BYRON HOLLINSHEAD is president of American Historical Publications. Previously, he was president of American Heritage Publishing Company and Oxford University Press, Inc. Hollinshead published "MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History "and "Time Machine: American History for Kids, "and he edited" I Wish I'd Been There," which Doubleday published in 2006. THEODORE K. RABB is a professor of history emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of "The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe" and "The Last Days of the Renaissance," among other books. Rabb was the principal hi...