Nothing as a student was more delicious than learning how somebody else scored on a test. To find out their IQ, of course, was like gaining the rare chance to feast at King Henry's table.

Mr. Adell is a student at Oberlin College. Democrats, more than Republicans it seems, have always had a penchant for their "lovable losers;" those candidates, who despite passionate adherence to ...

An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

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. 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 ...

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. 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. Beinin is Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University and is named on the Campus Watch website. He is currently serving as President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)of ...

Mr. Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and a contributor to HNN's Cliopatria. On Tuesday, Democratic voters in Connecticut will cast their ballots to consider denying ...

Ms. Nelson is Distinguished Historian in Residence at American University in Washington, D.C. In 2007 she testified before Congress about the necessity of overturning President's Bush's executive ...

Mr. Batchelor, the author of The 1900s (2002), is a writer for the History News Service. You think that Americans' national pastime is baseball, football, or Nascar? You're wrong. It's shopping.

Stern served as historian at the JFK Library from 1977 through 1999. He is the author of Averting ‘the Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (2003) and ...