Andrew W. Kahrl is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. His book, "Set in Sand: African American Beaches in the Age of Coastal Capitalism," is expected to be published by ...

Mr. Barrett is Professor of Law at St. John’s University in New York City. He discovered, edited and introduced Justice Jackson’s previously unknown, never-published memoir, That Man: An ...

Mr. Offner is Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History at Lafayette College and past president, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His latest book is Another Such Victory ...

Mr. Gosse teaches history at Franklin & Marshall College. He was a founder of Historians Against the War. Nothing like it has happened in the 170 years since American political parties began ...

James Bryce was a nineteenth-century English writer who loved America and wrote passionately about politics. The following excerpt, from his book "The American Commonwealth," is still widely cited ...

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 ...