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 ...

Mr. Fleming is a former president of the Society of American Historians. This is the latest in a series of articles, "Channelling George Washington." “When we look at their records at Harvard College, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jan MacKell, director of the Cripple Creek District Museum (Colorado), is the author of Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains (University of New Mexico Press, 2009). It has never been easier to view ...

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. Roberts is an assistant professor of history at Western Illinois University, and the author of the forthcoming Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism (2009).

Mr. Sternstein is Professor Emeritus of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of American Biography. Much of the commentary about the latest plagiarism scandal involving ...