Reader, Joan wore a bowl cut. Haters have attempted to erase the memory of this bowl cut from our collective memory, but I am ...

Ms. Gorn is the executive director of National History Day and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland. The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for ...

Ahron Bregman is the author of Cursed Victory: Israel and the Occupied Territories, A History, now available from Pegasus Books. A new government is installed in Jerusalem and it is led by the ...

A brief history of the textfile, and the production of conspiracy theories on the internet.

Mr. Renehan is the author of Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Basic/Perseus, 2007) and other books including Dark Genius of Wall Street, The Kennedys at War, The Lion's Pride, The Secret ...

Mr. Schweikart is a professor of history at the University of Dayton and author of The Entrepreneurial Adventure: A History of American Business. It is a good thing I am called a judge, because if I ...

"You have got to understand that [the atomic bomb] isn't a military weapon. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses." Harry S Truman, discussing atomic ...

Kathleen Belew is a doctoral candidate at Yale University; her forthcoming dissertation presents a history of the racist right. In the aftermath of the Tucson shootings, many have focused on the death ...

Mr. Foner is a professor of history at Columbia University and past president of both the AHA and the OAH. This article was written in 2003. In 1948, Roy F. Nichols, a distinguished scholar of the ...

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?

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 ...

Mr. Giangreco is the author of War in Korea: 1950-1953. He and Kathryn Moore are co-authors of Dear Harry . . . Truman’s Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration through Correspondence with ...