In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992), a novel that channeled perfectly the libertarian imagination of the post–Cold War moment, the territory once known as the United States has been ...

Eran Zelnik teaches history at Chico State University in California. His book American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750-1850, came out earlier this ...

Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

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 ...

Abraham Hoffman teaches history at Los Angeles Valley College, and is the author of Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929–1939. Our featured weekly ...

The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.

Daniel Mallia is a former HNN intern. The suspicious nature of Tycho Brahe's death in 1601, and Johannes Kepler's possible role in his end, constitutes one of history's greatest unsolved murder ...

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 ...

Mr. Bangs obtained his doctorate at the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, in 1976. He is a former Chief Curator of the Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA. Image via Wiki Commons. Setting people straight ...

Mr. Spivak is an attorney in New York, and received a Master's in History from Brooklyn College. His Master's thesis explored the history of the recall. Even though 26 states authorize the recall ...