All of this was true, the product of Ronald Reagan’s covert war against Nicaragua’s revolutionary ruling party: the Frente ...

The question of why John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln was settled long ago as far as most historians are concerned. Booth in league with a ragtag group of Southern misfits was out to change the ...

Mr. Maddox, Professor of History Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, is the editor of "Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism" (University of Missouri Press, May 2007). A staple of ...

Mr. Miller has been a speaker with the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. To this day my favorite motion picture remains the western classic Shane ...

Ms. Somerville is a journalism and history major at Michigan State University. She is an HNN intern. Recently President Bush asked Congress to consider allowing the military to assume police functions ...

A full century ago, Americans witnessed the first mass uprising for reproductive rights: the birth control movement. My book, The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the ...

Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University. His book, Morning In America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, will be published next year by Princeton University Press. Mr. Troy is a ...

Mr. Fea teaches American history at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, and is a writer for the History News Service. Americans love their history, but seldom think historically. The problem is ...

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 ...

Michael Soto is the Democratic Party candidate for the State Board of Education in District 3, which covers a 13-county area from Bexar County and San Antonio to Hidalgo County and the Texas-Mexico ...

Leo Maley III has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and University of Maryland, College Park, and Uday Mohan is director of research at the Nuclear Studies Institute, American ...

Mr. Mallon is a student at George Mason University and an intern at HNN. The origin of the term Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) is almost as elusive as Iraq's weapons themselves. In 1925, the Geneva ...