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Week of February 7, 2010

Roundup

Archaeological Findings Highlight Syria Role in Human Civilization (Breaking News)

Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years (Breaking News)

7th Century village discovered near Persian Gulf (Breaking News)

Restored WWII motorboats on display at Portsmouth (Breaking News)

Falklands veteran Simon Weston: 'numbers of dead only similarity with Afghanistan' (Breaking News)

'War on Terror' to last as long as Cold War (Breaking News)

Historian reveals realities behind Iowa’s role in  underground railroad (Historians in the News)

Clinton Hostage-Taker Now a Fugitive (Breaking News)

Mystery Bush sign causes stir (Breaking News)

700-km-long Great Wall found in NW China (Breaking News)

Benny Morris talk stirs uproar at Cambridge (Historians in the News)

Japanese split on exposing secret Cold War pacts with U.S. (Breaking News)

French historians consulted by government over "French identity" (Historians in the News)

Super Bowl XLIV beats out M*A*S*H finale in the ratings (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN, LIKE AL QAEDA YEMEN, WANTS BUT CAN'T (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Ferguson's Current Affair Goes Public (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: Precious: A New Kind of "Blaxploitation" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Steven Fielding: The Problem With Biopics (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ira Berlin: The Changing Definition of African-American (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Yvette D. Clarke: Black History is American History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Martin Rees: The Royal Society's Unstoppable Thirst for Inquiry (Roundup: Talking About History)

Andreas Umland: Ukraine and the EU Need Each Other (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Painting by Salvador Dalí, Made in the U.S., on Temporary Loan to the Dalí Foundation (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

How Did Chinese Artists Learn and Practice Their Craft? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin at The Imperial War Museum (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Con Coughlin: Endgame for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mary Dejevsky: Ukraine Says Goodbye to the Cold War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeff Bergner: Republicans Need to Change "The Narrative" (Roundup: Media's Take)

David M. Kennedy: What Would Wilson Do? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

PBS Airing Documentary on Allied Bombing of Germany Monday Night (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jamie Glazov: Thank You, Glenn Beck, for Exposing Communism’s Evils (Roundup: Historians' Take)

James Branch: Is That Black History Stuff Really Important? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Tremblay: Howard Zinn and JD Salinger: The History of Passing Writers (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Cullen, Review of "Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race and Religion in America" (Oxford, 2010) (Books)

Harlem vs. Columbia University [video 1 hour, 53 minutes, and 39 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Kwatsi Alibaruho, First Black NASA Flight Director [audio 5 minutes 5 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Thomas H. Benton: The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gerard Alexander: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Fareed Zakaria: U.S.-China Growing Pains (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Krugman: 21st Century America is Starting to Look Like 18th Century Poland (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amir Taheri: Will Tehran choose the Tiananmen solution? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Pratap Chatterjee: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969? (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Silbey: The Philippine War is Not So Different from Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

100 Years After the Death of Henri Rousseau, Fondation Beyeler Celebrates with Exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Frank Rich: Mullen's Testimony Puts Bigots in a Tight Spot (Roundup: Media's Take)

Photo exhibition opens in Liverpool showing 1870s life in China (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Martin Kramer on Radical Islam and Superfluous Young Men [video 6 minutes 3 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

RedState: Who Wrote Your History Textbook? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ben Fountain: Haiti and the Drug Trade (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amy Wilentz: The Dechoukaj in Haiti This Time (Roundup: Media's Take)

Niall Stanage: End of American Era in Northern Ireland (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of January 31, 2010

Roundup

Rare pub clock sells at auction (Scotland) (Breaking News)

China dinosaur footprints found in Zhucheng (Breaking News)

Reagan Legacy Inspires New Generation of Politicians (Breaking News)

Thatcher and Carter: the not-so special relationship (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Benefit of Long Term Marijuana Use (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

STEVEN HORWITZ: Glenn Beck is no Libertarian (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Lydia Csato Gasman, Picasso Scholar, Dies at 84 (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler took 'primitive Viagra' to have sex with Eva Braun, claims new book (Breaking News)

How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office (Breaking News)

Living in a time warp: living history around the world (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

MARK BRADY: Good for Her! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Extinct Ethnic Group Vestiges Discovered in Chihuahua (Breaking News)

Darwin descended from Cro-Magnon man: scientists (Breaking News)

