# About Human Events

https://humanevents.com/about

Human Events took its name from the sentence that begins the American founding — “When in the Course of human events…” — and its job from it, too: independent conservative news and opinion, edited by people, not algorithms.

## Why we're still here

Human Events was founded in 1944, in the middle of a world war, on a simple premise: that the events shaping the course of a free people deserve a press with judgment, a memory, and a name on every byline. Eight decades later that premise has not aged a day.

Since 1944 the masthead has changed hands and the medium has changed shape, but the charge has not: independent conservative journalism, reported and argued in good faith, answerable to the people who read it — free of gatekeepers, and sustained by its audience.

## Find out more

- [Masthead & Staff](https://humanevents.com/about/masthead.md) — the editors and writers who put out Human Events.
- [Contributors](https://humanevents.com/authors.md) — every writer with a byline.
- [Contact](https://humanevents.com/contact.md) — tips, corrections and questions.
- [Submit an Article](https://humanevents.com/submit-article.md) — pitch an op-ed.