Louis P. Masur, William R. Kenan Jr., Professor in American Institutions and Values at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, talks about the historical accuracy of Stephen Spielberg's "Lincoln ...

Mr. Schoch, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics at Yale University. Mr. McNally is a writer and ...

Mr. Young is a graduate student in history at Indiana University, the editor of http://www.progressivehistorians.com and a writer for the History News Service. A star ...

Dr. McPherson is associate professor of international relations and ConocoPhillips Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in ...

Mr. Carpenter is a writer and doctoral candidate in American history at the University of Illinois. What public-policy historians would have done without the sorry events of the late 1920s as a ...

Members of the public are to be asked their views on whether a south Devon (UK) grave should be exhumed in a mystery connected with Sherlock Holmes. Historians hope it may hold the answer to a ...

Mr. Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. I wonder how Doris Kearns, who ghostwrote much of Lyndon Johnson's 1971 memoirs, The ...

Within twenty-four hours, on October 16-17, the New York Times ran three stories about the threat increasing chaos posed to emerging, still fragile political orders in Iraq, Palestine, and the Sudan.

Ms. Rosen is an editorial writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle and former professor of history at U.C. Davis. "A popular government without popular information or the means of ...

Mr. Sternstein is Professor Emeritus of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of American Biography. But should historians or the reading public be satisfied with ...

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 ...

Mr. Schwyzer is an Instructor in Social Sciences at Pasadena City College and a member of HNN blog Cliopatria. Much has happened since I last taught my course on gay and lesbian history in the ...