Andrew W. Kahrl is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. His book, "Set in Sand: African American Beaches in the Age of Coastal Capitalism," is expected to be published by ...

Mr. Barrett is Professor of Law at St. John’s University in New York City. He discovered, edited and introduced Justice Jackson’s previously unknown, never-published memoir, That Man: An ...

Mr. Gosse teaches history at Franklin & Marshall College. He was a founder of Historians Against the War. Nothing like it has happened in the 170 years since American political parties began ...

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

Fatima Ahmed-Farouta is a former HNN intern. Credit: Wiki Commons. Was Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of President John F. Kennedy, really an anti-Semite? David Nasaw, Kennedy's recent biographer ...

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to ...

Mr. Bates graduated from San Francisco State University in May 2004. He is an HNN intern. 1. Why do reformers propose abolishing the Electoral College? Reformers argue that the Electoral College ...

Mr. Szasz was a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. He died in 2010 at the age of 70. He assembled this list of historical quotations for HNN in 2005. Historical sense and poetic ...

Mr. Mendel is an HNN intern. The Great Depression: Where, exactly, did this term so present in the American lexicon, and so connected to America’s historical narrative, come from? Who said it first?

Thomas S. Kidd teaches history and is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, and the author of God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution ...

Mr. Fleming is a former president of the Society of American Historians . His four grandparents were born in Ireland. He was the consultant and a principal writer of The Irish-American Chronicle ...

Ms. Fachner is an HNN intern. Is it possible that there were Muslims in the Americas before Columbus? Some claim that Muslims came to America hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in the New ...