An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

Blue plaque honoring Marie-Louise Christophe in Hastings, 2024. Photograph by Maraelizabeth. [Wikimedia Commons] Although the queen had stood by Henry Christophe’s side since the earliest days ...

Mr. Gould, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, is writing a history of the Senate in the twentieth century. Alan Keyes, the Republican senatorial candidate in Illinois, has ...

Mr. Cole is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author of Sacred Space and Holy War (I.B. Tauris, 2002). One of the justifications U.S. hawks give ...

Mr. Beres is a member of the Wayne Morse Corporation Board in Oregon. The death of former Illinois senator, Paul Simon, Dec. 9, reminds us of his history of speaking with courage and for the ...

Mr. Watenpaugh is an historian and Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights, Peace at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Being Modern in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006).

This page features links to reviews of movies, documentaries and exhibits with a historical theme. Listings are in reverse chronological order. Descriptions are taken directly from the linked ...

Almost 30 years have elapsed since the"third rate burglary" of the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972 that opened the dam of the Watergate scandal. The press and members ...

Mr. Fleming is a former president of the Society of American Historians. This is the latest in a series of articles, "Channelling George Washington." “I see the historians are at it again.” ...

Mr. Pipes is the director of the Middle East Forum. His website address is http://www.danielpipes.org. Consider the paradox: Almost every government agrees that Iraqi ...

Mr. Higginbotham is profesor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although one might think from reading some letters to the press that dissent from government policies ...

The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee is Thomas Fleming's 23rd novel. It is a selection of the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club. Mr. Fleming is a member of HNN's corporate board.