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• 4-7-14
  

  The 2014 OAH Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything

  Rick Shenkman

  Find out what American historians are thinking. 

  Historians/History

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• 4-22-14
  

  If Racism's Dead, How Do We Account for this? -- "See How One Town Stands Up To Michelle When She Tries To Ruin High School Graduation"

  Rick Shenkman

  What the people who oppose a visit by Michelle Obama say is their reason.

  News at Home

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• 4-23-14
  

  What's Japan Turning into under Prime Minister Abe?

  Tom Clifford

  Shinzo Abe is using Yasukuni to help forge a greater role for the Japanese military.

  News Abroad

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• OAH 2014
  4-15-14
  

  Is Blogging Scholarship?

  Scholars who blog discuss whether blogging is scholarly.

  Historians/History

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• 4-20-14
  

  Is the Only Solution to the Crisis in Ukraine an Appalling One?

  Cynthia Hooper

  Even were a mountain of cold hard cash at hand, today’s Ukraine would never make it, without middle ground being found among the country’s main superpower patrons. And quickly.

  News Abroad

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• 4-20-14
  

  Why the College of Charleston’s New President Needs a History Lesson

  Ethan J. Kytle

  McConnell has long argued that critics of his pro-Confederate stance seek to whitewash the past.

  News at Home

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• 4-20-14
  

  What Do You Call It When a Big Country Takes a Chunk of a Small One? Greed (And We Should Know)

  David Lee McMullen

  The intent is a massive land grab, pure and simple.

  News Abroad

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• Informed Comment blog
  4-17-14
  

  Pictures Don’t Lie: Refuting #there_was_no_Palestine

  Juan Cole

  The pictures that prove there was a Palestine before the Israeli state came along.

  Historians/History

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• 4-20-14
  

  An Egyptian Jew Looks Back to Her Native Country to Find Her Voice

  Juliana Maio

  "Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime Cairo, Egypt 1941."

  Historians/History

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• 4-20-14
  

  "Before the Witnesses are Gone"


  Dr. Jill Gabrielle Klein

  Fifteen years ago, when I set out to write a book about the Holocaust experiences of my father’s family, I knew I didn’t have forever.

  Historians/History

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• 4-20-14
  

  Are Historians Overestimating the Impact of Civil War Deaths on Americans of the 19th Century?

  Nicholas Marshall

  Historians need to re-evaluate the way we have come to understand the carnage of the Civil War. 

  Historians/History

• 
• June 2006
  

  Where Did The Term "The West" Originate?

  Nathan Calverley

  What is the geopolitical entity known as “The West”?

  Google Questions

• 
• 4-20-14
  

  Should History Become a Brand?

  Victoria Torres

  At a meeting of the National Council for Public History in Monterey, California, historians had an answer.

  Historians in the News

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• 4-16-14
  

  Review of Robert K. Musil’s "Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment"

  Lawrence S. Wittner

  Despite the central role of women in the environmental movement, surprisingly little is known about them.

  Books

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• Huff Post
  4-13-15
  

  FDR, LBJ and BHO: Does Obama Measure Up?

  Ian Reifowitz

  Has Obama failed to attract white working class voters?

  Roundup

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• 4-20-14
  

  Love Him or Hate Him, LBJ Was a Political Genius

  Bruce Chadwick

  As soon as actor Bryan Cranston begins to speak in the play "All the Way," you think that you are in a theater with the real Lyndon Johnson.

  Culture Watch

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• 4-20-14
  

  Public History or Public Toilets in China?

  Victoria Torres

  "The problem lies in the world ‘public.’ "

  Historians/History

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• Huffington Post
  4-8-14
  

  America's Peace Ship

  Lawrence S. Wittner

  Is there an emotional connection between the oceans and the pursuit of peace?

  Roundup

• 
• 4-18-14
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

  Roundup

• 
• October 2001
  

  When Did the Catholic Church Decide Priests Should Be Celibate?

  Helen L. Owen

  A celibate priesthood predates Christianity.
  

  Google Questions

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• 4-15-14
  

  The 7 Most Popular HNN Videos from the 2014 OAH

  HNN Editor

  Limerick, Kerber, Zelizer and more!

  Historians in the News

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• 4-13-14
  

  The Folly of War: Europe 1914, Ukraine 2014

  Walter G. Moss

  Are wars ever worth all the sufferings that flow from them like blood from dying soldiers?

  News Abroad

• 
• 4-13-14
  

  Putin, Man of Mystery? Hardly.

  Mark D. Steinberg

  Putin often speaks quite openly of his motives and values—and opinion polls suggest he is strongly in sync with widespread popular sentiments.

  News Abroad

• 
• 4-13-14
  

  Why Germans are More Ambivalent About What's Happening in Ukraine than Anybody Else

  Juliane Fuerst

  There is no other country in which the Ukrainian crisis triggered such a divisive and self-searching debate as in Germany.

  News Abroad

• 

• Revising the SAT To Make It Even Worse

  Happily, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) - the folks who bring us the SAT - have heard the increasing protests against their product. But ...

  Jim Loewen

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• 4-13-14
  

  America’s (No) Tax Tradition

  Romain Huret

  Since the end of the nineteenth century, this tradition of tax resistance has been defended by the most affluent and most advantaged groups in American society.

  News at Home

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• 4-14-14
  

  Sharecropper’s Troubadour

  Robin Lindley

  University of Washington historian Michael Honey on John Handcox, African American singer and labor activist in the Jim Crow South.

  Historians/History

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• 4-13-14
  

  The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with Annie Jacobsen About Her Stunning Account

  Aaron Leonard

  The chilling details of the U.S. military's plan to use the very scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.

  Historians/History

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• 4-13-14
  

  Your Doctors Are Worried

  Lawrence S. Wittner

  No, they’re not necessarily your own personal physicians, but, rather, medical doctors around the world, represented by groups like International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).

  News Abroad

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• 4-14-14
  

  How a Medieval Knight Solved One of History's Great Crimes

  Eric Jager

  “Never was there a more treacherous murder!”

  Historians/History

• 
• 4-13-14
  

  Speakeasy Dollhouse

  Bruce Chadwick

  Drinking with the Booth Brothers at the Start of Prohibition: Why did John Wilkes Really Shoot Abraham Lincoln?

  Culture Watch

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• 4-13-14
  

  Fishing for Wives

  Bruce Chadwick

  The Puzzled Japanese ‘Picture Brides’ of Hawaii in 1913

  Culture Watch