Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins History Department. David B. Froomkin is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center. The reigning mythology of the United ...

Marina Manoukian is a writer and artist. She received her Masters in English Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut, 19th century.

A UC Berkeley student picket supports a strike protesting demonstrators’ arrests, 1964. Photograph by Don Kechely. [Online Archive of California] For over a century, U.S. politicians have made ...

Haider Khan is Professor of International and Development Economics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. Events in Egypt have unsettled the media pundits and ...

K.C. Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the author of numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign relations and politics, including All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 ...

Adam Hochschild’s haunting yet illuminating assessment of World War I (mainly concentrating on Great Britain) is a welcome addition to the vast historical and literary output literature of that ...

A Saudi-French archaeological team has unearthed in Najran what might be considered the oldest inscription in the Arabic alphabet, said a spokesman from the French Foreign Ministry. “The epigrapher ...

Mr. Radu is Senior Fellow and Co-Chair, Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Liberia is a mess. As usual we are being blamed for the mess ...

Mr. Mayer is Professor of History, Augustana College. The Vatican is out to monkey with Galileo again. Many might think it had subjected him to enough tender ministrations already, from his two trials ...

This week I’m sharing more of your thoughts on which innovations from the past year you want to keep even when campuses resume normal operations. Earlier this month I described a few of them: ...

Mr. Jones is the author of the just-published book, The Bay of Pigs (Oxford University Press). On April 17, 1961, a small band of 1500 Cuban exiles invaded their former homeland at the Bay of Pigs in ...

Ms. Brewer is the author of: Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq (Oxford University Press). President Barack Obama confronts a formidable task as he tries to ...