Mr. Uviller and Mr. Merkel are co-authors of The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent (Duke University Press). There is, perhaps, a certain dullness in taking things ...

Editor's Note: This summer HNN devoted a special edition to Israel's attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 during the Six Day War, which resulted in the deaths of 34 Americans. Israel insists the attack ...

Mr. Cullather is a history professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Just after 9/11, the United States allegedly threatened to bomb Pakistan “back ...

The so-called “culture wars,” though maddeningly difficult to define, have begun to set previously complacent Americans against one another in unexpected ways and to challenge some of the basic goals ...

Mr. Nobile is the author of Intellectual Skywriting: Literary Politics and the New York Review of Books and editor of Judgment at the Smithsonian, which reprinted the banned script of the ...

A Nightmare Tale of Ruthless Accusers, A Misused 'Plagiarism Machine,' An Orwellian Star Chamber, an Unscrupulous Verdict, and Hopeless Confusion About Definitions A recent Saturday edition of the New ...

Hugh Ambrose is the son of the late Stephen Ambrose. He served as a project consultant for the HBO miniseries "The Pacific." The recent accusation that the late historian Dr. Stephen E. Ambrose, the ...

Mr. Spivak is an attorney in New York, and received a Master's in History from Brooklyn College. His Master's thesis explored the history of the recall. Even though 26 states authorize the recall in ...

Every college world history textbook discusses the early 15th c. CE Chinese naval expeditions, commissioned by the Ming Emperor Zhu Di and commanded by the legendary admiral Zheng He, that sailed as ...

Fran Shor is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Wayne State University. In the past few months there have been a rash of media reports on the Carlyle Group, a private equity ...

Mr. Herman is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Central Washington University. He is currently a research fellow at the Clements Center at SMU. I write in pique. I have been ...

Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates (PRA), is co-author of Right Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. His most recent study for PRA is titled Toxic to Democracy, ...