Many Americans felt the U.S. had failed to live up to its ideals on its 200th anniversary. They hoped it might improve by the Declaration’s next big celebration.

Claire Wolnisty is associate professor of United States history at Austin College. She is the author of A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South ...

The lesson of the 1712 Coromantee uprising was that a slave rebellion somewhere was a slave rebellion everywhere. It was the beginning of an age of slave rebellions. In 1731, a West African named ...

Three decades ago, a number of uprisings took place around the world, with unhappy citizens taking to the streets—and in some cases, taking up arms—to try to change or remove their governments. A ...

Jaclynn Ashly is a multimedia journalist currently based in East Africa who has reported from across Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. One of Gebremeskel Tesema’s completed rock-hewn ...

President Donald Trump, not much of a student of American history, but quite the talker, has promised “a grand celebration” this year to shower the nation’s great achievements in an excess of ...

In the closing moments of the Super Bowl LX halftime show, Bad Bunny marched down the field naming more than 20 countries that comprise a broader, hemispheric American identity. Holding a football ...

Are war films ever true? The historian Norman Kagan introduced this question in his 1974 book The War Film, adding, “true to what?” Are they true to the experience of war? Are they true to history, to ...

In her new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita challenges readers to join her in deciphering a shameful moment from the nation’s past. The statue of Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence ...

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his ...

In December 2023, HNN transitioned to a new editorial model that centers on its weekly email newsletter. Each week, the newsletter serves up short-form essays to help readers make sense of the ways in ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...