Jaclynn Ashly is a multimedia journalist currently based in East Africa who has reported from across Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. One of Gebremeskel Tesema’s completed rock-hewn ...

Olivia Paschal is a writer and PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia. Self-published in 1937, the year of the newly formed United Auto Workers’ successful sit-down strike at General ...

In the closing moments of the Super Bowl LX halftime show, Bad Bunny marched down the field naming more than 20 countries that comprise a broader, hemispheric American identity. Holding a football ...

Are war films ever true? The historian Norman Kagan introduced this question in his 1974 book The War Film, adding, “true to what?” Are they true to the experience of war? Are they true to history, to ...

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his ...

In December 2023, HNN transitioned to a new editorial model that centers on its weekly email newsletter. Each week, the newsletter serves up short-form essays to help readers make sense of the ways in ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University. In July 2022, just days after Americans celebrated Independence Day, President Joseph Biden presented the ...

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 ...

Harvard Law Student Barack Obama with Prof. Derrick Bell in 1991, during HLS student protests demanding more faculty diversity at the school. In 2012, as Barack Obama ran for reelection, the ...