In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992), a novel that channeled perfectly the libertarian imagination of the post–Cold War moment, the territory once known as the United States has been shattered into ...

A reading list tracing the history of the birth control movement through novels.

Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62. Thompson, whose role in the ...

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 ...

Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his ...

Mr. Evans is an attorney and author. As an avocational politician, he has supervised a successful New Hampshire presidential primary and set up a national citizens organization. He has served as ...

Mr. Foner is a professor of history at Columbia University and past president of both the AHA and the OAH. This article was written in 2003. In 1948, Roy F. Nichols, a distinguished scholar of the ...

Mr. Reeves taught history for over thirty years at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, in Kenosha. He is the author of many books including, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. Since ...

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 ...

Abraham Hoffman teaches history at Los Angeles Valley College, and is the author of Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929–1939. Our featured weekly excerpts ...