[Allan M. Winkler is a professor of history at Miami University of Ohio. His most recent book is Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America (Pearson Longman, 2005).] The first time I ...

Dr. Rupp is a professor of history and political science at West Virginia Wesleyan College. What do American presidents James Polk, James Garfield, George W. Bush share with the Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Mr. Bonner teaches at Michigan State University and is the author of Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South (2002). He is a writer for the History News Service. With 2002 drawing ...

Mr. Honey is Haley Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign (W.W. Norton).

Ms. Yarbro, a novelist, is the author of the new non-fiction book, Confrontation at Lepanto : Christendom vs. Islam. The book was published under the name of T.C.F. Hopkins. The challenge when ...

Mr. Punke, a former White House aide and the author of Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West (2007), is a writer for the History News Service.

Richard Rorty, who teaches philosophy at Stanford, in the London Review of Books (April 2004): Europe is coming to grips with the fact that al-Qaeda's opponent is the West, not just America.

Mr. Goldstein, a University of West Georgia history professor, is doing research and writing in Jerusalem. He has visited Bethlehem on many Christmases since 1984. When the Roman Catholic ...

Ms. Muir is the author of Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England. The working title of her current project is: What Good is a Nation; A Clear-Eyed Look at Nations ...

Mr. McMillian teaches history and literature at Harvard University. He can be reached at [email protected]. "Can we please keep this list-serve free of all blatantly political announcements?

John Willingham holds an M.A. in American history from the University of Texas, Austin. He has been a Texas government employee for 25 years. He is now retired and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Mr. Carpenter is a writer and doctoral candidate in American history at the University of Illinois. Ever since Ronald Reagan confused real events with Hollywood scripts, I've wondered how that ...