The uproar over Trump’s remarks about the Canal recalls a lively debate from the late 1970s.

Dr. Lomazow, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is working on a book about FDR's health problems. Click here for his blog. This article first appeared in Navy Medicine ...

Mr. Szasz was a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. He died in 2010 at the age of 70. He assembled this list of historical quotations for HNN in 2005. Historical sense and poetic ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

Mr. Bates, author of AN ILLUSION SO REAL: THE MEN AND WOMEN OF CIVIL WAR REENACTMENT ( to be published in 2005), is a writer for the History News Service and a teaching fellow at the University of ...

Mr. McElvaine teaches history at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. He is the author of Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes and the Course of History (McGraw-Hill) as well as the author or editor of five ...

Ms. Hart is an award-winning journalist who has covered international affairs and historical topics in her writing. In a series of discoveries unfolding over seven years, a professor of English at the ...

Mr. Rees is Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo. According to the Rocky Mountain News, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and top Republican state legislators ...

When a new employee asked Thomas Edison what the rules at his lab were, Edison reportedly cracked, We don't have rules. We're trying to accomplish something. Great line, but in practice rules ...

Mr. Reeves taught history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside for over thirty years and is the author of A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. Open admissions, the policy of ...

Mr. McLaughlin received his PhD in history from Drew University in 2008. His dissertation focused on General Albert C. Wedemeyer. Americans rightly regard General Joseph W. Stilwell as a hero. Few ...