Belfast Robert Burns collection goes on show (Breaking News)

Rwanda genocide-row politician attacked (Breaking News)

Memo 'shows Blair Iraq war deal with Bush' (Breaking News)

Nelson Mandela dinner celebrates 20 years of freedom (Breaking News)

New online Shakespeare game becomes internet hit (Breaking News)

Holder, Rahm Reportedly Battle Over 9/11 Trials (Breaking News)

Latvian Ghost Town Auctioned Off for $3.1 Million (Breaking News)

Activist Historian Howard Zinn's Obit on NPR Causes a Firestorm (Historians in the News)

Zoroastrian holiday celebrated in Iran (Breaking News)

College Makes Students More Liberal, but Not Smarter About Civics, Study Finds (Breaking News)

Skepticism over claims of Demjanjuk witness (Breaking News)

Unemployment Insurance Borrowing Now Greater Than During 1980s Recession (Breaking News)

Ancient tribe becomes extinct as last member dies (Breaking News)

Lee Archer, Tuskegee Airman, dies at 90 (Breaking News)

Peter Calvocoressi, codebreaker and historian, dies at 97 (Historians in the News)

Budgets released for NARA, NHPRC, and NEH (Breaking News)

Bavaria Vows to Keep Hitler Out of Print (Breaking News)

50 years later, Greensboro Four get Smithsonian award for civil rights actions (Breaking News)

World History Looks Different When Seen Through Islamic Eyes (Breaking News)

Eric Foner: Zinn's Critical History (Historians in the News)

Atomic bomb piano takes centre stage at peace concert (Breaking News)

Late night deal saves Northern Ireland power-sharing government (Breaking News)

Holocaust Victim Has 3,000 Facebook Friends (Breaking News)

Youngest World War II service casualty identified (Breaking News)

Famous Paintings hang on Super Bowl wager (Breaking News)

The tragedy of dying languages (Breaking News)

Shackleton's whisky recovered from South Pole ice (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Chinese and Russian human rights activists, jailed Illinois governor, and the Internet among the nominees for 2010 Peace Prize (Breaking News)

Bishop Williamson Unrepentent in Holocaust Denial (Breaking News)

Pius XII feared outcry against atrocities would worsen situation (Breaking News)

Last Mitford girl bemoans demise of the stiff upper lip (Breaking News)

King, Sultan, pope crack down on smoking (Breaking News)

U.S. pondered military use in Georgia (Breaking News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: Canadian leader comes to USA for operation (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Tycho Brahe to be exhumed (Breaking News)

Ancient Mongolian Tomb Holds Skeleton of Western Man (Breaking News)

Egypt Unveils Renovations At Oldest Monastery (Breaking News)

Ancient East Asian Found in Roman Empire (Breaking News)

Stonehenge's secret: archaeologist uncovers evidence of encircling hedges (Breaking News)

Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies in India (Breaking News)

Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues French channel over television drama (Breaking News)

Nazi death camp survivor recognises John Demjanjuk (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' to be republished in Germany (Breaking News)

Prosecutors Ask to Close Holocaust Museum Shooting Case (Breaking News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: "Sarah" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons (Breaking News)

African American Astronauts Seek to Add New Chapter to Black History (Breaking News)

Howitzer’s new home: 26-ton WWII tank moved to Fort Missoula (Breaking News)

Vladimir Putin marks 70th anniversary of Polish massacre (Breaking News)

Swiss court awards Haiti funds to Baby Doc Duvalier (Haiti) (Breaking News)

Close encounters with Japan's 'living fossil' (Breaking News)

Chinese antiquities move to center stage (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Adolf Hitler, the Irish folk music fan (Breaking News)

Children of dead CIA officers try to learn about their work (Breaking News)

Excavation and restoration on the Avenue of Sphinxes (Breaking News)

Aviation archaeologists' Londonderry Spitfire search (Breaking News)

With Scott to the Pole (Breaking News)

Mussolini iPhone application is withdrawn (Breaking News)

Ugandans sue Britain over colonial era 'crimes' (Breaking News)

Stanley Lucas: Europe’s oldest man celebrates 110th birthday (Breaking News)

Sudanese president may face genocide charges (Breaking News)

Gruesome murder-suicide revealed in National Portrait Gallery archive (Breaking News)

Record £65m paid for Alberto Giacometti bronze sculpture at Sotheby's auction (Breaking News)

