Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.

Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c.

W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief overview of the Sixties ...

Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN.

Aaron Leonard is a writer and journalist currently completing, “Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War Against America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980 ...

Perhaps the greatest side plot in Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton involves the sexual education of the Featherington sisters. Overbearing mama Lady Portia Featherington (Polly Walker) is ...

Underground communities, in real life, are usually short-term and provisional. For the most part, people live underground much in the same way children can be said to live in treehouses: It can be ...

Granville Wyche Burgess is an Emmy-nominated writer. His most recent book is The Last At-Bat of Shoeless Joe (Chickadee Prince Books, 2019), a novel about about Shoeless Joe Jackson. Granville ...

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration by Joseph Schindelman ...

The trouble with studying historical recipes is that they are records of meals that no longer exist. We can’t go back in time to see, taste, and smell the dishes, and so we are left in the ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015). A paperback edition is now ...

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a ...