Mr. Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University, UK. His most recent book is Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (Yale UP, Spring 2006), which ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Fausz is a history professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His William and Mary dissertation on the 1622 Powhatan Uprising has long been considered the standard interpretation, and ...

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 ...

Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Crusading History, Royal Holloway, University of London, is the author of Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades (Random House, 2010). On October 2, 1187 ...

Elizabeth Abbott is the author of Sugar: A Bittersweet History (Overlook Press, 2010). Even before last January’s devastating earthquake, Haiti was routinely disparaged as a “basket-case” or ...

Mr. Fernández-Armesto is the author most recently of Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America (Random House, Aug. 2007). Strangely, in the western hemisphere today, and in the United States ...