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Week of February 8, 2010
Channelling George Washington: The Role of the Presidency Thomas Fleming
Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway: A Story of Two Political Women Kristie Miller and Robert McGinnis
Liberals Get a War President of Their Very Own Murray Polner
Living in the Eighties: Moving Beyond the Gilded Age Versus Golden Age Paradigm Gil Troy and Vincent J. Cannato
Obama and U.S. Foreign Policy K.C. Johnson
Preserving the Golden Rule as a Piece of Anti-Nuclear History Lawrence S. Wittner
Stealing the First Amendment from the People Matthew E. Crow
The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression Robert E. Wright
The Howard Zinn I Remember Staughton Lynd
Who Was Stepan Bandera? Norman J.W. Goda
Why Knowing More About FDR's Health Matters Steven Lomazow
“Confucius” and “Avatar” at the Chinese Multiplex Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Week of February 1, 2010
Howard Zinn Briefly Recalled Sheldon M. Stern
Is Wartime a Time to End Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Mary L. Dudziak
Definitions and Double Standards - A Rebuttal Roger Griffin
Goldberg’s Response Fits His History of Evasion David Neiwert
Howard Zinn's Disputed Legacy Michael Honey
America the Awful - Howard Zinn's History Ron Radosh
Black Loyalists in the American Revolution John J. McLaughlin
Channelling George Washington: Campaign Finance Thomas Fleming
Hans Trefousse: A Scholar and a Gentleman Paul A. Thomsen and Joshua Spivak
Inspired by John Gunther: An Interview with Mark Weisenmiller Aaron Leonard
Missteps on Afghanistan William R. Polk
Presidential Inaugurations from Washington to Obama Sandra Moats
Thank You, Howard Zinn Ron Briley
The Last of the Doughboys David Laskin
The Smallest Army Imaginable C. Douglas Lummis
Week of January 25, 2010
An Open Letter to Mr. Jonah Goldberg Matthew Feldman
Once Again the State of the Union Makes a President Strong Gil Troy
Definitions and Double Standards Jonah Goldberg
Remembering Howard Zinn Joseph A. Palermo
"Hands off My Medicare": The Deadly Legacy of Social Insurance Colin Gordon
An Academic Book — Not! Roger Griffin
Charter 08: A New Beginning for Chinese Liberalism Feng Chongyi
Haiti's Curse Claire Robertson
Interview with AHA President-elect Anthony Grafton Jill O'Neill
Introduction David Neiwert
Michael Ledeen Responds to Liberal Fascism Michael Ledeen
Poor Scholarship, Wrong Conclusions Matthew Feldman
Replacing International Oppression with International Aid Lawrence S. Wittner
The Roots of Liberal Fascism: The Book Chip Berlet
The Scholarly Flaws of Liberal Fascism Robert Paxton
Week of January 18, 2010
Haiti's Troubled History with the U.S. and France Marc Becker
Too Hard for the White Folks? Americans and the Haitian Revolution Jacqueline Bacon
What in the World is Oliver Stone Talking About? Eric Kurlander
Demystifying the Clinton Presidency: An Interview with Historian Taylor Branch Robin Lindley
How the Professional Media Creates Its Own Reality Jack R. Censer and Jerry Prout
How to Teach All Sides of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Without Taking Sides Donna Robinson Divine
Lawrence Daniel Pipes
Many Church Leaders Remain Silent While Palestinian Arabs Suffer At The Hands of Muslims Alex Grobman
New Video from the 1945 Yalta Summit Steven Lomazow
Obama Follows Reagan-era Blueprint After Earthquake in Haiti Alexander Poster
Recovering the Voice of Martin Luther King from 1960 Keith L. Sprunger
Rethinking MLK and Vietnam Michael H. Carriere
Toward a More Complete MLK Day Simon Balto
U.S. Military Escalation in Afghanistan: A Response to President Obama Richard Drake
Week of January 11, 2010
Divide and Confound—or Divide and Empower? The Opportunities and Dangers of Strategic PSYOP against the Alawi Rulers of Syria Timothy R. Furnish
