To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

Mr. Fleming has written widely on American politics from the American Revolution to modern times. He is a past president of the Society of American Historians. I am astonished that in the aftermath of ...

Dennis Hastert was elected as the 59th Speaker of the House of Representatives, second in line to the presidency. In 2006 critics demanded his resignation for allegedly looking the other way when ...

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I'm thinking about getting a little statue of Frank Keating to put on my dashboard. Until recently, the former Oklahoma governor was chairman of a panel of lay Roman Catholics appointed by the bishops ...

Mr. Carpenter is working on a book about American demagoguery. He is a columnist for HNN. Oh my. At the eleventh hour Iraqi diplomats threw a wrench into United Nations negotiations over the wording ...

Ms. Hoff, Research Professor of History, Montana State University, Bozeman, is the author of: Nixon Reconsidered (Basic Books). This article was deivered as a paper at the recent Watergate seminar ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN. Sean Wilentz, professor of history at Princeton University, is the author most recently of The Age of Reagan (2008). He was interviewed by email. Part II will appear ...

Bruce Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. He holds his PhD from Rutgers and was a former editor for the ...

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Herbert J. Gans served as the 78th President of the American Sociological Association. Between 1953 and 2007, Gans taught it at Penn, Teachers College, MIT, and Columbia. He is now Columbia's Robert S ...

Mr. Walch is an independent historian who has written extensively on the Hoover presidency and is a writer for the History News Service. Herbert Hoover, where are you now that we need you? Hurricane ...