David Waldstreicher is Professor of History at Temple University. His latest book is Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (Hill and Wang, 2009). This article originally appeared ...

Mr. Garst is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens and the author of "Chasing John Henry in Alabama and Mississippi: A Personal Memoir of Work in Progress" Tributaries ...

Mr. Frakes has taught in the History Dept. at Clarion University since 1991. He is the author of Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (2001) and Writing for ...

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 incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here’s how.

Mr. Pach is author of The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is writing a history of the presidency of Ronald Reagan. As we begin a new year and a new millennium, it is time to just say no to ...

Mr. Schweikart is Professor of History, University of Dayton. For a half a century, the interpretation of America's story has drifted steadily leftward, sometimes almost imperceptibly and ...

Mr. Kessler is the author of a new book on the FBI, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, available from Amazon.com. In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The ...

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. McLaughlin received his PhD in history from Drew University in 2008. His dissertation focused on General Albert C. Wedemeyer. Americans rightly regard General Joseph W. Stilwell as a hero.

Mr. Bowden is an HNN intern.

Mr. Bangs obtained his doctorate at the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, in 1976. He is a former Chief Curator of the Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA. Image via Wiki Commons. Setting people straight ...