History without Reading Jim Cullen
How an Ancient Act of Terror Brought Down a Republic Adrienne Mayor
Nuclear Terrorism: How It Can Be Prevented Lawrence S. Wittner
Obama, Diplomat-in-Chief Kenneth Weisbrode
Reid's Obama Blunder and What It Means Adriane Lentz-Smith
Texas Social Studies Reform: What Texans Aren’t Talking About—But Should Be Keith A. Erekson
What Obama is Doing Wrong Judith Apter Klinghoffer
What Would You Include in a Children's Book About the Ancient World? Cathy Diez-Luckie
Why It's Unlikely Obama Will Suffer Carter's Fate Ashley Wayne Cruseturner
Week of January 4, 2010
Highlights of the 2010 Annual Convention of the American Historical Association in San Diego David Walsh
A Closer Look at "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell John J. McLaughlin
In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name Marc Stein
The Extraordinary Story of the Hanging of the Black Man Who Owned Slaves J. William Harris
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: Organizational Comatosis or Hibernation? William N. Thompson and Ernita Joaquin
The Historian as Time Traveler Ian Mortimer
Why Did the Bush White House Copy and Print Every Email It Received? It's a Long Story Nneoma Amadi-obi
Week of December 21, 2009
The Christmas Eve Freedom Fighters William Loren Katz
Threads of Hope Glimmer in the Middle East Jonathan Goldstein
A Historian of Golf Rethinks What's Relevant in History After the Tiger Woods Scandal George B. Kirsch
A Plea for the Employee Free Choice Act Harvey Schwartz
In War, Winners Can Be Losers Lawrence S. Wittner
Looking for a Common Language at Copenhagen Kenneth Weisbrode
Obama, MLK and that Nobel Peace Prize LeeAnna Keith
Rethinking Franklin D. Roosevelt: Getting Past the Gospel According to Bruenn Steven Lomazow
The War Over Jerusalem Daniel Mandel
Vietnam: What War Stories Need to Accomplish Wayne Karlin
We Know the Truth About Sacco and Vanzetti Richard Newby
What We Can Learn By Studying the Lives of the Jews Who Went to Palestine in the 1920s Donna Robinson Divine
Week of December 14, 2009
The Moderometer: Charting Obama’s Zig-Zag, October 13 to December 1 Gil Troy with Theodoric Meyer
65 Years Later: The Malmedy Massacre, December 17, 1944 Joseph Cummins
Decoding Dan Brown Simon Cox
Iraq: Your Next Holiday Destination Scott Laderman
Obama and the Democrats Need to Confront the Deficit Monster Iwan Morgan
Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic: An Interview with Gary Kornblith Seth Binder
The Leo Frank Case--Now a PBS Documentary Thomas Doherty
The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century James Livingston
What More We Can Learn from "On the Waterfront": An Interview with James T. Fisher Rodger D. Citron
Who Lewis Henry Morgan Was and Why We Should Care Daniel Noah Moses
Week of December 7, 2009
Howard Zinn on TV: A Review Brian J. Trautman
John Brown's Dream Jesse J. Gant
What Historians Make of James Bradley's Claims About Teddy Roosevelt's Responsibility for Pearl Harbor Jonathan Tremblay
After Maine: Can Houston Provide a Much-Needed Victory for the Gay Rights Movement? Blake A. Ellis
Fred Hampton, Barack Obama, and the American Urban Poor Simon Balto
How the Vice President Can Serve as the President's Most Unbiased Adviser Joel K. Goldstein
In Praise of “Happy Holidays” Edward T. O'Donnell
Obama and Health Care: Confronted by Critics, Haunted by History Gil Troy
Post-Islamophobia: How Cultural Integration Can Prevent Terrorism and Build Peace Antony Adolf
Teddy Roosevelt's Secret Deal with Japan: An Interview with James Bradley Aaron Leonard
The Neglected Art of Diplomacy Kenneth Weisbrode
The Nixon Quartet Tom Shachtman
Thinking Outside the Box: What Obama Could Have Said Lawrence S. Wittner
Why Homicide Declined in American Cities during the First Six Months of 2009 Randolph Roth
Week of November 30, 2009
Obama’s Contributions to a Dying Empire Francis Shor
The Obama Non-Doctrine Emily S. Rosenberg
Darfur: Time To Let The People Speak Linda Bishai
Were Early Islamic Historians the First to Embrace Post-Modernism? Lesley Hazleton
What After All Do Americans Mean When They Say They Love "Liberty"? David Reynolds
What We Can Learn from a New History of Early Christianity Charles Freeman
What's Modern About the Early Modern Period? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
When Was Taft President? Reflections on a One-Term Presidency Lewis Gould
Will the GOP Find a New Reagan? Derek Catsam
“He Knew How to Die”: John Brown on the Gallows, December 2, 1859 David W. Blight
Week of November 23, 2009
Our Turkish-American Thanksgiving Bird Larry E. Tise
A Morgenthau Legacy Arnold Reisman
Beyond Diversity: The Cosmopolitan Dilemma Jim Cullen
False Atrocity Tales from the War in Vietnam Gary Kulik
How to Get Out of Afghanistan William Polk
Rosy Scenarios and Red Realities: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and the Deficit Iwan Morgan
Thanksgiving for Truman's Cabinet Committee on Food William Lambers
Thanksgiving Mythology Began with the First Thanksgiving William Loren Katz
The Idea of Communism: An Interview with Tariq Ali Aaron Leonard
What's Grand About the Grand Concourse in the Bronx Constance Rosenblum
When the Advocates of Full Disclosure Go too Far Steve Usdin
Why It Is Time for a Much More Critical History of Human Rights Eric D. Weitz
Why We Need to Make Sure We Know Our Enemies Today as well as We Knew the USSR by the End of the Cold War David C. Engerman
Week of November 16, 2009
Guantanamo, USA: The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost Stephen Irving Max Schwab
It's Oh So Easy to Forget the Pioneers in Women's Rights Sally G. McMillen
Pathology and Ideology: Major Nidal Malik Hasan and the Case of Leon Czolgosz Evan Matthew Daniel
Secretary Clinton -- Leader or Figurehead? Kenneth Weisbrode
Seeing Red: The Budget Deficit - Past, Present and Future Iwan Morgan
The Bush Pardon Obama Needs to Deal with Jeffrey Crouch
Who's Afraid of World Government? Lawrence S. Wittner
Week of November 9, 2009
Encounters with the History of South Africa Dominique Lapierre
How James Monroe Policies Might Help Obama Triumph over Foreign Foes Harlow Giles Unger
Is Health Care a Human Right? Walter G. Moss
The Civil Rights-Black Power Nexus in African American History Kwasi Konadu
The Marshmallow Center of American Politics in the 21st Century Rich Benjamin
What Is Zionism? Alex Grobman
Why 1808 Marked a Pivotal Moment in US History Lacy Ford
Week of November 2, 2009
20 Years Later: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Legacy of Erich Honecker Jonathan Tremblay
How the Arabs Manipulate the Media, Israelis and the West Alex Grobman
Keeping Veterans Day Alive Ed Hooper
Reflections on Cambridge Alan MacFarlane
The Cost of Empire Deepak Tripathi
The Role of Turkish Diplomats in Saving Turkish Jews in France: 1940-1944 Arnold Reisman
What Studying the Women in the Founders' Lives Reveals Thomas Fleming
Week of October 26, 2009
A Day of Infamy: November 10, 1975 Alex Grobman
How Ike Can Help Obama’s No Nukes Quest William Lambers
The Appalling Decline of Literacy Among College Graduates William O'Neill
What Savvy Leaders Could Do to Move Toward a Nuclear-Free World (Obama--Are You Listening?) Lawrence S. Wittner
Week of October 19, 2009
A Curtain Call for the Domino Theory? Kenneth Weisbrode
Barack Obama in the Footsteps of James Meredith Frank Lambert
History Handed George W. Bush Greatness on a Platter, but He Kicked It Aside John Edward Philips
The Moderometer: Charting Obama's Zig-Zag, September 28 to October 12 Gil Troy, with Theodoric Meyer
