Mr. Payne is Associate Professor, Department of History, St. Bonaventure University, NY. President Warren G. Harding died in office 83 years ago this August. This past November, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing ...

Mr. Black is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated international best-seller IBM and the Holocaust: the Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (Crown ...

An interview with Garry Wills on NPR conducted by Tavis Smiley (Feb. 16, 2004): While we have recent memories of an especially tight presidential election in 2000 and, who knows, potentially a tight ...

Mr. Ayton is the author of The JFK Assassination: Dispelling The Myths (2002) and Questions of Controversy: The Kennedy Brothers (2001) Forty years ago this month President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ...

Dr. Nibir K. Ghosh is Head, Department of English, Agra College, Agra & Senior Fulbright Fellow 2003-04, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. Dr. Sunita Rani is Associate Professor, Department of ...

Mr. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The article is derived from his recently published book, The Vanishing ...

HNN is setting aside this page to give readers an opportunity to provide running commentary on the war with Iraq, which began Wednesday night, March 19, 2003, just before President Bush addressed the ...

Mr. Walters is the director of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland. There are two traditional factors experts usually take into account when measuring presidential ...

Q. Yes, Mr. President, to put your speech tomorrow in a larger context, at the turn of the last century Theodore Roosevelt complained about what he called the malefactors of great wealth and he asked ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN and the author of Presidential Ambition: Gaining Power at Any Cost (HarperCollins). Fun facts about inaugurations past: Weirdest moment: At Harry Truman’s 1949 ...

Julie Greene is professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Workers at the Panama Canal, 1913. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. [Library of Congress] A young man named Edgar ...

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 ...