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

Barbara Weinstein is professor of Latin American History at NYU. In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association. Her books include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920, and ...

An engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of Knights of the Golden Circle. [Library of Congress] In the summer of 1859, several stock actors ...

Keith Miller has been a speaker with the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Series since 1999. Let me begin with a short story. The great tank commander--George S. Patton--found out the hard way how ...

Mr. Dresner teaches East Asian history at Pittsburg State University, Kansas. His research examines Meiji-era (1868-1912) social history. A quick summary of the movie for those who haven't seen it.

Charles Carlton, Professor Emeritus of History, North Carolina State University, is the author of "Charles I: the Personal Monarch" (Routledge, 1995). The Oscar-winning film, The King’s Speech ...

Mr. Flynn is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia and author of the newly released, :Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness." Who is ...

William N. Tilchin, an associate professor of social sciences and history at Boston University, is the author of Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft (1997 ...

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. Hitler and his ...

Mr. Cox, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. When it comes to commentary about the office of vice president of the United States ...

Mr. Gordon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa and the author of New Deals (1994) and Dead on Arrival (2003). Representative Mark Souder (R-IN) is pushing to replace the ...

Note: Due to a number of anti-Semitic comments that have been posted, comments have been disabled for this article. Arriving at London in early 1938, newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador Joseph P.