Deep Throat/Bob Woodward: First, Vanity Fair scooped the Washington Post with the article exposing the identity of Deep Throat. Then USA Today's Mark Memmott scooped the Post with his summary of ...

In Atlantis In America: Navigators of the Ancient World Ivar Zapp and I proposed that when the identities of the first Americans were finally known that they would likely turn out to be South ...

Deepak Tripathi, a former BBC Afghanistan correspondent, has taken a close interest in the United States, great power relations and South and West Asia for more than 30 years. His latest book is ...

Mr. Jenkins is a professor of History and Religious Studies at Penn State University. Prof. Jenkins' books include The Next Christianity: the Rise of Global Christianity (Oxford, 2001) and Mystics ...

Kelly Knauer is the editor of TIME AMERICA: An Illustrated History book. This is a giant of a book—about half as big as your common Casement window. How many people did it take? And how long did ...

Mr. Shenkman is the editor of HNN. Mr. Burstein is the author of the book, Jefferson's Secrets. In your book you look at Jefferson’s last years, the most neglected of his life. When did you ...

The Abbasid caliphs were the dynastic rulers of the Islamic world between the middle of the 8th and the 10th centuries. They headed a Muslim empire that extended from Tunisia through Egypt, Syria ...

Mr. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany. Editor's Note: The following article is drawn from the latest installment in Mr. Wittner's trilogy, The Struggle ...

Thus Hastings' apparent frailties were not solely seen in the context of India. He was accused of poor military judgement, undue patronage and maladministration -- the latter clearly not so.

Ms. Prescott, Ph.D., is Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services on American Society. Ann Arbor ...

Kristie Miller and Robert H. McGinnis are the editors of A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway, 1904-1953 (Arizona Historical Society, 2009). George Will ...

Mr. Luker, an Atlanta historian, is co-editor of the first two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King. Frankly, it’s been a dreadful year for historians -- the year when we got caught.