Greg Bailey, a St. Louis attorney, is a correspondent for the Economist: As Abraham Lincoln's birthday approaches Republicans around the nation gather together in country clubs and halls for their ...

Mr. Turse is a Columbia University graduate student completing a dissertation on American war crimes during the Vietnam War. When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth ...

Judith Flanders is an international bestselling author and one of the foremost social historians of the Victorian era, her latest book The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London was ...

Adam Holland is an investigative blogger. "We have heard the comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany. I don't like this comparison because I really think that Israel is far worse than Nazi Germany.

James C. Cobb is Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. This piece is adapted from his new book, "The South and America since World War II," published this ...

Dr. Whealey is author of Hitler and Spain: The Nazi Role in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1989). Most historians do not know that the ...

Mr. Shenkman, the author of Presidential Ambition and other books, is the editor of HNN. In 1964 Barry Goldwater lost the presidency in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson in part because of the ...

David Farber is professor of history at Temple University. His many books include Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam and What They Think of Us ...

Mr. Lembcke is Associate Professor of Sociology at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA and the author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam. A colleague passed along the ...

Counterfactual history is making an ever larger contribution to historical thinking -- and is also winning favor with the history reading public. Two What If books edited by Robert Cowley, to ...

Robert Paxton is emeritus professor of history at Columbia University. His latest book is Anatomy of Fascism (Vintage, 2005).

Mr. Eppridge is the author of A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in The Sixties (Abrams, 2008), from which the following piece is excerpted. I was in the Colorado Rockies listening to the news on a ...