Dr. Whealey is author of Hitler and Spain: The Nazi Role in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1989). Most historians do not know that the ...

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 ...

Mr. Giangreco is the author of War in Korea: 1950-1953. He and Kathryn Moore are co-authors of Dear Harry . . . Truman’s Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration through Correspondence ...

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 ...

D.M. Giangreco is the author of The United States Army: The Definitive Illustrated History. During World War II, U.S. Navy personnel on the myriad joint Army-Navy staffs, including Chief of Naval ...

Mr. Hughes is the Nixon tapes editor for the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. It wasn’t the crime, but it wasn’t the cover-up, either.

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 ...

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 ...

claims are not only unsupported by the evidence he offers, but also false.

Mr. Evans is an attorney and author. As an avocational politician, he has supervised a successful New Hampshire presidential primary and set up a national citizens organization. He has served as ...

Thomas B. Allen is the author of "Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War." The grand story of the American Revolution forms the backdrop of today’s Tea Party, whose members ...

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 ...