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. Walch is an independent historian who has written extensively on the Hoover presidency and is a writer for the History News Service. Herbert Hoover, where are you now that we need you? Hurricane ...

Mr. Fleming is a member of the board of HNN. The following is excerpted from Mr. Fleming's new book, The New Dealer's War. Within a week of the Democratic Party's debacle in the 1942 midterm elections ...

Herbert J. Gans served as the 78th President of the American Sociological Association. Between 1953 and 2007, Gans taught it at Penn, Teachers College, MIT, and Columbia. He is now Columbia's Robert S ...

Mr. Dresner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Hilo. His research is on modern Japanese social history. The tax proposals of President Bush -- elimination ...

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His latest book is "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s" (Haymarket Books).

Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule and Feyi Fawehinmi. Cassava Republic Press, 357 pages. What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule by ...

Reba N. Soffer is Emeritus Professor of History at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to ...

Mr. Sokol is a graduate student in U.S. history at UC-Berkeley and a freelance writer. Frustration, anger, and shock pulsed through many people I know. Then a kind of sadness quickly displaced the ...

Jane Hall is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. She is a weekly panelist on the “Fox News Watch” media-analysis program on the Fox News ...

A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Rawn James, Jr. writes and practices law in Washington, D.C, where he lives with his wife and their son. His latest book is Root and ...

In a recent article in the Nation, Eric Alterman stated flatly that President Bush had broken the law when he personally leaked classified secrets to Bob Woodward after 9-11. Alterman wrote: In his ...