U.S. Encyclopedia Apologizes for Mangling Irish Civil War History (Breaking News)

Illness Suspends 89-Year-Old Suspected Nazi Guard's Trial (Breaking News)

Iraq Suspends Ban on Candidates With Suspected Saddam Ties (Breaking News)

Town of George Washington's HQ could be 9/11 trial site (Breaking News)

Early draft of the Constitution found in Philadelphia (Breaking News)

Local folklore has it that overgrown N.C. hilltop is the real birthplace of Lincoln (Breaking News)

Court to hear case on Walmart development at the Wilderness battlefield today (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRAD BIRZER: And, R.J. Pestritto's talk this weekend. . . (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Planned restoration of Loew's Kings Theatre in Brooklyn (Breaking News)

Egypt tightens penalties for relics robbers, smugglers (Breaking News)

Sunken WWII submarine found (Breaking News)

Bankruptcy Complicates National Archives Deal for Roosevelt Papers (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRAD BIRZER: Our own brilliant Paul Moreno (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THIS IS BRILLIANT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Study captures Benedict, MD history (Breaking News)

Urban explorers are more historian than spelunker (Breaking News)

DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Bones in Italy Reveal East Asian Ancestry (Breaking News)

Sarcophagus could provide clues to Mayan decline (Breaking News)

Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair ‘lied’ and misled Parliament, claims Clare Short (Breaking News)

Unseen Picasso masterpiece sells for £8m (Breaking News)

Senators push legislation to pull funding for civilian 9/11 trial (Breaking News)

Moussavi: Shah's 'tyranny' continues in Iran (Breaking News)

Medieval bridges preserved with sugar (Breaking News)

U.N. Leader Seeks Elusive Unity Deal in Cyprus (Breaking News)

Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's diary up for sale (Breaking News)

American historians weigh in on the Illinois senate election (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WAITING FOR ISRAEL TO ACT ON IRAN/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Tourists fly out as Machu Picchu begins isolation (Breaking News)

"Mythical" Temple Found in Peru (Breaking News)

Gates to unveil plan to abandon 'don't ask, don't tell' (Breaking News)

Poland seeks Swede over Auschwitz sign theft (Breaking News)

France 2000 Concorde crash trial begins outside Paris (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Louis R. Harlan, Historian of Booker T. Washington, Dies at 87 (Historians in the News)

Culpeper school officials reverse decision to stop teaching Anne Frank diary (Breaking News)

Native Americans tamed turkeys in 800 B.C. (Breaking News)

Tourists fly out as Machu Picchu begins isolation (Breaking News)

A Historian for Everyday People (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

National Humanities Alliance issues call to March meeting in Washington DC (Historians in the News)

Roger Crowley: Bernard Lewis, the Ottoman Empire, and Modern Turkey (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HOPE IN CAMBODIA ON INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JANE S. SHAW: Not So Media-Savvy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Polish scientists say 3 Neanderthal teeth found (Breaking News)

Hawass To Announce King Tut DNA Results (Breaking News)

Ministers told of Iraq kit risk - armed forces chief (Breaking News)

Putting names to the lost soldiers of Fromelles (Breaking News)

Secrets, spies and supercomputers (Breaking News)

First soldier from forgotten First World War battle laid to rest in cemetery in France (Breaking News)

White House: No decision yet on moving 9/11 trial (Breaking News)

Anniversary of Islamic Revolution May Bring New Clashes in Iran (Breaking News)

McConnell: Bush was mistaken to try terrorists in civilian court (Breaking News)

Joseph Massad at UCLA: Gay-Bashing 101 (Historians in the News)

Sit-in vet: 'Never request permission to start a revolution' (Breaking News)

Last U.S. veteran of World War I turns 109 (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HERE WE GO AGAIN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: EARTH TO FRIEDMAN: DEMOCRATS ALONE WERE IN CHARGE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Volcanoes 'destroyed ancient ocean life' (Breaking News)

Hitler bunker carpet fragment found in forgotten archives (Breaking News)

School system in Va. won't teach version of Anne Frank book (Breaking News)

Business historian Richard Tedlow talks about denial (Historians in the News)

Obama's Presidency Draws Comparisons to Jimmy Carter by historians (Historians in the News)

New study on Nanking fails to bridge Japan, China history divide (Breaking News)

