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 ...

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 was a history convention, but the topic on everyone's mind was the current war in Iraq. It was inescapable. It was what people talked about when they met in small groups. It was what they talked ...

Mr. Sternstein is Professor Emeritus of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of American Biography. Much of the commentary about the latest plagiarism scandal involving ...

By universalizing their own economic history, Western observers have used the past to portray African economic culture as ...

Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His most recent book is Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico. Photo of 1908 fire in New Hampshire. The 1908 fires ranged along the U.S ...

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.