Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, historians and archaeologists are working to recover the names of those who fought ...

David O. Stewart, who defended a Senate impeachment trial in 1989, is the author of Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s ...

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.

The Secret Formula is the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of a formula for the solution of the cubic equation. Niccolò ...

Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University and Contributing Editor of HNN. For a list of all of Moss’s recent books and online publications, click here. After ...

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, ...

Ken Lawrence founded the Deep South People’s History Project in 1973. Today he studies, collects, and writes about aviation history, air transport, and air mail, which are occasional subjects of his ...

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

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.

Van Gosse is Professor of History Emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College, co-chair for Historians and Peace and Democracy, and author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the ...

Brian Glyn Williams worked for the CIA’s Counter Terrorism Center and the US Army’s Information Operations team at ISAF HQ in Afghanistan and is Professor of Islamic History at the University of ...