Back in the days when only aristocrats and spiritual leaders could hold political and cultural authority, there was no pride in claiming to be self-made. Instead, an assertion of self-made success was ...

James A.S. Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His DPhil, from Merton College, Oxford, ...

We are writing to you today, in tandem with numerous others, to express our deep concern about the New York Times’ promotion of The 1619 Project, which first appeared in the pages of the New York ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, August 2015). A paperback edition is now ...

David B. Parker is Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of "Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South's "Goodly Heritage" " (1993) and editor (with John D.

Chris Monday is associate professor of Russian History at Dongseo University, South Korea. In 1949, Mikhail Putin visits a worker club at the Red Vyborzhets factory in Leningrad with his former ...

A close study of the principal sources (in Mongolian, Arabic and Persian) reveals a personality of the utmost complexity. Depending on mood or context he could be all of the following: shrewd, ...

Kevin Waite is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, working on a dissertation titled, “The Slave South in the Far West: California, the Pacific and Proslavery Visions of Empire." He ...

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

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 ...

Will Teague is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

Kurt Stennhas over 30 years of expertise studying hair. He had a distinguished twenty-year academic career as a Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine and was ...