Noah Shusterman is an Associate Professor of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Armed Citizens: From Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment. The Boston Massacre, after ...

The past and present of counterfactual history, from antiquity to the Napoleonic Wars to a few very active subreddits.

John Reeves is the author of the forthcoming book The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: the Forgotten Case Against an American Icon (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). He was accused of treason. Only the ...

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration ...

Somewhere in the scarier reaches of the internet, a conspiracy theory circulates that the Nazis landed on the moon in 1942. Maybe you’ve never heard that 27 years before Apollo 11, Hitler had a ...

Robin Lindley is a Seattle writer and attorney. He is a former chair of the World Peace through Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association, and has worked as a law teacher and as an attorney ...

Rachel Rolnick is an intern at the History News Network. Over time, the myth of the pirate has generated the image of a rugged, foul man with an elaborate hat, an eye patch, and a peg leg. The men of ...

Aaron J. Leonard is author of The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA, 1939-1956, (London: Repeater Books, September 2020), from which ...

Barack Obama: ... Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done ...

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is ...

Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University and Contributing Editor of HNN. For a list of all of Moss’s recent books and online publications, click here. After ...

Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN.