Will Teague is an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Students demonstrating against the Shah of Iran, Washington, DC, 1979. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

How the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests. How Americans through the years have approached the thorny questions of ...

Mr. Castagnera, a Philadelphia journalist and attorney, is the Associate Provost at Rider University and author of the weekly newspaper column “Attorney at Large.” Clarence Darrow, arguably the most ...

Mr. Small is a professor of history at Wayne State University and is the author of The Presidency of Richard Nixon (University Press of Kansas American Presidency Series, 1999). In 1978, as he was ...

Ms. Coleman is Assistant Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. "Barack has a handicap the other candidates don’t have: Barack Obama has a black wife. And I don’t think a ...

Robin Lindley is a Seattle attorney and writer who contributes to Crosscut, the History News Network, Real Change, and other publications, with articles on history, law and justice, medicine, news ...

If you like the service HNN provides, please consider making a donation. The case of Mr. Poindexter and latest move of the federal government to get into the gambling business is troubling, but there ...

Mr. Greenberg is the author of NIXON'S SHADOW: THE HISTORY OF AN IMAGE (2003). He teaches history and political science at Yale University Democratic activists worry that their party is marching ...

Mr. Jones is adjunct instructor of history at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. Defense counsel Ron Radosh suggests that a case"based on a highly legalistic and a-historical ...

Mr. Filipink is Visiting Instructor at SUNY Fredonia. Over the past several weeks, the Bush administration has indicated its intention to intervene in Iraq to oust the regime of Saddam Hussein. These ...

One of the first black women to reach millionaire status did so by launching a hair care empire — and her name wasn’t Madam C.J. Walker. Entrepreneur Annie Turnbo Malone reached this milestone at the ...

The debut Bachmann Award does not, surprisingly enough, go to Michelle Bachmann herself. Instead, the honor goes to Democrat Yvette Clark, who represents part of Brooklyn in the U.S. House, for her ...