For a while the televised sounds and sights of Friday’s service of remembrance at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London were cheering in a time of sorrow: Britain, while mourning for its many citizens dead ...

From History Channel documentaries to Band of Brothers, popular representations of war are ubiquitous. For some people though, passively consuming war stories isn’t enough. They want to take their ...

Mr. Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is writing a book, An Uncertain Defense: Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Bush. In an ...

Mr. Palaima, recipient of a MacArthur genius award, teaches war and violence studies and ancient history at the University of Texas at Austin. I don't know how long or how widely Tim O'Brien searched ...

Normon Solomon, interviewed by Adrian Zupp (July 2005): [Norman Solomon is a syndicated columnist on media and politics, as well as founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, ...

Mr. Miller is author of Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as well as A Carrier at War: Shock and Awe Aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (Potomac Books, 2005). He ...

Mr. Brown is Executive Director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. As a historian, I ...

Mr. Fleming's new book, The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I, was published by Basic Books on June 1. The scene could not have been more dramatic. President Woodrow Wilson was calling for ...

Credit: Wiki Commons.Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher are commonly portrayed in the media as close political and ideological allies. Both were conservatives who reinvigorated their parties and ...

Mark Crispin Miller curated the Forbidden Bookshelf. Miller is a professor of media studies at NYU and an accomplished author of several books, from "Boxed In: The Culture of TV" (1988) and "Seeing ...

Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. Kevin Boyle, a professor of history at Ohio State University, recently won the National Book Award (non-fiction) for Arc of ...

Mother Courage and Her Children Shakespeare & Company 70 Kemble Avenue Lenox, MassachusettsYou think our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lasted a long time? In Europe three hundred years ago, they had ...