McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end. In June 2016, President Obama proclaimed ...

Literary criticism and the practice of law would seem to have little in common. One embraces its subjective stance, while the other appeals to a fixed code of conduct. Yet there are signs of overlap ...

At one time, more than 4 billion American chestnut trees spread from southern Canada all the way to Mississippi and Alabama. While it was rarely the dominant tree in the forests, this giant of the ...

The reigning mythology of the United States holds that the Constitution recognizes our fundamental rights and that the Supreme Court is our sentinel, guarding us from any Congress or presidential ...

The annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) is rarely an occasion that sparks intense controversy, but this year’s gathering of historians proved to be an exception. At the ...

A young man named Edgar Llewellyn Simmons sailed out of Carlisle Bay, Barbados, on a Royal Mail boat in January 1908 to work on the Panama Canal. After a two-week journey, he reached Colón and ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized the work of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. The trio has published a number of important economics papers on the role of institutions in ...

New England’s recent outbreak of fires has seemed to some observers as both a novelty and a harbinger of a climate-deranged world to come. More aptly, the flames harken back to a fire-rich if ...

Sean T. Byrnes is a writer, teacher, and historian who lives in Middle Tennessee. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Emory University and his work has appeared in publications including Time, Dissent, ...

Submission Guidelines In December 2023, HNN transitioned to a new editorial model that centers on its weekly email newsletter. Each week, the newsletter serves up short-form essays to help readers ...

When picking up a novel, we enter into a tacit bargain: if the fictional spell is cast with requisite skill, our disbelief is willingly suspended. Across literary history, the specifics of this accord ...

How a Little-Known Anti-Vietnam Protest Reverberates Today by Gary B. Ostrower A 1968 disruption of an ROTC ceremony at Alfred University in 1968 involved just 15 students and 2 faculty. It won't be ...