“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish … it was so fragile.” So says the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the ...

Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.

Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c.

In 2014, I ended my second book, Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle Over Apartheid, with a discussion of how most American Jewish leaders powerfully resisted applying the label of ...

Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN.

W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief overview of the Sixties ...

Elaine G. Breslaw is a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of "Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America." Nineteenth-century British ...

Aaron Leonard is a writer and journalist currently completing, “Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War Against America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980 ...

The trouble with studying historical recipes is that they are records of meals that no longer exist. We can’t go back in time to see, taste, and smell the dishes, and so we are left in the ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015). A paperback edition is now ...

Underground communities, in real life, are usually short-term and provisional. For the most part, people live underground much in the same way children can be said to live in treehouses: It can be ...

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 ...