One was the founder of communism, the other a pillar of American democracy. That, along with many other things, made them as different as night and day. Yet they occupied the same historic period and ...

Bruce Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. He holds his PhD from Rutgers and was a former editor for the ...

Mr. Taylor is a former teacher in Turkey and the author of Fever and Thirst: An American Doctor Among the Tribes of Kurdistan. Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005. Two weeks ago, the Turkish Air Force ...

Lee P. Ruddin is Roundup Editor for HNN. He lives in England. Barack Obama is the first American president since the Second World War not to be touched in any way by the triumph over fascism which ...

Mr. Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of ERNEST GRUENING AND THE AMERICAN DISSENTING TRADITION (1998) and a writer for the History ...

Mr. Speer, a political historian, is a freelance writer. This semester he is teaching in China. When you arrive in Auschwitz, you leave the train station and see just another small Polish town.

Mr. Buzzanco is Professor and Chairman, Department of History, University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era and Vietnam and the ...

Dr. Judith A. Klinghoffer is a senior research associate in the department of Political Science at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the co-author of International Citizens' Tribunals: Mobilizing ...

Mr. Schweikart is a professor of history at the University of Dayton and author of The Entrepreneurial Adventure: A History of American Business. It is a good thing I am called a judge, because if I ...

Mr. Lichtman is a professor of history at American University and the author of The Keys to the White House (1996). This article was published by TomPaine.com in 1999. Forget the polls and the pundits ...

Mr. Jones is adjunct instructor of history at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. Defense counsel Ron Radosh suggests that a case"based on a highly legalistic and a-historical ...

Joseph Kip Kosek is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. The nation’s leading capitalist emerges as a surprise candidate ...