Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

The question that remains at the end of the book concerns the meaning of “progressive” within an evangelical Christian church.

Mr. Kessler is the author of a new book on the FBI, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, available from Amazon.com. In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The Secret ...

Mr. Renehan is the author of several books, most recently The Kennedys at War, 1937-1945, published by Doubleday in April 2002. http://renehan.net Meet 22-year-old ...

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 ...

By universalizing their own economic history, Western observers have used the past to portray African economic culture as ...

Judith Mendelsohn Rood is Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies at Biola University in La Mirada, California. She is the author of "Sacred Law In The Holy City: The Khedival Challenge To The ...

Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates (PRA), is co-author of Right Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. His most recent study for PRA is titled Toxic to Democracy, ...

John Willingham is a former election official in Texas. He now writes about history, culture, and election issues. He holds an MA in American history from the University of Texas at Austin. The last ...

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 ...

HNN is setting aside this page to give readers an opportunity to provide running commentary on the war with Iraq, which began Wednesday night, March 19, 2003, just before President Bush addressed the ...

Mr. Barnhill is an independent historian in Houston, Tex., and a writer for the History News Service. A majority of Americans in a recent poll expressed support for the use of our military as part of ...