Restoring stability to American politics will require reviving an age-old concept: common ground.

After the Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose stories broke earlier this year, HNN received an email from a reader about a historian who had allegedly plagiarized parts of her dissertation at ...

How a son of European immigrants fought to keep Indian immigrants out of America.

Mr. Kimball is a professor of history at Miami University and the author of To Reason Why, Nixon's Vietnam War, and The Vietnam War Files. On October 10, 2005, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...

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 project ...

Mr. Spivak is an attorney in New York, and received a Master's in History from Brooklyn College. His Master's thesis explored the history of the recall. From the drafting of a new California ...

Richard Rayner, writing in the April 26, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, revealed that Ambrose exaggerated his relationship with Dwight Eisenhower. Ambrose claimed that Eisenhower approached him in 1964 ...

David Carlin works on Climate Change for the UN Environment Program’s Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI). He leads a global project to help banks understand and assess the risks and opportunities brought ...

R. B. Bernstein teaches political science at City College of New York. His most recent book is The Education of John Adams (Oxford University Press). Watercolor, Adams family home, 1798. Collection of ...

Is the Ambrose story bigger than it appeared at first? Initially, Ambrose's chief offense seemed to be that he had simply forgotten to put quotation marks around a few select sentences. Now evidence ...

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 ...

Kevin M. Cherry is an associate professor of political science at the University of Richmond. His areas of expertise include classical and American political thought. He is the author of Plato, ...