Mr. Raphael is the author of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION, and FOUNDING MYTHS, which was just published. It’s been a quarter century since Frances ...

Mr. Turse is a Columbia University graduate student completing a dissertation on American war crimes during the Vietnam War. When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth ...

Mr. Szasz is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history ...

Mr. Dresner teaches East Asian history at Pittsburg State University, Kansas. His research examines Meiji-era (1868-1912) social history. A quick summary of the movie for those who haven't seen it.

Greg Bailey, a St. Louis attorney, is a correspondent for the Economist: As Abraham Lincoln's birthday approaches Republicans around the nation gather together in country clubs and halls for their ...

Charles Carlton, Professor Emeritus of History, North Carolina State University, is the author of "Charles I: the Personal Monarch" (Routledge, 1995). The Oscar-winning film, The King’s Speech ...

Laurel Leff is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University and author of Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper published by ...

Mr. Toplin, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, is the author of a dozen books including Radical Conservatism: The Right’s Political Religion (2006). Ronald ...

Richard R. John is a professor of history and communications at Columbia University, where he teaches courses in the history of communications and the history of capitalism. He is currently ...

James C. Cobb is Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. This piece is adapted from his new book, "The South and America since World War II," published this ...

Dr. Alex Grobman is a Hebrew University trained historian. He is a former director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the author of a number of books, including Nations United: How The U.N ...