Mr. Thompson is Professor of Public Administration and author of Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society. Ms. Friedberg Professor of Political Science and Director, ...

To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 -- ...

Mr. Miller received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University this May. He is turning his dissertation, titled “The Politics of Decency: Billy Graham, Evangelicalism, and the End of the Solid ...

Mr. Gelber is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. He also serves as the chairman of the university's School of History. Since the abortive talks at Camp ...

George Szpiro holds an MA in mathematics and physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, an MBA from Stanford University, and a PhD in finance and mathematical economics from the Hebrew ...

Mr. Furnish, Ph.D (Islamic History), is Assistant Professor, History, Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody, GA 30338. Mr. Furnish is the author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama ...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at UC Irvine, and the author, most recently, of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford 2010). It is foolish to make concrete ...

James T. Patterson is professor of history emeritus at Brown University. His latest book is "Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life—from LBJ to Obama" ...

Boy, you ought to get a load of this analysis by the UPI. It's quite sobering. Here's just a bit of it: Success, President John. F. Kennedy famously said, has many fathers. Defeat is an orphan. Even ...

Mr. Thompson, Professor of Public Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is the author of Legalized Gambling: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara and Denver: ABC-Clio, 1994 and 1997-2nd ed.) ...

Mr. DeConde, emeritus professor of history, University of California at Santa Barbara, is the auhtor of Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention, and Foreign Relations ...

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