Not black history; America's history (Breaking News)

A History of Guernsey told through Maurice's pipe (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... February 1-7, 2010 (This Week in History)

BRETT HOLMAN: The trumpet calls (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

A history of Super Bowl hype (Breaking News)

Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble (Breaking News)

Egypt to announce results of DNA tests on King Tutankhamun on Feb. 13 (Breaking News)

Exhibition to celebrate Royal passion for art (Breaking News)

Diana said she 'should never have married into a German family' (Breaking News)

Ex-Edwards' aide tells of politician's affair (Breaking News)

Unknown WWI soldier buried as mass graves give up secrets (Breaking News)

Quake's toll on Haitian art, heritage and income (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Photographic Exhibition Marks Centenary of Scott's Voyage to South Pole (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gerry Adams: Another Good Friday (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ashley Cruseturner: Are the Two Major Parties Too Lost to Right this Ship? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Don Bohning: Influx from Haiti? South Florida Takes It in Stride (Roundup: Media's Take)

Chales Krauthammer: The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Naiman: Eat Your Spinach: Time for Peace Talks in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Our Obama Saga (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Shadi Hamid and Steven Brooke: Promoting Democracy to Stop Terror, Revisted (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mikhail Gorbachev: Soviet Lessons From Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Let's Dig Up Jimmy Hoffa Before It's Too Late! (Did You Know?)

Zheng He Ranks Among the World's Greatest Seafarers [video 22 minutes 22 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Kenneth J. Cooper: Revising the Black Combat Record in the Civil War (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jonathan L. Walton: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections [Complete] (HNN Videos)

Jennifer Manion: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections [Complete] (HNN Videos)

Heather White: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections (HNN Videos)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China and the U.S.: Too Big to Fail (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Doug Ireland: ACT UP's Contribution to Gay Awareness (Roundup: Talking About History)

Judith Stein: 'Green' Jobs Go to China, Too (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent -- by Richard J. Evans (Books About History & Historians)

Larry DeWitt, Review of Alan Brinkley's "Franklin Delano Roosevelt" (Oxford, 2010) (Books)

Ryan Streeter: Making Poverty History: A Short History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jews in Oscar films: Are they vile throwbacks to Jewish stereotypes? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Lawrence Lessig: The Fundraising Congress (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Was US-Iran Rivalry Driving the Exclusion of Candidates in Iraq? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert Farley: An End to the "Long War" (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kent Ewing: Tomb Warriors Battle in China (Roundup: Talking About History)

Julian Zelizer: Americans Want Government Reforms (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Henry Kissinger: Don't Forget Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Zaretsky: Le Parti Thé (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Peter A. Coclanis: Haiti Needs to Be Built, Not Rebuilt (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harold Meyerson: A Jobs Lesson from the New Dealers (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ian Buruma: Battling the Information Barbarians (Roundup: Media's Take)

Brooklyn's Loew's Kings Theater to finally get a makeover (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel Finkelstein: Remember Churchill When You Think of Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)

Christopher Brick: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections (HNN Videos)

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How the British Empire is Striking Back (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mario Canseco: History Repeats Itself as Obama Faces Slump Similar to Carter's (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter Beinart: The Republicans' Reagan Amnesia (Roundup: Media's Take)

Martin Shaw: Britain and Genocide (Roundup: Talking About History)

Salome Zourabishvili: The Wilting Petals of Georgia’s Rose Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Schwartz: The Iraqi Oil Conundrum (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bruce J. Schulman: House Should Pass Senate Health Care Bill (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Lawrence Wittner: Taxing the Rich (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Chris Hedges: The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News (Roundup: Media's Take)

Christopher Hitchens: Kim Jong-il's Regime Is Even Weirder and More Despicable Than You Thought (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Max Hastings: Lessons from Chilcot on the Atlantic Alliance (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jeffrey H. Anderson: Obama Is No JFK (Roundup: Media's Take)

Getty Museum to Explore Representations of Medieval Architecture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Amanda Bowman: Blair Teaches a Lesson on Iraq War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dean Baker: The Second Great Depression Bogeyman (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Rivers Pitt: Schooled (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Cullen, Review of "Lit: A Memoir," by Mary Karr (Harper, 2009) (Books)

Tom Engelhardt: Seven Days in January (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Greg Grandin: Muscling Latin America (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Patricia J. Williams: Corpus Ex Machina (Roundup: Media's Take)

