The most surprising aspect of this paper and presentation is that it should have interested the organizers of this conference in the first place. The various components of the term and concept "the ...

Randall Stephens is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene College. He is an editor of Historically Speaking and the author of The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American ...

Murray Polner is a regular book reviewer for HNN. Years ago Paul Avrich, my high school classmate and later a colleague in a college where he was a professor and I an adjunct, invited me to spend an ...

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. As a young boy growing up in the Texas Panhandle in the 1950s and 1960s, I was indoctrinated into the myths of the Alamo and Texas ...

Daniel Ruddy is a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and he holds a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. His first book is "Theodore Roosevelt's ...

For the past 40 years the issue of conspiracy in the Robert Kennedy assassination has continued to haunt America. With the recent release of Emilio Estevez"s movie "Bobby" a new generation of ...

"You have got to understand that [the atomic bomb] isn't a military weapon. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses." Harry S Truman, discussing atomic ...

Geoffrey Wawro is the General Olinto Mark Barsanti Professor of Military History at the University of North Texas, and the author of Quicksand: America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East (Penguin ...

Peter Heather is Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He has written extensively about the fall of the Roman Empire. His latest book is Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and ...

Disillusionment is a time-honored revolutionary tradition. True believers risk their lives launching a revolution, only to see their ideals abandoned by others -- or, worse, to watch the former ...

One of the most stimulating books I have read in some time is Sophie Wahnich’s In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (published in 2003, but in English 2012). But it’s ...

Gerda Lerner in an 2012 interview. Credit: UW-Madison.Gerda Lerner, eminent scholar and pioneer in the field of women’s history, passed away on January 2, 2013, at age 92. There are so many ways and ...