Mr. Turse is a Columbia University graduate student completing a dissertation on American war crimes during the Vietnam War. For example, the Toledo Blade reports that its "review of thousands of ...

Al Carroll is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Virginia Community College, a former Fulbright Scholar, and the author of "Presidents' Body Counts:The Twelve Worst and Four Best American ...

A producer for the Korean Broadcasting System, which is doing a special program commemorating August 15, 1945, recently asked me why Japan's ruling elites rejected the Potsdam Declaration."What ...

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.

Related Link Papyrus Referring to Jesus’ Wife Is More Likely Ancient Than Fake, Scientists Say . The belief that religious figures should be celibate began long before the birth of Christianity ...

On September 2, 1858, speaking in Clinton, Illinois, during the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln made one of his most famous statements: “You can fool all the people some of the ...

Is it Muslim or Moslem?When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted,"Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage ...

Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief overview of the Sixties ...

Alexandra Vasti is a literature professor by day and USA Today bestselling romance writer by night.After finishing her PhD at Columbia University, she moved to New Orleans with her family.

From the beginning, Longfellow made a point to include female VLSC lifesavers at exhibitions and carnivals, believing that women and girls in the audience would be inspired to see members of their ...

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish … it was so fragile.” So says the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius at the ...