History News Network (HNN) at George Washington University is a platform for historians writing about current events.
HNN was founded by Richard Shenkman, the author of Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History.
HNN sponsors several history-oriented blogs including Liberty and Power (coordinated by David T. Beito), and Jim Loewen.
[5][6] In 2012, HNN celebrated the Fourth of July by holding a contest to select the worst books about American history every published.
Nominees David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies, Michael Bellesiles’s Arming America, Gavin Menzies’s 1421 : The Year China Discovered America, Richard G. Williams’s 2006 book Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man’s Friend and A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.