Back in the days when only aristocrats and spiritual leaders could hold political and cultural authority, there was no pride in claiming to be self-made. Instead, an assertion of self-made success was ...

David B. Parker is Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of "Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South's "Goodly Heritage" " (1993) and editor (with John D.

Perhaps the greatest side plot in Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton involves the sexual education of the Featherington sisters. Overbearing mama Lady Portia Featherington (Polly Walker) is desperate ...

Elizabeth R. Varon is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia, and author of six books, most recently Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the ...

Drowning rates were abysmally high in early 20th-century America, with as many as ten thousand adults and children meeting watery graves each year. Beaches and swimming holes were unguarded, and those ...

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.

Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University and Contributing Editor of HNN. For a list of all of Moss’s recent books and online publications, click here. After ...

Chris Monday is associate professor of Russian History at Dongseo University, South Korea. In 1949, Mikhail Putin visits a worker club at the Red Vyborzhets factory in Leningrad with his former ...

Roy E. Finkenbine is Professor of History and Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is currently engaged in a book project tentatively titled Fugitive ...

Daniel Mallia is an HNN and an undergraduate at Fordham University. "Was Hitler Jewish?" is a frequently asked question but it is one that requires clarification to answer correctly. In essence, it ...

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,” with ...

Edward B. Foley, a professor of law at The Ohio State University, is author of Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States (Oxford University Press 2016). There has been ...