian Star Chamber, an Unscrupulous Verdict, and Hopeless Confusion About Definitions A recent Saturday edition of the New ...