What role does age itself play in determining the status of equals? Yet Rousseau inhabited an enlightened age, one that ...
Mr. Byington is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Korea Institute. He completed his PhD program at Harvard in the field of Korean history, though he also trained in archaeology. His research ...
In 1947, when Republicans took control of Congress for the first time since the Great Depression, they immediately set out to weaken unions. The bill they drafted provoked sharp condemnation from ...
Look to the United Nations. It's the legal thing to do.
Ms. Jensen is a historian at New Mexico State University and the author of many books on civil liberties. In March 1917, with the United States on the brink of war with Germany, the administration ...
John Prados is a senior fellow of the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. His forthcoming book is The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power (University of Texas Press).
Mr. Szasz was a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. He died in 2010 at the age of 70. He assembled this list of historical quotations for HNN in 2005. Historical sense and poetic ...
This week I’m sharing more of your thoughts on which innovations from the past year you want to keep even when campuses resume normal operations. Earlier this month I described a few of them ...
Counterfactual history is making an ever larger contribution to historical thinking -- and is also winning favor with the history reading public. Two What If books edited by Robert Cowley, to ...
"President Bush said Friday that he is scheduled to undergo a colonoscopy — his third — on Saturday. Bush will transfer power to Vice President Cheney for about an hour while he is sedated for ...
Ms. DeLucia is an undergraduate at Harvard. When Supreme Court nominee John Roberts wrote his senior history thesis at Harvard in 1976, he revisited the Edwardian Liberal revival of early ...
Is the Ambrose story bigger than it appeared at first? Initially, Ambrose's chief offense seemed to be that he had simply forgotten to put quotation marks around a few select sentences. Now ...