Mr. Walch is an independent historian who has written extensively on the Hoover presidency and is a writer for the History News Service. Herbert Hoover, where are you now that we need you? Hurricane ...

Mr. Honan, a journalist, is working on "Stealing the Fire," a forthcoming documentary about the black market for nuclear weapons technology. "For a great building project I would, like Faust, have ...

Mr. Lazere is professor emeritus of English at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. A second, shorter edition of his Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen’s Guide to Argumentative ...

Ms. Wills is a writer, researcher, and genealogist, and author of the book, Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: Colonial Virginia, 1650-1850 (March 2003). Although the newest movie about ...

Mr. Bell is a principal of Capital City Partners, a Washington consulting firm. Just before the recent elections, I half-attentively watched Norman Ornstein explaining to a television interviewer that ...

Mr. Greenberg is the author of NIXON'S SHADOW: THE HISTORY OF AN IMAGE (2003). He teaches history and political science at Yale University Though major combat is over in Iraq and Afghanistan, George W ...