Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

So begins the story of Edgar Simmons, one of the tens of thousands of men and women who traveled to Panama during the construction decade from 1904 to 1914. They left homes in Barbados, Jamaica, St.

Mr. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The article is derived from his recently published book, The Vanishing ...

Jack Censer is a professor of history at George Mason University and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

HNN is setting aside this page to give readers an opportunity to provide running commentary on the war with Iraq, which began Wednesday night, March 19, 2003, just before President Bush addressed the ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN and the author of Presidential Ambition: Gaining Power at Any Cost (HarperCollins). Fun facts about inaugurations past: Weirdest moment: At Harry Truman’s 1949 ...

The debut Bachmann Award does not, surprisingly enough, go to Michelle Bachmann herself. Instead, the honor goes to Democrat Yvette Clark, who represents part of Brooklyn in the U.S. House, for her ...

It was a history convention, but the topic on everyone's mind was the current war in Iraq. It was inescapable. It was what people talked about when they met in small groups. It was what they talked ...

Mr. Thompson, professor of public administration, University of Nevada, teaches about the presidents. Suffering through the Y2K litany of"The Greatest" this and that of the Millennium and the Century, ...

Mr. Ayton is the author of The JFK Assassination: Dispelling The Myths (2002) and Questions of Controversy: The Kennedy Brothers (2001) Forty years ago this month President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ...

Mr. Black is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated international best-seller IBM and the Holocaust: the Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (Crown ...

Mr. Payne is Associate Professor, Department of History, St. Bonaventure University, NY. President Warren G. Harding died in office 83 years ago this August. This past November, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing ...