Robert Cowley

Robert Cowley founded MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History after holding senior positions in book and magazine publishing. He edited What Ifs? of American History, a counterfactual-history collection first issued in 2003 and later reprinted by Berkley. The essay writers are Theodore K. Rabb, Caleb Carr, David McCullough, Tom Wicker, Victor Davis Hanson, James M. McPherson, Thomas Fleming, Jay Winik, Cecelia Holland, Andrew Roberts, John Lukacs, Antony Beevor, Ted Morgan, George Feifer, Robert L. O’Connell, Robert Dallek, Lawrence Malkin, and John F. Stacks. Cowley provides the editorial frame for their separate reconsiderations of American turning points.