Mr. McLaughlin received his PhD in history from Drew University in 2008. His dissertation focused on General Albert C. Wedemeyer. Americans rightly regard General Joseph W. Stilwell as a hero. Few ...

Ms. Skemp, Clare Leslie Marquette Chair in American History, University of Mississippi, is the author of First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence (Penn ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

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 ...

Greg Robinson is Associate Professor of History at the Université du Québec À Montréal. His latest book is "A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America" (Columbia, 2009). The recent ...

Ms. Rathi is an HNN intern. For years there have been allegations that Eleanor Roosevelt was sexually abused by either her governess or her father or even by her uncles. Is there anything to these ...

The so-called “culture wars,” though maddeningly difficult to define, have begun to set previously complacent Americans against one another in unexpected ways and to challenge some of the basic goals ...

Robin Lindley (robinlindley@gmail.com) is a Seattle writer and attorney, and features editor for the History News Network. His interviews with scholars, writers and artists have appeared in HNN, ...

A Nightmare Tale of Ruthless Accusers, A Misused 'Plagiarism Machine,' An Orwellian Star Chamber, an Unscrupulous Verdict, and Hopeless Confusion About Definitions A recent Saturday edition of the New ...

Hugh Ambrose is the son of the late Stephen Ambrose. He served as a project consultant for the HBO miniseries "The Pacific." The recent accusation that the late historian Dr. Stephen E. Ambrose, the ...

Professor Tise’s most recent book is Conquering the Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk published by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2009. Just a year ago—on the occasion of ...