Mr. Moreau, the author of Schoolbook Nation, earned his Ph.D. in American culture at the University of Michigan. He teaches history at a private high school in New York City. Disputes over history ...

Haider Khan is Professor of International and Development Economics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. Events in Egypt have unsettled the media pundits and ...

Mr. Jones is the author of the just-published book, The Bay of Pigs (Oxford University Press). On April 17, 1961, a small band of 1500 Cuban exiles invaded their former homeland at the Bay of Pigs in ...

Mr. Mayer is Professor of History, Augustana College. The Vatican is out to monkey with Galileo again. Many might think it had subjected him to enough tender ministrations already, from his two trials ...

A Saudi-French archaeological team has unearthed in Najran what might be considered the oldest inscription in the Arabic alphabet, said a spokesman from the French Foreign Ministry. “The epigrapher ...

K.C. Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the author of numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign relations and politics, including All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 ...

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

Roger Griffin is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University and lectures principally on aspects of the History of Ideas relating to ideologies and values that have shaped the modern ...

Mr. Worster is the author of A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (Oxford University Press, 2008). For the past seven years I have been busy writing, in my non-teaching hours, the life story of ...

Mr. Luker, an Atlanta historian, is co-editor of the first two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King. In nine western states covered by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, public schools are now ...

Adam Hochschild’s haunting yet illuminating assessment of World War I (mainly concentrating on Great Britain) is a welcome addition to the vast historical and literary output literature of that ...

Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, ...