Mr. Cole is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan. His website is http://www.juancole.com/ . Islam Online reports a ...

Mr. Black is the author of the award-winning IBM and the Holocaust and the recently published Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the ...

In 1941 to 1945 America’s fighting forces fought a desperate war with a dedicated and ruthless adversary, the Empire of Japan, which the enemy began with a surprise attack and which for nearly four ...

Timothy Stewart-Winter is a Ph.D. Candidate in American history at the University of Chicago. His dissertation is on lesbian and gay politics in Chicago since the 1960s. He has taught an undergraduate ...

Mr. Bischof is the 2003/4 Marshall Plan Professor of Austrian Studies and Director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans and editor of “Die Invasion in der Normandie 1944: Internationale ...

John Burnett, reporting for NPR about the history of Kellogg, Brown & Root, the construction company at the center of controversy in Iraq (Dec. 24, 2003): I'm standing here below Mansfield Dam, 12 ...

The election over, Democrats wondered what to do. The Republicans had won back-to-back victories in presidential elections and appeared well along the way toward becoming the majority party.

Mr. Stewart-Winter is a Ph.D. Candidate in American history. He is currently writing his dissertation, "Raids, Rights, and Rainbow Coalitions: Gay and Lesbian Citizenship and the Remaking of Chicago ...

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 ...

The isolationism that was employed to undermine American will and self-confidence in fighting the fascist and militarist aggressors in World War II has been revived, this time targeted against our ...

Deep Throat/Bob Woodward: First, Vanity Fair scooped the Washington Post with the article exposing the identity of Deep Throat. Then USA Today's Mark Memmott scooped the Post with his summary of Bob ...

That our politics have been shifting rightward for more than thirty years is a generally acknowledged fact of American life. That this rightward movement has largely been accomplished by working-class ...