Lothrop Stoddard believed that the concept of “natural equality” between people was a threat to America. In the 1920s, it was hardly a fringe idea.

Michael Todd Landis, an Assistant Professor of History at Tarleton State University specializing in the intersection of slavery and politics in the 19th century United States, is the author of ...

Two women shopping in a grocery store under a banner reading: “Happy birthday America, there's no place else we'd rather be!” commemorating the United States Bicentennial. Photograph by Marion S.

Elaine G. Breslaw is a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of "Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America." Nineteenth-century British depiction ...

Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN.

Aaron Leonard is a writer and journalist currently completing, “Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War Against America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980,” with ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015). A paperback edition is now ...

Van Gosse is Professor of History Emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College, co-chair for Historians and Peace and Democracy, and author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the ...

Kathryn Smith is a biographer and author of The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR and the Untold Story of the Partnership that Defined a Presidency (Simon &Schuster, 2016). The current series running on ...

Eric G. Swedin is the author of “When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis” (Potomac, 2010), as well as nine other books, and is an ...

Back in the days when only aristocrats and spiritual leaders could hold political and cultural authority, there was no pride in claiming to be self-made. Instead, an assertion of self-made success was ...

Zara Anishanslin is an associate professor of history and art history at the University of Delaware, a postdoctoral fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of ...