Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c.

Translating the first book printed in English was quite stressful, as William Caxton made clear in his profoundly neurotic introduction to the 1473 edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of ...

Edwin Black is the author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn. Hitler and his ...

Ms. Hart is an award-winning journalist who has covered international affairs and historical topics in her writing. In June 2010 the British government revealed its long-awaited judgment in the ...

An expert on white nationalism explains how such demonizing rhetoric incubates and spreads—and what sets this particular episode apart. A scene of conflict that was lost to the ages has been ...

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 ...

Ms. Rosen, Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Davis, is a senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute in Berkeley, California and the author, most recently, of THE WORLD ...

Mr. Fowler, the Director of the Massachustts Historical Society, is the author of Empires at War: the French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America 1754-1763 (2004). A little more than ...

Mr. Fea is an assistant professor of history at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., and a writer for the History News Service. In one of the more interesting and ironic twists in recent American ...

Mr. Berger is the former editor of the Seattle Weekly. Five years ago this July, an ancient skeleton was found on the banks of the Columbia River during a hydroplane race near Kennewick, Washington.

Mr. Turse is a Columbia University graduate student completing a dissertation on American war crimes during the Vietnam War. When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth ...