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 ...

Mr. Liebers is an HNN intern. Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology. His most recent book, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the ...

Mr. Kelly, who holds a graduate degree in European history, is the author most recently of The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time ...

Mr. Pach is author of The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is writing a history of the presidency of Ronald Reagan. As we begin a new year and a new millennium, it is time to just say no to ...

Mr. Neumann is a professor at the Hofstra University School of Law. Every year as December 7 approaches we hear and read that eight battleships were sunk at Pearl Harbor. That is even repeated in ...

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

Mr. Garst is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens and the author of "Chasing John Henry in Alabama and Mississippi: A Personal Memoir of Work in Progress" Tributaries ...

Ms. Horn is an HNN intern. She received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Recently, during the Super Bowl XLV, there was a commercial by Chrysler declaring that Detroit was not yet ...

Mr. Dando-Collins is an Australian-born historian and novelist who writes about American, Roman, British, Australian and French history. He is the author of 21 books, the latest being Tycoon’s War.

Mr. Satloff is executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. At every ...

Jim Cullen is a book review editor at HNN. He is also the author of the Kindle Single President Hanks. This essay is adapted from the newly published “Twilights Gleaming: The American Dream and ...