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Week of November 15, 2009

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: Baked (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

ANTHONY GREGORY: Rewriting the Success of Iraq (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : PICTURES REVEAL OBAMA INSTINCTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

C.J. MALONEY: Done As Done Can Be (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JANE S. SHAW: Eric Holder's Choice (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Signs of man, Ice Age beast found together in Mexico (Breaking News)

Human bones found at Saanich construction site may be 1,000 years old (Canada) (Breaking News)

Search for Plant in WV Yields Rare Civil War Find (Breaking News)

A return to glory (Breaking News)

Statue of Sir Tasker is unveiled (Wales) (Breaking News)

Glencoe Massacre orders displayed (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Serbian Orthodox patriarch dies (Breaking News)

Denholm Elliott PoW Shakespeare book to be auctioned (Breaking News)

Giuliani: Obama Repeating 'Mistake of History' With Sept. 11 Trial Decision (Breaking News)

Robert Nedelkoff on The "Other Challenges" Of Garry Wills (Historians in the News)

Army Will Search for More WWII Bombs at Orlando School (Breaking News)

Sweden Returns 22 Looted Human Skulls to Hawaii (Breaking News)

How America Backs Pakistani Spies (Breaking News)

Native American History Month (Breaking News)

Forest People May Lose Home in Kenyan Plan (Breaking News)

Unusual Partners Study Divisive Jerusalem Site (Breaking News)

Portrait of 9/11 'Jackal' Emerges as He Awaits Trial (Breaking News)

U.S. Soldiers Among First to Tour Ancient Iraqi Temple (Breaking News)

Venice Mourns Flight of Residents From City's Heart (Breaking News)

How Old Is Old Enough? A Look at When Children are Considered Adults (Breaking News)

Historian rules out skull as Ned Kelly's (Australia) (Breaking News)

Rare WWII Japanese doll finds home in Kansas (Breaking News)

Hackers Post Private E-mails of Historian and Accused Holocaust Denier (Historians in the News)

9/11 Trial Poses Unparalleled Legal Obstacles (Breaking News)

The Army opens a broad new probe into Arlington (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo [audio 58 minutes 16 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Leahy Rubs Sessions' Nose in Civil War Defeat [video 1 minute, 13 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Victor Erofeyev: Russia's Imperial Crutches (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dick Meister: The Man Who Didn't Die, Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World (Roundup: Talking About History)

Eric Stoner: A Conversation About Nonviolence (Roundup: Talking About History)

An Unlikely African-American Music Historian (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Leon Wieseltier: Unmending Wall (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rembrandt's murder mystery (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert Hilburn, the dean of newspaper rock-and-roll critics, is worried these days (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ben West and Fred Burton: A Terrorist Trial in New York City: NY Knows What It's Doing (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Tremblay: Russia Tampers with Time - A History of the Time Zone (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Christina Lamb: Karzai’s Paranoid World (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sweden sends back Maori remains [video 48 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Col. Lewis Millett, Who Led 'Bayonet Hill' Charge, Dies at 88 (Obituaries)

Nicholas D. Kristof: Old accusations are being recycled in an attempt to discredit health reform (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kishore Mahbubani: America's Conflicting Destinies (Roundup: Media's Take)

Willy Lam: Equals at Last, for Better or for Worse (China and the US) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tom Engelhardt: This Administration Ended, Rather Than Extended, Two Wars (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harvey J. Kaye: Palin's Unlikely Hero (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Maura Cunningham: The Good, the Bad, and the Boring: Barack Obama's China Trip in Review (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Sleeper: Stanley McChrystal's War on Poverty (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stephanie Coontz: 47 Years after Housing Anti-discrimination Bill ... Where Do We Stand Today? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Moshe Dann: Palestinians taking their cues from Israeli leaders, American president (Roundup: Media's Take)

Our National Life: American History at the National Archives (Books About History & Historians)

Kang Jian, Arimitsu Ken and William Underwood: Assessing the Nishimatsu Corporate Approach to Redressing Chinese Forced Labor in Wartime Japan (Roundup: Talking About History)

"FDR's Brain Trust" on view now (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert Naiman: Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Petersburg National Battlefield tells the story of pivotal battle in Civil War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ray McGovern: Afghan Lessons From the Iraq War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Obama’s America seems so self-centered? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Museum of Chinese in America opens in New York (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Moshe Elad: US accepts Arab terminology in respect to Jerusalem neighborhoods (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rami G. Khouri: The world tires of the Palestinian cause (Roundup: Media's Take)

Pratap Chatterjee: Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption (Roundup: Media's Take)

Allen Hughes, Music and Dance Critic for The Times, Dies at 87 (Obituaries)

Ben Gelber: Ben Franklin on Global Warming (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mark Bowden: How Iran's Revolution Was Hijacked (Roundup: Talking About History)

WSJ Editorial: Iran, Its Hostages and the West (Roundup: Media's Take)

'The Americans' Revisited, the photography of Robert Frank (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Murray Polner. Review of Beth Bailey's "America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force" (Harvard, 2009) (Books)

John Vinocur: Why Europe Feels Rejected by Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles Cooper: Rage Nation 2.0 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kristen Breitweiser: Justice American Style (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marcus Buckingham: Women won the gender wars (Roundup: Media's Take)

Johann Hari: Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Lind: Shouldn't the government pledge allegiance to the people rather than the other way around? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas Omestad: Remembering the twitchy, terrifying final days of communist rule in Czechoslovakia (Roundup: Talking About History)

William McGurn: Holder's al Qaeda Incentive Plan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alan W. Dowd: The Wrong Battlefield (KSM in NY) (Roundup: Media's Take)

NYT Editorial: Obama's Judicial Nominations (Roundup: Media's Take)

A tour of L.A.'s rich rail history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

HDS Greenway: Why couldn't the Vietnamese act more like Americans? Now we hear the same refrain for Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Roger Cohen: A Mideast Truce (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Brooks: China seems to possess the optimism that once defined the U.S. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Thoughts from the Later Republic (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Is Fort Hood Really a "Tragedy?" (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Dresner: About Obama's Bow (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harvey Wasserman: For Obama it's one (term) if by war, two if by peace (Roundup: Media's Take)

Walid Phares: One Wall Falls, Another Rises (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Richard Halloran: Will Obama Apologize for Hiroshima & Nagasaki? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Chris Hedges: The New State Solution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Hussein Ibish: Plaestine, between a rock and a hard place (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adel Safty: New voices for Palestinian conflict (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Rivers Pitt: The Decision, the Hard Choices for the President in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: Why Obama Nixed Ft. Hood Probe (Roundup: Media's Take)

Glenn Greenwald: "We're too scared to have real trials in our country" is a level of cowardice unmatched in the world (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Schell: The Fifty-Year War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert McHenry: The (Editorial) Cost of Political Change: 1989 and Britannica (Roundup: Talking About History)

Peter Beinart: China's Upper Hand (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nassrine Azimi: Japan-U.S. Relations: Let There Be Discord (Roundup: Media's Take)

John J. O’Connor, a Times TV Critic in Years of Industry Upheaval, Dies at 76 (Obituaries)

Serb Patriarch Pavle dies, spoke for Balkan peace (Obituaries)

Michiko Kakutani: Memoir Is Palin's Payback to McCain Campaign (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Yoo: The KSM Trial Will Be an Intelligence Bonanza for al Qaeda (Roundup: Media's Take)

UK child migrants apology planned [video 1 minute, 29 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

José Cisneros: Iconic El Paso artist dies (Obituaries)

Drake Bennett: Did we learn the wrong lessons from the fall of the Berlin Wall? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bret Stephens: Two Ground Zeroes (Roundup: Media's Take)

Doyle McManus: Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick: The End of Chimerica (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Terra Cotta Warriors March Through Washington [audio 4 minutes 58 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

WWI-Era Mass Grave Rediscovered In France [audio 3 minutes 47 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Curtis Flood: A Navy Lieutenant's Reflections on Veterans Day, 2009 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Cullen: Review of Clarence Clemons and Don Reo, "Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales" (Grand Central Publishing, 2009) (Books)

Timothy Garton Ash: Beyond Berlin: Europe's new chapter starts now (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alex Dershowitz: America is on trial as much as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark Steyn: A jihadist hiding in plain sight (Roundup: Media's Take)

John J. Pitney, Jr.: The First Pacific President? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Nedelkoff: The "Other Challenges" Of Garry Wills (Roundup: Media's Take)

Cinnamon Stillwell: Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Rozett: Murderers can't be heroes (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Linda C. Eneix: How to be Remembered After 5,000 Years (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Elaine Tyler May: Reflections on the Great Depression (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Deepak Tripathi: Afghanistan and Presidential Dilemmas (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gloria Feldt: The Democrats' Dilemma: Their Own Trojan Horse Kicks Free (on the Stupak-Pitts amendment) (Roundup: Media's Take)

A Shtick With a Thousand Lives: Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Amir Pnueli, Pioneer of Temporal Logic, Dies at 68 (Obituaries)

James R. Lilley, 81, Envoy in Tiananmen Era, Dies (Obituaries)

Richard Halloran: Will Obama Apologize for Hiroshima & Nagazaki? (Roundup: Talking About History)

James Fergusson: Obama is haunted by Gorbachev's ghost (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Segal: Naming the '00s (Roundup: Media's Take)

Film historian Ken Wlaschin dies at 75 (Obituaries)

Ira Chernus: Israel's "Pathology" (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dallas Darling: Afghanistan and the "Other" Vietnam War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Joseph Smecker: Health Care, Not Assimilation: American Indians and Alaskan Natives in the Wake of Health Care Reform (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sen. Joseph McCarthy exhibit opens Saturday at History Museum at the Castle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thieves steal Munch piece in Norway (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Week of November 8, 2009

Roundup

Google, Authors, Publishers Offer Revised Book Pact (Breaking News)

Newsweek: The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam (Breaking News)

Arms dealer involved in the Iran-Contra scandal returns, now selling his image (Breaking News)

Obama Says U.S. Seeks to Build Stronger Ties to China (Breaking News)

China Focuses on Territorial Issues as It Equates Tibet to U.S. Civil War South (Breaking News)

Turkey Seeks Kurdish Reconciliation (Breaking News)

Rare gold coin sparks legal row (UK) (Breaking News)

Unseen colour 3D film of Queen's Coronation to be broadcast for first time (UK) (Breaking News)

Anger at Stephen Fry's claims about Princess Margaret (Breaking News)

Australian officials to test Ned Kelly skull (Breaking News)

Thatcher death text sparks diplomatic flurry among Canadian Conservatives (Breaking News)

Australia to say sorry to abused British child migrants (Breaking News)

Bush Attorney General: 9/11 Trial Offers Jihadists Platform (Breaking News)

Some Fear Bush Administration Could Become Target in 9/11 Trial (Breaking News)

JFK's last autograph nets big bucks at auction (Breaking News)

9/11 family members welcome, criticize civilian trials (Breaking News)

Troubled vet journeys back to Vietnam -- this time to offer helping hand (Breaking News)

AP: "Palin's book goes rogue on some facts" (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Controversial Firing in Great Britain (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Two Cheers for Obama (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Documents Show U.S. Officials Worried Mullah Omar Was Growing Closer to Bin Laden in 1998 (Breaking News)

Russian Orthodox and Catholic church may end 950-year rift (Breaking News)

Court Rules CIA Did Not Violate Valerie Plame's First Amendment Rights (Breaking News)

Historian John Hope Franklin to Be Honored with Memorial Conference at Brooklyn College (Historians in the News)

Historian insists that finance minister apologizes for saying "feudal old men" (Bulgaria) (Historians in the News)

Orange battle earns new look (Virginia) (Historians in the News)

Calgary historian honours Canada's war nurses (Historians in the News)

Politico reports that RNC's health plan has covered abortion since 1991 (Breaking News)

How the Nazis Stole Christmas (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : A BIT LATE - FOR VETERANS DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Germany's neighbors try to redeem their 1989 negativity (Breaking News)

Great writers 'fail' US computer program designerd to assess student essays (Breaking News)

Changing times in Russia (Breaking News)

Pakistani Army ran Muslim extremist training camps, says anti-terrorist expert (Breaking News)

Turkey is to allow Kurdish television as peace process gathers pace (Breaking News)

On display for the first time: Diary of British reporter who exposed Stalin's famine in Ukraine (UK) (Breaking News)

Israel displays coins from Roman destruction of Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago (Breaking News)

Silverware taken from USS Arizona during World War II pulled from auction (Breaking News)

Five 9/11 suspects to be charged in NY (Breaking News)

McCain Aide Denies Palin Book Claim (Breaking News)

Researchers find 2 Japanese supersubmarines sunk by U.S. at end of WWII (Breaking News)

George W. Bush Announces Programs for Bush Institute at Southern Methodist U. (Breaking News)

George W. Bush Chooses UVa. For Oral History Project (Breaking News)

Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia's Parent (Breaking News)

Blogs

WENDY MCELROY: UK's total surveillance society...North America next? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA PRIORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TOO EVIL TO IGNORE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

9/11 Mastermind to NYC for Civilian Trial (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

In Newark, NJ a rare treature trove of historical documents and assorted artifacts (Breaking News)

Report offers snapshot of union labor today (Breaking News)

Harvard historian sees banks, China dragging down U.S. (Historians in the News)

At 75, Charles Manson still has the power to influence others (Breaking News)

"Don't ask, don't tell" repeal coming next year? (Breaking News)

Sniff test to preserve old books (Breaking News)

Japanese celebrate 20th anniversary of Emperor Akihito's coronation (Breaking News)

Seeking Revival, City to Buy Land in Coney Island (Breaking News)

New history rules for Canadian immigrants (Breaking News)

Scalia uncomfortable saying if he'd support Brown v. Board of Education (Breaking News)

The Last of China's 'Lotus-Feet' Ladies (Breaking News)

Bible That Vanished on Kristallnacht Is Heading Home (Breaking News)

France and Germany Use the Remembrance of a War to Promote Reconciliation (Breaking News)

Obama 'risks Suez-like disaster' in Afghanistan, says key adviser (Breaking News)

Obama breaking foreign travel records (Breaking News)

Activists break West Bank barrier (Breaking News)

Australia 'Nazi case' extradition (Breaking News)

African slavery apology 'needed' (Breaking News)

Warhol artwork sells for $43.8m (Breaking News)

Mona Lisa 'had eyebrows' (Breaking News)

Bush Warns of 'Temptation' to Abandon Free-Market System in Wake of Recession (Breaking News)

Poland Evacuates 3,000 People After WWII Bomb Found (Breaking News)

Radical Muslim Cleric Who Defended World Trade Center Bombers a Guest of NYC Mayor (Breaking News)

Diocese protects oldest known European records in the United States (Florida) (Breaking News)

Pope Benedict Urges Europeans to Keep Alive Their Christian Roots (Breaking News)

Immigration Canada Issues New Citizenship Guide (Historians in the News)

Historian Karen Armstrong to Unveil Charter of Compassion (Historians in the News)

Historian Can Keep His Manuscript on Tobacco Studies, Judge Rules (Historians in the News)

D-Day historian: 'Ryan' not best war film (Historians in the News)

A Chronicle of Gaza, in Kitsch Form (Breaking News)

Arafat celebrated five years after death (Breaking News)

MI figures out what went wrong in Lavon affair - 55 years later (Breaking News)

Palace of Japan's warrior queen discovered (Breaking News)

American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars posts struggle (Breaking News)

Reagan Associates and Friends Commemorate the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

President Bush outlining his vision for a unique public policy Institute (Breaking News)

Services remember world war dead (Breaking News)

Archaeologists find mummy of young priestess from 300-450 AD in Peru (Breaking News)

'Important troves of African-American historical materials' in Trouble (Breaking News)

UMass Criticized for invitation to convicted terrorist, Ray Luc Levasseur (Breaking News)

'Recapitation' of James Garfield Statue at Hiram College (Ohio) (Breaking News)

German children: What do they know about the Berlin Wall? (Breaking News)

Kerry warns against revisionist Vietnam history (Breaking News)

Honor our Veterans by recording their histories (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Classical Liberalism Is All in Our Heads? Responding to Paul Harvey on Race (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ALLAN LICHTMAN: A National Peacemaker's Day (Allan Lichtman)

Roundup

70 years after WW2 erupted, a new battle for history rages in Europe (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: My Latest Blog Post at PBS's Nightly Business Report (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Textbook sheds light on Khmer Rouge era (Cambodia) (Breaking News)

Blogs

CLAIRE B. POTTER: The American Historical Association Annual Meeting: To Boycott Or Not To Boycott? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : NAVAL LETHAL NONSENSE IN 1916 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Tracing your family's military past (UK) (Breaking News)

Is Iraq the next holiday hotspot? (Breaking News)

Missing link dinosaur discovered (Breaking News)

The quest to regain Egypt's antiquities (Breaking News)

Lost images of pre-war Jewish life unearthed (Breaking News)

UN declares July 18 Nelson Mandela Day (Breaking News)

Britain’s last First World War veteran shuns Remembrance Day (Breaking News)

Armistice Day memorial service: nation falls silent to honour war dead (Breaking News)

Germany, France Mark End of WWI in Joint Ceremony (Breaking News)

Navajo Code Talkers to Walk in NYC Veterans Day Parade (Breaking News)

Kalashnikov gun designer turns 90 (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Mid-Week Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Ferriero Confirmed by Senate as Archivist of the United States (Historians in the News)

History 'being cut from timetables' (UK) (Breaking News)

Nicolas Sarkozy accused of rewriting history after Facebook slip (Breaking News)

Power for U.S. From Russia's Old Nuclear Weapons (Breaking News)

Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert (Breaking News)

Historian links fall of Berlin Wall to rise in religious extremism in Pakistan (Historians in the News)

Obama Wants to Visit Hiroshima, Nagasaki in Future (Breaking News)

Rasmussen Report: 28% Say Today's Veterans Face More Challenges Than Vietnam Returnees (Breaking News)

Korean navies exchange fire (Breaking News)

Tomb of Tutankhamun to undergo 5-year cleaning and restoration (Breaking News)

D.C. Sniper's Last Day (Breaking News)

Hindenburg airship beer auctioned (Breaking News)

For Taliban Fighters, a Fading Memorial (Breaking News)

Long Island Fishing License Comes With a Colonial Catch (Breaking News)

US Congress Has History of Reversing Cuts (Breaking News)

Bill Clinton Presses Senators to Pass Health Bill (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ET TU, BILL BENNETT?! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Conservatives Feel Seminar Organized by Historian Gabriel Piterberg 'demonized' Israel (Historians in the News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: No Surprise (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: US UNEMPLOYMENT WORSE THAT OF GERMANY, FRANCE , BRAZIL & JAPAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT HIGGS: More Evidence of Current Regime Uncertainty? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

TIMOTHY FURNISH: Major Nidal Malik Hasan: Not An Islamic “Extremist,” But Simply A Good, Literalist Muslim (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)

Roundup

Berlin Wall anniversary prompts nostalgia for East German products (Breaking News)

Fort Hood shooting: Nidal Malik Hasan 'had contact with 9/11 imam' (Breaking News)

Play for a king sells for 84,000 GBP (Wales) (Breaking News)

Charles Taylor 'duped' by Nigeria (Breaking News)

Czech troops in Nazi symbols row (Breaking News)

Obama Marks Fall of Berlin Wall as 'Rebuke of Tyranny' (Breaking News)

Did Neanderthals Have Sex with Modern Humans (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Author re-examines Truman's controversial decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan (Historians in the News)

N. Carolina Guard Soldiers help preserve Iraqi history (Breaking News)

Digging for Clues in Mystery of 16th Century Calusa People (Florida) (Breaking News)

Bridge to connect city to Fort York (Breaking News)

Excavations in Georgia may help pinpoint trail of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto (Breaking News)

War of 1812 commemorative stamp proposed (Breaking News)

Scots Aim Lasers at Landmarks (Breaking News)

50 caught looting in Plymouth during the Blitz (UK) (Breaking News)

U.S. Officer Revisits His Past in Vietnam (Breaking News)

Hillary Clinton: Berlin Wall Festivities Not Just A Party (Breaking News)

Skowhegan's sacrifice was 'great' in war says local historian (Maine) (Historians in the News)

Hungarian historian: 'Kohl's promise was not kept' (Historians in the News)

Former Poet Laureate accused of plundering historian's work for his new poem (Historians in the News)

Obituary: Joe Levitt, Soldier, hero, historian (Historians in the News)

Obituary: Scholar who ignited Batman controversy (Australia) (Historians in the News)

Pulitzer Prize winning historian to lecture on Mormon diarists (Missouri) (Historians in the News)

Twenty years after Berlin, Palestinians crack Israel's wall (Breaking News)

Rasmussen Report: 93 Percent Say Fall of Berlin Wall Important To World History (Breaking News)

Cantor Says Tea Party's Dachau Photos 'Inappropriate' (Breaking News)

Pulling hair and calling names, historians disagree about Scotland (Historians in the News)

Former STASI man sickened by collapse of Communism (Breaking News)

Celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall are under way (Breaking News)

Anger at Northwestern Over Blackface Costumes (Breaking News)

Big Tobacco Strikes Back at Historian in Court (Historians in the News)

An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers? (Breaking News)

The Legacy of 1989 Is Still Up for Debate (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NO 72 VIRGINS FOR NIDAL MALIK HASAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Barriers May Crumble, but Psychological Borders Remain (Breaking News)

Japan's Mixed Signals Add to Uncertainty Over U.S. Installations (Breaking News)

Prague Communists Called for Wall to Open on November 8, 1989 (Breaking News)

Scottish historian takes to the water as he recreates river cruises (Historians in the News)

Web site clicks with historical group in N.H. (Historians in the News)

Ancient papers saved in tax deal (Wales) (Breaking News)

The Africans who fought in WWII (Breaking News)

Sarkozy posts Berlin Wall photo (Breaking News)

Italian couple discover 16th-century frescoes in bedroom (Breaking News)

Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall commemorate Canada's war dead (Breaking News)

Work on 9/11 memorial park begins (Breaking News)

Sir Andrew Motion 'ripped off history book for Remembrance Sunday poem' (Breaking News)

Berlin Wall anniversary: leaders recreate historic walk (Breaking News)

Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary (Breaking News)

Germany Celebrates Fall of the Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Tied to Mosque of 9/11 Hijackers (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern Memory (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Mike Church Interviews L and P'S Robert Higgs (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Citizenship for Polish Hero of American Revolution (Breaking News)

India's Scottish heritage remembered in renovation of Calcutta's Raj architecture (Breaking News)

Cubans are finally free - to buy peas and potatoes (Breaking News)

Funeral Mass for Senator Kennedy Inspired Catholic Spat (Breaking News)

Guarding Balance of Power at Iron Curtain's Edge (Breaking News)

Deer Still Shun Iron Curtain Border (Breaking News)

With Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Alex Koppelman: Sometimes, Giuliani should keep his anti-terror advice to himself (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew Browne: 600 years after bringing home its armada, will China once again stride the world's stage? (Roundup: Media's Take)

London Museum Asks Public What to Pitch (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

NYT Editorial: A Return to American Justice (Roundup: Media's Take)

Merle L. Pribbenow: Drugs, Corruption, and Justice in Vietnam and Afghanistan ... A Cautionary Tale (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Taranto: Our 'Constitutional Moment,' The New York newspaperman says our founding document is especially vital today (Roundup: Media's Take)

WSJ Editorial: Eric Holder's decision to move a trial on war crimes to American soil is morally confused, dangerous and political to a fault (Roundup: Media's Take)

Melik Kaylan: Myths of Babylon (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peggy Noonan: Just the Facts, Mr. President (comparing Obama and JFK) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Melik Kaylan: Myths of Babylon and the reality of Iraq's heritage (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gordon M. Goldstein: Vietnam, Afghanistan and learning from history (Roundup: Media's Take)

Yuki Tanaka: Tokyo, Washington and the Missing Nuclear Agreements (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Brooklyn Museum to Show Civil War-Related Artworks and Historical Objects (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Panama Canal Collection Exhibit To Be Shown At Adelphi (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Corruption Mars Romania's Post-Communist Progress [audio 7 minutes 48 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

HPV and Cervical Cancer: 25 Years from Discovery to Vaccine [video 58 minutes 30 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

How Did Your Folks Look Before They Were Parents? [audio 3 minutes 48 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Remembering A Pioneering Smoke Jumper [audio 4 minutes 32 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Opium Wars [audio 25 minutes 37 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Aram Roston: How the US Funds the Taliban (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marci A. Hamilton: Why the Stupak Amendment to the Healthcare Reform Bill Is Unconstitutional (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rick Rozoff: 1989-2009: Moving The Berlin Wall To Russia's Borders (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mikhail Gorbachev: More Walls Need to Fall (a call to tackle climate change) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marc Cooper: Tthe Fate of Cesar Chavez's Dream (review of 'The Union of Their Dreams') (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Socolow: Agnew speeches sparked move toward soft news (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rami G. Khouri: Arab Autocracy (Roundup: Media's Take)

The National, Editorial: The US and peace: more than a dance (Roundup: Media's Take)

Patrick J. Buchanan: Polk: Forgotten Great (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tormented Italian Master Caravaggio and Francis Bacon Connect in Rome Show (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Meghan Cox Gurdon: The Wall separates Reagan from Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

R. Taggart Murphy: Japan ... From Protectorate to Ally? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Duncan Currie: 1989 and All That (Roundup: Talking About History)

Andrew C. McCarthy: September 10 ... It’s Worse Than That (Roundup: Media's Take)

Evan Thomas and John Barry: The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Samuel P. Jacobs: The Missing Pages in Palin's Book (Roundup: Media's Take)

Information Highway: Camel Speed but Exotic Links (Silk Road Exhibit NY) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ron Radosh: A Glimpse at Life in East Germany 20 Years After the Wall Fell (Roundup: Talking About History)

Larry Berman and Edward Miller: Obama, learn the lessons of Vietnam -- from JFK, not LBJ (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alfred W. McCoy: How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Samuel J. Redman: Dog Skeletons, Bigfoot, and American Intellectual History (Roundup: Talking About History)

A Pioneering Smokejumper in a Career Marked by Tragedy (Obituaries)

Bruce Sanford and Bruce Brown: Google and the Copyright Wars (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Hayes: Afghanistan and memories of the Khmer Rouge (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Lloyd, 75, Dies; Wrote ‘Chuckles’ Episode (Obituaries)

Jordana Timerman: What Karadzic Did to Bosnia (Roundup: Talking About History)

Adam Kirsch: The November Pogrom (Roundup: Talking About History)

Joe Klein: Iraq Surge ... What Lessons for Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

FDR's stimulus package for artists: No cause for nostalgia (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nancy Gibbs: The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Pierre Puchot: Why Holocaust Denial Is on the Rise in the Arab World (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Rivers Pitt: The New Wall (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ellen Goodman: The False Choice (Roundup: Media's Take)

R. Taggart Murphy: Before Sunrise (Roundup: Media's Take)

Siegfried Sassoon Collection unveiled at the University of Oxford (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Reagan: Forgetting the Cold War's Heroes (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gene D. Cohen, Geriatric Psychiatrist, Dies at 65 (Obituaries)

Thomas J. O’Malley, Who Helped Launch Glenn Into Orbit, Dies at 94 (Obituaries)

Donald Harington, Ozark Surrealist, Dies at 73 (Obituaries)

Lincoln’s History, Melded With a Choreographer’s (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Barone: History is calling. Will Obama answer? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Karl Rove: 'A Referendum on This White House' (Roundup: Media's Take)

He Was the Great Connector ( Composer Henry Cowell) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mythical End for Legendary Route 66 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Bill T. Jones celebrating Lincoln (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The Anguish of War for Today’s Soldiers, Explored by Sophocles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dress Code: This Just in From the 1890s (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

BBC’s Berlin Season (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Barone: History is calling ... Will Obama answer? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Maura Dykstra: China's Monetary Challenges (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert Scheer: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Ignatius: A Salute to Our Military (Roundup: Media's Take)

Slavoj Zizek: 20 Years of Collapse (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Drone Race to a Known Future (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Don Surber: Obama plans Hiroshima and Nagasaki trips (Roundup: Media's Take)

Coming Home: A History of War Veterans [audio 54 minutes 56 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Moshe Dann: Stayin' alive in Mideast (Roundup: Historians' Take)

The Decade in Seven Minutes [video 6 minutes 52 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Victor Davis Hanson: What If?—Mr. President (Roundup: Historians' Take)

D-Day historian: 'Ryan' not best war film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Kishore Mahbubani: Obama in Asia: West Looks East After "The End of History" (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Astore: One Grizzled Veteran's Dream (Roundup: Historians' Take)

James Taranto: The D.C. sniper, Fort Hood and the post-post-9/11 mentality (Roundup: Media's Take)

A new exhibit at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie Museum is dedicated to the Gipper (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Express-News Editorial Board: Honor veterans today, every day (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bob Richards: Veterans Day or Rulers Day? (Roundup: Media's Take)

A 'Prisoner' With New Questions (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jamie Weinstein: Learning from Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark D. Tooley: Revisionism from the Religious Left (Roundup: Talking About History)

Artifacts as Ambience: Art, Antique and Artifacts in the Nation's Capital (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"92 Historical Interviews You Can Watch on YouTube" (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"The Night The Wall Fell: Freedom, Fatherhood Collide" [audio 7 min 46 sec[ (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Vietnam Vet Recalls Service" [audio 2 min 7 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"WWII Vet: Happy To Leave 'Worst Place You Can Be'" [audio 2 min 8 sec[ (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Berlin Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of Wall's Fall" [audio 2 min 47 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Voices Of Revolution: Romania" [audio 3 min 18 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Veterans' Voices: Returning Home From The Gulf War" [audio 2 min 28 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Veterans' Voices: Returning Home From Afghanistan" [audio 2 min 54 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Veterans' Voices: Coming Home From Korea" [audio 2 min 24 sec} (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Antony Beevor Reads D-Day: The Battle for Normandy" [video 55 min 23 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Coming Home: A History of War Veterans" [audio 54 min 56 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jonathan Freedland: Our Amnesia on Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Walter Isaacson: How Einstein Divided America's Jews (Roundup: Talking About History)

Musicians Who Poked at the Iron Curtain (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Clare Spark: Is the History of Psychiatry a Big Mess? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

James McGrath and Arthur Milnes: As the wall fell, Mulroney and Bush manoeuvred (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: The German Wall That Fell - And the Chinese Regime That Didn't (Roundup: Talking About History)

Melvin A. Goodman: Revisiting the Rehabilitation of Defense Secretary Robert Gates (Roundup: Media's Take)

Film From the Frontlines: New Glimpses of a War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Loretta Napoleoni: 20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marion Brady: Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frances Kissling: When Congress sells out women (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Lind: The fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers: Each ushered in a new American era (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew Leonard: Why can't Obama be more like Roosevelt? (Roundup: Media's Take)

The secret life of Hitler (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nabokov's Lost Novel Reviewed (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Hunter College Professor Who Photographed the People of Harlem Dies at 89 (Obituaries)

Soviet H-bomb scientist Ginzburg dies (Obituaries)

Fouad Ajami: From Berlin to Baghdad (Roundup: Media's Take)

Fareed Zakaria: The Age of Terror Has Passed ... The Age of China Has Arrived (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Aaronovitch: Would you live on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Cullen: Review of William Cohan's "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street" (Doubleday, 2009) (Books)

Japanese Manga Comes to London's British Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Hebrew Bible Looted by Nazis Being Sent to Vienna (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New Orleans' Exhibit Offers Sights, Sounds of WWII (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Leaders from Around the World Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Germany Celebrates Memory of Berlin Wall Falling with Museum Opening and Memorials (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Bret Stephens: In Defense of Hamid Karzai (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew Cline: Twenty Years Ago, America Stood for Freedom (Roundup: Media's Take)

Toby Harnden: Not enough about him? Barack Obama skips Berlin Wall ceremonies (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mitchell Koss: Hungary was the first rip in Iron Curtain (Roundup: Talking About History)

Joshua Stanton: Berlin at 20 ... Neither Impossible Nor Inevitable (Roundup: Talking About History)

Marty Peretz: What Obama Doesn't Get About Tyrants (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Afghan Mythologies (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Reassessing Artworks of Ancient Rome (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

'Mayan 2012 apocalypse theory' not true, Nasa says (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Anne Elizabeth Moore: Commercializing the Fall of the Wall (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Fisher: Is a Redo of Post-9/11 Paranoia the Best We Can Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter Foster: From Berlin to Copenhagen (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nile Gardiner: Berlin: Four Key Reasons why the President stayed away (Roundup: Media's Take)

NY Post Editorial: Obama's Berlin Wall blunder (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.: Who Caused the End of the Cold War? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Meyer: The unanswered phone calls and misunderstood memos that helped bring down the Berlin Wall (Roundup: Talking About History)

Interview with Gordon Goldstein conducted by Gregor Peter Schmitz: 'Obama Is Absolutely Right to Re-evaluate Afghanistan Strategy' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Craig Nelson: Arab echoes of grassroots protest (Roundup: Talking About History)

Gil Troy: Reagan and the 80s Deserve More Courses (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Cameron Abadi: An Anniversary, For Sure. But For Whom? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Crowley: The Reinvention of Robert Gates (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joshua A. Tucker: How the EU has inadvertently become the best democracy promotion organization the world has ever known (Roundup: Media's Take)

The bitter tears of Johnny Cash (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Toby Harnden: Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Tremblay: Employee banned from wearing a poppy: Commemoration and censorship (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mitchell Bard: Kristallnacht Still Reverberates (Roundup: Talking About History)

Berlin remembers fall of the Wall [video 2 minutes, 24 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Peter Beinart: The Myth of the Wall's Fall (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mary Anastasia O'Grady: Chavez's Next Target: El Salvador (Roundup: Media's Take)

Anthony Dolan: Reagan's Four Little Words (Roundup: Talking About History)

Alice S. Rossi, Sociologist and Feminist Scholar, Dies at 87 (Obituaries)

Steven J. Erlanger: The Legacy of 1989 Is Still Up for Debate (Roundup: Talking About History)

Paul Krugman: Paranoia Strikes Deep (on the GOP and the 'irrational right') (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: Sudden Jihad or "Inordinate Stress" at Ft. Hood? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Giles Whittell: The tide of history George Bush Sr was too timid to navigate (Roundup: Talking About History)

This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War by James McPherson (Books About History & Historians)

A Guide to Oral History and the Law by John A. Neuenschwander (Books About History & Historians)

Living in the Eighties ed. Gil Troy and Vincent Cannato (Books About History & Historians)

Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World, ed. Eric Foner (Books About History & Historians)

Katrin Bennhold: Lessons From the Former East Germany (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jiri Dienstbier: Answering NYT: The Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later (Roundup: Talking About History)

Hubert Védrine: Answering NYT: The Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ross Douthat: Life After the End of History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rudy Giuliani: Ronald Reagan's unyielding style won the Cold War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Anthony R. Dolan: The Power of Reagan's Four Little Words (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeffrey Simpson: Why we celebrate the fall of the Wall (Roundup: Talking About History)

WSJ Editorial: From Truman to Reagan, the benefits of moral clarity (Roundup: Talking About History)

Gordon Crovitz: Money Can't Buy Me Beatles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Fred Barnes: Major Congressional Reforms Demand Bipartisan Support (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Gannon : Nixon's November 3 speech (Roundup: Talking About History)

Timothy Garton Ash: 1989 changed the world. But where now for Europe? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Con Coughlin: Barack Obama must stop dithering – or Afghanistan will be his Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

James A. Baker III: Why the Wall Fell (Roundup: Talking About History)

John J. Pitney: Presidential Leadership, Then and Now (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rick Rozoff: Kosovo: Marking Ten Years Of Worldwide Wars (Roundup: Media's Take)

Same Street, Different World: 'Sesame' Turns 40 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert L. Borosage: Obama's First Year: It Ain't No Crystal Staircase (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Fisk: America Performs Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon: A Social Agenda for all Americans (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Wall's Rise & Fall [multimedia interactive] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Peter Beaumont: Mikhail Gorbachev – the forgotten hero of history (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ari Fleischer: President Bush put a curse on my New York Yankees (Roundup: Media's Take)

A Gas Gas Gas [audio 5 minutes 46 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Niall Ferguson: 1979 Trumps 1989 in Significance (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Week of November 1, 2009

Roundup

For Canada's war historians, every day is Remembrance Day (Historians in the News)

Case Against Russian Historian Elicits Public Outcry (Historians in the News)

Talking with Historian and Activist Howard Zinn [audio 11 minutes, 35 secconds] (Historians in the News)

Massive foam dominoes to be toppled in tribute to Berlin Wall's fall (Breaking News)

Secret Documents Show Opposition to German Unification (Breaking News)

Chinese anger at sale of Qing Dynasty seal (Breaking News)

East Germans may have arrived in West Berlin hours before previously thought (Breaking News)

Wiesel calls tea party Holocaust comparisons 'indecent and disgusting' (Breaking News)

Father and son 'Indiana Jones Team' cleared of illegal treasure hunting in Essex (England) (Breaking News)

Second 'royal' Iron Age burial mound in Oss (Netherlands) (Breaking News)

History shows Philly transit strike could be worse (Breaking News)

With his latest purchase, Warren Buffett is on track to be today's Cornelius Vanderbilt (Breaking News)

Matthew Kaminski: From Solidarity to Democracy (on Adam Michnik and the end of the Cold War) (Historians in the News)

Blogs

AMY H. STURGIS: Intersection of Fantasy & Native America (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

C.J. MALONEY: Hillary Clinton Go Pakistan (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Aaron Burr Raps on Alexander Hamilton (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Edwin Black's scrutiny of the powerful is a career pattern (Historians in the News)

Senate Rejects Effort to Block Civilian Trials for 9/11 Victims (Breaking News)

Czech Historian Says President Vaclav Klaus Using Decrees To Get out of Isolation (Historians in the News)

Children's Slavery Lesson Upsets Charlotte NAACP Leader (Breaking News)

Newark students make ornaments of American landmarks for White House Christmas tree (Breaking News)

Nantucket Sound may get new status (Breaking News)

Amid Berlin Wall Commemorations, Activists Rally for Liberation of North Korea (Breaking News)

Rasmussen Report: 52% Say America's Best Days Are In the Past (Breaking News)

Oldest American artefact unearthed (Breaking News)

One is Six UK Children Think Auschwitz is a Theme Park, One in Ten Think Hitler a Soccer Manager (Breaking News)

A taste for the old East Germany (Breaking News)

Bookless Libraries? (Breaking News)

Karadzic Gets Delay, and Lawyer, in War Crimes Trial (Breaking News)

To Merkel, a Night in '89 Was Just the First Step on a Long Path for 2 Germanys (Breaking News)

As Wall Crumbled, Berliners Rebuilt Their Lives (Breaking News)

Chinese historian in Cape Cop sheds light on China's 20th Century (Historians in the News)

Historian Felix Luna dies at 84 (Historians in the News)

U.Va. historian Jennifer Burns examines Ayn Rand's life, philosophy (Historians in the News)

Florida Gulf Coast University professor discussed the war in Afghanistan (Historians in the News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Severity of Punishment Not a Factor (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: The New Alabama (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Tocqueville's Letters Home Finally Published in English (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historians assess Obama's presidency, one year after his election (Historians in the News)

Obama Says U.S. Must Reverse Course With Native Americans (Breaking News)

Himmler's WWII Third Reich Reichstag gold tapestry captured by 101st airborne hits the auction block (Breaking News)

Churchill ashtray for sale (Breaking News)

Public schoolboy faces jail for urinating on war memorial (Breaking News)

Germany and Egypt to talk over 3,400 yr old statue of Nefertiti (Breaking News)

Ancient weapons factory unearthed (UK) (Breaking News)

A museum cataloguing centuries of Roman rule in Wales is facing permanent closure, says the trust which runs it (Breaking News)

Aussie citizenship 'may have saved' Lal (Historians in the News)

Hitler's house to go on sale for 2m GBP (Breaking News)

Where the Boys Aren't (Breaking News)

Out of Power but Newly Popular, France's Chirac Issues Memoir (Breaking News)

Museums Hope to Bring New Life to the Haight (San Fransisco) (Breaking News)

Photo of Lee Harvey Oswald with rifle is real, says scientist (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Prohibition Hurts Prosperity (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

History Prof's New Book Spotlights Forgotten Heroine (Historians in the News)

Liberal group invokes history in health reform push (Breaking News)

France to Mark Fall of Berlin Wall With Musical Tribute (Breaking News)

Two Sentenced, Three Absolved in Argentine "Dirty War" Trial (Breaking News)

Obama Notes Anniversary of Iran Embassy Takeover (Breaking News)

Italy Rules in Rendition Case (Breaking News)

Historian Eric Foner discusses Obama's place in history (Historians in the News)

Historian's plea to resurrect 'disappearing' monument (Australia) (Historians in the News)

Military Historian Says the Huns Were Tricky (Historians in the News)

The Future of the Former Rosemont Manor in Weirton is About to be Uncovered (PA) (Historians in the News)

Tilly Panel Series at 2009 SSHA: Charles Tilly's and Louise Tilly's Work and Legacy (Historians in the News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: That Giant Sucking Sound... (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan (Historians in the News)

1979 hostage crisis still casts pall on U.S.-Iran relations (Breaking News)

Military Censorship of Photographs in WWI (Breaking News)

13th century marble pieces found in Acre (Breaking News)

British cosmetic shop bans Rememberance Day poppies (Breaking News)

Island thieves bag Viking Treasure (Breaking News)

Bulgarian archaeologists find silver treasure in Thracian tombs (Breaking News)

Pieces of 1946 British Destroyer Found Near Greece (Breaking News)

1,800-year-old grave found in Vietnam (Breaking News)

Could the U.S.-Cuba Travel Ban End Soon? (Breaking News)

Berets and Baguettes? France Rethinks Its Identity (Breaking News)

Remnants of fort along Trail of Tears yield relics, unique look at history (Tennessee) (Breaking News)

Gold Treasure Kept Hidden for 40 Years (Bulgaria) (Breaking News)

Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after 550,000 GBP award (Breaking News)

Nazis march through London (Breaking News)

Victim of Stalinist Church Persecutions Beatified (Breaking News)

Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory (Breaking News)

Riddle of 200-year-old Irish grave in New York (Breaking News)

Obama's half brother discusses abusive father (Breaking News)

Civil War heritage trail extends to Liverpool (UK) (Breaking News)

Amateur 'stunned' after 1m GBP find (Breaking News)

Epic Muhammad movie in pipeline (Breaking News)

War tribunal head in Serbia visit (Breaking News)

Oldest T. rex relative identified (Breaking News)

'Red' China stamp fetches record (Breaking News)

Tutankhamun finder's home on show (Breaking News)

'Archaeologist of erotica' uncovers lost world of brothels (Breaking News)

Sarah Palin victory and defeat speeches leaked (Breaking News)

Vatican Post Office Prints First Braille Stamps for Anniversary (Breaking News)

Former Embassy Hostages Recall Anniversary of Iran Takeover (Breaking News)

Blogs

TIMOTHY FURNISH: Transsexual Muhammad? (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN AFLAME - MSM FORCED TO COVER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Genesee museums, historians aim to pool resources (Historians in the News)

Karadzic: small-town figure became front-man for Serb strongman Milosevic (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Mid-Week Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

British historian lands major prize (Historians in the News)

New Institute of African Royalty will honor Mandela (Breaking News)

20 years later, major effort to repair, restore Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Rasmussen: 49% Blame Bush for Economy, 45% Blame Obama (Breaking News)

Remains of 1,000 people recovered at medieval site (Ireland) (Breaking News)

Pablo Escobar burnt cash to keep warm on the run (Breaking News)

JFK Library Releases New Evidence on Diem Assassination (Breaking News)

Computer-assisted map could yield archaeological remnants at Tippecanoe battle site (Breaking News)

Ultimatum Over Ole Miss Fight Song (Breaking News)

USS New York Battleship takes its place in history (Breaking News)

Merkel's Address Will Mark Wall's Fall (Breaking News)

CIA Unseals Documents Requested Two Decades Ago (Breaking News)

Moscow could have started WW3 over Berlin Wall: Gorbachev (Breaking News)

Humanities, Smithsonian, Library of Congress and Park Service budgets hold steady (Historians in the News)

Ex-KGB spy gunned down in Moscow (Breaking News)

Bomber Command memorial design unveiled (UK) (Breaking News)

1m pound golden hoard rewrites history of ancient Scotland (Breaking News)

Within yards of Buckingham Palace... the day London played host to a Nazi funeral (Breaking News)

No bids made for former PoW camp (UK) (Breaking News)

Anglo-Saxon treasures on display (Breaking News)

Dinosaur skeleton to be rebuilt (Breaking News)

Former Nazi SS man hears charges (Breaking News)

Argentine ex-leader goes on trial (Breaking News)

Jacques Chirac memoir admits admiration for old foe Margaret Thatcher (Breaking News)

New statue of Chairman Mao surprises China (Breaking News)

Famed French Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss Dies at Age 100 (Breaking News)

Aggressive Karadzic appears at war crimes hearing (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: In Praise of Virginia Foxx: "Health Care Bill A Greater Threat Than Any Terrorist in the World" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT HIGGS: Can the Rampaging Leviathan Be Stopped or Slowed? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: REGIME OR IRANIAN PEOPLE? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SHE KNEW SHE WAS (ALMOST) RIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ABSURDITY OF POLITICALLY CORRECT INSTANT ANALYSIS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Uncovering an Abraham Lincoln not often seen (Historians in the News)

Historic journey: Journey Through Hallowed Ground, a driving route (Breaking News)

Civil War's First Monument to Fallen Soldiers Rescued and Restored (Kentucky) (Breaking News)

Preservation Association Hopeful Battlefield Site Is Closer to Designation as National Historic Site (Minnesota) (Breaking News)

U.S. Sen Landrieu Wants Commission on War Anniversary (Breaking News)

Fall of Berlin Wall Marks End of Cold War (Breaking News)

Berlin Wall Anniversary Sparks Look At History (Historians in the News)

Historian Carleton Mabee chronicles Father Divine (Historians in the News)

Interview: Clinton Historian Seeks To Dispel "Cartoon Images" (Historians in the News)

Stanford Historian Robert Proctor vs. R.J. Reynolds (Historians in the News)

Treaty historian says the repeal of the Foreshore and Seabed Act puts the Maori Party in a powerful position (Historians in the News)

One year after his election, what has Obama achieved? (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

History books re-written twenty years after fall of Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

NBC Nightly News features JFK clips on Vietnam, drawing parallels with Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Reviving Prison Studies (Breaking News)

U of Virginia Professor: Global Warming Started Before Smokestacks (Breaking News)

Texas man recalls being a hostage in Iran as 30th anniversary approaches (Breaking News)

More misplaced remains at Arlington National Cemetery (Breaking News)

Logging caused Nazca collapse (Breaking News)

Second World War blunder that doomed 50,000 British PoWs (Breaking News)

Amid Soldiers and Mines in the Korean DMZ, School Is in Session (Breaking News)

A Look at Myanmar's History as Emerging Energy Supplier (Breaking News)

An Odd Couple of Pols Have Stayed in the Running for a Half Century (Breaking News)

FBI interview summary: Cheney had 72 instances of uncertainty (Breaking News)

Court Declines Case of Klansmen in '64 Slayings (Breaking News)

Lady Beefeater subject of harassment (Breaking News)

iPod University: YouTube's growing collection of university lectures (Breaking News)

POLL: 20 Years After Wall's Fall, End of Communism Cheered - But With Reservations (Breaking News)

Cold War Museum says it's making progress on a building (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber had 'three months to live'... now he's well enough to go home (Breaking News)

Baroness Thatcher in the cold as former leaders remember fall of the wall (Breaking News)

Ship built with Twin Towers steel in maiden voyage (Breaking News)

History books re-written twenty years after fall of Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Karadzic 'regretted that not all Bosnian Muslims died at Srebrenica' (Breaking News)

Cromwell's legacy damages tomb of Black Prince (Breaking News)

Pope John Paul II 'to be beatified within months' (Breaking News)

British MP ordered to withdraw Holocaust comments (Breaking News)

House of Terror explores Hungarian secret police methods (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk witness to be charged with war crimes (Breaking News)

Robben Island is 'under threat' (Breaking News)

Pi author plans Holocaust novel (Breaking News)

Karadzic 'will appear at trial' (Breaking News)

Pinochet soldiers ready to confess (Breaking News)

Shanghai comes to terms with British colonial 'century of humiliation' (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE TURMOIL IN IRAN CONTINUES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAELIS: WE MUST EXPLAIN (NOT DO) BETTER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

The Global Anti-Trust Battle Over Google's Library (Breaking News)

Cambridge Historian Writes Definitive History Of Britain's MI5 (Historians in the News)

National Archives is under-resourced -historian (Historians in the News)

'Puzzlers' reassemble shredded Stasi files, bit by bit (Breaking News)

Passport Reveals a Suspected Terrorist's Journey (Breaking News)

Jesuit Message Drives Detroit's Last Catholic School (Breaking News)

Listed buildings and scenic spots face destruction after planning rule changes (Breaking News)

The History of Daylight Saving Time in the US (Breaking News)

City reveals 'Bronze Age site' (Breaking News)

Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland (Breaking News)

Prophet Mohammed film planned (Breaking News)

Former President Bill Clinton Unveils Statue in Kosovo (Breaking News)

Chapel housing 9/11 victims set on fire (Breaking News)

David Plouffe memoir: Excerpts (Breaking News)

Tehran set to lose status as Iran capital (Breaking News)

Medical historian urges vaccination (Historians in the News)

Cabarrus historians work to keep war history alive (N. Carolina) (Historians in the News)

Pakistanis to Clinton: War on Terror Is Not Our War (Breaking News)

Passports of Jihadists Found by Pakistani Army (Breaking News)

Fox News Poll finds public still blames Bush for recession (Breaking News)

Roundup

Jonathan Zimmerman : Fort Hood: What the right and the left have gotten wrong about Hasan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David R. Stokes: The November Chronicles (Roundup: Media's Take)

Yuki Tanaka and Richard Falk: The Atomic Bombing, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the Shimoda Case: Lessons for Anti-Nuclear Legal Movements (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ellen Goodman: What Option for Afghan Women (Roundup: Media's Take)

WWII comes alive: Museum expansion provides realistic experience (New Orleans) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Talking with Historian and Activist Howard Zinn [audio 11 minutes, 35 secconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

At the Morgan, the Jane Austen Her Family Knew (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Kenneth Weisbrode: The False Promise of 1989 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Masha Gessen: Russia's Conquering Zeros (Roundup: Talking About History)

Allen Barra: The First Down, Ever (Roundup: Talking About History)

Matthew Kaminski: From Solidarity to Democracy (on Adam Michnik and the end of the Cold War) (Roundup: Media's Take)

From Mesopotamia to Iraq: Historical Perspectives on the Middle East [audio 1 hour 58 minutes 30 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs The Hamilton Mixtape at the White House Poetry Jam [video 4 minutes 27 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Joshua Keating: Today's Berlin Walls (Roundup: Media's Take)

Luther Spoehr: Review of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools (Yale University Press, 2009) (Books)

Bitta Mostofi: Death to No One, 30th Year Since the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adrian A. Basora: US-Spain Relations From the Perspective of 2009 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Pew Research: Highlights from 2009 Pulse of Europe Survey [video 7 minutes, 14 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Steve Klingaman: Hated Roosevelt, Hate Obama: Paleoconservative Persuasions (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Israeli settlements could cause one-state solution (Roundup: Historians' Take)

MRC Editorial Report: Whitewashing the Communist Record on Human Rights (Roundup: Talking About History)

Lost Charlie Chaplin film bought on eBay for $5 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Libby Nelson: A Campus Activist-Turned-Administrator Remembers 1969 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Finding a Bit of Animal House in the Bauhaus (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

NYT Editorial: Tribal Chiefs and the President (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles Gasparino: Three Decades of Subsidized Risk (Roundup: Media's Take)

Zainab Mohammed: Is Iraq right to reclaim the Ishtar Gate from Germany? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Melvin A. Goodman: President Obama's Timid Use of the "Reset Button" (Roundup: Media's Take)

Free Running - PM Abolhassan Banisadr [audio] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Huffington Post: Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress (Roundup: Media's Take)

U2's Free Berlin Wall Concert Sparks Outrage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Collins: The Case of the Cuban Five: American Justice as a Political Weapon (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Hotel Chelsea's grand ghosts: a review of 'Chelsea on the Rocks' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Forty Years of 'Civilisation' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Rogers: Democrats want to seize historic moment (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Belton, Self-Taught Ornithologist, Dies at 95 (Obituaries)

George Na'ope, Master of Sacred Hula, Dies at 81 (Obituaries)

After Mickey's Makeover, Less Mr. Nice Guy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A City of Mixed Emotions Observes Calvin's 500th (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ill. State Museum launches ag history Web site (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Avi Shlaim: Israel's "new history" and the Palestinians (Roundup: Talking About History)

Brahma Chellaney: Europe Got Freedom, Asia Got Rich (Roundup: Talking About History)

Nick Turse: The Pentagon's Building Boom in Afghanistan Indicates a Long War Ahead (Roundup: Media's Take)

Remembering Amelia Earhart's Stop In Utah Town [audio 3 minutes 45 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

From the Vault: They Remember Dvorak [audio 57 minutes 6 seconds combined] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Ray McGovern: Heeding George Kennan's Wise Advice (Roundup: Media's Take)

Glynn Wilson Reviewing Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert Parry: Cheney and the Plame-Gate Cover-Up (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Barone: Lessons from the 2009 election results (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Some Expo-Disney Connections (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stanley Kutler: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Open Left: 2008 Electorate: Looking Back, 1988 vs 2008 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Open Left: 2008 Electorate: Alternate History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Max Holland: Richard Nixon's Own Deep Throat (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Satter: Yesterday Communism, Today Radical Islam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stuart Koehl: The Byzantine Doctrine ... What the U.S. could learn from the foreign policy of the Byzantine Empire (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lawrence Wright: What really happened during the Israeli attacks? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Patrick J. Buchanan: The American Way of Abandonment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Craig Nelson: Obama betrays hope created by Cairo speech (Roundup: Media's Take)

Palestinian revolutionary dies (Obituaries)

Edward Luce: The Vietnam moment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Froma Harrop: The Population Boomerang in Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jean MacKenzie: Abdullah vs. Karzai (Roundup: Media's Take)

John McWhorter: Dying Languages Should Be Saved: But Will They Be Spoken? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Night Witches: Russian Women Fighter Pilots [audio 23 minutes] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

USS New York Battleship takes its place in history [video 1 minute, 38 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Steve Ross: The Writer-in-Chief (Roundup: Media's Take)

William McGurn: Harvard's Medals of Honor (Roundup: Talking About History)

Muhammad: The Biopic (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel McCarthy. Review of George H. Nash's Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism (ISI Books, 2009) (Books)

Roger Cohen: The Hinge of History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Masha Lipman: Russia's search for a post-Stalin identity (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rich Lowry: Behind Obama's Berlin Wall Snub (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Mearsheimer: Wrong Vietnam Lesson for Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lotz House Adds Painting by Matilda Lotz to Collection (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Russ Baker: What Obama Is Up Against (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eugene Robinson: Down This Road Before (on trying to stop the opium trade in Afghanistan) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Secret Worcestershire Sauce recipe found (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Meyer: The Gipper or the Guard? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mikhail Gorbachev: Now Clear Away the Rubble of the Wall (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dave Jamieson: Heavyweights in American politics (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mehmet Hasgüler and Murat Tüzünkan: Cyprus at a Crossroads (Roundup: Media's Take)

Murder case, Leo Frank lynching [video 4 minutes, 46 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Scott Ritter: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jon Wiener: Berlin, Israel, Mexico: Walls Across the World (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Reverberations of a Trial and Its Shocking Aftermath (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Humberto Fontova: When Fidel Castro Dictated to the Old U.S. Media (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: So what if they promote it? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Joseph I. Lieberman: Islamist Extremism and the Murder of Daniel Pearl (Roundup: Media's Take)

Max Boot: A Prescription for Tragedy in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alistair Horne: Shades of Abu Ghraib and the French-Algerian War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Boris Johnson: Remember the Fall of the Wall (Roundup: Talking About History)

Christopher Meyer: The Decline of Britain's Foreign Office (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert Nedelkoff: In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning… (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Nedelkoff: He Came, He Saw, He Muddled The Facts (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Nedelkoff: The Last Of The Watergate Cubans Speaks (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jim Gallen: Echo of 1970? (re: New York Twenty-third Congressional) (Roundup: Media's Take)

The New Dracula (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ray McGovern: Kipling Haunts Obama's Afghan War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Parry: Al-Qaeda Outwitted Bush, Neocons (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dangerous People Needed: a Review of "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The movie "Amelia"? One critic gives it a thumbs up! (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

1st Thermonuclear Bomb Test (November 1, 1952) [video 1 minute, 33 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Nathan Gardels: The End of History -- 20 Years Later (Roundup: Talking About History)

Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg: Accidents Of History Created U.S. Health System [audio 7 minutes, 19 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg: Accidents Of History Created U.S. Health System (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tom Engelhardt: Afghanistan as a Bailout State (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Nir Rosen: Lessons Unlearned ... The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut (Roundup: Talking About History)

“Gandhi” three-part documentary on BBC TV, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ben Piven: Communist North Korea clings to ‘Juche’ ideology (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of October 25, 2009

Roundup

Golan Heights Has Bitter History, Uncertain Future (Breaking News)

Ancient Mosaic Reveals Artisans' Footprints (Breaking News)

Swiss historian Jean-Francois Bergier dies (Breaking News)

A new addition to WWII Museum (Breaking News)

Revealed: Lockerbie bomber defies doctors' prediction of death (Breaking News)

George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl in Germany to mark fall of Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Malta to investigate evidence of key Lockerbie witness (Breaking News)

650-Year-Old Cairo Mosque Restored (Breaking News)

Japanese-Americans Reunited With Texas Veterans They Rescued (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Which poll do you believe? (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

In '04 Interview, Cheney Denied C.I.A. Leak Role (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Daylight Savings Time (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

SHELDON RICHMAN: Pelosi Health-Insurance Bill Summarized (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Diaspora Armenian scholars on the historical commision (Historians in the News)

Historian explores secrets of presidential success (Historians in the News)

NEA Chief compares Obama to Caesar, historians calls speach "bizarre" (Historians in the News)

NEA Chief compares Obama to Caesar, historians calls speach "bizarre" (Breaking News)

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev condemns Stalin (Breaking News)

A sexual revolution: Dr. Sommer's advice column turns forty (Breaking News)

Unique Stone Age burial items unearthed in central Sweden (Breaking News)

Why we carve pumpkins, not turnips (Breaking News)

Peru's lingering war wounds (Breaking News)

Austrian archaeologists make Babylonian find in Egypt (Breaking News)

McMandela? Protecting the Brand of a Legend (Breaking News)

More Bush Torture Memos? (Breaking News)

A College That Reveres Reagan Will Mark the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Europe's Grand Cemeteries Are a Treasure Trove of Buried History (Breaking News)

South Korea and Japan consider history textbook with China (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: The History Blogosphere's Weekend (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

South Korea and Japan consider history textbook with China (Breaking News)

Racial Milestone in York, Pa. (Breaking News)

King Memorial Gets Construction Permits (Breaking News)

Professor John D'Emilio credits govt. with improving gay rights (Historians in the News)

Why Neanderthals went extinct (Breaking News)

History? It started a second ago (Breaking News)

When does history end? (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Scholars comment on Taylor Branch's work (Historians in the News)

AHR Forum: Truth and Reconciliation in History (Historians in the News)

Obama archivist nominee on path to Senate approval (Historians in the News)

New Founding Fathers Documents Available On-Line Through NHPRC Pilot Program (Historians in the News)

Site of the Battle of Bosworth discovered (Breaking News)

Swiss historian Jean-Francois Bergier, 77, passes away (Historians in the News)

100 years in the air started with Zeppelin's passenger service (Breaking News)

Obama Revives Military Trials at Guantanamo (Breaking News)

Rhode Island will vote on whether to keep formal name's association with slavery (Breaking News)

United in loss, 9/11 families are divided on Afghan war (Breaking News)

Is Burma softening its stance? (Breaking News)

Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns (Breaking News)

Christians Uphold Long and Sacred Heritage in Syria (Breaking News)

Monument to Haitian in Revolutionary War unveiled (Georgia) (Breaking News)

Archaeology course unlocks "silent history" of the slave trade in West Africa (Breaking News)

Internet's 40th celebrated (Breaking News)

A Brief History of CIA Assets (Breaking News)

Lockerbie: US will not divorce UK (Breaking News)

Serb genocide suspects arrested (Breaking News)

Stasi victim revisits Berlin jail (Breaking News)

Canada jails Rwandan war criminal (Breaking News)

Carla Bruni attacked as new Marie Antoinette of France by magazine (Breaking News)

Macedonia fights to save cultural treasures from looters (Breaking News)

Tickets to see George Bush on sale for $4.95 (Breaking News)

Saddam Hussein 'had plan to escape from US prison' (Breaking News)

Memoirs of Hitler aide could finally end Holocaust claims (Breaking News)

Nelson's Column under construction among old photographs exhibited by British Library (Breaking News)

Bill Clinton hindered wife's VP chances, book reveals (Breaking News)

Passport with 9/11 suspect's name found in Pakistan (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRAD BIRZER: Gamble's "The Stories We Tell. . ." (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA SEEKS TO EXPLOIT RABIN'S ASSASSINATION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

At Ur, Ritual Deaths That Were Anything but Serene (Breaking News)

Ray Browne, 87, Founder of Pop-Culture Studies, Dies (Historians in the News)

After the Wall: A Debate Over Democracy's Reach (Breaking News)

Congress Allocates $9 million to preserve America's Endangered Civil War Battlefields (Breaking News)

Historian examines de Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America' (Historians in the News)

Democrats: CIA Lied to or Misled Congress at Least Five Times Since 2001 (Breaking News)

Uruguayan Voters Reject Chance to Prosecute Dictators (Breaking News)

Spain begins exhuming mass grave thought to hold remains of Garcia Lorca (Breaking News)

The secret behind Mona Lisa's enigmatic smike (Breaking News)

Egyptians conflicted over preserving Jewish past (Breaking News)

Tombstone unearthed in Washington Square Park (Breaking News)

Ex-Nazi put on trial in Germany (Breaking News)

Web portal brings history to life (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Complicating Korry (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Sisyphus and Higher Education (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Darwin whale's tooth in wardrobe (Breaking News)

Files reveal 1970s IRA 'targets' (Breaking News)

New battle over Bosworth's site (UK) (Breaking News)

The map that changed the world (Breaking News)

British secret agent who helped French 'snubbed by Charles de Gaulle' (Breaking News)

British holidaymaker discovers lost underwater 'city' (Breaking News)

Lord Nelson returned to work half an hour after losing arm (Breaking News)

