Mr. Ellwood is Associate Professor in International History, University of Bologna and Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center. Anti-Americanism as a cultural and ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

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 from ...

Ms. Appleby is past president of both the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. She is a member of the advisory board of HNN. Last month she and Ellen DuBois ...

Bronwen Everill is the author of Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance, and Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. She teaches writing at Princeton and is a Research ...

Last week HNN published Alan Wald's critique of an article written by Michael Lind for the New Statesman in which Mr. Lind argued that defense policy in the Bush administration is orchestrated by a ...

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.

The Israeli historian Benny Morris did it again. Morris is not only a historian with impressive achievements but also an Israeli and international icon. One year after the publication of his book The ...

Mr. Black is the author of the award-winning IBM and the Holocaust and the recently published Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the ...

Mr. Sigal is director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York. "My predecessor, in a good-faith effort, entered into a framework agreement ...