When labor found a common cause — and enemy — with the abolition movement.

When picking up a novel, we enter into a tacit bargain: if the fictional spell is cast with requisite skill, our disbelief is willingly suspended. Across literary history, the specifics of this ...

When picking up a novel, we enter into a tacit bargain: if the fictional spell is cast with requisite skill, our disbelief is willingly suspended. Across literary history, the specifics of this ...

Mr. Bowden is an HNN intern.

Takashi Yoshida is an assistant professor of history at Western Michigan University. He is currently a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He is the author of ...

Mr. Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and a contributor to HNN's Cliopatria. A low point in last year’s presidential campaign came when the New York Post published a front ...

Mr. DeLay, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, is the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (2008). A hot and humid summer day in ...

David Marley is an Assistant Professor of History at Vanguard University, which is located near the Nixon Library & Birthplace. Nixon's campaign slogan was "Nixon, now more than ever," if ...

Mr. DePastino is the author of Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front (to be published in 2008) and a writer for the History News Service. An independent scholar, he teaches history at Penn State Beaver.

Mateo Jarquín is assistant professor of history at Chapman University. He is the author of The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History. A Nicaragua obsession gripped the United ...

Katherine J. Ballantyne is a senior lecturer in American history at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee.