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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Marozzi is the author of "Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World" (Perseus Publishing). In the summer of 2004, I told a joke in Baghdad which completely bombed in front of a largely ...

Normon Solomon, interviewed by Adrian Zupp (July 2005): [Norman Solomon is a syndicated columnist on media and politics, as well as founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, ...

Mr. Johnson is the author of THE SORROWS OF EMPIRE: MILITARISM, SECRECY, AND THE END OF THE REPUBLIC and of an earlier volume, BLOWBACK: THE COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF AMERICAN EMPIRE, among other ...