Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. His most recent book is Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico. Photo of 1908 fire in New Hampshire. The 1908 fires ranged along the ...

Bronwen Everill is the author of Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance, and Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. She teaches writing at Princeton and is a ...

Mr. Mankoff is a writer for the History News Service and a doctoral student in history and security studies at Yale. An American president, using politicized intelligence, launches a war on ...

Mr. Pipes is the director of the Middle East Forum. His website address is http://www.danielpipes.org. Click here for his HNN blog. In his just-released, absorbing ...

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish … it was so fragile.” So says the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the ...

On April 9, 1984, the government of Nicaragua filed suit with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague alleging that the United States had committed ...

Soldiers sing at the end of the day in Vietnam, January 1968. [National Archives] While not entirely wrong, the Hollywood version is too loud. It drowns out a history that was more complicated ...

Mr. Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Mr. Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor. They are co-authors of Corporate ...