Mr. Garst is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens and the author of "Chasing John Henry in Alabama and Mississippi: A Personal Memoir of Work in Progress" Tributaries ...

Ms. Horn is an HNN intern. She received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Recently, during the Super Bowl XLV, there was a commercial by Chrysler declaring that Detroit was not yet ...

Mr. Dando-Collins is an Australian-born historian and novelist who writes about American, Roman, British, Australian and French history. He is the author of 21 books, the latest being Tycoon’s War.

Mr. Satloff is executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. At every ...

Jim Cullen is a book review editor at HNN. He is also the author of the Kindle Single President Hanks. This essay is adapted from the newly published “Twilights Gleaming: The American Dream and ...

Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University ...

D. M. Giangreco coauthored Eyewitness D-Day by Barnes & Noble Books (2004) and Dear Harry... Truman's Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration Through Correspondence with 'Everyday Americans.

Mr. Boot is the author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. On Feb. 19, 1945, 30,000 Marines splashed ashore on a small volcanic island in the central Pacific.