Gerard J DeGroot is a professor in the department of modern history at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Among his books are Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest (New York University Press, 2006) and The Bomb: A Life (Harvard University Press, 2004). His latest book is The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Recent articles

Rwanda's people, refusing to be trapped in or defined by the 1994 genocide, are writing a new chapter in their history, finds Gerard J DeGroot on a visit to Kigali.

The Bush administration’s plan to extend American power into the cosmos recalls the visions and violations of the early space-exploration era, says Gerard De Groot.