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 ...

Judith Flanders is an international bestselling author and one of the foremost social historians of the Victorian era, her latest book The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London was ...

Greg Bailey, a St. Louis attorney, is a correspondent for the Economist: As Abraham Lincoln's birthday approaches Republicans around the nation gather together in country clubs and halls for their ...

Mr. Turse is a Columbia University graduate student completing a dissertation on American war crimes during the Vietnam War. When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth ...

In mid-1981 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control noticed a set of medical curiosities: an alert from Los Angeles that five previously healthy young men had come down with a rare, fatal lung ...

Mr. Lembcke is Associate Professor of Sociology at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA and the author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam. A colleague passed along the ...

Dr. Whealey is author of Hitler and Spain: The Nazi Role in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1989). Most historians do not know that the ...

Mr. Shenkman, the author of Presidential Ambition and other books, is the editor of HNN. In 1964 Barry Goldwater lost the presidency in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson in part because of the ...

Mr. Diggins, a professor of history at the City University of New York, is the author of Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History (Norton, 2007). CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM made its ...

Mr. Frakes has taught in the History Dept. at Clarion University since 1991. He is the author of Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (2001) and Writing for ...

Robert Paxton is emeritus professor of history at Columbia University. His latest book is Anatomy of Fascism (Vintage, 2005).

Counterfactual history is making an ever larger contribution to historical thinking -- and is also winning favor with the history reading public. Two What If books edited by Robert Cowley, to ...