Raymond Ibrahim: How Taqiyya Alters Islam's Rules of War (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Sustainable History and the Dignity of Men: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph -- by Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan (Books About History & Historians)

Michael Kinsley: No Room for Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Howell Raines: The Counter Revolution (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jonathan Trembley: China Renames a Mountain for Avatar: Making History More… Exciting? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Bernard Weiner: Drifting Toward Catastrophe (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bruce Anderson: Blair... The Hubris of a Tragic Hero Who Fell for the Enlightenment Myth (Roundup: Media's Take)

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How the British empire is striking back (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kathryn Jean Lopez: Condescender in Chief (Roundup: Media's Take)

Editorial in WSJ: Tony Blair's Iraq Statesmanship (Roundup: Media's Take)

E.J. Dionne: Our Thin-Skinned Supreme Court. (Roundup: Media's Take)

John B. Judis: The Quiet Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Bolton: U.S. Is the World's Humanitarian Leader (Roundup: Media's Take)

1897 Overhead railway footage screened as part of programme for Museum of Liverpool (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andrew B. Lewis: The Sit-Ins That Changed America (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Hirsch and Daniel Gross: The Wisdom of Crowds (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dee Dee Myers: Bill Clinton’s Narrow Victories (Roundup: Talking About History)

Richard V. Allen: Ronald Reagan, a Man With a Plan (Roundup: Talking About History)

James Fallows: Carter's Sunny Day (Roundup: Talking About History)

Leonard Garment: For Nixon, All That Jazz (Roundup: Talking About History)

Murray Polner. Review of Yehuda Bauer's The Death of the Shtetl (Yale University Press, 2009) (Books)

Week of January 24, 2010

Roundup

Fisk singers nominated for Grammy (Breaking News)

Among Hitler's Executioners on the Eastern Front (Breaking News)

California history on the moon (Breaking News)

Long history of Israel's 'covert' assassinations (Breaking News)

UCL to mark LGBT History Month (Breaking News)

Remembering the sit-ins of 1960 (Breaking News)

Wiesenthal slams Ukraine award to Stepan Bandera (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Obama's Unbelievable Populist Act (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

PEW Study: Senate Legislative Process A Mystery To Many (Breaking News)

Bob Herbert: Howard Zinn was "a radical treasure" (Historians in the News)

Blogs

SHELDON RICHMAN: TGIF: The State of Obama's Union (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

Roundup

Theatregoers in Shakespeare's day 'enjoyed peaches, figs and oysters' (Breaking News)

Fromelles scots soldiers to be reburied (Breaking News)

Ancient tomb belongs to top general: scholars (China) (Breaking News)

China sets standard for Chairman Mao's favourite dish (Breaking News)

India to turn Rudyard Kipling house into museum but ignores author (Breaking News)

Iraq inquiry: defiant Tony Blair heckled as he says 'no regrets' (Breaking News)

Senate Legislative Process a Mystery to Many (Breaking News)

Posters looted by Nazis 'won't be returned to Jewish family' (Breaking News)

Race and power in play as Mississippi plans to merge historically black colleges (Breaking News)

Genealogists Say Obama, Sen.-Elect Brown Related (Breaking News)

'Definitive' Anne Frank Diary Pulled From Virginia School Library After Parent Complaint (Breaking News)

Member of Manson Cult Recommended for Parole (Breaking News)

Tuskegee Airman Considered the Only Black Ace Pilot Dies in New York (Breaking News)

Blair: I believed 45-minute weapons claim 'beyond doubt' (Breaking News)

White House eyes moving site of 9/11 trial (Breaking News)

Mahatma Gandhi ashes to be scattered in South Africa (Breaking News)

US veteran returns art album taken from Hitler's villa (Breaking News)

History of men's beltlines (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Anti-Semitism at highest level since World War II, says Jewish agency (Breaking News)

Netanyahu at Auschwitz: World must unite to confront new threats (Breaking News)

Mayan tomb find may help explain collapse (Breaking News)

Viking settlement unearthed by OPW (Dublin) (Breaking News)

Last Neanderthals in Europe Died out 37,000 Years Ago (Breaking News)

Is the Hobbit's Brain Unfeasibly Small? (Breaking News)

Bloomberg withdraws support for 9/11 trials in NY (Breaking News)

