An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

An interview with the author of Cahokia Jazz.

Nothing as a student was more delicious than learning how somebody else scored on a test. To find out their IQ, of course, was like gaining the rare chance to feast at King Henry's table.

Mr. Gould, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, is writing a history of the Senate in the twentieth century. Alan Keyes, the Republican senatorial candidate in Illinois, has ...

Mr. Adell is a student at Oberlin College. Democrats, more than Republicans it seems, have always had a penchant for their "lovable losers;" those candidates, who despite passionate adherence to ...

Mr. Cole is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author of Sacred Space and Holy War (I.B. Tauris, 2002). One of the justifications U.S. hawks give ...

Raney McKool is an HNN intern. The celebrity candidate is, nowadays, a common phenomena: Jesse Ventura, Jerry Springer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Howard Stern, Fred Thompson, and Ronald Reagan are ...

Mr. Watenpaugh is an historian and Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights, Peace at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Being Modern in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006).

This page features links to reviews of movies, documentaries and exhibits with a historical theme. Listings are in reverse chronological order. Descriptions are taken directly from the linked ...

Almost 30 years have elapsed since the"third rate burglary" of the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972 that opened the dam of the Watergate scandal. The press and members ...

Mr. Higginbotham is profesor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although one might think from reading some letters to the press that dissent from government policies ...

Ms. Nelson is Distinguished Historian in Residence at American University in Washington, D.C. In 2007 she testified before Congress about the necessity of overturning President's Bush's executive ...