The Woman Who Attempted to Etch Herself into the History of the Cuban Revolution Katrina Gulliver
Weimar America Steve Hochstadt
Why It's Time to Write Wives into the Story of the Civil War Carol Berkin
Why We Fear General McChrystal's Counterinsurgency Plan May Be Doomed Joseph Magagnoli and Andrew Enterline
Week of October 12, 2009
Another Nobel Controversy Lawrence S. Wittner
Conquering the Demons from the Holocaust Natan P.F. Kellermann
Happy Birthday ER! Nancy Shear
How the Short, Unruly Life of ‘Ramparts’ Magazine Changed America: An Interview with Peter Richardson Aaron Leonard
Left and Right Against War Murray Polner
Obama, Afghanistan, and American History William O. Walker III
Roman Polanski and the History of “Rape-Rape” in America Heather Munro Prescott
The Unknown Connection between General David Petraeus and Harry Truman Ryan Forman
The “Tea Party” Movement and Its Misuse of History Jeremy Stern
Why Justices of the Supreme Court Make Bad Historians Ken Shear
Week of October 5, 2009
Analogies for War: Vietnam and Afghanistan John Prados
David Underdown: A Selective Retrospective Brian Cowan
Fuzzy Thinking: Obama, Capitalism, and Socialism Walter G. Moss
Misremembering Martin Luther King Simon Balto
The Madhouse of Colonial Williamsburg: An Interview With Shomer Zwelling Priscilla Hart
The Moderometer: Charting Obama's Zig-Zag, September 3 to 27 Gil Troy
The Tyrannical History of Military Tribunals for Civilians Greg Robinson
What Happens to the Papers of Dead Historians? David Liebers
Why The Return To Zion? The Jewish Connection To The Land of Israel Alex Grobman
Week of September 28, 2009
Are We Racing Toward Armageddon? Michael Baigent
Fadeout at the Box Office: The Decline of Movie-going Jim Cullen
Neverland, Nevermore Kirk Bane
The 1990s as History William O'Neill
The New Relevance of Friedrich Engels: An Interview with Tristram Hunt Aaron Leonard
U-Turn at the UN? President Obama Reveals an Unconventional Approach to Troubled World Body Louie Milojevic
Was William Calley a Scapegoat? Gary Kulik
When the Rabbis Marched on Washington Alex Grobman
Week of September 21, 2009
A Young Palestinian’s Diary Kimberly Katz
California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963: An Interview With Kevin Starr Aaron Leonard
Have You Used an iPhone History App? David Walsh
Keeping Israel On The Defensive As Long As Possible With Lie After Lie Alex Grobman
The Weakness of National Military Strength Lawrence S. Wittner
Tweeting History Christine Kelly
Why Can't We Do Something to End Hunger? We Can. William Lambers
Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner Elizabeth Reis
Week of September 14, 2009
Shouting Conservatives and Whining Liberals Leo P. Ribuffo
Is There Something in the Water in South Carolina? Steven Conn
Judging Henry Hudson Peter Mancall
Norman Borlaug's Complicated Legacy Nick Cullather
Thank You, Joe Wilson Steve Hochstadt
The Amazin’ Mets: Baseball and the Amazing Summer of 1969 Ron Briley
Walden Woods Was a Black Space Before It Was a Green Space Elise Lemire
Was Henry Hudson a Spy? Douglas Hunter
Who is Betsy McCaughey? Thomas Padilla
Why It's Time to Face the Hard Truths Embraced by George Washington Ashley Wayne Cruseturner
Why Thoreau Is Still Relevant Henry Pelifian
Week of September 7, 2009
Historic Change in Japan? Jonathan Dresner
Can Obama's Big Speech Really Turn Public Opinion Around? George C. Edwards III
How Did Men End Up in the Delivery Room? Judith Walzer Leavitt
Is Anyone Listening to What The Arabs Are Saying About Israel? Alex Grobman
Is Obama Too Cerebral? Walter G. Moss
Leave the Medal of Honor Alone! Ed Hooper
So Is Health Care for All Really Un-American? Ben Mutschler
The American Revolutionary War Hero U.S. Historians Have Ignored Alex Storozynski
The Moderometer: Charting Obama's Zig-Zag, August 19 to September 2 Gil Troy
