The Reagan administration offers a cautionary tale about cost-cutting zeal crashing up against the reality of how government works.

The origins of the Electoral College are entwined with slavery, but not in the way that recent accounts have suggested.

Adam Hochschild’s haunting yet illuminating assessment of World War I (mainly concentrating on Great Britain) is a welcome addition to the vast historical and literary output literature of that ...

Mr. Turner co-founded the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia Law School in 1981 and worked for many years in the Senate, State and Defense departments. His books include ...

K.C. Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the author of numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign relations and politics, including All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 ...

Mr. Radu is Senior Fellow and Co-Chair, Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Liberia is a mess. As usual we are being blamed for the mess ...

Ms. Brewer is the author of: Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq (Oxford University Press). President Barack Obama confronts a formidable task as he tries to ...

This week I’m sharing more of your thoughts on which innovations from the past year you want to keep even when campuses resume normal operations. Earlier this month I described a few of them: ...

Mr. Ryan is a a writer for the History News Service. He is also an associate of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. We hear ...

Mac McCorkle is a Democratic political consultant from Durham, N.C. who was a fellow this spring at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, N.J. His essay "On Recent Political Uses of Reinhold ...

Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, ...

Mr. Dennis is an associate professor of history at the University of Oregon and is the author of Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America and the ...