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. 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Garst is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens and the author of "Chasing John Henry in Alabama and Mississippi: A Personal Memoir of Work in Progress" Tributaries ...

Two vice presidents resigned: John C. Calhoun (served under Andrew Jackson) and Spiro Agnew (served under Richard Nixon). The vice presidency has been vacant due to resignation or death a total of ...

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 ...