Hiroaki Kuromiya is the author of The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s (Yale University Press, Dec. 2007). Stalin once said: "Death solves all ...

That our politics have been shifting rightward for more than thirty years is a generally acknowledged fact of American life. That this rightward movement has largely been accomplished by working-class ...

Mr. Honan, a journalist, is working on "Stealing the Fire," a forthcoming documentary about the black market for nuclear weapons technology. "For a great building project I would, like Faust, have ...

Mr. Walch is an independent historian who has written extensively on the Hoover presidency and is a writer for the History News Service. Herbert Hoover, where are you now that we need you? Hurricane ...

Mr. Lazere is professor emeritus of English at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. A second, shorter edition of his Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen’s Guide to Argumentative ...

From History Channel documentaries to Band of Brothers, popular representations of war are ubiquitous. For some people though, passively consuming war stories isn’t enough. They want to take their ...

Mr. Miller is author of Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as well as A Carrier at War: Shock and Awe Aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (Potomac Books, 2005). He ...

Mr. Palaima, recipient of a MacArthur genius award, teaches war and violence studies and ancient history at the University of Texas at Austin. I don't know how long or how widely Tim O'Brien searched ...

Mr. Brown is Executive Director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. As a historian, I ...

Mr. Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is writing a book, An Uncertain Defense: Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Bush. In an ...

Credit: Wiki Commons.Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher are commonly portrayed in the media as close political and ideological allies. Both were conservatives who reinvigorated their parties and ...

Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. Kevin Boyle, a professor of history at Ohio State University, recently won the National Book Award (non-fiction) for Arc of ...