Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.

Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His latest book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence, published by Hachette.

Ken Hughes is a research specialist with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Richard Nixon addressing troops in South Vietnam. Via The New Nixon. "The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring ...

Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University and Contributing Editor of HNN. For a list of all of Moss’s recent books and online publications, click here. After ...

Mark Tauger teaches history at West Virginia University. This book has new information on Ukrainian culture in the 1920s, Ukrainian émigré historiography of the famine after World War II, the ...

Kurt Stennhas over 30 years of expertise studying hair. He had a distinguished twenty-year academic career as a Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine and was ...

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration ...

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and The ...

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

John Reeves is the author of the forthcoming book The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: the Forgotten Case Against an American Icon (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). He was accused of treason. Only the ...

Donne Levy is a retired community college history instructor. In the mid-1970s, the religious right became heavily involved in electoral politics and a driving force within the Republican Party. By ...

Daniel Mallia is an HNN intern and a student at Fordham University. There are many stories surrounding the invention of the martini, but it seems that the origins of James Bond's favorite beverage may ...