On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Mr. Payne is an Assistant Professor of history at St. Bonaventure University in New York. The Enron scandal has been exploding, to the point where it is threatening to eclipse the War on Terrorism, ...

The Israeli historian Benny Morris did it again. Morris is not only a historian with impressive achievements but also an Israeli and international icon. One year after the publication of his book The ...

Ms. Wills is a writer, researcher, and genealogist, and author of the book, Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: Colonial Virginia, 1650-1850 (March 2003). Although the newest movie about ...

Mr. Matthews is a free-lance writer. Sacajawea? Sakakawea? or Sacajawea? What is the correct spelling of the name of the American Indian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their western journey ...

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to be ...

For a while the televised sounds and sights of Friday’s service of remembrance at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London were cheering in a time of sorrow: Britain, while mourning for its many citizens dead ...

Mr. Bamford, a former investigative reporter for ABC News, is the author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets. Early in the morning of Thursday June 8, 1967 the first rays of sun spilled softly ...

Mr. Miller has been a speaker with the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. The Buffalo Bill Historical Center at Cody, Wyoming, displays an-oil-on ...

Mr. Bell is a principal of Capital City Partners, a Washington consulting firm. Just before the recent elections, I half-attentively watched Norman Ornstein explaining to a television interviewer that ...

From History Channel documentaries to Band of Brothers, popular representations of war are ubiquitous. For some people though, passively consuming war stories isn’t enough. They want to take their ...