On April 9, 1984, the government of Nicaragua filed suit with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague alleging ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

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. 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 ...

Mr. Kutler is the author of The Wars of Watergate. He was one of three historians selected by the History Channel to review the "documentary," "The Guilty Men," which was broadcast in November 2003.

Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University and the author, most recently, of Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (Princeton University Press). He is a member of HNN ...

Two vice presidents resigned: John C. Calhoun (served under Andrew Jackson) and Spiro Agnew (served under Richard Nixon). The vice presidency has been vacant due to resignation or death a total of ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio.

Dr. Alex Grobman is a Hebrew University trained historian. He is a former director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the author of a number of books, including Nations United: How The U.N ...

Mr. Latimer is the author of the recently published book, 1812: War with America ( Belknap Press, 2007). In their Beginner’s Guide to Canadian Humour, Lynne Stokes and Pamela Chichinskas list 15 ...

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. He is the author of The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad. The 2011 film session, however, was ...

Karen Bloom Gevirtz spent nearly three decades as a professor of English at American universities while also specializing in gender studies and medical humanities. Venetia, Lady Digby by Sir ...