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 ...

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. Walch is an independent historian who has written extensively on the Hoover presidency and is a writer for the History News Service. Herbert Hoover, where are you now that we need you? Hurricane ...

Herbert J. Gans served as the 78th President of the American Sociological Association. Between 1953 and 2007, Gans taught it at Penn, Teachers College, MIT, and Columbia. He is now Columbia's Robert S ...

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. Fleming is a member of the board of HNN. The following is excerpted from Mr. Fleming's new book, The New Dealer's War. Within a week of the Democratic Party's debacle in the 1942 midterm elections ...

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 ...

Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule and Feyi Fawehinmi. Cassava Republic Press, 357 pages. What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule by ...

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. 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. Walters is the director of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland. There are two traditional factors experts usually take into account when measuring presidential ...

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His latest book is "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s" (Haymarket Books).