Fatima Ahmed-Farouta is a former HNN intern. Credit: Wiki Commons. Was Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of President John F. Kennedy, really an anti-Semite? David Nasaw, Kennedy's recent biographer ...

Mr. Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University, UK. His most recent book is Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (Yale UP, Spring 2006), which ...

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to ...

Mr. Mendel is an HNN intern. The Great Depression: Where, exactly, did this term so present in the American lexicon, and so connected to America’s historical narrative, come from? Who said it first?

Thomas S. Kidd teaches history and is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, and the author of God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution ...

Akhil Reed Amar is a professor of law at Yale Law School, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction, and has given endowed lectures at over two dozen ...

Mr. Williams is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN. This article was published in 2001. Though a definite link has yet to be established (or publicized), it becomes ...