Mr. Shenkman, the author of Presidential Ambition and other books, is the editor of HNN. In 1964 Barry Goldwater lost the presidency in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson in part because of the perception ...

Mr. Eisele is the editor of The Hill. George F. Kennan, the chief architect of the containment and deterrence policies that shaped America foreign policy during the Cold War, said Sunday that Congress ...

Mr. Lindley is a Seattle writer and attorney. He writes about human rights, politics, history, legal affairs, medicine, the arts, and more. He is a past chair of the World Peace through Law Section of ...

Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University Press, ...

Ms. Hart is an award-winning journalist who has covered international affairs and historical topics in her writing. In a series of discoveries unfolding over seven years, a professor of English at the ...

Mr. Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition (1998). He is a member of HNN's blog, ...

Following is a book list prepared by Representative Ike Skelton (D-Mo). It's not your ordinary list. Skelton's highlights books he thinks are essential for people interested in national security ...

How the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests. How Americans through the years have approached the thorny questions of ...

Following is an interview with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, authors of In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage (2003). The interview was conducted by historian Jamie Glazov, the managing ...

Following is a list of articles and press releases appearing on HNN that concern bias in the teaching and writing of history. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.

Ms. Holt is the author of the recently published, Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady (University Press of Kansas, 2007). Speculating on what sort of first lady Mamie Eisenhower would be, ...

If you like the service HNN provides, please consider making a donation. The Central Intelligence Agency has an almost unblemished record of screwing up every "secret" armed intervention it ever ...