Bruce Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. He holds his PhD from Rutgers and was a former editor for the ...

George Washington could have been a perpetual President. If he had asked there is little doubt he would have been named President for Life. However, he well understood what the Revolution had been ...

One was the founder of communism, the other a pillar of American democracy. That, along with many other things, made them as different as night and day. Yet they occupied the same historic period and ...

James Livingston is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Against Thrift. What is it about Richard Sennett’s new book (The Craftsman) that is so irritating? Is it the smugness ...

Mr. Taylor is a former teacher in Turkey and the author of Fever and Thirst: An American Doctor Among the Tribes of Kurdistan. Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005. Two weeks ago, the Turkish Air Force ...

Lee P. Ruddin is Roundup Editor for HNN. He lives in England. Barack Obama is the first American president since the Second World War not to be touched in any way by the triumph over fascism which ...

Mr. Cravatts, PhD, director of Boston University’s Program in Book and Magazine Publishing at the Center for Professional Education, writes frequently on terrorism, higher education, politics, culture ...

Mr. Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of ERNEST GRUENING AND THE AMERICAN DISSENTING TRADITION (1998) and a writer for the History ...

Mr. Buzzanco is Professor and Chairman, Department of History, University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era and Vietnam and the ...

Mr. Speer, a political historian, is a freelance writer. This semester he is teaching in China. When you arrive in Auschwitz, you leave the train station and see just another small Polish town.

Mr. Lichtman is a professor of history at American University and the author of The Keys to the White House (1996). This article was published by TomPaine.com in 1999. Forget the polls and the pundits ...

Ms. Pascoe is Beekman Professor of Pacific and Northwest History and Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon, and author of What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in ...