An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

Mr. Raphael is the author of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION, and FOUNDING MYTHS, which was just published. It’s been a quarter century since Frances ...

Mr. Turse is a Columbia University graduate student completing a dissertation on American war crimes during the Vietnam War. When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth ...

Greg Bailey, a St. Louis attorney, is a correspondent for the Economist: As Abraham Lincoln's birthday approaches Republicans around the nation gather together in country clubs and halls for their ...

Mr. Dresner teaches East Asian history at Pittsburg State University, Kansas. His research examines Meiji-era (1868-1912) social history. A quick summary of the movie for those who haven't seen it.

Mr. Flynn is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia and author of the newly released, :Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness." Who is ...

Mr. Liebers is an HNN intern. Historian Walter Nugent is the author of the just published book: Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion (Knopf, 2008). He is a member of HNN's advisory board.

Daniel Mallia is an HNN and an undergraduate at Fordham University. "Was Hitler Jewish?" is a frequently asked question but it is one that requires clarification to answer correctly. In essence ...

Note: Due to a number of anti-Semitic comments that have been posted, comments have been disabled for this article. Arriving at London in early 1938, newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador Joseph P.

I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

Carlton F.W. Larson is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor Law at the UC Davis School of Law. He is the author of On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law and The Trials of Allegiance: Treason ...