Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and The ...

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 ...

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

Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.

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.

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 ...

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.

Perhaps the greatest side plot in Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton involves the sexual education of the Featherington sisters. Overbearing mama Lady Portia Featherington (Polly Walker) is desperate ...

After nearly four years of the Trump administration, U.S. voters have a pretty good idea of the policies that the President and his Republican allies champion when it comes to America’s dealings with ...

Samuel J. Redman is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s the author of the new book, Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums ...

Mark Tauger teaches history at West Virginia University. This book has new information on Ukrainian culture in the 1920s, Ukrainian émigré historiography of the famine after World War II, the ...

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 ...