Three decades ago, a number of uprisings took place around the world, with unhappy citizens taking to the streets—and in some cases, taking up arms—to try to change or remove their governments. A ...

Jaclynn Ashly is a multimedia journalist currently based in East Africa who has reported from across Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. One of Gebremeskel Tesema’s completed rock-hewn ...

Olivia Paschal is a writer and PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia. Self-published in 1937, the year of the newly formed United Auto Workers’ successful sit-down strike at General ...

Are war films ever true? The historian Norman Kagan introduced this question in his 1974 book The War Film, adding, “true to what?” Are they true to the experience of war? Are they true to history, to ...

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

In December 2023, HNN transitioned to a new editorial model that centers on its weekly email newsletter. Each week, the newsletter serves up short-form essays to help readers make sense of the ways in ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University. In July 2022, just days after Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Joseph Biden presented the ...

Emma Maggie Solberg is an associate professor of medieval English literature at Bowdoin College in Maine. She has published on bookworms, the Virgin Mary, and poetry. She is at work on a new project ...

Alan Singer is the director of social studies education at Hofstra University and the author of New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth (SUNY, 2008). Follow him on twitter @AlanJSinger1 . Local ...

Trade has always had to negotiate geographic bottlenecks, but by the 21st century, controlling access to the U.S. dollar seemed to offer even greater leverage.

Ron Steinman was bureau chief for NBC News in Saigon from April 1966 through September 1968. He covered the war until 1972, with frequent trips to Saigon from posts in Hong Kong and London. Recently ...