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Mr. Greenberg, who holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, is a professor at Rutgers University. He is also a journalist. He delivered a paper at the April 2006 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on the subject,"The Conservative Invention of the Liberal Media."

He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman on April 20, 2006.

Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 22:59

Ms. Cochran, a historian by training, is a professor in the religious studies department at the University of Virginia. She delivered a paper at the April 2006 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on"Evangelical Feminism: The Struggle with Authority in a Pluralist Culture."

She was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman on April 20, 2006.

Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 10:56

Robert Dreyfuss is the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (Henry Holt, 2005). In this interview he explains that the Hamas victory was a disaster. He notes that Israel is in part responsible however for what's happened. Just as the United States backed Islamists in the 1980s to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Israel backed Hamas in the 1980s to divide support for Yasir Arafat.

He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman by phone on January 26, 2006.

Friday, January 27, 2006 - 13:58

Beth Bailey is a professor of history at Temple University.

She was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 6, 2006.
Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 11:31

Juan Cole is Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan. His books include Roots of North Indian Shiism in Iran and Iraq (1989), Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East (1983), Modernity and the Millennium (1998) and Sacred Space and Holy War (2002). As a result of his weblog on the war on terror and the Iraq war, he has become a public intellectual and has been a frequent commentator on television and radio and in the press. He was recently elected president of the Middle East Studies Association.

He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 7, 2006.
Sunday, January 8, 2006 - 04:40

David Kyvig is Distinguished Research Professor at Northern Illinois University and a recipient of the Bancroft Prize for Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995.

He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 6, 2006.
Friday, January 6, 2006 - 20:44

Jack Censer is the chairman of the History and Art History Department at George Mason University.

He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 6, 2006.
Friday, January 6, 2006 - 20:28

Mark Noll is Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, Illinois.

He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 6, 2006.

Friday, January 6, 2006 - 13:55

Leonard Steinhorn is a professor of communication at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of the newly published book, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy.

He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 5, 2006.

Friday, January 6, 2006 - 01:53

Richard G. Hovannisian is Armenian Educational Foundation Professor of Modern Armenian History at UCLA.

He was interviewed by HNN's Rick Shenkman at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on January 5, 2006.
Friday, January 6, 2006 - 01:14