Mr. Leonard is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to HNN. For more information please visit his website at www.aaronleonard.net James Bradley author of “Flags of Our Fathers” and ...

Mr. Murphy is a graduate student in early American history at the University of Virginia. He was a staff writer for George magazine and edited a political website in New Jersey. With a pistol’s ...

Reconsidering Earl Warren’s place in U.S. history.

Reader, Joan wore a bowl cut. Haters have attempted to erase the memory of this bowl cut from our collective memory, but I am here to bring it back. Joan fashioned this cut, and the complete look that ...

Emma Maggie Solberg is an associate professor of medieval English literature at Bowdoin College in Maine. She has published on bookworms, the Virgin Mary, and poetry. She is at work on a new ...

Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist, and citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the author of By the Fire We Carry and host of the podcast This Land. In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling ...

This is the second installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first installment here. The Name of the Rose has a straightforward enough premise.

John W. Johnson is a Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa and the author of a number of books on American civil liberties. Last week I did something that many of you of a ...

Novelist Jack London (1876-1916), by far the most popular American writer a century ago, is these days remembered for his novels and short stories on the Yukon. The Call of the Wild, White Fang ...

A new history revisits “the Trial of the Century” and its legacy in contemporary politics.

Matthew Algeo is the author of "Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip." In the summer of 1953, Harry and Bess Truman, just five months removed from the ...