James A.S. Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His DPhil, from Merton College, Oxford, ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

Mr. Thompson is Professor of Public Administration and author of Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society. Ms. Friedberg Professor of Political Science and Director, ...

Mr. Rees is Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo. According to the Rocky Mountain News, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and top Republican state legislators ...

Mr. Miller received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University this May. He is turning his dissertation, titled “The Politics of Decency: Billy Graham, Evangelicalism, and the End of the Solid ...

Mr. Furnish, Ph.D (Islamic History), is Assistant Professor, History, Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody, GA 30338. Mr. Furnish is the author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama ...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at UC Irvine, and the author, most recently, of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford 2010). It is foolish to make concrete ...

George Szpiro holds an MA in mathematics and physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, an MBA from Stanford University, and a PhD in finance and mathematical economics from the Hebrew ...

Mr. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The article is derived from his recently published book, The Vanishing ...

Mr. Foglesong is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and author, most recently, of The American Mission and the "Evil Empire": The Crusade for a "Free Russia" Since 1881 . After ...

James T. Patterson is professor of history emeritus at Brown University. His latest book is "Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life—from LBJ to Obama" ...

Boy, you ought to get a load of this analysis by the UPI. It's quite sobering. Here's just a bit of it: Success, President John. F. Kennedy famously said, has many fathers. Defeat is an orphan. Even ...