All of this was true, the product of Ronald Reagan’s covert war against Nicaragua’s revolutionary ruling party: the Frente ...

A full century ago, Americans witnessed the first mass uprising for reproductive rights: the birth control movement. My book, The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the ...

Mr. Beito is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and Linda Royster Beito is chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Stillman College. They are writing a biography of T ...

Mr. Fea teaches American history at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, and is a writer for the History News Service. Americans love their history, but seldom think historically. The problem is ...

Mr. Byington is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Korea Institute. He completed his PhD program at Harvard in the field of Korean history, though he also trained in archaeology. His research ...

Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University. His book, Morning In America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, will be published next year by Princeton University Press. Mr. Troy is a ...

Mr. Rawlings is the President of Cornell University. The following article was first delivered in the form of a lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Tuesday, April 25, 2006. On March 4, 1865, Abraham ...

In 1910, the most famous and highest paid woman in the most popular entertainment medium in the United States, vaudeville, was a leggy but not particularly attractive singer-dancer-comedienne who had ...

In the past few months there have been a rash of media reports on the Carlyle Group, a private equity investment group with billions of dollars of assets in the defense industry and a roster of ...

Mr. Mallon is a student at George Mason University and an intern at HNN. The origin of the term Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) is almost as elusive as Iraq's weapons themselves. In 1925, the Geneva ...

Ms. Somerville is a journalism and history major at Michigan State University. She is an HNN intern. Recently President Bush asked Congress to consider allowing the military to assume police functions ...

The question of why John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln was settled long ago as far as most historians are concerned. Booth in league with a ragtag group of Southern misfits was out to change the ...