I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

Don Bohning, a retired Miami Herald Latin America editor, is author of The Castro Obsession: US Covert Activities Against Cuba 1959-1965. It’s been a half century since a U.S.-trained Cuban ...

Mr. Spivak is an attorney in New York, and received a Master's in History from Brooklyn College. His Master's thesis explored the history of the recall. Even though 26 states authorize the recall ...

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. 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 ...

Dr. Harrington has a Doctorate and Master’s in modern history from Oxford University and a B.A. in history from London University, and has taught, researched and published widely on themes in ...

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. 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 ...

Aaron Leonard is a freelance journalist. His columns and interviews span the gamut from geopolitics to economics to religion. He is a regular contributor to the History New Network and other ...

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 ...

Roy E. Finkenbine is Professor of History and Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive at the University of Detroit Mercy. Jewell E. Wilson, Sr., the man with the cane, at the premiere of Jordan ...

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 ...