An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

Dr. Rupp is a professor of history and political science at West Virginia Wesleyan College. What do American presidents James Polk, James Garfield, George W. Bush share with the Arnold Schwarzenegger?

[Allan M. Winkler is a professor of history at Miami University of Ohio. His most recent book is Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America (Pearson Longman, 2005).] The first time I ...

Mr. Bonner teaches at Michigan State University and is the author of Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South (2002). He is a writer for the History News Service. With 2002 drawing ...

Mr. Honey is Haley Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign (W.W. Norton).

Mr. Steinhorn, professor of communications at American University, is co-author of the book, By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and The Reality of Race (Dutton, 1999).

Mr. Punke, a former White House aide and the author of Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West (2007), is a writer for the History News Service.

Ms. Yarbro, a novelist, is the author of the new non-fiction book, Confrontation at Lepanto : Christendom vs. Islam. The book was published under the name of T.C.F. Hopkins. The challenge when ...

Ms. Muir is the author of Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England. The working title of her current project is: What Good is a Nation; A Clear-Eyed Look at Nations ...

Richard Rorty, who teaches philosophy at Stanford, in the London Review of Books (April 2004): Europe is coming to grips with the fact that al-Qaeda's opponent is the West, not just America.

Mr. Goldstein, a University of West Georgia history professor, is doing research and writing in Jerusalem. He has visited Bethlehem on many Christmases since 1984. When the Roman Catholic ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN. Mr. Burstein is the author of the book, Jefferson's Secrets. In your book you look at Jefferson’s last years, the most neglected of his life. When did you ...