The Phoenix Program Was a Disaster in Vietnam and Would Be in Afghanistan--And the NYT Should Know that Jeremy Kuzmarov
To Kindle or Not to Kindle Jim Cullen
Week of August 31, 2009
Bruce Springsteen and American History Louis P. Masur
Distorting the Holocaust: Why Numbers Matter Alex Grobman
Long Ago: A Total War in the Pacific Came to an Unimaginable End Vaughn Davis Bornet
The Evolution of the History Department in the United States, 1940-1980 William Palmer
The Legacy of Florence Harding, a Most Modern First Lady Katherine A. S. Sibley
The Uses and Abuses of History: An Interview with Margaret MacMillan Aaron Leonard
When "Public Options" Serve the Public—and When They Don't Lawrence S. Wittner
Why Is Civil Rights Hero T.R.M. Howard Still Ignored? David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito
Week of August 24, 2009
How the New York Times Missed the Underlying Ugly History Behind a Fun Story About a Georgia Gold Rush David Walsh
Roseanne Barr, Historian? Alex Grobman
Somebody Forgot to Mention that the Ships the Artists Painted Carried Slaves Pearl Duncan
Swine Flu and Student Health: Past and Present Heather Munro Prescott
The Moderometer: Charting Obama’s Zig-Zag ... July 28 to August 18 Gil Troy
What Should We Make of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Racism? Richard Klayman
Week of August 17, 2009
Is Obama Aware of the History of Failure that Marks Our Drug War in Latin America? Jeremy Kuzmarov
My Woodstock Jim Castagnera
Remember When Health Insurance Was a Great Idea? Gustav Schonfeld, MD
Taking the Measure of the UC System: Equal Campuses or Three Tiers? Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
The “Birther” Controversy of 1891 Thomas Brown
Using History to Help Reframe Today’s Health Care Debate Jeanne Abrams
Week of August 10, 2009
How Did Americans Feel About Incarcerating German POW's in W. W. II on US Soil? Megan Stephenson
Anti-Semitism Vs Anti-Semitism in Iran Hamid Tehrani
Building the Erie Canal Was Messy: It's Worth Remembering That! Gerard Koeppel
Diplomatic History Isn't in Decline Thomas W. Zeiler
Obama on Race: Process over Product Yossef Ben-Meir
The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome and the Future of Housing John F. Wasik
What's Wrong with the New History: An Interview with David Kaiser Mark Dragoni
Whither Jerusalem? Richard L. Cravatts
Why Sotomayor Shouldn't Have to Apologize for Being Proud of Her Ancestry Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Week of August 3, 2009
History Offers Hope that We Can Reduce the Risk of Global Warming Jan Kunnas
Of Butterflies and Tipping Points: The Calamitous Summer of 1914 William J. Astore
Russia: The Aggrieved Great Power Leonid Luks
The Belief in Regenerative War: Why So Many American Intellectuals Supported the Iraq War Jackson Lears
The Continuing Relevance of William Penn Kevin Kenny
The Limits of Power: An Interview with Andrew Bacevich Aaron Leonard
The Ongoing Danger of Nuclear War Lawrence S. Wittner
War Stories: Explaining Why We Fight to the American Home Front Susan A. Brewer
Why the Left Needs to Read Up on Reinhold Niebuhr Mac McCorkle
Week of July 27, 2009
What's Been Missing from Obama's Response to the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Arica L. Coleman
A Chance for Real Democracy in Honduras Kevin Coleman
A Progressive Era Legacy We Could Do Without Francis S. Barry
Historians' Muted Response to the Vassiliev Papers Is Surprising Steve Usdin
Pitfalls with the Nixon Tapes and How to Avoid Them Richard A. Moss
The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing David Brown
What Passes for "Populism" These Days Is Laughable Charles Postel
Week of July 20, 2009
Who’s Afraid of I.F. Stone? D.D. Guttenplan
The Way It Wasn’t: Cronkite and Vietnam Chester Pach
