Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. He is the author of The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad. The 2011 film session, however, was ...

Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust. This article is based on research from Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War ...

Mr. Markham is Professor of Law, Florida International University, and the author of A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals From Enron to Reform (M.E. Sharpe 2006). The accounting ...

Mr. Greenberg is the author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (2003). He teaches history at Rutgers University. This month marks the publication of 1776, David McCullough's rousing, feel ...

Mr. Cross is Distinguished Professor of Modern History, Pennsylvania State University. The old always seem to blame the young for the downfall of civilization. So readers under 40 might be ...

Mr. Matthews is a free-lance writer. In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, one commentator noted that the attacks climaxed almost two decades of terrorist acts committed in the ...

Much to no one’s surprise perhaps, the more evidence that surfaces about Lyndon Johnson’s war record, the less there seems to it, according to two new reports filed on CNN. Johnson you’ll ...

Steven Lomazow is the co-author (with Eric Fettmann) of FDR's Deadly Secret (PublicAffairs, January 2010). The four years of research involved in writing my recent book with journalist Eric ...

Mr. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), lives in Williamsport, PA and teaches history at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. Judging by the local newspaper that serves the rural area ...

Ms. Leavitt is professor of Medical History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room.

Mr. Evans is an attorney and author. As an avocational politician, he has supervised a successful New Hampshire presidential primary and set up a national citizens organization. He has served as ...

Dr. Montague is Executive Director of the Environmental Research Foundation. Some civilizations reach their peak of power and then suddenly collapse and remain in decline or even disappear.