Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

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 ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN and the author of Presidential Ambition: Gaining Power at Any Cost (HarperCollins). Fun facts about inaugurations past: Weirdest moment: At Harry Truman’s 1949 ...

It was a history convention, but the topic on everyone's mind was the current war in Iraq. It was inescapable. It was what people talked about when they met in small groups. It was what they talked ...

Mr. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The article is derived from his recently published book, The Vanishing ...

HNN is setting aside this page to give readers an opportunity to provide running commentary on the war with Iraq, which began Wednesday night, March 19, 2003, just before President Bush addressed the ...

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 ...

Mr. Thompson, professor of public administration, University of Nevada, teaches about the presidents. Suffering through the Y2K litany of"The Greatest" this and that of the Millennium and the Century, ...

Mr. Whitman is Ford Foundation Professor at Yale Law School, where he teaches criminal law and legal history. He holds both a law degree and a doctorate in history. As everybody knows, no person in ...

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 ...

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

Just how strong are the ties that bind Liberia and the United States? Liberia was established by the American Colonization Society (1817), which was formed to create a haven for freed blacks. Robert G ...