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 ...

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 ...

Gil Troy, a native New Yorker, is Professor of History at McGill University. His tenth book on American history, The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s, was just published by Thomas Dunne Books ...

Mr. Newby is Associate Professor of English Emeritus, Illinois State University and the editor of KILL NOW, TALK FOREVER: DEBATING SACCO AND VANZETTI. Samuel Stern disputed this opinion in the ...

In a recent essay in the NYT Book Review of John F. Harris's The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, Alan Ehrenhalt speculated about the reasons Clinton was so disliked.This sparked a ...

David T. Beito is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and belongs to Liberty and Power, a group blog at the History News Network. Linda Royster Beito is head of the ...

The Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz has made it clear that in lieu of “boots on the ground” his position would be to “carpet-bomb them into oblivion.” In a quick ...

Mr. Heather is professor at Worcester College, University of Oxford, and the author of The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Oxford University Press). The Roman ...

Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist, and citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the author of By the Fire We Carry and host of the podcast This Land. In the summer of 2017, I was scrolling ...

On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.

Mr. Wittner teaches history at the State University of New York/Albany. His latest book is Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present ...

After the first shock, the questions about Jared Lee Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords quickly resolved to a familiar American dichotomy: Was his act political ...