Mr. Garst is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens and the author of "Chasing John Henry in Alabama and Mississippi: A Personal Memoir of Work in Progress" Tributaries ...

Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist, and citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the author of By the Fire We Carry and host of the podcast This Land. In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling ...

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.

Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust (Crown, 2001). This article is an adapted version of a longer piece that appeared on The Cutting ...

Mr. Alger is a freelance writer. Albert Camus began his classic essay Reflections on the Guillotine with an anecdote about his father’s excitement over the prospect of attending the execution of ...

A Brief History of Former Presidents Running for Reelection: 3 Losses, 1 Win and 1 Still TBD History illustrates that voters become galvanized and change their party allegiance when former US ...

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

James Livingston is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Against Thrift. An excerpt from this quietly beautiful and deeply reactionary book has already appeared in the New ...

Mr. Fleming is a former president of the Society of American Historians. This is the latest in a series of articles, "Channelling George Washington." “He wrote a book that every Irish-American ...

Mr. Miller has been a speaker with the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. The Buffalo Bill Historical Center at Cody, Wyoming, displays an-oil ...

Mr. Tzouliadis is the author of The Forsaken, an account of the American emigration to Stalin’s Russia of the early 1930s – an exodus that fell into the interstices of Cold War history.

The Hooblers are the authors of Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream (Wiley, 2007 paperback). They’re still taking shots at Captain John Smith, 400 years after that ...