Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. John Quincy Adams, by Philip Haas, 1843. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ...

Daniel Mallia is a former HNN intern. The suspicious nature of Tycho Brahe's death in 1601, and Johannes Kepler's possible role in his end, constitutes one of history's greatest unsolved murder ...

Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his ...

The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.

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 ...

Mr. Bangs obtained his doctorate at the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, in 1976. He is a former Chief Curator of the Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA. Image via Wiki Commons. Setting people straight ...

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992), a novel that channeled perfectly the libertarian imagination of the post–Cold War moment, the territory once known as the United States has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Sabia is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Cornell University. In recent weeks Americans gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Brown decision, which overturned the “separate, but ...