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 ...

Daniel Ruddy is a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and he holds a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. His first book is "Theodore Roosevelt's ...

Mr. Leonard is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to hnn.us. He also writes a weekly column for New York University's “Washington Square News.” His writings can be found at ...

Mr. Davis is the author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, and most recently, Dead Cities: and Other Tales. In his dark masterpiece, Blood Meridian (1985), novelist Cormac McCarthy tells the ...

Robin Lindley is a Seattle attorney and writer. He contributes to the History News Network, Crosscut, Real Change, and others, on history, human rights, international affairs, law, politics, the media ...

Anthony D'Agostino, is a professor of history at San Francisco State University and the author of Gorbachev's Revolution, 1985-1991 (Macmillan, 1998) and the forthcoming, The Russian Revolution, ...

In June 2010 the British government revealed its long-awaited judgment in the emotionally charged case of “Bloody Sunday,” also known as the “Bogside Massacre.” Nearly forty years earlier, on January ...

Mr. Sauerwein is a former HNN Breaking News editor. Women’s History Month has its roots in Women’s History Week, which was created by congressional resolution co-sponsored by Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and ...

Mr. Wineburg is Professor of Educational Psychology and Adjunct Professor of History, University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the ...

Mr. Stern, historian at the Kennedy Library from 1977 to 1999, is the author of Averting ‘the Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings, 2003, and The Week the World ...

Mr. Gould is a Stanford law professor and former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, is the author of the recently published, Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor ...

A hurricane catches residents off guard. A levee fails, sending a wall of water that drowns thousands. Government officials at first fail to grasp the immensity of the catastrophe. There are ...