Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

Bronwen Everill is the author of Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance, and Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. She teaches writing at Princeton and is a Research ...

Last week HNN published Alan Wald's critique of an article written by Michael Lind for the New Statesman in which Mr. Lind argued that defense policy in the Bush administration is orchestrated by a ...

The Israeli historian Benny Morris did it again. Morris is not only a historian with impressive achievements but also an Israeli and international icon. One year after the publication of his book The ...

Mr. Kuzmarov is assistant professor of history at Tulsa University and author of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs. He spent months pouring over the files of the ...

Mr. Sigal is director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York. "My predecessor, in a good-faith effort, entered into a framework agreement ...

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 ...

Robert Paxton is emeritus professor of history at Columbia University. His latest book is Anatomy of Fascism (Vintage, 2005).