At the close of World War II, Allied forces faced frightening new German secret weapons—buzz bombs, V-2's, and the first jet fighters. When Hitler's war machine began to collapse, the race was on to ...

Robert Sklar (1936-2011) was a film historian, critic, and professor emeritus of cinema at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He was also the author of the prize-winning film history books ...

Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Scholar in Residence in the Schools of Fine Arts and Business at Miami University, has studied with elders of many indigenous cultures, including Lakota, Kiowa, Choctaw (North ...

Daniel Wojcik is professor of English and folklore studies at the University of Oregon. He is author of Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma and Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art, both published by University ...

Richard Bodek is professor of history at College of Charleston with an interest in working-class and popular culture. He is author of Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht ...

Peter Knight is senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester. He is author of Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to "The X-Files" and editor of Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of ...

Virginia Whatley Smith is a retired associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is editor of Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad and Richard Wright's ...

Eric J. Sundquist is UCLA Foundation Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature, The Hammers of Creation: ...

Greg Robinson, a native of New York City, is professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His books include the award-winning After Camp: Portraits of Midcentury Japanese American ...

Jason Morgan Ward is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. He is author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century and Defending White Democracy: The ...