Ashmolean Museum redesigned to combat 'museum fatigue' (UK) (Breaking News)

Afghanistan haunted by ghost of Vietnam (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Ron Paul Goes Ivy League (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Mapping Iraq's Ancient Cities (Breaking News)

AHA reports a surplus of $431,861 in the operational account (Historians in the News)

Two Charged in Plot on Danish Paper (Breaking News)

GOP taps veterans for Afghan advice (Breaking News)

Swedish historian touts Nordic power bloc (Historians in the News)

Statue of Stalin could join Communist national anthem lyrics in subway station (Russia) (Breaking News)

History vanishes from one in 20 English secondary schools (Historians in the News)

History vanishes from one in 20 English secondary schools (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Team uncovers Lady of Pacopampa: A woman born to rule (Peru) (Breaking News)

German archaeologists excavate 4,000-year-old skeletons (Breaking News)

Oldest known granaries predate agriculture (Breaking News)

Comets didn't wipe out early Americans? (Breaking News)

Paleolithic remains unearthed in Korea (Breaking News)

University of the West Indies finds proof of ancient people (Breaking News)

Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Son Speaks (Breaking News)

German Limits on War Face Afghan Reality (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN DRESNER: The 2009 Cliopatria Awards: Nominations (The Cliopatria Awards)

JONATHAN DRESNER: 2009 Cliopatria Award Nominations: BEST INDIVIDUAL BLOG (The Cliopatria Awards)

JONATHAN DRESNER: 2009 Cliopatria Award Nominations: BEST POST (The Cliopatria Awards)

JONATHAN DRESNER: 2009 Cliopatria Award Nominations: BEST NEW BLOG (The Cliopatria Awards)

JONATHAN DRESNER: 2009 Cliopatria Award Nominations: BEST SERIES OF POSTS (The Cliopatria Awards)

JONATHAN DRESNER: 2009 Cliopatria Award Nominations: BEST GROUP BLOG (The Cliopatria Awards)

JONATHAN DRESNER: 2009 Cliopatria Award Nominations: BEST WRITER (The Cliopatria Awards)

Roundup

William E. Gladstone bicentenary lecture in Liverpool (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Democracy's Most Critical Defect (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: The Real Reason for Gates' Anger (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

BRUCE MAZLISH: Humanity (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Plastic wrap for castle makeover (Wales) (Breaking News)

Doubts over Ripper 'memoirs' find (England) (Breaking News)

Indian royal splendour on display (Breaking News)

The man who pulled the Iron Curtain (Breaking News)

Brazil to probe its military past (Breaking News)

88-Year-Old Nazi Hitman to Stand Trial in Germany (Breaking News)

British Bishop Fined for Denying Holocaust in TV Interview (Breaking News)

Father of 9/11 Victim Fights to Have 'Murdered by Muslim Terrorists' Inscribed on Son's Memorial (Breaking News)

Bosnian war's 'Iron Lady' freed from prison (Breaking News)

Bush debuts as motivational speaker (Breaking News)

Radovan Karadzic was 'supreme commander' of ethnic cleansing, court hears (Breaking News)

Skull of pliosaur that 'could have bitten a car in half' found on Britain's Jurassic Coast (Breaking News)

Haaretz says post-Zionist era has come to an end (Historians in the News)

UCLA historian attempts to revive reputation of Union general, Reconstruction president (Historians in the News)

Trying to save GeoCities time capsules (Historians in the News)

GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today (Breaking News)

NPR Ombudsman Says Ken Rudin Apologizes for 'Boneheaded Mistake' comparing Obama to Nixon (Breaking News)

Some Recent Congressional Hearing Volumes Published (Breaking News)

Jordan's ties with Israel turn cold (Breaking News)

Two tribes object to Cape Wind turbines (Massachusetts) (Breaking News)

Empress of Japan speaks against nuclear weapons (Breaking News)

Museum Receives Horrifying Offer From Nazi Relative (Breaking News)

Darwin teaching 'divides opinion' (Breaking News)

Sarah Palin's Book Is Already on Clearance (Breaking News)

NC's roadside history markers generate 600K words (Historians in the News)

Oral history center gets grant (S. Dakota) (Historians in the News)

Oral history center gets grant (S. Dakota) (Breaking News)

Jewish Marriage Tied to Israel Trip (Breaking News)

Southern White Teams Just Didn't Play Black Ones, but One Game Ended All That (Breaking News)

Israeli Police Clash With Palestinians at Sacred Compound in Jerusalem (Breaking News)

Robin Hood: A Hero (or Villain) for the Left (or the Right) (Breaking News)

Earhart's Final Resting Place Believed Found (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: Superfreakonomics: The digested read (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Gary Johnson May Run for President (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: An Ingenious Argument Why Tony Blair Should Be EU President (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

AEON J. SKOBLE: Health Insurance Reform piece (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES BEFRIENDED NAZIS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN WORKERS COULD USE HELP (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TALIBANISN SPREAD TO PUNJAB (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Play for king in castle's attic (Wales) (Breaking News)

Archives of Queen's dressmaker Sir Hardy Amies to be opened (Breaking News)

Radovan Karadzic accused by judge of obstructing Hague genocide trial (Breaking News)

Pope John Paul II's 'Guardian Angel' (Breaking News)

Lockerbie: police wanted to speak to eight other suspects (Breaking News)

Former Serbian Leader Boycotts Own War Crimes Trial (Breaking News)

Possible Expedition to Titanic Shipwreck Planned for 2010 (Breaking News)

Castro's sister says she collaborated with CIA (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: Let the Faculty Debate (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIA GAMING THE SYSTEM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

BRETT HOLMAN: A question answered (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

In Ancient Iraqi Cemetery, Families Search for the Missing (Breaking News)

Research digs up history of ex-slave, educator, Willis Carter (Historians in the News)

How the Beans of Egypt, Maine Sprouted a Militia (Breaking News)

A Northern Governor Would be first in California since 60s (Breaking News)

In This 10-Year Race, Bonds Win by a Mile (Breaking News)

Rightist on BBC Panel Draws Protests and Viewers (Breaking News)

Fossil Skeleton Known as Ida Is No Ancestor of Humans (Breaking News)

When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns (Breaking News)

Blogs

TIMOTHY FURNISH: Shi`ite Wasteland? (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)

Roundup

Tribute to WWII munitions workers (Wales) (Breaking News)

Mystery surrounds gold ring find (UK) (Breaking News)

Families welcome Lockerbie review (Breaking News)

Home for battered memorial sought (UK) (Breaking News)

Despite Claims, UK Did Not Gas Iraqis In The 1920s, New Research Finds (Breaking News)

War veterans attend D-Day service (Breaking News)

Scottish Police Review Lockerbie Bombing Case (Breaking News)

Roger Morris backs new book by Watergate revisionist Len Colodny in which Nixon comes off as a victim of neocons (Historians in the News)

Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

William A. Darity and Darrick Hamilton: Bernanke ignores history of black and white wealth rift (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rock'n'roll's Visual Side on Display in N.Y. Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tessa Morris-Suzuk: The Forgotten Japanese in North Korea: Beyond the Politics of Abduction (Roundup: Talking About History)

Victor Sebestyen: What Obama should learn from the Soviet mistake in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mikhail Gorbachev: World no fairer 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ronald Brownstein: A Reaganite Or Jacksonian Wave? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Svetlana Savranskaya: Afghanistan Déjà vu? Lessons from the Soviet Experience (Roundup: Talking About History)

Julia Adeney Thomas: The Exquisite Corpses of Nature and History: The Case of the Korean DMZ (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Warren Kozak: The Missiles of October (Roundup: Talking About History)

Stephen Rohde: Habeas Corpus: Vessel to Safe Harbor (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Presidential Purpose? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: America's Obama Obsession (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: All Falling Down . . . (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Steven M. Gillon: A New Wrinkle in the JFK Assassination Story (Roundup: Talking About History)

Oleg Grabar: The image of the prophet in Islam: the real story (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ted Sorensen: America's Next Unwinnable War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kahlo, Trotsky and Kingsolver (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Doug Ireland: The Century Leading to Wilde (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Should US Troops in Iraq be held Hostage to the next Election? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Daniel Johnson: The Berlin Wall ... Seven Minutes that Shook the World (Roundup: Talking About History)

Patrick Buchanan: Iraq and Afghanistan ... Would We Do It Again? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

George H. Wittman: Russia Redux (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles Krauthammer: Obama's Bush Blame Game (Roundup: Media's Take)

Vairous: Reflections On The 80-Year Anniversary Of The Stock Market Crash Of 1929 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Glenn Greenwald: The universality of war propaganda (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles Geisst: 1929 Crash and Today: It's the Consumer (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Andrew J. Bacevich: We’ve got to figure out what our aims are in Afghanistan before we talk strategy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Not Your Mother's Literary Classics (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mitchell Bard: Have Russia and Iran Checkmated Obama? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Roy DeCarava, Pioneering Photographer, Dies at 89 (Obituaries)

Dilip Hiro: Why Obama's Iran Policy Will Fail (Roundup: Media's Take)

Harvey Wasserman: Is this Tom Friedman's "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanistan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeff Biggers: Kentucky Straight: Students Call Out Trustees Big Coal Pander in Growing UKY Wildcat Scandal (Roundup: Media's Take)

One Man's Crusade Against Slavery, Seen From Two Angles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Meroney: A Conversation With Gore Vidal (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Running the Senate ain't easy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

“The Black Album”: adapted to the stage 20 years after The Satanic Verses affair - Liverpool, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Victor Sebestyen: U.S. Can Learn From Russia's Afghan War (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ben Macintyre: Obama must face down the ghost of Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Merry: James K. Polk could offer military advice to Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sneak Preview of Upcoming Plame/CIA Leak Flick (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Adam Holland: Republican Leader Met With Holocaust Museum Shooter (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amr Bargisi and Samuel Tadros: Why Are Egypt's 'Liberals' Anti-Semitic? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Richard Sylla: 1929: 'Great Crash' Vs. 'Break in the Market' (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Daniel Pipes: Karzai's Brother and Washington's Kept Politicians (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ed Rollins:Those who quit to protest war (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marty Peretz: Killing Kazstner. Killing Who? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Thomas L. Friedman: Don't Build Up (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas Frank: Obama Is Right About Fox News (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Kenneth C. Davis: Halloween: A Hidden History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ralph Peters: Ignoring the lessons of 3,000 years of fighting insurgencies (Roundup: Media's Take)

"Comedy And The Economic Crash Of 1929" [5 min 32 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Paul Fishstein: Afghans Need New Democracy Model (Roundup: Media's Take)

Murray Polner. Review of Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman, Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) (Books)

Josh Gerstein: What if George W. Bush had done that? (Roundup: Media's Take)

LeeAnna Keith: Not Just Another (Black Is) Beautiful Face (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Obama's foreign policy report card (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Daniel Pipes: Turkey: An Ally No More (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Kristi Keck: Is it morning in America, or has hope given way to malaise? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joanne Lipman: The Mismeasure of Woman (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gerald Horne: Stalin Was No Worse Than the Founding Fathers (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Bob Herbert: Changing the World (Roundup: Media's Take)

NYT Editorial: Trying Karadzic (Roundup: Media's Take)

Leon Wieseltier: Washington Diarist: Common Grounded (Roundup: Media's Take)

Seth Robinson: Why Russia won't cooperate on Iranian sanctions (Roundup: Media's Take)

Scottish stone circles feature in exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Patrick J. Buchanan: Newt, Sarah and a New GOP (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jack Shafer: A Real War on the Press ...What FDR could teach Obama about battling Fox News (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jason Zengerle: The T. E. Lawrence of Afghanistan ... Rory Stewart Takes on McChrystal (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eben Harrell: Will a Fresh Look at the Lockerbie Case Find New Evidence? (Roundup: Media's Take)

History of Government Health Care and Costs [video 3 minutes and 24 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Ben Zimmer: Ms. (a history) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Dan Glickman: "Amelia" Earhart: A Different Kind of "Chick Flick" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Cantors and Klezmer Go Digital (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

William Wallace was a monster, admits Gibson (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John B. Judis: End State, Is California finished? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Tremblay: The BNP on BBC: Democracy and Racism (A Short History of British Fascism) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Colin Woodard: Academe in Eastern Europe 20 years after the fall of Communism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Oriard: How the 60s Changed Big-Time College Football (Roundup: Talking About History)

William McGurn: The Post-Gracious President (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bust of Roman Emperor Caracalla to Sell at Bonhams in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jim Sleeper: American Brethren: Hebrews and Puritans (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Steven Plaut: Nazis in the Ivory Tower (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mark Bauerlein: Rush and Race: A Guest Post by Donald Lazere (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Edwin Black: How Did the Arabs Begin? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jim Cullen: Two new books on the Reagan era (Books)

Amy Chua: Where Is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Cooper: Smearing Lincoln to Support Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Macey: Washington's Plans May Result in Even Higher Executive Pay (Roundup: Media's Take)

Clifford P. Hansen dies at 97; former Wyoming governor, two-term U.S. senator (Obituaries)

Joshua Kurlantzick: Afghanistan could turn into Vietnam. Let's hope so. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Priya Satia: Attack of the Drones (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Sleeper: What 'Liberal' Academy? (Roundup: Media's Take)

An Adventurer Takes Flight, Blinding Smile and All (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

J. Stanley Lemons: Preposterous attack on Providence’s founder (Roundup: Talking About History)

Thomas Friedman: Obama Must Not Forget Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)

Irish Laborers Buried Under Suburban Railroads [audio 3 minutes 15 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

David Ignatius: History's Road to Waziristan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of October 18, 2009

Roundup

Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa disputes Truman's use of A-bombs (Historians in the News)

Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt (Historians in the News)

Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt (Breaking News)

Bush's effigy burned outside Montreal hotel (Breaking News)

Amateur historian rescues D.C.'s Wikipedia page (Historians in the News)

American professor who first made 'popular culture' a subject of academic study dies (Breaking News)

Europe's earliest road atlas--from 1675 (Breaking News)

WWII naval mine found near port (Wales) (Breaking News)

Medieval keep becomes film set (Scotland) (Breaking News)

King Billy's army brought to book (Ireland) (Breaking News)

Air raid shelters mark 70 years (Breaking News)

Blogs

WENDY MCELROY: Manufacturer Finally Admits Tasers Can Kill (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

How Galileo and his spyglass turned the world on its head (Breaking News)

France to pay Fayed 5000 Euros for 'unnecessary delays' after Diana's death (Breaking News)

George W. Bush to become motivational speaker (Breaking News)

Meet the REAL Young Indiana Jones (Breaking News)

Service for last Titanic survivor (Breaking News)

Cheney: Obama seems 'afraid' to make decision on Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): The Attack on the International Islamic University and the Future of Pakistan (Mark A. LeVine)

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gives Major Gift to National Museum of African American History and Culture (Historians in the News)

MHS Presents Kennedy Medal to Noted Harvard Scholar (Historians in the News)

Radoshes' "A Safe Haven" Wins 2009 Washington Institute Book Prize (Historians in the News)

British Historian dug deep to find out about Lenin's death (Historians in the News)

Leave Scotland on "tundra time," says historian (Historians in the News)

Peter Beard's Long Island property evokes memories of its sybaritic past (Breaking News)

From the first email to the first YouTube video: a definitive internet history (Breaking News)

Oldest station in the world reopens in Liverpool as a platform for artists (Breaking News)

How British expats became the Third Reich's fiercest foes (Breaking News)

Archbishop's treasure found in river (Breaking News)

England's oldest map goes on sale (Breaking News)

Britain's conservative Anglicans welcome Vatican's overture (Breaking News)

Lack of funds lets raiders steal colonial-era wrecks in Dominican waters (Breaking News)

Archaeologists unearth Hanford construction dumps (Breaking News)

British Museum to send staffer to Iran to discuss artifact (Breaking News)

WW1 sub's wartime grave discovered (Breaking News)

Closing the door on Russell 317 (Breaking News)

Blogs

SAGE ROSS: On the Internet, anyone can be a historian (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

For History, a Special Substitute Teacher (Breaking News)

Berlin Twitter Wall lets you write on history (Breaking News)

Biden Asks Eastern Europe to Spread Democracy (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRAD BIRZER: Ted Cruz (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Japan Probes 1960s Nuclear Agreements With U.S. (Breaking News)

Bye Bye Birdie: Famed Fossil Loses Avian Perch (Breaking News)

British army 'did not gas Iraqis in 1920s' says historian (Historians in the News)

War historian Frank celebrates 100 years (UK) (Historians in the News)

Historian Fights to Save Haley Mickens House (Florida) (Historians in the News)

Pew research: Views of "Watchdog" Press Change with President (Breaking News)

Cheney says Obama's Afghan War Strategy 'Bears Striking Resemblance' to Bush's (Breaking News)

The one-man library on gay rights speaks volumes (Breaking News)

Irritated Steny Hoyer says Republicans abandoned focus on war in Afghanistan for seven years (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

In Chinatown, Sound of the Future Is Mandarin (Breaking News)

Supreme Court Demographics, and More from Congressional Research Service (Breaking News)

Epic Abuse Case Untrue, Says Victim (Breaking News)

US Violin Virtuoso Helps Raise Funds for Poland's Jewish Museum (Breaking News)

Smithsonian's African-American History and Culture Museum receives $10 million from Gates Foundation (Breaking News)

Tiny dinosaur makes home at Natural History Museum of L.A. County (Breaking News)

A Historical Perspective of BusinessWeek, Sold to Bloomberg (Breaking News)

Milan Kundera 'was an informant to the Czech Secret Police' (Breaking News)

Archaeologists unveil ancient auditorium in Rome (Breaking News)

Famed US aviator's hair actually 'piece of thread' (Breaking News)

8 Graves of Muslim WWII Soldiers Desecrated in France (Breaking News)

Radovan Karadzic to boycott start of genocide trial (Breaking News)

New York '9/11 hero police chief' jailed (Breaking News)

Vladimir Lenin died from syphilis, new research claims (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Rush Limbaugh and the Race Hustle (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Ask About the History of New York's Working Class (Historians in the News)

D-Day veteran's speech on gay marriage is YouTube hit (Breaking News)

Professor John Ramsden, who died on October 16 aged 61, was a key historian of the Conservative party (Historians in the News)

Divers recover anchor from shipwreck thought to be Blackbeard's (Breaking News)

Thai historians mark a Brookline apartment fit for a king, or two (Massachusetts) (Historians in the News)

Scots urged to face 'slave past' (Historians in the News)

Interview with Shlomo Sand: The new history of the origins of the Jews (Historians in the News)

Diaries Recounting Zubaydah's Torture Should Be Given to Defense Attorneys, Judge Rules (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

One Reporter's Lonely Beat, Witnessing Executions (Breaking News)

WWII veteran's color war films discovered (Breaking News)

Archaeologists excavate 4,000-year-old skeletons during a train dig in Central Germany (Breaking News)

Presidential approval tracker: Truman to Obama (Breaking News)

George W. Bush, Motivational Speaker (Breaking News)

Lifting the Lid on Russia's Art of Lavish Gift Giving (Breaking News)

For Car Buyers, the Brand Romance Is Gone (Breaking News)

Medvedev appeals to history to woo Serbs (Breaking News)

Vietnam Veterans Honored at White House Nearly 40 Years Later (Breaking News)

Did Brinkmannship Fell Berlin's Wall? Brinkmann Says It Did (Breaking News)

Yale historian delivers 6th installment of Chinese history lecture series (Historians in the News)

Historian produces a new view of D-Day (Historians in the News)

University Benefits From a Legend Who Dropped Out (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: "The Government Might Actually Make Money" on the Bailout (Apparently Not) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN SUCCESSFULLY GAMING THE SYSTEM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PROFILES IN COURAGE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Tens of thousands of wills online (Wales) (Breaking News)

Museums 'boosted by staycation' (UK) (Breaking News)

Former Canadian leader Jean Chretien made Queen laugh by swearing (Breaking News)

Ancient Bolivian pyramid 'could lose heritage status' after repairs (Breaking News)

Last Union Jack flown at Trafalgar 'must remain in Britain' (Breaking News)

German Court Throws Out Request to Block Demjanjuk Trial (Breaking News)

Palin to appear on Oprah day before tell-all released (Breaking News)

CNSNews Questions White House Official's Praise for Mao (Breaking News)

Rhode Island: Professor sees another, less heroic Roger Williams (Breaking News)

Women evolving to be shorter and heavier, says research (Breaking News)

Vatican in Bold Bid to Attract Anglicans (Breaking News)

More Japanese feel need to say sorry to 'Comfort Women' (Breaking News)

Early 16th century Raphael sketch could sell for up to 16 million pounds (Breaking News)

Agatha Christie's picnic basket - Junk or artifact - British museums let the people decide (Breaking News)

Scientists pull an ancient mummy's tooth for DNA, clues (Breaking News)

What Was Once Forbidden: Showcasing Music from China's 'Class of 1978' (Breaking News)

Shortlist announced: Cundill International Prize in History at McGill (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Field Study: Just How Relevant Is Political Science? (Historians in the News)

An AHA Miniconference at the 124th Annual Meeting on gay history (Historians in the News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: It Takes One To Know One (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 2002 HEBREW U. CAFETERIA BOMBED; 2009 ISLAMIC U. CAFETERIA BOMBED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

New Human Right: The truth about history (Historians in the News)

Historian questions secret RFK-LBJ Vietnam huddle (Historians in the News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Another Lawless DA (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Cliopatria Welcomes Bruce Mazlish (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Egyptian Tombs Flooded by 'Faulty' Ancient Methods (Breaking News)

A 3,500-Year-Old Queen Causes a Rift Between Germany and Egypt (Breaking News)

Monkey Drumming Suggests the Origin of Music (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomb claim 'misleading' (Breaking News)

Dig may lay Spanish poet mystery to rest (Breaking News)

China on hunt for looted treasure (Breaking News)

Prince Charles marks army memorial restoration (Breaking News)

US' first mass killer dies at 88 (Breaking News)

White House aide says Barack Obama team 'controlled' the media (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: No Proof of War Crimes Just Accusations (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BATTLE FOR PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Traditional kingdoms banned since 1967 restored in Uganda (Breaking News)

Iraq accuses neighbours of stealing archives (Breaking News)

Yerevan picks historians for commission (Turkey-Armenia relations) (Historians in the News)

'Leave It to the Historians': Scholars from the Diaspora Reflect on the Commission (Historians in the News)

Obama Gets Afghanistan Advice From Mothers of Fallen Soldiers (Breaking News)

Geneva: Bush Shoe Thrower Gets Hero's Welcome (Breaking News)

Obama Cancels Plans to Attend Berlin Wall Anniversary (Breaking News)

Israel pulls textbooks that present Palestinian claim of ethnic cleansing in 1948 (Breaking News)

Nazi Olympics exhibit opens in Vancouver (Breaking News)

Back to the Land: The New Green Revolution (Breaking News)

At Book Fair, a Subplot About Chinese Rights (Breaking News)

Historian says Iraq is a 3-in-1 country (Historians in the News)

A 3,500-Year-Old Queen Causes a Rift Between Germany and Egypt (Breaking News)

Blogs

TIMOTHY FURNISH: An(other) Inconvenient Truth--about Terrorism (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)

Roundup

150 years after his death, abolitionist still a hero to some, lunatic to others (Historians in the News)

Historian records tales of 30,000 children who called Renwick home (Australia) (Historians in the News)

WWII 'Mighty Mo' battleship undergoing $18M preservation (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: IDF Did Commit War Crimes (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

New iphone app: see maps of historic places (Breaking News)

Barack Obama 'to overturn' Bush-era cannabis policy (Breaking News)

China to study British Museum for looted artefacts (Breaking News)

CNN Poll: Will Afghanistan turn into another Vietnam? (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : EMANUEL IMPLIES MCCHRYSTAL WILL NOT TESTIFY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Italian palace fresco may hide Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece (Breaking News)

Love lives were better behind the Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Mikhail Gorbachev calls Russian democracy a mockery (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: Substances That Float to the Top (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SHARON IS LUCKY TO BE IN A COMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Sir Ian Blair 'trying to rewrite history' (Breaking News)

Pupils facing suspension over Nazi salute photos (New Zealand) (Breaking News)

Clump of Elvis Presley's hair sells for 11,300GBP at auction (Breaking News)

Thai waxworks museum apologises for Hitler billboard (Breaking News)

Holocaust-Denying Bishop Faces Hefty Fine (Breaking News)

China on hunt for looted treasure (Breaking News)

Painting features 'oldest watch' (Italy) (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: The Moderometer: Charting Obama's Zig-Zag, September 28 to October 12 (The Moderometer)

MARK BRADY: SuperFreakonomics (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

In Somalia, a New Template for Fighting Terrorism (Breaking News)

Remembering Afghanistan's Golden Age (Breaking News)

The Battle Between the White House and Fox News (Breaking News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: Don Boudreaux wins Szasz Award! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

CHRIS BRAY: The Past is One Tough Cookie (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

France confirms will hand back Egyptian murals (Breaking News)

Body Part Mummified With Egyptian Recipe (Breaking News)

Face of Belfast mummy is revealed (Breaking News)

Wanted Rwanda doctor denies claim (Breaking News)

Thailand covers Hitler billboard (Breaking News)

Emanuel: Bush never asked key questions on Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Under the leadership of First Lady Pat Nixon, a record number of guests visited the White House (Breaking News)

A Spanish Region Moves to Ban Bullfighting (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Maine's Question 1, Education, and Historical Analogies (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Rally in Bangkok Seeks Pardon for Ousted Premier (Breaking News)

Russia's Leaders See China as Template for Ruling (Breaking News)

Graham moves to block Obama from trying 9/11 suspects in U.S. (Breaking News)

The French Get Lost in the Clouds Over a New Term in the Internet Age (Breaking News)

Three heroes of 9/11 die of cancer in five days (Breaking News)

A U.K. Court Without the Wigs (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: IDF Did Not Commit War Crimes (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JANE S. SHAW: The Planners' Truth, at Last (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Is NY candidate helping to break racial taboo? (Breaking News)

Party Elder Still Jousts With China's Censors (Breaking News)

Ancient settlements unearthed in Sri Lanka (Breaking News)

Prehistoric burial site unearthed in Suffolk (Breaking News)

New discoveries at world's oldest submerged town (Greece) (Breaking News)

'Show of force a desperate act by Taliban,' an interview with renowned Pakistani historian Ayesha Jalal (Historians in the News)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Spoke At Wheeling's Capitol Theatre (Historians in the News)

Holocaust survivors will confront BNP on Question Time (Breaking News)

Roundup

Marylynne Pitz: In 1809, a bizarre burial for a 'mad' general (Roundup: Talking About History)

William Wayne Justice, Judge Who Remade Texas, Dies at 89 (Obituaries)

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Texas, the Eyes of Justice Are Upon You (Roundup: Talking About History)

Joan Walsh: When Tim Russert mocked Bill Clinton -- in song (Roundup: Talking About History)

Lars Brownworth: A Soap Dish That Changed History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Nat Hentoff: Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot Act (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jamison Foser: Remembering Nixon (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dayo Olopade: How the (Dr. Cornel) West Was Won [part 1] (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dayo Olopade: Words From the Other Mr. (Cornel) West [part 2] (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gerald F. Seib: Memories of Vietnam Haunt War, but Scarcely Apply (Roundup: Media's Take)

Harvey Wasserman: Beware a Times/Pentagon "virtual coup" on Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ron Chernow: Everyman's Financial Meltdown (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeremy Kuzmarov. Review of Alfred W. McCoy, Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State (Wisconsin, 2009) (Books)

Mystery Endures: Remains Found Not Those Of Artist [audo 3 minutes 36 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Layoffs At 100-Year-Old Mill Gut Town's Identity [audio 4 minutes 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

British Museum Opens Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Major Exhibition to Paint a New Picture of Queen Victoria (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert Nedelkoff: The New Realpolititik? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Errol Morris: The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 2) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Errol Morris: The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 1) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Nazi Looted Paintings Discovered at Southern Methodist University (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nick Turse: Obama's Choice, Failed War President or the Prince of Peace? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Joshua B. Freeman Q and A About New York's Working Class (Roundup: Talking About History)

Patrick J. Buchanan: Traditional Americans are losing their nation (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stephanie Zacharek: "Amelia": What becomes a legend most? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Patrick J. Buchanan: Nixon and Obama—Soul Brothers? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Battling to Make Bruce Lee a Lucrative Brand (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Marlowe Hood: How Galileo and his spyglass turned the world on its head (Roundup: Talking About History)

Thomas E. Ricks: The Generals Aren't Necessarily Right (he should remember FDR's lessons) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Halloween: The Time Between [audio 28 minutes 29 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Theodore R. Sizer, Scholar and Advocate of Education Reform, Is Dead at 77 (Obituaries)

Eiffel Tower Celebrates A 'Green' 120th Birthday [audio 2 minutes 37 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Comedian Soupy Sales Dies at 83 (Obituaries)

Bob Dole: Bosnia and American Exceptionalism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Bevan: Obama vs. The President He Said He'd Be (Roundup: Media's Take)

Theodore R. Sizer, Education Innovator, Is Dead at 77 (Obituaries)

Bob Dole: Bosnia and American Exceptionalism (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Kaiser: Afghanistan - An historical perspective (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Kaiser: The enduring Republican victory (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Fox News looks at 'historical' perspective of white house attacks [video 2 minutes, 52 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Alessandro Rebucci: Mozambique's debt burden in historical perspective (Roundup: Talking About History)

Matthew Whittle: Gov. Charles B. Aycock historical perspective (Roundup: Talking About History)

Nathan Glazer: Up from the Alcove with Irving Kristol. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Schaffer: Musharraf lets loose in Baltimore (Roundup: Media's Take)

Berlin Wall in Los Angeles [video 7 minutes, 19 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jonathan Martin: Nelson embodied journalism's golden age (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Fund: From Mao to Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andy Garcia to Play Georgian President (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

British Journalist, Ludovic Kennedy, Dies at 89 (Obituaries)

Judith Miller and David Samuels: No way home: The tragedy of the Palestinian diaspora (Roundup: Media's Take)

Why America Wants to Promote Liberty and Democracy [video 1 hour 9 minutes 48 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

French Priest Provides Voice To Holocaust Witnesses [audio 4 minutes 47 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Theodore W. Allen Interview on the Invention of the White Race, Parts I and II [audio 1 hour 11 seconds (combined)] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Victoria Khromova: Russia has changed. It is now open about the Stalin era (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew Leonard: China prepares for Oba Mao (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Funny Money (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Just Not Into You, A Letter to Europe (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Former LA Times Journalist Jack Nelson Dies at 80 (Obituaries)

H. D. S. Greenway: Cyprus and 'Chosen Trauma' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sheldon J. Segal, Who Developed Contraceptives, Dies at 83 (Obituaries)

Mattel Hopes Barbie Facelift Will Show Up Younger Rivals (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thomas Frank: From John Birchers to Birthers (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Norman Solomon: Uncle Sam in Afghanistan: Good Help Is Hard to Find (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thaddeus Russell: Why Liberals Kill (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stan Katz: Woody Woo's Princeton (Roundup: Talking About History)

"Human Rights and Their Limits" [video 1 hr 35 min 3 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Peter Bergen: The Taliban-Al Qaeda merger (Roundup: Media's Take)

Max Boot: The Incurable Vietnam Syndrome (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Peter Ferrara: President Obama Chooses Decline for America (Roundup: Media's Take)

Glenn Greenwald: A Rumsfeld-era reminder about what causes Terrorism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bret Stephens: Does Obama Believe In Human Rights? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Melvin A. Goodman: The Urgent Need to Demilitarize the National Security State (Roundup: Media's Take)

Composer of 'Addams Family' Theme Dies at 93 (Obituaries)

Montclair State University will name dorm after Frank Sinatra (New Jersey) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

BBC: Exactly 125 years after the Greenwich Meridian line was drawn, how and why did Britain become the centre of time? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ethan Bronner: Painful Mideast Truth: Force Trumps Diplomacy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Body Politics: A History of Health Care [audio 54 minutes 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Richard Lourie: Ghosts of Soviet Past Haunt Russia (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Sexton: No Vietnam echoes in Afghan action (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nancy Spero, Artist of Feminism, Is Dead at 83 (Obituaries)

How a Fight Over a Board Game Monopolized an Economist's Life (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David I. Shapiro: A Courtroom Brawler Who Later Advocated Compromise (Obituaries)

WSJ Editorial: Health Costs and History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Alter: Post-Bush Stress Disorder: Democrats have too many hang-ups (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.: Warren Harding and the Forgotten Depression of 1920 (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Graham: Afghanistan—Winning Lessons from Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Confusions of the Age (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert McHenry: John Brown's Body (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Mukasey: Civilian Courts Are No Place to Try Terrorists (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rodger Doxsey, one of space telescope team's first leaders, dies at 62 (Obituaries)

Jamie Glazov interviews Lynn O'Shea about the POWs we left behind (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt : Who's Next? Lessons from the Long War and a Blowback World (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Joe Nocera: The View From Inside a Depression (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mark Thompson: The Soviets in Afghanistan ... Obama's Déjà Vu? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Maharaja: the splendour of India's Royal Courts, V&A, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Berlin wall 20 years on: 'The Berlin wall was a monster' [video 4 min 55 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Sun King exhibition opens at Versailles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New wrinkle in Obama poster dispute (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gordon Goldstein: From Defeat, Lessons in Victory (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lewis Sorley: The Vietnam War We Ignore (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bob Woodward and Gordon M. Goldstein: The Anguish of Decision ... Lessons of Vietnam (Roundup: Talking About History)

Q and A with former UN security official Gordon Goldstein on Afghanistan and lessons learned in Vietnam [video 27 minutes, 26 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jonathan Movroydis: Military Enlistment The Highest Since Nixon Days (Roundup: Media's Take)

David R. Stokes: Russians Reject Our Reset Button In Favor Of Theirs (Roundup: Media's Take)

Washington ate here: Olbermann highlights Washington's dentures on 'Oddball' [video 2 minutes, 21 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Robert Parry: Obama and the Left's Old Schism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gordon P. Erspamer: MKULTRA Legacy: The Stain of Dishonor and the Prerequisites for Redemption (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sam Ferguson: In Pursuing Human Rights, Argentina Displays a Broken Justice System (Roundup: Media's Take)

Brett Arends and Dave Kansas: Eighty Years After the Great Crash -- 'Is It the '30s Again?' (Roundup: Media's Take)

'Tomb 10A' lets you look history right in the face (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Earhart's Mystique Takes Wing Again (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Brendan Goldman: Forum at Columbia University Whitewashes UN and Arab States (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nazi-Era Pilot Helped Lead Germany's Postwar Military (Obituaries)

Ben Johnson: MLK Was No "Conservative" (Roundup: Talking About History)

Kathryn Hadley: The Collapse of Communism in Europe: A Re-examination 20 Years After (Roundup: Talking About History)

Selections From an Interview With Du Daozheng (Roundup: Talking About History)

Brown's Descendents Return To Harper's Ferry [audio 5 minutes 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

John R. Bolton: Obama's Jimmy Carter Foreign Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Melnick, Hollywood Producer, Dies at 77 (Obituaries)

Jon Meacham: The Obama-Dubya Connection (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alex Koppelman: Christian right leader sorry for comparing Emanuel to Mengele (Roundup: Media's Take)

Darren Hutchinson: Time warp! Justice of peace won't officiate interracial marriage (Roundup: Media's Take)

Anna Hartnell: The Rise of the Religious Left -- Why Christianity Isn't Just for Conservatives (Roundup: Media's Take)

Race to preserve the world's oldest submerged town [video 8 minutes, 12 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jonathan Freedland: Global politics in the decade of radicalism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of October 11, 2009

Roundup

Baptist official apologizes for comparing health care overhaul with Nazism (Breaking News)

California Still Remembers Deadly Quake 20 Years Later (Breaking News)

Tree of liberty endures, historian says (Historians in the News)

300 to commemorate John Brown and kick off Civil War sesquicentennial (Breaking News)

Historian Mick Hardy unveils Ryton war website (UK) (Historians in the News)

Historian at WWU researches kidnappings by East German secret police (Breaking News)

Historian at WWU researches kidnappings by East German secret police (Historians in the News)

Russian historians fear wrath of authorities for probing too deeply (Historians in the News)

Death of respected Tullamore historian and author (Ireland) (Historians in the News)

Queer Studies' Essential Man, Martin Duberman Looks Back on His Work at CUNY in the Past Quarter-Century (Historians in the News)

Man refused to marry interracial couple (Breaking News)

Jonathan Schanzer: Juan Cole Between Madison and the Mullahs (Historians in the News)

North Korea gulags 'hold 150,000' (Breaking News)

Democracy 'not needed' in Russia (Breaking News)

Bomber compassion 'like Gandhi' (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Tony Blair's envoy attacks Afghanistan war (Breaking News)

Blogs

RACHEL LEOW: A brief introduction to the Sejarah Melayu (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Real Life Example in Oakland (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

For Anne Frank's Tree, 11 New Places to Bloom (Breaking News)

Largest deficit ever (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHARLES W. NUCKOLLS: Suburbia is Toast. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Anger of WWI veteran's family after binge-drinking student is pictured urinating on war memorial (UK) (Breaking News)

In interview, Vaclav Havel talks about 'era of disgust' in Czech politics (Breaking News)

MI5 chief Jonathan Evans defends use of 'torture intelligence' (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

President Obama Joins Elder George Bush in Call to Community Service (Breaking News)

Berlin's Neues Museum reopening to public after 70 years (Breaking News)

Obama to meet George H.W. Bush (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: My New Gig at PBS Nightly Business Report's Blog (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: A Step Forward in Massachusetts (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Iraq relative in 'genocide' call (UK) (Breaking News)

Britain must publish US intelligence on torture, court rules (Breaking News)

'Sufficient evidence' to charge Libyans over Yvonne Fletcher (Breaking News)

Victoria's secret: how dancing queen kept amused with self-portrait (Breaking News)

Secret White House tapes provide new Clinton book (Breaking News)

10.5m pound archive centre vandalised (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Orkney Venus to face the public (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Wallace statue back with sculptor (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Russia seizes Stalin-era research (Breaking News)

Korean family's tale of emotional reunion (Breaking News)

Bosnian Serb jailed for genocide (Breaking News)

Mannahatta project reveals New York of 1600 (Breaking News)

C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery (Breaking News)

Spanish poet's remains set to be exhumed (Breaking News)

Clinton criticizes Bush handling of Afghan conflict (Breaking News)

U.S. House OKs National Women's History Museum on National Mall; Senate vote sought (Breaking News)

West German spies collected jokes from behind the Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Iraq blocks sale of Mesopotamian artifacts in German auction (Breaking News)

Russian historian arrested in clampdown on Stalin era (Historians in the News)

Historians to contribute to Mid-Ohio Valley Civil War documentary (Historians in the News)

1957 milestone paper on astrophysics published online (Breaking News)

Pennsylvania archaeologist recreates ancient brew (Breaking News)

Pharaonic-era sacred lake unearthed in Egypt (Breaking News)

Hitler's Nazi deputy Rudolf Hess memorabilia for sale (Breaking News)

"Treasure of the Century" returns to Turkey (Breaking News)

A soup recipe 2000-years-old (Canada) (Breaking News)

Will "Hotel of Doom" ever be finished? (Breaking News)

Wounded Soldiers Return to Iraq, Seeking Solace (Breaking News)

Hague fixes Karazic trial date (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Will Layoffs be based on Diversity? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

New Smithsonian hall will focus on human evolution (Breaking News)

Students' paintings reflecting significant Orange County cases (Breaking News)

Dietrich von Bothmer, Curator and Art Historian, Dies at 90 (Historians in the News)

Foam replica of Berlin Wall built to be torn down (Breaking News)

MSU historian heads international project on 19th century scientist (Historians in the News)

Interview transcript: Historian Taylor Branch on the 'Clinton Tapes' (Historians in the News)

Politico: At least five new Bush memoirs coming soon (Breaking News)

Navajo Nation mourns death of WWII Code Talker (Breaking News)

Letters reveal what Bess Truman tried to make history (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Snow(e) Job: Tokenism is not Bipartisanship (Gil Troy)

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Archaeologists find rare Crusader-era murals in Syria (Breaking News)

Historian Shlomo Sand argues that 'Jewish peoplehood' is a myth (Historians in the News)

Civil War Historian Gary Gallagher on Robert E. Lee's Duty After Appomattox (Historians in the News)

Friendship between Chinese, Jewish people reflected in exhibition (Breaking News)

Interview With Historian about the 'Dracula House' (Breaking News)

Interview With Historian about the 'Dracula House' (Historians in the News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: Is President Obama constitutionally barred from accepting the Nobel Prize? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT HIGGS: Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Political Economy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

AARON BADY: Learned Ignorance: What John McWhorter Can't Allow Himself to Know About African-American Studies (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historic graves under supermarket (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Vatican to host Galileo exhibit (Breaking News)

Christie's wine expert wins apology over 1787 Lafite Thomas Jefferson bottle sale (Breaking News)

Iraqi Does Not Regret Throwing Shoes at President Bush (Breaking News)

Nelson's leather chair preserved (Breaking News)

Church art exhibition includes crucified ape and black Jesus on electric chair (UK) (Breaking News)

Radovan Karadzic to stand trial this month (Breaking News)

Queen attends service for centenary of intelligence services (UK) (Breaking News)

Foundation Helps Archives to Go Online (Breaking News)

Archbishop of Kirkuk: for 1600 years, Iraq has been a "country of martyrs" (Breaking News)

Arkansas Business News Story Virginia County Seeks Dismissal of Wal-Mart Challenge (Breaking News)

Ardi's Secret: Did Early Humans Start Walking for Sex? (Breaking News)

Archaeologists and historians to survey War of 1812 Battlefield (Breaking News)

RFK Homage Rising from Hotel (Breaking News)

Ancient Artifacts Found in NY Sewer Dig (Breaking News)

From Bones of Immigrants, Stories of Pain (Breaking News)

'Lost Tomb of Obama' found in Ireland (Breaking News)

200,000-year-old Cut Of Meat: Archaeologists Shed Light On Life, Diet And Society Before The Delicatessen (Breaking News)

Historians slam 'media circus' of Federico García Lorca's family (Historians in the News)

Archaeologists Discover 'Count Dracula's' Cellar (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Real Tsunami May Have Inspired Legend of Atlantis (Breaking News)

Virginia's Webb seeks more battlefield funding (Breaking News)

Gloucester body 'is Goth warrior' (Breaking News)

North America comet theory questioned (Breaking News)

Ohio Indian tribe says commercial windfarm poses threats to ancient burial mound (Breaking News)

Jordan: Ancient tombs threatened by quarrying (Breaking News)

Korean War Chaplain Worthy of Medal of Honor and Possibly Sainthood (Breaking News)

Pentagon says 2008 military recruiting best since 1973 (Breaking News)

First official report by the Iraqi government says 85,000 Iraqis killed from 2004-2008 (Breaking News)

Thousands expected in London to visit relics of 19th century French nun (Breaking News)

Michigan man denies WWII Nazi connection (Breaking News)

Temple built for Greek goddess of divine retribution unearthed in Turkey (Breaking News)

Pterodactyl fossils fills gap in evolutionary tale (Breaking News)

Republicans remove Tweet comparing Pelosi to Hitler (Breaking News)

Deal gives man accused in Cuban Five spy case reduced sentence (Breaking News)

Justices Will Hear Appeal of Former Enron Chief (Breaking News)

David Cesarani: history is too serious a matter to be left to comedians and politicians (Historians in the News)

London 1948 Olympic torch on sale (Breaking News)

James Loewen battles over the Christopher Columbus legacy (Historians in the News)

Turkey and Armenia bury the hatchet over a game of football (Breaking News)

Christopher Columbus writings prove he was Spanish, claims study (Breaking News)

Thousand garden gnomes giving Heil Hitler salute invade German town (Breaking News)

Nazi death camp relic unearthed in Poland (Breaking News)

The Pope honors a saint for his work helping victims of leprosy (Breaking News)

Blair 'risked British lives to help out Bush' (Breaking News)

Nobel committee defends Obama peace prize (Breaking News)

Nazi gnomes cause outcry in Germany (Breaking News)

Mandela notes show 'grave error' (Breaking News)

Auschwitz launches Facebook site (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OUCH! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA/CLINTON "SMART POLICY" BACKFIRES IN RUSSIA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Could we soon see the secret deals the US and Japan struck under Ike and later Nixon? (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE CASE FOR STAYING IN AFGHANISTAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Treasure hoard is seen by 65,000 (UK) (Breaking News)

India rejects Mother Teresa claim (Breaking News)

Albania calls on India to return Mother Teresa's remains (Breaking News)

Roman vase dating back 2,000 years 'virtually priceless' says Bonhams (Breaking News)

Suppressed Bush-Era Finding on Global Warming Released (Breaking News)

Clinton: U.S., Russia must go beyond Cold War (Breaking News)

The Difficult Identities of Post-War Black Children of GIs (Breaking News)

Obama's DOJ May Appeal Ruling Ordering Release of Cheney's CIA Leak Transcript (Breaking News)

In 1918 Pandemic, Another Possible Killer: Aspirin (Breaking News)

Painting by Leonardo da Vinci discovered (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Changing face of Canada "Cowboy City" (Breaking News)

Neely says torture was used during Lincoln era (Breaking News)

The only sisters to fly Spitfires in World War II are reunited with iconic aircraft (Breaking News)

Gitmo Detainees to Stand Trial in N.Y.? (Breaking News)

Bush, Clinton to Speak Together (Breaking News)

Student investigate U of Maryland slavery ties (Breaking News)

The Racist History of Malibu (Breaking News)

Door Opens to More Agent Orange Health Claims (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRAD BIRZER: Russell Kirk on Liberalism and Hayek in the 1950s (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Did Ken Starr Know About the Clinton Tapes? (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Riding High On A Wave Of Misery (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

AEON J. SKOBLE: Long Overdue (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Obama's No. 1 -- most foreign travel by first year president (Breaking News)

WWI trenches 'preserved' in field (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Karadzic immunity appeal rejected (Breaking News)

Amazon tribe has just five members left (Breaking News)

Holocaust survivors angered as Israeli town twins with Dachau (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Help Hold The Fed Accountable (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Iran says British Museum broke pledge on artifact (Breaking News)

Brighton bomber 'sorry' for killing 25 years on (Breaking News)

Recruited by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini (Breaking News)

Karadzic immunity appeal rejected (Breaking News)

Iraq inquiry told of 'war lies' (UK) (Breaking News)

Battle of Agincourt gets The Tudors' treatment from filmmaker Michael Hirst (Breaking News)

Josef Stalin's grandson loses legal attempt at rehabilitating Soviet dictator's reputation (Breaking News)

Ship built of World Trade Centre wreckage sets sail for New York (Breaking News)

Blogs

SHELDON RICHMAN: Missing the Point (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ALLAN LICHTMAN: Obama's Prize (Allan Lichtman)

HNN : 13-yr-old kills 41 in Pakistani market (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Martin Luther King Jr's children settle legal feud (Breaking News)

Can Detroit turn this time? To reform, Bing's team must buck history (Breaking News)

The Gay March: A New Generation of Protesters (Breaking News)

German, Israeli historians to study how textbooks portray each country (Breaking News)

Mad Men nails its history with help from UH (Historians in the News)

First Phase of Hudson River PCB Removal Wrapping Up (Breaking News)

Weapons Failed U.S. Troops During Afghan Firefight (Breaking News)

What happened to global warming? (Breaking News)

Economics Prize Goes to Americans Who Studied Shared Resources, Corporate Decisions (Breaking News)

The Millennial Muddle (Breaking News)

Looking for Solutions to the Catholic-School Crisis (Breaking News)

Mayan Year 2012 Stirs Doomsday Theories (Breaking News)

Taking On Skyscrapers to Protect View of an 'Old Friend' (Breaking News)

Robert M. Murdock, Curator and Scholar, Dies at 67 (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Some Things Are Like This and/or Not Like That (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Columbus Day: A Working Holiday? (Breaking News)

Shalem College takes off: Martin Kramer spearheads the first liberal arts college in Israel (Historians in the News)

R.I. schools seek a full view of Columbus' 1492 (Breaking News)

Author Holds Historic Event on The Transfer Agreement (Historians in the News)

Joseph Massad's Warsaw Ghetto Complex (Historians in the News)

Did William Ayers ghostwrite Obama's memoir, 'Dreams From My Father'? (Breaking News)

Washington: First in War, Peace -- and Accounting (Breaking News)

Is Columbus Day Sailing Off the Calendar? (Breaking News)

24 percent Say America Should No Longer Honor Columbus With A Holiday (Breaking News)

Royal Bank of Scotland to show off art collection worth millions (Breaking News)

Leonardo da Vinci picture 'worth millions' revealed by a fingerprint (Breaking News)

Official: Lockerbie Bomber Prison Release in Best Interest of U.K. (Breaking News)

Is Columbus Day Sailing Off the Calendar? (Breaking News)

Fugitive Arrested in 1968 Hijacking of Flight to Cuba (Breaking News)

Siblings' fight over MLK estate set for trial (Breaking News)

Fake veteran faces 'stolen valor' charge (US) (Breaking News)

Schwarzenegger signs bill honoring gay-rights activist (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH RAICO: The hysterical right-wing canard about "death panels" under socialized medicine--oh, wait! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT HIGGS: Partisan Politics—A Fool’s Game for the Masses (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: COLUMBUS SAILED AMIDST DESPAIR IN SEARCH OF HOPE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

SHELDON RICHMAN: Insurance Companies Want a Mandate with Teeth (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Computer solves 400-year Shakespeare puzzle (Breaking News)

Apartheid leader Eugene Terre'Blanche returns to politics (Breaking News)

Decline and decay in former Communist 'model town' (Breaking News)

Stonehenge: English Heritage reveals new visitor centre (Breaking News)

Porsche to investigate forced labor under Hitler (Breaking News)

Unseen Mary Rose relics unveiled (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Teachers present more balanced view of Columbus Day (Breaking News)

Accusation: Secret tapes say more about Taylor Branch than Clinton (Historians in the News)

In Polanski Case, '70s Culture Collides With Today (Breaking News)

Every Dog (and Norseman) Has His Day (Breaking News)

Babe Ruth Like You've Never Seen Him Before (Breaking News)

Remembering Russia's sacrifice in World War Two: an Interview with Albert Axell (Historians in the News)

Burial vault unearthed in Macedonia (Breaking News)

Geneticists release study suggesting India populated by migrants from Africa 45,000 years ago (Breaking News)

Céide Fields: an extensive Neolithic site in Ireland (Breaking News)

Bronze Age box unearthed in Austria (Breaking News)

Cave paintings more than 20,000 years old found in Spain (Breaking News)

Gault Site findings undermine Clovis First theory (Breaking News)

5000-year-old tombs under study in Malta (Breaking News)

Russian dolmen rescued and mysterious disk uncovered (Breaking News)

Damien Becomes Hawaii's First Saint (Breaking News)

Revolution was a 'mistake' says French 'King' (Breaking News)

Students fined for throwing 'Holocaust party' (New Zealand) (Breaking News)

Fugitive Arrested in 1968 Hijacking of Flight to Cuba (Breaking News)

Support Grows to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (Breaking News)

University of Bristol professor awarded 450,000 pounds to study Greek historian Thucydides (Historians in the News)

Historians point to shared regional roots (Historians in the News)

Is Columbus Day Sailing Off the Calendar? (Breaking News)

U.S. Teams Up With Ex-Mujahedeen (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICAN DITHERING EMBOLDENS JIHADISTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HISTORIAN DISSES BUNCHE TO BUILD UP OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

CHARLES W. NUCKOLLS: Academic Star Chambers (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

FSB Arrests Historian of Stalinist Repression Against Russian-Germans (Historians in the News)

Lawmaker proposes naming highway after historian (Wisconsin) (Historians in the News)

Obama's Nobel Is Premature, Historians and Political Scientists Say (Historians in the News)

MI5 historian Christopher Andrew takes Peter Wright to task for Spycatcher farce (Historians in the News)

Historian discovers Arthur Crane is no war hero (Australia) (Historians in the News)

Take trip with Grateful Dead historian (Historians in the News)

Harvard historian: China will be next superpower (Historians in the News)

Web helps U.S. Jews lose that loving feeling, says historian (Historians in the News)

U.S. Navy to Honor Civil Rights Figure Medgar Evers (Breaking News)

WWII's unclaimed Treasure: unpaid War bonds (Breaking News)

To end century of enmity Turkey says Armenia must pull out of Nagorno-Karabakh (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Obama's prize: Noble hopes in an ignoble world (Gil Troy)

Roundup

Elyse Semerdjian: What do Google and the Protocols Have in Common? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stephen Schlesinger: My Afghan Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Neiwert: Limbaugh, conservatives and the 'bloody shirt': The right has a long history of turning perpetrators into victims (Roundup: Media's Take)

Catherine Rottenberg and Neve Gordon: Teaching Tolerance In a Conflict Zone (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Miriam Friedlander, Early City Council champion of gay rights represented Lower East Side for 18 years (Obituaries)

Who are today's gatekeepers of history? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel Pipes: CAIR's Inner Workings Exposed (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Swanson: Presidential Power Grows (Roundup: Media's Take)

Cuban mummy finally laid to rest [video 1 min 28 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Toby Harnden: Biden on the wrong side of history (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bob Dylan: American Poet [video 1 hour 20 minutes 39 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Grateful Dead Scrapbook: Ben Fong-Torres [video 39 minutes 37 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Mac McCorkle: Review of Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original, ed. by Daniel Rice with an introduction by Martin E. Marty (Books)

This Ungainly Fowl [audio 4 minutes 36 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Queen Nefertiti rules again in Berlin's reborn museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Tremblay: 2009: World Hunger Relief Has Officially Failed (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Zachary Roth: Behind The GOP.com Re-Launch: Meet The Writer Steele Used To Buff Party's Image (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert A. Pape: To Beat the Taliban, Fight From Afar (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marty Peretz:Not Since Never Have the Palestinians Had a More Sympathetic American President (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steven Lubet: Remembering the roots of a real Civil War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mark Benjamin talks about Arlington's new unknown soldier [video 6 minutes, 64 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

U.S. Is Main Foe In North Korea's 'History' Lessons [audio 5 minutes 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Howard Meyer: Obama doesn't deserve a Nobel Prize given his stance on international law (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Roger Cohen: An Ordinary Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Hittleman: The New Confederacy of Republicans (Roundup: Media's Take)

Glenn Greenwald: How to avoid the GOP's mistakes during the Bush years? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jules Power, a Producer of 'Mr. Wizard,' Dies at 87 (Obituaries)

Singer-actor Al Martino dies at 82 (Obituaries)

Bruce Wasserstein dies at 61; prominent Wall Street deal maker (Obituaries)

Nan Robertson, Who Chronicled Discrimination Suit at The Times, Is Dead at 83 (Obituaries)

He Sparked Supersonic Flight With a Coke Bottle and File (Obituaries)

'John Brown's Body' Exhumed (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Exhibition marks the 150th anniversary of the epoch-making raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Historian Taylor Branch on the 'Clinton Tapes' [video 8 minutes 59 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Barbara Ehrenreich: Are Women Getting Sadder? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Prominent N.J. attorney, civil-rights leader Ray Brown dies at age 94 (Obituaries)

Sam Stein: RNC: Jackie Robinson Was A Republican (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dagobert L. Brito and Michael D. Intriligator: For a Solution in Afghanistan, Look South...and In the Past (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tribute to honor photographer Jack T. Franklin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Larry Jansen, Giants Pitcher, Dies at 89 (Obituaries)

Andrei Lankov: Changing North Korea (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: The Power of Payback (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Thoughts on the Hysteria About Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor David Hanson: Nobelitics (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Six Years After Saddam, Iraq's History Is Updated [audio 3 minutes 43 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Author: Pakistan, India At War In Afghanistan [audio 5 minutes 32 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Painting Could Be Previously Unknown Da Vinci Work [audio 3 minutes 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Hawk and the Dove: Nicholas Thompson [video 39 minutes 46 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

'Beatles to Bowie: The 60s Exposed' opens at the National Portrait Gallery, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Shakespeare Wrote It? Computer Says Yes (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, became principal interpreter for American prosecutors (Obituaries)

Jonathan Zimmerman: American schools were always violent (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Moscow mobster's funeral draws crowd [video, 1 minute 5 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jim Cullen, Review of Gail Collins's When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women, 1960-present (Little, Brown, 2009) (Books)

David Cesarani: Stephen Fry's Auschwitz blunder: history is too serious a matter to be left to comedians and politicians (Roundup: Historians' Take)

"Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife" [video 50 min 28 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Max Boot: How We Can Win in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jeffrey Lord: The Reagan Prize (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Bennet: Somalia ... How Not to Win in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Tremblay: Stolen Artefacts: The Louvre to Return Egyptian Frescos (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Greenberg: Forget about McChrystal; Obama's real problem is MacArthurism (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Larry Sabato: Why One Vote Matters in the Senate: No Deviations Allowed (Roundup: Media's Take)

Max Boot: The Incurable Vietnam Syndrome (Roundup: Media's Take)

Max Holland: The Vanity of Vanity Fair (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Martin E. Marty: Israel After Utopia (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Leo Rechter: Holocaust Museum Snubs Survivors on Bad Arolsen Files But Luxembourg Gets the Data (Roundup: Media's Take)

Edwin Black: Iraq--The Cradle of Civilization was Actually the Cradle of Commerce (Roundup: Talking About History)

Dick Morris And Eileen McGann: Pessimism: Obama's Political Ally (Roundup: Media's Take)

Zachary Karabell: Deficits and the Chinese Challenge (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bret Stephens: A Perfect Nobel Pick (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeremy Philips: The Internet is already our era's big disrupter (book review) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Battle of Agincourt gets The Tudors' treatment from filmmaker Michael Hirst (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Matt Welch: 1989 ... Ignoring the Most Liberating Moment in History (Roundup: Talking About History)

JoongAng Daily Editorial: A historic textbook (with input from Korea, China and Japan) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Roger Atwood: Taking Stock of Looting in Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)

Raymond Federman, Avant-Garde Novelist and Beckett Scholar, Dies at 81 (Obituaries)

Mad Men nails its history with help from UH (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola: The Myth of "America" (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: When Nobel Prize rewarded failure (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Azam Nizamuddin: Dispelling the Myths Behind Columbus (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mary Anastasia O'Grady: George Shultz on the Drug War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lewis Sorley: The Real Afghan Lessons From Vietnam (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Charles Krauthammer: On the loss of American hegemony (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Krugman: Peter Temin corrects my history (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lionel Pincus, Who Helped Bring Investors to Private Equity, Dies at 78 (Obituaries)

Paul Krugman: Misguided Monetary Mentalities (Roundup: Media's Take)

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Michelle's Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy—and Yours (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Rare WW1 medal returns to Liverpool Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert D. Kaplan: Time for Decisiveness on Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Fred Hiatt: Obama Policies Risk Bolstering Tyrants (Roundup: Media's Take)

New Lincoln Exhibit Tells how New York City Shaped his Image (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mary Rose treasures revealed [video 2 min 37 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Elizabeth Rickey, GOP activist who denounced David Duke, dies at age 53 (Obituaries)

A Man With a Mission to Modernize and Loosen Up the Louvre (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tze M. Loo: Shuri Castle's Other History: Architecture and Empire in Okinawa (Roundup: Talking About History)

William J. Astore: Obama at the Precipice (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Antony Beevor: Hitler's Jaws of Death (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Obama as Nobelist, Obama as game-changer (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Fred Siegel and Dan DiSalvo: The New Tammany Hall (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Movroydis: The Plan That Would Have Saved Healthcare (Roundup: Media's Take)

A Man Obsessed by Anne Frank (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Babe Ruth Like You've Never Seen Him Before (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

His Soul Goes Marching On: The Life And Legacy Of John Brown (Roundup: Talking About History)

Victor Davis Hanson: The War in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

John Milton Cooper: Obama's Prize, Wilson's Legacy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

WSJ Editorial: The Nobel Hope Prize (Roundup: Media's Take)

Howard Zinn: Nobel Prize for Promises? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael M. Phillips and Guy Chazan: An Award Often Tinged by Politics (Roundup: Media's Take)

Melvin A. Goodman: The Prospect of Change in US Relations With Russia, Iran and Afghanistan Alarms the Washington Post (Roundup: Media's Take)

When Honest Abe Met This Querulous Metropolis (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John D. Loori, 78, Zen Abbot and Photographer, Dies (Obituaries)

How Meriwether Lewis Might Have Really Died [audio 6 minutes 31 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton: A Different October Revolution: Dismantling the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Pipes: That Nobel Peace Prize: Bashes Bush, Handcuffs Obama (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jerry Bowyer: Nobel's Stockholm Syndrome (Roundup: Media's Take)

Humberto Fontova: When They Killed Che (Roundup: Talking About History)

Marty Peretz: The Douglas MacArthur Analogy Fits Neither Petraeus Nor McChrystal. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Con Coughlin: In History Lies All the Secrets of Statecraft (review of the first official account of MI5) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Fisk: Genocide forgotten ... Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of October 4, 2009

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: What Is the Western Tradition? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Mass rally in St Petersburg against skyscraper plan (Breaking News)

Memorial service for WWI veteran (UK) (Breaking News)

Cuba's Fidel Castro hails Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize (Breaking News)

Memorial for Unknown Civil War Soldier Held in Former Barracks in Tennessee (Breaking News)

Armenia and Turkey normalise ties (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRETT HOLMAN: The non-atrocity of Getafe (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Can Obama Redefine the "Real" in Realpolitik? The Nobel Committee is Betting that He Can (Mark A. LeVine)

Roundup

Off the Interstate: Turning 'Blue Highways' Green (Breaking News)

Hitler action figure sparks controversy (Breaking News)

Walk with the Ancients organized (Breaking News)

Iran may cut ties with British Museum over loan, press TV says (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

CHARLES W. NUCKOLLS: An Unaccountable Elite (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Parliament urged to review government secrecy in MI5 history book (Breaking News)

Historian finds 'profound' difference between President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and those awarded to Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt (Breaking News)

Bletchley codebreakers recognised (Breaking News)

Churchill's gloves fetch 1,400 pounds (UK) (Breaking News)

Berlusconi 'most persecuted man' (Breaking News)

Louvre to return Egyptian frescos (Breaking News)

Obama's Nobel Is Premature, Historians and Political Scientists Say (Breaking News)

U.K. Service of Commemoration Marks End of Iraq War (Breaking News)

United States Files for Return of Stolen 3,000-Year-Old Artifact to Egypt (Breaking News)

Analysis: Did Obama win Nobel for not being Bush? (Breaking News)

Coventry blitz: was destruction of medieval centre Hitler's revenge? (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JUST TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NOBEL FOR ACTING AS PRESIDENT OF WORLD, NOT PRESIDENT OF AMERICA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IRANIAN ATROCITIES CONTINUE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : FARCICAL NOBEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

