Madhusree Mukerjee won a Guggenheim fellowship to write her previous book, The Land of Naked People. She has served on the board of editors of Scientific American. She lives near Frankfurt, Germany.

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 ...

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. Hughes is the Nixon tapes editor for the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. It wasn’t the crime, but it wasn’t the cover-up, either.

Trump is often described as unprecedented, but in winning a non-consecutive second term, he has a significant antecedent: Grover Cleveland.

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

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 ...

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. Ayton is the author of The Forgotten Terrorist – Sirhan Sirhan and the Murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy published by Potomac Books, May 2007. He was interviewed about his new book by the ...

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 ...

Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust (Crown, 2001). This article is an adapted version of a longer piece that appeared on The Cutting ...