The Tea Party’s Appeal Across the Political Spectrum Benjamin L. Carp
Are We Always Going to Be Preoccupied with Racism? William McKee Evans
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground at Forty Ron Briley
McNamara's Other War Patrick Sharma
The Dangers of Excessive Secrecy Kathryn Olmsted
The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure: From the Vietnam to the Afghan Quagmire Jeremy Kuzmarov
What We Can Learn from Harlem's Encounter with Columbia University Forty Years Ago Stefan Bradley
Week of July 13, 2009
A Jamestown Shipwreck 400 Years Ago this Month Awakened Shakespeare’s Muse Hobson Woodward
Bruno’s American Dream Jim Cullen
Did Postwar Jews Really Ignore the Holocaust for Several Decades? Hasia R. Diner
Does the New Dillinger Movie Speak to Our Worries? Ron Briley
Empathy in a Justice? You Bet. Joel K. Goldstein
Lincoln and Obama: Parallel Paths to Power John C. Waugh
Michael Jackson, Robert McNamara, Whatever … James G. Hershberg
The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home Peter Nelson
The Secret to Interviewing Historians on the Radio Ken MacDermotRoe
What We Can Learn from a Biography of Hellen Keller's Teacher Kim E. Nielsen
Week of July 6, 2009
The Trollope Ploy Myth Lives On: Robert McNamara and the Cuban Missile Crisis Sheldon M. Stern
A Coup is Not a Coup. A Not-Coup is a Coup. Kevin Coleman
Annette Gordon-Reed and the Jefferson DNA Myth D. M. Giangreco
How Do Historians Think? Michèle Lamont
Obama, Buchenwald, and the Children Kenneth Waltzer
Robert S. McNamara: The War Wizard Passes John Prados
Signing Statements: Is Obama Following in Bush's Steps? Nick Underwood
Stalin’s Wars: An Interview with Professor Geoffrey Roberts Aaron Leonard
The African Diaspora as a Perspective on the World Patrick Manning
The Bureau of Missing Pols: Reflections on the Ever-So Mysterious Road Trips of Mark, Dick & Harry David Pietrusza
The Two-State To Nowhere: Another Futile Attempt At Appeasement Alex Grobman
What Clash of Civilizations? Ian Almond
What Has Prevented Nuclear War? Lawrence S. Wittner
Why Did I.F. Stone Sidestep the Hiss Case? Max Holland
Why Jimmy Carter's Malaise Speech Is More Relevant than Ever Kevin Mattson
Why the Vatican's Latest Attempt to Absolve Galileo Is Bound to Fail Thomas Mayer
Yet Another Vital Task for Obama Is Deciding When We Should Go to War Robert M. Saunders
Week of June 29, 2009
Some Tips for Celebrating the Fourth Ray Raphael
After a Century of Overthrows, What’s Washington’s Role? Alan McPherson
Channelling George Washington: The Glorious Fourth! Thomas Fleming
A Holocaust Survivor's Reflections on a Grandson's Graduation Gustav Schonfeld
Nixonland: An Interview with Rick Perlstein Rick Shenkman
President Reagan Approves the Bombing of Iran Jason Saltoun-Ebin
The Chávez-Castro Connection Lies in a Now Forgotten Chapter of the Cold War Brian Nelson
The Last Integrationist: A Note on Michael Jackson Jim Cullen
The Tea Party in Politics: Why the Event in Boston Harbor Keeps on Appealing to Conservatives Woden Teachout
What Cap and Trade Programs Are Really About Hugh Gorman
Why Soap Operas Should Be Taken Seriously By Gays and Straights Lisa Szefel
Why We Are Less at Risk of Major Famines Today than in the Past Cormac Ó Gráda
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Anne Pastore
Week of June 22, 2009
The First Swine Flu Epidemic John M. Morra
Anthropologists as the Good Guys Elizabeth Weiss
How Has the Presidency Changed Most in the Last 30 Years? Peter M. Shane
How's the Recession Affecting Consumers? An Interview with Historian Lawrence Glickman David Liebers
John Dean Slams "Revisionists" and Nixon Foundation in Talk at Library Luke A. Nichter
Keeping Prostitution History Under Wraps Jan MacKell
Kicking the Nuclear Habit: Why We Need a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Lawrence S. Wittner