SHELDON RICHMAN: War Is Peace (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

AEON J. SKOBLE: Peace Prize? Seriously? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Dutch historian piecing story together (Historians in the News)

Leading Scots historian for city conference (Historians in the News)

Historian speaks of importance of Mexican culture (Historians in the News)

The Changing Pathways of Hispanic Youths into Adulthood (Breaking News)

Document Introduced as Evidence in Trial of Col. Alfonso Plazas Vega (Breaking News)

Historian embarks on first New-Zealand study of slavery (Historians in the News)

Herta Müller Wins Literature Nobel (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Mostly Early Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Federal Prosecutors Gone Wild (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Stolen artifacts return to Kabul (Breaking News)

Old Testament scholar says Bible has been wrongly translated for thousands of years (Breaking News)

Scientists discover ancient link to modern ears (Breaking News)

New park service chief sees 'convergence' (Breaking News)

Court papers shed light on killing of Goebbels children (Breaking News)

Armenian delay casts doubt on historic accord with Turkey (Breaking News)

TS Eliot moves from wasteland to mainstream (Breaking News)

Queen Victoria carried severe haemophilia 'Christmas disease' gene (Breaking News)

Last surviving Union Jack from the Battle of Trafalgar to be auctioned (Breaking News)

Hitler had fillings made from gold torn from mouths of Jews (Breaking News)

Historic China-Taiwan exhibition opens in Taipei (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Lou Dobbs (yes, Lou Dobbs): Petition to Bring Home All Troops (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TROUBLE IN GERMANY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Egypt Announces It Has Cut Ties with France's Louvre Museum (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WILL DEATH SENTENCE STIFLE IRANIAN PROTEST? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOLDSTONE REPORT UNDERMINES ME PEACE TALKS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WEAK DOLLAR WILL ALIENATE ELITE OBAMA SUPPORTERS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Historic royal charter restored (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Churchill memorabilia to be sold (Breaking News)

Wartime radio operator recognised (UK) (Breaking News)

Voyage retraces Titanic journey (Breaking News)

Stalin's grandson sues newspaper (Breaking News)

'Nazi' accused faces extradition (Australia) (Breaking News)

Gandhi's South Africa home sold (Breaking News)

Chairman Mao museum for sale (Breaking News)

Michelle Obama's roots traced to 6-year-old slave on South Carolina plantation (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THANKS FOR THE RECOGNITION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Sadly, Obama is No George McGovern (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Canadian Nobel winners through history (Breaking News)

A Palace Overhaul, Treading on French Heritage (Breaking News)

In First Lady's Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery (Breaking News)

Merkel accepts 'rare honor' to address Congress (Breaking News)

Sessions on great historian William Appleman Williams (Historians in the News)

Local historian recounts 1920s Manhattan at the public library (Historians in the News)

Arlington unveils a new unknown soldier (Breaking News)

Turkey Sidesteps Obstacle to Armenia Pact (Breaking News)

Illinois man admits illegally selling prehistoric artifacts (Breaking News)

Ancient synagogue discovered in Turkey (Breaking News)

Behind Afghan War Debate, a Battle of Two Books Rages (Breaking News)

GOP Faces Multiple Hurdles as It Aims for a 1994 Replay (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: More Kids Singing: This Time for Obamacare (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Darwin, From the Creationists (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ALICE IN WONERLAND WORLD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAMAS (GOLDSTONE ASSIST) 1- PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY 0 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Anger as Israeli mayor plans to twin town with Dachau (Breaking News)

Louvre seeks to defuse Egypt row (Breaking News)

Taiwanese reject China sculptures (Breaking News)

Was this man the first terrorist of the modern age? (France) (Breaking News)

Machu Picchu and Gaudi church among world heritage sites at risk (Breaking News)

World's largest dinosaur prints found in France (Breaking News)

Helen Keller statue to be unveiled at Capitol (Breaking News)

History education recognized as vital by European group (Historians in the News)

Economic crisis hits property that may have sheltered Capone (Breaking News)

History of the Nobel Prize (Breaking News)

Recent released CIA documents show Posada Carriles built bombs for and informed on Jorge Mas Canosa (Breaking News)

Senate Confirmation Hearing on Nomination of David Ferriero as Archivist of the U.S. (Historians in the News)

Over past 20 years support for press' watchdog roll strong while views of press accuracy decline (Breaking News)

55 Percent Still Blame Bush for Economic Problems (Breaking News)

New find raises theory that Stonehenge could be part of funeral complex (Breaking News)

Adios, Juan and Juanita: Latin Names Trend Down (Breaking News)

Horned T. Rex Was a 'Ballerina' (Breaking News)

Nobel Laureate in Medicine Wins Acclaim Despite Past Political Skirmishes (Breaking News)

Massachusetts legislation would estimate profit from slave trade (Breaking News)

Edgar Allan Poe finally getting grand funeral (Breaking News)

Roman tombs found in south Lebanon cave (Breaking News)

Vandals deface Israeli world heritage site (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Scientists hope 18th century weather data will throw new light on climate change (Breaking News)

Bust of Nefertiti moved with care (Breaking News)

1937 – the year that gives economists nightmares (Historians in the News)

Western historian urges people to learn, appreciate the past (Historians in the News)

How Obama Compares To Other Wartime President [audio] (Historians in the News)

Jail ruling for 'dirty war' pilot (Breaking News)

Germans buy gherkins and Zeha trainers in wave of nostalgia for East ahead of Berlin Wall anniversary (Breaking News)

Holder: New York Terror Plot Was Most Serious Since 9/11 (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

US soldier returns looted texts (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk trial set for November (Breaking News)

Franco's face and name erased from public view in Spain (Breaking News)

Looted in the 90s. Recovered in 2004. Now Afghan treasures restored to glory (Breaking News)

'Second Stonehenge' discovered near original (Breaking News)

German wave of nostalgia for East ahead of Berlin Wall anniversary (Breaking News)

Mojave Cross memorial to WWI dead 'violates first amendment' (Breaking News)

Top Rwanda genocide fugitive arrested (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 61% OF AMERICANS WOULD BOMB IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : TODAY ONE EUROPE, TOMORROW ONE WORLD? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

WENDY MCELROY: On Roman Polanski (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : 3 TO 5 YEAR OFFICER COMMITMENT TO AFGHANISTAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Ancient & Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

To Protect Galápagos, Ecuador Limits a Two-Legged Species (Breaking News)

Obama to overturn 'don't ask, don't tell' at "right time" (Breaking News)

It was Uncle Sam who first gave Iran nuclear equipment (Breaking News)

Historian slams Finland's immigration and asylum policies (Historians in the News)

MI5 historian: Guantanamo and long grievances (Historians in the News)

Ancient Rome's Real Population Revealed (Breaking News)

Tracing footprints of a great historian (Historians in the News)

Argentina's Dirty War: How to Defend an Accused Mass Murderer? (Breaking News)

Scientists say experiment proves Shroud of Turin man-made (Breaking News)

Hispanic Caucus Calls for Ending Program That Identified 100,000 Illegal Aliens, Many With Criminal Records (Breaking News)

Church Loses Fight Over Sealed Papers (Breaking News)

Filam History Month Celebration in San Francisco (Breaking News)

Corporate History Becomes a Business of Its Own (Historians in the News)

Living history brings past to life (Breaking News)

Voice of Bush's Favored General Is Now Harder to Hear (Breaking News)

Robert Dallek tells Obama "war kills off great reform movements" (Historians in the News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Specifically, What Should Be Done For Jobs? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Hear Jeffrey Hummel on the Civil War (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : GOLDSTONE REPORT REDUX (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : PAKISTAN BOMBING FORCES RETHINK ON AFGHANISTAN/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Captivating tales from local POWs (Ireland) (Breaking News)

United Nations wants Hamas to teach Gaza's children about Holocaust (Breaking News)

Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton looking for home after $6m auction fails (Las Vegas) (Breaking News)

Baby woolly mammoth provides secrets of survival in Ice Age (Breaking News)

Jack the Ripper's identity finally uncovered? (Breaking News)

Treasure Hunt Halted; Possible Decades Old Prank (Illinois) (Breaking News)

Teach Gaza children about Holocaust, UN tells Hamas (Breaking News)

Britain offered Gaddafi 14 million pounds to stop supporting the IRA (Breaking News)

Legal delays have blown a hole in UK's digital heritage (Breaking News)

Pope warns of 'new colonialism' (Breaking News)

MI5 'struggled' with Soviet spies (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: The Moderometer, Charting Obama's Zig-Zag, September 3 to 27 (The Moderometer)

RALPH E. LUKER: European History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Robert Reich: The Stimulus is "Keeping People Employed" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

The Dark Pre-History of the World's Favorite Sports Car (Breaking News)

Bill Clinton's Story, With a Few Pages Missing (book review) (Historians in the News)

Guam Historian Inducted Into Prep School Hall Of Fame (Historians in the News)

Perfectly Preserved 40,000 Baby Mammoth Heads to Chicago (Breaking News)

Black Cowboys turn a page on American history (Breaking News)

Second City Absorbs Its Latest Defeat (Breaking News)

Uncertain Future for House of 19th Century African-American Whaling Captain (Breaking News)

Recession, You Look Familiar (book review of "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly") (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : MIDDLE EAST HEADLINES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Colonel Gaddafi was 'greatest, state-sponsored terror threat of 1980s' (Breaking News)

Iron helmet 'from Battle of Stamford Bridge' found in Midlands antique shop (UK) (Breaking News)

Dig along upper Hudson opens window to old NY fort (Breaking News)

Roman Statues Found in Blue Grotto Cave (Breaking News)

Officials think SC Civil War flag found in Iowa (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : OBAMA LOST JOBS AND SKILLS, MERKEL SAVED BOTH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

U-boat listening station for sale (Wales) (Breaking News)

Lockerbie judges deny 'pressure' (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Veterans remember WWII dock raid (UK) (Breaking News)

Secret agents' memorial unveiled (UK) (Breaking News)

Dr. King's Daughter Finalist to Run Civil Rights Group (Breaking News)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Uh-oh, the Administration Is Contemplating Further Stimulus (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

NYT, a week late, finally gets around to obit on Merrill Peterson (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Menem charged over bomb inquiry (Breaking News)

Montblanc's $25,000 Gandhi pen stirs controversy (Breaking News)

Anne Frank Film Footage Discovered (Breaking News)

Roundup

MI5 History Book Stirs Debate On Spy Secrets [audio 4 minutes 1 second] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Armenia And Turkey Reach For Cooperation Over Conflict [audio 4 minutes 4 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language & Politics [video 1 hour 5 minutes 7 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Michael Hirsh: Is Obamamania Like Gorbymania? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Does Obama deserve the Nobel Prize for Peace? (HNN Polls)

Mary Elizabeth Williams: Is blackface the new black? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Rogers: The lost Senate (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Rogers of Politico interviewing Bob Dole (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tracing Michelle Obama's Ancestry [audio 4 minutes 41 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Presidential Historian: Nobel Boosts Obama's Status [audio 3 minutes 59 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Bethany Cobb: In Galileo's Footsteps [video 1 hour 2 minutes 28 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Joseph A. Palermo: Review of Sam Tanenhaus's The Death of Conservatism (Books)

Japanese Samurai Exhibition on loan at the Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture (San Francisco Exhibit/Review) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael C. Dorf: Does the Second Amendment Bind the States? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: War of the Worlds (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Soner Cagaptay: Islamists and Ottomans (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tony Blair: China's New Cultural Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sergey Brin: A Library to Last Forever (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles Seliger, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 83 (Obituaries)

Carlo Strenger: Ahmadinejad, Netanyahu and the Holocaust: The ethics of memory (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Does Iran really want the bomb? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Scott Whitlock: Newsweek Seriously Asks: 'Was Russia Better Off Red?' (Roundup: Media's Take)

WSJ Editorial: The authors of the 2007 Iran NIE have some explaining to do (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jon Talton: Tales of Two Cities: What Chicago and Charlotte Say About the Future of America (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mehdi Hasan: Barack W Bush ... Change we can't believe in (Roundup: Media's Take)

Craig Schuftan: Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone [video 55 minutes 55 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Ferguson: An Evolutionary Approach to Financial History [video 49 minutes 57 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Nat Turner: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? [video 46 minutes 39 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Two Strands of Liberty in the Western Canon [video 1 hour 9 minutes 17 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Supergirls: The History of Comic Book Heroines [video 33 minutes 48 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Steve Hildebrand: Obama and the LGBT Community [video 1 hour 9 minutes 4 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Eight Years in Afghanistan, the 'Graveyard of Empires'" [video 6 min 54 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Ira Chernus: Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ron Radosh: McChrystal vs. Obama: Is This Another MacArthur vs. Truman? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Neiwert: 'Is Conservatism Brain Dead?' If Jonah and Glenn are the best they've got, the answer is yes (Roundup: Talking About History)

China: Reshooting History in 'Founding of a Republic' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Photographer Irving Penn Dies at 92 (Obituaries)

Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam: What Really Happened in Rwanda? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Malou Innocent: Defining Victory to Win a War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Todd Boyd: Farewell, Ebony. You Earned Your Retirement (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mark Thompson: Eight Years in Afghanistan: Can the U.S. Still Win? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael B. Oren: Why the Holocaust Still Matters (Roundup: Media's Take)

Hilary Mantel Wins Booker Prize for Novel Set During Reign of Henry VIII (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Rubin: Don't Sacrifice Human Rights for Iran Diplomacy (Roundup: Media's Take)

A Bold and Modern White House (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ted Cruz and Kelly Shackelford: War Memorials and the Constitution (Roundup: Media's Take)

"How Obama Compares To Other Wartime Presidents" [audio 4 min 36 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Afghanistan Policymakers Look To Vietnam's Lessons" [audio 5 min 9 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Segment 2: 'Biography in Sound: Meet Ernest Hemingway.' 1954." [audio 53 min 35 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Segment 1 and 3: 'The Resistance of the Maya.' 1981." [audio 23 min 51 sec and 13 min 56 sec[ (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

" Body Politics: A History of Health Care " [audio 54 min 51 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jim Cullen, Review of David Crystal's Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 (Oxford University Press, 2008) (Books)

Over 120 Rarely Exhibited Letters by and to Vincent van Gogh on View in Amsterdam (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Peter Beinart: Bury the Vietnam Analogy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor David Hanson: The Obsolescence of a Slur (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Carsten Volkery: Will Blair Become Europe's First President? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Josef Burg, Who Wrote About Jewish Life, Dies at 97 (Obituaries)

Brent Baker: Couric Relies on Albright to Blame Obama's Afghanistan Conundrum on Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tomás R. Jiménez: Mexican-Americans have deep U.S. ties (Roundup: Media's Take)

Slawomir Debski: Taking Central Europe for Granted (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Iran and Nuclear Latency (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Edgar Allan Poe finally getting grand funeral (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Archie's Destiny, as Shaped by Robert Frost (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Disney films restored to original beauty (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Images of First Cars to Cross the Himalayas into Tibet 102 Years Ago and Secret Photos of Japan from 1898 for Sale (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nefertiti Bust Moved to Berlin's Restored Neues Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Conference opinions: The Foreign Fighter Problem [videos] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Mary Kissel: Bureaucrats At the Barricades (book review of "Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations") (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Bitter Harvests to Come (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Truthout in Buenos Aires talking about the war crimes trial of Gen. Rovere. [audio] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Not Grateful for a Grant to Digitize the Dead (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jesse Owens, Hitler and Nazi Germany: TV Drama to relive 1936 Olympics (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Film shows how newspaper family 'invented' Los Angeles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Joe Conason: The vast right-wing conspiracy is back (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mercedes Sosa, Who Sang of Argentina’s Turmoil, Dies at 74 (Obituaries)

The Same Pooh Bear, but an Otter Has Arrived (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Susan Dunn: All the President's Meddling (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: U.S. needs foreign teachers (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Sam Wineburg & Jack Schneider: Why Benjamin Bloom Got it Wrong When it Comes to History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jed Babbin: Lyndon Baines Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Simon Tisdall: Obama's Kennedy moment on Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

William R. Polk: An Open Letter to President Obama: Analysis and Poposals on Afghanistan and Pakistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

John Prados: Diplomatic History in the Bush era (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ben Johnson: Bring Back the Duels? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bruce Feiler: The Ten Commandments teach that freedom depends on law. How Moses Shaped America (Roundup: Media's Take)

Reinhard Mohn, 88, Of Bertelsmann, Dies (Obituaries)

On Comedy’s Flying Trapeze (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Pedro Friedeberg at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Frank Coghlan Jr., Child Actor of Silent Era, Dies at 93 (Obituaries)

NYT Editorial: The Damage of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Rich: The Rabbit Ragu Democrats (Roundup: Media's Take)

Delayed Justice A Salve For Mississippi's Wounds? [audo 7 minutes 34 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Benjamin Franklin's Science [video 58 minutes 30 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Drew Thompson: China at Sixty (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Nedelkoff: The Statue of Mao In Yorba Linda (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Dickerson: Why Obama may want to ask Bush what to do in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Taranto: Out of Work? Blame Reagan. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marek Edelman, Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 90 (Obituaries)

Economist Editorial: China's place in the world (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of September 27, 2009

Roundup

Obama Researcher Reveals How She Found President's Irish Roots (Historians in the News)

IHK historian rejects award in protest against HR violations (Historians in the News)

Obama agrees to keep Israel's nukes secret (Breaking News)

Network of 3,000-year-old canals discovered in Arizona (Breaking News)

Startling evidence of a Stone Age structure in the Solent (Isle of Wight) (Breaking News)

Chilean family finds millennia-old human bones in yard (Breaking News)

Completion of the Choirokoitia digs for 2009 (Cyprus) (Breaking News)

Japan's oldest stone tools found (Breaking News)

Visitors littering Burren with mini-dolmens (Breaking News)

Japan's Jomon sculptures are still a mystery (Breaking News)

Ruins of ancient arena discovered outside Rome (Breaking News)

Veteran buried in 'ghost village' (UK) (Breaking News)

Empire State in China lights row (Breaking News)

Communist China's founding lauded in film (Breaking News)

Mother reunited with girl 40 years after Stasi intervention (Germany) (Breaking News)

India bans 'Nehru and Mountbatten love scenes' from film (Breaking News)

Mystery head could be rare statue of Emperor Nero (Breaking News)

Unearthed: prehistoric site that could be 'little sister' to Stonehenge (Breaking News)

French plan to invade Britain in the 18th century (Breaking News)

MI5 secret file on Harold Wilson: KGB contacts made him a suspect (Breaking News)

Briton opens Shanghai's first burlesque club (Breaking News)

Grayson Regrets Comparing Health Care Crisis to Holocaust (Breaking News)

POW 'veteran' Arthur Rex Crane 'living a lie' (Australia) (Breaking News)

Ancient Shark Gang Fed on Giant Plesiosaurs (Breaking News)

McCain manager predicts Palin could prove 'catastrophic' (Breaking News)

Ministry of Defence named and shamed over British troops' behaviour in Iraq (Breaking News)

US paid reward to Lockerbie witness, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi papers claim (Breaking News)

French general planned 18th-century invasion of Britain using American force (Breaking News)

Carlos Menem accused of obstructing bombing probe (Breaking News)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past (Breaking News)

Archaeologists unearth 17th century bottle used to scare off witches (UK) (Breaking News)

Artist Provokes Locals with Rebuilding of the Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Historic East German refugee train rolls again (Breaking News)

Germany celebrates 19 years of reunification (Breaking News)

Warsaw ghetto uprising head dies (Breaking News)

MI5 kept file on former PM Harold Wilson (Breaking News)

Do American Schoolkids Need 9/11 Education? (Breaking News)

Is the end of "don't ask, don't tell"? in sight? (Breaking News)

Red Cross to Auction Off Little Pieces of Its History (Breaking News)

In China, the Forgotten Manchu Seek to Rekindle Their Glory (Breaking News)

Ardi casts doubt on the notion that we have an innate killer instinct (Breaking News)

Civil War historian to be honored in Miss. (Historians in the News)

Polygamy in perspective: Historian reveals plural marriage positives in Logan talk (Historians in the News)

The Olympics cost billions and often leave venues deep in debt (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

President Barack Obama leads Mahatma Gandhi birthday tributes (Breaking News)

Austria to ban diving for "Nazi diamonds" in Toplitz Lake (Breaking News)

Remains of world's oldest brain found in Armenia (Breaking News)

Lockerbie Bomber Tries Again to Clear His Name (Breaking News)

Trial of accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk can go forward (Breaking News)

Joyce Loses Legal Battle (Breaking News)

Removal of mural in Boston stirs outcry (Breaking News)

Defence of the Realm: author marks 100 years of MI5 with official history (Historians in the News)

Belo to preserve TV history at SMU (Breaking News)

China Celebrates 60 Years of Communist Rule (Breaking News)

China Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists' Rise (Breaking News)

A class act: historian rewarded for his work (Historians in the News)

Interview With Historian Tony Judt: 'Dreaming About Washington Is One Of East Europe's Great Mistakes' (Historians in the News)

New historians bring insight to ASU students (Historians in the News)

No 9/11 material at Bernie Kerik's trial (Breaking News)

City Calls Arguments for New 9/11 Probe "Irrelevant" (Breaking News)

US Troops Call Afghan Region "Vietnam Without Napalm" (Breaking News)

Ardi Is a New Piece for the Evolution Puzzle (Breaking News)

Civil-rights history comes alive for local students (Breaking News)

Peru: Truth commission president receives death threats (Breaking News)

Obama and McChrystal Don't Talk? Good, Says Army Historian (Historians in the News)

Is UND's Fighting Sioux nickname in its last days? (Breaking News)

Blogs

SHELDON RICHMAN: Chicago Dodges the Bullet (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ENJOY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SO DARWIN WAS WRONG? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIAN GAS PIPELINE TO ISRAEL? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : GILEAD SHALIT IS ALIVE, THANK GOD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : AFGHAN POLICE SURRENDER TO TALIBAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : PUBLIC HUMBLING OF OBAMA/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Eight years after 9-11, National Park Service lacks adequate security approach, according to GAO report (Breaking News)

Ancient lighthouse to be saved (Breaking News)

Fujimori sentenced for corruption (Breaking News)

Artists Test Limits as China Lets (a Few) Flowers Bloom (Breaking News)

FBI says they did not edit Oklahoma City bombing tapes (Breaking News)

China Hopes, and Tries, for Rain-Free Festivities (Breaking News)

On Day for China Pride, Little Interest in Ideology (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Taylor Branch's oral history with Clinton comes under attack (Historians in the News)

Gordon Wood says the Constitution was a more radical change than the Revolution itself (Historians in the News)

American Revolution Center headed for downtown Philly (Breaking News)

Federal Judge Rules FBI Must Release Cheney Interview (Breaking News)

Critics protest lighting Empire State Building to honor China's 60th (Breaking News)

Palin Memoir Already Atop Best-Seller Lists (Breaking News)

After 39 Years, Soldiers Honored for Vietnam Rescue Mission (Breaking News)

Conservative media watchdog report: Identical Unemployment Numbers ‘Good’ News for Obama, But ‘All’ Bad under Reagan (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : PROOF - ONCE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT WAS NOT TREATED AS GOOD NEWS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

KEITH HALDERMAN: The Lawless District Attorney of San Diego County (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

The past haunts Richard Nixon's library (Breaking News)

Gordon Taylor ... The bus driver as historian (Historians in the News)

UK dig finds Roman amphitheatre (Breaking News)

Dinosaur eggs are found in India (Breaking News)

Fossil finds extend human story (Ethiopia) (Breaking News)

Aging population heralds rise of the 'supercentenarian' (Breaking News)

Democratic Lawmaker Likens Health Care Crisis to a 'Holocaust' (Breaking News)

Pope to Attend Concert Marking 70th Anniversary of WWII (Breaking News)

Beijing Flexes Military Strength on 60th Anniversary of Communist Takeover (Breaking News)

McCain awaiting Palin's memoir (Breaking News)

Polanski arrest could delay 'Tony Blair' film (Breaking News)

UK dig finds Roman amphitheatre (Italy) (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: "History Hurts My Brain" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

The Book That Shook Yale (Historians in the News)

Palin's book, others feature a ghostwriter's touch (Breaking News)

New infomercial revives 'birther' controversy (Breaking News)

Bengali historian speaks of 'legacy' of India as a civilization (Historians in the News)

Coffins found in Albany, NY likely from mid-1800's (Breaking News)

Chronicling the Story of the Upper Chamber (Historians in the News)

Q&A with author and historian Marcus Rediker (Historians in the News)

Conservative watchdog says identical unemployment numbers 'Good' for Obama, but 'Bad' under Reagan (Breaking News)

Archive General Counsel say FOIA backlogs in FY 2008 went back 17 Years (Breaking News)

Lost in time: a manuscript from Horace Kephart, a driver behind the designation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Breaking News)

Missing legs of great Buddha sculpture found (Breaking News)

One Year Since Mumbai (Breaking News)

Jimmy Wales Quietly Edits Wikipedia's New Edit Policy (Breaking News)

Senate Schedules Hearing on History and Legality of Presidential "Czars" (Breaking News)

Russia Revives Privatization (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Is Scott Ritter Right Again? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : TIME TO PRESSURE IRAN'S ENABLER, DUBAI/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : PETER GALBRAITH FIRED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Mummy autopsy result 'was wrong' (Breaking News)

Roman 'disaster' that shaped Europe (Breaking News)

China's 60th anniversary of Communism: public barred from parade (Breaking News)

Anne Frank channel launched on YouTube (Breaking News)

EU Report Blames Russia and Georgia for War (Breaking News)

Wreckage May Be Military Jet Missing for 54 Years (Breaking News)

Senior U.S. official holds talks in Cuba (Breaking News)

Saving Sir John Narbrough's Diary (Breaking News)

Capitalism finds a home in the village where Chairman Mao was born (Breaking News)

'Kremlin lied about attacks' Georgia says as EU releases war report (Breaking News)

US under Obama could slide into military dictatorship, says Gore Vidal (Breaking News)

Rare van Dyck self-portrait to be sold (Breaking News)

China's 60th anniversary of Communism: public barred from parade (Breaking News)

Why should I be ashamed? 25 years after Brighton bomb, Labour lets Martin McGuinness into the Grand Hotel (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Memory & Oral History (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Yearning for the Golan Heights: why Syria wants it back (Breaking News)

After 208 Years, Is Britain's Observer Near the End? (Breaking News)

In Dispute With Iran, Path to Iraq Is in Spotlight (Breaking News)

In Hong Kong, One Holiday and Lots of Book Sales (Breaking News)

Draft Order Would Set New Limits on Classification (Breaking News)

Ex-Bush Officials Face Lawsuits Over Their Actions (Breaking News)

Emperor Nero's rotating dining room 'discovered' (Breaking News)

Russia casts doubt on Hitler skull theory (Breaking News)

Battle of Bosworth is in wrong spot (Breaking News)

Archaeologists get rare glimpse of Hudson River fort (Breaking News)

End in sight for Yugoslav domain names (Breaking News)

Grant for WWII code-breaking site (Breaking News)

Former Enron Exec Sentenced To 16 Months In Prison (Breaking News)

Obama Administration Issues New State Secrets Guidelines (Breaking News)

The lost Countrywide phone tapes (Breaking News)

Has the Iranian Regime Forsaken Khomeini? (Breaking News)

Senate confirms new head of National Park Service (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern American Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Military investigates if wreckage is 54-year-old missing jet (Breaking News)

Historian calls for more studies to prove existence of Buddhism in state (Historians in the News)

TV historian launches Dundee genealogy workshop (Historians in the News)

Historians weigh in: Historical parallels: Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq (Historians in the News)

UNM Spanish Colonial Research Center Historian Larry D. Miller Dies (Historians in the News)

800 Years of Data Collected on Debt and Risk Management (Breaking News)

Millions in contracts, no work completed at Arlington National Cemetery (Breaking News)

Historian concludes Starbucks missing sense of community (Historians in the News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Progressive Claptrap (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Can Left-wing historians write the History of Movement Conservatism? Ron Radosh says yes. (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: USING INTERNATIONAL LAW TO TARGET ISRAELIS/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

WWII PoW camp for sale on eBay (UK) (Breaking News)

Taiwan's view on China anniversary (Breaking News)

Ex-mayor denies genocide charges (Rwanda) (Breaking News)

Tyrannosaurus Rex killed by a sore throat (Breaking News)

Bush Officials Refused Award to J.K. Rowling Because of "Witchcraft" Writing, Book Claims (Breaking News)

WWII PoW camp for sale on eBay (Breaking News)

Accused Holocaust Museum Shooter at Prison in N.C. (Breaking News)

Palin's book to be called 'Going Rogue: An American Life' (Breaking News)

Did Lancaster bombers that killed 600,000 in German cities deliberately target civilians? A new book says YES... (Breaking News)

Carter's Diaries to Be Published (Breaking News)

Cries and Hugs at Reunion of Families in North Korea (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

War historians to fight for medal (Historians in the News)

Fujimori pleads guilty to illegal wiretaps and bribes (Breaking News)

Fans of World's Fastest Ocean Liner Put Out a Distress Call (Breaking News)

EPA Tells Schools To Test Aging Caulk (Breaking News)

Historian breaks his silence on Gayoom (Historians in the News)

King Arthur was a "genocidal warlord," claims historian (Historians in the News)

Laboratory of Thomas Edison soon open to the public (Breaking News)

President Obama to make a historic pitch for the Olympic Game (Breaking News)

No divorce during China holiday (Breaking News)

What did Founding Fathers believe?, Finding a consensus will be tricky for those developing new state curriculum (Breaking News)

Pope Wraps Up Czech Trip With Mass Near Prague (Breaking News)

Research Group at Syracuse U Finds Fewer Terrorism Suspects Going to Trial (Breaking News)

Attorney says tapes of Oklahoma City bombing appear edited (Breaking News)

Blogs

ALLAN LICHTMAN: Deja Vu on Health Care (Allan Lichtman)

Roundup

Palin memoir to be published (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Mission Creep (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

TROY KICKLER: LIST OF FAVORITE PRESIDENTS (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

I forgive him, says Lockerbie relative after meeting Colonel Gaddafi (Breaking News)

Tories plan to use more lottery cash to save historic buildings (UK) (Breaking News)

Childhood essay by Paul McCartney found at Central Library in Liverpool (Breaking News)

Ban on Kiev massacre-site hotel (Breaking News)

SS soldier leaves life savings to British village where he was kept prisoner (Breaking News)

Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Carnivals (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Israeli Ambassador Draws on American Roots (Historians in the News)

Michael Oren still 'enjoying every minute' as Israel's envoy to U.S. (Historians in the News)

Obama Addresses Hitler Reference on Health Debate at Black Caucus Conference (Breaking News)

Justice Dept. to Address Backlog of Civil Rights Complaints (Breaking News)

Unfolding of Subprime Lending Crisis (Breaking News)

1800s priest canonized for work with leprosy patients (Breaking News)

Can Former Iraqi Baathists in Syria Ever Go Home? (Breaking News)

Archaeologists Find Burial Cellar In Ancient Syrian City Containing Spectacular Artifacts (Breaking News)

Bath used by Temple pilgrims found in Jerusalem (Breaking News)

French find prehistoric animal worship site (Breaking News)

Civil War Skeleton Sale Sparks New Law (New Hampshire officials) (Breaking News)

Criticism of Queen after death of Diana 'hugely upset' Queen Mother (Breaking News)

Fidel Castro's Cuba full of his offspring after years of womanising by El Commandante (Breaking News)

China 60th anniversary of Communist rule biggest celebration in Chinese history (Breaking News)

Clinton and Gore: Still the odd couple (Breaking News)

Korean families in rare reunion (Breaking News)

Turkey, Armenia to restore ties (Breaking News)

Beatle's essay found 50 years on (Breaking News)

Long-Secret Oklahoma City Bombing Tapes Released (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DAY OF ATONEMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JONATHAN JARRETT: "All the gold I could eat": Staffordshire hoard of Anglo-Saxon weapon fittings (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: "Genius Grant" Recipient Extolls T.R.M Howard (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Detroit: In One Home, a Mighty City's Rise and Fall (Breaking News)

Pope reaches out to Czech Republic, decries 'wounds' left by communism (Breaking News)

Army Officer Who Refused Iraq Duty Is Allowed to Resign (Breaking News)

Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century American History (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Paul Moses. Review of Joyce Purnick's Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics (Public Affairs, 2009) (Books)

David Warren: Is Obama Like Gorbachev? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Liechtenstein to London for royal collection (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Scott and Shackleton as never seen before in Edinburgh (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

India bans 'Nehru and Mountbatten love scenes' from film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Communist China's founding lauded in film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Caitlin Talmadge: To win in Afghanistan Obama must learn from Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

U.S. Unemployment: A Historical View (Interactive Graphic) (Roundup: Talking About History)

World views: Commission finds Tbilisi bears prime responsibility for the war in Georgia (Roundup: Media's Take)

John R. Miller: Nobody Likes Us? Who Cares? (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Cory: Marching Backwards: The Spectacle of Fear (Roundup: Media's Take)

John McWhorter: What Should African-American Studies Students Learn? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Douglas Watt, New York Theater Critic, Dies at 95 (Obituaries)

Nadeem F. Paracha: A more investigative look at Islam's early history needed? (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Flumenbaum: Mao Takes Manhattan: Empire State Building Goes Red and Yellow for China (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lincoln Mitchell: Why 2010 Will Not Be 1994 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jewish History, Popcorn Included (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Victor Davis Hanson: The Past Is Not Quite Past (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Henry A. Giroux: The Powell Memo and the Teaching Machines of Right-Wing Extremists (Roundup: Media's Take)

Barry Friedman: Why the Supreme Court is irrelevant. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Movie Review: What 'The Founding of a Republic' says about China today. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Juan Cole: Is the media exaggerating the Iranian nuke threat? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Andrew Leonard: Krugman weighs in on Brooks: "Reagan did it" (Roundup: Media's Take)

Glenn Greenwald: How similar are the cases against Iran and Iraq? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Walid Phares: World Must Sustain Push Against Iran's Human Rights Abuses (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Doug Ireland: Tepid Apology to Gay Genius (Roundup: Talking About History)

Stanley Kutler: Obama's Afghanistan Dilemma (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Moshe Dann: Every time someone writes, speaks of 'Palestinians' a myth is reinforced (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stanley I. Kutler: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Blogs (HNN News Archives)

A Soviet Strategy For Afghanistan? [audio 4 minute 22 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Move Over, Lucy; Ardi May Be Oldest Human Ancestor [audio 4 minutes 32 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

David Bromwich: William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words (Roundup: Media's Take)

Zhang Wei-Wei: Eight Ideas Behind China's Success (Roundup: Media's Take)

Newst Gingrich guides viewers in documentary examining God's place in America's heritage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Inaugural Balls: Ceremonial First Pitches, Then And Now (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gordon Chang: Sixty Years of Chinese Communism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Henry Bellmon, former Oklahoma governor and US senator, dies at 88 (Obituaries)

Heidi Tagliavini: Lessons of the Georgia Conflict (Roundup: Talking About History)

Roger Cohen: Germany Unbound (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Barber: Review of Thulani Davis's My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Confronts Her Roots (New York: Basic Books, 2006) (Books)

Joan Walsh: Reading "The Clinton Tapes," thinking about Obama (Roundup: Talking About History)

Cockney cash machine hope to revive dying dialect [video 1 minute 53 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

U.S. Considers Reengaging with Myanmar [video 6 minutes 38 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

From the Margin to the Mainstream: A Brief History of Climate Change Research [video 37 minutes 30 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Smithsonian Opens Observatory On National Mall [audio 28 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library Adds New Chapters [audio 5 minutes 4 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

U.N. Protects Cultural Status Of Tango [audio 1 minute 6 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Campaign Donations (HNN News Archives)

Tristram Hunt: The Supreme Court is a perfectly English idea (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Steve Coll: Gorbachev Was Right About Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Ottavio Castagnera: Afghanistan: History Repeats Itself (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Two Decades After the Fall: Patterns of Chinese Protest--1919,1989, 2009 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

We're Still "Over the Rainbow" for Oz (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: The Autocrats' Learning Curve (Roundup: Historians' Take)

John Feffer: Afghanistan: NATO's Graveyard? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sobhi Ghandour: No radical change in American policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Patrick Martin: A hostile takeover of Zionism (Roundup: Media's Take)

History Channel takes the reality route (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Segment 3: 'A Propitious Misadventure: Part 1 of A History of the 17th Century Dutch Colony of New Netherland.' (2009)." [audio 16 min 53 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Segment 2: 'From the Archives: Hernando De Soto.' (1938)." [audion 5 min 10 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Segment 1: 'The Last Dutch Outpost: The Enduring Legacy of New Netherland.' 2007." [audio 29 min 30 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Michael Ledeen: We've Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bret Stephens: The Neocons Make a Comeback (Roundup: Media's Take)

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice at the Louvre (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mary L. Dudziak: To Whom is a Drone Loyal? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Barry: Former Border Patrol Chief Silvestre Reyes Now a Major Player in New Military, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Complex (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas Friedman: Crossing the Line (Roundup: Media's Take)

Guillermo Endara, Who Helped Lead Panama From Noriega to Democracy, Dies at 73 (Obituaries)

Spike Lee Speaks About 'Do the Right Thing' 20 Years later [5 minutes, 42 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Daniel Pipes: Netanyahu's Quiet Success (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Barak M. Seener: Targeting Israelis via International Law (Roundup: Media's Take)

AKMuckraker: The Ugly Irony of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dam! [audio 3 minutes 42 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Gregory McNamee: The Phantom Tollbooth: A Subversive Classic Hits Middle Age (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andrew Meyer: Letter to President Obama on Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Lind: The end of the Pax Americana? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Haggai Ram: Israel and the Iranian Threat (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harvey J. Kaye: FDR's Forgotten Freedoms (Roundup: Historians' Take)

NYT Editorial: An Incomplete State Secrets Fix (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Brooks: The Next Culture War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter Grier: The lobbyist through history: villainy and virtue (Roundup: Talking About History)

E.D. Hirsch Jr.: How Schools Fail Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Fake Dutch Golden Age Painting at Courtauld Institute Proven to be Genuine (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Lee: Why China's 60th birthday is nothing to celebrate (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Lind: The end of the Pax Americana? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Vladimir Ryzhkov: Russia Loves to Hate America (Roundup: Media's Take)

Liam Fox: History does not show that war in Afghanistan is unwinnable (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michiko Kakutani: Presidential Confidential: Bill Clinton After Hours (Book Review) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Julian E. Zelizer: Obama should listen to Biden (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Humberto Fontova: Advice from Fidel Castro for Ahmadinejad and Gadhafi (Roundup: Media's Take)

Justin Elliott: Man Behind Birthermercial First Teabagged In Mid-1970s (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lucy Vodden, Who Inspired a Beatles Song, Dies at 46 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

WSJ Editorial: William Safire, A competitor who had our back when we needed him. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Will Bunch: William Safire, "nattering nabobs" and the power of words (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steven J. Erlanger: In Bad Times for Capitalism, Socialists in Europe Suffer (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jackson Lears: The Waxing and Waning of America’s Political Right (Roundup: Media's Take)

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett: How to Press the Advantage With Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)

William McGurn: Obama v. Bush, the Sequel (Roundup: Media's Take)

In Violation of His Wishes (Film review, history of Barnes Foundation) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea (Houston) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Frank Rich: Obama at the Precipice (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kimberly Quinney: On Globalization and Diplomatic History (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tim Chambers: Apple's Lesson -- Innovating Our Way Out of the Recovery From Hell (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Tremblay: A Wal-Mart being built on a Civil War battleground? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Brent Baker: Gregory Asks Clinton If 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' Now 'Targeting' Obama? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Keats and His 'Bright Star' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New Museum of Springfield History set to open Oct. 10 (Massachusetts) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Don Fisher, Co-Founder Of Gap, Dies at 81 (Obituaries)

Lord Byron's dig at William 'Turdsworth' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Turner and the Masters at Tate Britain, review (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ed Kilgore: Why 2010 Will Not be a Repeat of 1994 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Roger Stern and Bernard Haykel: Learning the Soviet Lesson on Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome to be Shown at the Clark Art Institute (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Artifacts from Brooklyn Museum Explores the Afterlife (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Black President Stands Out At Mostly White College [audio 9 min 31 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Harvey Wasserman: Obama's LBJ moment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Arundhati Roy: What Have We Done to Democracy? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Neve Gordon: On Palestinian Civil Disobedience (Roundup: Historians' Take)

William Safire, Nixon speechwriter, dies at 79 (Obituaries)

Carl Jung's legendary Red Book at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gideon Levy: Netanyahu's speech, Cheapening the Holocaust (Roundup: Media's Take)

Maureen Dowd: The Devil Wears Crocs (Reviewing 'Speech-less' and "The Clinton Tapes') (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kevork Hovnanian, Founder of N.J. Builder, Dies at 86 (Update4) (Obituaries)

Jim Cullen, Review of Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women (Scribner, 2009) (Books)

The Man Who Kept The Cold War Cool [audio 7 minutes 49 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Obama Keeps Bush Rules On Indefinite Detention [audio 3 minutes 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Multiple Historians on: Saving the World, Without U.S. Consumers (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron: A grand history of operatic booing (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Pat Buchanan: To Lose a War (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Marples: September 17 and the Roots of Contemporary Belarus (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of September 20, 2009

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: Third Graders Sing about Barack Obama (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants (Breaking News)

3300 year old archaeological site discovered in Sri Lanka (Breaking News)

Dolmen with petroglyphs found in India (Breaking News)

5,000-year-old Venus figure found in Turkey (Breaking News)

Funding crisis could cost Flag Fen its future (UK) (Breaking News)

French archaeologists find prehistoric animal worship site in UAE (Breaking News)

New archaeological sites discovered on Exmoor (England) (Breaking News)

Boston's black history being unburied at cemetery (Breaking News)

History textbook tells pupils USA first landed on moon in 1979 (Breaking News)

Susan Atkins, Charles Manson cult member, dies in jail (Breaking News)

WW1 relic rescued from the deep (Ireland) (Breaking News)

City honours WWII plane rescuers (UK) (Breaking News)

Koreans prepare for rare reunion (Breaking News)

Dinosaurs had 'earliest feathers' (Breaking News)

Confucian family tree 'triples' (Breaking News)

FBI payout for Egyptian over 9/11 (Breaking News)

No deal on Megrahi, says Gaddafi (Breaking News)

Qaddafi Meets With Relatives of Lockerbie Victims (Breaking News)

Turks mourn relative of Ottoman sultan (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: The Other Middle East Refugees (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

D. Bradford Hunt's new book on the Chicago Housing Authority (Historians in the News)

Holocaust to become part of regular training for Defense Ministry officials (France) (Breaking News)

Slogan hailing Stalin returns to metro station, draws scorn (Breaking News)

Holocaust Survivors Reunite With WWII Liberators (Breaking News)

Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs (Breaking News)

Bush's wiretapping goes to court in S.F. (Breaking News)

Oral history project turns focus on Hispanics in America (Breaking News)

In Koreas, Reunions Set to Begin (Breaking News)

Accused Perot Staffer Led '79 Hostage Rescue (Breaking News)

An interview with Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (Historians in the News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Third Graders Sing Praises of Obama (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: History U. (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Merrill Peterson, Jefferson scholar, dies at 88 (Historians in the News)

Milton Meltzer, Prolific Author, Dies at 94 (Historians in the News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Did Davy Crockett Say It? "Not Yours to Give." (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JANE S. SHAW: Regaining the Field? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

U.N. 'doesn't smell of sulfur anymore,' says Chavez (Breaking News)

Castro's sister releasing book about her brothers (Breaking News)

Chinese warned to stay away from huge anniversary parade (Breaking News)

Blogs

WENDY MCELROY: America's Debtor Prison for Men (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Declassified Documents Highlight U.S. Concerns Over Role of Colombian Security Forces in February 2000 Paramilitary Killings (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Walmart Vs. Historians In Battle Over Civil War Site (Historians in the News)

Ancient Mayans made pyramids to make music for rain god (Breaking News)

Mao's grandson becomes youngest major-general in Chinese army (Breaking News)

3300-year-old archaeological site discovered in Sri Lanka (Breaking News)

Where is NEH Money Going? New Web Site Has Answers (Historians in the News)

Society of American Archivists Develops Best Practices for Orphan Works (Historians in the News)

Anglo-Saxon treasure uncovered in UK could revolutionize ideas about medival times (Breaking News)

Poll: What Americans Know About the U.S. Supreme Court and Want Changed (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : HORRID, YET PREDICTABLE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : NO TO AHMADINEJAD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Russians had an actual Doomsday Machine (Breaking News)

A short history of long speeches (Breaking News)

St Petersburg world heritage status threatened by skyscraper (Breaking News)

Memorial for WWI train accident (UK) (Breaking News)

China lends rare art to Taiwan (Breaking News)

'Last Ottoman' dies in Istanbul (Breaking News)

Germany Goes Ahead With Hitler AIDS Campaign Ads (Breaking News)

Swedish TV Program Claims Top Vatican Officials Knew About Holocaust-Denier (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Does Glenn Beck support the slave trade or is he just an "idiot"? (Breaking News)

Serbians Cleared in War Crimes Court (Breaking News)

Author, historian Taylor Branch gives material for new Clinton book to UNC library (Historians in the News)

Historians comment on Archbishop's homily (Historians in the News)

Azerbaijani historian: We should not be like Armenians (Historians in the News)

Conservatives' complain that Obama's welfare spending far exceeds Bush's war spending (Breaking News)

Should Dems be worried in 2010? (Breaking News)

The Must-Read Book for Obama's War Team (Breaking News)

Soft on Rummy? (Breaking News)

Germans Want the Berlin Wall Back? (Breaking News)

"Unexpected" Man Found Amid Ancient Priestesses' Tombs (Peru) (Breaking News)

Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple (Breaking News)

Three Iraqis arrested with ancient relics (Breaking News)

A piece of MSU’s historic first building unearthed (Michigan) (Breaking News)

Scottish £1 goes for record price (Breaking News)

Rajiv Gandhi assassin ends fast (India) (Breaking News)

Korean war rifles sold back to US (Breaking News)

Largest Anglo-Saxon hoard found (UK) (Breaking News)

'Dirty war pilot' held in Spain (Breaking News)

Castro praises Obama on climate (Breaking News)

French spy movie reveals Soviet secrets and reopens old wounds with Moscow (Breaking News)

Shock as Bloody Sunday Inquiry delayed again (Ireland) (Breaking News)

Kosovo Rebels Face Murder Charges in War Crimes Court (Breaking News)

Report: Chairman Mao's Grandson Becomes Youngest Major-General in PLA (Breaking News)

59% Say Americans Angrier Now Than Under Bush (Breaking News)

Chinese archaeologists discover new section of Great Wall (Breaking News)

A Hotel on Jewish Massacre Site? (Breaking News)

Reversal from Bush-era security policies (Breaking News)

Bandy Center to be clearinghouse for area history (Georgia) (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FRIEDMAN BELIEVES IRANIANS CAN'T READ OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : NETANYAHU ON GOLDSTONE REPORT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Michigan State University finds 16,000-year-old sand dune on campus (Breaking News)

Rick Perlstein: The liberal historian on ACORN, the Post, and wagging the dog (Historians in the News)

Dems still run against Bush in N.J., Va. (Breaking News)

Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple (Breaking News)

Church roof over Shakespeare's tomb in danger of collapsing (Breaking News)

Undisturbed Bronze Age crypt found in Syria (Breaking News)

Chess's Greatest Rematch (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler painting up for auction (Breaking News)

2000-year-old Roman amphitheatre discovered in Israel (Breaking News)

Roman well found in highway roadwork (Nottingham, UK) (Breaking News)

Restaurant forced to change "Anti-Soviet" name (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Interview with Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (Historians in the News)

TV historian David Starkey launches second broadside against Scotland (Historians in the News)

Paper historian receiving grant (Historians in the News)

Historian should clarify Van Jones comments or resign (Historians in the News)

New LDS book shows Joseph Smith's early revelations (Breaking News)

Fulbright 60th Anniversary Lecture in London (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FIGHT BOYCOTTS - BUY ISRAELI GOODS /update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: INTERNATIONAL LAW IS A TERRORIST ENABLER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL BASHER GETS A GENIUS PRIZE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN DIASPORA VS. AHMADINEJAD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Today: Interview on Cliff Kelley Show/Thursday: Book Signing in Jackson (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

A Q&A with Taylor Branch, author of 'The Clinton Tapes' (Historians in the News)

Venezuela opening tombs to identify victims from 1989 'Caracazo' riots (Breaking News)

County Historian Summoned to comment on Van Jones (Jackson, TN) (Historians in the News)

Historian, Author Milton Meltzer Dies at 94 (Historians in the News)

Taylor Branch's secret interviews add insight to Clinton presidency (Historians in the News)

Civil War Battlefield Preserved (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Sept. 11 Mastermind Due Back in Gitmo Court (Breaking News)

French Trial Over Smear Campaign Pits Sarkozy Against Former Rival (Breaking News)

3D Rome created from 150,000 Flickr photos (Breaking News)

Mysterious ruins may help explain Mayan collapse (Breaking News)

Hazardous Waste and History Mix On D.C. Tour (Breaking News)

Marriage, Family on the Decline for Highly Educated Black Women (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TURKEY RECONSIDERS "PATRIOT" AFTER OBAMA THROWS E. EU. TO THE BEAR (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HARVARD CRIMSON PUBLISHES HOLOCAUST DENIAL AD AGAIN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Drunk Boris Yeltsin was found outside White House in underpants trying to hail cab reveals Clinton (Breaking News)

Faraday powers to top inventor honour (UK) (Breaking News)

Bush speechwriter says Bush didn't understand the $700 billion bailout of the banks even as he gave a speech supporting it (Breaking News)

'Tree of life' planted for peace (UK) (Breaking News)

Ghana marks leader's centenary (Breaking News)

Lost Renaissance work discovered (UK) (Breaking News)

Vikings 'were warned to avoid Scotland' (Breaking News)

Ahmadinejad Proud of Holocaust Denial (Breaking News)

Thai king, world's longest-reigning monarch, in hospital (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Depression Discussion at Cato Unbound (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: On Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

GIL TROY: The Moderometer: Charting Obama's Zig-Zag ... July 28 to August 18 (The Moderometer)

GIL TROY: Launching the Moderometer (The Moderometer)

GIL TROY: The Moderometer: Charting Obama’s Zig-Zag ... Step Left Domestically, Gesture Left Globally, but Keep Your Foreign Policies Somewhat Centered (The Moderometer)

GIL TROY: Do We Need a Moderometer to Push for Centrism? (The Moderometer)

Roundup

Artist-historian wants to shed light on Florida rebellion (Historians in the News)

The Next Page: Howard Zinn, Historian of the People, For the People (Historians in the News)

Defense Secretary Gates: Bush's Missile Plan Was Wrong (Breaking News)

Carl Jung: The publication of his secret "Red Book" (Breaking News)

Taliban Leader Said to Warn U.S. on War (Breaking News)

An Iwo Jima Relic Binds Generations (Breaking News)

Three arrested for stealing antiquities in Iraq (Breaking News)

Al Capone's Wisconsin hideout for sale (Breaking News)

In Conversation with David Starkey (Historians in the News)

What Obama could learn from LBJ (Breaking News)

Ship graveyard gives up secrets (UK) (Breaking News)

Anger at Iranian Holocaust denial (Breaking News)

Tiny ancestor is T. rex blueprint (China) (Breaking News)

Ex-tea boss took part in genocide (Rwanda) (Breaking News)

Gorbachev defends controversial legacy (Breaking News)

Taliban Leader Tells 'Invaders' to Study History (Breaking News)

Lockerbie Bomber's Online 'Appeal' Condemned by Scottish Officials (Breaking News)

Cuban 'Peace' concert riles some exiles (Breaking News)

Presidential jinx in Virginia? (Breaking News)

Taylor Branch about to publish secret project: The Clinton Tapes (Historians in the News)

Blogs

CLAIRE B. POTTER: In Search Of The History That Hasn't Happened: Caster Semenya, Gender Barriers And The Right To Compete (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

WENDY MCELROY: Prepurchase Rand Bio (by Jennifer Burns) at Discounted Price (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Nancy Gibbs: The Other Bill Clinton (on Chelsea Clinton) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Glenn Greenwald: Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marina Hyde: The special relationship is special to only one side (Roundup: Media's Take)

Luther Spoehr: Review of Peter Morris's Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero (Ivan R. Dee, 2009). (Books)

Andrew J. Enterline and Joseph Magagnoli: Counterinsurgency Wars do succeed (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Sleeper: Can Anything Change the Conversation? Maybe This Can. (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Max Boot: Historian Fred Kagan says we need 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Dayo Olopad and Eboni Farmer: Black President, Black Caucus, More Powerful Than Ever? (Roundup: Media's Take)

John R. Bohrer: The Time The President Didn't Intervene (Roundup: Talking About History)

Decoding Jackson Pollock (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Chess: Ex-champions meet again, but the stakes have changed (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rhodes Cook: Congressional Democrats: From Minority to Majority...and Back Again? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Baehr: Reviewing Podhoretz's 'Why Are Jews Liberals?' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Magritte Painting Stolen at Gunpoint (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Julie Taymor's 'Lion King' costumes join Smithsonian collection (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Recording Pioneer Who Led Classical Music's Hi-Fi Wave (Obituaries)

Interview with Francine Prose on her new book about the life and legacy of Anne Frank (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stars Celebrate Communist China's 60th Anniversary [audio 56 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Michael Freund: Impatient Obama Is No Gandhi (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Ignatius: Seeing Afghanistan Through British Eyes (Roundup: Media's Take)

Edmund Conway: We are entering a new age of protectionism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard on Display in Birmingham Museum, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Roger Cohen: The Miracle of Dullness (Germany) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Professor JB Kelly, 84, was one of the foremost commentators on the Middle East (Obituaries)

Kirk Cameron monkeys with Darwin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel Okrent: Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City (Roundup: Talking About History)

Stephen Rademaker: Why Democrats Fail at Arms Control (Roundup: Media's Take)

Edwin Black: When Zionists made a deal with the Nazis (Roundup: Talking About History)

Fred Siegel: The Romance of Evil: A new film tells the disturbing story of the Baader-Meinhof gang (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Brent: Postmodern Stalinism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Henninger: From Bismarck to Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Naked Hope Diamond Is Rare Sight Indeed (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tavis Smiley brings touring blockbuster on African American history to L.A. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Fred Siegel: Is Mayor Bloomberg a great problem solver? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tom Engelhardt: A Military That Wants Its Way (Roundup: Historians' Take)

P.D. Smith: Russia's Doomsday Machine was real (Roundup: Talking About History)

"Nuclear disarmament" [audio] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

British Museum Presents First Exhibition to Examine the Semi-Mythical Statues of Moctezuma (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Victor Davis Hanson: Barack Obama, College Administrator (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harry Edwards: The Fire This Time [video 21 minutes 54 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

American Chinatown: Bonnie Tsui [video 32 minutes 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Kim Phillips-Fein: Is the conservative movement dead? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Greenberg: Everyone talks about the "paranoid style," but what did Hofstadter really mean by it? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ido Oren and Ty Solomon: Duelfer 5 Years Later ... WMD as a scare tactic (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mystery Still Swirls Around Alcatraz Escape [audio 7 minutes 47 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Thomas E. Sebrell II: The Charleston-Liverpool Civil War Connection (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tim Fernholz: The Vietnamization of Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Gannon: Taking matters into his own hands, 57th anniversary of the speech that changes RN's life (Roundup: Talking About History)

Victor Davis Hanson: No Rules in the Arena? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

ICC Prosecutor Makes Case Against Sudan's President [video 10 minutes 9 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Life and Death of a Mexican Environmental Prophet: Felipe Arreaga Sanchez (Obituaries)

Ben Shapiro: Barack Obama: The Black Jimmy Carter (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Parry: Neocon Judge's History of Cover-ups (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stephen Mihm: Why capitalism fails: The man who saw the meltdown coming had another troubling insight: it will happen again (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Algonquin Writers' Work No Longer Lost [audio 6 minutes 48 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Serious Story Behind 'The Informant' [audio 6 minutes 40 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

AndrewMc : A Pictoral History of Racism in the United States (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Escape From Alcatraz And A 47-Year Manhunt [audio 7 minutes 46 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Rupert Cornwell: It's not Vietnam, but parallels are growing (Roundup: Media's Take)

Akiva Eldar: So what if Obama wants to move peace process forward? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Carol Becker: Forty Years Later Calley Speaks Up (Roundup: Talking About History)

Scott McLemee: The King of Pompeii (on the history of Neoconservatism) (Roundup: Media's Take)

King Tut Arrives at Denver Art Museum for Summer (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Crowley: The Limits of Afghanistan Analogies (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tim Rutten: A crash course in American coarseness (Roundup: Media's Take)

Editorial in the LA Times: The Bagram difference ... Equating the Afghanistan air base with Guantanamo is a mistake (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nile Gardiner: The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eric Margolis: It's shades of Vietnam as U.S. commanders beg for more troops to fight in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ultrasound Pioneer Offered Early Glimpses Inside Body (Obituaries)

At the Julius Shulman memorial (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dan Brown, debunked (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Taylor Marsh: The WJC Tapes and Beyond (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gerald Posner: How Obama Flubbed His Missile Message (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Burr: Intelligence and the Detection of the First Soviet Nuclear Test, September 1949 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Very civilised savages: A new exhibition asks who were more brutal - the Aztecs, or the 300 Europeans who annihilated them? (London) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Enron play is gripping allegory for our times (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Arthur B. Laffer: Taxes, Depression, and Our Current Troubles (Roundup: Media's Take)

Edwin Black: Coke and Confiscation Coca-Cola Accused of Near-Criminal Collusion in Egypt’s Anti-Jewish Ethnic Cleansing (Roundup: Talking About History)

Visualization showing reported occupations in the United States Labor Force from 1850-2000 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Harvey Wasserman: Tom Friedman's idiocy atomique (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Does Iran want to be a pariah? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Barry Rubin: How the West's Enemies Are Saving It (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Max Boot: Stingy on the Medal of Honor (Roundup: Historians' Take)

John B. Judis: The only way Obama can pull his presidency back from the brink (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Lind: Intellectual conservatism, RIP (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kandinsky's DNA (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Laura Miller: A masterly literary history does justice to our country's best and worst moments (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bret Stephens: Summits of Folly (Roundup: Media's Take)

Editorial in the New Republic: Madison Weeps ... How healthcare revealed the sickness of our political system (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Brooks: Three Cheers for Irving (Roundup: Talking About History)

Matt Latimer: Me Talk Presidential One Day (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark E. Caprio and Yu Jia: Legacies of Empire and Occupation: The Making of the Korean Diaspora in Japan (Roundup: Talking About History)

Sakurai Kunitoshi with an introduction by Gavan McCormack: The Guam Treaty as a Modern "Disposal" of the Ryukyus (Roundup: Media's Take)

Elizaveta Mukasei, Soviet Spy, Is Dead at 97 (Obituaries)

Bernie Fuchs, Illustrator for Magazines and Advertisements, Dies at 76 (Obituaries)

The Man Who Made Oz: L. Frank Baum and the first American fairy tale (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

William McGurn: When Speechwriters Kiss and Tell (Roundup: Media's Take)

Historian: Clinton Said Lewinsky Affair Came When He 'Just Cracked' [video 2 minutes, 18 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

David Shambaugh: China's 60th Birthday: The Road to Prosperity (Roundup: Media's Take)

Roger Cohen: Of Polish Angst and NATO (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Rockefeller: Present at the Trade Wars (Roundup: Media's Take)

Arnaud de Borchgrave: Middle East tunnel vision (Roundup: Media's Take)

Time religion editor who asked "Is God Dead?" is dead at 78 (Obituaries)

Victor Davis Hanson: Desperately Seeking a Healthcare Bill (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alan Caruba: At War with Iran for Thirty Years (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: Peace Process or War Process? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Fans of Jane Austen are joined by hundreds in full Regency costume trying to break world record (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Brent: Postmodern Stalinism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Russell Jacoby: When Freud Came to America (Roundup: Talking About History)

Former George W. Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer says it's more than about Bush (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Church museum holds treasures of Mormon past (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James Q. Wilson: A Life in the Public Interest (on the passing of Irving Kristol) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Heirs of Comic Book Creator Seek to Recapture Copyrights (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Amon Carter Museum Presents Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820-1970 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Exhibition of Prints by Edvard Munch Goes on Display at the National Gallery of Ireland (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Historic 3-Year Louvre Atlanta Partnership Brings in Over 1.3 Million Visitors to the High (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Wallraff-Richartz Museum in Cologne Shows Painting by Vincent van Gogh (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Yoo: Obama Risks National Security Disasters of '70s (Roundup: Media's Take)

"Atomic cold cream" [video 1 min 35 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Leaving a Mark: The Story of An Auschwitz Survivor" [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Union Soldier Comes Home, 147 Years Later" [podcast 3 min 26 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Andrew Feffer. Review of Christopher Bigsby's Arthur Miller: 1915-1962 (Harvard, 2009) (Books)

Richard Wolffe: Barack Obama confronts America over the racial divide (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kathy Shaidle: Media Matters' Lie of the Day: "Right-Wingers" Killed Kennedy — and They're Back (Roundup: Media's Take)

Susannah Kopecky: The Character Assassination of John Adams (Roundup: Media's Take)

WSJ Editorial: Irving Kristol, The man who put 'neo' into conservatism. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Brett Arends: Lessons of a Bull Market That Never Happened (Roundup: Media's Take)

Coco Chanel, Traveling a Hard Road to the Little Black Dress (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

NYT Book Review: Tips for Obama from LBJ (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Krenov, Wood and Word Worker, Is Dead at 88 (Obituaries)

Peter Boone and Simon Johnson: The Recession Is Over — for Now (Roundup: Media's Take)

Vincent Rossmeier: Is the Internet melting our brains? An Interview with Dennis Baron (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Cullen: Review of Dennis Baron's A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Oxford, 2009) (Books)

Steven Hill: Senate "Minority Rule" Is the Disease, Not the Cure, for Health Care Reform (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of September 13, 2009

Roundup

Historic cathedrals face repair struggle as English Heritage grant is cut (Breaking News)

Boehner: 'Tea Party' Protests a Legitimate 'Political Rebellion' (Breaking News)

Al Capone's Hideout for Sale (Breaking News)

Pair to present research on Stockton's Latino history (California) (Historians in the News)

Historian Douglas Brinkley Portrays A 'green' Theodore Roosevelt (Historians in the News)

Controversial motorway in Ireland is 90% complete (Breaking News)

Archaeologists fight to get back Neolithic Indian artifacts (Breaking News)

Rice existed 4,000 years ago in Yangtze basin (Breaking News)

Orkney dig gives clear picture of life in Neolithic Britain (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Justice for Latin America's Disappeared? (Breaking News)

