Mr. Walters is the director of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland. There are two traditional factors experts usually take into account when measuring presidential ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN and the author of Presidential Ambition: Gaining Power at Any Cost (HarperCollins). Fun facts about inaugurations past: Weirdest moment: At Harry Truman’s 1949 ...

Duration: One 35-45 minute lesson. 1) Ask students to tell you what they think inauguration day is and what they actually know about it. 2) Take this time to go over some background information on ...

Mr. Lawler is leading a petition drive to persuade the Park Service to draw attention to George Washington's President's House and slave quarters in Philadelphia. His work has been published in the ...

Mr. Chernus is a Jewish historian and a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a writer for the History News Service. Jews have been observing Yom Kippur, the Day ...

Mr. Williams is a student of history at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN. The famous muckraker, Upton Sinclair, once asked, “What good does it do us to fight for freedom abroad if, in ...

Mr.Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. In 1995 the American Petroleum Institute published Edward Porter's Are We Running Out of Oil? (with a fine ...

Why do some people become so angry that they are willing to turn to violence? That is now a question facing Americans. It is an old question. During the early part of the 20th century some Americans ...

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious ...

We have heard from everyone these past few weeks except the terrorists. What might they have been thinking the morning they crashed two planes into the World Trade Center Towers? We may never know.

Mr. Beres, a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, was sports information director at the University of Oregon. Threats of terrorism have taken many forms in recent weeks. But none ...

Mr. Miller has been a speaker with the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. In recounting episodes from the life of Alvin C. York (1887-1964), ...