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 ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Loewen taught at Tougaloo College and the University of Vermont. After his critique of K-12 U.S. history textbooks, LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME, became a bestseller in 1996, he became an ...

The"Snow Riot" of 1835 began when young Arthur Bowen, a slave, who had gotten drunk one summer night, appeared at the door of his master, Anna Maria Thornton, one of the leading ladies in ...

D.M. Giangreco is the author of The United States Army: The Definitive Illustrated History. During World War II, U.S. Navy personnel on the myriad joint Army-Navy staffs, including Chief of Naval ...

Robert Brent Toplin was a professor of history at Denison University and is professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Currently he lives in Charlottesville, where he ...

Mr. Giangreco is the author of War in Korea: 1950-1953. He and Kathryn Moore are co-authors of Dear Harry . . . Truman’s Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration through Correspondence ...