Mr. Bix, author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins, 2000), writes on problems of war and empire and is a Japan Focus associate. A producer for the Korean Broadcasting System ...

As the news media prepares for its coverage of the political conventions and the selection of Vice-Presidential running mates, the conventional wisdom is that it is now time to replace such ...

Two vice presidents resigned: John C. Calhoun (served under Andrew Jackson) and Spiro Agnew (served under Richard Nixon). The vice presidency has been vacant due to resignation or death a total of ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

Mr. Briley is Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School. Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to ...

Mr. Kessler is the author of a new book on the FBI, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, available from Amazon.com. In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The ...

[Quentin P. Taylor is an assistant professor of history and political science at Rogers State University, Claremore, Oklahoma.] “The story of ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ was written solely ...

Mr. McLaughlin received his PhD in history from Drew University in 2008. His dissertation focused on General Albert C. Wedemeyer. With the sixty-fifth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic ...

Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University ...

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. Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and a contributor to HNN's Cliopatria. A low point in last year’s presidential campaign came when the New York Post published a front ...

[Gerard W. Gawalt is the manuscript specialist for early American history in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.] Ruthless, unconventional foes are not new to the United States of America.