Mr. Diggins, a professor of history at the City University of New York, is the author of Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History (Norton, 2007). CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM made its ...

Mr. Frakes has taught in the History Dept. at Clarion University since 1991. He is the author of Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (2001) and Writing for ...

Mr. Miller is an HNN intern. Were Nazis tortured in World War II? How one ultimately answers the question of whether Nazi POWs were tortured in World War II depends on how one defines torture.

Corey Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. In The Empire of Necessity, Greg Grandin gives us a fascinating history of the phrase “to strike.” ...

Mr. Cross is Distinguished Professor of Modern History, Pennsylvania State University. The old always seem to blame the young for the downfall of civilization. So readers under 40 might be ...

Mr. Dresner teaches East Asian history at Pittsburg State University, Kansas. His research examines Meiji-era (1868-1912) social history. A quick summary of the movie for those who haven't seen it.

Charles Carlton, Professor Emeritus of History, North Carolina State University, is the author of "Charles I: the Personal Monarch" (Routledge, 1995). The Oscar-winning film, The King’s Speech ...

Mr. Kessler is the author of a new book on the FBI, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, available from Amazon.com. In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The ...

Steven Lomazow is the co-author (with Eric Fettmann) of FDR's Deadly Secret (PublicAffairs, January 2010). In view of the recent highly publicized firing of General Stanley McChrystal, here is a ...

Mr. Gelber is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. He also serves as the chairman of the university's School of History. Since the abortive talks at ...

Claire Robertson is Professor of African and Caribbean History at The Ohio State University. Her latest book is Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics (University of ...