[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 ...

Mr. Neumann is a professor at the Hofstra University School of Law. Every year as December 7 approaches we hear and read that eight battleships were sunk at Pearl Harbor. That is even repeated in ...

Ms. Weber is an associate professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she specializes in eighteenth-century French literature, culture, and history. She holds degrees from Harvard and ...

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

James C. Cobb is Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. This piece is adapted from his new book, "The South and America since World War II," published this ...

Mr. Matthews is a free-lance writer. In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, one commentator noted that the attacks climaxed almost two decades of terrorist acts committed in the ...

Mr. Bates, author of AN ILLUSION SO REAL: THE MEN AND WOMEN OF CIVIL WAR REENACTMENT ( to be published in 2005), is a writer for the History News Service and a teaching fellow at the University of ...

Mr. Spivak is an attorney in New York, and received a Master's in History from Brooklyn College. His Master's thesis explored the history of the recall. Even though 26 states authorize the recall ...

Aaron Leonard is a freelance journalist. His columns and interviews span the gamut from geopolitics to economics to religion. He is a regular contributor to the History New Network and other ...

Mr. Flynn is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia and author of the newly released, :Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness." Who is ...

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 ...