Mobilizing World Opinion Against the Government: How the Irish Did It and Won Maurice Walsh
Race and Non-Race on the High Court Simon Balto
The Other War in Pakistan William Lambers
The Pioneer in Women's Rights Who Was on the Wrong Side of History Sheila L. Skemp
What We Can Learn from the Last Indian War About Ourselves Elliott West
Why I Cannot Stand the Redesigned Smithsonian National Museum of American History Larry DeWitt
Will Moviegoers Want the Real Story of John Dillinger? Elliott J. Gorn
Week of June 15, 2009
Since When Should Justices Be Representative? Daniel Mandel
Americans Love Government – As Long as They Can’t See It Brian Balogh
Harry Hopkins's Continuing Relevance Thomas Parrish
Obama's Diplomatic Speech in Cairo Mangled History Lawrence A. Peskin
Right-Wing Sedition Carol V. Hamilton
Science, Logic and Reason Are Not on the Side of the Nonreligious Owen C. Thomas
Should Catholic Justices Recuse Themselves on Certain Cases? Joyce Appleby
The Myth of the GI Bill Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin
The School Lunch That Saved Europe William Lambers
What Obama Needs to Learn from the Failure of Bush's Social Security Plan and Clinton's Healthcare Reform Marc Goldwein
What's Wrong with the Popular Impression of Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and The Mongols? Christopher I. Beckwith
Week of June 1, 2009
Four Obama Copycats Aim to Get Iran's Presidential Crown Hamid Tehrani
Are We Kidding Ourselves About Our Great Tradition of the Fair Treatment of The Other? Simon Balto
Attacks on Sotomayor Ignore Court's History and Makeup Jeremy Young
Channelling George Washington Thomas Fleming
China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem Adam Chapnick
Sectsploitation: How to Win Hearts and Minds in the Islamic World Timothy R. Furnish
The History of Torture Shows It Does Not Work Robert W. Thurston
The United States of Euphemism William J. Astore
What John Edwards Should Have Learned from Warren Harding Phillip Payne
What Was the Civil War About? A Dissenting Point of View Marc Egnal
What Withdrawal from Iraq Will Not Look Like Brendan O'Leary
Why It's Time to Get Past Teddy White's Naive Account of the 1960 Election W. J. Rorabaugh
Week of May 25, 2009
Separate but Equal Wreaths are Not a Permanent Solution to the Memorial Day Conundrum James W. Loewen
Is Cuba Going to Be Let Back into the Organization of American States? Don Bohning
Is Economic Growth a Delusion? Steven Stoll
Is the GOP Washed Up? Hardly. David L. Stebenne
Lawyers Should Punish the Torture Lawyers Harold H. Bruff
The Specter of Hiroshima in an Age of "Virtual Nuclear States" Robert Gellately
Thinking of Dick Cheney as Cicero David R. Carlin
Why Obama's Right to Claim that Torturing Prisoners Is Un-American Edwin G. Burrows
Week of May 18, 2009
Dear President Obama: Please Don't Honor the Arlington Confederate Monument Edward Sebesta and James Loewen
"Big Bang": Changing the National Approach to the Treatment of Detainees (June 2005) Philip Zelikow and Gordon England
Are Americans Still Stupid?* Rick Shenkman
Evangelicalism—the End of an Era? Steven P. Miller
How Did We Get the Term D-Day? Jonathan Gawne
How Ideological Funding is Harming Israel and Jewish Studies in the United States Jeremiah Haber
In Memory of David Herbert Donald (1920-2009) Gil Troy
Pugetopolis -- A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice: An interview with Knute Berger Robin Lindley
Tortured Debate: Why the Media Should Stop Referring to the Inquisition Liam Brockey
Tortured Reasoning and Tortured Results William Loren Katz
Week of May 11, 2009
American Torture: No Knowledge of History, No Sense of Tragedy William J. Astore
Can a Comic Book About MLK Change the Middle East (At Least a Little)? Noah Mendel
