Ms. Young is a professor of history at New York University. This excerpt originally appeared in Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History edited by Yuki Tanaka and Ms. Young. Airpower ...

Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson is chair of the Center for Microhistorical Reasarch at the Reykjavik Academy in Iceland. One of the most interesting and innovative approach to history, mostly cultural ...

Mr. Schweikart is Professor of History, University of Dayton and co-author of the recently published, A Patriot's History. No phrase has been more egregiously misapplied than Thomas Jefferson’s ...

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 ...

Timothy D. Rives holds an M.A. in American history from Emporia State University and is the deputy director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. I am the deputy director and ...

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 ...

Mr. Boyle is the author of Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci and the Race for America (Walker & Co, June 2008) On August 6, 1497, almost precisely five years since Christopher ...

Daniel Mallia is a former HNN intern. The suspicious nature of Tycho Brahe's death in 1601, and Johannes Kepler's possible role in his end, constitutes one of history's greatest unsolved murder ...

The Hooblers are the authors of Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream (Wiley, 2007 paperback). They’re still taking shots at Captain John Smith, 400 years after that ...

Mr. Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University, UK. His most recent book is Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World (Yale UP, Spring 2006), which ...

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 ...

James L. Baughman, professor of journalism and former director of the journalism school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Same Time, Same Station: Creating American ...