Mr. Olshaker is a longtime freelance journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications including TomPaine.com and The New York Times. "Why do four out of five American Jews continue to vote ...

Mr. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at UC Irvine and the author, most recently, of Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments (published in December 2008 by Routledge). The last few ...

Three and a half years ago, when U.S. soldiers were only fighting in Afghanistan, I wondered in an opinion column when we would finally have an American "Iliad," a work that would reveal the costs, ...

Yanek Mieczkowski is professor of history at Dowling College in New York. His books are Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (2005) and The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections ...

Mr. Markowitz is an associate professor of history at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers University. While channel surfing last week I suddenly came across a wacky propaganda film on C-SPAN about who ...

Note: This article was first published in 2002. The Geneva Convention often written and spoken of in contemporary news is actually the fourth Geneva Convention ratified in 1949 in the aftermath of ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” ...

Duration: One 40-50 minute lesson. Goal: Students will understand the key principles that form the basis of the Constitution. Students will be able to describe the issues Founding Fathers had to ...

Key concepts: Boston Tea Party vs. Tea Party 2009, Preamble of the Constitution, constitutional concepts of “originalism” vs. “living document,” Section 1 Article 8 of the Constitution, Grassroots ...

Duration: One 40-50 minute lesson. Goal: Students will understand the differing national voting characteristics of various groups in America. Students will be able to identify characteristics of the ...

English Language Arts Standards - History/Social Studies - Grades 6-8: 3) How did the legislation influence the development of society? Was there an increase in voting? Did this legislation allow more ...