Mr. Palaima is a professor of classics and Mr. Friend is a graduate student in ancient history at the University of Texas at Austin. You've seen the photographs, the ...

Mr. Furnish, Ph.D (Islamic History), is Assistant Professor, History, Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody, GA 30338. Mr. Furnish is the author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads and Osama ...

Mr. Kutler is the Fox Emeritus Professor of History & Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, his play, “I, Nixon,” is being staged in Chicago. He is the author of The Wars of Watergate ...

The most surprising aspect of this paper and presentation is that it should have interested the organizers of this conference in the first place. The various components of the term and concept "the ...

Mark McKibbin works as an author and political consultant in California and is completing a biography of James Wilson. Denver Brunsman is chair of the Department of History at George Washington ...

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. As a young boy growing up in the Texas Panhandle in the 1950s and 1960s, I was indoctrinated into the myths of the Alamo and Texas ...

Daniel Ruddy is a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and he holds a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. His first book is "Theodore Roosevelt's ...

For the past 40 years the issue of conspiracy in the Robert Kennedy assassination has continued to haunt America. With the recent release of Emilio Estevez"s movie "Bobby" a new generation of ...

"You have got to understand that [the atomic bomb] isn't a military weapon. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses." Harry S Truman, discussing atomic ...

Peter Heather is Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He has written extensively about the fall of the Roman Empire. His latest book is Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and ...

Disillusionment is a time-honored revolutionary tradition. True believers risk their lives launching a revolution, only to see their ideals abandoned by others -- or, worse, to watch the former ...

One of the most stimulating books I have read in some time is Sophie Wahnich’s In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (published in 2003, but in English 2012). But it’s ...