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. Rees is Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo. According to the Rocky Mountain News, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and top Republican state legislators ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

Mr. Kimball is a professor of history at Miami University and the author of To Reason Why, Nixon's Vietnam War, and The Vietnam War Files. In a January 2005 article in the New Yorker based on unnamed ...

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. Dresner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Hilo. His research is on modern Japanese social history. The tax proposals of President Bush -- elimination ...

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 ...

Ms. O'Neill is an HNN intern. Timothy Meagher is associate professor of history and curator of the American Catholic History Collections at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He ...