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Mr. Lindley is a Seattle writer and attorney with experience in public service law, teaching, research and consulting. He is a past chair of the World Peace through Law Section of the Washington State ...

Jeff Forret is professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His latest book is Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts (Cambridge ...

Mr. Beito is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and Linda Royster Beito is chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Stillman College. They are writing a biography of T ...

Richard Rayner, writing in the April 26, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, revealed that Ambrose exaggerated his relationship with Dwight Eisenhower. Ambrose claimed that Eisenhower approached him in 1964 ...

Roy E. Finkenbine is Professor of History and Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is currently engaged in a book project tentatively titled Fugitive ...

Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015, Paperback Edition 2017). As the presidential campaign of 2024 becomes the ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Ron Steinman was bureau chief for NBC News in Saigon from April 1966 through September 1968. He covered the war until 1972, with frequent trips to Saigon from posts in Hong Kong and London. Recently ...

Emma Maggie Solberg is an associate professor of medieval English literature at Bowdoin College in Maine. She has published on bookworms, the Virgin Mary, and poetry. She is at work on a new project ...

R. B. Bernstein teaches political science at City College of New York. His most recent book is The Education of John Adams (Oxford University Press). Watercolor, Adams family home, 1798. Collection of ...

Mr. Levy is a Professor of History at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He gave the following testimony at a hearing in Millersville, PA held on March 22, 2006 by the Pennsylvania House Select ...