How the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests. How Americans through the years have approached the thorny questions of ...

Joshua D. Farrington is Assistant Professor of History at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Civil rights parade at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Photograph by ...

An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung function ...

On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands. by Keith Richotte Jr. Keith ...

Gabriel Winant is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Cares in Rust Belt America.His work ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Mr. Pach is author of The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is writing a history of the presidency of Ronald Reagan. As we begin a new year and a new millennium, it is time to just say no to ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

Dr. Yanek Mieczkowski chairs the History Department at Dowling College. A specialist in post-World War II U.S. history, he is the author of Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (2005) and The ...

Following is a list of articles and press releases appearing on HNN that concern bias in the teaching and writing of history. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.

Mr. Black is the author of the award-winning IBM and the Holocaust and the recently published Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the ...