Excerpted from an interview with William Cronon about his book, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (W. W. Norton & Co., 1991) on its 25th anniversary. ... One of the things I ...

Lightning Jay is an assistant professor of education at Binghamton University, where he studies social studies education, classroom discussion, and teacher preparation. Interior of a college ...

Philip Ball is a British science writer, whose work appears in Nature, New Scientist and Prospect, among others. His latest book is Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen (2014). It’s a ...

Alexander Poster is Smith-Richardson Fellow at Yale and a graduate student at The Ohio State University. He will defend a dissertation on the history of disaster relief entitled “A Hierarchy of ...

The case can be made that Woodrow Wilson made some profound mistakes when World War I broke out in the summer of 1914. He made four particularly bad mistakes, and he admitted to one of them later ...

Rick Perlstein is the author of many books including "The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan." On January 4, 2015 he spoke at a roundtable at the annual meeting of the ...

Lisa Duggan, a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, is president of the American Studies Assn. This past weekend, American Studies Assn. members held our annual ...

IN SOVIET times, it was the ideological caprice of the moment, rather than any open-ended research into the past, that determined how people were taught to view the different phases of their ...

Mr. Zelizer is a professor of history at Boston University and the author of On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1945-2000 (2004). Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN.

Mr. Mieczkowski is the author of Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (2005) and The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections (2001). Chair of the History Department at Dowling ...

After the first shock, the questions about Jared Lee Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords quickly resolved to a familiar American dichotomy: Was his act political ...

Mr. Mallon is a student at George Mason University and an intern at HNN. Medicare is a government service that helps provide health care for senior citizens and disabled U.S. citizens. Medicare is ...