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

Mr. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at UC Irvine and the author, most recently, of Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments (published in December 2008 by Routledge). The last few ...

Mr. Miller received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University this May. He is turning his dissertation, titled “The Politics of Decency: Billy Graham, Evangelicalism, and the End of the Solid ...

Duration: One 40-50 minute lesson. Goal: Students will understand the key principles that form the basis of the Constitution. Students will be able to describe the issues Founding Fathers had to ...

Mr. Markowitz is an associate professor of history at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers University. While channel surfing last week I suddenly came across a wacky propaganda film on C-SPAN about who ...

Ingo Trauschweizer is the author of The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. He is a Max Weber Fellow and a member of the Department of ...

Three and a half years ago, when U.S. soldiers were only fighting in Afghanistan, I wondered in an opinion column when we would finally have an American "Iliad," a work that would reveal the costs, ...

Mr. Olshaker is a longtime freelance journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications including TomPaine.com and The New York Times. "Why do four out of five American Jews continue to vote ...

Yanek Mieczkowski is professor of history at Dowling College in New York. His books are Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (2005) and The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections ...

Mr. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany. Editor's Note: The following article is based on fresh research explored in the newest volume of Mr. Wittner's ...

Key concepts: Boston Tea Party vs. Tea Party 2009, Preamble of the Constitution, constitutional concepts of “originalism” vs. “living document,” Section 1 Article 8 of the Constitution, Grassroots ...