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 ...

Mr. Furnish, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta. President Nixon is usually denigrated for Watergate, his “enemies list,” even his participation in ...

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 and ...

Michael Brian Schiffer, a member of the Anthropology Department, University of Arizona, is the author of "Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of ...

Mr. Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust. This article is adapted from his just-released book, Banking on Baghdad, Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History ...

Mr. Reeves taught history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside for over thirty years and is the author of A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. Open admissions, the policy of ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

Mr. Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University, UK. His most recent book is Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (Yale UP, Spring 2006), which elaborates ...

Mr. McLaughlin received his PhD in history from Drew University in 2008. His dissertation focused on General Albert C. Wedemeyer. Americans rightly regard General Joseph W. Stilwell as a hero. Few ...

Mr. Wright is the author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, from which the following article is excerpted. In a first-class stateroom on a cruise ship bound for New York from ...

Mr. Heather is professor at Worcester College, University of Oxford, and the author of The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Oxford University Press). The Roman ...

Dr. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany. His latest book is Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present ...