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. 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?

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 ...

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 ...

Akhil Reed Amar is a professor of law at Yale Law School, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction, and has given endowed lectures at over two dozen ...

Mr. Williams is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN. This article was published in 2001. Though a definite link has yet to be established (or publicized), it becomes ...

The Hooblers are the authors of Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream (Wiley, 2007 paperback). They’re still taking shots at Captain John Smith, 400 years after that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Ellis is a historian at Mount Holyoke. This essay is drawn from his introduction to the Encyclopedia Britannica's Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America (paperback ...

Mr. Miller has been a speaker with the Organization of American Historians (OAH)Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. From roughly 1790 through about 1920 farming in the United States was ...

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 ...