Recent news coverage has called the Privacy Act of 1974 “Watergate-inspired,” but such framing misses the big picture.

We are writing to you today, in tandem with numerous others, to express our deep concern about the New York Times’ promotion of The 1619 Project, which first appeared in the pages of the New York ...

As the world observes the 75 th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki later this year, Americans have still not reached a consensus about the role of the atomic bomb in ...

Robert Brent Toplin has published several books and articles on history, politics, and film. His website is www.presentandpast.com Protesters Demand Entry to the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board, ...

Jeff Roquen is an independent scholar based in the United States. When Adolf Hitler unleashed the might of the German armed forces against Poland on 1 September 1939, shock waves of horror and ...

Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN.

James Thornton Harris is a contributing editor to the History News Network. For more information see www.JamesThorntonHarris.com. Books about World War II generally fall into two categories. The first ...

A mob burns St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Philadelphia, 1844, from John B. Perry A Full and Complete Account of the Late Awful Riots in Philadelphia Former U.S. senator Rick Santorum has ...

John Reeves is the author of the forthcoming book The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: the Forgotten Case Against an American Icon (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). He was accused of treason. Only the ...

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, it ...

Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University and Contributing Editor of HNN. For a list of all of Moss’s recent books and online publications, click here. After ...

Elise Lemire is the author of the just released Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston (University of Pennsylvania Press) and other titles. She is Professor of ...