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 ...

The Reagan administration offers a cautionary tale about cost-cutting zeal crashing up against the reality of how government works.

The origins of the Electoral College are entwined with slavery, but not in the way that recent accounts have suggested.

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 ...

Mr. Moreau, the author of Schoolbook Nation, earned his Ph.D. in American culture at the University of Michigan. He teaches history at a private high school in New York City. Disputes over history ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Turner co-founded the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia Law School in 1981 and worked for many years in the Senate, State and Defense departments. His books include ...

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 ...