An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

Ms. Muir is the author of Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England. The working title of her current project is: What Good is a Nation; A Clear-Eyed Look at Nations ...

Mr. Adell is a student at Oberlin College. Democrats, more than Republicans it seems, have always had a penchant for their "lovable losers;" those candidates, who despite passionate adherence to ...

Mr. Keller is Spector Professor of History at Brandeis. Ms. Keller was Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the 1970s to the 1990s. They are the ...

Mr. Gould, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, is writing a history of the Senate in the twentieth century. Alan Keyes, the Republican senatorial candidate in Illinois, has ...

Mr. Cole is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author of Sacred Space and Holy War (I.B. Tauris, 2002). One of the justifications U.S. hawks give ...

Mr. Fisher, Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, is author of Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal & American Law ...

That the CIA targets terror suspects for assassination should come as no surprise to anyone following the news. A special set of circumstances, however, led ...

Raney McKool is an HNN intern. The celebrity candidate is, nowadays, a common phenomena: Jesse Ventura, Jerry Springer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Howard Stern, Fred Thompson, and Ronald Reagan are ...

Mr. Higginbotham is profesor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although one might think from reading some letters to the press that dissent from government policies ...

Mr. Watenpaugh is an historian and Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights, Peace at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Being Modern in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006).

This page features links to reviews of movies, documentaries and exhibits with a historical theme. Listings are in reverse chronological order. Descriptions are taken directly from the linked ...