On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands. by Keith Richotte Jr. Keith ...
An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung function ...
The beliefs have been shaped by legal code, America's history of imperialism and the prevailing culture, said historian Ellen Wu, the author of "The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins ...
Mr. MacLeod is an Associate Professor of History, University of Evansville, Indiana. Several weeks ago I visited with my family the Soldiers' Memorial Museum in the heart of downtown St Louis. It is a ...
Mr. Fleming is the author of more than forty books including, most recently, The New Dealer's War. He is a member of the board of directors of History News Network. Some pundit once remarked that for ...
Mr. Bensel, Professor of Government, Cornell University, is the author of Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and The ...
Mr. Katz is the author of Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage, from which this article is adapted. His website: www.williamlkatz.com. This Christmas Eve marks the 172nd anniversary of a battle for ...
Mr. DiMeo is a public radio producer living in Los Angeles. He reports regularly for programs like All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Marketplace. He recently launched “the memory palace,” a ...
According to John Nance Garner, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first vice president, the vice-presidency “isn't worth a bucket of warm [spit].” (He actually used a ruder word than spit, but it was ...
Daniel Mallia was an intern for HNN. The Dark Ages is a popular label traditionally applied to the experience of Western Europe between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Renaissance.
Mrt. Kotkin, a professor of history at Princeton, is the author of Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (paperback Oxford University Press, 2008). Which large country’s global ...
If you like the service HNN provides, please consider making a donation. Following is the text of a lecture Mr. Hahn delivered at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on April ...