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 ...

Taner Akçam is associate professor of history and the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University (Worcester, MA).

Ms. Hart is an award-winning journalist who has covered international affairs and historical topics in her writing. On a recent trip to colonial Williamsburg she visited the reconstructed site of ...

Akhil Reed Amar is a professor of law at Yale Law School, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction, and has given endowed lectures at over two dozen ...

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 ...

Mr. McLaughlin received his PhD in history from Drew University in 2008. His dissertation focused on General Albert C. Wedemeyer. With the sixty-fifth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb ...

This is the second installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first installment here. The Name of the Rose has a straightforward enough premise. Brothers ...

"You have got to understand that [the atomic bomb] isn't a military weapon. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses." Harry S Truman, discussing atomic ...

Editor's Note: Over the last two months we have circulated Mr. Oates's piece to the people he refers to by name in order to give them a chance to respond. Those who chose to respond are listed below.