If a historian of the United States entered the public square in the 1960s or 1970s, it was often for reason of radical commitments. Eugene Genovese became a lightning rod after offering his “welcome” ...

Pedro Loza, now 74, recalls the exact moment he realized he would have to settle in the United States, despite his dream of returning to reside once again in his beloved Mexico. He was working in ...

Mr. Hamby is Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University. Harry Truman remains a controversial president. Revisionist scholars condemn his decision to pursue a Cold War with the Soviet Union ...

Mr. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The article is derived from his recently published book, The Vanishing ...

The National Security Strategy (NSS) report was born out of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, the fourth major post-World War II reorganization of the U.S. Defense Department. It is one of more than ...

In 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for executions to start again in Missouri when it refused to hear the Missouri lethal injection case, Clemons v. Crawford. In response, Missouri's ...

Mr. Ellwood is Associate Professor in International History, University of Bologna and Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center. Anti-Americanism as a cultural and ...

Mr. Jaschik is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed, where this piece first appeared. With Doug Lederman, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, ...

Mr. Markowitz is an associate professor of history at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers University. While channel surfing last week I suddenly came across a wacky propaganda film on C-SPAN about who ...

John Willingham is a former election official in Texas. He now writes about history, culture, and election issues. He holds an MA in American history from the University of Texas at Austin. The last ...

Mr. Kimball is a professor of history at Miami University and the author of several books including To Reason Why and Nixon's Vietnam War. His most recent book is The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the ...

Mr. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at UC Irvine and the author, most recently, of Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments (published in December 2008 by Routledge). The last few ...