Ms. Horn is an HNN intern. She received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Recently, during the Super Bowl XLV, there was a commercial by Chrysler declaring that Detroit was not yet ...

Mr. Dando-Collins is an Australian-born historian and novelist who writes about American, Roman, British, Australian and French history. He is the author of 21 books, the latest being Tycoon’s War.

Mr. Satloff is executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. At every ...

Jim Cullen is a book review editor at HNN. He is also the author of the Kindle Single President Hanks. This essay is adapted from the newly published “Twilights Gleaming: The American Dream and ...

Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University ...

Mr. Boot is the author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. On Feb. 19, 1945, 30,000 Marines splashed ashore on a small volcanic island in the central Pacific.

Mr. Parrish is the author of: To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941 (HarperCollins, 2009). In January 1941, when President Roosevelt told a press conference that ...

[Quentin P. Taylor is an assistant professor of history and political science at Rogers State University, Claremore, Oklahoma.] “The story of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ was written solely ...

As the news media prepares for its coverage of the political conventions and the selection of Vice-Presidential running mates, the conventional wisdom is that it is now time to replace such ...

LATE IN NOVEMBER 1988, Doug Wead, who had worked in the campaign that made George Bush Sr. president, wrote a paper about presidents' children for his associate, George W. Bush. What Wead found ...

Mr. Ellwood is Associate Professor in International History, University of Bologna and Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center. Anti-Americanism as a cultural and ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 ...