Emma Maggie Solberg is an associate professor of medieval English literature at Bowdoin College in Maine. She has published on bookworms, the Virgin Mary, and poetry. She is at work on a new project ...

Robert Paxton is emeritus professor of history at Columbia University. His latest book is Anatomy of Fascism (Vintage, 2005).

Ahron Bregman is the author of Cursed Victory: Israel and the Occupied Territories, A History, now available from Pegasus Books. A new government is installed in Jerusalem and it is led by the ...

Mr. Schweikart is a professor of history at the University of Dayton and author of The Entrepreneurial Adventure: A History of American Business. It is a good thing I am called a judge, because if I ...

The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf and won a Bancroft Prize. It was widely praised for its elegant prose and provocative interpretation of an important dimension of American culture."... this ...

Mr. Eisele is the editor of The Hill. George F. Kennan, the chief architect of the containment and deterrence policies that shaped America foreign policy during the Cold War, said Sunday that Congress ...

Mr. Sabia is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Cornell University. In recent weeks Americans gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Brown decision, which overturned the “separate, but equal ...

Mr. Dallek is the author of Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973, which is available in paperback. What makes a great president? Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt are almost ...

Mr. Striner is Professor of History at Washington College and the author of Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (Oxford, 2006). He has written on economic issues for the ...

Mr. Renehan is the author of Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Basic/Perseus, 2007) and other books including Dark Genius of Wall Street, The Kennedys at War, The Lion's Pride, The Secret ...

The so-called “culture wars,” though maddeningly difficult to define, have begun to set previously complacent Americans against one another in unexpected ways and to challenge some of the basic goals ...

Mr. Bamford, a former investigative reporter for ABC News, is the author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets. Early in the morning of Thursday June 8, 1967 the first rays of sun spilled softly ...