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 ...

Nicholas Turse, writing in www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute (April 2004): Since 1961, thanks to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, we've all been cognizant of the"unwarranted ...

Mr. Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and a contributor to HNN's Cliopatria. A low point in last year’s presidential campaign came when the New York Post published a front ...

As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere.

Carlton F.W. Larson is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor Law at the UC Davis School of Law. He is the author of On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law and The Trials of Allegiance: Treason ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University ...

Mr. Wheeler is the author of Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War (HarperCollins, 2006) “What became of our forces which held ...

Mr. Cox, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States ...

Mr. Kessler is the author of a new book on the FBI, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, available from Amazon.com. In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The ...

[Quentin P. Taylor is an assistant professor of history and political science at Rogers State University, Claremore, Oklahoma.] “The story of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ was written solely ...