Wartime PoW escape stories were irresistible to film and television (Breaking News)

Zelizer: State of the Union not a game changer (Historians in the News)

Author J.D. Salinger dies at 91 (Breaking News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Once Again the State of the Union Makes a President Strong (Gil Troy)

Roundup

Supreme Court Historian: After President’s “Insult,” Won’t Be Surprised If Supreme Court Doesn’t Attend Next Year’s State of the Union Address (Historians in the News)

Tomb Raiders Bulldoze Han-Dynasty Grave Sites (Breaking News)

'I owe my life to the Nazis who foiled the Great Escape' says the last survivor (Breaking News)

Lost Roman law code discovered in London (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Premodern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

The terrifying legacy of the Vietnam War (Breaking News)

Tony Blair at Iraq Inquiry - live (Breaking News)

Weather, Overflow of Tourists Hamper Machu Picchu Rescue (Breaking News)

Benito Mussolini speeches become Apple iTunes hit (Breaking News)

'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87 (Breaking News)

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power (Breaking News)

Coffin’s Emblem Defies Certainty (NY) (Breaking News)

A Hillary Clinton Primary Challenge to Obama in 2012? (Breaking News)

Dinosaur had ginger feathers (Breaking News)

John Edwards scandal takes new twist with compromising video tape (Breaking News)

National Archives Warns Former Clinton Staff, Visitors of Major Data Breach (Breaking News)

Daniel Pipes steps out of the closet… as an Islamophobe (Historians in the News)

Blogs

AARON BADY: Dissenting Opinion (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Russia remembers liberation of Auschwitz (Breaking News)

Hope for a Pennsylvania bridge (Breaking News)

Arizona To Close Half its State Parks (Breaking News)

Holocaust Day marked at Nazi death camp Auschwitz (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Howard Zinn - Tributes, Memorials, and Obituaries (Historians in the News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Depraved Indifference to Atrocity (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

C.J. MALONEY: Roll Over Orson Welles (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

State of the Union speech unlikely to ease worries, analysts say (Historians in the News)

Israeli PM honours Holocaust victims (Breaking News)

Former 'mole-hunter' Stephen De Mowbray speaks out (UK) (Breaking News)

90-year-old Second World War veteran grabbed care home worker by neck (Breaking News)

Winnie Mandela threatens legal action over film (Breaking News)

Pope John Paul II 'regularly whipped himself' (Breaking News)

Government knew ‘no leg to stand on’ legally to go to war in Iraq (UK) (Breaking News)

Senators Urge Holder to Pull Plug on Plans for Sept. 11 Civilian Trial (Breaking News)

Pope John Paul II Forgave His Shooter on Way to Hospital (Breaking News)

Holocaust Survivor Teams With Hip-Hop Group to Fight Racism (Breaking News)

Michelle Obama's Wax Figure Debuts in N.Y. Museum (Breaking News)

Blogs

AMY H. STURGIS: Fear the Boom and Bust: A Hayek vs. Keynes Rap (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Oliver Stone: bankers helped Hitler (Breaking News)

Laura Bush joins board for Museum of African American History and Culture (Breaking News)

Historians take Glenn Beck to task (Historians in the News)

Two thousand year old Roman aqueduct discovered (Breaking News)

Stolen art treasures recovered in Italy (Breaking News)

Find of huge Mayan head suggests significant city (Breaking News)

Poland revives its Jewish past (Breaking News)

Stitching the Narrative of a Revolution (Historians in the News)

Civil War group buys Appomattox battlefield site (Breaking News)

National Archives Says "No" to Tourist Photos (Breaking News)

WW II hero Witold Pilecki biography in Italy (Breaking News)

Yale's Van Gogh worth up to $150 million (Breaking News)

Historic Film Footage of Bighorn Canyon Before the Dam to be Shared This Week (Breaking News)

Peru begins airlift of stranded Machu Picchu tourists (Breaking News)

Prado Museum Honors Members of Committee that Safeguarded Spanish Treasures (Breaking News)

Iraq inquiry: Jack Straw dismissed legal advice on 'illegal' invasion (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Pioneering women pilots of WWII get a belated honor (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: There's Other Evidence... (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Debate over significance of released 'Auschwitz blueprints' (Historians in the News)

Australian giants survived man for a time: study (Breaking News)

