In the mid-1930s, one Harlem nurse began to see the devaluation of African American lives around her as entwined with the ...

With estimates ranging between 60 and 90 million dead worldwide, including the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis, World ...

The AI boom is only the latest stage in Silicon Valley’s long history of creating and expanding intellectual monopolies. The political fixer created a career for himself as a self-promoting, ...

Jordan Sand is a professor of Japanese history at Georgetown University. He writes widely on topics in the social and cultural history of Japan and the Asia-Pacific. His most recent book is A History ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

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 year ...

Ms. Zanolli was an HNN intern. The prospect of Democrats controlling the 110th Congress has raised speculation over a possible suspension of funds for the war in Iraq. Given control of the purse ...

Catherine Phipps is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published a book on Histories of Sex Work Around the World.

In the late 1870s, the 70-year-old newspaper editor Henry Boernstein sat down to write about German immigrants’ efforts to shape the United States into a less brutal, more enlightened republic in the ...

Adolfo Kaminsky’s talent was as banal as could be: He knew how to remove supposedly indelible blue ink from paper. But it was a skill that helped save the lives of thousands of Jews in France during ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

John Murphy, in the Balt Sun (June 30, 2004): GOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Standing in a narrow doorway opening onto the Atlantic Ocean, tour guide Aladji Ndiaye asked a visitor to this Senegalese island's ...