Taner Akçam is associate professor of history and the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University (Worcester, MA).

This is the second installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first installment here. The Name of the Rose has a straightforward enough premise. Brothers ...

Mr. Furnish, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta. President Nixon is usually denigrated for Watergate, his “enemies list,” even his participation in ...

Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c. 1938.

Translating the first book printed in English was quite stressful, as William Caxton made clear in his profoundly neurotic introduction to the 1473 edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, ...

Mr. Leonard is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to hnn.us. He also writes a weekly column for New York University's “Washington Square News.” His writings can be found at ...

The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf and won a Bancroft Prize. It was widely praised for its elegant prose and provocative interpretation of an important dimension of American culture."... this ...

Mr. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The article is derived from his recently published book, The Vanishing ...

Mr. Gasque holds a Ph.D. from Manchester University (UK). A graduate of Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Leadership (1993), he is President of the Pacific Association for Theological ...

Last time out, I asked five questions that would allow us to answer this one: Does the current economic turmoil bear the comparisons to the Great Depression we hear every day, every hour? On my way to ...

Following is an interview with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, authors of In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage (2003). The interview was conducted by historian Jamie Glazov, the managing ...

Mr. Kelly, who holds a graduate degree in European history, is the author most recently of The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time ...