Seven Former Heads of the CIA Press for End to Abuse Inquiry (Breaking News)

Global Warming Reopens the Northeast Passage (Breaking News)

Surveyors rededicate a marker from which the government drew boundaries for reservations. (Breaking News)

On John Maynard Keynes: The Old Economist, Relevant Amid the Rubble (Historians in the News)

The soldier who led a battlefield prayer service for Jewish soldiers in Germany in 1944 (Breaking News)

Get Out of Jail Free: Monopoly's Hidden Maps (Breaking News)

Uncovering a Small Town (and Some Tall Tales) (NY) (Breaking News)

Scots mining disaster remembered (Breaking News)

Memorial honours Poland's WWII heroes (Breaking News)

Gurkhas to declare independent state in India (Breaking News)

Angry French farmers dump millions of litres of milk by Mont Saint-Michel (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber innocence claim condemned by Scotland's law chief (Breaking News)

Pelosi: Health Reform Rhetoric Reminiscent of Violence in '70s (Breaking News)

Bush Interior Secretary Faces Corruption Probe (Breaking News)

Lockerbie Bomber Hopes Released Documents Will Clear His Name (Breaking News)

Rembrandt work unseen for 40 years to be sold (Breaking News)

Iran's Ahmadinejad Questions Whether Holocaust was a 'Real Event' (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Almost to Normal (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Environmental historian to mark 45th anniversary of Wilderness Act in Hamilton (Historians in the News)

Texas Board decides to keep Christmas in textbooks (Breaking News)

Second Temple Period Stepped Street Discovered in Israel (Breaking News)

1617 village is first suburb of Jamestown (USA) (Breaking News)

'Alexander the Sexy' Seen in New Portrait (Breaking News)

Bulgaria Archaeologists Find Unique Cult Complex at Perperikon (Breaking News)

Spain charges alleged ex-Nazis as accessories to crimes against humanity (Breaking News)

Former Bush Official: Obama's Policies Are Like Hitler's and Peron's (Breaking News)

Ahmadinejad Denies Holocaust Yet Again (Breaking News)

Tiny T. Rex Startles Scientists (Breaking News)

Warsaw Fears Second-Tier Status (Breaking News)

President Lincoln's Cottage Launches a New Online Program (Breaking News)

Irving Kristol Is Dead at 89 (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: And Now This .... Dear Gawd! (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S. (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: Daniel Shays is Crazy (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : Coming Soon! (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)

Roundup

Newsweek lists historian Kathleen Canning among great professors students love (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : MAY YOU BE INSCRIBED IN THE BOOK OF LIFE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT HIGGS: Mirabile Dictu — An Intelligent Foreign Policy Decision (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Veterans and villagers gather to remember Battle of Arnhem (Breaking News)

Lawrence of Arabia letters discovered (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Military Blogs: The First Pages of History (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Lockerbie bomber releases appeal dossier online in new bid to clear his name (Breaking News)

Mary Queen of Scots' last letter on display (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... September 21-28, 2009 (This Week in History)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... September 7-13, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

Richard Norton Smith, Presidential Historian on Obama vs Lincoln and Roosevelt [video] (Historians in the News)

9/11 as a Lesson, Not a Memory (Breaking News)

Activists in Texas say Chavez, Marshall must be taught (Breaking News)

How Jack the Ripper's five victims turned to prostitution after their marriages failed (Breaking News)

Bill Schoneberger, 83; U.S Aviation Historian (Historians in the News)

Floyd Martin Clay, 81, historian and author (Historians in the News)

Presidential historian appointed to direct LBJ Library (Historians in the News)

Planck Snaps Its First Images of Ancient Cosmic Light (Breaking News)

Resistance in Armenia to protocol with Turkey (Breaking News)

Google takes books from digital back to paperbacks (Breaking News)

U.S. To Shelve Bush's Nuclear-Missile Shield (Breaking News)

First systematic excavation of Englands ancient Hadrian Wall underway (Breaking News)

Historic Railroad Bridge in New York State Becomes Part of National Trails System (Breaking News)

Project to Survey Holocaust-Era Mass Graves (Breaking News)

Bush vets: Who is Matt Latimer? (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIAN WAR OF ATTRITION ACCELERATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

John Dichtl and Robert B. Townsend: Preliminary Results from the 2008 Survey of Public History Professionals (Historians in the News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: Policing the Boundaries of Dissent (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOLDSTONE PLEASES TERRORIST HAMAS/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Joe Wilson to David Frum, "You lie!" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

JRR Tolkien trained as British spy (Breaking News)

Letter found that led to Indians' 'Trail of Tears' (Breaking News)

Habsburg family demands right to seek Austrian presidency (Breaking News)

D-Day memorial in dire need (Breaking News)

Rare Coins: Family Treasure or Ill-Gotten Goods? (Breaking News)

History of House Disciplinary Actions (Breaking News)

Remains of Civil War blockade runner found on bottom of Hillsborough River (Breaking News)

British historian says FDR has some complex lessons for Obama (Historians in the News)

German organic gardening guru Alwin Seifert took tips from Dachau experiments (Breaking News)

56% Still Blame Bush For Economic Problems (Breaking News)

Historic Roman salt store found on mudflats (Breaking News)

Scotland's 500-year-old 'unflushed loo' a goldmine for archaeologists (Breaking News)

Hidden Figurines of Aphrodite of Roman Empire Era Discovered in Hippos (Breaking News)

Stalin grandson in court fight to clear dictator's name (Breaking News)

Diversity Increases at Public Historically Black Colleges (Breaking News)

Michigan to Remove Indian Dioramas from Natural History Museum (Breaking News)

U.S. returns stolen fossils to China (Breaking News)

Archaeologists find 2,000-year-old depiction of menorah (Breaking News)

Spain Cancels Memorial Mass for Franco (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Coyotes Need To Eat, Too (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Blacks in Mexico: A Forgotten Minority (Breaking News)

OAH Strategic Planning Committee sends up a red flare (and asks for members' response) (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : TO MSM: WHERE WERE YOU? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

WENDY MCELROY: A New Police Power Emerges (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

AHA policy change restores press freedoms (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : IRAN' PREOCCUPATION and OURS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

The untold story of Obama's mother (Breaking News)

Paddy the pigeon decorated for bravery in fight against Hitler (Breaking News)

Aborigines demand that British Museum returns Truganini bust (Breaking News)

Gaddafi's heir leaves clue to his world vision in his Phd (Breaking News)

Dementia may have been caused by the Second World War, says scientist (Breaking News)

Hoard of 10,000 Roman coins found (Breaking News)

Finnish genocide trial in Rwanda (Breaking News)

Obama renews Cuba trade embargo (Breaking News)

Tony Blair: 'I don't miss being Prime Minister' (Breaking News)

Legendary man-eating New Zealand bird 'did exist' (Breaking News)

Cuba allows religion in prisons for first time in 50 years (Breaking News)

Hollywood blockbusters about Abraham Lincoln to clash (Breaking News)

New book claims George W Bush said Barack Obama 'has no clue' (Breaking News)

Carter: Racism plays major role in opposition to Obama (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ENJOY CINDERELLA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SPME CALL FOR ACTION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE DEFIANCE CONTINUES; WAR MAY BE COMING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Human Rights Group Assailed for Analyst's Nazi Collection (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOLDSTONE REPORT EMPOWERS TERRORISTS/UPDATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

History Departments Struggle in a Depressing Economy (Historians in the News)

Time Mag. solicits readers' questions for Ken Burns (Historians in the News)

A hero's welcome awaits Iraqi shoe thrower (Breaking News)

Rome's Colosseum needs urgent restoration work (Breaking News)

Human Rights Watch suspends researcher who collected Nazi memorabilia (Breaking News)

War criminal granted early release (Breaking News)

Why the shock about Joe Wilson? (Breaking News)

FBI seizes letter from Jackie Kennedy to RFK's widow (Breaking News)

Bush 'shoe thrower' claims he was tortured in prison (Breaking News)

Henry Harrison's colour photos give stunning image of Victorian age (Breaking News)

Census shows Jack the Ripper victims led "respectable" lives (Breaking News)

Former Soviet officer accused of massacre (Breaking News)

Stone Age satnav: Did ancient man use 5,000-year-old travel chart to navigate across Britain (Breaking News)

Russia Split On Stalin: Hero Or Villain? (Breaking News)

Analyst suspended over Nazi hobby (Breaking News)

Musharraf admits US aid diverted (Breaking News)

Obama Rejects Afghanistan-Vietnam Comparison (Breaking News)

Da Vinci author's 'uproar' warning (Historians in the News)

Sikh author short listed for historian award (Historians in the News)

Islam can't be compared with Nazi Germany (Breaking News)

Apollo Moon Rocks Lost ... On Earth (Breaking News)

The Economic Freeze on History (Historians in the News)

Peter C. Mancall on "Why a Fourth Grader Knows More About Henry Hudson Than You Do" (Historians in the News)

Canterbury Cathedral repaired with duct tape (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

R. Bruce Craig Signs Contract for Biography of Alger Hiss (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Pew reports that a majority admit not understanding the health care debate (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Nicholas Thompson's trump card in writing about Nitze and Kennan (Historians in the News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: My New Article on the Great Depression (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Excerpts from Ted Kennedy's Memoir published by Politico (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: What’s the Point of Demonstrating? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: An Interesting Website (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Iraqi Shoe Thrower's Release From Prison Postponed (Breaking News)

Bin Laden Calls Obama 'Powerless' in New Tape (Breaking News)

Google Ignores 9/11 as Other Search Engines Commemorate Solemn Anniversary (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: John Stossel: Why is Health Insurance so Expensive? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Russia's ambassador in Kabul on fighting the Taliban: Don't bother with more troops (Breaking News)

The day a bomb fell on us: Queen Mother's tale of the day the Luftwaffe came to town (Breaking News)

History in danger as only 30% of pupils take subject at GCSE (UK) (Breaking News)

Natural History Museum takes punt on discovery of Loch Ness monster in deal with bookmaker (Breaking News)

Hague official guilty of contempt (Breaking News)

Teddy's First 'True Compass' Was Dad, Who Taught Him Not to Cry or Complain (Breaking News)

Attacks Were Defining Moment for Obama (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

The Retreat of the Tongue of the Czars (Breaking News)

Fromelles grave excavation ends (Breaking News)

Award for 'bravest street in WWI' (UK) (Breaking News)

Most ancient coloured twine found (Georgia) (Breaking News)

The last living link to WWI combat (Australia) (Breaking News)

Latvian enthusiasts unveil replica 1910 plane (Breaking News)

Historic Russian settlement at risk in California (Breaking News)

Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' (Breaking News)

Letter reveals how Queen Mother and George VI were nearly killed by German bomb (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber gets standing ovation from African MPs (Breaking News)

Natural History Museum bets on Loch Ness monster (Breaking News)

Thousands of 'tea party' protesters march against Barack Obama in Washington (Breaking News)

Harris tweed maker drops 'Scottish' marketing over Lockerbie release (Breaking News)

Axelrod Says 'Tea Party' Protesters Are 'Wrong' (Breaking News)

Report: Convicted Lockerbie Bomber's Health Has Deteriorated Rapidly (Breaking News)

Report: FBI Probing 'Stolen' Jackie Kennedy Note (Breaking News)

Aide: Obama doesn't think tea partiers are racist (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: This is Not a Review (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Closing The Book On The Bush Legacy (Breaking News)

Vanity Fair Profile: Henry Paulson's Legacy (Breaking News)

Blogs

WENDY MCELROY: Are The Brownies to Become Brownie Shirts? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

STEVEN HORWITZ: RIP: Norman Borlaug (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: This Shouldn't Surprise You! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Eric Boehlert: A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Steele Gordon: Don't Bet Against New York (Roundup: Talking About History)

Claude Cartaginese: Obama to Russia: We Surrender! (Roundup: Media's Take)

Route 66 history has a new home in Carthage, Missouri (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

William Wong: Oakland CA Chinatown Makes Aviation History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Malcolm Wilkey, Noted Judge, Dies at 90 (Obituaries)

Gil Troy: Playing the Race Card Makes for Ugly Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Noam Chomsky: Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect (Roundup: Media's Take)

Manuel Pastor: Putting Poverty in Its Place (Roundup: Media's Take)

Judith Miller: Three reminders of terrorism's enduring threat (Roundup: Media's Take)

Interview with Susan Seitel: A Historical Perspective On Work-Family (Roundup: Talking About History)

Interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin: In 'True Compass,' Kennedy Finally Felt Free To Reflect [audio 6 minutes, 45 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Joanne B. Freeman: Joe Wilson’s War (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Bob Oakes with Doris Kearns Goodwin: In 'True Compass,' Kennedy Finally Felt Free To Reflect (Roundup: Historians' Take)

BBC Editorial and Opinions: Is it OK to collect Nazi memorabilia? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Ahmadinejad's Raving Lunatic Anti-Semitism (Roundup: Historians' Take)

HMS Victory future secured as National Museum of the Royal Navy gets 64-cannon launch (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Silver: A Short History of Fast Times on Wall Street (Roundup: Media's Take)

H.D.S. Greenway: Regional Divides (Roundup: Media's Take)

Samir Ghattas: Let's try something else (on Israel and Palestine) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter N. Kirstein: Address on "Constitution Day" Panel (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Kaiser: The Supreme Court in historical perspective (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Iain Martin: Cold War Lessons Lost on Obama? (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Horowitz: Why Israel is the Victim and the The Arabs Are the Indefensible Aggressors In The Middle East (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ben Johnson: Jimmy Carter's Record on Race (Roundup: Media's Take)

A City Reinvents Itself Beyond Conflict (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thad Carhart: Imagining the Past in Paris (Roundup: Talking About History)

SUNY Plattsburgh Finds, Donates Ancient Fossil to New York State Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tate Gallery Anounces Exhibition for 2010 Including First Major Gauguin Exhibition (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ralph Peters: Obama Feeds U.S. Allies to the Russian Bear (Roundup: Media's Take)

David E. Sanger and William J. Broad: New Missile Shield Strategy Scales Back Reagan's Vision (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Is America Hooked on War? (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Horowitz: The Shadow Party (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left, Too Left (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Salam Al-Marayati: U.S. Jews, Muslims must look forward, not back (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gene Lyons: Obama gets the Clinton treatment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Getting the most out of Viking treasure (York) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Max Boot: The Goldstone Report (Roundup: Media's Take)

Myles Brand, First College President to Lead NCAA, Dies at 67 (Obituaries)

Tom Engelhardt: War Is Peace (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Race exhibit lined up for Missouri History Museum in January (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies at 72 (Obituaries)

Mel Simon: He Built America's First Megamall (Obituaries)

Warren Breckman: Canadians faced a hard fight for national health insurance too (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alexander Zaitchik: Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life (Roundup: Media's Take)

Chip Ward: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bruce Judson: Economic Inequality: The Wall Street Journal Is Just Wrong (Roundup: Media's Take)

Caravaggio Masterpiece to Make Rare Chicago Appearance at the Art Institute (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" to Arrive in New York City in April 2010 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Juan Cole: Is Afghanistan Vietnam or Iraq? Arguing with Obama and Rubin (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Richard Dreyfuss: We must resume teaching civics (Roundup: Media's Take)

Hollywood blockbusters about Abraham Lincoln to clash (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Historian David Gibson and the extraordinary Lady Diamantina Bowen [audio 28 minutes, 36 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Why Obama Blinked: An Interview with Victor David Hanson (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Daniel Pipes: One Cheer for Obama's Foreign Policy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

92-Year-Old Tops Beatles on British Charts (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Juan Cole : US Dependence on Northern Supply Routes destabilizing North, Threatening Central Asia (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Brooks: High-Five Nation (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Sam Ferguson: Beating Up Thurgood Marshall (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mike Kohr: Tmes Marches On, But Not Always Forward (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steve Benen: Remember GWB? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Multiple Historians Comment on: What Is Socialism in 2009? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mark Naison: The Serena Williams Meltdown and the Politics of Gender and Race (Roundup: Historians' Take)

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Diane Ravitch: Critical thinking? You need knowledge (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Max Blumenthal: The history of modern conservatism starts with R.J. Rushdoony (Roundup: Talking About History)

"Helen Hayes on Women in Service after World War II" [podcast 3 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Artists Create Works About Mary Magdalene Inspired by Met's New Opening Night Production (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jeffrey Gaab: Review of Eric Kurlander's Living With Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (Yale, 2009) (Books)

Lee Siegel: Is Obama the New Nixon? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Crowley: Why is Obama repeating Bush's Iraq mistakes...in Afghanistan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Parmet : Review of Constance Rosenblum's Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in The Bronx (New York University Press, 2009) (Books)

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Taking issue with Carl Becker's essay, "Everyman His Own Historian" (Roundup: Talking About History)

From the boardroom to the boards – ex-Lehman bankers turn to the stage in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Inquiry begins into restoration at Bolshoi and missing millions (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Darwin Centre opens to the public (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln project to go ahead despite competition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rave reviews as Washington gets the Dan Brown treatment with The Lost Symbol (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dominic Sandbrook: Once upon a time there was a subject called history . . . (UK) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jody Powell, Trusted Aide to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 65 (Obituaries)

Catherine Rampell: Same Old Hope: This Bubble Is Different (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Our National 9/11 Schizophrenia (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Poet-Rocker Jim Carroll Dead (Obituaries)

Ross Douthat: The Ghosts of 1994 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adam Kirsch: book review, "A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel" doesn't hold up (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bill Whalen : Crime Makes a Comeback in California Politics (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gordon Crovitz: Free Speech, Now that Speech Is Free (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Spencer: The Qur'an: Israel Is Not for the Jews (Roundup: Talking About History)

John William Templeton: Ken Burns' The National Parks and Historic American Beach (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harvey Wasserman: Will the Corporate Supremes now dance on democracy's corpse? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Clare L. Spark: Oil politics and Obama's "Israel" (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Vyacheslav Nikonov: Western WWII Amnesia: It Was USSR that 'Saved Humanity' (Roundup: Talking About History)

Andrew Hartman: Review of Sam Tanenhaus's The Death of Conservatism (Books)

Nicholas Thompson: Did Henry Kissinger Really Plan ‘An Accident’ for Bud Zumwalt? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Stephen Hess: America's Top Dynasty? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Meyer: The picnic that brought down the Berlin Wall (Roundup: Talking About History)

Moshe Dann: Netanyahu’s Deft Touch (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Heidi Przybyla: Socialism Threat Has Long History for Health-Care Overhaul Foes (Roundup: Media's Take)

"Karl Marx's Das Kapital" [podcast 4 min 39 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"The Story of the GI Bill" [podcast 30 min 43 sec and 26 min 03 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

American Presidents Archive [schedule of broadcasts] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Hiding In Spotlight, Jewish Pianist Survived WWII" [podcast 10 min 8 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

School Days: A History of Public Education [podcast 54 min 56 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Murray Polner: Review of Michael J. Allen, Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War (North Carolina, 2009) (Books)

A Work of Art at the University of Leicester has Captured in Time the Human Tragedy of the 9/11 Atrocity (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ross Douthat: The Ghosts of 1994 (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Carroll: Obama Must End 'Pottery Barn' Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

A dance for Darwinism - ballet based on evolutionary theory set to tour the UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We abandon the teaching of history at our peril (UK) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Film inspires Dame Judi Dench's plan for Yorkshire Rose to rival Globe (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Boris Johnson: Dr Johnson was a slobbering, sexist xenophobe who understood human nature (Roundup: Talking About History)

Andrew Roberts: Was Margaret Thatcher right to fear a united Germany? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Top Venice award for Israeli film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Harold Meyerson: In Wal-Mart's Image (Roundup: Talking About History)

Albert R. Hunt: Obamacare Can't Win an All-In Wager (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Nedelkoff: Larry Gelbart, 1928-2009 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stephen Hess: America's Top Dynasty? (Roundup: Media's Take)

“A New World – A Life of Thomas Paine” at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Father of 'Green Revolution' Dies (Obituaries)

9/11 Museum to Address Role of Hijackers (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

NYT Editorial: Justice Delayed (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard J. Evans: Why Hitler's grand plan during the second world war collapsed (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeffrey Rosen: The Trial of John Roberts (Roundup: Media's Take)

New Chapter for Moscow's Toy Story (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Juan Almeida Bosque, Laborer Who Rose to Power at Castro’s Side, Dies at 82 (Obituaries)

Maureen Dowd: Boy, Oh, Boy (Obama as the 'outsider') (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Merkin, Painter, Illustrator and Fashion Plate, Dies at 70 (Obituaries)

David Mamet's new play is about race (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Joseph Cunneen: Review of Paul Moses's The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday 2009) (Books)

Week of September 6, 2009

Roundup

Why No More 9/11s? (Breaking News)

The Lehman Shock ... why it mattered more in the rest of the world (Breaking News)

Historian Rebecca Solnit talks about how 9-11 should be remembered (Historians in the News)

Ancient site in Guernsey could be fenced off (Channel Islands) (Breaking News)

Destruction at archaeological sites following Dakar Rally (Breaking News)

Excavations at Prastion - Mesorotsos (Cyrprus) (Breaking News)

Japanese help uncover ancient Peru remains (Breaking News)

Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin (Breaking News)

Oldest-known fiber materials discovered in Georgia (Breaking News)

Cave painting from Pech-Merle, Dordogne: measurement of the hand stencils suggests that some artists were female (Breaking News)

Iron Age roundhouse unearthed at Scottish farm (Breaking News)

Death for D.C. Sniper? (Breaking News)

Cambodia's Trial of the Century, Televised (Breaking News)

Prosecutor to Review Patient Deaths After Katrina (Breaking News)

A real estate magnate seeks to export the Korean Alphabet (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: "A Thing They Never Dreamed Of" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Previously Classified Interviews with Former Soviet Officials Reveal U.S. Strategic Intelligence Failure Over Decades (Breaking News)

Violence Over Slavery on the Floor of the US Senate (Breaking News)

Best political communication book of the decade is ... (Historians in the News)

SAS training soldiers from Libyan regime that provided explosives to IRA terrorists (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Let History Inform the Debate over Tel Aviv at the Toronto International Film Festival (Mark A. LeVine)

Roundup

Kennedy memoir e-book release delayed 'indefinitely' (Breaking News)

Sept. 11 galvanizes US troops in Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Voters Turn Negative On All Political Labels Except Reagan (Breaking News)

Historian defends more research on Neto's legacy (Historians in the News)

Neolithic human figurine found in Turkey (Breaking News)

Sunken World War II Navy patrol boat found (Breaking News)

Many U.S. Muslims still struggle with 9/11 (Breaking News)

Taiwan ex-leader jailed for life (Breaking News)

California Declares Filipino American History Month (Breaking News)

Debate over U.S. history curriculum in Texas schools resumes (Breaking News)

Girl in Iconic Vietnam War Photo Brings Message of Hope (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: And Every Knee Shall Bend (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Obama's Coalition of the Withering: Japan Defects (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Rep. Joe Wilson tied to racist southern heritage group (Breaking News)

Tony Judt again accused of laying the "groundwork for Israel's death" (Historians in the News)

Memorial for Japan skyscraper man (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Thatcher and Kohl clashed over unity after Fall of the Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Pelosi rates Obama's speech one for the ages (Breaking News)

Charlie Sheen claims US government was behind 9/11 (Breaking News)

Contemporary art storms Versailles (Breaking News)

PM apology after Turing petition (UK) (Breaking News)

Obama tackles UK PM on Lockerbie (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOLDSTONE TO BE USED FOR ONSLAUGHT ON ISRAEL/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Obama on 9/11: 'No words can ease the ache of your hearts' (Breaking News)

Bernard A. Weisberger tells how he came to eavesdrop on the Japanese military during WW II (Historians in the News)

Iraq cries for help to restore ancient sites (Breaking News)

Spain supports Palestinian statehood on 1967 borders (Breaking News)

FBI Informant Says Agents Missed Chance to Stop 9/11 Ringleader Mohammed Atta (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historian Predicts Dan Brown Theme, Reveals New Lost Symbols (Historians in the News)

Historian Levine to write Mackenzie King bio (Historians in the News)

A Bit of History on Presidents and Joint Sessions (Breaking News)

Leonardo da Vinci's Atlantic Codex goes on display in Milan (Breaking News)

Three men are cycling Hannibal's route from Spain into Italy (Breaking News)

Bible-era mystery vessel found - code stumps experts (Breaking News)

Court to probe Afghan war crimes (Breaking News)

Mitterrand told Thatcher: United Germany might allow another Hitler (Breaking News)

Harvard Crimson Newspaper says Holocaust denial ad published by accident (Breaking News)

Indian artifacts discovered in Houston Bayou (Breaking News)

Russian Schools to Teach 'The Gulag Archipelago' (Breaking News)

Museum asks public for new videos of 9/11 attacks (Breaking News)

Echoes of Clinton in Obama speech (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IMAGES TIME WILL NOT ERASE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

GIL TROY: Obama's Speech Tries Breaking Reagan's Summer Curse (Gil Troy)

MARK BRADY: Censorship in Weimar Germany (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Geoscientist, historian named emerging scholars (Historians in the News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Who Said This? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: A Century of Visual Effects (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Search hopes to find 510-year-old Newfoundland church (Breaking News)

10,000 Roman coins unearthed by amateur metal detector enthusiast (Breaking News)

Colossal Apollo statue unearthed in Turkey (Breaking News)

Protests at Wyoming Over Naming Center for Cheney (Breaking News)

Vestiges of 2,700-year ancient village discovered in Khanh Hoa (Vietnam) (Breaking News)

Preston law firm makes ancient find (UK) (Breaking News)

"Da Vinci" lace seeks a new lease in Cyprus (Breaking News)

Lincoln's last signature?: Signed envelope, believed to be real, found at flea market (Breaking News)

Germany dedicates new fallen soldiers memorial (Breaking News)

Ancient Egyptian temples followed astronomy to set their calendars (Breaking News)

Theft of Greek column capital at Ancient Olympia (Breaking News)

Ancient riding tradition revived (Breaking News)

Civil War Battlefield Funding Taking Shape (Breaking News)

Alan Simons examines how Republic of Turkey saved Jewish lives (Historians in the News)

Georgian fossils 'indicate humans lived in Europe thousands of years earlier' (Breaking News)

Barack Obama is still loved in Europe, poll shows (Breaking News)

War crimes investigated in 1975 deaths of two British journalists (Breaking News)

Photo of 9/11 mastermind at Guantanamo Bay released (Breaking News)

Tea Partiers Call Movement Better Organized Than GOP (Breaking News)

N. Korea marks 61st Anniversary, Threatens U.S. (Breaking News)

Abu Ghraib's Lynndie England Sues Biographer Over Book About Prison Scandal (Breaking News)

Bill designating 'Harvey Milk Day' draws fire (Breaking News)

Friends, colleagues honor Walter Cronkite (Breaking News)

Australia to probe E Timor deaths (Breaking News)

Gladiators Were Vegetarians (Breaking News)

Colleges to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin (Historians in the News)

Germany gets its first monument for fallen soldiers since WWII (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

1881 Observatory at U. of Wisconsin at Madison Gets Makeover (Breaking News)

The Life of R. G. Collingwood (Historians in the News)

Clinton says GOP Waiting for Democrats to 'Mess Up' (Breaking News)

Cheney Almost Blew Britain's Case (Breaking News)

Bush Tried to Relax Detainee Treaty (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Hubris and the Hooker (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Dole's Quiet Duty: Honoring Veterans (Breaking News)

800-year-old apple 'healthiest to eat' (Breaking News)

Barack Obama accused of making 'Depression' mistakes (Breaking News)

Walt Disney originals found in Blackpool (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: And It's a Lot More Likely If Your Country Loses the War (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Bosnian war criminal in UK jail (Breaking News)

Libya 'surprise' at pay-out row (Breaking News)

Philip Pullman book denies Jesus was son of God (UK) (Breaking News)

German Parliament Exonerates Nazi Traitors (Breaking News)

Obama Wasn't the Only President to Spark Outrage Over Speech to Kids (Breaking News)

Dutch Royals Visit New York 400 Years After Henry Hudson's Historic Voyage (Breaking News)

Yale Removes Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad From Forthcoming Book, Citing Fears of Violence (Breaking News)

Clinton's advice to Obama: Forget about Republicans (Breaking News)

Labor Day reverence is lost, say historians (Breaking News)

Obituary: Charles Harrison: Art historian and critic celebrated (Historians in the News)

David Irving sparks row over Holocaust 'propaganda' (Historians in the News)

Obituary: Olga Amsterdamska (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: Exploring Academia (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NYT TRIES TO COVER UP FOR AN EGYPTIAN VAN JONES WANNABE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MORE REASONS FOR IRANIAN SCREAMING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Books to Baghdad (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RICK SHENKMAN: Obama's missed opportunity (Just How Stupid Are We?)

DAVID T. BEITO: Obama Or Palin: The Neocons Win Either Way (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

AEON J. SKOBLE: What kind of a country would arrest a journalist for covering a protest? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Queen Victoria's bloomers revealed (Breaking News)

Cheney 'put airline bomb plot case in jeopardy with arrest order of Rashid Rauf' (Breaking News)

Church of England recommends 7/7 bombers' mosque as tourist destination (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: An Ode to Tom Brydon -- and all TAs (Gil Troy)

Roundup

Easter Island: Giant statues give up hat mystery (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Cambodian PM opposes more Khmer Rouge arrests (Breaking News)

Taiwan's plan to take back mainland (Breaking News)

France plotted to save allies in Saddam Hussein's regime (Breaking News)

Laura Bush praises Obama, bemoans excessive partisanship (Breaking News)

Private Motive for Egypt's Public Embrace of a Jewish Past (Breaking News)

Abstract company keeps history of land (Breaking News)

Gaddafi son resists IRA pay-out (Breaking News)

Churchill: a liability to the free world (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA'S TWO AMERICAS: EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

MARK BRADY: The Myth of Afghan Terrorism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Looking back at Hudson River history on the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's epic sail (Breaking News)

Ground zero memorial still hasn't materialized (Breaking News)

National Mall's new leader to overhaul Lincoln and Jefferson memorials (Breaking News)

Pope Recalls 'Tragedy of the Holocaust' (Breaking News)

White House Adviser Resigns Amid 9/11 Controversy (Breaking News)

City's Cultural History Buffer Against Tough Economic Times (Breaking News)

Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors (Breaking News)

Japanese A-bomb survivors speak of dangers of a nuclear Japan (Breaking News)

Clinton's Health Defeat Sways Obama's Tactics (Breaking News)

1965 Civil Rights Killing Still Inching Its Way Toward Trial (Breaking News)

Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman says idea of Stalin-Hitler conspiracy makes no sense (Breaking News)

Russians and Swedes celebrate 200 years of peace (Breaking News)

Up Front: Drew Gilpin Faust (Historians in the News)

Teams Seeking Remains Dig Back to World War II (Breaking News)

Revolutionary-era soldier's skull found (Connecticut) (Breaking News)

Europe gains an edge in ax mystery (Breaking News)

Could Texas's Gingrich-Based High School History Curriculum Go National? (Breaking News)

Dig extended after ancient figurine is found in Orkney mud (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Queen's last letter to go on show (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Memorial honours lost servicemen (England) (Breaking News)

Taliban's Tank-Killing Bombs Came from U.S., Not Iran (Breaking News)

'U-turn' for PM on Libyan pay-out (Breaking News)

Liberia lays war victims to rest (Breaking News)

Barack Obama aide resigns over claim that 9/11 was a pretext for war (Breaking News)

'Insulting' Benito Mussolini granddaughter film postponed (Breaking News)

British Official Says Oil Was 'Very Big Part' of Lockerbie Talks (Breaking News)

Touring the Navy Yard, and History (Breaking News)

New York's Coldest Case: A Murder 400 Years Old (Breaking News)

Anti-HIV Ad Depicts Sex with Hitler (Breaking News)

From hoards of silver to a prisoner's ball and chain - scavengers are finding treasures on London riverbanks (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: When Vandalism is Heroic (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: Obama the Liberal Neocon (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Emily Witt: Bush and Obama: A Counterterrorism Comparison (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Nichols: Afghanistan Election Fraud and the High Price of Empire (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ken Burns, the Voice of the Wilderness (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stonehenge visitor centre looks 'cheap and nasty' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Poe archive from UT Austin goes online (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Winship: The death of Marine Joshua Bernard, captured in a controversial photo, reminds us of the war that won't end (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Horowitz: Lest We Forget: How the Left Undermined America's Security Before and After 9/11 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Elin Suleymanov: Making History in Person: A view from Azerbaijan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rodolfo Jose Bendana Castrillo: Sham American President 'Stains' Nicaraguan History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Thomas Klau: 'Cult of the Founding Fathers' is Obscuring America's Worldview (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andre Fontaine: The Danger to the West of Not 'Helping Russia' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dmitriy Orlov: Truman and Churchill No Better Than Stalin (Roundup: Talking About History)

Humberto Fontova: The enemy of my friend is my friend says Obama on Honduras (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeff Kisseloff: Was Hiss guilty? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Edwin Black: The Holocaust 'Industry' Is More About Money than Memory (Roundup: Talking About History)

Paul Wolfowitz: Has the U.S. Grown Complacent Since 9/11? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Clean-up reveals 'workshop' painting as genuine Velazquez (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Holocaust survivor can sue Spanish museum over Pissarro painting (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New York City’s ‘Birth Certificate’: $24 and All That (Exhibit) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Our Class" and the bloody history of Poland that refuses to die (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Forty years after its release, the makers of 'The Battle of Britain’ recall a film of stupendous ambition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Richard Wolffe: Obama-Cameron special relationship? (Roundup: Media's Take)

New Da Vinci Code book ‘to break publishing records’ amid unprecedented security (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andy Warhol paintings of sporting stars stolen (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New Charles Darwin film is 'too controversial' for religious American audiences (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dan Fletcher interviews Former New Jersey attorney general John Farmer: A New Look at the 9/11 Commission (Roundup: Media's Take)

Larry Gelbart, Comic Voice of 'M*A*S*H' (Obituaries)

Victor Davis Hanson: Our National 9/11 Schizophrenia (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Not This Pig, Some thoughts on the rocky road on which the Obama administration has set out. (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Once Upon a Time . . . Whatever happened to the old Barack Obama? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Van Jones' Resignation (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Frank Batten Put the Weather Channel On the Radar of Millions (Obituaries)

Isaac T. Woods: Is the GOP On the Cusp of Another 1994? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Yossi Alpher: What Is Peace? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Benjamin Schwarz: Life In (and After) Our Great Recession (Roundup: Talking About History)

James Ridgeway: Joe Wilson: Confederate Heritage Is "Honorable" (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter Bergen: Where's Osama Bin Laden? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tony Karon: Eight Years After 9/11: Why Osama bin Laden Failed (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peggy Noonan: The Children of 9/11 Grow Up (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Rivers Pitt: Eight Years Ago (Roundup: Talking About History)

9/11 museum to give visitors content warnings (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Juliet Lapidos: Is Obama the first president to get heckled during an address to Congress? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Carl F. Hovde, Former Columbia Dean, Dies at 82 (Obituaries)

John Steele Gordon: What's in a Name? If It's "Reagan," Quite a Lot (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Lacy K. Ford Jr: The Curse of One-Party Domination (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Voice memories part of National September 11 Memorial & Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New quarters will feature Hot Springs National Park (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nicole Frisone: Review of David Barber's A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed (Books)

Mary L. Dudziak: September 11 and the meaning of America (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Max Blumenthal: Joe Wilson's Strange Friends (Roundup: Media's Take)

Return of Faberge (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

WSJ Editorial: The Kerry Constancy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Fouad Ajami: 9/11 and the 'Good War' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eliza Gray: Samuel Johnson and the Virtue of Capitalism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Benjamin Schwarz: What the histories of the Depression era tell us about middle-class families in crisis, both then and now (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dr. Wilmer Leon: Afghanistan/Pakistan a New Vietnam? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rich Noyes: Today's Push for ObamaCare Matches Media Spin for HillaryCare in 1990s (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gregory McNamee: Getting Back to Roots: Alex Haley’s Epochal Novel Roots Turns 33 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Eamon Javers: Echoes of Clinton in Obama speech (Roundup: Media's Take)

WWII Museum lands an ally (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David C. Engerman: How Philip Mosely helped Soviet Studies moderate American policy (Roundup: Talking About History)

Meredith Hindley: The Transformation of "Advice and Consent" (Roundup: Talking About History)

Conn Hallinan: Afghanistan: What Are These People Thinking? (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Feehery: Why we don't heckle the president (Roundup: Media's Take)

Supna Zaidi: Saving Pakistan From Itself (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler: (A Street) By Any Other Name (Israel) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sultan Munadi: A Gentle Stalwart (Obituaries)

Richard Bernstein: Sadism Gets a Pass at the Movies (a review of Inglorious Basterds) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ronald Asmus: Europe and the Obama Bounce (Roundup: Media's Take)

Norman Podhoretz : Why Are Jews Liberals? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kristen Gerenche: What California's history means for nation's health-reform efforts (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark S. Schantz: What the "death-denying" culture of the contemporary United States might learn from the "death-embracing culture" of our nineteenth-century forebears (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Rebecca Solnit: How 9/11 Should Be Remembered (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tom Engelhardt: 9/11's Living Monuments (Roundup: Talking About History)

Christopher Hayes: Overcoming America's Debt Overhang ... The Case for Inflation (Roundup: Media's Take)

Irwin Stelzer: U.K. and U.S. Can Repair Relationship (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Parry: Ronald Reagan's Torture (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter Osnos: What Would Liebling Say Today? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jamie Glazov: The Communist Collapse: Twenty Years On, an Interview with Pavel Stroilov (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert Weiner and Jordan Osserman: Is the CIA's Excessive Secrecy Near an End? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Army Archerd Dies At 87 (Obituaries)

Daniel Brook: What Can We Learn About Mohamed Atta From His Work as a Student of Urban Planning? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Manga Version of Hitler's Mein Kampf Sells 45,000 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Controversial Berlin exhibition explores WWII in the developing world (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Movie: 'Berlin 36' tells how Nazis replaced Jewish woman athlete for man in drag (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Frederick Kagan: A Stable Pakistan Needs a Stable Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

How the Beatles rocked the Eastern Bloc (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Sylvia Schur, Food Editor and Developer of Cran-Apple and Metrecal, Dies at 92 (Obituaries)

Dick Berg, TV Producer and Screenwriter, Dies at 87 (Obituaries)

Kirk Bane: Review of Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood (Books)

Walid Phares: Beslan’s Horror ... Lowest Jihad deserving Global Response (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Beatlemania is back as hits become available online for first time (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andrew Alexander: In lessons of war, overlearning is often as big a danger as not learning at all (Roundup: Talking About History)

Following the Steps of John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Market Biron: An Exhibition of 100 Photographs (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ross K. Baker: History Shows Congress Can Seal President's Fate (Roundup: Media's Take)

Humberto Fontova: The Kennedys: Castro-Enablers? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ed Kilgore: Labor Day Regression (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Goodman: Why Honor Organized Labor? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Cold War Admiral Guided Navy's Antimissile Program (Obituaries)

Garry Wills: Conservatives ... The Tanenhaus Taxonomy (Roundup: Talking About History)

Alan Caruba: The Afghanistan Quagmire (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeanne Cummings: The pros and cons of reconciliation (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stephen Brown: Silence of the Graves (on Russia and Poland) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harvard's "New Literary History of America" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Zimmerman: The problem with Obama's speech to kids: It's bland (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Afghanistan by the Numbers, Measuring a War Gone to Hell (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Barry Rubin: The Limits of Polite Discourse: Exposing People to Evil Ideas or Exposing Evil Ideas as...Evil? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Oriard: Footbal and how today's game was shaped by the racial strife of 1969. (Roundup: Talking About History)

Adam Holland: Buchanan: Churchill caused World War II, fall of western civilization (Roundup: Talking About History)

Claire and Jim Castagnera review 'Inglorious Basterds' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

How E.L. Doctorow Does It (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ryu Murakami: Japan Comes of Age (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rudy Ruiz: Obama as teacher-in-chief (Roundup: Media's Take)

Carole Simpson: Why I'm not delighted by Sawyer move (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tim Harper: Japan's gamble to become a colonial power (Roundup: Talking About History)

Lawrence B. Glickman: Consumer Protection Redux: The Lessons of History (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Baumann: Which is the safer party? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Special Issue of OAH's Journal of American History: Abraham Lincoln at 200 ... History and Historiography (Roundup: Talking About History)

Colin Gordon: We’ve Been Here Before ... History and Health Reform (Roundup: Historians' Take)

The thoughts of Chairman Mao (starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dominic Lawson: Seventy years on, we are still appeasing dictators (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gil Troy: An ode to Tom Brydon - and all teaching assistants TAs are the unsung heroes of the university world (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Nelson Lichtenstein: This Labor Day, Is the World of Work a More Secure and Lawful Place? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

John Neffinger: The 3 Lost Lessons of Healthcare History: Will Obama Re-Learn Them in Time? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert McHenry: U.S. Congress Resumes; Let Us Pray (Roundup: Media's Take)

Moonshine returns (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Steve Malanga: what Alexis de Tocqueville and Max Weber would think of America today (Roundup: Media's Take)

Doug Ireland: Review of Jeffrey Escoffier's Bigger Than Life (Books)

Jim Cullen: Review of Karen E. Dill’s How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing through Media Influence (Oxford University Press, 2009) (Books)

'Manson' on History channel (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Victor Davis Hanson: What We Are Learning About the Era of Obama (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Whining Will Get You Nowhere (Roundup: Historians' Take)

"Jefferson and Mason: From Toleration to Freedom" [video 1 hr 18 min 38 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Jim Lehrer Sits Down with 'Thomas Jefferson'" [video 1 hr 09 min 16 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Public Service, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law" [video 28 min 30 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Ted Kennedy: The Last Of A Family Power Dynasty" [podcast 7 min 21 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Juan Cole: Labor Day in a Kleptocracy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Old Masters Picture Gallery Announces Fundraising to Restore Masterpiece by Canaletto (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Beaconsfield to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stephen G. Rademaker: Barack Obama As Charlie Wilson? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Doyle McManus: Afghanistan Isn't Obama's Vietnam -- Yet (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Justin Goldstein: Review of The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage -- By Rosalee McReynolds and Louise S. Robbins (Praeger, 2009) (Books)

Stefan Kanfer: Memo to the Führer, A report on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Fairy tales have ancient origin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Fighting over Frida Kahlo (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nicholas Kulish: While Europe Sleeps, Bosnia Seethes (Roundup: Media's Take)

WaPo Editorial: Why the records of Supreme Court justices should be governed by rules -- not individuals (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert Parry: Colin Powell and Lessons of My Lai (Roundup: Media's Take)

Choreographers Bill T. Jones Salutes His Friend Lincoln (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Tribute to the Man, Beyond Just the Mouse (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Truthout Editorial: Holocaust Still a Political Football (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? (Roundup: Media's Take)

NYT Editorial: Obama should listen to Biden on danger of increasing military involvement in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Timothy P. Lynch: Unions still needed today (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Lawrence S. Wittner: Japan's Election and Anti-Nuclear Momentum (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Sleeper: Corporate free speech? Since when? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: The Great Withdrawer: George Will repudiates the Hawks (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Week of August 30, 2009

Roundup

MSNBC removes Buchanan column from site (Breaking News)

Bill Saluting Harvey Milk Brings California Fight (Breaking News)

NYT says historian Betsy McCaughey's profile has risen sharply as a result of her involvement in Obama health care debate (Historians in the News)

BP Lobbied U.K. on Benefits of Libya Prisoner-Transfer Deal . (Breaking News)

Historian William Abbot, Former Editor of George Washington Papers, Dies (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Americans Say JFK Had Biggest Impact of the Kennedy Brothers (Breaking News)

Guatemala Mayan city may have ended in pyramid battle (Breaking News)

Art stolen by Nazis found on German "Antiques Roadshow" (Breaking News)

Bulgaria archaeologists find relics of medieval saint at Perperikon (Breaking News)

Jews who fled Nazis recreate rescue trip (Breaking News)

Turkey and Armenia: Thaw in a Century-Old Feud? (Breaking News)

A conversation with Jill Lepore (Historians in the News)

Former Attorney General Ashcroft can be sued for terror probe arrest, appeals (Breaking News)

Korea Investigates Atrocities in Race Against Time (Breaking News)

China and India's Historic Dispute over Tawang (Breaking News)

Gordon Haber: Reviewing Shlomo Sands 'Invention of the Jewish People' (Historians in the News)

Historians spar over Brooklyn history (Historians in the News)

Spain to publish interview with Holocaust denier David Irving (Historians in the News)

Eminent Naval historian passes away (Historians in the News)

Historian walks through Luton in awareness march (Historians in the News)

Motorcycle Tribute Will Honor 9/11's Flight 93 (Breaking News)

Roman Catholic Cardinal Defends Presiding Over Kennedy's Funeral (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Bad News: The Real Wage is Rising (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Medieval travel book on display (Wales) (Breaking News)

Historic killer's face seen in 3D (Scotland) (Breaking News)

I was in Hitler's suicide bunker (Europe) (Breaking News)

WWII rescue train trip recreated (UK) (Breaking News)

US, Cuba to Discuss Resuming Direct Mail (Breaking News)

My father was Hitler's bodyguard (Europe) (Breaking News)

Did CIA Docs Experiment on Prisoners? (Breaking News)

Mahatma Gandhi 'was one of Nazis' greatest friends' German historian claims (Breaking News)

Schindler train: 'I didn't talk to a soul. I was traumatised.' (Breaking News)

Could George W. Bush end up behind bars? (Breaking News)

U.S. eases Cuban restrictions (Breaking News)

'Massive' ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem (Breaking News)

Historian finds the pieces of paper that started the great Cook-Peary polar controversy (Breaking News)

"Space historian" talks up lunar exploration at OMSI (Historians in the News)

Pew poll: Obama down in popularity among nearly all groups (Breaking News)

Götz Aly Makes Controversial Remarks about the Contribution of Black and Asian Soldiers in WWII (Historians in the News)

'GQ' Doesn't Want Russians To Read Story on 1999 bombings (Breaking News)

Lawrence Glickman blogs about the Whole Foods Boycott (Historians in the News)

Adolf Hitler sex video condemned by Aids charities (Breaking News)

Bangladeshi newspapers duped by The Onion's spoof Moon landing story (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... August 24-September 6, 2009 (This Week in History)

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

The Crusades were "a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression"--Interview with Rodney Stark (Historians in the News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Amity Shlaes – The Forgotten Man (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Clinton Approval Fell Faster (Breaking News)

Brown the betrayer: U.S. fury over Britain's broken promise to keep bomber in jail (Breaking News)

Sketch of Hitler playing chess with Lenin put up for auction (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: "Right to Carry" and the "Tragedy of the Commons" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

World Wildlife Fund: 9/11 ad 'should never have been made' (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

New Book: The Austin-Boston Connection in Congress (Breaking News)

Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Response to Ben Gurion President Rivka Carmi's LA Times Oped about Neve Gordon (Mark A. LeVine)

DAVID T. BEITO: Pledge to be of Service to Obama (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Last stand of 'great generation' (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Australia Serb avoids extradition (Breaking News)

No bomber release cover-up - PM (Breaking News)

World War 2: Poland was conspiring with Nazis to destroy Soviet Union, Russia claims (Breaking News)

Oxford University puts unseen First World War poet's manuscripts online (Breaking News)

Lockerbie Bomber Taken to Intensive Care Unit (Breaking News)

DNC takes aim at Cheney (Breaking News)

Holocaust museum shooting suspect opposes psych evaluation (Breaking News)

Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery (Breaking News)

Survivors gather to pay tribute to 'British Schindler' (Breaking News)

Feds Seek To Deport Alleged Nazi Helper (Breaking News)

Artifact collectors sentenced (Breaking News)

Blasting Away Centuries-old Heritage for Gravel (Breaking News)

Grandson sues to clear Stalin over killings (Breaking News)

Professor Christopher Elrington: Historian who devoted his career to the 'Victoria County History' (Historians in the News)

Chinese Historian Tenured at Harvard (Historians in the News)

Letter Reveals Ted Kennedy's Opposition to Abortion, Belief in Life 'From the Very Moment of Conception' (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Calls to remove Buddhist statue from Bridge on the River Kwai (Breaking News)

20 World leaders mark 70th anniversary of World War II (Breaking News)

British wartime agents foiled Nazi plot before D-Day (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: World War II: An Unspeakable Horror Now Encrusted in Myths (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement (Breaking News)

Who Needs Presidential Libraries When You've Got the Web? (Breaking News)

Spies and lies in the farcical hunt for the phantom Martin Bormann (Breaking News)

Putin blames Britain for Russia's invasion of Poland on the 70th anniversary of WWII (Breaking News)

Vandals decapitate Tommies in statue which shows them singing song from WWI (Breaking News)

Relative recreates Darwin voyage (Breaking News)

Hamas condemns Holocaust lessons (Breaking News)

Beslan mourns deadly school siege (Breaking News)

Last Australia Vietnam MIA return (Breaking News)

Angola: Final frontier for fossils (Breaking News)

Libya marks Gaddafi anniversary (Breaking News)

Poland angry at Soviet war role (Breaking News)

Russia and Poland trade insults on 70th anniversary of World War Two (Breaking News)

Poland marks 70th anniversary of Second World War (Breaking News)

White House Fires Back After Cheney Calls CIA Probe 'Political' (Breaking News)

Evacuees commemorate 70 years since first London exodus (Breaking News)

Libya: Lockerbie Bomber's Health Rapidly Deteriorating (Breaking News)

Libya to Flaunt Lockerbie Bomber at Celebration (Breaking News)

Ex-homeland security chief denies attacking Rumsfeld, Ashcroft (Breaking News)

No love for Harry Reid on the Tea Party Express (Breaking News)

Federal government to buy land for Flight 93 memorial (Breaking News)

Edward Kennedy memoir already a best-seller (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: I AM ON VACATION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Lockerbie papers to be published (Breaking News)

Turkey and Armenia to Establish Diplomatic Ties (Breaking News)

Russian Premier Calls Nazi-Soviet Pact Immoral (Breaking News)

The mystery of Chernobyl: wasteland or wonderland? (Breaking News)

Historian cannot be removed from his story: A look at John Lukacs (Historians in the News)

The fortune behind the Kennedy family legacy (Breaking News)

Desmond Tutu: Arabs Paying the Price of the Holocaust (Breaking News)

L.A. fires threaten historic Mt. Wilson Observatory (Breaking News)

Hamas slams UN over 'Holocaust classes' in Gaza (Breaking News)

Donor's Views on Race Spark Outcry Over Parkland (Breaking News)

Tom Ridge: Second Thoughts, but Not Second-Guessing, on Homeland Security (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Edward Luttwak, Grand Strategy and the Facts (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

U.S. Poised for Change as Tokyo Leadership Shifts (Breaking News)

Rise of a New Era in Japan (Breaking News)

McDonnell Thesis Raises Questions (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Counting Billion of Chickens Before They Hatch (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Marijuana's Cultural Influence Ascendant (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Gaddafi's 40th turns into a diplomatic minefield (Breaking News)

Downing Street approved Lockerbie bomber deal (Breaking News)

Poland hopes for apology from Russia for wartime pact with Nazis (Breaking News)

Irish generals plotted to attack UK forces in Ulster (Breaking News)

Putin Moves To Calm Poland WWII Tensions (Breaking News)

After Century of Growth, Tide Turns in Florida (Breaking News)

Letters Show Oil-Lockerbie Link (Breaking News)

Trinity Historian Turned Cultural Guardian Standing Up To New Honduran Regime (Historians in the News)

Revealed: how Israel helped Amin to take power (Breaking News)

Bush shoe thrower to be freed (Breaking News)

Medvedev defends Moscow's role in WWII (Breaking News)

A Celt in China: the mysterious origins of Cherchen Man (Breaking News)

Ancient burial mounds to be razed in Bahrain (Breaking News)

Debate over saving enigmatic stone mounds of Alabama (Breaking News)

Exploration into how prehistoric Italians made their living (Breaking News)

Tiny ancient shells point to earliest fashion trend (Breaking News)

Racing against time to save prehistoric Orkney site (Scotland) (Breaking News)

British caves give up secrets of Britians's first man (Breaking News)

Cheney Says He Was Proponent for Military Action Against Iran (Breaking News)

Kennedy Joins Brothers at Arlington (Breaking News)

A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Torture Documents for Truth (Breaking News)

Iraq Museum told to register possessions anew (Breaking News)

Jon Meacham interviews Sam Tanenhaus on 'The Death of Conservatism' (Historians in the News)

Rufus King, unsung figure of American history, helped crusade end of slavery (Breaking News)

Israeli dig finds ancient gemstone (Breaking News)

Viking treasure sells for nearly $2 million (Breaking News)

Hesse unveils fragments of Roman emperor statue found in stream (Breaking News)

Swedish archaeologists uncover 7th century ship (Breaking News)

2,000-year-old skeleton found in Mongolia (Breaking News)

Second World War 70th anniversary: The Scoop (Breaking News)

Mystery of the hidden pig discovered in 17th century Dutch painting (Breaking News)

Pupils to be set new Scottish history exams (Breaking News)

Cheney: Justice review of interrogation methods is political (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Howard Website is Up and Running (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

BRETT HOLMAN: Zeroth World Wars (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

AHA defends itself from criticism from gay and labor groups (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Amazon.com Offers to Replace Copies of Orwell Book (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Naomi Klein: Durban was a critical turning point in reparations debate (Roundup: Talking About History)

Smithsonian Institution Libraries Unveils "Darwin's Legacy" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Brooklyn Museum Announces Special Exhibition of Body Part Fragments of Egyptian Sculpture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New Book Reveals Secrets About Nazi-Plundered Treasures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Christian Science Monitor Editorial: The history behind opposition to Obama's speech to students (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Get real about Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Telegraph Editorial: We still need peace, but the world has changed (Roundup: Media's Take)

Anatol Lieven: A Cool-Headed Look at 1939 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Photos: In Revolutionary Color: Russian photos taken a hundred years (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert Scheer: Obama's Meaningless War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Noam Chomsky: Response to Williams (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew Klavan: Romanticon: Wordsworth's corpus reflects the growth of a conservative's mind. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alex Koppelman: Glenn Beck exposes Obama's Communist art scheme (Roundup: Media's Take)

WSJ Editorial: The Michigan Example, How government investment in business failed to create jobs (Roundup: Media's Take)

Luther Spoehr: Review of Anthony Flint's Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Random House, 2009) (Books)

African American Museum's Lonnie Bunch Is on a Mission (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Economist Editorial: Mr Putin regrets (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Korey, B'nai B'rith Lobbyist, Dies at 87 (Obituaries)

Dan Senor and Peter Wehner: Afghanistan Is Not 'Obama's War' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sherlock Holmes: Martial Artist (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Anna Borshchevskaya: Putin The Historian (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles T. Pinck: 'Basterd'ized history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Is Fed chairman Ben Bernanke a follower of John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jean Edward Smith: Roosevelt: The Great Divider (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ali Aujali : Why Libya Welcomed Megrahi (Roundup: Media's Take)

Max Boot: How to Win in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael White: The second world war: the honourable road to ruin (Roundup: Talking About History)

Waiting for William, seeing history's greatest writer for the first time (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dan Senor & Peter Wehner: Afghanistan Is Not 'Obama's War' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Geoffrey Nunberg: Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Francis A. Boyle: The Illegalities of the Bush Jr. War Against Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Schaller: Actually, the Senate Is Far Less Nepotistic Today (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert S. McElvaine: When Will GOP Leaders Denounce the Pyromaniacs? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Max Blumenthal: Ike’s Other Warning (Roundup: Media's Take)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Churchill was not against appeasement (Roundup: Talking About History)

National Gallery of Victoria Celebrates the 250th Anniversary of Wedgwood with Exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to Unlock the Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Claire B. Potter (AKA: Tenured Radical): Plagiarist Barbie? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rami G. Khouri: Libya's Four Lost Decades (Roundup: Talking About History)

'First to Fight' Book Launch (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

War poet Edmund Blunden's works go online (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Film tribute to Citizen Kane director, Orson Welles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

See Streeton, Roberts, Rubens, Van Gogh and Indigenous in a New Light (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Shaun Walker: Russia and Poland clash over who was to blame for the war (Roundup: Talking About History)

Klaus Wiegrefe: How Appeasement Failed to Stop Hitler (Roundup: Talking About History)

Normandy 1944 - Then and Now (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Titian: The Wheeler Dealer who Created the Goddess (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Fred Barnes: Abandon the Kennedy Way (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Nedelkoff: Memories Of 1969 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bob Graham: World War II's first victim (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert D. Kaplan: Be Like Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

60 Minutes: The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Did Obama underestimate his critics? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: McChrystal Advises Escalation of Aghan War (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Elmer Kelton, Prolific Western Novelist, Dies at 83 (Obituaries)

Patrick J. Buchanan: Did Hitler Want War? (Roundup: Media's Take)

George F. Will: Time to Get Out of Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Teresa Ghilarducci: The Difference Between Eunice and Teddy on Abortion Is Irrelevant (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steve Benen: The Familiar Tale of William A. Wirt (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marvel's long history now part of Disney (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Allum: Japan votes to swim with the current of history (Roundup: Media's Take)

Aziz Huq: Review of Two New Books on Academic Freedom (Books)

Editorial in the Independent: Russia must one day confess its part in Poland's misfortune (Roundup: Talking About History)

Denis MacShane: Russian revisionism is our best guide to Putin's priorities (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Norton-Taylor: Britain's past relations with Libya ... Yvonne Fletcher and plot to kill Gaddafi (Roundup: Media's Take)

MI5 planned to intern top American director (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jim Cullen: Review of Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson’s The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election (Viking, 2009) (Books)

Poland remembers World War start [video 2 min 33 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Libya marks Gaddafi anniversary [video 1 min 39 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Rare 900-Year-Old Sacred Bull Sculpture Added to National Art Collection (Australia) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Large, Magnificent Roman Building, c. 1,800 Years Old, was Exposed in the City of David (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert D. Kaplan: Be Like Bush ... Obama Needs Less 'Finesse' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rachel Sylvester: The Death of 'Special Relationship' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Steele: The Afghan 8os are back (Roundup: Media's Take)

Cathy Young: Kennedy's Big Government Paternalism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dr. Wilmer Leon: "The Dream" Remains a Vision (Roundup: Talking About History)

Allan H. Meltzer: What Happened to the 'Depression'? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Afghanistan is Obama's Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: 'Senator High And Mighty' (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Uri Avnery: comparing the boycott of South Africa to a possible boycott of Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew Roberts : Second World War: Why Britian delayed declaration of war (Roundup: Talking About History)

James Ridgeway: Mother Jones: The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina (Roundup: Talking About History)

NASA's Most Awesomely Weird Mission Patches (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Paul Krugman : Missing Richard Nixon (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nick Turse: Apologies, Anger, and Apathy, My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Dresner: Soft and Fuzzy Historic Events (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert A. Kapp: Obama in China: Friendly Advice (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Norman Davies: We must not forget the real causes of World War II (Roundup: Talking About History)

William Rees-Mogg: Does appeasement look so bad, 70 years on? (Roundup: Talking About History)

She Loves You named as best selling Beatles track (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andrew Roberts: Why did the allies delay declaring war on Germany? (Roundup: Talking About History)

New York City's Waterfront in Photographs on View at Museum of the City of New York (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel Hannan: Lorca's skeleton speaks of a new Spain (Roundup: Talking About History)

Sherwood Ross: Prosecuting Bush and Cheney Could Spare Future Generations (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lincoln's history revived at restored Ford's Theatre Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Reopened facility adds life to Navy history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Century Later, Sophie Tucker is Still Red Hot (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Barry Rubin: Why Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State is a Prime Requirement for Israel-Palestinian Peace (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Little Red Schoolhouse: gone, but unforgettable (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Why Democrats Hate Summer (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Senator Kennedy and Legislative Liberalism (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Forsmark: Reviewing Obama's Reading List (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of August 23, 2009

Roundup

Japan Gets Ready for Big Elections--And Big Change (Breaking News)

Pacific war too raw for war historian to tackle (Historians in the News)

Lockerbie bomber: Megrahi's lawyer to release dossier 'proving' his innocence (Breaking News)

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Kennedy Was 'Strong In The Broken Places' (Historians in the News)

Obama Marks Storm's 4-Year Anniversary (Breaking News)

Casket of Emmett Till, 1955 lynching victim, to go to Smithsonian (Breaking News)

Irish families getting smaller (Breaking News)

Living history in Mission Hill (Boston) (Breaking News)

Preparing Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica for Kennedy's Funeral Mass (Breaking News)

Holocaust's untold heroes: Albanian Muslims saved Jews during WWII (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: Transparency in Academia (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Chat to the Mona Lisa in Mandarin (Breaking News)

Obama tribute to 'mentor' Kennedy (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber: 'I want a public inquiry' (Breaking News)

CIA Internal Report Hints at Impact of Harsh Interrogations on 9/11 Mastermind (Breaking News)

Meeting of presidents at Edward Kennedy funeral (Breaking News)

Forty Years After Woodstock, A Gentler Generation Gap (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : "Most Don't Know What 'Public Option' Means" (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

With LeMieux Pick, the Dawn of a New Era of Appointed Senators (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

FCC Diversity Chief Says Republican Communications Policies Hurt Civil Rights (Breaking News)

After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope (Breaking News)

Sheehan Returns to Rebuke Obama (Breaking News)

In Village, Palestinians See Model for Their Cause (Breaking News)

Ancient burial unveils 2,300-year-old mystery in Greece (Breaking News)

India seeks to highlight historians' research (Historians in the News)

Art Historian, East Asian Scholar McCormick Given Tenure (Historians in the News)

Kennedy Compound to Be Converted to Museum (Breaking News)

Sen. Kennedy's "alumni" hold power at the highest levels (Breaking News)

Koreas to resume family reunions (Breaking News)

Australia discovers new dinosaur (Breaking News)

GOP poll: Obama's health care reform less popular than Clinton's (Breaking News)

'Moon rock' given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is fake (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber release was wrong, Scots say in poll (Breaking News)

Experts: Media today would demand Chappaquiddick answers (Breaking News)

'Tea Party Express' trucks on with tour aimed at health care (Breaking News)

Ted Kennedy memorialized by family, friends (Breaking News)

Rudd squirmishes with Howard over the history wars (Australia) (Breaking News)

Re-Stalinization of a Moscow Subway Station (Breaking News)

Bishops Offer Analysis of World War II (Breaking News)

Recently released archives show BBC considered camouflaging Broadcasting House against German bombers during WWII (Breaking News)

Stephen Schwartz: Examining the Associations of Tariq Ramadan (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAVE A MELLOW WEEKEND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: QADDAFI NOT COMING TO ENGLEWOOD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

MELVIN SMALL: Covering Dissenters (Inactive: POTUS)

DAVID T. BEITO: My Op-Ed Los Angeles Times on T.R.M. Howard as Unlikely Civil Rights Hero (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Ted Kennedy was target of Nixon probes (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: Transatlantic Ties (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Senate Has Changed in Kennedy's Time (Breaking News)

A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians (Historians in the News)

Behind a historian's mask: Brian Matthews takes a look into the private life of Manning Clark (Historians in the News)

FCC Diversity Chief Asked Liberals to Copy FDR (Breaking News)

Germany gives Israel Nazi death camp blueprints (Breaking News)

Matt Phillips Interviews Historian Charles Geistt: Financial Historian on The Dow as 'Cultural Icon' (Historians in the News)

Open Book Alliance Throws Book at Google (Breaking News)

Dutch Museum's Prized 'Moon rock' Just Petrified Wood (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : KHAMENEI FEELING THE HEAT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : SWEDISH BLOOD LIBEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA, THIRD WORLD STYLE LEADER? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Remembering Kennedy (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Our new baby is born: the relaunched BBC History Magazine website (Breaking News)

Fresh appeal for maritime museum (Ireland) (Breaking News)

Viking hoard saved for the nation (England) (Breaking News)

Viking hoard reveals its story (Breaking News)

King's letter reveals epic voyage (England) (Breaking News)

Stalin's bid for a new world order (Breaking News)

Prisoner of war records go online (Breaking News)

War in Sudan's Darfur 'is over' (Breaking News)

USSR plotted invasion of Manchester (Breaking News)

Kennedy takes with him a time and an era (Breaking News)

Coming this fall: True Compass: A Memoir by Sen. Edward Kennedy (Breaking News)

Diplomacy, painful history for Netanyahu in Berlin (Breaking News)

CBS Historian Douglas Brinkley calls Ted Kennedy A 'Martyr' for ObamaCare (Historians in the News)

Martyn Whittock looks at life in the Middle Ages (Historians in the News)

Historian: Housing bubble like silver rush (Historians in the News)

Chafing After 40 Years, Qaddafi Baffles the West (Breaking News)

Newly-Declassified CIA Histories Show Its Involvement in Every Aspect of the Indochina War (Breaking News)

U.S. Education Secretary asked about teaching Martin Luther King's Views on God in Public School (Breaking News)

John Kerry: Back in the Hunt (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Additionally Noted (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Castle saved by 'quick actions' (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Early music discovered on carving (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Modern views on the Nazi-Soviet pact (Breaking News)

Ted Kennedy: bitter memories linger at Chappaquiddick (Breaking News)

Stolen Picasso painting 'The Naked Woman' found in Iraq (Breaking News)

Bush, Other Former Presidents Pay Final Respects to Sen. Kennedy (Breaking News)

Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009: The Brother Who Mattered Most (Breaking News)

Obama Taps Bush CIA Official (Breaking News)

Obama to eulogize Kennedy at Boston church (Breaking News)

Colorado History Museum Unearths Artifacts Under its New Home (Breaking News)

Louis Masur Has A Lifelong Love Of Bruce Springsteen (Historians in the News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Health Care Reform Preview (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

David Gergen Writing Book on Presidential Transitions For Simon & Schuster (Breaking News)

Blogs

OSCAR CHAMBERLAIN: Some Health Care Thoughts (Inactive: POTUS)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CHINESE JEWS TURN TO JERUSALEM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RICK SHENKMAN: New study finds mental phenomenon behind the belief in a Saddam-9/11 connection (Just How Stupid Are We?)

