Daniel Ruddy is a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and he holds a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. His first book is "Theodore Roosevelt's ...

Lewis Gould, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, is well-known as an authority on the American presidency. His latest book is about the U.S. Senate: The Most Exclusive Club: A ...

Mr. Lindley is a Seattle writer and attorney with experience in public service law, teaching, research and consulting. He is a past chair of the World Peace through Law Section of the Washington State ...

John Burnett, reporting for NPR about the history of Kellogg, Brown & Root, the construction company at the center of controversy in Iraq (Dec. 24, 2003): I'm standing here below Mansfield Dam, 12 ...

Mr. Marina is Professor Emeritus in History at Florida Atlantic University, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA. “God’s blessing is on him [George W. Bush]. It’s the ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

Dr. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany. His latest book is Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford University ...

Mr. Stern, historian at the Kennedy Library from 1977 to 1999, is the author of Averting ‘the Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings, 2003, and The Week the World ...

A hurricane catches residents off guard. A levee fails, sending a wall of water that drowns thousands. Government officials at first fail to grasp the immensity of the catastrophe. There are ...

Mr. Flynn is a retired patent attorney. The use of foreign law in U.S. courts continues to be in the news. Justice Antonin Scalia has been a forthright spokesman against outsourcing American law to ...

Deep Throat/Bob Woodward: First, Vanity Fair scooped the Washington Post with the article exposing the identity of Deep Throat. Then USA Today's Mark Memmott scooped the Post with his summary of Bob ...

Ms. Prescott is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. Her book, Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services on American Society and Medicine will be published by ...