Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University and the author, most recently, of Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (Princeton University Press). He is a member of HNN ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio.

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 ...

Mr. Flynn is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia and author of the newly released, :Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness." Who is ...

Mr. DePastino is the author of Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front (to be published in 2008) and a writer for the History News Service. An independent scholar, he teaches history at Penn State Beaver.

The novelist's aestheticizing impulse contrasts with the relentless seriousness of his observations and critiques of American society.

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

Two days before people crowded into the Pease House in Edgartown to hear historian Mary Beth Norton discuss In The Devil's Snare (Alfred A. Knopf, $30), her new, much acclaimed book about the 1692 ...

DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, during his long and illustrious public career, did not flinch from controversy. I doubt, therefore, that he would object to my having inserted him posthumously into an ...

view of the gun is as deep a superstition as any that affected Native Americans in the 17th century.

Mr. Newman is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. His latest book is Enola Gay and the Court of History (Peter Lang Publishing, 2004). What is new in the argument over Truman’s ...