HNN : EDNA FERBER: USA and USSR CIRCA 1938 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Of course Obama wanted to be by water on his presidential vacation! (Breaking News)

Five Years on, Beslan's Survivors Feel Forsaken (Breaking News)

Edward Kennedy's role in peace process helped change Irish history (Breaking News)

Nazi "war traitors" set to win general rehabilitation (Breaking News)

Deficit Expected to Hit $9 Trillion for Decade (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: "Fewer Than Half of Arkansans Think Obama is a Citizen" (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Kennedy Death Puts Family Dynasty In Doubt (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: He Died in His Bed (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Well Worth Reading (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

University of Tennessee's Sorority Village entrenched in Civil War history (Breaking News)

Cold War fallout in the Mashall Islands (Breaking News)

Paul Krugman at war with Niall Ferguson over inflation (Historians in the News)

National Security Archive compare two very different versions of 2004 report on CIA's "Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities" (Breaking News)

Ambeth Ocampo: A Ghost Writer for Teodoro A. Agoncillo (Historians in the News)

Civilian historian headed to combat (Historians in the News)

UNF historian maps the Civil War (Historians in the News)

Teachers learn lesson about South's role in the American Revolution (Historians in the News)

Scots Seek Probe Of Libyan's Release (Breaking News)

Guantanamo Prisoner Detained as Teen Meets With Karzai (Breaking News)

David Kaiser victim of Internet hoax (Historians in the News)

AHA's Arnita Jones is set to retire next year (Historians in the News)

Germany spends stimulus money on its medieval castles (Breaking News)

Nelson Lichtenstein: Historian’s New Book Takes hard Look at Wal-Mart (Historians in the News)

The Air Force historian with a PhD who now runs a bookstore (Historians in the News)

It was Huckabee vs. Doug Brinkley on O'Reilly Show (Historians in the News)

Deal to Settle Lawsuit Over Bush Library Site at SMU Falls Apart (Breaking News)

New Mexican government textbook ignites furor for ignoring Spanish conquest (Historians in the News)

Obama's vacation to Martha's Vineyard highlights black history (Breaking News)

Textbook sparks furor in Mexico (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : MAGNANIMOUS, SMART 1930s TURKEY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

MARK BRADY: Heroic Airplane Bombers (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: Gabriel Kolko on the Future of Israel (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Ukraine celebrates 18 years of independence (Breaking News)

Call for Libya to pay IRA victims (Breaking News)

Brown angry over bomber's welcome in Libya (Breaking News)

Tank tracks to Trafford: how USSR planned to invade Manchester (Breaking News)

9/11 victims' town says no to Gaddafi visit (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): UC system funding: Less can't masquerade as more (Mark A. LeVine)

Roundup

Koreas to discuss family reunions (Breaking News)

The lost children of Franco-era Spain (Breaking News)

Pharaohs' tombs: tourists take their toll (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber: Kenny MacAskill to publish all submissions (Breaking News)

Walmart Near Civil War Battlefield Wins OK (Breaking News)

Cheney says documents show interrogations prevented attacks (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historic Montpelier Celebrates 195th Anniversary of George Washington Portrait Rescue from the White House (Breaking News)

Historian Betsy McCaughey battles with Jon Stewart over the Obama Health Care bill (Historians in the News)

New Unit to Question Key Terror Suspects (Breaking News)

Scotland to dicuss Lockerbie controversy (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Transcending the Genre (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

EPA Won't Send Potentially Contaminated Artifacts to Landfill for Now (Breaking News)

US Speeds Up Disposal of Deadly Chemical Stockpile (Breaking News)

Justice Dept. Report Advises Pursuing C.I.A. Abuse Cases (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : BIBI'S GOOD SUMMER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

MARK BRADY: Inconvenient Truths (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Policy Makers Seek to Learn From 1937's Stalled Comeback (Breaking News)

Bali bomb survivors outraged over plans to build nightclub on site of 2002 terrorist attack (Breaking News)

Scottish laser pioneers lead way in preserving Mount Rushmore (Breaking News)

Volunteers forced to launch private mission to recover RAF crew's bodies (Breaking News)

CIA report into Bush Administration's treatment of suspects released (Breaking News)

Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi to 'show his innocence' in autobiography (Breaking News)

Blogs

CLAIRE B. POTTER: The Case Of The Scottish Pardon: Or, Extremism in Defense Of Liberty Is Becoming A Little Tiresome (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Red Cross Allowed To Track Detainees In Iraq and Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Nadler: Obama Violating Law By Not Investigating Bush (Breaking News)

Norwegian Team Hunting for Roald Amundsen's Lost Plane (Breaking News)

Report Provides New Details on C.I.A. Prisoner Abuse (Breaking News)

Academics stoke Fromelles furore (Breaking News)

President's House design criticized (Philadelphia) (Breaking News)

Service marks 1944 bomber crash (Wales) (Breaking News)

Portuguese archeologists unearth General Wellington's command post (Breaking News)

German Castles Cash in on Stimulus Programs (Breaking News)

CIA Accused of Third Torture Prison in Europe (Breaking News)

Visitors invited to city cemetery (Ireland) (Breaking News)

Dig will unearth history of abbey (Breaking News)

DNA evidence implicates ex-RAF terrorist Becker in Buback murder (Breaking News)

India royals' allowances raised (Breaking News)

Media build up to World War II (Breaking News)

Baltic states mark anniversary of human chain (Breaking News)

Cuba publishes new photo of 'healthy' Fidel Castro (Breaking News)

At home with the Lockerbie bomber (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : KRUGMAN: ECONOMY IN PURGATORY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT HIGGS: Seventy Years Ago Today: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : IRANIAN HORROR CONTINUE TO UNFOLD/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Ex-president's funeral warms Korea relations (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: A Neglected Masterpiece of Economic Analysis (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Could Afghanistan Become Obama's Vietnam? (Breaking News)

16,000 year-old mother goddess figurine unearthed in Turkey (Breaking News)

Ground broken for new park at ancient Miami Circle (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Lives (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Most Important Viking Treasure in 150 Years is Jointly Acquired by Two British Museums (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

National Portrait Gallery Exhibits Portrait of Ted Kennedy Painted by Andy Warhol (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Great Expectations for New Ball and Chain Display at Museum of London Docklands (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stolen Painting by Picasso Worth $10 Million Found in Iraq (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Extraordinary Exhibition at the Getty to Show Iconic Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Kennedy Was 'Strong In The Broken Places' [audio 5 minutes, 32 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Michael Winship: Even Camelot Needed Health Care (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew Leonard: Herbert Hoover: The working man's hero (Roundup: Talking About History)

Hitler Surprisingly Popular With Foreign Advertisers; Dictator Touts Hats, Chopsticks, Pens and Thumb Drives (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James Lord, Biographer of Artists, Is Dead at 86 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

TIME Photo: The Kennedy family visits Pope Pius XII in Vatican City, 1939 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ben Smith: Conservatives warn of 'Wellstone effect' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eric Alterman: Novak Without Tears (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peggy Noonan: The Reagans and the Kennedys (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jay Winik: Kennedy for the Ages (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Review: 'Woodstock' Is One Boring Trip, Man (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Sergei V. Mikhalkov, Lyricist of Soviet and Russian Anthems, Dies at 96 (Obituaries)

Julius Purcell: The Memory That Will Not Die, Exhuming the Spanish Civil War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: NIMBY Comes to China Revisited (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mark LeVine: US shifting stance on settlements (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Theodoric Meyer: In Health Care Debate, Republicans Should Look to Disraeli (Roundup: Media's Take)

Brad Wilmouth: Bush Volunteered for Vietnam, CBS's Mapes Knowingly Omitted from Story (Roundup: Talking About History)

Brent Baker: NBC Exploits Kennedy to Push ObamaCare: 'National Sorrow Has Created Political Momentum Before' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark Medish: When Thief Stole From Thief (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jerald S. Auerbach: Remembering the Hebron Massacre (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ellie Greenwich 'Leader of the Pack' for '60s Pop Tunes Passes Away (Obituaries)

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: The Myth of the Black Swan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Carol Peasley: The Unfinished Agenda on Women's Equality Day (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew Leonard: The panic of 1857 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin: Ted Kennedy's legacy shapes Obama's path (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Q. Barrett: Jackson List: "Fool's Errands" & Innocence in American Law (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Parenti: Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ronald Brownstein: Why Ted Kennedy Was the Last of His Kind (Roundup: Media's Take)

Celebrity crime writer Dominick Dunne dies at 83 (Obituaries)

Baltimore Sun Publishing Archive Photos of the First Day at School (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert Gellately: Remembering the Nazi-Soviet Pact After Seventy Years (Roundup: Talking About History)

John Prados: 'A Tale of Obsessive Secrecy,' On the Newly-Declassified CIA Histories on Vietnam (Roundup: Talking About History)

John Prados: The CIA's Vietnam Story (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jim Cullen: Review of Louis P. Masur's Runaway Dream: "Born to Run" and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision (Bloomsbury, 2009) (Books)

G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Sam Stein: Dodd hopes "Maybe Teddy's Passing" Will Spur GOP To Act On Health Care (Roundup: Media's Take)

WSJ Editorial: The Real CIA News (Roundup: Media's Take)

Humberto Fontova: Looking the Other Way on Castro (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Freedland: Peace plans come and go. Obama may have to try a wholly new approach (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steven Miller: Wanda Rame, TV's 'Woman on the Beat,' Broke Newsroom Barriers (Roundup: Talking About History)

Wanda Rame, TV's 'Woman on the Beat,' Broke Newsroom Barriers (Obituaries)

Iraqi Shiite Party Leader Hakim Dies (Obituaries)

Marc Thiessen: Obama Versus the CIA (Roundup: Media's Take)

A Look Back at Ted Kennedy's Life and Career [1 minute 57 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Robert McHenry: The First Oil Well (150th Anniversary of the Birth of the Oil Industry) (Roundup: Talking About History)

MoMA Launches Two-Year "Auteurist History of Film" Series (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Norman Solomon: The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public (Roundup: Media's Take)

Luther Spoehr: Review of Charles W. Eagles's The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) (Books)

Juan Cole: Palestinians Plan State, but Will Netanyahu Block it? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stanley Kutler: Why Rendition? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Adam Clymer: Teddy's Idealism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Frederick W. Kagan: We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Ted Kennedy loathed Britain - so why did Gordon Brown knight him? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Charles Laurence: Ted Kennedy ... The Senator of Sleaze (Roundup: Talking About History)

Sean Wilentz: Triumph And Tragedy ... The Seesaw Life Of Edward M. Kennedy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Goldfarb: Americans and the lessons of Europe's history with terrorism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jacob Heilbrunn: Darth Cheney (Roundup: Media's Take)

Janet Daley: How the Kennedys changed America (Roundup: Talking About History)

“There Must Be a Reason”: Osama, Saddam, and Inferred Justification (Roundup: Media's Take)

A history video game? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dean Baker: Kennedy's Quick Win for Social Security (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Ted Kennedy was a true believer (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Irwin Stelzer: Lockerbie bomber ... A grievous blow to the Special Relationship (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Tomasky: Ted Kennedy made the US a better place (Roundup: Talking About History)

Thomas Frank: It's time for Obama to channel Harry Truman on health-care reform (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Barbara Crossette: Abdullah Abdullah's Unmentioned History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rachel Ehrenfeld & Millard Burr: Death of a Libel Tourist (Roundup: Media's Take)

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.: Does the World Still Need the Swiss? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Boris Nemtsov: War Clouds in the Caucasus (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Krugman: How big is $9 trillion? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jefferson's wine bottles or fakes? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Arianna Huffington: Lessons in Leadership: Why Obama Needs to Brush Up on His FDR (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason: Saigon 2009 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Josh Xiong: Afghanistan is Not Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adam L. Silverman: Religion and Politics in Iraq: What Type of Sectarianism Really Exists? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Liberals' passion for public option (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Wendy Williams: History's shadow over Obama's Vineyard vacation (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ernest Brown, Last Member of the Original Tapping Copasetics, Dies at 93 (Obituaries)

Gordon Taylor: Life and Death in the Perkins Family, 1834 - 1852 (Persia) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Paul Wolfowitz: Obama Is No Realist (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ancient Map Offers Key to Mesoamerican History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Arkansas Arts Center Presents Exotic Lands: Europe Imagines Egypt and the East (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Historic Last Column Returns to World Trade Center Site for Permanent Installation (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Martin Peretz: Lockerbie ... A Sabotage of Justice (Roundup: Media's Take)

Matthew Vadum: Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Quentin Letts: British weariness with terrorism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andreas Umland and Ingmar Bredies: Democratic Ukraine, Autocratic Russia: Why? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

New Doubts Raised Over Famous War Photo (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Edwin Black: Government Death Panels and Mass Murder Were Always an Option in 20th Century America's War Against the Weak (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Newsweek Editorial: Did Britain Wreck the World? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Brent Baker: Will Networks Note Sheehan's Anti-Obama Protest? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ian Black: West Bank settlements: an impassable obstacle on the road to peace (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Michael Green: My Country, Misery (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Krugman: All the President’s Zombies (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bernard Keenan: Secret prisons and sovereignty, the 'state of exception' throughout history (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Johnson: What LBJ would do (Roundup: Media's Take)

National Institute of Anthropology and History Says Culture, Key to Mexico's Foreign Policy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Opens Exhibition of Collages from 1916 to 2008 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Oklahoma City Museum of Art Final Venue for Exhibition of 17th-century Masterpieces (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Agatha Christie's private life would have stumped even Poirot (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Paul Krugman: Reaganism Is a Failed Economic Belief (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amr Hamzawy and Jeffrey Christiansen: Will Obama Drop Bush's Hamas Plan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jason Horowitz: The Ballad of Josh, Jef and Howard (Roundup: Talking About History)

Orlando Figes: The Nazi-Soviet Pact (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tim and Alissa Birkel: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Deficit Edition: Still Crazy After All These Years (Roundup: Media's Take)

Slain Che Guevara Soldiers Found? [video 2 min 53 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Boston University Art Gallery Presents Missionary Photography in Korea (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Outbreak 1939, Imperial War Museum, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Art treasures may be sold to fund 'Titanic' museum (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Doyle McManus: Reform ... Where Bush missed, Obama has a shot (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amazing Grace Memorial in Liverpool (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Wesley Hogan: Review of Paul VanDevelder's Savages & Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire Through Indian Territory (Yale, 2009) (Books)

Andrew Leonard: Hu Jintao is no Kaiser Wilhelm (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Rich: The Guns of August (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert McCrum: The Second World War: six years that changed this country for ever (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bryan Fischer: Madison would veto health care forthwith (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steve Benen: Try Things the LBJ Way? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Matt Phillips Interviews Historian Charles Geistt: Financial Historian on The Dow as 'Cultural Icon' (Roundup: Talking About History)

Artyom Krechetnikov and Steven Eke: The 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact (Roundup: Talking About History)

Week of August 16, 2009

Roundup

Clues to Caribbean's earliest inhabitants (Breaking News)

China's founding legend may not be true (Breaking News)

Earliest image of a human discovered in Scotland (Breaking News)

The mystery of Nigerian Nok culture (Breaking News)

Spanish prehistoric sites in danger (Breaking News)

At home with the Lockerbie bomber (Breaking News)

Beijing Moves to End Tradition of Petitions as 60th Anniversary Nears (Breaking News)

Lockerbie Fallout Puts Scotland on the Spot (Breaking News)

German historians et al. sign a declaration noting Stalin's direct involvement in the start of World War II (Historians in the News)

Volunteers forced to launch private mission to recover RAF crew's bodies (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler paintings to go under the hammer in Germany (Breaking News)

'Tea Party' Organizers Plan Anti-'Obamacare' Rallies Across the Country (Breaking News)

Russia Defends Soviet Pact With Nazis 70 Years Later (Breaking News)

High-Tech Scanner Could Reveal Mummy's 2,500-Year-Old Past (Breaking News)

U.S. Relatives of Lockerbie Victims Plan Next Move (Breaking News)

Ridge condemned for trying to profit from terror alert assertions (Breaking News)

My Lai massacre: Lt William Calley apologises more than 40 years after Vietnam (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: "Kind of Blue" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

With War a Distant Memory, Miller Time Comes to Vietnam (Breaking News)

Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall (Breaking News)

Shakespearean comedy: man accused of 15 million pounds book theft (Breaking News)

Russia declassifies secret documents on Nazi-Soviet pact (Breaking News)

Iran embassy siege veteran's son dies in Taliban trap (Breaking News)

China to set quality control standards on Chairman Mao knick-knacks (Breaking News)

New clues to Prime Minister Harold Wilson's resignation (Breaking News)

Lockerbie release harms 'special relationship' (Breaking News)

High school teacher grateful for the chance to attend Gilder Lehrman summer seminar (Historians in the News)

Diane Nash Headlines Slavery Remembrance Day Festival (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : EVENTHOUGH, AND DESPITE EVERYTHING . . . (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WHAT A CREATURE?! WHAT CREATURES?!/updateS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: US SHOULD WATCH CHINA'S TREATMENT OF INDIA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JONATHAN JARRETT: Now this is interdisciplinary, if you want (a testimonial) (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: The Other Side of the Story (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Where presidents in the past vacationed (slide show) (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: "Consider Her Ways": A Bizarre Collectivist-Feminist Dystopia (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Richard Poirier, a founder of Library of America, Dies at 83 (Historians in the News)

The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre (Breaking News)

Former Bush aide says politics colored US 'terror alert' (Breaking News)

Nearly 1/4 of Americans believe Obama was born outside the US (Breaking News)

Barney Frank assails town hall critic who compares Obama to Hitler (Breaking News)

N. Korea to Send Envoys to Kim Dae-Jung's Funeral (Breaking News)

Pakistan's tribal political ban ends (Breaking News)

Boston may soon have a history museum (Breaking News)

C.I.A. Sought Blackwater's Help to Kill Jihadists (Breaking News)

Filipinos Lament How Far They Haven't Come (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Interview on Black Maverick (Murray, Kentucky) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Historian wants recognition for forgotten hero (Chicago) (Breaking News)

Ink found in Jurassic-era squid (UK) (Breaking News)

Winston Churchill statue in Paris desecrated with blood red paint on liberation anniversary (Breaking News)

Japanese skulls and bones from WWII kept at University California Berkeley museum (Breaking News)

Biden: I Know Bush, and He's No Obama (Breaking News)

Families outraged at Pan Am 103 bomber's release (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : BERNANKE'S "HEROISM?" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : COURAGE AND DEPRAVITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : KHAMENEI VS. KHOMENI (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Lockerbie Bomber Freed (Breaking News)

Lockerbie Bomber's Release Near (Breaking News)

Remember the Alamo? It's Under Siege Again -- This Time From Within (Breaking News)

Paper finds that Zimbabwe's Hyperinflation Second Worst in World History (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Prehistoric 'Runway' Used by Flying Reptile (Breaking News)

New book reveals horrors of brothels in Nazi concentration camps (Breaking News)

Subway excavation uncovers glimpse of Algeria's past (Breaking News)

From a Distant Comet, a Clue to Life (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: More evidence of idiocy (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

F.B.I. Agents' Role Is Transformed by Terror Fight (Breaking News)

Hands of Churchill statue in Paris painted blood red by protesters (Breaking News)

Clinton repeats Lockerbie stance (Breaking News)

Hungary marks 1989 freedom event (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AYN RAND ON STATISTICALLY BASED CARE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : ATTACK IN RUSSIA PART OF GLOBAL JIHAD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREENBACK EFFECT VISIBLE IN OIL PRICES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RICK SHENKMAN: Rep. Barney Frank riposte to Town Hall crazy (Just How Stupid Are We?)

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

EPA Says It Will Toss Artifacts from Historic 18th Century US Fort into a Landfill (Breaking News)

Old-fashioned co-ops get new focus (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Standing In The Shower Thinking (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Renowned historian Dr Geraint Jenkins mourned (Historians in the News)

Guy Burgess abused BBC expenses (Breaking News)

Man wants Roosevelt visit officially recognized (Breaking News)

Highland castle 'rebuilt' in virtual world (Breaking News)

Letter 'shows Neville Chamberlain was unfit to lead Britain to victory' (Breaking News)

Silver pocket watch found off Welsh coast returned after 130 years (Breaking News)

'Fair wind and thick fogs': John Quincy Adams on Twitter (Breaking News)

Revamp hopes for Titanic memorial (England) (Breaking News)

Bolivians look to ancient farming (Breaking News)

The Arctic Sea Mystery: more unexplained missing ships and crew (Breaking News)

Liechtenstein prince angers German Jews (Breaking News)

Robert Novak, conservative columnist at centre of CIA Valerie Plame leak, dies aged 78 (Breaking News)

Largest dinosaur footprints in Europe discovered in Swiss Alps (Breaking News)

Kings' tombs doomed to disappear (Egypt) (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : JOE STORK OF HRW SUPPORTED MUNICH MASSACRE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : RAPE IN EVIN, IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: Woodstock 1969 40 Years Later... (On This Day in History ...)

Roundup

Ex-Zambia Leader Acquitted (Breaking News)

Vietnam War vets get belated welcome home (Breaking News)

Rumors about former US President Chester Arthur still linger (Breaking News)

Hawaii Plans Quiet 50th Anniversary of Statehood; Some Want Independence for Island Chain (Breaking News)

Obama to Thank War Veterans for Their Service (Breaking News)

EPA Restarts Project that Contaminated Hudson River (Breaking News)

Ancient stone artwork discovered (Scotland) (Breaking News)

War plaques 'stolen for bronze' (UK) (Breaking News)

World War II bomb found in field (UK) (Breaking News)

Former S Korea President Kim dies (Breaking News)

Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben jailed in Australia (Breaking News)

Britain knew about extermination of Jews, Vatican claims (Breaking News)

Mozart may have died of strep throat complications (Breaking News)

Russian Hackers Stole IDs for Georgian Attacks (Breaking News)

Liberals complain Reagan quote is misused in health debate (Breaking News)

Hebrew University of Jersualem Appologizes for Calling $100,000 Donor 'Homeless' (Breaking News)

WWII veterans honored for their stand at Peleliu (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... August 17-23, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

Rick Perlstein's Nixonland hypothesis as relevant as ever?" Depends who you ask. (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Hispanics' roles add to social studies debate in Austin (Breaking News)

The historian behind the claim that Obama's in favor of death panels (Historians in the News)

Corzine signs Veterans' Oral History Foundation bill in Atlantic City (Breaking News)

Is a New Librarian of Congress in the Works? (Historians in the News)

Anthropologists want UC Berkeley to return skulls of Japanese war dead (Breaking News)

Historian Bonnie J. Morris celebrates women's studies in her latest book (Historians in the News)

Blogs

COMMON SENSE: We Must Dismantle the US Empire (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : AMERICANS KNOW FRIEND FROM FOE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : TAKING SIDES IN IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : ALL TYRANTS THINK ALIKE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Secret MoD files reveal UFOs went to the top (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber's release 'delayed by pressure from Hillary Clinton' (Breaking News)

Liechtenstein prince angers Jews by 'mocking' Holocaust to justify banking secrecy laws (Breaking News)

Allies ignored extermination of the Jews, claims Vatican (Breaking News)

MoD sued over Afghan 'rendition' (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Unveiling Lincoln as Politician (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Abernathy's Son Says He Will Seek Pardon for Civil Rights Leader (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Study: Fire used to make tools 75,000 years ago (Breaking News)

'Neolithic cathedral built to amaze' unearthed in Orkney dig (UK) (Breaking News)

Cave Complex Allegedly Found Under Giza Pyramids (Breaking News)

Mass grave yields testimony to Australia's bloodiest day (Breaking News)

Long quest for Polish restitution (Breaking News)

Cyprus soldier buried 35 years on (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: The Netroots Are Bored by Obama's Wars (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Who are the Taliban? (Breaking News)

Pittsburgh remembers 2nd worst labor strife of a century ago (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Carnival Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Conservatives complain that Yale's purge of the Mohammed images gets more sordid (Historians in the News)

G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier as War Evolves (Breaking News)

21,000 Pounds for Derry man's Mein Kampf (Breaking News)

Roundup

Ted Sorensen: Kennedy family's remarkable story (Roundup: Talking About History)

NYT Editorial: Camp Ashraf (Roundup: Media's Take)

An Interview with Jack Masey [5 minutes 58 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Alastair Gordon: The American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Richard Pipes: Pride and Power, Russia caught between continents and haunted by its past (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Seth Lipsky: Kim Dae Jung's Lesson (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Palaima: On Cable News, "Truth" Sometimes Resembles "1984" (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Credit Crisis Is a Big Draw for Finance Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

" Segment 3: 'Ben Kiernan on the History of World Genocide." (2007).'" [podcast 21 min 4 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Segment 2: 'Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Reading Langston Hughes' Poem 'Ode to Dinah.' (1963).'" [podcast 2 min 26 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Segment 1: 'Historical Memory and the Woodstock Legacy.' [podcast 29 min 5 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"1979: Remembering 'The Siege Of Mecca'" [podcast 7 min 48 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Catherine Merridale: Stalin's Ghost in Russia (Roundup: Talking About History)

Frida Kahlo scholars say discovery of 'astonishing lost archive' is a fake (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Adolf Hitler paintings to go under the hammer in Germany (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nude photo of Jackie Kennedy Onassis found among Andy Warhol's possessions (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rick Salutin: Harper has his Reagan moments (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles Powell: Without visionary politicians, the Berlin Wall would still stand (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Marples: Reviewing a Nazi-Soviet Pact 60 Years On (Roundup: Talking About History)

The Great Tradition: Constitutional History and National Identity in Britain and the United States, 1870-1960 -- By Anthony Brundage and Richard Cosgrove (Books About History & Historians)

Josef Joffe: The Default Power (the USA) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stephen Pizzo: Will Obama be Like Lyndon B. Johnson? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Orlando Patterson: Race and Diversity in the Age of Obama (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stanley I. Kutler: Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

President's House memorial design criticized (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Justin Elliott: Heavily-Armed '90s Militia, Linked To Anti-Obama Activist (Roundup: Media's Take)

Katrina Browne: Slavery needs more than an apology (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ali Reza Eshraghi: Khamenei vs. Khomeini (Roundup: Media's Take)

Roger Simon: The birth of political television (Roundup: Talking About History)

WSJ Editorial: Rose of Freedom (on the passing of Rose Friedman) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rose Friedman, Economist and Collaborator, Dies at 98 (Obituaries)

Nicholas D. Kristof: The Cost of Prisons (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amazing Barnum Revival Will Astound the World! (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jim Cullen: Review of Johann Neem's Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts (Harvard University Press, 2008) (Books)

Frick Art & Historical Center to Present Entertaining the President: A Household at Work (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andy Warhol's Portrait of Michael Jackson Fetches $1 Million at Auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Simon Jenkins: Today's Afghan election is a moment of truth for zealous liberal aggressors (Roundup: Media's Take)

Pamela Dix: Don't forget Lockerbie (Roundup: Media's Take)

Karl Rove: 'Closing in on Rove' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Brent Baker: A Look at Robert Novak's Insights About the Media (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alex Koppelman: Various rememberances of Robert Novak (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bill Glucroft: The Holocaust's shadow over Israel's choices (Roundup: Media's Take)

Martin, Calderone and Allen: Remembering Robert D. Novak (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jose Ramos-Horta: In Support of the Struggle for Democracy in Burma (Roundup: Media's Take)

'60 Minutes' Creator Don Hewitt Dead At 86 (Obituaries)

Tony Perrottet: Fast Food Nation: A short and sweet history of in-and-out dining (Roundup: Talking About History)

Remembering 1979 Execution Of Pakistani Politician [podcast 7 min 50 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Oliver Stone reveals 'Secret History' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

'Steeped in History' exhibition at UCLA's Fowler Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Hope Diamond celebrates 50th anniversary with new setting design (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Max Hastings: Churchill's charm offensive made Allied victory possible (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jonathan Steele: History is much too important to be left to politicians (Roundup: Talking About History)

Frank Gannon: Richard Nixon's Legacy of Parks Programs (Roundup: Talking About History)

Martin Kramer: Fear-mongering at Yale (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Thomas Frank: Dissent Commodified (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rich Noyes: Double-Standard on Anti-ObamaCare "Mobs" (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: Counterterrorism in Obama's Washington (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Colleen Raezler : Woodstock Wasn't the Only Thing Happening 40 Years Ago (Roundup: Talking About History)

Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker Dies; Represented Angela Davis, Smith Act Defendants (Obituaries)

Strep throat may have killed Mozart (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Bradford Plumer: Should Older Power Plants Get A Free Pass? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gregory McNamee: The Death of Federico Garcia Lorca (Time for Spain to Face History) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniela Gerson: How migration transformed Martha's Vineyard (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Obama Defends Afghanistan War (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Arthur Milnes: Harper and Ignatieff flub their medicare moment (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Museum to highlight Louisiana's rich film history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New WWII exhibition opens [video 3 min 31 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jamie Stiehm: Recalling another time when anger ruled the nation (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alistair Horne: The case for Henry Kissinger (Roundup: Talking About History)

Neville Chamberlain's pocket diary goes on display in new exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Richard Cohen: Sarah Palin ... a Modern Day McCarthy (Roundup: Media's Take)

500lb WWII bomb detonated [video 37 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Interpol Creates Online Access to Global Stolen Works of Art Database to Reduce Illicit Trade (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Matisse as Printmaker will Shed New Light on One of the Greatest Artists of the 20th Century (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Film charting life at the Liverpool Daily Post in the 1970s to be screened (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Liverpool University has aquired a rare first edition of a science fiction novel (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

BBC to show rare Beatles footage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Lawrence Downes: The Big Five-O (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bret Stephens: Talking to the Enemy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kiss to Release New Album at Wal-Mart, Sam's Club (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Abbas Milani: An Evening in Support of the Bahais of Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)

Scott Horton: Karl Rove's Convenient Memory Lapses (Roundup: Media's Take)

John H. McWhorter: Why The National Review Would Have Loved Zora Neale Hurston (Roundup: Media's Take)

Justin Fox: Bernie Madoff's Other Legacy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gregory McNamee: Remembering Woodstock: That Festival of Peace, Love, and Consumer Capitalism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Gross: Who Won the Recession? McDonald's. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Cory Doctorow: Campaign to get UK government to apologise for hounding Alan Turing to his death (Roundup: Talking About History)

Selig S. Harrison: Afghanistan's Tyranny of the Minority (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rick Perlstein: Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Steve Benen: Where The Crazy Tree Blooms (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rifat N. Bali: Confronting Turkish Anti-Semitism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Raymond Ibrahim: The Dark Side of Zakat, Muslim "Charity" in Context (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: 2010 makes Democrats nervous (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Benjamin Wallace-Wells: Learning the wrong lessons from David Halberstam (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Drew, Musicologist, Is Dead at 78 (Obituaries)

L. Gordon Crovitz: Google Searches for Property Rights (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Ottaway: The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Since the 1930s (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tarzan swings into Paris (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James Bowman: Lesser Britain ... Is the "Great" in Britain lost for good? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Glenn Hubbard: Think Again ... A Marshall Plan for Africa (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter Wehner & Michael Gerson: The Path to Republican Revival (Roundup: Media's Take)

Wesley Clark: Obama must learn from Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Cameron Duodu: Obama must unlearn the past if he is to succeed in Africa (Roundup: Media's Take)

For sale on eBay: an eternity with Marilyn Monroe (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Earthquake works banned from Beijing art show (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Evelyn Waugh 'had three homosexual affairs at Oxford' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies 'tried to rape girl a 15-year-old girl' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The Boston Athenaeum to Present George Pope Morris: Defining American Culture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Elvis Presley's Personal Belongings from the Collection of Gary Pepper to Go on Sale (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Displays Eunice Kennedy's Portraits Photographed by Herb Ritts (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Beatle's schoolboy photo auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Fukubayashi Toru: Verifying Japan’s Use of Allied POWs Through Historical Records (Roundup: Talking About History)

“Trafficked” exhibition at International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Arthur Milnes: Carter presidency looks better with time (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Larry Allen Brown: A Rebuttal to Dick Armey's OpEd in the Wall Street Journal (Roundup: Media's Take)

Barry C. Knowlton: Review of Anthony Pagden's Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West (New York: Random House, 2008) (Books)

Jean Saint-Vil: A Giant Step for Mankind Made in Haiti (Roundup: Talking About History)

Week of August 9, 2009

Roundup

Mass Polish reburial of war dead (Breaking News)

Japanese ex-PMs visit war shrine (Breaking News)

Africa's forgotten wartime heroes (Breaking News)

Hitler Album could shed light on missing looted art (Breaking News)

Pakistan Lifts Longtime Ban on Political Activities in Restive Tribal Areas (Breaking News)

South Ossetia Tries to Disarm Its Citizens (Breaking News)

Distinguished British historian, Christopher Elrington, dies at 79 (Historians in the News)

Japan PM Voices Deep Regret Over WWII Suffering (Breaking News)

Unique Bronze Age burial uncovered in Scotland (Breaking News)

Prehistoric Czech people had contact with Black Sea area (Breaking News)

5,000 year-old sites found in Derry (Breaking News)

World's oldest movie theater turns 100 (Breaking News)

George VI 'relieved' when WW2 broke out (Breaking News)

Juan Cole shares health tips at his history blog (Historians in the News)

Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party loyalists engage with US over Iraq (Breaking News)

Freeing the Lockerbie bomber 'is an insult to Yvonne Fletcher' (Breaking News)

Poles, Germans rebury 2,000 WWII victims found in mass grave (Breaking News)

Clinton urges no Megrahi release (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Italy Seeks Ancient Loot From Symes Trustees (Breaking News)

Brandeis professor accuses Yale University Press of gag order (Historians in the News)

History of close calls in New York skies (Breaking News)

Study shows: Income Inequality At An All-Time High (Breaking News)

Argentine general sentenced to life for rights abuses (Breaking News)

British POWs snubbed as Japan apologises to US veterans (Breaking News)

Nazi fugitive 'Dr Death' Aribert Heim identified in Egypt by briefcase contents (Breaking News)

Five Protesters Climb Rome's Colosseum in Opposition to Layoffs (Breaking News)

Florida Funeral Honors Navy Pilot 18 Years After Gulf War Death (Breaking News)

Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme released from prison (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : HAVE A COOL WEEKEND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA ECONOMICS WRONG, MERKEL RIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Obama Loves Big Pharma (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Pan Am bomber at heart of controversy since 1988 (Breaking News)

Stone Age man used fire to make tools - 50,000 years earlier than scientists thought (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : BOOMING WEST BANK VS. DEPRESSED GAZA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Ancient whale found near Santa Cruz (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 37% DEM. JEWS PERSONALLY THREATENED BY ANTISEMITISM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Publisher bans images of Muhammad in new book (Breaking News)

Lockerbie: Britons back convict's release but US families outraged (Breaking News)

Details of secret CIA prisons released (Breaking News)

Lockerbie families fear they may never discover who carried out bombing (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Police Confirm Briefcase in Cairo Link to Fugitive Nazi (Breaking News)

On the writings of the late Jack Kirby (Historians in the News)

Peltier: A Refresher on American Indian History (Breaking News)

Florida Museum gets lifeboat from pirate hostage rescue (Breaking News)

Historical analysis looks for storm activity trends (Breaking News)

Bush's faith-based initiative more contentious than Obama's (Breaking News)

Women historians 'too timid' to write about men (Historians in the News)

William J. Schmidt, ecumenical historian, dies (Historians in the News)

Austin Music Historian Discovers Blind Willie Johnson's Grave (Breaking News)

With the disappearance of the Arctic Sea, has piracy returned? (Breaking News)

Digging up clues to history at San Fransisco's Presidio (Breaking News)

New Details Emerge on C.I.A.'s Jails (Breaking News)

In Beijing, a Brand-New Old Quarter (Breaking News)

Colonial Soldiers Want More From France (Breaking News)

Ancient Iraqi stone head matched with replica body (Breaking News)

Germany helps protect Iraqi antiquities (Breaking News)

Historian Jack Temple Kirby Passes Away (Historians in the News)

Piano that survived atomic bomb plays on for peace (Breaking News)

Presidential Vacations Carry Heavy Baggage (Breaking News)

Timber Structure Older than Stonehenge Found in London (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JAPAN DEFEATS GODZILLA, IF NOT KIM JONG IL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

SHELDON RICHMAN: Government's Track Record in the Insurance Business (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ABSURD AND COWARDLY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Juan Cole was right about Sunni fighters (Historians in the News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: A Little Help with a Photo (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern European Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Pre-Stonehenge House Reveals Domestic Life (Breaking News)

Terracotta army 'may have belonged to empress' (Breaking News)

A gift from 5,000 years ago (US) (Breaking News)

Grave May Be Found From Deadly Jackson Duel (Breaking News)

4,000-year-old dye found on Egyptian artifact (Breaking News)

Tomb search could end riddle of Shakespeare's true identity (Breaking News)

Report: Cheney Felt Bush 'Had Gone Soft on Him' (Breaking News)

Mystery ends in Australia WWII disaster (Breaking News)

World's oldest brewery carries on 1,000 years of tradition (Breaking News)

Recent Rise in US Militia Groups Echos 90s (Breaking News)

Documents: Rove involved in US attorney firings (Breaking News)

2 U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11's Wake (Breaking News)

U.S. Bares 'Alien Files' Kept on Immigrants (Breaking News)

Afghan Banker Who Risked His Life to Save Treasure From the Taliban Finally Gets His Due (Breaking News)

Americans and Iraqis work to urgently preserve the ancient Assyrian capital (Breaking News)

Forerunner for European unity celebrates 60 years of helping to define the continent (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber release imminent (Breaking News)

WWI veteran's medals go on show (Breaking News)

Man claims Bronte portrait find (UK) (Breaking News)

Genocide suspect found in Congo (Breaking News)

Lawyer for Ex-Nazi Officer Calls for Case to be Closed (Breaking News)

Judge Tosses Teen's Lawsuit for Right to Wear Confederate Flag (Breaking News)

Obama presents 16 with Presidential Medal of Freedom (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Harvard Economist Ken Rogoff on the Future (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : THEY HUNT POLICE IN RIO (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Liverpool has the most important Confederate house abroad (Breaking News)

4,000-year-old grave of 'Bronze Age hero' is uncovered near Perth (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... August 10-16, 2009 (This Week in History)

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Biographical Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

India not to reopen key WWII road (Breaking News)

War crime trials 'impunity gap' (Breaking News)

Passage of time helps last Nazis (Breaking News)

Geneva Conventions' struggle for respect (Breaking News)

German commander jailed for life in Nazi trial (Breaking News)

Nasa space telescope finds evidence of two worlds colliding thousands of years ago (Breaking News)

Woman throws mug at 'Mona Lisa' (Breaking News)

"[Niall] Ferguson: Not Only Do I Dislike the President's Budget Policies, He's Also Black!" (Historians in the News)

Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses lessons Lincoln has for Obama (Historians in the News)

BBC period show, The Tudors, is 'historically inaccurate', leading historian says (Historians in the News)

Harvey Milk, Jack Kemp to Get Posthumous Medals of Freedom (Breaking News)

Historian Jack Temple Kirby has died (Historians in the News)

Did Hitler shake hands with black 1936 Olympic hero Jesse Owens? (Breaking News)

Grave found of man who bankrolled Confederates in American civil war (Breaking News)

Korean History: After Torture and Betrayal, Reconciliation (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: And Now: A Moment of Unintended Clarity (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BAHAI VICTORIOUS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Obama Versus Obama on Single-Payer Health Care (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : GOOD NEWS: PROGRESS ON ELECTRIC CARS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics, Dies (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Egads! (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Former German officer found guilty of killing Italian civilians in WWII (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Senate Committee Apologizes to All Native Americans for Violence and Maltreatment by U.S. Citizens (Breaking News)

Long-Ago Collapse of Hawaiian Monarchy Described As U.S.-Assisted Regime Change (Breaking News)

Keeping Holocaust Stories Alive: As More Survivors Pass Away, New Ways to Remember Are Found (Breaking News)

Relatives Try To Determine How Meriwether Lewis Died (Breaking News)

Restoration Planned for Ancient Arch (Iraq) (Breaking News)

Worldwide Iraqi treasure hunt (Breaking News)

Funeral of PoW Auschwitz survivor (Breaking News)

Bronze age boat recreated at loch (UK) (Breaking News)

Humans evolved from tree dwelling apes rather than knuckle draggers (Breaking News)

Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus (Breaking News)

Manson's lasting legacy: 'Live freaky, die freaky' (Breaking News)

OAH appoints interim director to replace retiring Lee Formwalt (Historians in the News)

Remembering OAH Past President Kenneth M. Stampp (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : GOOD TO BE A TERRORIST IN GERMANY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : PAKISTAN - NO MAN'S LAND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JAMES C. COBB: Jack Temple Kirby (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Job Growth Lacking in the Private Sector (Breaking News)

Shipwrecked: Archaeologists explore graveyard of sunken ships in Baltic Sea (Breaking News)

Australian soldiers who died in the Battle of Fromelles (Breaking News)

Homeless Holocaust Survivor Leaves $100,000 Donation to Israeli University (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Cops Arrest Blogger for Identifying a Police Officer (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Former Nixon counsel tells story of scandal (Breaking News)

Senate Historian Reflects on 34 Years of Queries (Historians in the News)

An Interview with Charles Geisst: How Americans Got Into a Credit Card Mess (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Article by Hetzel on the 2008-2009 Recession (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT HIGGS: The Anti-Bunk Party's Candidate for President. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Key figure in 1989 Tiananmen uprising attacked in NY (Breaking News)

Obama's Embrace of a Bush Tactic Riles Congress (Breaking News)

Where Have You Gone, Joe the Citizen? (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL ERASED FROM THE MAP (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WHENCE CHINESE INDIAN RELATIONS? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AUGUST 9, 2009 - (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

HMS Conway 150th anniversary service in Liverpool (Breaking News)

WWII Shipwrecks Sought in 'Graveyard of the Atlantic' (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : WHAT PYONGYANG WON AND TEHRAN MAY WIN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

"The history of the US health insurance industry" [podcast 6 min 16 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Devin Nunes: It's Fish Versus Farmers in the San Joaquin Valley (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joe Conason: Winston Churchill was a Bolshevik (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jon Wiener: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas J. Sugrue: The New American Dream: Renting (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jay Janson: No Hillary Apology For Ike Ordering the Murder of Lumumba (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ron Briley: Review of Noralee Frankel's Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). (Books)

Pivotal Works by Beckmann, Ernst, Munch, Picasso, Warhol and Others on Offer at Christie's (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s Opens at the Spencer Museum of Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

National Museum of the American Indian Celebrates Four Landmark Anniversaries (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Gerson: At the Town Halls, Trivializing Evil (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Jackson Opus to include unseen lyrics and pictures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Charles Dickens was also accused of dumbing down (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Uncommon Knowledge: Christopher Hitchens & Robert Service" [video 35 min 55 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Remembering The Construction Of The Berlin Wall" [podcast 3 min 27 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"The Orphan Train" [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Benjamin F. Carlson: Spoiling for a Bush-Cheney Fight (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Krassner: On the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rami G. Khouri: Perpetual and collective failures (Roundup: Media's Take)

Portia Siegelbaum: As Castro Turns 83, Cuba Caught Between Past, Future (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Fusilli: Wobbly performances, technical problems marred Woodstock (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert Stone's documentary "Earth Days" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Apocalypse Now: A Classic Film and Its Sources, 30 Years On (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Steven Plaut: The 14 Lies Blocking Peace in the Middle East (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ole Christian Madsen reignites history in 'Flame & Citron' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Healthcare A Priority For Richard Nixon (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Begala: Health Care Reform: Progress Over Perfection (Roundup: Media's Take)

Christopher Walker: A Decade of Putinism (Roundup: Media's Take)

David McKittrick: At last, Belfast dares to imagine life after the 30ft 'peace wall' (Roundup: Talking About History)

Fears stolen Natural History Museum birds will be used as fishing lures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

World first historical thesaurus to be published after 45 years' work (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

10 Places to Relive the '60s (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel Mandel: Israel's Self-Inflicted Woes (Roundup: Media's Take)

Margaret Wilson, First Black Woman to Head N.A.A.C.P. Board, Dies at 90 (Obituaries)

John S. Baker and Elliott Stonecipher: Our Unconstitutional Census (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nicolai N. Petro: One Year After the Russo-Georgian War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Seth Sandronsky: Rethinking US Penal Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark Hosenball: I Was At Woodstock. And I Hated It. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles Lane: Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson (Roundup: Media's Take)

Walter E. Williams: Politics and Blacks (Roundup: Media's Take)

The humble currywurst gets its own museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Man claims Bronte portrait find (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Johnson: The Legacy of Billy the Kid (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jason Trenner: Remembering the Reagan Bull Market (Roundup: Media's Take)

A New Wing, a New Direction (Cleveland, Ohio) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

What Puzo Godfathered 40 Years Ago (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tom Engelhardt: Biking Out of Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Carlin Romano: The Shame of Academe and Fascism, Then and Now (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eric Zencey: G.D.P. R.I.P. (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Adam Cohen: A Century-Old Principle: Keep Corporate Money Out of Elections (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mike Seeger, Singer and Music Historian, Dies at 75 (Obituaries)

Andreas Umland: Europe's Share in the Ukrainian Malaise (Roundup: Historians' Take)

National Gallery of Victoria Announces European Masters from the Stadel Museum Exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Simon Tisdall: Gaddafi's remarkable rehabilitation (Roundup: Media's Take)

Roy Hattersley: The emergency measure that lasted 35 years (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bill Emmott: The recovery will prove Thatcherism right (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Sebestyen: How not to end a war in Afghanistan (Roundup: Talking About History)

Vince Bzdek: The Faces of a 'Royal' Generation Fade Into History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bill Lucey: How The N.Y Times Covered Woodstock During the Summer of 69' (Roundup: Talking About History)

IMG MGMT: Life As A Woman, Hedy Lamarr (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James Kirchick: Did Obama vet Mary Robinson before choosing her for the Medal of Freedom? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mamet, Disney to Produce Anne Frank (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Edward Luttwak: Why U.S. Diplomacy Will Fail With Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ronald Radosh: The Debate over Soviet Espionage (Roundup: Talking About History)

Thomas F. Cooley: The Rocky History Of Fed Independence (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert D. Kaplan: Buddha's Savage Peace (Roundup: Talking About History)

Hollywood's Jewish Avenger (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Imogen Foulkes: The Geneva Conventions at 60 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jefferson Flanders: Birthers, Truthers, and Buffs: The Paranoid Style (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter Ephross: Interview with Jewish Historian Avinoam J. Patt (Roundup: Talking About History)

The Fab Four come home to Hamburg (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Classic and Contemporary Masterpieces on Show at the National Museum of Singapore (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Series of Exhibitions in Italy will Celebrate Elio Ciol's 80th Anniversary (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Celebrate Woodstock's 40th Anniversary Visiting the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Niall Ferguson: A runaway deficit may soon test Obama’s luck (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Scopes film wins merit award (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Paul Krugman: Averting the Worst (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Bolton: Contesting Mary Robinson's Medal of Freedom (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert J. Samuelson: Can We Afford Obama's Health-Care Plan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Hussein Agha, Robert Malley: The Two-State Solution Doesn't Solve Anything (Roundup: Media's Take)

Deepak Tripathi: Review of Christopher Pyle’s Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law (Potomac Books, 2009) (Books)

Barry Rubin: Obama Administration Says ... Hooray for Jihad (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Angry rich liberals (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Archives of American Art's New Exhibition Portrays "Hard Times, 1929 - 1939" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Dean: Looking for Great "Big History" Books (Roundup: Talking About History)

New York Academy of Art Announces a Special Exhibition "Leipzig Calling: Twenty Years after the Iron Curtain" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Alexander Golts: One Big Lesson the Kremlin Hasn’t Learned (Roundup: Talking About History)

Edward P. Djerejian: Damascus and the Road to Mideast Peace (Roundup: Media's Take)

Carlos G. Aguilar: Peace Agreements and Democratization Processes in Central America (Roundup: Media's Take)

A new HBO documentary oversimplifies the many lives of Marion Barry. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Joshua A. Tucker: What we still don't know about the Russian-Georgian War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eric Gibson: Why Dictators Love Kitsch (Roundup: Media's Take)

Maurice Isserman: 3 Days of Peace and Music, 40 Years of Memory (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Arthur Levine: The Truman Commission Redux (Roundup: Media's Take)

3 Experts Speak About Putin and Russia: 10 years of co-evolution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Doug Ireland: Pioneers With Pens (Roundup: Talking About History)

Richard J. Cross III: Rethinking Richard Nixon (Roundup: Talking About History)

David R. Stokes: Rules For Witnesses (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ronald and Allis Radosh: What Harry could teach O about Israel (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Bill Mahr: New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart Country (Roundup: Media's Take)

Doomsday nuclear scenarios ... Hollywood's take (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Sara Robinson: Fascist America: Are We There Yet? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dick Howard: What is a Revolution? Reflections on the Significance of 1989/90 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Paul Smalera: A history of African-American-Targeted Advertising (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jim Downs: Review of of Clarence Walker's Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (University of Virginia Press, 2009) (Books)

Andrew McMichael: The Danger of Fox News (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stephen Lendman: Implications of the Honduran Coup (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jon Pareles: The Enduring Appeal of Woodstock (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Pipes: Western Conquerors or Liberators of Muslims? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Anne Wexler, an Influential Political Operative and Lobbyist, Is Dead at 79 (Obituaries)

Elizabeth Pond: Germany's combat revival (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stanley Kutler: 35 Years After Nixon (Roundup: Talking About History)

Week of August 2, 2009

Roundup

Hunger hits Detroit's middle class (Breaking News)

President Claims More Power in Niger's Disputed Referendum (Breaking News)

2009 Bank Fail Total Largest Since 1992 (Breaking News)

Twitter collapse could be linked to history of Russia-Georgia conflict (Breaking News)

Beatles fans mark 40 years since Abbey Road (Breaking News)

8,000-year-old human skeleton found in a Turkey tomb (Breaking News)

Saving the gems of the Stone Age (Breaking News)

Bronze Age settlement discovered in East Hungary (Breaking News)

13 ancient burial sites, temples unearthed in Lebanon (Breaking News)

University of Toronto archaeologists find cache of cuneiform tablets in 2,700-year old Turkish temple (Breaking News)

In Collection's Ashes, a Heritage's Seeds (Breaking News)

Staving Off a Spiral Toward Oblivion (Breaking News)

'Roman emperor's villa' unearthed (Breaking News)

Muhammad Ali to visit ancestral home in Ireland (Breaking News)

Freedom bid of Charles Manson's 'harem' of jailed female followers (Breaking News)

Lovelorn Cypriots ravage historic tomb of saint (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: The Cause of the Scottish Enlightenment (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Researchers Charge Tyrannosaurus Rex Was a Chicken and a Baby Killer (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: About APEE (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Twisted histories last the longest (Breaking News)

UK 'may have 40-year Afghan role' (Breaking News)

Blogs

RODERICK T. LONG: Proletarian Revolution in Las Vegas (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

US Army spying is drawing attention to the scandals of the past (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern American Political Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

India Has Its Own Kind of Power Struggle (Breaking News)

Damaging divide: Palestinian divisions constitute a greater danger than Israel (Breaking News)

Jewish Groups Say Obama's Pick for Medal Has Anti-Israel Bias (Breaking News)

Hunt for new Ohio statue goes to Edison birthplace (Breaking News)

Rare Obama Video Surfaces (Breaking News)

Is Pakistan's Taliban Chief Dead? (Breaking News)

Canada Finds Wreck of U.S. Aircraft From World War II (Breaking News)

2 NY historic sites being sold, 3rd sale stalled (Breaking News)

A growing thirst for the Nile (Breaking News)

Vietnam Scholar gives Afghan tips (Breaking News)

Decline in Births (Breaking News)

John R. Hale's Book, Rowing to Democracy (Historians in the News)

Clinton Offers Assurances to Somalis (Breaking News)

Migrants to China's West Bask in Prosperity (Breaking News)

Kirill's Visit Exposes Dangers in Moscow-Kiev Ties (Breaking News)

WWII Vet Training Service Dogs For Wounded Warriors Gets Surge of Support (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Small Coins and Britain's Industrial Revolution (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

First daughters balance privilege and pressure (Breaking News)

Bali and Jakarta bomber believed captured (Breaking News)

Obama adviser rejects 'global war on terror' (Breaking News)

Mandela meeting inspires Clinton (Breaking News)

Cannibalism theory over bone find (UK) (Breaking News)

Georgia marks anniversary of 2008 war with Russia (Breaking News)

Documents reveal estimated costs of Iraq war (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

RODERICK T. LONG: 2009 Molinari Symposium (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Sacrificial virgins of the Mississippi (Breaking News)

Blogs

AMY H. STURGIS: Greetings from the 67th WorldCon! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: The Wall Street Journal Reviews Black Maverick (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

If Clinton's Trip To Korea Works Out OK, Expect Him To Do More (Breaking News)

Steven Hahn advances "A Rebellious Take on African-American History" (Historians in the News)

US looks to Stanley Karnow for Afghan tips (Historians in the News)

Germany names anti-Semitism panel (Historians in the News)

Andrew Roberts is the social historian (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs released (Breaking News)

Adm. Mullen decries 'culture of poverty' in Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Too Soon To Return Home, Say Darfurians (Breaking News)

U.S. Unconcerned About Russian Subs off East Coast; Moscow Says Patrol Is Routine (Breaking News)

Study finds: Economic peace no replacement for a political solution (Breaking News)

Sotomayor Confirmed To US Supreme Court (Breaking News)

Iranians meet in Cairo for the return of monarchy (Breaking News)

Singing to Stop the Fighting in Sierra Leone (Breaking News)

Baghdad Blast Walls to Be Removed (Breaking News)

Political Overtones Surround Aquino Funeral (Breaking News)

Ireland Frees 2 I.R.A. Men in 1996 Killing (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: Horwitz on Capitalism and the Family (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Robert Harris dedicates new Cicero book to Lord Mandelson (UK) (Breaking News)

Rehabilitated: Norwegian Nobel Prize winner who fell for Hitler (Breaking News)

Blackwater accused of murder in 'crusade to eliminate Muslims' (Breaking News)

India may buy Gandhi Africa home (Breaking News)

Franco-German "war child" granted German citizenship (Breaking News)

Jewish group backs republishing Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (Breaking News)

2,000-year-old ritual cup found in Old City of Jerusalem (Breaking News)

Signs of ancient port in Kerala (Breaking News)

Humans, Flores 'hobbits' existed together: study (Breaking News)

WWII PoW tag and medals auctioned (Breaking News)

The Queen Mother's private recorded thoughts to be published for first time (Breaking News)

Pterodactyl fossil reveals complex skills of earliest flyiers (Breaking News)

World's oldest map: Spanish cave has landscape from 14,000 years ago (Breaking News)

Billy the Kid's letters from prison put on display for first time (Breaking News)

Khmer Rouge court told how Westerner was burned alive (Breaking News)

Harry Patch funeral: thousands line streets (Breaking News)

Hollywood's distortion of the truth alters history in the eyes of schoolchildren (Breaking News)

Report: Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard Exposed as Fake (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : AHMADINEJAD INAGURATED, PROTEST UNABATED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Farm Real-Estate Values Post Rare Decline (Breaking News)

Beyond Henry Louis Gates: Many Scholars Find Inspiration in Discrimination (Historians in the News)

Turkey Seeks End to Kurdish Conflict (Breaking News)

Bids Start at $300,000 for Chicago's Historic Post Office (Breaking News)

Russia and Georgia Battle Over Position in History (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Ancient & Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Sovereign Default Under Fiat Currencies (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Foreign Detainees in the Midwest (Breaking News)

Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Reprint Rejected as Bavarian Ban Upheld (Breaking News)

Chabad Renews Effort to Make Senior Nazi a Righteous Gentile (Breaking News)

Teachers get training in African-American history (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : SMILE, THESE ARE THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Celebrity Ayn Rand Fans (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Gov of Sindh gets 126 archaeological sites (Breaking News)

How vital were Cold War spies? (Breaking News)

German neo-Nazi 'youth camp' shut down (Breaking News)

Russian submarines patrol off US west coast (Breaking News)

Italy to build solar-energy-producing statue of saint (Breaking News)

WWII Bomb Closes Harbor (Breaking News)

After 34 years, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme to be released (Breaking News)

Lies about war in Iraq caused stress disorder, says MoD press officer (UK) (Breaking News)

Lockerbie families' anger as bomber al-Megrahi gets ministerial visit (Breaking News)

German neo-Nazi 'youth camp' shut down (Breaking News)

9/11 dust 'gave thousands asthma' (Breaking News)

German Jew sent to Britain as schoolboy set to testify at Nazi war crimes trial (Breaking News)

Nelson's heroism written all over his face? (Breaking News)

Politkovskaya death retrial opens (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

First Fatah Convention in Two Decades (Breaking News)

State Dept Alters Stance on Uruguay History (Historians in the News)

The real story behind President Clinton's surprise mission to North Korea dates back to the 1990s. (Breaking News)

Ancient Sword Found in Gloucestershire Field (Breaking News)

Clues to Culloden friendly fire (Breaking News)

16,000 People Evacuated Amid Huge Mine-Clearing Operation in Brest (Breaking News)

Shift in Middle East Studies? (Historians in the News)

Library reveals rare photographs (Breaking News)

John Quincy Adams on Twitter (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... August 3-9, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

Rough justice - Victorian style (Breaking News)

Historic Rome marred by graffiti (Breaking News)

Germans question Afghan war (Breaking News)

Ship's weapon dug up from garden (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Read his lips: Does tax pledge put Obama on shaky ground? (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Making Democracy Safe For the World (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

British soldier takes historical stance as first to protest to PM (Breaking News)

Korean Crisis Is Different This Time (Breaking News)

Arms Dealer Extradited to Germany (Breaking News)

Biggest tax revenue drop since 1932 (Breaking News)

Ancient Roman City Lost, Now Found (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Fossils In Spain Are Treasure-Trove For Scientists (Breaking News)

Juan Cole compares Sarah Palin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Historians in the News)

How fact-free claims about Obama's citizenship gained mainstream currency (Breaking News)

Forgotten soldiers of Cyprus campaign will get memorial at last (Breaking News)

Car boot wood 'could be Crusades tabernacle' (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Why Default on U.S. Treasuries is Likely (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Arrest made in death of Nazi concentration camp survivor (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Latest GDP Revisions (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Hiroshima history is far from sacred (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRETT HOLMAN: A dispatch from Harvard by the Yarra (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Oliver Cromwell's grave comes back to life for summer at Westminster Abbey (Breaking News)

Forgotten soldiers of Cyprus campaign will get memorial at last (Breaking News)

German trial for Kohl-era figure (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Launching the Moderometer (Gil Troy)

Roundup

School Is Out but Education Doesn't Stop for the Obama Daughters This Summer (Breaking News)

With Health Care Talks Uncertain, Democrats Consider a Last Resort (Breaking News)

Prof. Gates Says He Received Death And Bomb Threats (Historians in the News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: I Worked for the Government Today without Pay (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Juan Cole interviewed about Afghanistan, Iran and other hot spots (Historians in the News)

Criminal trials from 18th and 19th centuries go online for first time (Breaking News)

Mozart Piece Unveiled in Austria (Breaking News)

4,500-Year-Old Skeleton Found on Italian Beach (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRAN - BATTLE GOES ON (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : TIME FOR AMERICAN JEWISH ACTION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

New web service publishes books online for free (Historians in the News)