Harry S Truman at 125 Frederick G. Slabach and Michael R. Gardner
Reagan Was His Own Man James Mann
The Swine Flu and Historic Memory Heather Munro Prescott
Why Mary Is the Mother We Celebrate the Rest of the Year Miri Rubin
Week of May 4, 2009
Is Herbert Aptheker's Past Being Whitewashed in a Way? Peter Eisenstadt
The Decline (and Fall) of the G.O.P.? Robert Brent Toplin
The New Deal Was a Good Idea, We Should Try it Linda Gordon
What Harry Truman Could Teach George W. Bush About Being an “Ex” Matthew Algeo
Why It's Time to Revive a Tradition of Intellectual History William H. Goetzmann
Why Piracy Remains a Threat Lawrence A. Peskin
William Appleman Williams: Fifty Years After His Book on the Tragedy of American Diplomacy James Livingston
Week of April 27, 2009
Americans' Unceasing Quest for a Moral Economy Robert M. Saunders
Is There Anything to the Claim that Texas Can Secede? Clayton E. Lust
Punish Torture? Hollywood's Answer. Robert Brent Toplin
What About Michelle's First Hundred Days? Stacy A. Cordery
Week of April 20, 2009
How Did Obama Do in Latin America? Alan McPherson
A Story. About What? Well, You Wouldn't Want Us to Spoil the Surprise, Would You? Kimit A. Muston
How Feasible Is Obama's Nuclear Disarmament Agenda? Lawrence S. Wittner
I Love It When You Talk Retro Ralph Keyes
John W. Dean III and the Watergate Cover-up, Revisited Luke A. Nichter
OAH 2009: Sam Wineburg Dares to Ask If the Teaching American History Program Is a Boondoggle Rick Shenkman
Rational Pirates? The Hidden Economics of History’s Most Notorious Criminals Peter T. Leeson
The Challenge of Writing Contemporary History Sir Lawrence Freedman
The Phone Call that Kept the Castro Brothers in Power for Decades Don Bohning
Week of April 13, 2009
Dealing with Somalia’s Piracy Problem Won't Be Easy Paul J. Sullivan
A Tale of Two Crises: 1848-9 and 2008-? Mike Rapport
Are the Somali Pirates Like the Barbary Pirates? Lawrence A. Peskin
Bombing Civilians: An American Tradition Marilyn B. Young
Deeper Into the Muck: Ward Churchill and the “Everybody Does It” Defense Larry DeWitt
Historians No Longer Own History Jerome de Groot
Predicting the End of Faith in America Christopher McKnight Nichols and Charles Mathewes
Why I Attempted a History of the Papacy Roger Collins
Week of April 6, 2009
A European Future for NATO? Carolyne V. Davidson
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Has the Right Been Misusing JFK's Quote? Donald Lazere
Bipartisanship Works Michael H. Ebner
Blame It All on Unintended Consequences Joyce Appleby
The Historian Who's No Longer Angry Megan Stephenson
Truthiness v. Scholarship: Ward Churchill’s Day in Court Thomas Brown
Ward Churchill: He’s Baaack! Larry DeWitt
What's to Be Done with North Korea? Walter L. Hixson
Week of March 30, 2009
A Flawed Basis for Middle East Peace Jonathan Goldstein
Can You Do Business with Al Qaeda Terrorists? James Livingston
Do the Humanities Matter in Hard Times? A Russian Historian's Answer Walter G. Moss
Guess What? The New Deal Worked! Steven Conn
Highlights from the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians Rick Shenkman
The Journalist as Historian: A Case Study David Grann
Week of March 23, 2009
Finding a Way Out in Afghanistan Walter L. Hixson
Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith
Is Greed Good? It Depends on the Times Robert Brent Toplin
The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal John Paul Rossi
The Businessman from the Past Who Puts Our Rogues Gallery of Thieves to Shame Michael J. Makley
The Obamas’ Working Marriage Kristin Celello
What Is the "Negro National Anthem"? Alison Diefenderfer
Why Neither Nationalization Nor a New Tarp Can Fix Our Finances James Livingston
Will Obama Be Influenced by the Latest Big Task Force on Latin America? Don Bohning
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