Following is a list of articles and press releases appearing on HNN that concern bias in the teaching and writing of history. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.
Mr. Cobb is Spalding Distinguished Professor of History, University of Georgia, Athens. He is the author of the book, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (Oxford University Press, Sept.
In a recent essay in the NYT Book Review of John F. Harris's The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, Alan Ehrenhalt speculated about the reasons Clinton was so disliked. This sparked a rigorous ...
Deepak Tripathi, a former BBC Afghanistan correspondent, has taken a close interest in the United States, great power relations and South and West Asia for more than 30 years. His latest book is ...
Mr. Fleming is the author of The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I. He is a member of the corporate board of HNN. Two years ago, when I decided to write a book on the American experience in ...
Mr. Striner is Professor of History at Washington College and the author of Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (Oxford, 2006). He has written on economic issues for the ...
Matthew Crow is a PhD candidate at UCLA and a contributor to the History News Service. Who’s afraid of Thomas Jefferson? Lots and lots of people, apparently. Jefferson argued that unless there was a ...
HNN is a valuable resource and provocative opinion pieces that it publishes are useful in classes and discussion groups I teach or facilitate. However, by repeatedly running articles by someone as ...
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 ...
Water boarding. Hypothermia. Stress positions. Prolonged isolation. Sensory deprivation. These “clean” tortures leave deep psychological wounds but few physical scars—and they have been used for ...
That our politics have been shifting rightward for more than thirty years is a generally acknowledged fact of American life. That this rightward movement has largely been accomplished by working-class ...
Ms. Berkin is the author of Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant. Perhaps no subject captures the imagination of Americans as much as ...