Hurdles in Eastern Europe Thwart Restitution Claims (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Kenneth Stampp, R.I.P. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Gulf War pilot's remains found in Iraq desert (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: Obama and the Fatal Conceit (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Gunner Jimmy, ventriloquist dummy which performed in Blitz, to play final show (Breaking News)

Raul Castro: Cuba will never renounce the revolution (Breaking News)

Lagers of Our Leaders: A Look Back at What Presidents Have Imbibed (Breaking News)

Remains found of first American shot down in Gulf War (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Hidden Gobi Desert relics found (Breaking News)

New Mozart pieces to be performed (Breaking News)

An Inside Look at the Bobby and Jackie Kennedy Affair (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: The Case for Drug Legalization (Again!) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Jim Cullen, Review of Chris Hedges's Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Nation Books, 2009) (Books)

Uzi Silber on Israel: What's in a (Country's) Name? (Roundup: Media's Take)

An Interview with Charles Geisst: How Americans Got Into a Credit Card Mess (Roundup: Historians' Take)

R. M. Takasugi, Pioneering Asian Judge, Dies at 78 (Obituaries)

Hugo Restall: China's Public Enemy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ashraf Ghani: Afghanistan Needs New Leadership (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sen. Dick Lugar: The Housewife That Changed The World (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alice in Wonderland gets 'sexy' TV makeover (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jon Swain and Michael Gillard: Is Somalia the new Afghanistan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ted C. Sorensen: The Obama-Kennedy Nuclear Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Greg Mitchell: The Day After Hiroshima: When the Atomic "Cover-Up" Began, 64 Years Ago (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rembrandt original comes out of hiding in Antwerp after restoration (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Con Coughlin: Clinton Caused Problems in North Korea (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joshua Muravchik: After The Fall... 1989, Twenty Years On (Roundup: Talking About History)

Anthony Paul: What's new in Af-Pak? History you haven't read (Roundup: Media's Take)

Matt Damon's 'History' is made (finally) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Eric Michael Johnson: Intimidating the Soviets: A Hiroshima Anniversary Memorial (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel: Review of George Selgin's Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821 (University of Michigan Press, 2008) (Books)

Greg Mitchell: The great Hiroshima cover-up (Roundup: Talking About History)

John Feffer: Our Suicide Bombers (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas N. Schroth, Influential Washington Editor, Is Dead at 88 (Obituaries)

Lisa Levenstein: A Phila. hospital that was a model of care (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Sotomayor Confirmed as First Hispanic on Supreme Court [video 15 min 27 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

John B. Judis: Will Obama be brought low by the same forces that irreparably damaged Clinton and Carter? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Johnp Perazzo: Obama Joker vs. Bush Joker (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Susan Jakes: China Behind the Headlines--Xu Zhiyong (Roundup: Media's Take)

Egypt anger over Sadat film dog (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New Tennyson museum marks the bicentenary of the poet's birth (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A new boxed set of documentaries confirms that Hitler believed in safety in numbers (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

WWI veteran laid to rest [video 2 min 50 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jan Puhl: Who Deserves Credit for the 1989 Revolution? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Iran ... Beware Neocons Bearing Boycotts (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Faith J. H. McDonnell: Pebbles in their Mouths (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Bolton: Clinton's Unwise Trip to North Korea (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amos Kenan, Israeli Writer and Iconoclast, Dies at 82 (Obituaries)

Fouad Ajami: Autocracy and the Decline of the Arabs (Roundup: Media's Take)

C. B. Liddell: Hammer (and Sickle) Time for Japan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Warren Kozak: The Hiroshima Rorschach Test (Roundup: Talking About History)

Katsunori Nagayasu: How Japan Restored Its Financial System (Roundup: Media's Take)

Clare Spark: On The ABCs of Staying Alive and Preserving The Planet (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert Moses vs. Jane Jacobs: When David Fought Goliath in Washington Square Park (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Budd Schulberg, Screenwriter, Dies at 95 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thomas L. Friedman: Green Shoots in Palestine (Roundup: Media's Take)

Priya Satia: Brilliant insights that led us astray in Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tom Engelhardt: As another August 6th approaches (Roundup: Talking About History)

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: Clinton Boosts North Korea (Roundup: Media's Take)

Afua Hirsch: A proud 700-year history of double standards on torture (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Ahmadinejad sworn in (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Katharine Hepburn's Oscars on View Aug. 4 at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, Reaches the Final of The National Lottery Awards (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Frida Berrigan: The horror of Hiroshima lives on (Roundup: Talking About History)

The 10 most historically inaccurate movies (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Radiohead launch tribute song to First World War veteran Harry Patch (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mona latte: Da Vinci's Lisa masterpiece recreated using cups of coffee (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gordon Corera: How vital were Cold War spies? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Maggie Fox: Aquino's "People Power" Swept Up Reporters, Too (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jack Shafer: The Newspaper-Web War, Ever get the feeling this battle was fought before? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas B. Edsall: The Modern GOP Return To The "White Voter Strategy" (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Frakt: Let the military commissions die (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steven Hahn: A Rebellious Take on African-American History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Julian E. Zelizer: Why Obama's plans are stalled (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Edwin Black: Cash for Clunkers—A Historic Mistake (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Cullen: Review of Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (Harper, 2009) (Books)

Two exhibitions reveal how artists depicted a golden Britain even as the country sank into turmoil (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Barbara F. Walter: History shows it's too soon to leave Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)

Douglas J. Feith and Abram N. Shulsky: Is Obama Reviving the Cold War? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Artist to become darling of British cinema with loving portrait of John Lennon (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Biographer Claire Tomalin to chronicle the life of Charles Dickens (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The Discovery of Spain at the National Gallery of Scotland, review (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Hamas to make feature film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Renaissance Masterpiece Going to the Portland Art Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Call of the Sea Exhibition - A Fresh Look at Britain's Marine Painters and Maritime Heritage (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Loss and Liberty" at Museum of London Docklands (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

'Styled for the Road: The Art of Automobile Design, 1908-1948' Exhibition to Open at the Wolfsonian (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Getty Exhibition Looks Closely at the Fanciful Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Pictures Belonging to Lord and Lady Attenborough to be Offered for Sale at Sotheby's (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dalton Conley: Safe at Home (Roundup: Media's Take)

Chris Kelly: The Constitution Says Obama Can't Be President. And Neither Could Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Immanuel Ness: Could the great recession lead to a great revolution? (Roundup: Media's Take)

William K. Black: A thorough investigation of the financial collapse (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rodrigue Tremblay: Nothing in Sight to Replace the US Dollar as an International Reserve Currency (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sherwood Ross: King Would Object to Obama's Wars (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jason Leopold: Holder Ponders Limited Torture Probe (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jacob Weisberg: New President, Old Mistake (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sophia A. Nelson: the Real Affirmative Action Babies (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rick Noyes: Obama,Clinton Idolized on Time Covers more than GOP Presidents (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Lawrence S. Wittner: Press on, for a nuclear-free world (Roundup: Talking About History)

Confronting Race At The White House In 1929 [podcast 1 min 38 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Evolution makes for inspired art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

By royal approval: Buckingham Palace awarded blue plaque for jazz (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Hidden misery of Mao’s slave teenage brides told in new film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Director brings pre-Celtic clash alive (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert F. Turner: How the Vietnam War Started (Roundup: Talking About History)

Patrick Mercer: British Empire Knew How to Beat the Taliban (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eliot Cohen: What's Different About the Obama Foreign Policy? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Magna Carta awarded UN status (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

British Cinema After Mr. Hitler's War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Devin Leonard: Government as Wall Street's Enabler (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rare Buddhist artefacts hidden in the Gobi Desert for seven decades are found (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Lundberg: Britain's Poet Laureate Remembers The Great War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Researchers unveil Mozart piano pieces in Austria (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Larry DeWitt: Review of John Lukacs’s Last Rites (Yale University Press, 2009). (Books)

Week of July 26, 2009

Roundup

US government changing its economic stats ... going back decades (Breaking News)

Prof. Gates sends flowers to 911 caller (Breaking News)

Racist e-mail sparks questions on free speech, image of the police (Breaking News)

Cemetery scandal affects black history (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : THE MEASURE OF THE MAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Human population expanded during Late Stone Age (Breaking News)

New device traces archaeological finds fast (Breaking News)

In search of prehistoric settlements off the coast of Florida (Breaking News)

Fox News graphics department has shaky grasp of Mideast geography (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Raging Historical Debate on the Free State of Jones (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Notes on Western Civilization (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Alan C. Hall taught technology and history at Gateway Community and Technical College and pushed for the onetime vocational school to offer more for its students (Historians in the News)

A very private 'teachable moment' (Breaking News)

Obama fails to name envoy for combating anti-Semitism (Breaking News)

Traces of Aramaic on Shroud of Turin (Breaking News)

The Onion satirizes Henry Louis Gates controversy (Historians in the News)

12th century church, with a congregation of only 22, has won a £ 10,000 prize to help in its battle for survival (UK) (Breaking News)

Statement of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. after meeting with Sergeant James Crowley at the White House (Historians in the News)

Wealthy family donates Gettysburg land to Park Service (Breaking News)

Henry II 'spent a fortune on Dover Castle to counter Becket cult' (Breaking News)

WWII airmen honored for role in rescue operation (Breaking News)

History, Along With Books, at an Istanbul Library (Breaking News)

Students make history as they become first to explore undiscovered Greek caves (Breaking News)

Corazon Aquino, Ex-Leader of Philippines, Is Dead (Breaking News)

Researchers reveal ancient housing site in Malang (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : SING ALONG (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Skeleton of warrior found near Rome (Breaking News)

Rare Jesus era vessel found in Jerusalem (Breaking News)

Scene cut from Athens museum film after protests (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Historians question federal charter (Switzerland) (Breaking News)

Final service for medieval church (Wales) (Breaking News)

Discarded Burial Vaults Found at Historic Chicago Cemetery (Breaking News)

Holocaust Survivor Found Dead With Hands Tied in Manhattan Apartment (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIANS RISK ALL; OBAMA DEADLY SILENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JONATHAN JARRETT: Doublepoints (peasants, ghosts and memory) (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Italian archaeologists find lost Roman city of Altinum near Venice (Breaking News)

Tipu Sultan descendants to have royal status restored (Breaking News)

Tony Blair to be called to Iraq War Inquiry (Breaking News)

Tributes for Henry Allingham at First World War veteran's funeral (Breaking News)

Spain on red alert as ETA marks its 50th anniversary (Breaking News)

Anthropologist receives Medal of Freedom (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: A Statement About the State of Jones Dispute (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Who Said This (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Professor Gates 911 Caller Lucia Whalen Holds Press Conference (Breaking News)

What a White House Beer Says About Race and Politics (Breaking News)

Victoria Bynum vs. John Stauffer (Historians in the News)

Activists: Google's mammoth book digitization project means access to knowledge for minorities (Breaking News)

19th-Century Lessons for Today's Drug War, Says Historian (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : "Is health bill too complex to grasp?" (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Obama taking lessons from LBJ on health care (Breaking News)

30 percent Give Obama Good Marks for Handling of Gates Incident (Breaking News)

Julian Zelizer says the beer summit is unprecedented (Historians in the News)

Deported By U.S., Accused Nazi Gets Royal Treatment (Breaking News)

Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved? (Breaking News)

Patient aged 2,500 in for tests (Breaking News)

The day the oldest man was born (Breaking News)

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Adds New Data to Google Earth on Darfur (Breaking News)

The Upside of the Great Depression (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

AARON BADY: "I don't know; maybe it's a guy thing" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Race, Politics, And Obama: Scholars Respond To Sean Wilentz's 'Who Lincoln Was'--And Wilentz Strikes Back (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : DISCUSSION OF IRANIAN CONSERVATIVES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Harvey Silverglate on the Right to Argue with Cops (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : DAY OF MOURNING FOR NEDA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Interview About Our Book, Black Maverick (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Solzhenitsyn's widow takes Putin to task (Breaking News)

Germany's pro-Hitler party plans 'training centre' (Breaking News)

Oetzi Iceman's Tattoos Came from Fireplace (Breaking News)

Incan Empire Aided by Global Warming (Breaking News)

Polish comic books cover Nazi camps (Breaking News)

German treasure hunters strike gold with English shipwreck (Breaking News)

Who are the last WWI veterans? (Breaking News)

Flypast for WWI veteran's funeral (Breaking News)

Iraq war inquiry to be launched in UK (Breaking News)

Mystery of Watergate Tapes' Missing Minutes Soon Could Be Solved (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historians donate book collection to Southwestern University (Historians in the News)

Douglas Brinkley takes a long, fond look at Theodore Roosevelt (Historians in the News)

Declassified Ike documents show policy challenges (Breaking News)

Colin Powell Rebukes Gates (Breaking News)

Gadgets Join the Search for the Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan (Breaking News)

NBC News follow-up: "Racial politics under scrutiny" (video) (Breaking News)

Babylon's Ancient Wonder, Lying in Ruins (Breaking News)

Comet Likely Culprit in Tunguska Blast (Breaking News)

Conservatives seek to shift focus of state social studies lessons (Texas) (Breaking News)

How budget cuts in California could impact Chinese studies (Historians in the News)

Bob Geldof discovered gravity, say children (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : LEST WE FORGET (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

51 Headless Vikings Found in English Execution Pit? (Breaking News)

Sutton Hoo, Suffolk: On the trail of the Anglo-Saxons (Breaking News)

Location of historic NY battle still a mystery (Breaking News)

Major criminal flees Bosnia jail (Breaking News)

Holocaust Museum Shooting Suspect Indicted in Killing of Guard (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ON CHINA: EU ACTS, US SHOULD TOO! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

How Lice Thwarted Napoleon's Invasion of Russia (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... July 27-August 2, 2009 (This Week in History)

RALPH E. LUKER: History Carnival, A Lincoln Disputation & the Philippines Analogy (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

C.J. MALONEY: How Firms Wooed a U.S. Bureaucrat With Billions to Invest (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

President Obama Nominates David S. Ferriero Archivist of the U.S. (Historians in the News)

FDR had people over for drinks, too, says Doris Kearns Goodwin (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : IRAN SAGA GOES ON/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Omitted ad forces Orange to postpone Wal-Mart hearing (Breaking News)

Ukraine finds 'reporter's skull' (Breaking News)

Foundation Run by Harvard’s Gates Is Revising Tax Return After Questions Raised (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : SUPRISE: ECONOMIC MODELS NOT PREDICTIVE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

House Passes Anti-Birther Resolution (Breaking News)

Gordon Brown reprimanded for mythologizing W W I (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : THE ISRAEL TEST (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Author's Nightmare: Two publishers choose the same cover for different books (Historians in the News)

White House meeting set with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sgt. Jim Crowley (Breaking News)

Blogs

JAMES OTTESON: The More Things Change (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Queen bypasses Bermuda's celebration of four centuries of colonial history (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Signed copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf for sale (Breaking News)

4000-year-old paraplegic found (Breaking News)

Artifacts meant to stay on national, state lands (US) (Breaking News)

Historic battlefields across Scotland are to be given more protection. (Breaking News)

Berlusconi's lawyer denies archaeological scandal (Breaking News)

DNA confirms coastal trek to Australia (Breaking News)

Southern Methodist U. Settles Lawsuit Over Bush Library Site (Breaking News)

Mourning the Death of Handwriting (Breaking News)

Historian discusses new book on an academic exodus that saved lives and changed mathematics (Historians in the News)

NYT split decision on James MacGregor Burns's new Supreme Court book (Historians in the News)

War hero's home to be a sex shop (Breaking News)

NYT features op ed by art history grad student worried about her future in a bad economy (Historians in the News)

Forget Who Pays Medical Bills, It’s Who Sets the Cost (Breaking News)

Charles Taylor denies cannibalism (Breaking News)

Gandhi S Africa house up for sale (Breaking News)

Nazi Strength Through Joy leisure programme to get museum in German far-Right proposals (Breaking News)

Britain's last surviving First World War veteran Claude Choules says war was boring (Breaking News)

Moon rock book 'will be one of most expensive in history' (Breaking News)

Signed copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf for sale (Breaking News)

Partisan or Not, a Tough Course on Health Care (Breaking News)

Rwanda: 100 days that changed history (Breaking News)

Andrew Roberts: The history man who loves to party (Historians in the News)

Rocket Men is Apollo 11 history book (Breaking News)

Historian digs for stories of black settlement and its massacre (Rosewood) (Historians in the News)

National Parks Full of History, if Not Visitors (Breaking News)

Did a comet really smash into Canada 13,000 years ago? (Breaking News)

Prehistoric American Indian settlement discovered in Ohio (Breaking News)

How clothing has given humans an edge over other species (Breaking News)

Excavation in Lebanon aims to uncover ancient ruins (Breaking News)

Gandhi S Africa house up for sale (Breaking News)

Virginia man sentenced to life in prison for Bush assassination plot (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: "If a Police Officer Tells You to Do Something and You Don't Do It, You're Actually Resisting" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JANE S. SHAW: Beyond the Gates Incident (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Cyprus Digs Reveal First Settlements May Be Older Than Thought (Breaking News)

Pre-Incan mummy dug up in center of Lima (Breaking News)

UK's oldest Roman Coin found in Thatcham (Breaking News)

Diver finds ruins of ancient city (Breaking News)

Service planned for WWI sacrifice (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Finally a Nugget of Truth from Sgt. Crowley (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JEFF SHEAR: Part Six: Missing Parts (Jeff Shear's History of "Cynthia," the World War II Spy)

Roundup

Highbrow guides to historic sites rewritten to woo masses (UK) (Breaking News)

Revealed: The secret evidence of global warming in Alaska that Bush did not want you to see (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Horrible Histories (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Terror drama staged in back of a Belfast taxi (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Review: “The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes” at the Peabody Essex Museum (MA) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Legacy of War: Fake Art in Vietnam (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Howard French: China Could Use Some Honest Talk About Race (Roundup: Media's Take)

East Germany's overlooked architectural achievements (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Silbey: Our splendid little war (Roundup: Talking About History)

Stanton Peele: LBJ Makes A Comeback (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Hirsh: Barack W. Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Col. Reese on a Quick Withdrawal (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Timothy R. Furnish: Hizb al-Tahrir emerges -- in Chicago (Roundup: Historians' Take)

James Taranto: The last word on President Obama’s place of birth (Roundup: Media's Take)

'Destroyed' Edmond Rostand play discovered (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mummies Only Look Like They’re Screaming (Did You Know?)

Orlando Patterson: Our Cherished Paradoxes (Roundup: Talking About History)

Henry II's lavish 12th century court brought back to life at Dover Castle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Col. Timothy Reese: ‘It’s Time for the US to Declare Victory and Go Home’ (Roundup: Media's Take)

Johann Hari: The dark side of Andrew Roberts (Roundup: Talking About History)

'Destroyed' Edmond Rostand play discovered (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Henry II 'spent a fortune on Dover Castle to counter Becket cult' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Anthony Blunt memoir available in British Library Reading Rooms (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

British photographer's extraordinary images of American icons... using up to 30,000 U.S. troops (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David H Young: The Art of Appeasment (Roundup: Talking About History)

Catherine Lutz: Obama's empire (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Obama has to speak up for health care reform (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Holocaust survivor dies before winning back ownership of paintings she made at Auschwitz (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Wright: The Profiling of Sgt. Crowley (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Andrew Rice: A professor, a genocide, and NBC's quest for a prime-time hit. (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ingrid Lilly: The Religious Underpinnings of the Sotomayor Hearings (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Obama, The Movie (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Matt Damon's History report (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Solzhenitsyn's widow takes Putin to task (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Chalmers Johnson: Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Patrick Cockburn: Could an 'Entebbe-style' raid have saved British hostages? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sketches of Spain at Edinburgh's National Galleries (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Protests force 'gay' Bible exhibit behind glass (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James Millward: The Urumchi Unrest Revisited (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Miriam Pawel: The study of history demands nuanced thinking (Roundup: Talking About History)

Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thomas D. Fallace: Did the Social Studies Really Replace History in American Secondary Schools? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Peter Roff: Obama’s Sinking Approval Ratings Are Even Worse Than They Look (Roundup: Media's Take)

Institute of Anthropology and Iztacalco delegation of Mexico City agree to protect heritage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Announces Largest-ever Retrospective on J. W. Waterhouse (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Medieval Castle to be Transformed into a Contemporary Art Venue (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Gerson: Death of Obama's Engagement Doctrine (Roundup: Media's Take)

Harry Jaffa: Crisis of the House Divided [video 25 min 4 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Looking for Work: A History of Unemployment [podcast 53 min] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Segments 2 & 4: "Sam Adams Darcy on the San Francisco Strike of 1934." [two part podcast 19 min 56 sec; 25 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Segment 1: "The San Francisco General Strike, 1934." [Rebroadcast] [podcast 8 min 10 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Anti-Americanism vs. American Ignorance [video 1 hr 17 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Segment 3: "John Kelly on The Black Death and the Irish Famine. (2009)" [podcast 20 in 39 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Segment 1: Alexandros Mallias on the Greek Classics." [podcast 27 min 50 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Eliot Spitzer: In Sickness and in Wealth (Roundup: Media's Take)

Hiroshima: A Visual Record (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Julian Zelizer: How presidents work Congress (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Karen Long: Susan M. Schweik's "The Ugly Law" exposes obscure law of discrimination (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Lind: Immigrants should be eligible for the presidency (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian Zelizer: Why be afraid of government? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Max Boot: Are Millionaires All They’re Cracked Up to Be? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: The Gates cop, in perspective (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Empire's Paranoia About the Pashtuns (Roundup: Historians' Take)

William R. Polk: Waiting for the Obama We Elected (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Josh Marshall: Obama's birth story (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael C. Moynihan: A Harvard prof versus a Cambridge cop: Who do you believe? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Peniel E. Joseph: Our National Postracial Hangover (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Lawrence O'Donnell Jr.: The Stupidity of the Gates Arrest (Roundup: Media's Take)

Walter A. McDougall: U.S. Foreign Policy Traditions and the Middle East (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Salinger sequel author to appeal (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Exhibit traces history of Hoover Institution with rich display of artifacts (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Glenn C. Loury: Obama, Gates and the American Black Man (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Wagner festival gets a revamp, but is it only skin deep? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dark history still haunts Bayreuth Festival (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

National Gallery of Canada Publishes Superb Catalogue Rich in New and Historical Content (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Musee de l'Elysee Opens Photographic Exhibition from the Scene of the Crime (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Richard Starkey: Review of Michael D'Antonio's Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles (Riverhead, 2009) (Books)

Shakespeare landmark vandalised (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Edwin Black: Original Mideast Peace Plan Recognized Jewish State in Return for Arab Nation in Syria (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bayreuth Festival starts new era by discussing Hitler and Wagner (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nazi "Strength Through Joy" leisure programme to get museum in German far-Right proposals (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Scott H. Bennett. Review of Lawrence S. Wittner's Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford University Press, 2009) (Books)

Stephen M. Walt: 10 lessons on empire (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Andrew Roberts: Frozen to death by the Fuhrer (Roundup: Talking About History)

Dick Polman: Why Obama can't pull an LBJ (Roundup: Media's Take)

Abbey Road: 40 Years On (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

British Museum treasures head for Abu Dhabi (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Even if he acted from the best of motives, what Robert Capa did now seems indefensible (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Week of July 19, 2009

Roundup

Woodrow Wilson Center Holding Summer Institutes for High School Teachers: U.S. and the Cold War (Historians in the News)

Woodrow Wilson Center Holding Summer Institutes for High School Teachers: U.S.-China Relations (Historians in the News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Yes Rush, Moderates Make Great Presidents -- and Book Subjects (Gil Troy)

Roundup

Shakespeare landmark vandalised (Breaking News)

Bush contemplated deploying troops on US soil to make terror arrests (Breaking News)

King's severed head flown home (Breaking News)

Teaching American History Grants Funding In Jeopardy (Historians in the News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: We Have a Winner (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Conservative Activist Forwards Racist Pic Showing Obama As Witch Doctor (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFF SHEAR: Part Five: A Rogues' Gallery (Jeff Shear's History of "Cynthia," the World War II Spy)

Roundup

CNN tells Lou Dobbs to cool it on the Obama birth story (Breaking News)

Gates Says 'Yes' to Beer With Crowley (Historians in the News)

FBI agents targeted during Hoffa trial (Breaking News)

Historians Join Other Holocaust Scholars in Praising Uganda's Darfur Arrest Threat (Historians in the News)

AP draws attention to the neglected Mall (Breaking News)

Lionel Casson, Who Wrote of Ancient Maritime History, Dies at 94 (Historians in the News)

Fla. gov's office mistakenly praises Nazi film (Breaking News)

Bush mulled sending troops into Buffalo (Breaking News)

SMU settles George W. Bush library land dispute (Breaking News)

Germans in a shooting war for first time since 1945 (Breaking News)

Communist Party magazine gets English edition (Breaking News)

Last British WW I vet who fought on the Western Front has died (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Walter Cronkite Opposed Drug Prohibition (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Oldest man portrait is unveiled (Breaking News)

'Blitz bones' unearthed in park (Breaking News)

Catacombs could house flu victims (Breaking News)

Berlusconi 'hid ancient graves' (Breaking News)

Louis Blériot's first flight across the Channel recreated 100 years on (Breaking News)

Jewish group sues Amazon over 'Nazi' books (Breaking News)

Face of Christian Angel Uncovered in Famous Mosque (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: What Obama Should Have Said About the Gates Arrest (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Obama walks back police criticism (Breaking News)

Brief history of minimum wage (Breaking News)

U.S. stops giving militant death tolls in Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Bosnian Serbs convicted of burning Muslims alive (Breaking News)

Oliver Stone backs a new book that claims JFK was killed because he'd alienated the military (Breaking News)

Art Historian Anthony Blunt: Memoirs of British Spy Offer No Apology (Historians in the News)

Professor Gates's Arrest Tests Beliefs on Racial Progress (Breaking News)

Blogs

JAMES C. COBB: Why Not Kick Us Again? You Might Have Missed A Tooth OrTwo! * (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Children unearth 'Blitz bones' in London's Regent's Park (Breaking News)

'Record rise' in UK anti-Semitism (Breaking News)

'Stalin victims' found in Belarus (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Tests could help identify bodies in UNC cemetery (Breaking News)

An Israeli archaeologist is certain he has solved the mystery of the biblical figure’s final resting place (Historians in the News)

US treasure hunters file appeal in "Black Swan" case (Breaking News)

1000-Year-Old Cowshed Discovered in Iceland (Breaking News)

Critics railing on new "core standards" in education (Breaking News)

New Politkovskaya trial ordered for August after acquittal rejection (Breaking News)

The collapse of Moscow: Architectural heritage being destroyed (Breaking News)

250,000 medieval soldier service records published online (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Most Investors, Economists, and Policy Makers Are Blind to the Mountain of Malinvestments (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Memoirs of Cambridge spy released at British Library (Breaking News)

Will Brighton bomber return for anniversary? (UK) (Breaking News)

Skip Gates and the Post-Racial Project (Historians in the News)

Time Mag. Cover Story: The final days of the Bush-Cheney administration (Breaking News)

Archaeologists find graveyard of sunken Roman ships (Breaking News)

Archaeologists investigate Mark Twain's Virginia City (Breaking News)

Israel to use Hitler shot for PR (Breaking News)

Dutch return head of Ghana king (Breaking News)

Israeli textbooks say no 1948 catastrophe (Breaking News)

Secret grave of Polish hero 'discovered' (Breaking News)

German 'Nazi gnome' not illegal (Breaking News)

Exhibition of 400 year-old moon drawings (Breaking News)

Mozart Foundation Discovers Two New Pieces by Famous Composer (Breaking News)

Is Jon Stewart the New Cronkite? (Breaking News)

Standoff over a dead pig nearly led U.S., Britain to war (Breaking News)

Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools (Breaking News)

Obama birthplace a preoccupation of conservative blogs (Breaking News)

The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks about his arrest and the outrage of racial profiling in America. (Historians in the News)

50th anniversary of the kitchen debate (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: The Gates Arrest: More than Just About Race (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Barack Obama condemns arrest of black scholar (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: Whither the Great American Unicorn? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

US nuclear site open for tourists (Breaking News)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Police in "Post-Racial" America (Historians in the News)

Rather Wins Access to Thousands of Documents in Suit Against CBS (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: A Libertarian Dilemma? This Is Easy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Fed-up historian offers a citizen's guide for FOIA requests to the FBI (Historians in the News)

"The good news about the Henry Louis Gates fiasco" (Historians in the News)

If it can happen to Skip Gates ... (Historians in the News)

Human Stabbed a Neanderthal, Evidence Suggests (Breaking News)

Israel Cuts 1948 'Catastrophe' From Arabic Texts (Breaking News)

Blogs

AARON BADY: The Arrest and Transfiguration of Henry Louis Gates (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

GIL TROY: Obama Beware: Presidential Magic Can Prove Tragic (Gil Troy)

RALPH E. LUKER: Some Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

State Dept Offers New Caveat on Nixon Tapes (Historians in the News)

Robin Hood Discovery: An Interview with Julian Luxford (Historians in the News)

California's Channel Islands Hold Evidence Of Clovis-age Comets (Breaking News)

California Apologizes to Chinese Americans (Breaking News)

Journalist--author of WW II history books--accuses Simon Wiesenthal of fabricating much of his own Holocaust story (Historians in the News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: The New Deal - Live and In Person!!!! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Conservative dismisses the historians who met with Obama as lefties (Historians in the News)

Gay Historian Louis Crompton Dies (Historians in the News)

Time Mag's Top 10 Conspiracy Theories (Breaking News)

Obama 10th in popularity of last 12 presidents (Breaking News)

Pat Buchanan scored for claiming white people built this country (Breaking News)

Cleveland Museum of Natural History researchers uncovering prehistoric American Indian settlement (Breaking News)

Medieval battle records go online (Historians in the News)

Ancient Theater Masks Rediscovered in Pompeii (Breaking News)

DNA could trace Bradford on Avon soldier killed in WWI battle (Breaking News)

Ala. city plows beneath Indian site for Sam's Club (Breaking News)

Romanian mayor in Nazi dress row (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: My Evening at FEE (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

French ministry accused of covering up Bastille Day violence (Breaking News)

British scientist claims he coined Neil Armstong's moon landing quote (Breaking News)

Charge against Harvard professor dropped (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: All about Adjuncts (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Tariq Ramadan ... Scholar's Visa Denial Suit Revived (Historians in the News)

Vinland Map of America no forgery, expert says (Breaking News)

Remains of 3 Buffalo Soldiers to be reburied in NM (Breaking News)

Cave record of Britain's pioneers (Breaking News)

Egyptian Grand Museum worthy of the Pharoahs (Breaking News)

Medieval battle records go online (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... July 20-26, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

Obama hails heroism of Apollo 11 astronauts (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Barr Versus the Barr Amendment (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Apollo lunar rocks still offer clues to scientists (Breaking News)

Plan calls for turning the Topeka school at the center of the Brown decision into a memorial (Breaking News)

Harvard professor Gates arrested at Cambridge home (Historians in the News)

Inaugural Semester-long seminar on Constitutional History offered at N-Y Historical Society this fall (Historians in the News)

Fire destroys 'Anne Frank barracks' (Breaking News)

Daniel Pipes believes Iraq will become Obama's Vietnam (Historians in the News)

The Watergate Hotel: yours for just 600,000 pounds (Breaking News)

Neil Armstrong remembers dead astronauts 40 years after his Moonwalk (Breaking News)

Bush twins Jenna and Barbara were 'Secret Service nightmare', claims new book (Breaking News)

How Poles cracked Nazi Enigma secret (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk Case To Start in October (Breaking News)

Serb cousins get life, 30 years for murder of Muslims in Bosnian War (Breaking News)

Germany commemorates failed assassination attempt on Hitler (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAS SILENCE ON AIDS & CIRCUMCISION BEEN BROKEN? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : AL JAZEERA ANALYSIS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

7/7 bombings memorial vandalised (Breaking News)

Apollo 11 moon landing: astronauts were neglected by Nasa (Breaking News)

Massachusetts to Search for Lost Revolutionary War Ship (Breaking News)

The 10-year-old who helped Apollo 11, 40 years later (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: United States History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Professional mover finds $16,500 in rare antiquities in the trash (Breaking News)

Churchill bunker 'not bomb-proof' (Breaking News)

Harry Patch, the last Tommy, is now Britain's oldest man (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : NOT ONLY IN TEHRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

A 17th century mission to the Moon (Breaking News)

Antiquities from Iraq continue to surface (Breaking News)

Systematic Overclassification of Defense Information Poses Challenge for President Obama's Secrecy Review (Breaking News)

Va. paper expresses regret for backing segregation (Breaking News)

Books about Henry Waxman and Mitch McConnell shed light on their careers (Breaking News)

Immigration: 53 Questions That a Life May Depend On (Breaking News)

For Alaska, a Remarkably Tumultuous Year (Breaking News)

Magna Carta displayed at castle (UK) (Breaking News)

Police investigate 'Nazi' gnome (Breaking News)

USS Halyburton crew take part in historic ceremony at Tower of London (Breaking News)

House Probe of CIA Plan Could Lead to Showdown Between Cheney, Democrats (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Early Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Crime and Picasso: The Shadowy Underworld of Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dick Morris: Obama's Dwindling Power (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Skip Gates’ arrest reminds me of the violent days of the civil rights movement. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Timothy B. Weston: A Cultural Symbol Passes from the Scene: Ji Xianlin, Not Michael Jackson (Roundup: Historians' Take)

New York Harbor Quadricentennial Saluted with Extensive Exhibition Featuring Rarely Seen Treasures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Columbus Museum to Show Now and Then: Snapshots of the South (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

San Francisco to Celebrate Hundredth Year of Futurist Manifesto (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rare Roman Coins Acquired for British Museum with Art Fund Help (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Art of forgery: Fakes, mistakes and discoveries at the National (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Portrait of first world war veteran Henry Allingham to go on display (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Review: The Black Album at the National Theatre, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Keats's Hampstead house restored (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ron Briley: Review of Allan M. Winkler's "To Everything There Is a Season:" Pete Seeger and the Power of Song (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) (Books)

What do you make of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ? (HNN Polls)

William Safire: The Cold War’s Hot Kitchen (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tom Engelhardt: Don't Turn the Page on History (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Brent Staples: President Obama, Professor Gates and the Cambridge Police (Roundup: Media's Take)

Austrian foundation: 2 Mozart works discovered (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Aaronovitch: The troops leave Afghanistan. And then the horrors begin (Roundup: Media's Take)

UK gallery’s invitation to deface the Bible brings obscene response (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Story of de Menze's Stockwell shooting hits London stage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

60 years of Commonwealth in Royal exhibition [video 4 min 58 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Film about composer Holst found [video 2 min 34 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

James Rodgers: Russia acts against 'false' history (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael A. Cohen: The Powell Doctrine's Enduring Relevance (Roundup: Talking About History)

James Joyner: Bush’s Third Term (Roundup: Media's Take)

Exhibition of 400 year-old moon drawings (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Luther Spoehr: Review of George B. Kirsch, Golf in America (University of Illinois Press, 2009). (Books)

New Mozart piano music discovered (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"New" song penned by murdered Beatle John Lennon to be published? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thomas Paine, The Radical Founding Father (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith: Lessons From Hard Times Past (Roundup: Media's Take)

"From Babylon to Baghdad: Ancient Iraq and the Modern West" a free e-book (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Houston Baker: The myth of the post-racial United States (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Let's keep an eye on the spies (Roundup: Historians' Take)

For New Leader of the Arts Endowment, Lessons From a Shaky Past (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Frank Gannon: Historians And Partisans (Roundup: Talking About History)

Why it's blasphemous to alter Shakespeare's words for a modern audience. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

William Greider: Dismantling the Temple (Roundup: Media's Take)

For Vietnam's Stone Turtles, Good Luck During Exams (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Amy Goodman: The 21st Century Color Line (Roundup: Media's Take)

Porsche and Volkswagen's Nazi Roots (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Burge: A Wise Latina Will Add Spice to the Menudo of Justice (Roundup: Media's Take)

Susan Fernsebner: Five Things to Know about China's Links to World's Fairs and International Expositions (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Chris Hildebrand: Don't Forget the Balkans, Again (Roundup: Media's Take)

Setback for Iraq as ancient gold vial seized in Germany (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

What Students Need To Know About America’s Wars, Part 2— 1920–Present: A History Institute for Teachers (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ralph Engleman: Walter Cronkite and Fred Friendly (Roundup: Talking About History)

The Day Obscenity Became Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Bromwich: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life (Roundup: Media's Take)

George Jonas: Assassination: A Brief History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Antiquity Thieves Return Ancient Items to Israel (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Religious shrine to Roman god uncovered at Hadrian’s Wall fort in England (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ancient tombs with peculiar gold mask discovered in Macedonia (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ancient Theater Masks Rediscovered in Pompeii (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Museums and the Contested Memory of the Korean War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Charting NASA's Future: To The Moon And Beyond [podcast 7 min 47 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Final Words: Cronkite's Vietnam Commentary [podcast 2 min 18 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

On 40th Anniversary, Moon Landing Examined [podcast 3 min 20 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Thomas Bender - “American History: Views from Abroad” [video 1 hr 8 min 8 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

John Lewis Gaddis - “The Origins of the Cold War” [video 58 min 24 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Bret Stephens: Apollo Mission Demonstrated Strength and Fearlessness of American Character (Roundup: Media's Take)

Christopher Hitchens: A Sense of Historical Irony ... Leszek Kolakowski, 1927-2009 (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Kilcullen: For answers to the Afghan-Pakistan conflict, ask ... what would Curzon do? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adrian Berry: The real giant leap for mankind (Roundup: Talking About History)

George Jonas: Assassination ... A Brief History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Sam Haselby: Out of the Mouth of Convicts (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert Creamer: Memo to Members of Congress: Don't Be on the Wrong Side of History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Wolfe: One Giant Leap to Nowhere (Roundup: Talking About History)

Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

By Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie: What's Next, Mr. President -- Cardigans? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Beston: Many Moons Ago (Roundup: Talking About History)

Steve Benen: Dems need to remember Republican strategy on health care in 1993 was to break the party's momentum (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dan at The Third Estate (blog): Lithuania – New Myths and Old (Roundup: Talking About History)

New play in London, " The Mountaintop" (Re: MLK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Don't Touch 'A Moveable Feast' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans: America exposed (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Amazon accused of 'Big-Brother behaviour' after deleting 1984 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Norman Solomon: Beyond the Hype: Cronkite and the Vietnam War (Roundup: Talking About History)

40th anniversary of Apollo 11 celebrated in Liverpool, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Duane L. Cady: Review of Richard Deats's Marked for Life: The Story of Hildegard Goss-Mayr (New City Press, 2009) (Books)

Larry Sabato: 50 years later ... The legacy of massive resistance (Roundup: Talking About History)

Had enough of Michael Jackson's afterlife? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Memorabilia from Cabinet War Rooms to go on display on 70th anniversary of opening of Churchill's nerve centre (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Kenneth Davis: An American History Lesson for Pat Buchanan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Adam Holland: Fascist follies in the European Parliament (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: The World at 65 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jon Meacham: A Lion, But No Lionization (Re: Ted Kennedy) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of July 12, 2009

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Economists’ Pro-Fed Petition Discredits Its Signers (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Virgin Islands researchers unveil slavery records (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Global warming -- our reaction is stupid (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Peeling Back Pavement to Expose Watery Havens (Breaking News)

Jackson Lears continues his search for the origin of our times (Historians in the News)

Margaret MacMillan says we botch the use of history (Historians in the News)

Oldest WW1 veteran dies aged 113 (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Walter Cronkite Dies (Breaking News)

Leszek Kolakowski, Polish anti-Marxist thinker, dies (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Fund Raising Human Rights Watch Style (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

UN opens Bhutto probe in Pakistan (Breaking News)

House Panel to Launch Investigation Into CIA Secret Al Qaeda Plan (Breaking News)

Source: Obama to Host Apollo 11 Astronauts (Breaking News)

New pictures reveal what Man has left on the Moon (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : SMILE, IT'S FREE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : SMILE. IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IRANIANS BACK ON THE STREET (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

AMY H. STURGIS: Rand revival? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Apollo 11 chart fetches astronomical price (Breaking News)

NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it (Breaking News)

New Book: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters (Breaking News)

Passionate Obama hails black history (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Americans aren't alone in their ignorance (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

A quarter of Britons believe the Apollo 11 mission moon landings in 1969 were a hoax (Breaking News)

Obama on slavery: 'Capacity for cruelty still exists' (Breaking News)

Sept. 11 families: Keep Guantanamo Bay open (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: And by the Way (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Grilling of the Inspector of the Federal Reserve (Spectacular Illustration of "Governmental Failure") (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

CHRIS BRAY: Not All Classrooms (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Apollo 11 Moon landing: Neil Armstrong to skip 40th anniversary moonwalk party (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIAN WOMEN PAY THE PRICE/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Apollo 11 items go up for auction (Breaking News)

Vatican reconciles with Oscar Wilde (Breaking News)

Obama marks NAACP's 100th anniversary (Breaking News)

Tracking Michelle Obama's slave roots (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : ICELAND: EU GAIN IS U.S. LOSS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Anti-Confederate Secessionists in Mississippi? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Ex-POWs in battle against time try to tell stories (Breaking News)

Bones lead to mystery Miami graveyard from 1900s (Breaking News)

Debate over Saddam Hussein's palaces (Breaking News)

Watergate Hotel could be auctioned off next week (Breaking News)

Salon.com: "Grave offenses at Arlington National Cemetery" (Breaking News)

Moon landing myth? Decades later, conspiracy theories remain (Breaking News)

NASA release remastered moon landing footage (Breaking News)

Ancient Chinese 'cheat sheets' discovered (Breaking News)

Anger at 'war graves picnickers' (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Good and Bad Arguments against the War in Afghanistan (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Relative of 9/11 Victim Frustrated by Obama Administration's Efforts to Close Gitmo (Breaking News)

Ex-Liberian President: War Crimes Case Built on Lies (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Liberal watchdog complaint: Major newspapers disappear Sessions' alleged history of racial insensitivity (Breaking News)

Iron age town found at Roman site (Breaking News)

Ancient fortress city unearthed in Egypt (Breaking News)

Dozens of Girls Found Sacrificed (Breaking News)

Officials break ground for new archaeology center (Breaking News)

On the trail of the Arctic's most enduring mystery (Breaking News)

Barack Obama urged to attend Hiroshima memorial (Breaking News)

Tomb Raiders Try to Plunder Albania Archaeology Site (Breaking News)

Barack Obama urged to attend Hiroshima memorial (Breaking News)

Sources: Tenet Canceled Secret CIA Plan to Assassinate Al Qaeda Leaders (Breaking News)

Democratic Virginia governor opposes Wal-Mart project along with Republican Speaker (Breaking News)

Neil Armstrong to skip Apollo 11 event (Breaking News)

MoD 'was worried about lack of interrogators ahead of Iraq war' (UK) (Breaking News)

Israeli soldiers claim widespread abuses against civilians in Gaza (Breaking News)

I fought corruption, says Taylor (Breaking News)

Guantanamo Bay hearings to resume (Breaking News)

Torture and Death Recounted at Cambodian Trial (Breaking News)

Was Seymour Hersh right about Cheney assassination plan? (Breaking News)

Former editorial director of Yale University Press and general editor of its celebrated Annals of Communism series is now in charge of one of the world's most important archives of Jewish life (Historians in the News)

Rick Perlstein attacked by O'Reilly on Fox as a far left activist (Historians in the News)

NASA release unseen moon landing footage (Breaking News)

Billboard Claiming Martin Luther King Was Republican Angers Black Activists in Houston (Breaking News)

Malaise Speech Anniversary: Was Carter right? (Breaking News)

Cricket, Ivy League classmates startled student Sonia Sotomayor (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: Canada Gets It Right (Sort Of) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT HIGGS: Bernie Madoff Was Only a Petty Crook Compared with Uncle Sam (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

A national historian for US government? (Historians in the News)

Authors discusses new book on James Meredith and his battle to enroll at the University of Mississippi. (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BAD NEWS: WEAK PRIVATE SECTOR BORROWING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

The Culture Wars' New Front: U.S. History Classes in Texas (Breaking News)

Study: 1918 flu survivors seem immune to swine flu (Breaking News)

Down the Mississippi: recession forces legendary steamboats off the river (Breaking News)

On Hand for Space History, as Superpowers Spar (Breaking News)

The Moon: That One Small Step Is Still Hard to Measure (Breaking News)

Blanding, Utah man accused of threatening to beat up informant in artifacts case (Breaking News)

Canada worried strict US laws sending heritage thieves north (Breaking News)

Untouched Tomb of Aztec King on Verge of Discovery? (Breaking News)

World's biggest find of ancient coins cleaned with new tools (Breaking News)

Six kilometers of caves discovered in Easter Island (Breaking News)

Bataan Death March survivor learns to overcome deep anger when he has a Japanese-American student in class (Breaking News)

German president attends Bastille Day celebrations for first time (Breaking News)

WWII pilot missing since '44 buried (Breaking News)

David McCullough's next book is about Americans who headed to Paris (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RACHEL LEOW: Curating the Oceans: The Future of Singapore's Past (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Abuse video shown at public inquiry into British Army interrogation of Iraqis (Breaking News)

Obama orders investigation into alleged Afghanistan massacre that Bush administration 'tried to cover up' (Breaking News)

Taylor labels Hague case 'lies' (Breaking News)

Iraqis to sue UK for compensation (Breaking News)

State Papers Online Part II goes live (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... July 13-19, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

Turkey: Ancient treasures uncovered in western region (Breaking News)

2,000-year-old cream shows aristocrat's taste (Breaking News)

Prehistoric dwelling unearthed at Isle of Man Airport (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Early Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Peru mummies 'were human sacrifices' (Breaking News)

Previously Unknown Inca Road Discovered in Peru (Breaking News)

Civil War solider gets proper ceremony (Alabama) (Breaking News)

Original eau de Cologne celebrates 300 years (Breaking News)

Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused severe winters (Breaking News)

Festival of British archaeology (18th July - 2nd August 2009) (Breaking News)

Civil War historian Kenneth Stampp dies at 96 (Historians in the News)

Obama Faces a New Push to Look Back (Breaking News)

Specially trained dogs to be used in Port Angeles archaeological survey (Washington) (Breaking News)

British academics protest after Russia closes down history website (Breaking News)

Fraudster rues Nazi cup 'curse' (Breaking News)

Obama's Agenda Stands to Lose as Furor Over Bush Years Intensifies (Breaking News)

Clinton: Vetting process for administration jobs 'a nightmare' (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SCREAM, MUSLIM WOMEN! /update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RICK SHENKMAN: Richard Dreyfuss speaks about the necessity of civics (Just How Stupid Are We?)

MARK BRADY: The Rise and Fall of the British Aristocracy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

C.J. MALONEY: OK, We Get It, She’s Hot (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RICK SHENKMAN: MJ (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

History Radio Show: Drive-Time History, With a Dry Sense of Humor (Historians in the News)

CIA chief nixed plan to kill Al-Qaeda targets: report (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : ECONOMIST BEMOANS ISRAEL'S ECONOMIC RESILIENCE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Democracy is Dead, Douglass is Alive, and Classical Liberalism is ? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Obama Says Slavery's Past Should Be Taught in United States (Breaking News)

Obama orders review of alleged slayings of Taliban in Bush era (Breaking News)

Alleged Nazi guard Demjanjuk charged in Germany (Breaking News)

Spanish bishops apologise for silence over killings (Breaking News)

Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan' (Breaking News)

100 Years Old, NAACP Debates Its Current Role (Breaking News)

Historians furious as Kew archives are 'dumbed down' (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Colorado historian publishes book No. 50 (Historians in the News)

Basque Bishops call for Catholic Church apology (Breaking News)

The Art of the Political Comeback (Breaking News)

Margaret MacMillan on "The Uses and Abuses of History" (Historians in the News)

Rare colour photograph of Jewish boys during Holocaust (Breaking News)

Catholicism as Antidote to Turbo-Capitalism (Breaking News)

Historians: New Zealand was soft on Hitler (Historians in the News)

Copernicus Had Blue Eyes (Breaking News)

Plan to build Kauai home over native burials raises legal issues (Breaking News)

Underwater exploration seeks evidence of early Americans (Breaking News)

Students uncover hundreds of Iron Age remains (Breaking News)

Obama Ends Ghana Visit With Trip to Former Slave Center (Breaking News)

Spanish bishops apologise for silence over killings (Breaking News)

The Art of the Political Comeback (Breaking News)

Pandemics that changed the course of history (Breaking News)

Replica marks aircraft centenary (London) (Breaking News)

US criticised over Babylon damage (Breaking News)

Bosnia buries Srebrenica victims (Breaking News)

Oldest dinosaur burrow discovered (Australia) (Breaking News)

Errol Flynn 'worked as a Nazi spy and met Adolf Hitler' (Breaking News)

Evacuation slide on Barack Obama's campaign plane brought it 'close to disaster' (Breaking News)

Democrats Call for Probe Over Canceled CIA Program Never Reviewed by Congress (Breaking News)

Bush-era wiretap program had limited results, report finds (Breaking News)

Senator: Cheney and alleged secret CIA program 'a problem' (Breaking News)

The history of China’s Xinjiang Province sheds light on the recent ethnic violence there (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : ANOTHER IRANIAN STUDENT WILL NEVER COME HOME (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Lloyd Gaines disappeared at 28, three months after he triumphed in one of the biggest Supreme Court cases in decades (Breaking News)

Data Helps Descendants of Slaves Reclaim History (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Recent American History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Greg Mitchell: Cronkite's 1968 Dissent on Vietnam Helped Save Thousands of Lives (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeff Gralnick: Remembering Walter (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Rafsanjani's Steps to Resolve Iran's Crisis (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Gavan McCormack: Japan’s Unresolved Colonial Past and Today’s North Korea Problem (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert D. Parmet: Review of Andrew Ross's Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (New York University Press, 2009) (Books)

ZKM Presents Part 2 of Exhibition Dedicated to the History of German Video Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Scholarly Detective Work Recovers Lost Burlington House Commodes (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Comrades" film is reissued to mark 175th anniversary of Tolpddle Martyrs' trial (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Legal row over National Portrait Gallery images placed on Wikipedia (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

An exhibition of totalitarian art creates sensation in Bulgaria (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Greenberg: The ritual of choosing a justice has a long history of fictions and evasions (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Movie to mark life of Korean dictator (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

North-West Passage: An Arctic Obsession, National Maritime Museum, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The Fortieth Anniversary of the First Moon Landing: review (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Saddam Hussein's palaces in pictures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Peter Bergen: Afghanistan is not Obama's Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

First Black President To Address NAACP Convention [podcast 4 min 30 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

At 100, NAACP Shifts Focus From Rights To Justice [podcast 4 min 24 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?" [video 3 min 44 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Did the Apollo Moon Landing Put a Dagger in the Heart of Science Fiction? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Victor Davis Hanson: Presidents Aren't What They Used to Be (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Allen C. Guelzo : Should blacks get reparations? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Actually, it's not always about the United States (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Enhanced Moon footage revealed [video 3 min 15 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Michael J. Petrilli: Sarah Palin, anti-intellectualism, and the plight of the liberal arts (Roundup: Media's Take)

Novelist Kathryn Stockett examines slavery and racism in America's Deep South (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

German police investigate 'Nazi' gnome (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Vatican reconciles with Oscar Wilde (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Clare Spark: Multiculturalists and Wilsonians can’t diagnose “the new antisemitism” (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Rogers: A generational shift (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeffrey Kluger: Moon Walkers (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rick Elgendy: The Radicalism of Caritas in Veritate? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Daniel Henninger: Talking his way onto Mount Rushmore? (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Yoo: Why We Endorsed Warrantless Wiretaps (Roundup: Media's Take)

Timothy Garton Ash: War on Terror is Over (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Conservative Hypocrisy on Race & Sotomayor (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert Creamer: If Congress Fails to Pass the Obama Health Care Plan (Roundup: Media's Take)

A. J. P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe -- By C. J. Wrigley (Books About History & Historians)

Huw Davies: Will history repeat itself in Afghanistan? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Rick Perlstein: Why the GOP is falling out of love with gun-toting, churchgoing, working-class whites (Roundup: Historians' Take)

New footage changes the way we see 'Metropolis,' says film restorer (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Steve Padilla: Sotomayor hearings: Looking back in court history -- to when the first Jewish nominee was considered by the Judiciary Committee (Roundup: Media's Take)

NYT likes the makeover of the Ford Theater and museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

British Museum announces Italian Renaissance drawings exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tate Liverpool exhibition to celebrate political Picasso (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gordon Stewart: Carter’s Speech Therapy (Roundup: Talking About History)

Critic: 'Public Enemies' is a terrible indicator of how America has retreated from one of its greatest inventions--the movies. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael T. Klare: Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Gordon Stewart: 'The Malaise Speech' ... 30 Years Later (Roundup: Talking About History)

Clifford D. May: Iraq ... An American victory (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas L. Friedman: Goodbye Iraq, and Good Luck (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian Zelizer: Stimulus is too low, too slow (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? -- By Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman (Books About History & Historians)

Michael Lind: History shows that piecemeal reform is better than a Big Bang (Roundup: Media's Take)

Encore Booknotes: Robert McNamara, "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" [video 2 hr 20 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

A History Of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings [podcast 5 min 40 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Gay Rights Movement Since Stonewall [video 1 hr 21 min] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Dennis Overbye: 40 Years on, Reflections in a Sliver of the Moon (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michiko Kakutani: The Choices That Closed a Window Into Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

History's worst inventions listed (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

African American Urban History since World War II -- Edited By Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter (Books About History & Historians)

Gideon Rachman: China is now an empire in denial (Roundup: Media's Take)

Beatrix Potter's childhood retreat in Scotland put up for sale (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Beach that inspired Virginia Woolf sold for 80,000 pounds (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Martin E. Marty: Homosexuality and Slavery in the Bible (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Liz Cheney: Obama Rewrites the Cold War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Stephen Schlesinger: Obama's Internationalism: Echoes of FDR, HST, and JFK (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Truth Commission Needed to Examine Cheney, Assassination Squads, Cover-Ups (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mandela artworks are 'fakes', London gallery told (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Van Gogh letters 'bring his work alive' [audio 3 min 30 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Nazi victim's art will not be returned to family (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Lyons: Spectre of Khomeini as religious radical (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mickey Edwards: A wide-ranging and clear-eyed examination of the history of American conservatism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Polishing a Lost Gem to Dazzle Tourists (Israel) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Eleanor Clift: Obama's LBJ Moment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Palaima: The captivation of those who can offer diversion (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stanley Kutler: What Will History Make of Colin Powell? (Roundup: Talking About History)

James MacGregor Burns: Judicial supremacy and the rise of the high court (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Peter Winn: Education of Sonia Sotomayor (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Week of July 5, 2009

Roundup

Obama's Secret Meeting With Historians (Historians in the News)

Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume E-10, Documents on the American Republics, 1969-1972 (Historians in the News)

Two Authorities on Fed Advise Congress Against Expanding Its Power (Breaking News)

Children of French women and WW II German soldiers still struggling with identity (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Has Obama Endorsed a 19 Percent Maximum Income Tax Rate? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Archaeologists hit jackpot in Mali (Breaking News)

Thousands of victims still to be identified 14 years after Srebrenica (Breaking News)

Cabinet told of Iraq war risk to UK, says ex-MI5 chief (Breaking News)

Send Lockerbie bomber back, Gaddafi tells Brown in historic meeting at G8 summit (Breaking News)

Stasi Files Reveal East Germany's 'Dirty Reality' (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk Trial to Break Legal Ground in Germany (Breaking News)

OSCE resolution equating Stalinism with Nazism enrages Russia (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: A Small Tale That Spells Defeat (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : WATCHING GOLDEN FINCHES ON THE FEEDER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Louisiana State U. Press Will Not Close, Director Says (Historians in the News)

Dutch gov't returns stolen antiquities to Iraq (Breaking News)

Jewish roots of Tory leader revealed (Breaking News)

Authors feel the pinch as recession-hit publishers cut advances (England) (Breaking News)

Obama's Secret Meeting With Historians (Breaking News)

Helping to preserve an important but mostly forgotten piece of U.S. history (Maryland) (Breaking News)

Rusty shed must be saved for Britain's archaeological heritage (Breaking News)

Dismembered skeletons' Saxon link (England) (Breaking News)

Economic crisis boosts Dutch Calvinism (Breaking News)

Frail Kim Jong-il 'may only have months to live' (Breaking News)

Son of First World War's Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig dies (Breaking News)

Big Ben rings in its 150th year (Breaking News)

Watergate Figure John Dean Threatens to Sue Historian Over Damaging Tape Recordings (Breaking News)

Police find icon's casket, more empty plots at historic cemetery (Breaking News)

Family roots lure many African-Americans back to South (Breaking News)

Experts: Iraq invasion harmed Babylon (Breaking News)

Campus Watch says Middle East Studies profs have turned on Iran (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: STANDING BY THE IRANIAN PEOPLE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOOD NEWS: ECONOMISTS WRONG ON TRADE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : THIS IS A GROUP OBAMA RESPECTS! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

STERLING FLUHARTY: Who Reads History Books? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

You Say You Want a Reference Book About Revolution? (Historians in the News)

Bela Kiraly, 1912-2009 (Historians in the News)

U. of Colorado Seeks $10,000 in Legal Costs From Ward Churchill (Breaking News)

Mayan 'apocalypse' crop circle appears at Silbury Hill (UK) (Breaking News)

Thousands of Ex-Stasi Still Work for German Civil Service (Breaking News)

Arkansas State university receives thousands of videos, spanning from Elvis to Clinton era. (Breaking News)

Career chances for working-class 'no better now than 30 years ago' (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRAN PROTEST CONTINUES/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JEFF SHEAR: Part Four: Ecce Hoover (Jeff Shear's History of "Cynthia," the World War II Spy)

Roundup

Kublai Khan’s Xanadu unearthed in China (Breaking News)

The Turkish Dam That 'Would Never Have been Permitted' in Germany (Breaking News)

Roll over Roget (Breaking News)

More than 100 graves dug up, bodies dumped (Illinois) (Breaking News)

Democrats Say C.I.A. Deceived Congress (Breaking News)

Sen. DeMint: America is ‘Where Germany Was Before World War II’ (Breaking News)

Rep. Peter King’s Explanation For Voting Against Slave Labor Resolution: It Wasn’t ‘A Balanced Depiction Of History’ (Breaking News)

Israeli Ambassador MIchael Oren in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg (video) (Historians in the News)

House approves marker on role of slaves in Capitol (Breaking News)

Lisa Keller recounts her brief encounter with Robert McNamara (Historians in the News)

Eric Alterman: "Me and MJ" (Michael Jackson) (Historians in the News)

LA brush fire closes Getty Museum (Breaking News)

Prince Charles: Henry VIII was an environmentalist (Breaking News)

Four Illinois Cemetery Workers Charged With Digging Up Graves and Dismembering Bodies (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IN LOD: A MOSAIC TO BEHOLD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

AEON J. SKOBLE: Brooks on dignity etc (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Pakistani president Asif Zardari admits creating terrorist groups (Breaking News)

Watergate Figure John Dean Threatens to Sue Historian Over Damaging Tape Recordings (Historians in the News)

Barack Obama tells Africa to stop blaming colonialism for problems (Breaking News)

UK's National Archives under threat from 'dumbing down', warns researcher (Breaking News)

Presidential records a time capsule of Bush years (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : ALLAH AKBAR; DEATH TO THE DICTATORS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Douglass center in NY up but not running (Breaking News)

Karadzic immunity claim rejected (Breaking News)

Kim Jong-il appears at memorial (Breaking News)

Appeal on Bashir genocide charges (Breaking News)

G8: Germany to help rebuild Italian village destroyed in earthquake 65 years after Nazi massacre (Breaking News)

Buzz Aldrin: the dark times that followed that historic flight (Breaking News)

Pol Pot prisoner 'woke under dead bodies' (Breaking News)

Al Gore invokes spirit of Churchill in battle against climate change (Breaking News)

Museums' future lies on the internet, says titans of British museum world (Breaking News)

Hitler's stealth bomber: How the Nazis were first to design a plane to beat radar (Breaking News)

US veteran's D-Day lies exposed (Breaking News)

Karadzic immunity claim rejected (Breaking News)

John G. Sperling: How a history professor became the pioneer of the for-profit revolution (Historians in the News)

William Marina R.I.P. (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : US: ISRAEL SOVEREIGN ON IRAN NOT HOUSING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

AEON J. SKOBLE: Religion and Misogyny (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : MERKEL (NO STIMULUS) PROVEN RIGHT, AGAIN! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Bela Kiraly, 1912-2009 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

William Appleman Williams ... still remembered (Historians in the News)

New Book on Supreme Court by Historian James MacGregor Burns (Historians in the News)

Historian Howard Zinn Responds To Robert S. McNamara’s Death, Calls Him A “War Criminal” (Historians in the News)

James MacGregor Burns says Supremes Really Govern America (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Dig reveals R.I. ties to slave trade (Breaking News)

Humans Ate Fish 40,000 Years Ago (Breaking News)

Mystery of Miami construction site cemetery grows (Breaking News)

Quarry Used to Build Israel's Second Temple Found (Breaking News)

Civil War general faces demotion from U.S. Capitol statue display (Breaking News)

Moon Landing Anniversary: A Giant Leap for Britain, Too (Breaking News)

Longest Day hero's D-Day exploits exposed as lie (Breaking News)

Royal Agricultural Show ends after 170 years, out of date and out of cash (Breaking News)

Polish village mayor is determined Hitler birthday oak will not last 1,000 years (Breaking News)

More Fugitive War Criminals Could Go on Trial in Britain (Breaking News)

Britain Unveils Memorial 4 Years After Transit Bombs (Breaking News)

Professor Ward Churchill Fails to Reclaim Job After Comparing 9/11 Victims to Nazi Leader (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: William Marina R.I.P. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Letters reveal a real Dad's Army (UK) (Breaking News)

War grave unveiled for WWII boy (Breaking News)

Germany awards first bravery medals since Second World War (Breaking News)

250,000 pound project to restore a half-mile section of Hadrian's Wall completed (Breaking News)

Inquiry into claims British troops executed Iraqi prisoners (Breaking News)

Blogs

MELVIN SMALL: A footnote on the death of Robert McNamara (Inactive: POTUS)

Roundup

'Hitler's Tree' Faces Chop in Polish Town (Breaking News)

Jackie Kennedy 'had four-year affair with Bobby Kennedy' (Breaking News)

Families remember July 7 victims on fourth anniversary of bombings (Breaking News)

Blogs

WILLIAM MARINA: Israeli "Sovereignty" & US Power (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Study: US dead last in voter registration (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... July 6-12, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

What economists need to learn from Niall Ferguson (Historians in the News)

