1988 was a pivotal year in how “white liberals” are perceived by their fellow Americans. Ever since the Supreme Court gave itself the power of judicial review in 1803, its role in the federal ...

Anthony Aycock has spent 24 years working in government, academic, and private libraries. He has also written for Slate, the Washington Post, Literary Hub, Reactor (formerly Tor.com), The Missouri ...

Carolyn Barske Crawford is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Alabama. Chestnut Trees in Bloom, by William Henry Holmes. [Smithsonian American Art Museum] At one time, more than ...

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and The ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

[Mark Naison is Professor of African American Studies and History, Fordham University.] My head is spinning after the three days I spent in Berlin. I came to deliver a paper on the Multicultural Roots ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized the work of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. The trio has published a number of important economics papers on the role of institutions in ...

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 ...

On April 9, 1984, the government of Nicaragua filed suit with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague alleging that the United States had committed “massive violations … of its ...

Submission Guidelines. 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 ...

This is the first installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the second installment here. When picking up a novel, we enter into a tacit bargain: if the ...