Robin Lindley (robinlindley@gmail.com) is a Seattle writer and attorney, and features editor for the History News Network. His interviews with scholars, writers and artists have appeared in HNN ...

On the history of literature masquerading as primary source.

Dr. Whealey is author of Hitler and Spain: The Nazi Role in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1989). Most historians do not know that the ...

Emma Maggie Solberg is an associate professor of medieval English literature at Bowdoin College in Maine. She has published on bookworms, the Virgin Mary, and poetry. She is at work on a new ...

Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist, and citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the author of By the Fire We Carry and host of the podcast This Land. In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling ...

Timothy Messer-Kruse is author of Patriots’ Dilemma: White Abolitionism and Black Banishment in the Founding of the United States of America. Study For Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences ...

This is the second installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first installment here. The Name of the Rose has a straightforward enough premise.

Mr. Olshaker is a longtime freelance writer whose work has appeared in many publications including the New York Times and TomPaine.com. 11"Extra! Extra! President McKinley shot!" The shouts of the ...

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 ...

As the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to revive the Comstock Act, this seven-part forum explores the Act’s influence on American life.

Mr. Morris is a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University and the author of 1948 (Yale University Press), from which this article is excerpted. Historians have tended to ignore or dismiss, as ...