Hussein's Gun May Go on Display at Bush Library (Breaking News)

American dream ended early for Britons who emigrated (Breaking News)

Conflict continues to fly over SC Statehouse (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: U.S.-Russian Nuclear Agreement: Good News and Bad News (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Divided Geneva marks 500 years of Calvinist rigour (Breaking News)

War grave unveiled for WWII boy (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Lenin's nose put out of joint in Kiev (Breaking News)

Iraqi Government Bans Organized Visits to Saddam's Grave (Breaking News)

Britain to Examine 2004 Iraqi Civilian Torture Claims (Breaking News)

19th Century Baseball Letters May Be Among Items Stolen From New York Public Library (Breaking News)

Top Historians Dissect "The Bush-Cheney Years" (Historians in the News)

First Crosses of Honor for Bravery awarded in Germany (Breaking News)

Robert McNamara - hawk or dove? (Breaking News)

Blogs

AMY H. STURGIS: Prometheus Awards Announced (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: The Black Maverick in His Office (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Oldest Christian bible made whole again online (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : DAUTHAT RIGHT ON PALIN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Ex-Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara Dies at 93 (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : OBAMA- MEDVEDEV SUMMIT - MUCH ADO (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : CHINA IN TURMOIL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Think the Sanford affair was odd? S.C. has a long history of political weirdness (Breaking News)

Exhumation of 1812 war hero stirs controversy (Breaking News)

Vatican should learn from Galileo mess, prelate says (Breaking News)

Tear down the house that Obama lived in as a child in Hawaii? (Breaking News)

John Calvin: Man of Contradictions, Shaper of Modernity. Age? 500 Next Week. (Breaking News)

Obama's Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision (Breaking News)

Repository of History Has Items Disappearing (US) (Breaking News)

Revolutionary War Museum won't be built next to Valley Forge (Breaking News)

Solution to a Longtime Mystery in Utah Is Questioned (Breaking News)

Tour guides sue over history test requirement (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Survival, the First Refuge of the Scoundrel (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Decades After WWII, Female Pilots Finally Honored (Breaking News)

V2 rocket code woman's life story (Breaking News)

Vladimir Putin rejects Barack Obama's claim he has one foot in the past (Breaking News)

Bush Jokes About Retirement, Describes Courage as Key to American Spirit (Breaking News)

Formula One Racing Chief Praises Hitler, Saddam Hussein (Breaking News)

Alberta salvagers face legal troubles (Breaking News)

From beyond the grave, Saddam reveals all (nearly) (Breaking News)

Berlin to pardon 30,000 Germans branded 'traitors' by the Nazis (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Tim Collins: Afghanistan remains a worthy cause (Roundup: Media's Take)

Hemingway revealed as failed KGB spy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

HBO's "The Pacific" will be a harrowing portrait of war (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Hannah: Bush Deserves More Credit on Iran (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jonathan Martin: Bashing George W. Bush still politically potent (Roundup: Media's Take)

Eleanor Clift: Obama's LBJ Moment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Largest Van Gogh exhibition since 1968 to be staged at Royal Academy of Arts (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Errol Flynn 'worked as a Nazi spy and met Adolf Hitler' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Photography exhibition exposes East Germany's last decade (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

“New Radicals: from Sickert to Freud” opens at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Laura Miller: History is bunk after all (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bela Kiraly: A leader of Hungary's 1956 revolution dies (Obituaries)

Marc A. Thiessen: Obama’s Inheritance ... Al-Qaeda in Retreat (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bob Batchelor: Google and the End of Wisdom (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Andrew Salmon: A Cartoonist at War ... “Gobau’s” Korea, 1950 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Erin L. Murphy: Women's Anti-Imperialism, 'The White Man's Burden,' and the Philippine-American War (Roundup: Talking About History)

National Security Archive: Robert McNamara: An Appreciation (Roundup: Talking About History)

Seth Lipsky: McNamara in Purgatory: Setting the War Record Straight (Roundup: Talking About History)

Marc Ambinder: Robert McNamara, Voltaire's Bastards And Barack Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Schwartz: Colonizing Iraq ... The Obama Doctrine? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Obama’s test in Ghana (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Akhil Bakshi: Orphans of History (Uighurs) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joseph L. Galloway: Robert McNamara shredded truth and distorted history (Roundup: Talking About History)

Norman Solomon: Escalation Scam: Troops in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Judith Miller: What Robert McNamara Taught Us (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert D. Kaplan: Obama Cannot Afford to Get Iran Wrong (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) [podcast 18 min 36 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Was Explorer Meriwether Lewis Murdered? [podcast 3 min 54 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Paul Robinson: Russian Lessons in Afghanistan (Roundup: Talking About History)

David N. Gibbs: Was Kosovo the Good War? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Scott Horton: Shostakovich in Oxford (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Mourning Michael Jackson, Ignoring the Afghan Dead (Roundup: Historians' Take)

D. D. Guttenplan: Michael Jackson and I.F. Stone (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History -- By Gordon Wood (Books About History & Historians)

Jason Weixelbaum: A Review of the Shocking Revelations of U.S. Corporate Collaboration with Nazi Germany (Roundup: Talking About History)

John Pilger: Mourn on the 4th of July (Roundup: Talking About History)

Stolen Beauty: A Greek Urn’s Underworld (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gareth Porter: Robert McNamara deceived LBJ on Gulf of Tonkin, documents show (Roundup: Talking About History)

WSJ Editorial: McNamara and the Liberals' War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Pipes: Limping away from a Shattered Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Cullen: Review of John R. Hale's Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy (Viking, 2009) (Books)

What is the Codex Sinaiticus, and what does it reveal about the Bible? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

First 'instant' Jackson biography hits shelves in China (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' 110 years after it was first published (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Philip Bobbitt: McNamara's Compassion (Roundup: Talking About History)

Errol Morris: McNamara in Context (Roundup: Talking About History)

Peter Ferrara: The Bush Doctrine Is Still Working (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Ignatius: McNamara's Complicated Legacy (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Lind: All sides blame McNamara for Vietnam (Roundup: Talking About History)

Brett Stephens: From McNamara to Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ben Stein: Wal-Mart in the Wilderness (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Brooks: In Search of Dignity (Roundup: Media's Take)

China Unrest Has Roots In History [podcast 3 min 45 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Luther Spoehr: Review of Nicholas L. Syrett’s The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). (Books)

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania await word from Confederacy museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stephen Schlesinger: Washington's Sad History in Latin America (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark Twain Home and Museum needs $10M by end of 2010 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stereo for One: A Brief Unaccompanied History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

McNamara Dies at 93, Putting Complex Vietnam Legacy Back in Focus [video 16 min 8 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Remembering Last Reunion Of Civil War Veterans [podcast 8 min 54 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Decades After WWII, Female Pilots Finally Honored [podcast 9 min 14 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Thomas Jefferson's Natural Passion [podcast 9 min 13 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Looted Iraqi Artifacts (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Two-Week Blog Series) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Will Inboden: The Sources of Russian Conduct (Same as Ever) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Pejman Yousefzadeh: Our "Inordinate Fears" of Communism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mark Naison: Recovery is NOT Around the Corner ... The Challenge Facing Today’s College Graduates (Roundup: Historians' Take)

From Gentleman's Club to Professional Body: The Evolution of the History Department in the United States, 1940-1980 -- By William Palmer (Books About History & Historians)

Pride and Prejudice temple to be restored by National Trust (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A rambling, incoherent Sarah Palin celebrates Independence Day by disrespecting the troops. (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Peter Dreier and Dick Flacks: Progressives Take Back the Flag (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Steve Benen: Run for president without a day job? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Downs: Michael Jackson Vilified By Vanity Fair Writer Maureen Orth (Roundup: Historians' Take)

NYT Editorial: Pardon boxer Jack Johnson (Roundup: Talking About History)

Sarah Vowell: I stand up to defend Rhode Island's name (Roundup: Talking About History)

"Thomas Paine & Lewes: Revolution and Reason" festival in the UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Pride of Da Vinci's genius walks again after 500 years (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Return to Liberty: America's most famous statue reopens her crown (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Week of June 28, 2009

Blogs

WILLIAM MARINA: Reflecting on July 4, and the Meaning of the American Revolution Today (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

New York growth besieges Revolutionary patriots' graves (Breaking News)

Treasurer hunters battle over share of 500,000 pounds hoard (Breaking News)

Russian spacecraft crash landed on moon hours before Americans (Breaking News)

Obama, McCain Invoke Nation's Founders in Dueling Independence Day Speeches (Breaking News)

Saturday Evening Post hopes to make its hallmark art, fiction new again (Breaking News)

Obama, a stickler for pronunciation (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: Academic Secrets (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

AEON J. SKOBLE: Rays of ravishing light and glory (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : WITH THE WORLD IN TURMOIL, WE PRAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : 1776: FROM PENAL COLONY TO GOLDEN LAND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Resolution on Stalin riles Russia (Breaking News)

AU halts war crimes co-operation (Breaking News)

Three new species of dinosaur found in Australia (Breaking News)

Historian 'posed as a war hero' (Breaking News)

Newly Released Documents Detail Guantanamo Facility's Chaotic Early Years (Breaking News)

Statue of Liberty's Crown Opens July 4 for First Time Since Sept. 11 Attacks (Breaking News)

Documents Show Iraqi Dictator's Fears (Breaking News)

Americans Still Embrace Ideals from Declaration of Independence (Breaking News)

Peggy Noonan calls David McCullough our greatest living historian (Historians in the News)

Wisconsin hires military historian (Historians in the News)

GW's House in Philadelphia ... Use of minority labor on restoration project demanded (Breaking News)

Niall Ferguson cited by NYT's David Brooks in column about China (Historians in the News)

Grand Jury Inquiry on Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes (Breaking News)

Blogs

OSCAR CHAMBERLAIN: Recessional (Inactive: POTUS)

Roundup

Iran views hostage-taking as solution to any crisis (Breaking News)

Prosecutors: Demjanjuk fit for trial (Breaking News)

Hunt widens for Iraq's looted treasure (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: American Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : AMNESTY CHARGES; ISRAEL RESPONDS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

A nation of joiners: An interview with Johann N. Neem (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : BOUNDLESS AUDACITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

What is the Group of Eight? (Breaking News)

Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Thomas Jefferson Code (Breaking News)

Exhumation of 1812 war hero stirs controversy (Breaking News)

Job for Indian royal descendant (Breaking News)

Marie Curie voted greatest female scientist (Breaking News)

Rare copy of the US Declaration of Independence found (Breaking News)

Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRAD BIRZER: Larry Reed on patriotism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Another error found in work by Stephen Ambrose (Historians in the News)

Alice L. Cochran, historian and professor at Webster University, dies (Historians in the News)

What newly released papers reveal about Einstein (Breaking News)

FBI says Saddam's weapons bluff aimed at Iran (Breaking News)

Napoleon died of kidney failure: Danish doctor (Breaking News)

UN begins Bhutto killing inquiry (Breaking News)

Michelangelo signed fresco with self-portrait (Breaking News)

FBI Interviews: Hussein Lied About WMD Out of Fear of Iran (Breaking News)

University students 'ignorant' of most basic history facts, study shows (Breaking News)

Families of 8,000 British troops killed since WWII to be given new Elizabeth Cross medal (Breaking News)

ElBaradei's legacy tied to war in Iraq (Breaking News)

Secrets of Sexual Forced Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps (Breaking News)

Amnesty details Gaza 'war crimes' (Breaking News)

UN begins Bhutto killing inquiry (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: For a Mystic Chimera, It Sure Gets Around (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

School Built on Cemetery Provides Lesson in History (Spain) (Breaking News)

Building starts on Warsaw's Jewish history museum (Breaking News)

Key Hearing Set On Wal-Mart Near Va Battlefield (Breaking News)

Khmer Rouge survivor's paintings saved his life (Breaking News)

FBI special agents carried out 20 formal interviews and at least 5 "casual conversations" with Saddam Hussein (Breaking News)

Staffer at SEC Had Warned Of Madoff (Breaking News)

Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution (Breaking News)

"Glorious" Ancient Chamber Found in Israel (Breaking News)

Opportunity knocks, again, in the Andes (Breaking News)

Oldest canoe finds its way home (Breaking News)

Bill of treason from Upper Canada Rebellion found at McMaster University (Breaking News)

Russia Abruptly Refuses to Recognize International Law or U.S. Courts in Chabad Papers Suit (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Was Turin Shroud faked by Leonardo da Vinci? (Breaking News)

From FDR to Obama, a Fight for Health Care (Breaking News)

How German History Shapes Obama-Merkel Rift (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFF SHEAR: Part Three: The Third Skein (Jeff Shear's History of "Cynthia," the World War II Spy)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Climate Change Rip Off (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

BRETT HOLMAN: The best things in life were free (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Two bursts of human innovation in southern Africa during the Middle Stone Age may be linked to population growth and early migration off the continent (Breaking News)

AHA Membership Grows Modestly, as History of Religion Surpasses Culture (Historians in the News)

Supremes change race ruling in key case before the Court (Breaking News)

Amateur Historian Is on a Quest to Locate Lost Events (Breaking News)

State Department Historical Advisory Committee Meets (Historians in the News)

Holocaust assets conference pledges action on returning Nazi loot (Breaking News)

Mesopotamian vase sheds light on Germany's artefacts trade (Breaking News)

Military works with Antiquity Authority to save ruins (Israel) (Breaking News)

New challenge to theory that Clovis were first people in North America (Breaking News)

Missing Moon-Landing Videotapes May Have Been Found (Breaking News)

Madrid strips Franco of honorary titles (Breaking News)

An ancient settlement dating back to before the time when Alexander the Great's armies swept across Afghanistan could be bulldozed and dynamited for a new road (Breaking News)

UK economy shrank at fastest rate in 50 years (Breaking News)

Pagans, partygoers greet solstice at Stonehenge (Breaking News)

W. Va. Has Unfinished Civil War Business (Breaking News)

Northern grove for Jurassic tree ( Australia) (Breaking News)

Oldest human settlement in Aegean unearthed (Breaking News)

Vatican to open Apostle Paul's tomb after surprise discovery (Breaking News)

Angela Merkel's party backs 'homeland' for Germans expelled by Poland (Breaking News)

Immortalizing New York’s Forgotten Sites (Breaking News)

Second Khmer Rouge victim talks (Breaking News)

Antiques Roadshow finds $1 million Chinese jade (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICANS SAVING; GOVENMENT SPENDING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Bus Rider Finds 19th Century Checks, Tools (Breaking News)

Aide: John Edwards begged him to claim baby (Breaking News)

Nazi Stealth Jet Could Have Won War for Hitler (Breaking News)

In a Coup in Honduras, Ghosts of Past U.S. Policies (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Ain't His Money (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 29 - July 5, 2009 (This Week in History)

ROBERT HIGGS: Regime Uncertainty in the 1930s: A New Deal Insider’s Account (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century American History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

GUS DIZEREGA: Thank You! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : AMERICANS WARY OF IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Ukraine wary of KGB terror files (Breaking News)

Americans seek their African roots (Breaking News)

Skeleton reveals violent life and death of medieval knight (Breaking News)

Ancient settlement could be bulldozed (Breaking News)

Franco dined like a king as Spain starved (Breaking News)

Ahead of Withdrawal Deadline, Cheney Says He Hopes U.S. Sacrifice Does Not Go to 'Waste' (Breaking News)

Chilling echo of 1979 seizure (Breaking News)

Lynndie England Still Haunted by Abu Ghraib Scandal (Breaking News)

Supreme Court Won't Hear Sept. 11 Claims Against Saudi Arabia (Breaking News)

Pope: Basilica bones belong to apostle St. Paul (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIAN WAR OF ATTRITION CONTINUES? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RICK SHENKMAN: CNN Political Ticker (Just How Stupid Are We?)

HNN : ERIC SCHMIDT ESCHEWS RESPONSIBILITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

NYT transcribes some of the new Nixon tapes (Breaking News)

Repression 101--when does it work? (Breaking News)

Space Shuttle and Strange Clouds Key to Mysterious 1908 Explosion (Breaking News)

German court upholds ban on words with Nazi link (Breaking News)

Ex-POWs battle memory of labor camp (Breaking News)

End of the culture wars? (Breaking News)

The forgotten evolutionist (Breaking News)

41 Years Later in Chicago, Police and Demonstrators Still Clash, but With Words (Breaking News)

A new high tech edge to Poland's Jewish heritage (Breaking News)

Ancient Philippine boat re-created for odyssey (Breaking News)

Russia won't participate in Jewish documents suit (Breaking News)

Study finds widening generation gap in US (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Ex Post WHA (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Trabant parade remembers the first crack in Berlin Wall (Breaking News)

Britain 'knows little about Bible' (Breaking News)

Westminster Abbey to get its crowning glory, at last (Breaking News)

Iraqis to mark US street exit with holiday (Breaking News)

SAS parachuted in to Baghdad (Breaking News)

Is this the earliest image of St Paul? 'Sensational' 1,600-year-old icon of saint found in a Roman tomb (Breaking News)

Visitors to World War Two-themed weekend banned from wearing Hitler costumes (UK) (Breaking News)

Americans seek their African roots (Breaking News)

Khmer Rouge survivor testifies (Breaking News)

Blogs

WILLIAM MARINA: Buy America (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Climate Change Bill May Be Election Issue (Breaking News)

Marriage Stands Up for Itself (Breaking News)

Scots fought 'in bright yellow war shirts not Braveheart kilts' (Breaking News)

Howard Hughes and the atomic bomb (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: THE NEW YORKER on Countrywide (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: 2081: When Everyone Will Finally Be Equal. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Rome catacomb reveals "oldest" image of St Paul (Breaking News)

Historians’ Advice for Dick Cheney on Writing His Memoirs (Historians in the News)

Inside France's 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave, hand stencils surround the famed "Spotted Horses" mural. (Breaking News)

Hitler fanatics forced orphans to build new Fatherland in Amazon (Breaking News)

40 Years After Stonewall Riots, a rebel remembers (Breaking News)

Snubbed millionaire's backyard course stumped legends, then disappeared (Chicago) (Breaking News)

Sean Wilentz takes on the new Lincoln establishment (Historians in the News)

Evidence of the oldest settlements found in Maryland? (Breaking News)

Models of Earliest (Camel-Pulled) Vehicles Found (Breaking News)

National Park Service Announces Battlefield Preservation Project Grants for 2009 (Breaking News)

We’ll soon find Cleopatra, Dominican archaeologist says (Breaking News)

Family Buries Man Killed Decades Ago In Korean War (Breaking News)

My Secret Life: Simon Schama, historian, 64 (Historians in the News)

Meet Britain's young new historians (Historians in the News)

Turkish Parliament bestows historian with award (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : REPRESSION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: A Black (Republican) Maverick Meets Ike (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : KLINGHOFFER MURDERER FREED; SENT TO SYRIA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : KEEPING UP THE FIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IRANIANS: HELP! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

BRETT HOLMAN: Slap the Jap and make the Hun pay (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

John Gilbert McCurdy: Bachelors at the time of the American Revolution (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rare Peek at Riches of Past in Rome (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Maannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City” at the Museum of the City of New York (Exhibit/Review) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Herbert G. Klein, Aide in the Nixon White House, Dies at 91 (Obituaries)

The Messrs. Craft [podcast 5 min 59 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

In Defense Of The Flag (Sewn For History Class) [podcast 2 min 52 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Eugene Volokh: The Founding Fathers agreed that the First Amendment protected 'symbolic expression.' (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Peggy Noonan: In appreciation of our country's founders (Roundup: Talking About History)

Greg Grandin: Democracy Derailed in Honduras (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Novelist Hans Fallada resented the constraints of the Nazi era but did not desist in his craft (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

L. Brent Bozell: Oliver Stone, Lousy Historian (Roundup: Talking About History)

Eduardo Porter: Tales of Republicans, Bonobos and Adultery (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adam Freedman: Independence, British-Style (Roundup: Talking About History)

Kathleen DuVal: Life, Liberty and Benign Monarchy? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Paul Krugman: The 30's Show (Roundup: Media's Take)

Johann Hari: The Other 9/11 Has Returned to Stalk Latin America (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rare Photos of Colonial East Africa Online (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The Mountaintop or the legacy of Martin Luther King play in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rick Salutin: Repression in Tehran is a sign of hope (Roundup: Media's Take)

Woody Holton: On Money, a Founding Mother Knows Best (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Carl M. Cannon: Frederick Douglass' July 4 Challenge Answered by Obama's Election (Roundup: Talking About History)

Peggy Noonan: The Making of American History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Duncan Currie: Whose Reagan Is It, Anyway? (Roundup: Talking About History)

A. Serwer: Obama, Lincoln, and Gay Rights (Roundup: Media's Take)

Murray Polner. Review of David Vine's Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009) (Books)

U.S. Troops Withdraw From Iraqi Cities [podcast 3 min 38 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Max Boot: How Piracy Was Defeated in the Past and Can Be Again (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: The volunteer military is at odds with a democratic country (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Dilip Hiro: The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Jackson ... Why He's More Adored than Shakespeare (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Justin Raimondo: History Haunts Honduras (Roundup: Media's Take)

Chalmers Johnson: How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases (Roundup: Historians' Take)

George F. Will: Will It Be 1972 Forever? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Rhodes Cook: Is the GOP poised for another quick comeback? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mara Lazda: Fascism Past and Present, West and East (Roundup: Talking About History)

J.D. Salinger wins copyright case on 'The Catcher in the Rye sequel' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Russia must re-focus with post-imperial eyes (Roundup: Media's Take)

Monica Crowley: Obama and American Exceptionalism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Yoko Ono wins rights to intimate footage of John Lennon (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Banned East German Comedy Premieres 40 Years Late (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ivan Eland: Is Barack Obama’s Realism Better than George W. Bush’s Idealism? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Lod mosaic to be re-exposed (Israel) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michelangelo signed fresco with self-portrait (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Priya Satia: Iraqis are too shrewd to fall for an ‘invisible’ occupation (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Doug Ireland: Queer studies matter (Roundup: Talking About History)

Andreas Umland: Averting a Post-Orange Disaster: Constitutional Reforms and Political Stability in Ukraine (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Cullen, Review of Molly Haskell, Frankly My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited, (Yale University Press, 2009) (Books)

40 Years Later, Stonewall Riots Remembered [podcast 4 min 44 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

David Silbey: The First Rough Draft of History [Boxers, June 30, 1900] (Roundup: Talking About History)

Abbas Milani: An intellectual history of the Green Wave (Re: Iran) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

A Cultural Autopsy of Michael Jackson (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David A Andelman: Versailles, 1919-2009: a new world order’s legacy (Roundup: Talking About History)

Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr (Roundup: Media's Take)

Timothy Snyder: Holocaust ... The Ignored Reality (Roundup: Talking About History)

John McMillian: Today's Reverberations From the 60s (Roundup: Talking About History)

Christina Hoff Sommers: Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adam Holland: The NY Times, John Birch Society and Father Feeney (Roundup: Media's Take)

Identity of Beethoven's Für Elise revealed by music expert (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Bill Kauffman: The 'little red schoolhouse' of legend, whatever its flaws, made more sense than the warehouse-schools of today (Roundup: Talking About History)

Eboo Patel: When Muslims Saved Jews (Roundup: Talking About History)

Lawrence S. Wittner: Nuclear Disarmament Activism in Asia and the Pacific, 1971-1996 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Rare petroglyphs discovered in Cuban caves (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Con Coughlan: Why Iran hates Britain so much (Roundup: Media's Take)

Caroline Glick: Obama, Like Carter, is No 'Realist' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Fareed Zakaria: Historical parallels don't work in Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)

Christian Caryl: 1979 ... The Great Backlash (Roundup: Talking About History)

St Paul's Cathedral sketches show how Sir Christopher Wren changed architecture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rembrandt: a portrait of the artist as a young lad (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Cambridge bids to acquire wartime Sassoon archive (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Sean Wilentz: Lincoln, Obama and the myths liberals have fallen for (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Sean Wilentz: Abe Lincoln, Politician (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Ballard: Deep in Mississippi’s piney woods, Confederate deserters fought a different sort of war (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rupert Cornwell: Left and right turn on 'Bush-like' Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of June 21, 2009

Roundup

Red Cross marks battle anniversary (Breaking News)

Bosnia echoes to alarming rhetoric (Breaking News)

Chinese urge activist's release (Breaking News)

Lewis and Clark in murder mystery 200 years after their final expedition (Breaking News)

English Heritage reveals most haunted sites (Breaking News)

Laura Bush speaks out on Burma (Breaking News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: The Silence of the Regulated (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

STEVEN HORWITZ: Some Advice Needed (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : LATEST ON IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Nazi SS officers sentenced to life for Second World War massacre in Italy (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JANE S. SHAW: The Role of Pearl Harbor (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Game Changer in Retailing, Bar Code Is 35 (Breaking News)

Historian Will Lead a Community College in the Bronx (Historians in the News)

Economic historian Niall Ferguson partnering on sequel to best selling strategy game ‘Making History’ (Historians in the News)

Civil War re-enactor pleads guilty, must take gun course (Breaking News)

Communists turn to Stalin to fight crisis (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Ed Ayers teaching high school teachers about the South (Historians in the News)

Treaty of Versailles: 90 years old this weekend (Breaking News)

RI embarrassed by its slavery-connected name (Breaking News)

Rothschild and Freshfields founders had links to slavery, papers reveal (Breaking News)

Summit addresses Nazi-looted art (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRAN TO MICHAEL JACKSON BEAT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : SAUDIS TO HELP IRANIAN OPPOSITION? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IT'S OVER? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Obama condemned for acting like Bush (Breaking News)

Blogs

SHELDON RICHMAN: The Misrepresentation of Healthcare Reform (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Doris survey of English Channel seabed finds traces of ancient river (Breaking News)

Britain considered chemical attack on Tokyo in 1944 (Breaking News)

UK braced for mustard gas attacks in 1943 (Breaking News)

WWII poison darts secret emerges (Breaking News)

Blogs

WILLIAM MARINA: Did The Chinese Invent Just About Everything? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

John Birch Society still around after all these years (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

AHA protests Russian attempt to suppress history (Historians in the News)

Fifty Years After Stonewall, Queer Studies Matures (Historians in the News)

Rep. Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment (Breaking News)

NCH: "Ask Congress to Increase Funding for the Office of Museum Services" (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : "DON'T LEAVE US ALONE" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

For Jackie Kennedy/Bobby Kennedy affair rumors, third time not the charm (Breaking News)

Archaeological dig finds unveiled (Breaking News)

Campaign for soldiers shot at dawn (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Michael Jackson: The King of Pop Made His Mark (Gil Troy)

Roundup

Khmer Rouge judge sees failures (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS . . . (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Cross-stitch recreation of Sistine Chapel ceiling (Breaking News)

Woman's Skeleton Found at Bottom of Prehistoric Well (Breaking News)

Hundreds in Salem for World History Conference (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : WHERE IS EVERYONE? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

World's oldest instrument dates to 35,000 years ago (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : LATEST FROM IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : CHINA SUPPORTS "STABILITY" IN IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IN IRAN, IT'S THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, STUPID (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RICK SHENKMAN: Jon Stewart's my hero (Just How Stupid Are We?)

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: The US Unemployment Rate Revisited (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Nelson Lichtenstein: New Book by UCSB History Scholar Examines Wal-Mart as a Business Model (Historians in the News)

Recalling Frederick Douglass in the Age of Obama (Breaking News)

Facedown Burials Widely Used to Humiliate the Dead (Breaking News)

Archeologists mum about find (Vancouver, BC) (Breaking News)

USC, Argonne National Lab collaborate on study of ancient artefacts (Breaking News)

Sewage work uncovers ancient site (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IT STARTED PEACEFULLY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Nazi Loot Recovery Is Slow, Arbitrary, Claimants’ Groups Say (Breaking News)

Britain 'failed' in Iraq by switching to Afghanistan, say Gen Sir Richard Dannatt (Breaking News)

Pissarro painting looted by Nazis withdrawn from auction (Breaking News)

First Europeans were cannibals with taste for children (Breaking News)

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo formally arrested (Breaking News)

Mexico Vows to Continue Search for Mysterious 'Lost' Island (Breaking News)

9-11 Sculpture Embroiled in Alleged Fraud Scheme (Breaking News)

Michigan Man, 88, Investigated by Poland for Alleged Nazi War Crimes (Breaking News)

Cheney Inks Memoir Deal (Breaking News)

88 years old--and confronted with allegation of WW II crimes (Breaking News)

Egyptian mummy was a man, not woman (Breaking News)

Hiroshima memorabilia to be auctioned (Breaking News)

Vietnam returns remains of US soldiers (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: An Austrian Take on the "Great Recession" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : QUOTE OF THE DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : CHANTS AND BULLETS - JUNE 24TH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IRAN REVEALED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS TURNING? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : MOUSAVI ADJUSTS TACTICS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Ex-detainees allege Bagram abuse (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : OBAMA'S CONDEMNATION FREES MSM REPORTING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Historian Gerhard Weinberg to Receive 2009 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement (Historians in the News)

NYT: New Rumsfeld bio is balanced (Breaking News)

Intact ancient tomb uncovered in Bethlehem (Breaking News)

Study: Food storage began well before farming (Breaking News)

Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Intact Thracian Settlement (Breaking News)

Call for Irish history official to resign (Breaking News)

Carvings From Cherokee Script’s Dawn (Breaking News)

Mexico signs agreement with Google to publicize archeology, historical sites (Breaking News)

Love of tennis killed Scots king (Breaking News)

Vatican sells facsimiles of Henry VIII letter that led to schism with Rome (Breaking News)

DNA experts to trace First World War dead (Breaking News)

Nixon tapes released: Include shocking comments about abortion, anti-Semitism, and Thieu (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Akron, Ohio to commemorate city's link to 1800s abolitionist (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : JUNE 23rd - THEY KEEP PROTESTING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : US FALLS BEHIND FINLAND, YES, FINLAND!/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Memos, Tapes Show Aides Hatched 'Game Plan' to Save Nixon (Breaking News)

More Nixon tapes to be made public (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NOT JUST TEHRAN, (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Polish town to cut down 'Adolf Hitler's tree' (Breaking News)

DNA experts to trace First World War dead (Breaking News)

Britain failed to stabilise Iraq, says General Sir Richard Dannatt (Breaking News)

Revealed: The chilling secrets of Britain's War Book which rehearsed the end of the world (Breaking News)

Kenyan veterans in UK court bid (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : CRIES OF THE DEFIANCE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

War children's search U.S. dads gets urgent (Breaking News)

'Pristine' WWII aircraft lifted from Lake Michigan (Breaking News)

Saga of Dresden's UNESCO World Heritage title draws to a close (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern American Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : NEDA - "VOICE OF IRAN" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : OBAMA REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE NEW REALITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IN SOLIDARITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Road cleaned by neo-Nazis may be named after Rabbi who marched with Martin Luther King (Breaking News)

Poland honours WWII victims in cyber space (Breaking News)

Support for bid to clear pirate (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bomb (Breaking News)

Supreme Court Ends Plame Case Against Cheney, Libby, Bush Officials (Breaking News)

Polish Town Devastated by Nazis to Decide Fate of Hitler's Tree (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: Unstated (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : MARXIST SUPPORT GENERAL STRIKE JUNE 23 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : THEY KEEP MARCHING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : STAYING IN CARS SAFER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Jo Van Fleet Shrugs (Anti-Government Speech in Wild River) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : WHAT A LADY; IF ONLY WE HAD A MAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : COMMUNICATION WAR ESCALATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : THIS HOME IN INVADED IN ESFAHAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : HOW TO IDENTIFY A BASIJ? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Rwandan minister sentenced to 30 years for genocide (Breaking News)

Uncovered: 350-year-old picture of dodo before it was extinct (Breaking News)

Napoleon enthusiasts re-enact Battle of Waterloo (Breaking News)

Iranian Foreign Minister: 'The sun has set on the British Empire, so stop interfering' (Breaking News)

New Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation looks for support (Breaking News)

Blair 'Urges PM To Hold Secret Iraq Inquiry' (Breaking News)

Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bomb (Breaking News)

US seeks to stop Geronimo lawsuit (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 22-28, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

Rumsfeld unapologetic about Iraq (Breaking News)

Ralf Dahrendorf, Sociologist, Dies at 80 (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Priest's comments on wartime pope draw Vatican fire (Breaking News)

Ancient Holy Land quarry uncovered, team says (Breaking News)

Wagner's great-granddaughter to probe composer's family links with Hitler and the Nazis (Breaking News)

Phoenix Museum of History closing June 30 (Historians in the News)

Normandy D-Day veterans hold last ever service in memory of those who fell on beaches 65 years ago (Breaking News)

Office of the Historian Announces New Website: www.history.state.gov (Historians in the News)

Va. official backs off ending 3rd-grade history test (Breaking News)

LDS Church breaks ground for history library (Breaking News)

Evidence indicates manioc was a major Maya crop (Breaking News)

Elements of 1960 CIA Report Hold True Today (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Lying In Bed With Larry Flynt (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NETANYAHU ON IRAN AND OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DEMONSTRATION CONTINUES 6/21/2009 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Iran election: sinister parallels between Tehran protests and the 1979 revolution (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : “DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY” AMERICA 1776, IRAN 2009 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Lunch with Bob Woodward (Last president he voted for? Nixon) (Breaking News)

One billion suffer from world hunger (Breaking News)

WA State to give tribes ancient remains found in June (Breaking News)

Jornada Mogollon artifacts found at White Sands (Breaking News)

Witney on English Heritage at risk register (UK) (Breaking News)

Barack Obama praises Senate slavery apology (Breaking News)

Atlanta Is Making Way for New Public Housing (Breaking News)

40th anniversary of fire on Cuyahoga River (Breaking News)

Legal Strategy Fails to Hide Torturer’s Pride (Cambodia) (Breaking News)

Blogs

WILLIAM MARINA: The Try a Neanderthal for Lunch Bunch? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Utah Town Unsettled by Doctor's Suicide and an Inquiry on Indian Artifact Looting (Breaking News)

Why the Gay Rights Movement Has No National Leader (Breaking News)

Klaus Fuchs: Spy leaked secrets 'like sieve' (Breaking News)

Greenland takes step toward independence from Denmark (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN UNIONS JOIN PROTEST?/UPDATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : THE KNOCK AT THE DOOR AT NIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

WILLIAM MARINA: Iran on Father’s Day, 2009 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Laura Bush: Do Not Forget Burma (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jack Cohen: Will the "peace process" end in 2 states? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Peggy Noonan: By trying to do too much, Obama risks not doing enough (Roundup: Media's Take)

Original manuscript of Auld Lang Syne could fetch £50,000 at auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A century before Michael Jackson there was Bert Williams (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Juan Cole on Michael Jackson (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New Mary Rose Museum gets final go-ahead (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

9/11 Memorial Exhibition - 'A Space Within' - Opens at New York's Center for Architecture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Doug Ireland: A Truly Queer History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Fred Sargeant: It was the second night at Stonewall that pointed the way to gay liberation (Roundup: Talking About History)

Lucian K. Truscott IV: The Real Mob at Stonewall (Roundup: Talking About History)

John Bolton: The Post-American Presidency (Roundup: Media's Take)

Simon Jenkins: Obama must call off this folly before Afghanistan becomes his Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Jackson: secret library of 100 songs could be released (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Edwin Black: North Korea Missile Threat Against Hawaii and Alaska Has Been Expected for Ten Years—Iran Regime a Full Partner (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Richard Overy: We should be afraid of a British Berlusconi (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Bill Moyers Show: Tom Paine, American hero (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Nasaw: A search for American identity after the Civil War led to a surge of machismo and bloodlust (Roundup: Talking About History)

Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History -- By Margaret MacMillan (Books About History & Historians)

David Loyn: 5 Afghan History Lessons for Obama's New General (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bill Clinton: The Legacy of F.D.R.: Getting It Right (Roundup: Media's Take)

Martin Davis: Resetting the American Faith Dialogue (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Chait: The Obama Method (Roundup: Media's Take)

E.J. Dionne: Politics very much influence Supreme Court decisions--and to pretend otherwise is dangerous (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steven R. Ward: What previous protests and revolutions in Iran can teach us about the current crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bernard Avishai : Why US presidents have failed to make Israel accept a plan for regional peace (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nathan Gonzalez: Learning from Iran's Past Revolutions (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Friedman: The Green Revolution(s) (Roundup: Media's Take)

An Astronaut Goes From Walking on the Moon to Painting It (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mark Naison: America’s Crumbling Infrastructure and Forgotten Neigborhoods (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ira Chernus: Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Daniel Gross: A Recession in Dog Years (Roundup: Media's Take)

Greg Grandin: The Collapse of America's Imperial Car Industry (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Heirs race to find Nazi-looted art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jim Cullen, Review of Stone's Fall: A Novel by Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau, 2009) (Books)

Daniel Pipes: A Call for American Boldness in Iran (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jack the Ripper documentaries on UK TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Recent Themes on Historians and the Public -- Edited by Donald A. Yerxa (Books About History & Historians)

Steven R. Ward: A History of Violence in Iran (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ali Ansari: Why Iran is obsessed with the British (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gregory Scoblete: The War on Obama's Realism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marble Head of Emperor Titus Found (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ann Gibbons: Ötzi Finders Hit Pay Dirt, and Scientists Fret (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tim Rutten: The fascinating story of Henry Ford's venture to build an American utopia in the Brazilian rain forest (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Washington and the Iran Protests ... Would they be Allowed in the US? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Richard Landes: Revisiting ‘Al Durah’ in Time of Iranian Media Control (Roundup: Historians' Take)

NYT art critic loves the new Greek museum (from the inside!) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Pissarro painting looted by Nazis withdrawn from auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andrew Feffer. Review of Jennifer E. Langdon's "Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood" (Columbia University Press, 2009) (Books)

Edward Luttwak: Iran's Regime Will Never Be the Same (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Ching: China would benefit from Zhao's beliefs (Roundup: Media's Take)

Elliott J. Gorn: The Meanings of Depression-Era Culture (Roundup: Talking About History)

Richard Cohen: President Cool Plays It Right (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Guardianship Council Rules out Annulment of Election Results (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Is Iran's Crackdown The End Of The Revolution? [podcast 5 min 52 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Godfrey Hodgson: Remembering Nixon [video 12 min 56 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Ted Sorensen on JFK, Obama, and a Life in Politics [video 43 min 32 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Christopher Hitchens: Persian Paranoia and the Anglo-Saxon blame game (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Cullen: Review of Kevin Mattson’s What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?: Jimmy Carter, America’s “Malaise,” and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country (Bloomsbury, 2009) (Books)

Marguerite Feitlowitz: Review of Graciela Ben-Dror's The Catholic Church and the Jews: Argentina, 1933-1945 (Published by the University of Nebraska Press, for the Vidal Sasson International Center for the Study of Anti-semitism, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2008) (Books)

Tony Judt: Israel's Fictions on the Ground (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin: 'A New Deal for Veterans' (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Where have all the state capitol reporters gone? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Another suicide in American Indian artifacts looting case (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A rare musical instrument of Goguryeo Kingdom found (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Wada Haruki: Japan-North Korea Relations—A Dangerous Stalemate (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Steven A. Leibo: On indifference to global warming (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Joshua Muravchik: The Abandonment of Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alexei Bayer: Russia, Captives of History (Roundup: Talking About History)

'Maus' Creator & Historian Team Up for Wash. Post Cartoon About 1939 Refugees (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thomas Childers: A Father’s Day meditation on the invisible costs of war - and their family legacy (Roundup: Talking About History)

A new exhibit on the African American experience in post-colonial Philadelphia offers a largely untold perspective on the city's rich history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nabil Al-Hadithy: A Muslim Lectures Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

B. C. Knowlton: Review of Two Books on Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski and Justin Marozzi (Books)

David R. Stokes: The Amazing Colossal Presidency (Roundup: Media's Take)

The New Nixon Blog: John Dean's Appearance at the Nixon Library (Roundup: Talking About History)

Christina Romer: The lessons of 1937 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lessons in Renaissance Cool in Urbino, Italy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Martin Kramer: Obama's Middle East map in shreds (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jon Meacham: Theocracies Are Doomed. Thank God. (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Maurice Isserman: Michael Harrington, Warrior on Poverty (Roundup: Talking About History)

Reuel Marc Gerecht: The Koran and the Ballot Box (Roundup: Media's Take)

Photo Of Einstein Nets $74K At Auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robin Wright: The evolution of Iran's revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of June 14, 2009

Roundup

Ayatollah Taps Into Distrust Rooted in History (Breaking News)

For Puerto Rican veterans, an honor years in the making (Breaking News)

Why the Gay Rights Movement Has No National Leader (Breaking News)

Founder of bardic druids honoured (Wales) (Breaking News)

Stonehenge set for record crowd (Breaking News)

Photo Of Einstein Nets $74K At Auction (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MOUSAVI MESSAGE: WE ARE THE REAL HEIRS OF THE REVOLUTION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: More on Militia Scares and Red Scares (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MOMENTUM SHIFTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA PUTS OUT A STATEMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA, DO YOU SEE? DO YOU HEAR? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : KHAMENEI LED CHANTS INCLUDE "CRIME IS DICTATED BY AMERICA" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : DUBAI BANS IRANIAN PROTEST (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

500th birthday of 'Great Reformer' John Calvin nears (Breaking News)

Greece to unveil Acropolis museum (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : TREAT ME RIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

U.N. to investigate Bhutto's assassination (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : CRACK DOWN HAS BEGUN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

New Acropolis Museum the perfect home for Elgin Marbles, say Greeks (Breaking News)

Submarine hunts for Tsarist gold 'worth billions' in Lake Baikal (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Ancient/Medieval Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Cherry-picking of intelligence an old story, archives show (Breaking News)

Stan Katz remembers Phil Curtain (Historians in the News)

Japan's PM snubs son of British POW (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : BRITAIN PROTESTS KHAMENEI (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : FRANCE STANDS UP TO KHAMENEI (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

FBI was eager to investigate Deep Throat (the movie) (Breaking News)

Lincoln had run-in with a fly too (Breaking News)

Warwick Castle's dungeon attraction make 15 people faint (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : BASIJI REVENGE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

In East Germany, a Decline as Stark as a Wall (Breaking News)

Allan Brandt talks about the decline of big tobacco (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : PETITIONS TO SIGN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IRANIAN DIASPORA JOINS THE FIGHT III (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : "DEATH TO UK, ISRAEL AND THE US" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Japan's PM snubs son of British POW (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

A history lesson found in London's streets names (Breaking News)

Thailand again opposoing plan to list Vreah Vihear temple as a Cambodian World Heritage site (Breaking News)

Serbian archaelogists find Neolithic grave (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: KHAMENEI LEADS "DEATH TO AMERICA" CHANTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : IRANIANS PLEAD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Diego Garcia: The US Island of Shame (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

IRA graves daubed with fascist graffiti (Breaking News)

UK war veteran becomes oldest man in the world at 113 (Breaking News)

British history may escape Kashgar's wrecking ball (Breaking News)

Iran's distrust of 'evil Britain' rooted in history of imperial meddling (Breaking News)

Has historian finally discovered real reason for Hitler's obsessive hatred of Jews? (Breaking News)

Couple's Capital Ties Said to Veil Spying for Cuba (Breaking News)

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr respond to their critics (Historians in the News)

Khalidi's impact on Obama (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Deborah Lipstadt was at Holocaust Museum when shooting took place (Historians in the News)

Air Force Audit Finds Agency Lacks Basic Systems to Comply with the Freedom of Information Act (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: One Man’s Hero Is Another Man’s Goat (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE DIVIDED ON IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Historian Claims West Backed Post-Coup Mass Killings in ’65 (Historians in the News)

UC Davis historian catalogs US secrets, lies and conspiracies (Historians in the News)

Sudan's 'Coordinated' Genocide in Darfur Is Over, U.S. Envoy Says (Breaking News)

Obama's Resolve on Mideast Facing a History of Blunt Reality (Breaking News)

Launch of Holocaust Testimony Archive (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: William Shatner's Philosophy of Gun Control (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

British Library publishes archives of 19th-century newspapers online (Breaking News)

Digging into Maryland's Colonial past (Breaking News)

Ancient tomb found in Machu Picchu archaeological park (Breaking News)

Maya Intensively Cultivated Manioc 1,400 Years Ago (Breaking News)

Excavation reveals ancient aqueduct in Jerusalem (Breaking News)

Prehistoric gold source traced to Mourne mountains (Ireland) (Breaking News)

Feds Face Criticism Over Arrests in Artifacts Case (Breaking News)

Meriwether Lewis: suicide or murder? (Breaking News)

Obama Seeks Counsel From Ex-Presidents (Breaking News)

Seacole sculpture design revealed (Breaking News)

Richard II porpoise recipe online (Breaking News)

Bush takes aim at Obama policies (Breaking News)

Senate approves resolution apologizing for slavery (Breaking News)

Blogs

SAGE ROSS: The history of the future of journalism? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : TEXT OF MOUSAVI'S LATEST COMMENTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Garry Wills has nice things to say about Bill Buckley (Historians in the News)

Pew Poll: Obama's Ratings Still High Despite Policy Concerns (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIANS' MESSAGE TO OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Time Mag. Bio: Ayatullah Ali Khamenei ... Iran's Supreme Leader (Breaking News)

Timothy Naftali taken to the woodshed by Nixon supporters for inviting John Dean to library event (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : TODAY IT'S SOUTH TEHRAN: TOMORROW KHAMENEI &BASIJ (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Red Scares, Brown Scares, and Now Militia Scares (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern Western Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Newly declassified report says Ashcroft gave inaccurate testimony about 9-11 wall between law enforcement and intelligence agencies (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : MICHAEL LEWIS: OBAMA CREATING FALSE ECONOMIC CONFIDENCE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

I sank the Bismarck, says wartime pilot (Breaking News)

208 year old Vt. schoolhouse closes (Breaking News)

More proof that Hitler planned to kill or kidnap the pope (Breaking News)

Fresh evidence that Pope Pius XII helped the Jews during WW II (Breaking News)

History Shows Supreme Court Confirmation Process Often Unpredictable (Breaking News)

Darwin did in the werewolf (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Longtime critic of John Dean says Dean admitted he didn't reread his Watergate testimony when writing his autobiography (Breaking News)

Smithsonian unearths Buffalo Soldier's story (Breaking News)

Prehistoric gold source traced to Mourne mountains (Breaking News)

Calvin '09: Great Reformer's 500th birthday (Breaking News)

Graveside promise to Scots pilot (Breaking News)

New dinosaur gives bird wing clue (Breaking News)

Mammoths survived late in Britain (Breaking News)

Parrot-like dinosaur found in Mongolia (Breaking News)

Falcon nest in Greenland is 2,500-years-old (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIAN DIASPORA JOINS THE FIGHT II (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

CHRIS BRAY: Sudden Whackjob Syndrome (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : OBAMA IRANIAN DIALOGUE HAS BEGUN/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

GUS DIZEREGA: Seeking Input and Comments (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : ELECTION FRAUD IN KERMAN? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Iran in 2009--Redux of 1968, 1979, or 1989? (Mark A. LeVine)

HNN : THE BATTLE FOR IRAN CONTINUES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : MOUSAVI (of Moses) is a Jew/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Canadian classrooms get failing grade for history (Breaking News)

What a pain in the derrière: how Louis XV shot his horse (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Ralph Milliband Must Be Turning in His Grave (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: In the Service of the State (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: What's with Iran? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : SARKOZY STANDS BY IRANIANS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

9/11 Mastermind: I Lied (Breaking News)

Auschwitz survivor donates inmates' jewelry (Breaking News)

Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via "Crop Circles" (Breaking News)

Customs conclude biggest artefact smuggling case (Sri Lanka) (Breaking News)

Unsung World War II heroes finally get their due (Breaking News)

Judge Dismisses Software-Licensing Case Against George Mason U. (Historians in the News)

Foreign dealers, collectors return Angkorian antiquities (Breaking News)

Federal raids on antiquities hunters and collectors in the Southwest unearth ordinary citizens. (Breaking News)

Study theorizes voyagers left French Polynesia during ciguatera outbreak (Breaking News)

Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil (Breaking News)

Layman-turned-relics hunter rescues China's antiquities (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : OBAMA'S EMPATHETIC LEADER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Soldier buried with his boots on (Tennessee) (Breaking News)

Discovery of possible cemetery reopens a chapter of Miami's history (Breaking News)

I-95 dig offers a peek into 18th-century life (Breaking News)

Egypt to 'prove' Germany stole Nefertiti bust (Breaking News)

Greek fury at Elgin marbles 'loan deal' (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE IN ME ARE WATCHING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Scott of Antarctic hotel 'saved' (Breaking News)

Funeral for last Titanic survivor (Breaking News)

Carter 'distressed' by Gaza visit (Breaking News)

Rev. Jeremiah Wright says "Jews" are keeping him from President Obama (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: WHY THERE IS NO HOPE (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Family of Meriwether Lewis Willing to Accept Suicide or Murder Conclusion (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BATTLE OF WILLS CONTINUES NOT JUST IN TEHRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam (Breaking News)

Are Stocks Still Good for the Long Run? (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: UNLIKE HUNGARIANS, IRANIANS ARE MASTERS OF THEIR FATE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Haunted by the Dean of Watergate (Breaking News)

Inspector General report on State Dept. Office of Historian made public (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Africa Past and Present Podcast: Ethnicity, Slavery, and Trade in Sudan (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Researchers looking for distillery at slave trader site in Rhode Island (Breaking News)

New online Victims of Communism website memorial launched (Breaking News)

60,000-year-old Neanderthal skull fragment trawled up in North Sea (Breaking News)

Blair to be quizzed in Iraq war inquiry (but it'll be in secret and won't report until after UK election) (Breaking News)

War crimes spokeswoman on trial over Milosevic secrets (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Dueling Narratives: Obama’s Deconstructionist Diplomacy versus Netanyahu’s History as Tragedy (Gil Troy)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 15-21, 2009 (This Week in History)

MARK BRADY: Sounds Good to Me (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : OBAMA TURNS DOWN IRANIANS REQUEST TO WITHHOLD RECOGNITION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

David Beito says bias has excluded civil rights leader T.R.M. Howard from pantheon (Historians in the News)

Bill Clinton says John Hope Franklin was an 'angry, happy man' (Historians in the News)

Hundreds turn out at Duke to honor John Hope Franklin (Historians in the News)

Him Mark Lai dies at 83; scholar was called dean of Chinese American studies (Historians in the News)

NPS commemorating John Brown's raid (Breaking News)

NYT: Are Traditional History Courses Vanishing? (Historians in the News)

Leading military historian Antony Beevor tackles the Western front (Historians in the News)

Philip Curtin: Longtime Johns Hopkins University professor reshaped the history of the African slave trade (Obit.) (Historians in the News)

Jackson Lears draws a line between TR and W (Historians in the News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Transfer of Wealth (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

How much poorer are Americans now? (Breaking News)

Army Corps returns artifact to Government of Iraq (Breaking News)

A College for History Only (Historians in the News)

Amos Elon (1926–2009) remembered by Tony Judt (Historians in the News)

Archaeologists battle mites to save 1,400-year-old city wall (China) (Breaking News)

Aboard Air Force One: Obama's Air Force One flight to Chicago and back Monday to cost $236,000 (Breaking News)

Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil (Breaking News)

Naked Mona Lisa goes on show (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN JARRETT: Interdisciplinary conversations in several directions (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Cemetery Discovered at Florida Building Site (Breaking News)

NYT to make historians go crazy with inconsistent dating of articles (Breaking News)

CIA chief Leon Penetta says he favored commission inquiry (Breaking News)

Obama in Dresden: The Non-Controversy Controversy (Breaking News)

Thomas Sugrue responds to criticism of his book, citing the myth of the white backlash (Historians in the News)

University of Virginia's Governing America in a Global Era (GAGE) Program Will Fund Its 90th Fellow (Historians in the News)

Juan Cole believes Iran's reformer -- Mousavi -- won the election (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIAN DIASPORA JOINS THE FIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : GREGORY ASKS: OBAMA DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM ISRAEL? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : FRIEDMAN CREDITS BUSH ALONG WITH OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : THE ARRESTS HAVE BEGUN; OBAMA SILENCE HAS NOT ENDED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Indiana soldier to auction rare piece of history (Breaking News)

Blogs

SHELDON RICHMAN: A Palestinian State .... If (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

ROBERT HIGGS: Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Report on the Government’s Financial Reforms (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : ISRAEL RESPONDS TO OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : THE FIST REMAINS CLENCHED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : "DEATH TO THE DICTATOR" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Lincoln Stamp: Stolen, Found and Sold for $431,000 (Breaking News)

MIA Korean War Veteran's Body Returned After 50 Years (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: And Now a Word from Biden the Stimulus Czar (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : TROUBLE SPREADS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

In Athens, Museum Is an Olympian Feat (NYT) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Women Warriors: From Joan of Arc to GI Jane [podcast 28 min 26 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Juan Cole: Crunch Time in Tehran (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Masha Lipman: Russia, Again Evading History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Gerson: Obama Is Just Like Bush, the First (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amir Taheri: The end of the Khomeinist regime? (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Anthony Hay: Conservatism's got a real history (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tom Palaima: What ignorance has cost us (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Lyons: Khamenei's Past Power Play against the Clerics May Be Haunting Him (Roundup: Media's Take)

Independence Daze: A History of July Fourth [podcast 53 min] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Six Questions for Austin Ratner about the photographer Philippe Halsman (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Richard Seaford: What the ancient Greek anxiety about money has to tell us about our own economic predicaments (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Edwin Black: Are Jews Arabs? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Stephen Wertheim: Humanitarian Intervention is Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alfred W. McCoy: America's Political Paralysis Over Torture (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Inside Hemingway's Havana House (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

FDL Book Salon: Idiot America with Charles Pierce [video 5 min 36 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Sotomayor Shaped By Her 'Nuyorican' Roots [podcast 5 min 39 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

A Yankee Rebellion? The Regulators, New England, and the New Nation [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Navy [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Scott Saul: Off Camera ... Civil Rights in the North (Roundup: Talking About History)

Martin Kramer: Obama and the Muslims (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harold Hyman: TIANANMEN, TWENTY YEARS HENCE: WHAT FRANCE HAS FORGOTTEN (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Illuminating and Misleading Takes on China 20 Years Since Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)

Edwin Black: Obama and the Israel Question—Many Now Queasy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Paul Rogat Loeb: Gutting the Health Care Plan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Omer M. Mozaffar: In the Shade of Napoleon and Malcolm X ... Making Sense of Obama’s “New Beginning” in Cairo (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: The Age of Middle East Atonement (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jared Farmer: Extralocal History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Victor Davis Hanson: Our Historically Challenged President (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Judge Sotomayor, a mythic 'Hispanic' (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Fred Kaplan: 1959 I swear, it really is the year everything changed. (Roundup: Talking About History)

Gary Sick: Is this another Iranian revolution? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Che's image (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stanley B. Greenberg: Why health care reform could fail again (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joe Nocera: Obama's no FDR (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert W. Cherny: Graft and Oil ... How Teapot Dome Became the Greatest Political Scandal of its Time (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mary Beth Norton: The Years of Magical Thinking: Explaining the Salem Witchcraft Crisis (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jon Clarke: Nazi Gold Train bound for Gibraltar (Roundup: Talking About History)

Kevin Baker: Barack Hoover Obama ... The best and the brightest blow it again (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Nick Turse: Ex-Bush Loyalists Cash In (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Stealing the Iranian election (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Max Boot: General McChrystal's New Way of War (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Silbey: The “traditional forms of history are dying” meme (Roundup: Talking About History)

Hooman Majd: Iran is Betraying its Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Vaclav Havel: Ghosts of Appeasement Haunt Europe (Roundup: Talking About History)

Saved from Lady Chatterley’s Lover (The 50th Anniversary of the Ban) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Parthenon was once covered in colourful paint (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Danielle Pletka and Ali Alfoneh: Iran’s Hidden Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Holden Caulfield, a Ripe 76, Heads to Court Again (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Martin Kramer: Iranian turmoil (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ben Simpfendorfer: Ben Simpfendorfer on China and the Arab World (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adam Holland: Holocaust Museum shooter's letters to Marine Corps General show longstanding ties to racist right (Roundup: Media's Take)

Conversation: Historian Simon Schama [video 9 min 44 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Remembering Anne Frank [video 22 min 47 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Do you still use index cards when taking notes? (HNN Polls)

Laura Rozen: Obama's Jimmy Carter problem? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dominic Sandbrook: 30 years on from the Islamic revolution, can diplomacy win out? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Kenneth Waltzer: Obama, Buchenwald, and the Children (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Gwynne Dyer: Rewriting history in Russia (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Paul Kuhn: Will Tiananmen Be Obama's Roadmap? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Pankaj Mishra: Obama's bulldozer risks turning the Taliban into Pakistan's Khmer Rouge (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: The Middle Eastern Cold War (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Naked Mona Lisa goes on show (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Machu Picchu Is Mini Re-creation of a Mythic Landscape? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

UK: Coastal castles could be moved inland (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Titlenomics, or Creating Best Sellers (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Julian E Zeizler and Melissa Lerner: Obama can succeed in Mideast (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert Burns relics discovered in attic (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Greek fury at Elgin marbles 'loan deal' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Egypt to 'prove' Germany stole Nefertiti bust (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel Pipes: Assessing Binyamin Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Editorial in the Times: No Cause for Iraq Inquiry (Roundup: Media's Take)

Harlan K. Ullman: Wars of necessity and of choice (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert D. Kaplan: Iran, Iraq, North Korea ... What Now? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Battle lines: 30 years of unseen 'Troubles' art in Northern Ireland (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Mincemeat": a play which names the man who fooled the Nazis opens in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Naked Mona Lisa goes on show in Italy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Forward to Freedom" celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the Museum of London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Assistant Curator position with the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation (Jobs)

Fred Kaplan: Disengagement With Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joseph Lane: Advice and Consent ... The U.S. Senate and the Supreme Court (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Eugene R. Fidell: The Trouble With Tribunals (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Stealing the Iranian election (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Emily Badger: Get a Life? Not If You Want to Be One of the Nine (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul M. Barrett: J.P. Morgan's bankers invented dangerous ways of dispersing risk (Roundup: Media's Take)

Debra J. Saunders: The media are showing their bias in reports on "right-wing" extremists (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Krugman: Stay the Course (Roundup: Media's Take)

French Official: Stolen Picasso Notebook Will Be Hard to Sell (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Matthew Dallek: Not Ready for Mt. Rushmore: Reconciling the Myth of Ronald Reagan with the Reality (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ron Maxwell: On the Occasion of President Obama’s Wreath for the Confederate Memorial (Roundup: Talking About History)

Andrew Meyer: The Iran that Could Have Been (and Might Yet Be) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Howard Fineman: What Pittsburgh (Don't Laugh) Can Teach Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stephen C. Rose: President Obama's FDR Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Charisma and the Imperial Presidency (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Controversy Over Vote Continues In Iran [podcast 1 min 42 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Editorial in the Independent: The 'axis of evil' revisited (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mira Kamdar: Time to Bring Mahatma Gandhi Back (Roundup: Media's Take)

Oliver North: Obama Appeases North Korean Outlaws (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of June 7, 2009

Blogs

HNN : IRANIANS ASKING FOR MORAL SUPPORT/waiting for Obama (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Official Puts Career at Risk With Diatribe on Kremlin (Breaking News)

Bosnia: Serbian Commander Found Guilty of War Crimes (Breaking News)

Trail to commemorate 'Long Walk' divides tribes (Breaking News)

Spanish Civil War bodies exhumed (Breaking News)

Rare footage of Queen as a teenager and young woman released by BBC archives (Breaking News)

Palestinians Honor Fmr President Jimmy Carter (Breaking News)

Palin unsure about re-election bid in Alaska (Breaking News)

Seven Civil War stories your teacher never told you (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : SAVVY MULLAHS SURPRISE "EXPERTS" INFURIATE OPPONENTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : SHABBAT SHALOM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

John Brown's fearsome pikes still hold fascination (Breaking News)

Roll of honour for Irish WWII dead (Breaking News)

Greece 'would refuse Marble loan' (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : ALL ABOUT TZARS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : WHENCE NETANYAHU? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : ON HISTORY AND MEMORY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Ratko Mladic video shows him 'living freely in Serbia' (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: The Bay of Pigs (Howard Jones and Scott Horton) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Lawyer Whose Father is Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar Accused of Stealing Identities of Dad's Rivals (Breaking News)

Are Traditional History Courses Vanishing? (Breaking News)

Alarm in Baltic as Kremlin seizes control of Soviet past (Breaking News)

Dozens of decapitated bodies found in mass Roman war grave unearthed in UK (Breaking News)

Soviets Had Help during Checkpoint Charlie Standoff (Breaking News)

Spanish passport for British members of the International Brigades (Breaking News)

Bosnian TV airs images of war crimes fugitive Mladic (Breaking News)

Researchers uncover thousands more Nazi camps than previously thought (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Harper's Magazine on Black Maverick (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Bush State Department Historian Dumped (Historians in the News)

Holocaust Museum Gunman a Longtime Foe of Government (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

UK to cut official document release to 20 years (Breaking News)

Looted treasures return to Afghanistan (Breaking News)

France to pay nuclear test compensation (Breaking News)

Iran's war veterans turn against Ahmadinejad (Breaking News)

Bells of Malvern Priory could fall silent after 650 years (UK) (Breaking News)

FEMA Offers Katrina Survivors Federal Trailers for $1 (Breaking News)

Secrets of the Aztec's glorious civilisation (Breaking News)

French Official: Stolen Picasso Notebook Will Be Hard to Sell (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : LEBANESE CREDIT BUSH; FRIEDMAN CREDITS OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Iran's Ahmadinejad Accuses Rivals of Using Hitler Tactics (Breaking News)

Ted Kaczynski Fights to Block Diaries From Being Auctioned (Breaking News)

Shooting at Holocaust Museum injures guard, suspect (Breaking News)

Soviet Wreck Found on the Baltic Sea Floor (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : THE EXODUS OBAMA FAILED TO MENTION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Amnesty blasts poor human rights record 10 years after Kosovo war (Breaking News)

Hunt begins for leader of Terracotta army (Breaking News)

How MI6 link of traitor George Blake was covered-up by Government (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Longest Great War memoir to be published (Breaking News)

Hawaii archives holds mystery Lincoln document (Breaking News)

6,000-year-old tombs found next to Stonehenge (Breaking News)

Archeological Evidence Of Human Activity Found Beneath Lake Huron (Breaking News)

Handwritten book by Mussolini among stolen Italian artefacts found in Illinois home (Breaking News)

Coin hoard exceeds sale estimate (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : MERKEL PROVEN RIGHT: GERMAN UNEMPLOYMENT DROPPED TO 8.2% (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Paris theft of $11m Picasso works (Breaking News)

The spy who started the Cold War (Breaking News)

