Ms. Rosen is an editorial writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle and former professor of history at U.C. Davis. "A popular government without popular information or the means of ...

Mr. Kates is a constitutional lawyer and a criminologist. His latest book (co-authored with Prof. Gary Kleck) is, Armed: New Perspectives On Gun Control (Prometheus, 2001). People often ...

Mr. Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. I wonder how Doris Kearns, who ghostwrote much of Lyndon Johnson's 1971 memoirs, The ...

Dr. McPherson is associate professor of international relations and ConocoPhillips Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in ...

Mr. Young is a graduate student in history at Indiana University, the editor of http://www.progressivehistorians.com and a writer for the History News Service. A star ...

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 ...

Much to no one’s surprise perhaps, the more evidence that surfaces about Lyndon Johnson’s war record, the less there seems to it, according to two new reports filed on CNN. Johnson you’ll ...

Mr. Safranski is an educational consultant to secondary schools. He frequently writes about the military. "I felt they made a mistake by not finishing the job."--Al Gore, recently criticizing the ...

Members of the public are to be asked their views on whether a south Devon (UK) grave should be exhumed in a mystery connected with Sherlock Holmes. Historians hope it may hold the answer to a ...

Within twenty-four hours, on October 16-17, the New York Times ran three stories about the threat increasing chaos posed to emerging, still fragile political orders in Iraq, Palestine, and the Sudan.

Mr. Schwyzer is an Instructor in Social Sciences at Pasadena City College and a member of HNN blog Cliopatria. Much has happened since I last taught my course on gay and lesbian history in the ...

Mr. Luker is co-editor of the first two volumes of the Martin Luther King Papers and a member of the History News Service advisory board. Recent criticism of our academic institutions in the Wall ...