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. Conn is a professor in the history department at Ohio State University and a writer for the History News Service. It was during Franklin Roosevelt's first term that Will Rogers is said to have ...

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 ...

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. Markowitz, an associate professor of history at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University, is a member of the editorial board of Political Affairs, the theoretical journal of the CPUSA. In ...

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. Beres, a journalist, is of Greek parentage, and has roots in Chicago, which once was known as second only to Athens for its number of residents of Greek heritage. In the mid-1970s, he was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Olshaker is a longtime freelance journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications including TomPaine.com and The New York Times. "Why do four out of five American Jews continue to vote ...