Daniel Mallia is an HNN intern and a student at Fordham University. There are many stories surrounding the invention of the martini, but it seems that the origins of James Bond's favorite beverage ...

Mr. Hughes is the Nixon tapes editor for the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. It wasn’t the crime, but it wasn’t the cover-up, either.

Mr. Bowden is an HNN intern.

Greg Bailey, a St. Louis attorney, is a correspondent for the Economist: As Abraham Lincoln's birthday approaches Republicans around the nation gather together in country clubs and halls for their ...

Joseph Kip Kosek is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. The nation’s leading capitalist emerges as a surprise ...

Two vice presidents resigned: John C. Calhoun (served under Andrew Jackson) and Spiro Agnew (served under Richard Nixon). The vice presidency has been vacant due to resignation or death a total of ...

Ms. Leavitt is professor of Medical History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room.

The left case for an independent Canada.

Mr. Toplin is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He has published a dozen books, including, Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood (2002). In the 1951 production ...

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 ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and ...