Taner Akçam is associate professor of history and the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University (Worcester, MA).

This is the second installment in Emma Garman's series about found documents, fiction, and history. Read the first installment here. The Name of the Rose has a straightforward enough premise. Brothers ...

Mr. Giangreco is the author of War in Korea: 1950-1953. He and Kathryn Moore are co-authors of Dear Harry . . . Truman’s Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration through Correspondence with ...

Mr. Furnish, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta. President Nixon is usually denigrated for Watergate, his “enemies list,” even his participation in ...

Olivia Paschal is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia, and a journalist and writer. Resources of the Soil (Mural Study, Ukiah, California Post Office), by Ben Cunningham, c. 1938.

Translating the first book printed in English was quite stressful, as William Caxton made clear in his profoundly neurotic introduction to the 1473 edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, ...

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 -- ...

Leo Maley III has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and University of Maryland, College Park, and Uday Mohan is director of research at the Nuclear Studies Institute, American ...

Asheesh Kapur Siddique is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the ...

Ms. Swain is a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Her latest book is The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration. The older I get, ...

Mr. Butler, former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Yale University, is the author of "Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People" (Harvard University Press, 1990).

Following are three definitions of plagiarism. #1 This is from the American Historical Association's Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct. It is reprinted courtesy of the AHA. In addition to ...