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 ...

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. 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 ...

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. Wiseman is an assistant editor at HNN. Tartans and Bling: Thomas Sowell’s Tracing of Urban Black Culture to the Grady McWhiney’s 'Celtic Fringe' In Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old ...

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 ...

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. Toplin, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, is the author of a dozen books including Radical Conservatism: The Right’s Political Religion (2006). Ronald ...

Mr. Holland is the editor of Washington DeCoded, which first published this article in an extended form (with footnotes). Ms. Egan is the editorial assistant. Writing in August 2007 about the ...

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. Szasz is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history ...

Mr. Miller has been a speaker with the Organization of American Historians (OAH)Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. My father Sergeant James L. Miller (1917-1954), awarded a Purple Heart ...