Baltic Sea Divers Discover Wreck of Soviet Submarine (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Justice May Be Blind, But She’s Got A Taser (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: KHAMENEI STANDS BY AHMADINEFAD'S FOREIGN POLICY/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: National Review on Our Book, Black Maverick (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

CLAIRE B. POTTER: The Work That Euphemism Does: A Few Thoughts on the Recent History of Abortion (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Who are the Real Pushers? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT HIGGS: Military-Contracting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse—Just What the Government Wants (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Centuries-old slate discovered at Jamestown dig (Breaking News)

Bone find suggests humans on Treasure Coast 13,000 years ago (South Florida) (Breaking News)

Human skull found in possible Indian burial site near Oakland estuary (Breaking News)

Archaeologists find Civil War cannons in Pee Dee River (Breaking News)

History Under Lock and Key (Breaking News)

Who was Thomas Paine? (Breaking News)

Spanish Civil War Grave Uncovers Victims of Dictator (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIAN CAMPAIGN A SAFETY VALVE? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : COMPARATIVE LITERACY IN 1866 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JONATHAN JARRETT: Labcoats and tweed jackets (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

World Economy is Tracking or Worse than Great Depression say economists (Breaking News)

Coin marks Henry VIII anniversary (Breaking News)

Laura Bush: I understand why Cheney's speaking out (Breaking News)

Slave soldiers honored, called 'national treasures' (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 8-14, 2009 (This Week in History)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

D-Day Vet Who 'Misrepresented Service' to Be Honored by French (Breaking News)

Hillary Clinton: I said no, at first, to secretary of state job (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : HILLARY CLINTON WEAKENS COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT HIGGS: Two Views of the Labor Market in the Deepening Recession (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Biography (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Robert Justin Goldstein: Review of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev (Yale University Press, 2009) (Books)

Inside the Supreme Court [a series of videos] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Parks and Politics: Saving the American Environment - Patricia Limerick [podcast 51 min 41 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life - Walter Isaacson [podcast 31 min 14 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Obama in France to Honor D-Day Fallen [podcast 3 min 10 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Segments 1 and 3: "John Hope Franklin on Writing Black History." (1969) [two podcasts 28 min 28 sec and 19 min 13 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders [Video 59 min 50 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

At Buchenwald, Obama Blasts Holocaust Deniers [podcast 4 min 4 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Living History in Colonial Williamsburg [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

If no for D-Day, It Would Have Been Doomsday [podcast 3 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Cinema and the Spanish Civil War" film season opens in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Previously Unseen Photographs of Hitler Online (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Simon Heffer: Russia wheels out the evil weapon of history (Roundup: Talking About History)

John Ibbitson: Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan - yet (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Ching: China must face up to Tiananmen (Roundup: Media's Take)

Douglas Davis: Gordon Brown ... Britain's Nixon (Roundup: Media's Take)

Patrick Buchanan: Obama, The Anti-Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Vladimir Ryzhkov: Russian History Under Lock and Key (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael C. Moynihan: Baader-Meinhof myth exploded (Roundup: Talking About History)

Review: Matthew Boulton exhibition at Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Barone: Obama needs to brush up on Middle East history (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mikhail Gorbachev: We Had Our Perestroika. It's High Time for Yours (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Kagan: Woodrow Wilson's Heir (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeremy Kuzmarov: Review of Moshik Temkin's The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (Yale University Press, 2009) (Books)

Week of May 31, 2009

Roundup

African-American D-Day veterans celebrate Barack Obama's trip to Normandy (Breaking News)

A picture of Holocaust victim Anne Frank, aged 80 (Breaking News)

UK's oldest man Allingham is 113 (Breaking News)

Watergate burglar dies in Florida (Breaking News)

Inquiry over 'Michelangelo' work (Breaking News)

Brown slips on 'Obama Beach' (Breaking News)

40 years after Manson murders, a bid for parole (Breaking News)

Obama joins WWII vets for D-Day tributes (Breaking News)

Last of its kind, deadly Nazi E-boat rises again (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: Great Moments in Prognostication (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Prince Charles and Gordon Brown mark 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings (Breaking News)

Britain's 1950s nuclear test servicemen win right to sue MoD for compensation (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: We've Been Here Before (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JANE S. SHAW: World War II and All That (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Obama, the "Student of History," Needs to Go to Summer School (Mark A. LeVine)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Cambridge University puts Europe's oldest printed books online (Breaking News)

'World's oldest woman' dies (Breaking News)

Pilot of plane that dropped nuclear bomb on Nagasaki dies (Breaking News)

French militants threaten to disrupt D-Day commemorations (Breaking News)

Unseen Adolf Hitler photographs published (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: UNEMPOYMENT REACHES 9.4% (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Clinton calls on China to release Tiananmen prisoners (Breaking News)

World War II's D-Day to Be Commemorated This Weekend (Breaking News)

U.S. Gov't Backs Off Plan To Seize Flight 93 Memorial Land (Breaking News)

Visiting Buchenwald, Obama speaks of the lessons of evil (Breaking News)

WWII slave soldiers reunite after 64 years, prepare for honors (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : OBAMA WRONG ON IRANIAN COUP (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : OBAMA WRONG ON BUCHENWALD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Daily newspapers are constant sources of geographical errors (Breaking News)

History "not everybody's cup of tea": UK high school drops history, geography in favour of integrated humanities GCSE (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: I'll Be on Book TV (Black Maverick) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: The National Debt versus the Deficit (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Medievalist Jo Ann K. McNamara remembered fondly as pioneer in women's studies (Historians in the News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Spontaneous Orders? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Notes Ancient & Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11: ‘He Missed It’ (Breaking News)

D-Day mystery unravelled and other NBC News accounts of Normandy Invasion (Breaking News)

Obama twisted history a bit in Cairo speech, says Max Boot (Breaking News)

Descendants of Meriwether Lewis Launch ‘Solve the Mystery’ Web Site (Breaking News)

Niall Ferguson-Paul Krugman Fight Goes into Extra Rounds (Historians in the News)

Bill Clinton to speak at Duke University event honoring late historian John Hope Franklin (Historians in the News)

The New Bob Woodward Book That's Making The White House Tremble (Breaking News)

Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton (Historians in the News)

Ernest May: Former College Dean Dies at 80 (Historians in the News)

Royal D-Day row reveals divide over WWII roles (Breaking News)

D-Day bus tour veterans stranded (Breaking News)

Labor History and Culture in Chicago: LAWCHA 2009 (Historians in the News)

Poles remember historic 1989 vote (Breaking News)

Neil Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon (Breaking News)

Iran marks Ayatollah Khomeini anniversary (Breaking News)

Barack Obama arrives in Dresden to meet Angela Merkel (Breaking News)

D-Day veterans fear being sidelined amid politicians' 'jamboree' (Breaking News)

Firsthand account by Westerner says Tianenmen Square on anniversary is crowded (with officials) (Breaking News)

Enormous crowds in Hong Kong for Tiananmen Square vigil (Breaking News)

State senate's cuts might freeze historical markers in Ohio (Breaking News)

With bigger budget Gettysburg filling slots and revving up (Breaking News)

D-Day veterans fear being sidelined amid politicians' 'jamboree' (Breaking News)

Tiananmen Square 'ringleader' detained in Macau (Breaking News)

U.S. Deep-Sea Explorers Could Loose Shipwreck Treasure to Spain (Breaking News)

U.S. urges China to come to terms with Tiananmen Square (Breaking News)

President Obama Names Former GOP Congressman Jim Leach to NEH Chair (Historians in the News)

Israelis Say Bush Agreed to West Bank Growth (Breaking News)

1962 ban on Cuba in the OAS lifted (Breaking News)

Treasure hunters ordered to return 250m pounds of loot to Spain (Breaking News)

A 17th century "witch bottle" used to rid the sick of evil spells has been found intact, containing finger nail clippings, hair and pins. (UK) (Breaking News)

What does the Chinese government say happened on June 4, 1989? (Breaking News)

Connecticut 2nd northern state to apologize for slavery (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: West Still Miscasts 1989 Protestors (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: Tiananmen square 1989 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Campus Watch (again) takes Stanford's Joel Beinin to task (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : QUOTE OF THE DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : ILAN HALIMI'S MURDERER: "I AM PROUD" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Russia blaming Poland for starting WWII? (Breaking News)

A new "missing link" find that could prove to be more credible (Breaking News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: 20 years ago? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

CHRIS BRAY: You Must Do What We Will Not (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

DC Preservation League Lists 'Endangered Places' (Breaking News)

Harvard to endow professorship in gay studies (Historians in the News)

Gay d'oh: White House inadvertently forgot history maker Roberta Achtenberg (Breaking News)

A History Lesson On Supreme Court Appointments (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Temple timbers trace collapse of Mayan culture (Breaking News)

New Hominid 12 Million Years Old Found In Spain, With 'Modern' Facial Features (Breaking News)

St. Louis opens Civil War era court documents (Breaking News)

Civil War memorabilia up for auction (Breaking News)

Mumbai's Watson's Hotel to shut 140 years after being shipped from England (Breaking News)

Historian Simon Rawidowicz is the subject of a book about Israel (Historians in the News)

Emotional Nancy Reagan unveils statue of late president (Breaking News)

Project launched to investigate Britain's debt to slavery (Breaking News)

First Orthodox rabbis ordained in Germany in 70 years (Breaking News)

Holocaust survivors win pensions claims in landmark ruling (Breaking News)

Blogs

OSCAR CHAMBERLAIN: Many Questions, Few Answers (Inactive: POTUS)

Roundup

India's parliament elects first woman speaker (Breaking News)

High security on Tiananmen Square (Breaking News)

US invites Iran to 4 July events (Breaking News)

Dinosaur skulls sold at auction (Breaking News)

US man returns ancient Jerusalem stone (Breaking News)

Prince of Wales to attend 65th D-Day anniversary (Breaking News)

China begins internet 'blackout' ahead of Tiananmen anniversary (Breaking News)

Rare footage of Aborigines meeting white men for the first time (Breaking News)

Former U.S. commander in Iraq calls for truth commission (Breaking News)

How '10-toes Takaki' changed U.S. history (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

$50,000 award offered by Archives for recovery of missing Clinton hard drive (Breaking News)

National D-Day Memorial in financial peril (Virginia) (Breaking News)

Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Today In History, June 2, 455 A.D. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Thomas C. Reeves posts a challenge to historians to clear up Obama records questions raised by conservatives (Historians in the News)

KC Johnson one of the first to actually read Sotomayor's Princeton thesis. His grade .... ? (Historians in the News)

DNA test to discover Tutankhamun's parentage (Breaking News)

Historic lime kilns at risk in S. Indiana (Breaking News)

Rare Darwin book to be auctioned (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: The Sotomayor Senior Thesis (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historian discovers stolen Andrew Jackson letter (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA, THE SALESMAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Guilt-ridden New Yorker returns stolen rock to Israel (Breaking News)

China clampdown as Tiananmen anniversary approaches (Breaking News)

Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act Signed June 2, 2009 (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Cheney finally admits no connection between Saddam and 9-11 (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11 (Breaking News)

AP: "A brief history of General Motors Corp." (Breaking News)

Last Hiroshima POW family found with help from newspaper, historian (Breaking News)

'Oldest pottery' found in China (Breaking News)

20 Die as Ancient Pagoda Mysteriously Collapses (Burma) (Breaking News)

Since the ruins of the Santa Catalina de Guale Spanish mission on St. Catherines Island were discovered in the 1980s, countless artifcats have been unearthed (Breaking News)

Air France crash: mystery of plane disappearances (Breaking News)

Interview with Olivia Remie Constable, Director of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute (Historians in the News)

CIA names fallen officer 6 years after death (Breaking News)

Blogs

PAUL MORENO: When "Empathy" Goes Awry (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : NETANYAHU MUST CONTINUE TO SAY NO! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : SRI LANKA VICTORY PARADE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Prince Charles to attend D-Day 65th anniversary (Breaking News)

Murderer Dr. Crippen May Be Exhumed Amid Innocence Claims (Breaking News)

Ronald Reagan 'appears to Nancy' (Breaking News)

Obama wants Queen at D-Day event (Breaking News)

Guantanamo files 'must be public' (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : OBAMA, THE GREAT EXPLOITER, GOES TO BUCHENWALD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT HIGGS: Security Theater in Three Airports: Istanbul, Paris, and Atlanta (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Cost of keeping federal secrets secret? $10 billion (Breaking News)

One California family's global surfing Odyssey (Breaking News)

GM: After Many Stumbles, the Fall of a Giant (Breaking News)

New details emerging about collapse of the Iron Curtain in Hungary (Breaking News)

You can forget last week's story about the secret Pentagon photos (Breaking News)

Virginia: State criticizes Wal-Mart report (Breaking News)

220 California parks to close in worst case scenario (Breaking News)

Japan Apologizes (again) for Bataan Death March (Breaking News)

Tomb of legendary Japanese Queen Himiko found (Breaking News)

NYT video: The decline of GM (Breaking News)

Finland charges Rwandan suspect (Breaking News)

Vandals daub paint on Rome museum (Breaking News)

D-Day veterans to sound last post on Normandy beaches (Breaking News)

'Dig For Victory' couple recreate 1940s vegetable plot (Breaking News)

Remains of 200m year-old Loch Ness-style creature found (Breaking News)

Japan Ambassador Apologizes for Bataan Death March (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRETT HOLMAN: History Carnival 77 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 1-7, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

Searching for Holocaust massacre victims (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Blue plaque for war hero Bader (Breaking News)

Hague to try Seselj for contempt (Breaking News)

Sotomayor's Record on Race (Breaking News)

Rupert Hall: Pioneering historian of science and editor of Isaac Newton's letters (Obit) (Historians in the News)

Patricia Crawford: Pioneering feminist historian who focused on women's lives in 17th-century England (Obit) (Historians in the News)

Up and Out of New York’s Projects like Sotomayor (Breaking News)

Texas Civil War park restored just in time for another hurricane season (Breaking News)

Sotomayor: A Long Record on Campaign Finance, Often in Support of Regulations (Breaking News)

The Waves Minority Judges Always Make (Breaking News)

Claim: "Islamic Speakers Bureau Backed By Radical Profs" (Historians in the News)

Survey says history students at Oxford enjoy the most vibrant sex lives (Historians in the News)

Hong Kong protest over Tiananmen (Breaking News)

Would Shakespeare be proud of sex shop? (Breaking News)

Queen 'welcome at D-Day service' (Breaking News)

Last Titanic survivor dies at 97 (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Drug Cartel Intimidation (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : QUOTE VADIS US JOB MARKET? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Anniversary of HMS Thetis disaster (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN JARRETT: Hugely important new archæological technique not quite so important once actually published (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Andrew Bast: Obama's Wilsonian Ideals (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeffrey T. Kuhner: Another Korean war? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Freedland: Obama's Triumph in Cairo (Roundup: Media's Take)

Luther Spoehr: Review of Thomas Childers’s Soldier From the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). (Books)

Wesley Hogan: Review of Thomas Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle of Civil Rights in the North (Random House, 2008) (Books)

New photos from Tiananmen Square published by NYT (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Karl E. Johnson: The Curious Case of Galileo Galilei (in which he does not go to jail) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert Scheer: Reagan Didn't Do It (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Steele Gordon: The Inflation Temptation (Roundup: Historians' Take)

BBC tried to take George Orwell off air because of 'unattractive' voice (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Debates, Give or Take (Paris/Exhibit) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ronald Spector: What Students Need to Know About the Vietnam War (Roundup: Talking About History)

20 years on, Beijing painter creates works based on photos of crackdown (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

William Leuchtenburg: The Wrong Man at the Wrong Time (Re: Herbert Hoover) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Thomas Docherty: Being a humble servant to business in academia will be a disaster for everyone (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Lauren Hilgers: Forgetting June 4th (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jim Cullen: Review of Robert Sullivan’s The Thoreau You Don’t Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant (Collins, 2009) (Books)

Roger Cohen: Baker’s Ghost in Cairo (Roundup: Media's Take)

Timothy Garton Ash: 4 June 1989 ... A Fork in the Road (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Herbert London: On D-Day, the U.S. saved Europe from itself (Roundup: Talking About History)

Sherrilyn A. Ifil: Why Race Won't Go Away for Sotomayor (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Melinda Liu: When We Talk About Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)

Steve Benen: 11 years ago Republicans didn't object to Sotomayor's statement, so why now? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan M. Hansen: Don't close Gitmo (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Peter Dale Scott: America’s Afghanistan ... The National Security and a Heroin-Ravaged State (Roundup: Historians' Take)

LCRM Common Room (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Andrew Mar on BBC's Radio 4 "Start of the Week" [podcast 45 min] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

7/7 memorial in Hyde Park, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Lübeck: The town that said no to Hitler (Roundup: Talking About History)

Anouar Majid: Why we should remember the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of Spain's entire Muslim population (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Obama, Muslim-world rock star (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Top 10 Movies About Academic Life (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ron Weinberg: Review of Gordon S. Barrass's The Great Cold War: A Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors (Stanford University Press, 2009) (Books)

Todd Crowell: The Hidden Truth About Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)

Asli Aydintasbas: A New Ottoman Empire? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Yevgeny Kiselyov: When Interpreting History Becomes a Crime (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tom Engelhardt: Graduating the Rest of Us, ‘09 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Thomas Sowell: So Sotomayor was quoted out of context? (Roundup: Media's Take)

ICE Seizes a Cultural Artifact Reported Stolen in Italy Almost 12 Years Ago (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Lind: Now that you and I own GM, perhaps it's time to relaunch a very old concept -- a special kind of public corporation (Roundup: Media's Take)

Salinger Suing Copycat (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Romeo and Juliet wedding? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mark Burnett’s “Expedition Africa” a home run for History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Continuing Controversy over 'Michelangelo' Sculpture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Juan Cole: Obama and Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Niall Ferguson: The trillion dollar question: China or America? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jacqueline Kennedy's drawings of JFK for sale (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Kursk play opens at the Young Vic, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Edvard Munch exhibition opens at the Hunterian gallery, Glasgow (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Klaus Wiegrefe: Who Ordered the Construction of the Berlin Wall? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Drew Westen: Why President Obama Should Welcome a Discussion of Social Issues, and Why He Needs to Lead One Now (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lt. Gen. Pacepa: I was Romania's car czar (Roundup: Media's Take)

Martin E. Marty: Supreme Court Catholics (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Blight: Why the 150th anniversary of the Civil War looks more promising than the 100th (Roundup: Talking About History)

Documentary made about one of life's sui generis: A co-founder of DHL who ended up in Vietnam (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Vandals daub paint on Rome museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Paul Krugman: Reagan Did It (Roundup: Media's Take)

Arthur Herman: The Gitmo Myth and the Torture Canard (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Tomasky: Will Cairo Launch the Obama Doctrine? (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Burchell: The uprising China would have us forget (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Paul Krugman: Reaganomics is to blame (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tiananmen: Shouts That Turned To Silence [podcast 5 min 27 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Unabomber's Brother Tells His Story [podcast 7 min 27 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Kansas Abortion Doctor Shot And Killed In Church [podcast 2 min 55 sec) (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

What East Germany Was Really Like (Photo display) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jim Sleeper: If You Join the Sotomayor 'Race' Debate.... (Roundup: Historians' Take)

HBO Series: Churchill at War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Poets, Academia: A Couplet in Conflict (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Todd Gitlin: I.F. Stone, Journalist -- and Spy? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mark Naison: Sonia Sotomayor's Appointment Highlights a Time When Public Housing Was a Place of Hope and Possibility for Working Class Families in the Bronx (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Week of May 24, 2009

Roundup

SC Legislative manual uses terms 'Negro' and 'scalawag' for some former officeholders (Breaking News)

Tiananmen remembered 20 years on (Breaking News)

History students are most promiscuous (Breaking News)

Poignant letters from sister of Russia's last Tsar for sale (Breaking News)

An emotional fight over land for Flight 93 memorial (Breaking News)

Clinton and Bush Share Stage — and Mutual Admiration (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Our Major Surprise in Asia Minor (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Franklin Littell, Scholar of Holocaust, Dies at 91 (Historians in the News)

Va. Ponders Eliminating Third-Grade History Exam (Breaking News)

FBI solves 50-year-old cold case of missing Dodge City history (Breaking News)

Ireland set to go bust, claims Niall Ferguson (Historians in the News)

Him Mark Lai, Chinese American historian, dies (Historians in the News)

Do we need economics historians? (Historians in the News)

Are you an architectural historian? DC needs you. (Historians in the News)

Historian Ronald Takaki, Asian American legend, has died (Historians in the News)

Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12 percent more red ink in 2008 -- Before Obama! (Breaking News)

Julie Coryell, Jazz-Rock Historian, Dies at 61 (Historians in the News)

Once Again, Ruling Class Stirs a Revolt (Breaking News)

Europe: Graves Disturbed, Jewish Group Says (Breaking News)

AP: "Pennsylvania Newspaper Runs Ad Calling for Obama Assassination" (Breaking News)

An emotional fight over land for Flight 93 memorial (Breaking News)

19th century black Medal of Honor winner finally gets burial in Arlington (Breaking News)

Barack Obama's great uncle criticises him over Buchenwald visit (Breaking News)

Southwest's earliest known irrigation system unearthed in Arizona (Breaking News)

Chinese volcano 260 million years ago led to mass extinction (Breaking News)

Time Magazine: "Queen Elizabeth Snubbed: Britain Declares War on France" (Breaking News)

Ric Burns interviewed about new PBS Indian history documentary (Historians in the News)

George Washington Urged American Governors to Imitate Christ, says Michael Novak (Historians in the News)

Barack Obama pledges support for Palestinian statehood (Breaking News)

Unhappy Memories For US War Vets In Korea (Breaking News)

Identity of Tank Man of Tiananmen Square remains a mystery (Breaking News)

Barack Obama's great uncle criticises him over Buchenwald visit (Breaking News)

Four royals declined D-Day invitation (Breaking News)

German government rejects petition for systematic Stasi check (Breaking News)

Harry lays wreath at Ground Zero (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Fascinating electronic archive of primary source documents about the Rosenberg case now online (Historians in the News)

Add Washington Book Prize to the 'Hemingses' Haul (Historians in the News)

$50,000 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello (Historians in the News)

'Hidden history' uncovered on tour (Breaking News)

German corpse 'may be Luxemburg' (Breaking News)

George W Bush 'missing Air Force One and US troops' (Breaking News)

Russian aristocrat's heir reclaims Van Gogh painting 'looted' by Lenin (Breaking News)

Matthew Boulton and James Watt new faces of 50 pound note (Breaking News)

Iraqi Teen Solves 300-Year-Old Math Puzzle in Four Months (Breaking News)

Bush defends interrogation program in Michigan speech (Breaking News)

Bush: White House pressure made marriage stronger (Breaking News)

Historians Support Inquiry into the Death of James Forrestal (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUTH, JEW BY CHOICE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JAMES OTTESON: "Men in Power" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : AMERICAN MEDIA LOSING READERS' TRUST? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historians report Hemingway had contacts with the KGB over several years (Historians in the News)

Why Are We In Puerto Rico? (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Stealing Property in Montgomery, Alabama (Testimony) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Review of Government Secrecy Ordered (Breaking News)

On Sotomayor, Some Abortion Rights Backers Are Uneasy (Breaking News)

Historians and Literary Critics Go to Bat for Louisiana State U. Press (Historians in the News)

Lost Lincoln Letter Donated To National Archives (Breaking News)

Sara Jane Moore, attempted Ford assassin, 'wanted violent revolution' (Breaking News)

China cuts off dissent ahead of Tiananmen anniversary (Breaking News)

Poland forced to move democracy celebrations (Breaking News)

Mystery of missing US helicopter in Vietnam solved (Breaking News)

Pope urges China reconciliation (Breaking News)

US warship becomes Florida reef (Breaking News)

Japan to Give More Victims of Atomic Bomb Free Health Care (Breaking News)

Long-lost Lincoln letter back in federal hands (Breaking News)

NYT: Bill Clinton holding grudge against Ted, Caroline Kennedy (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: What Obama Doesn't Want You to See (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Website publishes now-declassified Reagan NSC transcripts (Breaking News)

To Protect an Ancient City, China Moves to Raze It (Breaking News)

The Sotomayor Pick: Bridging the Black-Latino Divide (Breaking News)

Conservatives now using bill boards to question Obama's birth certificate (Breaking News)

Sotomayor Pick a Product of Lessons From Past Battles (Breaking News)

Study: Who's behind the financial meltdown (Breaking News)

Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape' (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Torture and the American Conscience (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Biographical Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Photos show President Barack Obama as Barry the freshman (Breaking News)

Supreme Court Nominee Was on the Side of Minorities in Key Cases (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Investors fall for accounting change (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Where does W live now? See the pics. (Breaking News)

Images rescued from dump reveal black British 'Tommy' at the Somme (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: World War II Scrutinized Again (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer (and history major at Princeton) (Breaking News)

NYT profiles Bill Clinton in the Age of Obama. He admits deregulation went too far. (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Where Did It All Go Wrong? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Name a school after Obama already? (Breaking News)

Historian says Virgin Mary made into 'normal mum' to widen Christianity's appeal (Historians in the News)

NAACP Branch Readies for Confederate Flag Fight (Breaking News)

A new book by historian Steven Hahn takes up the hidden history of African American politics and the politics of writing history. (Historians in the News)

Bones were prehistoric American Indians' (Indianapolis) (Breaking News)

A bronze cannon, the first of its type discovered in the oceans surrounding Cuba found by fishermen (Breaking News)

New York Times journalists admit: 'We missed Watergate' (Breaking News)

Virgin Mary made into 'normal mum' to widen Christianity's appeal (Breaking News)

New Srebrenica mass grave 'found' (Breaking News)

French Group Slams Sarkozy's New Measure to Make Museums Accessible to Young Europeans (Breaking News)

Russian Officials: Will Destroy All Chemical Weapons by 2012 (Breaking News)

Snubbed? Queen Elizabeth II Not Invited to D-Day Ceremony (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : KARZAI AND ZARDARI HELP AHMADINEJAD'S CAMPAIGN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : US ALLIES, ESPECIALLY INDIA, UNHAPPY WITH OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

A Skeleton 4,000 Years Old Bears Evidence of Leprosy (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : THE BELOVED NUCLEAR LEADER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historical Trove, Freed From Storage, Gets a Home (Breaking News)

Spy Fired Shot That Changed West Germany (Breaking News)

Archives of famed black newspaper going to Chicago public library (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: WRITING HISTORY, HOW TO (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PUBLIC LIBRARIES A THREAT TO BOOKS AND MAGAZINES? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others (Breaking News)

Sotomayor's Rulings Are Exhaustive but Often Narrow (Breaking News)

Washington and Lee University News Office W&L Mourns Loss of Art Historian Joan O'Mara (Historians in the News)

Nixon Blog dismisses Simon Schama's new book (Historians in the News)

Are We at War With North Korea? (Breaking News)

National Security Archive Publishes Fourth Installment of Former Top Soviet Adviser's Journal (Breaking News)

The Decline and Fall of General Motors' Empire (Breaking News)

Professor discovers little interest in staging a 20th year look at Tiananmen Square (Historians in the News)

The Great Forgetting: 20 Years After Tiananmen Square (Breaking News)

Obama Hails Sotomayor as ‘Inspiring’ (Breaking News)

Was Cardozo First Hispanic On Supreme Court? (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PERSECUTING TERROR DEFEATERS/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Shipwreck's 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' link (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : REALITY STRIKES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

AMY H. STURGIS: Socialism without the State? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

After long fight, Vietnam vet gets his due on the Wall (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Of Brains, Hands, and the Links Between. (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

D-Day invasion's forgotten black vets (Breaking News)

Energy Plans Often Run Out of Gas (Breaking News)

White House Responds to Historians' Memorial Day Petition Posted on HNN (Breaking News)

Remains are lost in race for relics (Breaking News)

Controversy over 'Michelangelo' sculpture (Breaking News)

Immunity deal 'protects Karadzic' (Breaking News)

A long-awaited book on the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre has received the Best Book Award from the Mormon History Association (Historians in the News)

Israeli historian praises German democracy (Historians in the News)

New York State's hidden treasure- town historians (Historians in the News)

Historian Perez Zagorin Was Expert On English Revolution (Obit) (Historians in the News)

WH places wreaths at Confederate, African-American memorials (Breaking News)

Unsung heroes of World War II finally get their due (Breaking News)

A Fight to Protect Americans From British Libel Law (Breaking News)

Wrestling With Ghosts of Colonialism in Africa (Breaking News)

Benny Morris down on both a one-state and two-state solution in Middle East (Historians in the News)

Civil Wars: The Fights That Do Not Want to End (Breaking News)

"We did not know that child abuse was a crime," says retired Catholic archbishop (Breaking News)

2 Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First (Breaking News)

Doing oral histories in the Middle East (Historians in the News)

Allies bombing on D-Day 'close to war crime', claims historian Antony Beevor (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: Do Historians Have One? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Susan Jacoby taken to task by Whittaker Chambers's grandson for not consulting Harvey Klehr's book on Hiss (Historians in the News)

Allies bombing on D-Day 'close to war crime', claims historian (Breaking News)

Civil war fears as Yemen celebrates unity (Breaking News)

Study unlocks history of the seas (Breaking News)

Powell: 'I am still a Republican' (Breaking News)

David Niven's wife bedded JFK in act of revenge against her husband's philandering (Breaking News)

Money and Politics Meet at the Brooklyn Bridge (Breaking News)

Openness in China About Memoir Proves Short-Lived (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... May 25-31, 2009 (This Week in History)

MARK BRADY: JFK Scores Again (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: Craigslist (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

SAGE ROSS: Biology Today, the '70s textbook that would have made me a biologist (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Donald Ritchie: How the New York Times (and Almost Everyone Else) Missed the Watergate Scandal (Roundup: Talking About History)

Louis Warren: Liberal Policies Didn't Lead to California's Collapse (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Stanley I. Kutler: The Supreme Court: New Face, Old Arguments (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert Fan Designed Magnificent Buildings. Then Mao Came Along (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ari Kelman: What the sixteenth President of the United States of America means to Barack Obama and others (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Dick Morris: The incredible shrinking Clintons (Roundup: Media's Take)

The U.S.S. Enterprise, in Strange New World of Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andrew Cherlin: If the Depression is any guide, in times of economic crisis the divorce rate drops (Roundup: Media's Take)

Big Ben celebrating 150th anniversary (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Shapiro: Why Sotomayor Couldn't Really Save Baseball (Roundup: Media's Take)

Johann Hari: The Ghosts of the Empire Are Returning to Haunt Britain - and the U.S. (Roundup: Talking About History)

Love Makes the Postage Meter Go ‘Round (The New U.S. Love Stamp) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Computer Game Lets People Live the Life of Cave Dwellers (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Hamburg rebrands itself as Beatles City (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel Sneider: Wage a Cold War Against North Korea (Roundup: Media's Take)

Carl Schramm: Schumpeter's Moment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Lloyd Parry: The pygmy that Dubya turned into a monster (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Brothers Booth [podcast 5 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Andreas Umland: Fascist Tendencies in Russia’s Political Establishment ... The Rise of the International Eurasian Movement (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Patrick Devenny: Review of Anne Nelson's Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler (Random House) (Books)

The Bonus Army Match (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

A Hiroshima Story (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Thurgood Marshall as a Litigator in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 (Segment 2) [video 2 min 48 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Thurgood Marshall's African Journey: An Interview With Mary Dudziak" (Segments 1 and 4) [video 33 min 49 sec and 13 min 9 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Tom Paine being celebrated on the 200th anniversary of his death (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Damon Linker: Taking Stock Of The Intellectual Right In The Age Of Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gordon Silverstein: Why it's good for liberals that Sonia Sotomayor is not the standard-bearer that they have been waiting for (Roundup: Media's Take)

U. of Illinois Wonders if Vandals or Racists Damaged Indian Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

1969 "Bed-In for Peace" exhibition opens in Liverpool, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Lois Ann Lorentzen: Holy Death on the US/Mexico Border (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Tiananmen at Twenty (Roundup: Talking About History)

Anton Espira: Missing Link ... Too much about Ida (Roundup: Talking About History)

William Astore: Educating Ourselves to Oblivion (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Abdul Malik Mujahid: Why Do Afghans Have a Life Expectancy of Only 44 Years? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sarah Ruden: Beyond the Myth of Mandela (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jonathan Mirsky: The Long Shadow of Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)

Vladimir Ryzhkov: The Kremlin's War on History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert Skidelsky: We Can Still Learn from Thatcher (Roundup: Talking About History)

Natan Sharansky: Make Libya Pay for Dissident's Death (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ian Buruma: The ghosts of Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)

Barron H. Lerner: The secret history of Jewish quotas in medicine (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Save summer school for those who need it (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Nicholas Carr: Woodrow Wilson was the First Twitterer (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ben Stein: Decline and Fall: A View From 2089 (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom -- By Steven Hahn (Books About History & Historians)

Eugene Robinson: Obama World vs. Cheney World (Roundup: Media's Take)

Cesar Chelala: Nuremberg set a valid precedent for trials of war-crime suspects in Iraq's destruction (Roundup: Media's Take)

Anita Prazmowska: Breaking with Poland's past (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Wooden figure of Jesus Christ is not work of Michelangelo, art historians say (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Calif. High Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban [video 4 min 6 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Obama Picks Sotomayor For High Court [video 6 min 6 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Media Matters: Politico ignores history of conservatives' citing importance of empathy in a judge (Roundup: Media's Take)

Noemie Emery: Reagan in Opposition ... The lessons of 1977 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Niall Ferguson: The Crisis and How to Deal with It (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Garry Wills: Lincoln's Black History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Fouad Ajami: Pakistan's Struggle for Modernity (The country's voters have never endorsed religious extremism) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Brooks McNamara, Theater Historian, Is Dead at 72 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Amos Elon, Israeli Author, Dies at 82 (Obituaries)

Shelomo Alfassa: Sonia Sotomayor NOT the first Hispanic for US Supreme Court (HNN News Archives)

Jack Cashill: Who Wrote [Obama's Book] Dreams and Why It Matters (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Amelia Earhart's soaring spirit (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Peter M. Shane: The Ambivalent Presidency? Executive Power Under the Obama Administration (Roundup: Historians' Take)

William Fitzhugh: What If History Students Were Given the Acclaim of Athletes? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jim Cullen: Review of Edmund S. Morgan's American Heroes: Portraits of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America (Norton, 2009) (Books)

Clive Hamilton: Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins" (Roundup: Historians' Take)

In Civil War, Woman Fought Like A Man For Freedom [video 10 min 37 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire (video) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dear Donna Reed: A Pinup So Swell She Kept G.I. Mail (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Alexi Giannoulias: Like Stephen Douglas, Cheney on the Wrong Side of History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mystery Jane Austen suitor who sparked rift with sister named (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tom Palaima: Remember the costs of war (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Political Math (blogger): Obama's wracking up debt much faster than any previous president (Roundup: Media's Take)

NYT publishes hand-drawn pictures of WW II by Bataan Death March solder (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Martin Indyk: Israel Must Take Risks for Peace (Roundup: Media's Take)

Walter Berns: Interrogations and Presidential Prerogative (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stanley I. Kutler: Congressional Duck and Cover (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Fred Siegel: H.G. Wells ... The Godfather of American Liberalism (Roundup: Talking About History)

Oliver Kamm: Liberal over-sensitivity to the beliefs of others is undermining freedom of speech, so giving reactionaries an easy ride (Roundup: Media's Take)

CJ Malone (HNN News Archives)

Week of May 17, 2009

Roundup

A Crumbling Piece of History in Bridgeport, Connecticut (Breaking News)

Recession may force UK museums and galleries to charge visitors entrance fees (Breaking News)

US grandmom offers Depression-era recipes to survive the recession (Breaking News)

Former intern to tell of affair with John F. Kennedy (Breaking News)

4,000-year-old road found in city (UK) (Breaking News)

Scotland's Linlithgow Palace: Partying like it's 1503 (Breaking News)

Mementos adorn 'saddest acre' (Arlinton National Cemetery) (Breaking News)

Former S. Korean President Roh commits suicide (Breaking News)

Annette Gordon-Reed for the US Supreme Court? (Historians in the News)

French Priest Says Holocaust Death Toll Likely to Rise Following Investigation (Breaking News)

Cheney Seeks Book Deal on Bush Years and More (Breaking News)

Vatican discloses Henry VIII's annulment appeal (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Weed Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

PEW chart shows growth of the "party" of independents (Breaking News)

At Turkish Border, Armenians Are Wary of a Thaw (Breaking News)

Katrina Victims Face Eviction From Federal Housing (Breaking News)

'Liberating feeling' to be out of office, says Bush (Breaking News)

Italy recovers lost Byzantine frescos from Greece (Breaking News)

Mystery footprints restore warring scene (Breaking News)

75 years later, Bonnie and Clyde are legends that won't die (Breaking News)

'Filth' maps row embroils Google Earth in Japan (Breaking News)

Ronald Reagan to be honoured with a London statue (Breaking News)

Soldiers gather at Monte Cassino to remember 'forgotten battle' (Breaking News)

Rwandan guilty of 1994 atrocities (Breaking News)

Amid Media Circus, Scientists Doubt 'Ida' Is Your Ancestor (Breaking News)

Looted sculpture returns to Albania (Breaking News)

Analysis: Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths (Breaking News)

Nick Draper is changing our view of British abolitionism (Historians in the News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Mancow Learns that Waterboarding is Torture (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

First Black Mayor in City Known for Klan Killings (Breaking News)

Tiananmen Now Seems Distant to China's Students (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: No Liberty at Liberty (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : SALUTE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : NORTH KOREAN GULAG BACK IN THE NEWS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

SHELDON RICHMAN: Progressive Talk-Show Hosts Split on Obama Plan (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Iron Lady to meet the Pope in a private audience at the Vatican (Breaking News)

A far cry from Colditz: Games, gardening and strolling to church... the life of a German PoW in Britain (Breaking News)

Polish outrage at Spiegel cover story (Breaking News)

Stasi spy shot West German protester in inflammatory 1967 killing (Breaking News)

Obama takes aim at Bush-era security (Breaking News)

The Afterlife of George W. Bush (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Kluge Prizewinner Romila Thapar Discusses Perceptions of India’s Past (Historians in the News)

Oklahoma History Center to close two days of week (Historians in the News)

Renewed fight over history in Russia (Breaking News)

National Security Archive Testifies to House Oversight Committee About Challenges Facing National Archives (Historians in the News)

U. of Colorado Makes It Official: Ward Churchill Is Not Welcome Back (Breaking News)

Souter Decries Lack of Civics Knowledge, Plans to Do Something About it (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Now David Souter's sounding the civics alarm (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Ex-inmate recalls days of abuse at Abu Ghraib (Breaking News)

Iraq war has caused bitterness and resentment, says British foreign secretary (Breaking News)

Rome to open gladiators training ground to public (Breaking News)

Forged art legacy of Vietnam war (Breaking News)

Patriot Act Likely Helped Thwart NYC Terror Plot, Security Experts Say (Breaking News)

PEW: Independents Take Center Stage in Obama Era (Breaking News)

Former Soviet Leader Gorbachev Slams Russian Political Leaders (Breaking News)

ACLU says school censored student's Harvey Milk report (Breaking News)

National Archives loses hard drive with Clinton era records (Breaking News)

Report Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories (Breaking News)

Why the Civilian Toll After D-Day Is Different From That in Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Obama Announces Review of Classification Policies (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: "Abolish the Monarchy!" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Checkpoint Charlies: Irreverent tributes to Berlin's brutal past spark outrage (Breaking News)

Obama seeks support for Guantanamo closure after Senate rebuke (Breaking News)

Italy's Berlusconi compares refugee conditions to Nazi death camps (Breaking News)

Learn from your history, Biden warns leaders during Balkan tour (Breaking News)

East German Stasi tried to recruit Merkel as a spy (Breaking News)

Algerian Veterans Rewarded? (Breaking News)

Guantanamo inmate gets US trial (Breaking News)

Gurkhas win right to settle in UK (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Windsor Castle antique furniture to be sold at auction (Breaking News)

MLK movie in limbo as King siblings squabble (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Doing Well by Doing Good (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Trawlers are destroying historic wrecks, say explorers (Breaking News)

Ancient handle with Hebrew text found in Jerusalem (Breaking News)

1940 massacre of Poles remains potent issue (Breaking News)

'Don't lie about Russia's war history' (Breaking News)

Chinese revolutionary choir kicks off national tour (Breaking News)

Steven Spielberg to direct Martin Luther King film (Breaking News)

Louis XVI's final testament discovered (Breaking News)

Coroner: Human Bones Found in Indiana Barbershop Are Prehistoric (Breaking News)

Cost of Lord Nelson's 'menage-a-trois' shown in household accounts (Breaking News)

NAACP, Homestead in dispute over Confederate flag (Breaking News)

Kremlin Demands New History Lessons (Breaking News)

Sale of movie rights to Spielberg sparks new battle among King siblings (Breaking News)

MPs' expenses: last time Speaker was ejected from Commons was 16 (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: What happens when the people gain direct control of the government (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Investigation Into Huge Loss of Computerized Clinton Data (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Are Americans Still Stupid? (Just How Stupid Are We?)

AMY H. STURGIS: 10 Greatest Libertarian Science Fiction Stories (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Welcome to the Future: Obama's Youth Corps Commercial (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Scientist: Cannibal Humans Ate Neanderthals Into Extinction (Breaking News)

Ken Burns tells BC grads to revisit history (Historians in the News)

Claim: CIA cannot be trusted (Breaking News)

Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists (Breaking News)

Drop in Tourism Adds to Egypt's Economic Woes (Breaking News)

11 years old and already keenly interested in Roman Britain (Breaking News)

Mercury Pollution's Oldest Traces Found in Peru (Breaking News)

Torture Practices of the Ancient World (Breaking News)

US Navy commemorates forgotten WW II disaster (West Loch) (Breaking News)

China frees Tiananmen Square 'hooligan' (Breaking News)

Scientists piece together human ancestry (Breaking News)

Parallels abound in killing of journalists three decades apart (Breaking News)

Treaty on antiquities hinders access for museums, says past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (Historians in the News)

Court Says White House Can Keep Memos on Bush E-mails Private (Breaking News)

Just don't mention Hitler: Young Germans learn to fall in love with their country again (Breaking News)

Scholars Ask Obama Not to Send a Wreath to Confederate Memorial (Historians in the News)

Old Belize mill is first site that is not a Maya ruin to be declared an archaeological site (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

GIL TROY: In Memory of David Herbert Donald (1920-2009) (Gil Troy)

Roundup

In a new book, Eugene D. Genovese describes a devoted and intellectually stimulating partnership with his late wife, also a historian of note (Historians in the News)

New book asks historians how they became historians (Historians in the News)

From Serving in Iraq to Welcoming White House Guests (Breaking News)

On Fiery Birth of Israel, Memories of 2 Sides Speak (Breaking News)

Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker? (Breaking News)

French priest interviews Hitler's willing executioners in Ukraine (Breaking News)

David Herbert Donald has died (Historians in the News)

Fossil find may be monkey, human ancestor (Breaking News)

Legend of Geronimo's bones one of many about the Apache chief (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Lindsey Graham Rants Against Ron Paul, Libertarians (and for the Iraq War) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Greece spars with Macedonia over giant Alexander statue (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : BATCH OF GOOD NEWS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Colorado Man Facing Federal Looting Charges (Breaking News)

Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts (Breaking News)

Supreme Court rules on 9/11 case (Breaking News)

Holocaust Denial Widespread Among Israel's Arabs (Breaking News)

Statue of Former President Beheaded in Ohio (Breaking News)

The long history of asceticism of armies (Breaking News)

Blair awarded $1m prize for international relations work (Breaking News)

Discovery of 'genocide' priest taints Vatican (Breaking News)

Rangoon locked down ahead of Aung San Suu Kyi trial (Breaking News)

Vietnam veteran is oldest US soldier to die in Iraq (Breaking News)

MI5 to escape criticism over 7/7 bombings (Breaking News)

Ex-Beatle Asks Obama To Back Mideast Peace (Breaking News)

Darfur rebel to appear before ICC (Breaking News)

RAF ending 19-year Iraq mission (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... May 18-24, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

Dental studies suggest free black Africans may have sailed with Columbus (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RODERICK T. LONG: Anarchy in Vegas (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Queensboro Bridge gets birthday bash with tributes and big blast (Breaking News)

Spanish dictator Franco 'only had one testicle' (Breaking News)

British POW's son fights for apology from Japanese PM (Breaking News)

Innocents killed on sunken liner (Breaking News)

Centre sheds light on sea kingdom (Breaking News)

Eminent scientist set for honour (Breaking News)

Designer of POW MIA Flag, Newt Heisley, Dead at 88 (Breaking News)

Scientists study how Navajo used smoke signals (Breaking News)

German Fossil Found to Be Early Primate (Breaking News)

Survivors Shed Light on Dark Days of Khmer Rouge (Breaking News)

Modest Successes and Missed Chances in Pope's Trip (Breaking News)

Rusty Eisenberg defends Mark Rudd (Historians in the News)

Citing Auschwitz, Pope Assails Hatred (Breaking News)

Revelations about Rumsfeld in new GQ (Breaking News)

Historians examine links between Lincoln and Mormonism (Historians in the News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Alexander Cockburn Slams Morris Dees (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Japanese-American Woman Gets Honorary Degree 60 Years After Internment Halted Studies (Breaking News)

More than half of Americans now pro-life (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: David Niven Bursts His Own Balloon (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

UK Justice Minister Straw reveals father was WWII C.O. (Breaking News)

Roundup

Dick Morris: Obama's credit card reform is a fraud (Roundup: Media's Take)

"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

‘Made in U.S.A.’ Shines After Makeover (Met Exhibit/NYC) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Animatronic Obama Going to Disney World With High-Tech Style (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Memorial Day Miracle At 'The Wall' [video 3 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Betty Ford - The Real Deal [video 56 min 29 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Gordon Wood: The Real Treason of Aaron Burr (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Ted Widmer: Redeeming Martin Van Buren [podcast 42 min 49 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Peggy Noonan: A tribute to America's war heroes, past and present. (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Marson: Russia and Ukraine Battle Over Their Shared History (Roundup: Talking About History)

'Sherlock Holmes' violin created (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Calling the Queen's Authenticity into Question (Nefertiti) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert Gellately: Is Another Hitler Possible? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Pessimism: In our Age as in Seneca’s the worst is always possible (Roundup: Media's Take)

Panic!: A History of Financial Crisis [podcast 53 min 00 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

(The Intervention of) Traditional Family Values [podcast 53 min 00 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Drew Gilpin Faust: Death and the American Civil War (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Brooks: Cheney Lost to Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Drew Gilpin Faust Interviewed About the History of Death and Mourning [Podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

'The Producers' is not a musical about Nazism but about the boundaries of taste (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Charles Krauthammer: Obama's Deeds Vindicate Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael C. Desch: Apocalypse Not ... Stalin's bomb wasn't the end of the world. Ahmadinejad's won't be either (Roundup: Media's Take)

Calling Queen Nefertiti's Authenticity into Question (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Timothy Burke: What’s Distinctive About Africanist Historiography? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Norman Solomon: The March of Folly, Continued (Roundup: Media's Take)

Louis Warren: How We Got Here ... Thoughts on the State of California (Roundup: Historians' Take)

"The Pictures Generation 1974-1984" (Exhibit/NYC) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The timeless beauty of La Renaissance à Prato (Exhibit/Paris) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Susan Blum: Should China Copy the West on Academic Integrity? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael D. Lemonick: Ida: Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! (Not Really) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Six Ways the Af-Pak War Is Expanding (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Voice of Mickey Mouse Dies (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rick Atkinson: Ten Things Every American Student Should Know About Our Army in World War II (Roundup: Talking About History)

Abraham Verghese: Was Lincoln Dying Before He Was Shot? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Pipes: A History of Muslim Terrorism against Jews in the United States (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Bridge to Somewhere: Lessons from the New Deal [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

'Kryptos' and Dan Brown: Inside the CIA's code of secrecy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Lawrence S. Wittner: Review of Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement By Lynne M. Woehrle, Patrick G. Coy and Gregory M. Maney (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) (Books)

Glimpse of a WWII POW camp [video 2 min 13 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Priya Satia: The shadow of history passes over Pakistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Nader Mousavizadeh: Bringing Iran In From the Cold (Roundup: Media's Take)

Douglas J. Feith: How to Win the 'Long, Hard Slog' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Was "Little Orphan Annie" a brief for conservatism? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Julian E. Zelizer: Democrats play defense on security (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Larry Kramer: Homo Sex in Colonial America (Roundup: Talking About History)

John Steele Gordon: Why Government Can't Run a Business (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Fritz Lang, Trailing Nazis (now on DVD) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Cathy Young: Lessons of WW II (Roundup: Talking About History)

Editorial in Spiegel Online: Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers (Roundup: Talking About History)

M K Bhadrakumar: A neo-con Yankee in Karzai's court (Roundup: Media's Take)

Christopher Beam: The great American tradition of sending your political rivals overseas. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Simon Schama: America’s phobia of banks (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Greece recovers stolen antiquities from Germany, Belgium, Britain (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Frescoes among recovered treasures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Memorial to slaves established at Jackson's The Hermitage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The Führer Returns to Berlin, This Time Saluted Only by Laughs (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Edwin Black: The Hostmen—The World’s First Fuel Cartel (Roundup: Talking About History)

Noam Chomsky: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia (Roundup: Media's Take)

Armchair traveling through the WWW (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Kearney: Netanyahu's gift of Mark Twain book to Obama is loaded (Roundup: Media's Take)

Exhibit examines myth that Germany fended off Roman intrusions in historic battle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Hisahiko Okazaki: The Perry Approach to Pyongyang (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jack Goldsmith: The Cheney Fallacy ... Why Obama is waging a more effective war on terror than Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jay Parini: A survivor of the Armenian massacre turns trauma to testament (Roundup: Talking About History)

Dahr Jamail: How Some Anthropologists Have Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Army (Roundup: Talking About History)

Victoria Toensing: Critics Still Haven't Read the 'Torture' Memos (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Posner: Is the Conservative Movement Losing Steam? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Vandals make off with Garfield's head (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Obama Revives Guantanamo Tribunals [video 3 min 58 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Obama Calls For 'Open Minds' Amid Abortion Debate [video 4 min 28 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

McGovern Warns Obama of LBJ Legacy [video 3 min 40 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Anne-Marie O'Connor: Payments and Apologies for Victims of Guatemala's Civil War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tamil Tiger Leader Killed; Sri Lanka Claims Victory in 25-Year Civil War [video 26 min 00 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Juan Cole Speech: Forging a New Relationship with the Muslim World [video 62 min 14 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Interview with Conservative Historian – Warns against Obama’s action in Afghanistan [video 42 min 41 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Alan S. Blinder: Let's hope 2010 is not 1936 (Roundup: Media's Take)

U.S. Holocaust Museum Opens Exhibit on Genocide (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jared Genser and Meghan Barron: The Burmese Junta Still Fears Suu Kyi (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Rich: Obama Can't Turn the Page on Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Henry VIII: Man and Monarch, British Library, London (review) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

'The Producers' Receives Standing Ovation in Berlin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Majidi to return with TV series on Prophet Muhammad (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

"Painting A Wall" opens at the Finborough Theatre, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Richard M. Langworth: Obama, Churchill and Torture (Roundup: Talking About History)

Scorsese Will Distribute Restored Films via Internet (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Martin van Creveld: Obama should follow Carter's example on Middle East (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Daniel Pipes: Obama and Netanyahu Meet ... What's Next? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Our tattoos, ourselves (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Alter: Now is not the time to compromise on health care (Roundup: Media's Take)

Groundbreaking exhibit on historic German-Roman battle opens (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Centre sheds light on sea kingdom (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Documentary about a secret basketball game played between black and white teams (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Luther Spoehr: Review of For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom By Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post (Yale University Press, 2009) (Books)

Week of May 10, 2009

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Israel Wipes Palestine off the Map! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Scotland's First family history centre opens (Breaking News)

War sea dog statue shipped abroad (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRETT HOLMAN: Your nominations will bring us a History Carnival (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Amazing Graphics on Economic Growth (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MUBARAK'S EGYPT& THE ISLAMISTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MODERN TIMES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: The ticking bomb that is Pakistan (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Stanford Historians Revive an Agrarian Tradition: Walking the Farm (Historians in the News)

Is the Google book search deal good for historians? (Historians in the News)

Armenian genocide controversy lands Ohio congressional candidate in hearing before Elections Commission (Breaking News)

Interior Secretary Salazar Urged to Stop Museum Plan for Valley Forge National Historical Park (Breaking News)

Sardinians unlock 'sardonic grin' (Breaking News)

Pyramids face danger ... from tourists' body heat (Breaking News)

Sir Edmund Hillary's family in court battle with museum (Breaking News)

Italy allows vigilantes for first time since Mussolini's Blackshirts (Breaking News)

Frank Partnoy describes Ivar Kreuger as the man responsible for one of the top five financial schemes of all time (Historians in the News)

World War II bomb dug up by pigs (Breaking News)

Powell aide says torture helped build Iraq war case (Breaking News)

Kuwaitis mourn the missing in Iraq (Breaking News)

A symbol of suburban life is losing its cache (Breaking News)

Thomas Becket paintings unveiled in Spain (Breaking News)

University of North Dakota Dropping 'Fighting Sioux' Nickname, Logo (Breaking News)

Investigators: Graves at reform school site hold fire, flu victims (Breaking News)

Pelosi Acknowledges She Was Told of Waterboarding in 2003 (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GERMAN POPE DENIES RESPONSIBILITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

American who swam to see Aung San Suu Kyi is Vietnam veteran (Breaking News)

Obama to relaunch military courts for Guantanamo suspects (Breaking News)

The Village and the Nazi Labor Camp (Breaking News)

Vietnam photographer Van Es dies; took Saigon rooftop evacuation photo (Breaking News)

Blogs

WILLIAM MARINA: The 81% Tax Increase (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Nascar's Roots May Go Back to Medieval Tournaments (Breaking News)

Blogs

SAGE ROSS: The Two Cultures, 50 years later (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Michael Oren, new Israeli ambassador to US, outlines 7 threats to Israel's existence (Historians in the News)

US returns Ur to Iraq (Breaking News)

Civil War Soldier Found By Work Crews (TN) (Breaking News)

Harvey Milk Day ? Soon. (Breaking News)

"America's Racial Trend: White" (The Daily Beast headline) (Breaking News)

Vatican Reveals Letter That Split England From Roman Church (Breaking News)

House OKs money for WWII mariners (Breaking News)

Ancient Elite Island With Pyramid Found in Mexico (Breaking News)

Michelangelo's 'first painting' bought (Breaking News)

Secret Tiananmen memoirs revealed (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Camp NAMA and Task Force 121 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

The PhD students who are giving history a lift (Historians in the News)

Quebec historian gives high school history class a failing grade (Historians in the News)

James Carville says Democrats will dominate for 40 years (Breaking News)

Philip Zelikow testifies that US adopted torture as a practice under Bush (Historians in the News)

'Old South' fraternity parading in Confederate uniforms. Again. (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: 2010's Worst Congressional Candidate (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

STEVEN HORWITZ: You Can't Pick and Choose with the Rule of Law and the Constitution (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

In Boots Likely Worn on Fateful Night, Expert Finds Clues to Lincoln's Persona (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Stonehenge to undergo major revamp (Breaking News)

Tiananmen Ghosts: The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader (Breaking News)

Court fines man for beheading wax Hitler (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: NEW YORKER on Bankruptcy and Debtors' Prison (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Florida touts its history online (Breaking News)

Texas gets new state historian (Historians in the News)

Millennial Generation Will End Culture Wars, Researchers Say (Breaking News)

Mother Jones: Zelikow torture memo has been located and will be declassified (Historians in the News)

Threats made against director of Iraq Museum (Breaking News)

Top Ph.D. Programs, Shrinking--including history (Historians in the News)

Report Warns of Insolvency for Social Security, Medicare (Breaking News)

Hesitation at White House On Releasing Abuse Photos (Breaking News)

Historian Donald Cole reflects on his life, career, and experiences as a member of the Grant Study (Historians in the News)

David Duke: Former KKK grand wizard living in Austria (Breaking News)

'D Day dodgers' prepare for attention (Breaking News)

Elderly Nazi Suspects Continue to Evade Justice (Breaking News)

Pope John Paul II Gunman Would Like to Convert to Christianity (Breaking News)

Holocaust denier faces jail in Australia for contempt (Breaking News)

Fishermen catch human skulls off coast of Thailand (Breaking News)

Letters from Queen Mary to friend to be sold at auction (Breaking News)

Polish Family Seeks Return Of Old Royal Palace (Breaking News)

Boy on milk carton still missing after 30 years (Breaking News)

Ancient Figurine of Voluptuous Woman Is Found (Breaking News)

Blogs

SHELDON RICHMAN: Quotations Galore (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : GOOD NEWS: CHINESE CONSUME MORE; AMERICANS LESS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Tiananmen Square leader arrested, family says (Breaking News)

David Kilcullen's Iraq invasion lesson for the US: don't do it again (Breaking News)

Jailed US journalist Roxana Saberi 'had secret document on war in Iraq' (Breaking News)

Civil servant Arthur Wynn revealed as recruiter of Oxford spies (Breaking News)

David Miliband: Barack Obama Middle East plan best since Camp David (Breaking News)

Britain and Argentina lodge rival claims to seabed around Falklands (Breaking News)

Pope Benedict XVI backs creation of Palestinian homeland alongside Israel (Breaking News)

Unites States 'helped win Battle of Britain through American super-fuel' (Breaking News)

CIA Outsourced Development of Interrogation Plan (Breaking News)

Sobibor survivor: Demjanjuk trial will go down in history (Breaking News)

Hitler waxwork attack man fined (Breaking News)

Czechs planned 'Adriatic tunnel' (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk 'fit to stay in jail' (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Where Has the Spirit of Watergate Gone? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Facebook Boots Some Holocaust Denial Groups (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

LSU Graduate School dean ousted (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Riggenbach on Revisionism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

History 101: Trust Busting (Breaking News)

Taking Sides on Sociology Professor's E-Mail Comparing Israel and Nazis (Historians in the News)

Alumni Try to Rewrite History on College-Newspaper Web Sites (Breaking News)

On the Bench and Off, the Eminently Quotable Justice Scalia (Breaking News)

Berliners regret near-total destruction of wall (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Poll: Repubs now even with Dems on handling economy ... Dissecting the results (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Sarah Palin book due out next spring (Breaking News)

Pope's WWII-era activities stir up controversy on Holy Land visit (Breaking News)

Aboriginal remains found in Britain to be handed back (Breaking News)

King's grave in Turkey found by accident (Breaking News)

Stone Age Superglue Found -- Hints at Unknown Smarts? (Breaking News)

Race To Preserve The World’s Oldest Submerged Town, Pavlopetri, Greece (Breaking News)

Pope was or was not a member of Hitler Youth? (Breaking News)

Think your life is bad? Archaeologists show us worse. (Breaking News)

Mesolithic tool unearthed by 9-year-old schoolboy (Breaking News)

Blogs

TROY KICKLER: REAGAN MYTHS ON THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Defining Academic Freedom Down (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Judge Napolitano: Bush is a Felon (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Jefferson's retirement retreat restored (Breaking News)

Cave Painting Depicts Extinct Marsupial Lion (Breaking News)

'Viking ship' discovered in Sweden's largest lake (Breaking News)

Ancient tenon heads discovered in Ancash, Peru (Breaking News)

Hidden in O.C.'s foothills, a gnarled reminder of California's past (Breaking News)

Hand-beast prints found on isle (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Movie stars help Titanic survivor (Breaking News)

Security aim for Bronze Age show (Breaking News)

Pope visits Jerusalem holy sites (Breaking News)

Lennon's bloody clothes displayed (Breaking News)

The Pope pays his respects at Western Wall amid disappointment over his Holocaust remarks (Breaking News)

Neo-Nazis attack concentration camp survivors during memorial service (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk Lands in Munich (Breaking News)

Bitter-sweet memories of Berlin Airlift (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

For Chicago Tourism, A One-Man Stimulus Package (Breaking News)

Berlin Wall as a Piece of History: Too-Good Riddance? (Breaking News)

Death camp guard Demjanjuk deported one more time (Breaking News)

60 Minutes Expose: Was The Perfect Spy A Double Agent? (Breaking News)

Pope Lands in Israel -- denounces Holocaust (Breaking News)

Pope visit boosts Jordanian site of Jesus baptism (Breaking News)

Oldest Human Hairs Found in Hyena Dung (Breaking News)

Blogs

RICK SHENKMAN: Latest Poll: "Congress Pushes Cap and Trade, But Just 24% Know What It Is" (Just How Stupid Are We?)

CLAIRE B. POTTER: It's a Girl! A Recent And Partial History of the Nomination of Women To The Supreme Court (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RICK SHENKMAN: Paperback now available (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Evidence of prehistoric humans in India (Breaking News)

Critic scores outside CIA history panel for secretiveness (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : DOLLARS SEEM RISKIER THAN STOCKS?/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

CIA terror suspects 'kept awake for 11 days' (Breaking News)

New spy book names Engelbert Broda as KGB atomic spy in Britain (Breaking News)

Last surviving MP to serve during World War II, dies aged 93 (Breaking News)

The pope who was once a member of the Hitler Youth arrives in the Holy Land and condemns anti-Semitism (Breaking News)

Russia celebrates victory day ahead of army reforms (Breaking News)

Iraqis tried for UK troop deaths (Breaking News)

Hague prosecutor to visit Serbia (Breaking News)

Kenyan Mau Mau veterans to sue UK (Breaking News)

Blogs

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... May 11-17, 2009 (This Week in History)

Roundup

In Britain, Guys With Metal Detectors Find Respect Along With History (Breaking News)

Remember the Symbionese Liberation Army? Last member's out of jail. (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Officials Are Urged to Heed Lessons of 1976 Flu Outbreak (Breaking News)

LDS Church backs move to turn Mountain Meadows massacre site into National Historic Landmark (Breaking News)

Senior citizens launch oral history project on blacks in Broward County (Breaking News)

Language of Jesus keeps memories alive in Israel (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : Then there is Russian stupidity (Just How Stupid Are We?)

Roundup

Russia Moves to Ban Criticism of WWII Win (Breaking News)

Journal from Darwin's ship HMS Beagle sells for nearly 100,000 pounds (Breaking News)

New threat to Iraq's antiquities - tourism (Breaking News)

Prehistoric man's cave found in southwest China (Breaking News)

Parks Fortify Israel’s Claim to Jerusalem (Breaking News)

NYT gives favorable review to Juan Cole's new book, with one "but" (Historians in the News)

Fear of a Swine Flu Epidemic in 1976 Offers Some Lessons, and Concerns, Today (Breaking News)

Blogs

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