Roundup: Historians' Take

Yoni Appelbaum: How David Barton Won the Christian Right

Yoni Appelbaum is a social and cultural historian of the United States. He is a doctoral candidate at Brandeis University, and a lecturer in history at Babson College. He previously contributed to TheAtlantic.com under the name Cynic.

William Hogeland: What Tea Partyers ignore about the Founders

William Hogeland is the author of the narrative histories "Declaration" and "The Whiskey Rebellion" and a collection of essays, "Inventing American History." He has spoken on unexpected connections between history and politics at the National Archives, the Kansas City Public Library, and various corporate and organization events.

Simon Winchester: The Scariest Earthquake Is Yet to Come

 Mr. Winchester is the author of several books on natural disasters including Krakatoa and the San Francisco earthquake.

Karl Jacoby: Operation Geronimo dishonors the Indian leader

Karl Jacoby is a professor of history at Brown University and the author of "Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History."

Max Boot: Bin Laden's Death Changes Little

Mr. Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is writing a history of guerrilla warfare.Those who claim that we can disengage from Afghanistan now that the "emir" of al Qaeda is dead seem to assume the whole organization will disappear with him. It might, but it might not. Other terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah have survived the loss of their leaders.

Leor Halevi: Watery Grave, Murky Law (Re: bin Laden)

AFTER Osama bin Laden’s corpse was slipped into the North Arabian Sea, the White House’s chief counterterrorism adviser declared that the United States had buried him “in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices.” According to a senior military official, the body was washed, shrouded and dispatched with a funeral pra

Stephanie Coontz: When We Hated Mom

ONE of the most enduring myths about feminism is that 50 years ago women who stayed home full time with their children enjoyed higher social status and more satisfying lives than they do today. All this changed, the story goes, when Betty Friedan published her 1963 best seller, “The Feminine Mystique,” which denigrated stay-at-home mothers. Ever since, their standing in society has steadily diminished.

Warren Sanderson: Educate the Masses

Warren Sanderson is professor of economics and of history at Stony Brook University. He is also a senior research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.

Greg Grandin: Martelly: Haiti's Second Great Disaster

Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including most recently, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan 2009), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Juan Cole: Obama Right Not to Release Usama Photo

Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also recently authored Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).President Obama’s decision not to release photographs of Usama Bin Laden’s disfigured corpse is wise and decent.

Victor Davis Hanson: Rules for Killing Rogues

NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the editor of Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, and the author of The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern.

Victor Davis Hanson: Rules for Killing Rogues

NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the editor of Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, and the author of The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern.

Kenneth Levin: The Munich Three Find Their Target: Israel

Kenneth Levin is a psychiatrist and historian and author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege.

Anna Whitelock: The Monarchy Earns Its Keep

Anna Whitelock, a lecturer in early modern British history at Royal Holloway, University of London, is the author of “Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen.”Egham, England

Gil Troy: Lessons from Osama bin Laden's Biography

The writer is Professor of History at McGill University and a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow. The author of Why I Am A Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today, his latest book is The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. giltroy@gmail.com

Richard Bulliet: The Death of an Icon

Richard Bulliet is professor of history at Columbia University and author of Islam: “The View from the Edge” and “The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization.”Osama bin Laden, the visual icon of terrorism in our fear-driven age, is gone. No one can replace him.

Harold James: The Seven-Year Ditch

Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. His most recent book is The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.PRINCETON – There are historical precedents for sovereign-debt defaults by the countries of Europe’s southern periphery, but they are not instantly attractive ones. Dealing with seemingly intractable problems often takes time. And it is difficult – especially in a democracy – to be patient.

Philip Zelikow: Bin Laden killing buries the trauma of 9/11

Philip Zelikow is a professor of history at the University of Virginia. He was the executive director of the 9/11 Commission.

Max Boot: Bin Laden: The Day of Reckoning

Max Boot, a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, is writing a history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism.

Juan Cole: Obama and the End of Al-Qaeda

Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also recently authored Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).