To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

Mr. Miller received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University this May. He is turning his dissertation, titled “The Politics of Decency: Billy Graham, Evangelicalism, and the End of the Solid ...

Mr. Furnish, Ph.D (Islamic History), is Assistant Professor, History, Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody, GA 30338. Mr. Furnish is the author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama ...

William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), now teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. The American way of war has often relied on massive firepower as a way to reduce American ...

Mr. Thompson, Professor of Public Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is the author of Legalized Gambling: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara and Denver: ABC-Clio, 1994 and 1997-2nd ed.) ...

James T. Patterson is professor of history emeritus at Brown University. His latest book is "Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life—from LBJ to Obama" ...

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. Frakes has taught in the History Dept. at Clarion University since 1991. He is the author of Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (2001) and Writing for College ...

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Mr. Greenberg writes the "History Lesson" column in Slate and teaches at Rutgers University. He is the author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image. To justify banning the use of filibusters in ...

Mr. DeConde, emeritus professor of history, University of California at Santa Barbara, is the auhtor of Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention, and Foreign Relations ...

Roger Griffin is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University and lectures principally on aspects of the History of Ideas relating to ideologies and values that have shaped the modern ...