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. 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. Marozzi is the author of "Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World" (Perseus Publishing). In the summer of 2004, I told a joke in Baghdad which completely bombed in front of a largely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Horowitz, author most recently of Uncivil Wars, is editor-in-chief of FrontPage Magazine. In 1943, A Phillip Randolph organized a civil rights march on Washington to demand full citizenship for ...

Dr. Grobman is a Hebrew University trained historian. His is the author of a number of books including Nations United How The UN Undermines Israel and The West and a forthcoming book on Israel's moral ...