Mr. Gould, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, is writing a history of the Senate in the twentieth century. Alan Keyes, the Republican senatorial candidate in Illinois, has ...

Mr. Cole is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author of Sacred Space and Holy War (I.B. Tauris, 2002). One of the justifications U.S. hawks give ...

Mr. Beres is a member of the Wayne Morse Corporation Board in Oregon. The death of former Illinois senator, Paul Simon, Dec. 9, reminds us of his history of speaking with courage and for the ...

Mr. Fleming is a former president of the Society of American Historians. This is the latest in a series of articles, "Channelling George Washington." “I see the historians are at it again.” ...

Deep Throat/Bob Woodward: First, Vanity Fair scooped the Washington Post with the article exposing the identity of Deep Throat. Then USA Today's Mark Memmott scooped the Post with his summary of ...

Mr. Higginbotham is profesor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although one might think from reading some letters to the press that dissent from government policies ...

Mr. Pipes is the director of the Middle East Forum. His website address is http://www.danielpipes.org. Consider the paradox: Almost every government agrees that Iraqi ...

This page features links to reviews of movies, documentaries and exhibits with a historical theme. Listings are in reverse chronological order. Descriptions are taken directly from the linked ...

Mr. Watenpaugh is an historian and Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights, Peace at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Being Modern in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006).

Almost 30 years have elapsed since the"third rate burglary" of the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972 that opened the dam of the Watergate scandal. The press and members ...

Ms. Rosen is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and former Professor of History at the University of California Davis. "BONNIE SWAIN," now age 61, got pregnant in her second year of college.

The Secret Trial of Robert E. Lee is Thomas Fleming's 23rd novel. It is a selection of the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club. Mr. Fleming is a member of HNN's corporate board.