Prostituted historians, stop telling tales! Lincoln's assassination?! A coup d'Etat, a subversion from inside institutions...

The Day Lincoln Was Supposed to be Kidnapped by Michael Schein It was 150 years ago this week. It failed. A month later the same plotters assassinated Lincoln.

Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Pesky Argument from Character by M. Andrew Holowchak Gordon-Reed’s argument has remarkable consequences for the discipline of “behavioral” psychology.

Was Hitler a Normal Leader? by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Increasingly, he and the Nazis are being normalized. Is this a good thing?

Thomas Fleming: What I'm Reading (Interview) by Tiffany April Griffin Why did he choose history as a career? "History seems to have chosen me. My ambition was to be a novelist. To support my wife and 4 children, I worked as a magazine editor." Then he wrote a history essay people liked. And that was that.

He Was the Predominant Magazine Political Journalist of the 20th Century by Mark Weisenmiller His name was Richard Rovere. He was born 100 years ago. We should remember him.

The Year They Cancelled St. Patrick's Day by Gillian O’Brien It happened in Chicago in 1890. The reason was murder.

HNN Hot Topics: St. Patrick's Day The best of Web commentary on the day where everybody's a little bit Irish.

Why Historians Should Use Twitter by Alexander S. Collie An interview with Twitterstorian Katrina Gulliver.

The Nonsense Myth About Grant and Lee by William C. Davis Confederate Lee is remembered as the last of the old America and Yankee Grant as the first of the new one. But in fact they were little different from each other.

The War in Vietnam: Version 2.0 by Gary Kulik 50 years after the war, the doves are sticking to a narrative that’s been proven flawed.

How Military Historians Are Using Quantitative Analysis — And You Can Too by Christopher A. Lawrence Can other historical data be analyzed to address different relevant current issues? It certainly can with a little imagination and a lot of effort.

Review of Lauren Coodley’s “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual” by Lawrence S. Wittner Can a dedicated socialist have a significant impact upon American life? Lauren Coodley’s biography of prominent socialist novelist and agitator Upton Sinclair shows that, with a lot of talent and fortitude, that kind of influence is possible.

Review of Andrew Maraniss's "Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South" by Luther Spoehr What it took to desegregate the Southeastern Conference.

Roundup Top 10! This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.