Mr. Sokol is a graduate student in U.S. History at UC-Berkeley. He has written freelance for the Nation, TomPaine.com, Feed. Five-hundred and eighteen members of Congress voted to extend President ...

Mr. Dresner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Hilo. His research is on modern Japanese social history. The tax proposals of President Bush -- elimination ...

Mr. Kimball is a professor of history at Miami University and the author of To Reason Why, Nixon's Vietnam War, and The Vietnam War Files. In a January 2005 article in the New Yorker based on unnamed ...

Mr. Mattson is Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University and author most recently of Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century. To get a sense of just how much the Iraq War ...

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 ...

Ever wonder why presidential candidates talk so much about issues like Medicare that affect people in the upper age brackets? It's because older people vote at much higher rates than others. In 2008 ...

Mr. Rees is Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo. According to the Rocky Mountain News, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and top Republican state legislators ...

Mr. Cole is professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of Sacred Space and Holy War (I.B. Tauris, 2002). His web site is www.juancole.com. David Horowitz has now targeted liberal ...

Ms. O'Neill is an HNN intern. Timothy Meagher is associate professor of history and curator of the American Catholic History Collections at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He ...

Chung Chinsung is Professor of Sociology, Seoul National University. In August 2004 she was appointed to a post at the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Emanuel Pastreich teaches in the ...

Pope Francis in Brazil on March 20. Credit: Wiki Commons.With their unending infatuation with the exotica of ritual and royalty, all of the networks provided extensive coverage of the papal ...

The US Army had been grappling with the question of how to man its rapidly expanding force even before Pearl Harbor. This was an increasingly critical, though largely unknown, problem throughout the ...