An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

The National Security Strategy (NSS) report was born out of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, the fourth major post-World War II reorganization of the U.S. Defense Department. It is one of more ...

[Allan M. Winkler is a professor of history at Miami University of Ohio. His most recent book is Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America (Pearson Longman, 2005).] The first time I ...

Ms. Muir is the author of Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England. The working title of her current project is: What Good is a Nation; A Clear-Eyed Look at Nations ...

Mr. Honey is Haley Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign (W.W. Norton).

Mr. Bonner teaches at Michigan State University and is the author of Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South (2002). He is a writer for the History News Service. With 2002 drawing ...

Ms. Yarbro, a novelist, is the author of the new non-fiction book, Confrontation at Lepanto : Christendom vs. Islam. The book was published under the name of T.C.F. Hopkins. The challenge when ...

Mr. Finkelstein teaches political science at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author of four books including most recently, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish ...

Mr. Gould, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, is writing a history of the Senate in the twentieth century. Alan Keyes, the Republican senatorial candidate in Illinois, has ...

Mr. Cole is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author of Sacred Space and Holy War (I.B. Tauris, 2002). One of the justifications U.S. hawks give ...

Mr. Goldstein, a University of West Georgia history professor, is doing research and writing in Jerusalem. He has visited Bethlehem on many Christmases since 1984. When the Roman Catholic ...

Dr. Rupp is a professor of history and political science at West Virginia Wesleyan College. What do American presidents James Polk, James Garfield, George W. Bush share with the Arnold Schwarzenegger?