Ms. O'Neill is an HNN intern. Timothy Meagher is associate professor of history and curator of the American Catholic History Collections at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He ...

Chung Chinsung is Professor of Sociology, Seoul National University. In August 2004 she was appointed to a post at the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Emanuel Pastreich teaches in the ...

Pope Francis in Brazil on March 20. Credit: Wiki Commons.With their unending infatuation with the exotica of ritual and royalty, all of the networks provided extensive coverage of the papal ...

The US Army had been grappling with the question of how to man its rapidly expanding force even before Pearl Harbor. This was an increasingly critical, though largely unknown, problem throughout the ...

Ms. Porter, a former social studies teacher, is associate research director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. For an organization that claims to value diversity and debate as much as the National ...

The debut Bachmann Award does not, surprisingly enough, go to Michelle Bachmann herself. Instead, the honor goes to Democrat Yvette Clark, who represents part of Brooklyn in the U.S. House, for her ...

Mr. Howe is the author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, the newest addition to the award-winning Oxford University History of the United States series. I have just ...

Jack Censer is a professor of history at George Mason University and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Payne is Associate Professor, Department of History, St. Bonaventure University, NY. President Warren G. Harding died in office 83 years ago this August. This past November, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing ...

Mr. Black is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated international best-seller IBM and the Holocaust: the Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (Crown ...

An interview with Garry Wills on NPR conducted by Tavis Smiley (Feb. 16, 2004): While we have recent memories of an especially tight presidential election in 2000 and, who knows, potentially a tight ...

Mr. Ayton is the author of The JFK Assassination: Dispelling The Myths (2002) and Questions of Controversy: The Kennedy Brothers (2001) Forty years ago this month President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ...