Two vice presidents resigned: John C. Calhoun (served under Andrew Jackson) and Spiro Agnew (served under Richard Nixon). The vice presidency has been vacant due to resignation or death a total of ...

view of the gun is as deep a superstition as any that affected Native Americans in the 17th century.

John Burnett, reporting for NPR about the history of Kellogg, Brown & Root, the construction company at the center of controversy in Iraq (Dec. 24, 2003): I'm standing here below Mansfield Dam, 12 ...

If you like the service HNN provides, please consider making a donation. The Central Intelligence Agency has an almost unblemished record of screwing up every "secret" armed intervention it ever ...

Mr. Ellwood is Associate Professor in International History, University of Bologna and Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center. Anti-Americanism as a cultural and ...

Steven Lomazow is the co-author (with Eric Fettmann) of FDR's Deadly Secret (PublicAffairs, January 2010). The four years of research involved in writing my recent book with journalist Eric ...

Mr. McLaughlin received his PhD in history from Drew University in 2008. His dissertation focused on General Albert C. Wedemeyer. With the sixty-fifth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic ...

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 ...

Mr. Tzouliadis is the author of The Forsaken, an account of the American emigration to Stalin’s Russia of the early 1930s – an exodus that fell into the interstices of Cold War history.

Thumbnail Image - By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0 A curious security guard at a venerable Manhattan office building near Columbus Circle inquired what sort of work the man I was visiting did—was ...

Mr. Gross is a professor at DePaul University and author of the forthccoming, Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks (Steerforth Press, May 2006). During the month of December, 2002, I found myself in ...

Mr. Gasque holds a Ph.D. from Manchester University (UK). A graduate of Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Leadership (1993), he is President of the Pacific Association for ...