Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.

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 ...

Samuel Zipp is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Urban Studies program at Brown University, and author of The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World ...

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 ...

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is ...

After nearly four years of the Trump administration, U.S. voters have a pretty good idea of the policies that the President and his Republican allies champion when it comes to America’s dealings with ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015). A paperback edition is now ...

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

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 ...

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration ...

Ken Hughes is a research specialist with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Richard Nixon addressing troops in South Vietnam. Via The New Nixon. "The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring ...

Aaron Leonard is a writer and journalist currently completing, “Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War Against America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980,” with ...