The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas. In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement ...

In 1989 James Bacque published Other Losses, a shocking account of the treatment of German POW's at the end of World War II. Bacque claimed that Dwight Eisenhower, burning with hatred for Germans, ...

Arsenic pervaded almost every aspect of life in nineteenth-century Britain, and the poison left a toll of death and illness. A by-product of an emerging smelting industry, arsenic was cheap and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ken Lawrence founded the Deep South People’s History Project in 1973. Today he studies, collects, and writes about aviation history, air transport, and air mail, which are occasional subjects of his ...

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 ...

Mr. Lindley is a Seattle writer and attorney with experience in public service law, teaching, research and consulting. He is a past chair of the World Peace through Law Section of the Washington State ...

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 ...

Dr. Lawrence Wittner (http://lawrenceswittner.com) is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. His latest book is a satirical novel about university ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

Steven Knipp formerly was the Washington correspondent for the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. Image: A rally of more than a million people who swarmed the city’s Happy Valley Race Course, ...