Blue plaque honoring Marie-Louise Christophe in Hastings, 2024. Photograph by Maraelizabeth. [Wikimedia Commons] Although the queen had stood by Henry Christophe’s side since the earliest days ...

Mr. Beres is a member of the Wayne Morse Corporation Board in Oregon. The death of former Illinois senator, Paul Simon, Dec. 9, reminds us of his history of speaking with courage and for the ...

Santiago Flórez is a bilingual Colombian journalist, educator, illustrator, and anthropologist based in New York City. Currently, he works at Science Friday. He has an MA in bilingual journalism ...

Bronwen Everill is the author of Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance, and Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. She teaches writing at Princeton and is a ...

Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His most recent book is Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico. Photo of 1908 fire in New Hampshire. The 1908 fires ranged along the ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

Mr. Dresner teaches East Asian history at Pittsburg State University, Kansas. His research examines Meiji-era (1868-1912) social history. A quick summary of the movie for those who haven't seen it.

Mr. Flynn is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia and author of the newly released, :Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness." Who is ...

Mr. Leonard is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to HNN. For more information please visit his website at www.aaronleonard.net James Bradley author of “Flags of Our Fathers” and ...

Mr. Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University, UK. His most recent book is Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (Yale UP, Spring 2006), which ...