Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

Louis P. Masur, William R. Kenan Jr., Professor in American Institutions and Values at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, talks about the historical accuracy of Stephen Spielberg's "Lincoln ...

Mr. Schoch, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics at Yale University. Mr. McNally is a writer and ...

Dr. McPherson is associate professor of international relations and ConocoPhillips Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in ...

Mr. Young is a graduate student in history at Indiana University, the editor of http://www.progressivehistorians.com and a writer for the History News Service. A star ...

Members of the public are to be asked their views on whether a south Devon (UK) grave should be exhumed in a mystery connected with Sherlock Holmes. Historians hope it may hold the answer to a ...

Mr. Carpenter is a writer and doctoral candidate in American history at the University of Illinois. What public-policy historians would have done without the sorry events of the late 1920s as a ...

Bruce Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. He holds his PhD from Rutgers and was a former editor for ...

Mr. Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. I wonder how Doris Kearns, who ghostwrote much of Lyndon Johnson's 1971 memoirs, The ...

The National Security Strategy (NSS) report was born out of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, the fourth major post-World War II reorganization of the U.S. Defense Department. It is one of more ...

Mr. Troy is the author of Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons. His next book is Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, which will be published early next ...

Mr. McMillian teaches history and literature at Harvard University. He can be reached at [email protected]. "Can we please keep this list-serve free of all blatantly political announcements?