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7-29-14
News at HomeThe U.S. Must Take an Honest Look at the Costs of Spaceflight
Jonathan Coopersmith
Since 1969, NASA has unsuccessfully struggled with three underlying problems.
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7-29-14
News at HomeWhy We Don’t Go to the Moon Anymore
Matthew D. Tribbe
In short, “the Sixties” happened, and the space program has never recovered.
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7-27-14
News AbroadAfter the Shooting Down of MH 17 ... We Are All Waiting for Something to Happen
Juliane Fuerst
On July 17, flight MH 17 fell out of the sky and into a field near a village in Eastern Ukraine. A few hours later the world had changed.
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News Abroad
Where Is The Passion for Peace?
Walter G. Moss
Today, as conflicts and bloodshed occur in Ukraine (and Gaza, Syria, and elsewhere), we wonder why in the past century we have advanced so little in our ability to prevent such senseless wars.
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7-24-14
News AbroadPutin's Hands May Be Bloody, but this Was No Re-Run of KAL 007
Mark B. Tauger
While the claims of denial may be similar, however, the comparison between the events themselves does not hold up.
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7-25-14
News at HomeWhy Do We Have an Illegal Immigration Problem from Central America? We Should Know. We Helped Create It.
William Schell, Jr.
Here's how this happened.
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7-27-14
Historians/HistoryFive Questions About World War I that Remain Unanswered
J. Fred MacDonald
The following questions remain definitively unanswered.
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7-28-14
Historians/HistoryHow "Five Old Men" Started the Roll-Back of Hiroshima Revisionism
D. M. Giangreco
"The revisionists who came of age during the ban-the-bomb 50s and psychedelic 60s were a bit too impatient."
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7-27-14
Historians/HistorySo You Want to Get Good Scores on Rate My Professor?
Thomas Buttaccio
Secrets of professors who score high.
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7-22-14
News AbroadIs this What 1914 Looks Like in the 21st Century?
Jonathan Schell
Then came the attack of September 11th.
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7-27-14
Historians/HistoryWhy Doesn't Everybody Know Who Alice Paul Was and What She Did?
J.D. Zahniser
She organized the first march on Washington. Her cause? Women's suffrage.
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7-27-14
Historians/HistoryThis Generation Changed America – And We Don't Think It too Made a Great Contribution?
Ron Briley
Modern memory continues to perceive the post-World War II baby boomers of the 1960s as hippies interested in self-gratification, while their parents struggled through the Great Depression and Second World War.
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7-24-14
Historians/HistoryThe Longest Battle of the First World War: Historian Paul Jankowski on the Slaughterhouse of Verdun (Interview)
Robin Lindley
"Next to cultural fantasies historical truths can appear as sacrilegious, but to demystify Verdun is not to impugn the compelling power of the truths behind legend, nostalgia or parable." -- Paul Jankowski
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7-27-14
News at HomeWhat Went Wrong with the American Experiment?
Jim Sleeper
"Jim Sleeper is the Jonathan Edwards of civic-republicanism--and anism--and that's a compliment.”— Hendrick Hertzberg
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7-27-14
Historians/HistoryWhy We Should Remember Lionel Ferbos for More than His Trumpet
Mary Niall Mitchell
For jazz historians, and for the musicians who played with him for many years, Ferbos was another kind of link to the past.
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7-25-14
RoundupRoundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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7-19-14
News AbroadThree Lessons We Need to Heed from the Soviet Downing of KAL 007
Walter G. Moss
Gorbachev and Reagan found a way to end the Cold War. Presidents Putin and Obama need to follow their example.
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7-18-14
Historians/HistoryWhich Historians Have Made Bank in the United States?
Alexandra M. Webster
An old joke goes, “Become a historian. Get rich.” But for some historians it’s no joke.
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7-18-14
News at HomeWhy Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money?
Lawrence S. Wittner
Whatever the plight of faculty and students, these are boom times for campus administrators.
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7-17-14
News AbroadThe Curse of The Occupation
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir
To be sure, occupation is a curse that dehumanizes both the occupier and the occupied. It runs contrary to every tenet of humanity.
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7-19-14
Historians/HistoryWhy Didn't Anyone Kill Hitler?
Daniel Mandel
70 years ago this week came the most serious attempt on his life.
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7-20-14
News at HomeShouldn't the People Who Build Cities Be Able to Live in Them?
Pearl Duncan
Recently, there has been discussion in New York and other cities about affordable housing for people who are workers.
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7-20-14
News at HomeThat Summer You're Enjoying? What Few Realize.
Jackson Murphy
Until the 20th century, Summer (as we know it) was for the rich.
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7-20-14
Historians/HistoryWhy a Contrarian History of the United States Is Needed Now
Ilan Stavans
I’m tired of the hypocritical way immigrants are constantly being described today in public discourse.
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7-20-14
News AbroadIs It 1914 All Over Again, Only this Time in Asia?
Tom Clifford
No one in Asia is expecting war, but there is whiff of something in the air.
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7-20-14
Historians/HistoryThe Brutal Reality of the Iraq War: An Interview with Award-Winning Photographer Michael Kamber on the Hidden War Seen by Photojournalists
Robin Lindley
In war, the photographer is the silent witness.
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7-20-14
Historians/HistoryHow a Book Reviewer Got My Book Wrong
Jonathan Israel
A response to the book critic who trashed my book, “Revolutionary Ideas,” in the New York Review of Books.
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7-7-14
BooksReview of Keith Thomson’s "Jefferson’s Shadow: The Story of His Science"
M. Andrew Holowchak
While books on Jefferson’s intimate life are superabundant, books on Jefferson’s views of science are infrequent.
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7-9-14
BooksReview of Frank Zelko's "Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism"
Ron Briley
Zelco’s history comes off as somewhat of an insider account in which the diverse personalities and world views of Greenpeace founders are developed in considerable detail.
News
- While French historians take a common view of WW I, British and German don't
- Historian: Proclamation Naming Pa. State Gun Gets Facts Wrong
- Irish slave owners were compensated historian reveals
- Two historians are in a race against time to preserve early church records from destruction
- Yale's Jay Winter sums up what we should remember about WW I
