Joseph Kip Kosek is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. The nation’s leading capitalist emerges as a surprise ...

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 ...

Reader, Joan wore a bowl cut. Haters have attempted to erase the memory of this bowl cut from our collective memory, but I am here to bring it back. Joan fashioned this cut, and the complete look that ...

Two vice presidents resigned: John C. Calhoun (served under Andrew Jackson) and Spiro Agnew (served under Richard Nixon). The vice presidency has been vacant due to resignation or death a total of ...

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.

A Brief History of Former Presidents Running for Reelection: 3 Losses, 1 Win and 1 Still TBD History illustrates that voters become galvanized and change their party allegiance when former US ...

Mr. Kutler is the author of The Wars of Watergate. He was one of three historians selected by the History Channel to review the "documentary," "The Guilty Men," which was broadcast in November 2003.

Ms. Young is a professor of history at New York University. This excerpt originally appeared in Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History edited by Yuki Tanaka and Ms. Young. Airpower ...

Mr. Rossi is an associate professor of history at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He is co-author of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance and is a writer for the History ...

Mr. Gross is a professor at DePaul University and author of the forthccoming, Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks (Steerforth Press, May 2006). During the month of December, 2002, I found myself in ...

view of the gun is as deep a superstition as any that affected Native Americans in the 17th century.

Mr. Cox, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States ...