It’s only a century since US diplomats first persuaded the world that it’s wrong for countries to annex their neighbours.

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian ...

HNN recently asked 203 American historians to grade Barack Obama's presidency on an A-F scale. The results are in: President Barack Obama gets a B-. Historians graded the president on sixteen ...

Mr. Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University, UK. His most recent book is Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (Yale UP, Spring 2006), which elaborates ...

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 ...

Adam Hochschild’s haunting yet illuminating assessment of World War I (mainly concentrating on Great Britain) is a welcome addition to the vast historical and literary output literature of that ...

This week I’m sharing more of your thoughts on which innovations from the past year you want to keep even when campuses resume normal operations. Earlier this month I described a few of them: ...

Mr. Turner co-founded the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia Law School in 1981 and worked for many years in the Senate, State and Defense departments. His books include ...

Mr. Radu is Senior Fellow and Co-Chair, Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Liberia is a mess. As usual we are being blamed for the mess ...

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 ...

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 ...