Mr. Raphael is the author of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION, and FOUNDING MYTHS, which was just published. It’s been a quarter century since Frances ...

Mr. Cox, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States ...

Mr. DePastino is the author of Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front (to be published in 2008) and a writer for the History News Service. An independent scholar, he teaches history at Penn State Beaver.

Mr. Schoch, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics at Yale University. Mr. McNally is a writer and ...

John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic. Americans love games of chance, but history shows they're a poor substitute for ...

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

A U.S. F4 Phantom drops bombs over a Viet Cong controlled area in South Vietnam in November 1965 during the Vietnam War. While the term collateral damage was not as widely used during the Vietnam ...

Mr. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany. Editor's Note: The following article is drawn from the latest installment in Mr. Wittner's trilogy, The Struggle ...

Mr. Boyle is the author of Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci and the Race for America (Walker & Co, June 2008) On August 6, 1497, almost precisely five years since Christopher ...

Loren Ghiglione is the Richard A. Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. This article is adapted from his 2008 Hollenbeck biography and his ...

James Livingston is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Against Thrift. An excerpt from this quietly beautiful and deeply reactionary book has already appeared in the New ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN. Willie Drye is the author of Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, published by National Geographic Books. In your book you tell the story of ...