Military Vets Working on Archaeological Project (Breaking News)

Historian's $5+ Million Collection of American Documents in NYC Auction (Breaking News)

'First record' of Africans at Stirling Castle found (Breaking News)

Horse head from Anglo-Saxon Hoard on display in Stoke (Breaking News)

Archaeologists find 1760s artifacts in Maryland (Breaking News)

Ancient Native American site destroyed in Oxford, AL (Breaking News)

A gleaming new showcase for the Acropolis (Breaking News)

Couple finds Thomas Jefferson letter at Old Town Alexandria's American Legion (Breaking News)

Stone Age amputee proves Neolithic medics more advanced than previously thought (Breaking News)

'Blame Bush' Strategy Wears Thin as Obama Enters Second Year (Breaking News)

Picasso painting damaged at New York museum (Breaking News)

Nazi souvenirs on sale in Tel Aviv (Breaking News)

Leonardo Da Vinci's remains to be exhumed amid Mona Lisa self-portrait mystery (Breaking News)

Auschwitz blueprints go on display in Israel (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Louis R. Harlan, 1922-2010 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Cyprus antiquities smuggling ring broken up (Breaking News)

'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq (Breaking News)

Rare Burns' widow letter unveiled (Breaking News)

Petraeus: Afghanistan will take longer than Iraq (Breaking News)

Iraq inquiry: Government legal official will disclose advice given to ministers (Breaking News)

Row as French mayor puts up official picture honouring Nazi collaborator Petain in town liberated by Britain in World War II (Breaking News)

Australians to learn of their convict ancestry as details of people sent down under 200 years ago are released (Breaking News)

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Barack Obama looks to Bill Clinton for answers (Breaking News)

World War veterans to be given priority healthcare (Breaking News)

Report: New bin Laden tape emerges (Breaking News)

Historians remember George Pappas as father of MHI (Historians in the News)

Anne Frank history lesson gets personal for teen (Breaking News)

Blogs

AARON BADY: Theodore Roosevelt has a big stick, but from where did he get it? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

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

ROBERT HIGGS: My Question for the Doomsters: Then What? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

William H. Chafe: A Protest That Changed History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Andrew Baker: The Holocaust's Untended Graves (Roundup: Talking About History)

John Q. Barrett: Justices on Fidelity to Precedent (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Nader Mousavizadeh: End of Rogue States (Roundup: Media's Take)

Laurence Rees: Raped by their saviours ... How the survivors of Auschwitz escaped one nightmare only to face another (Roundup: Talking About History)

Burt Folsom: Why Doesn't Government Control Work? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mehdi Hasan: The bulletproof case against Blair (Roundup: Media's Take)

Catherine Mayer: Unbowed on Iraq, Blair Makes the Case for Targeting Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)

Anthony Seldon: Iraq Is Britain's Watergate (Roundup: Media's Take)

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman: What Has Obama Learned from History? [Complete] (HNN Videos)

Paul Duguid: Is Google Good for History? [Complete] (HNN Videos)

Dan Cohen: Is Google Good for History? [Complete] (HNN Videos)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Big China Books: Enough of the Big Picture (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Henry A. Giroux: Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered (Roundup: Media's Take)

E. Boston students make game of 1775 Revolutionary War battle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

'Drunk History' with Will Ferrell gulps down Sundance short film prize (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rate Obama's State of the Union! (HNN Polls)

John Ferling: Myths of the American Revolution (Roundup: Talking About History)

Robert Kaplan: Don't Panic About China (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tony Mauro: Obama's Unprecedented Criticism of the Supreme Court (Roundup: Media's Take)

Terracotta Army to Conquer Canada from 2010 - 2012 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Huntington Acquires Extensive Collection of Charles Dickens' Letters (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Selection of French Masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum on View in Budapest (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Simon Schama’s “Obama's America” on BBC TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Max Boot: Foreign Policy AWOL in State of the Union (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Howard Zinn: On "The People Speak," the Supreme Court, and Haiti (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Anand Gopal: Obama’s Secret Prisons (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Barone: Democrats fall as fast as Nixon Republicans in 1974 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Aaron Zelinsky: Obama's State of the Union Inspiration: Ronald Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Niall Ferguson: India Holds the Keys to Success (Roundup: Historians' Take)

James W. Ceaser: The Roots of Obama Worship (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Our Populist President? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Andrew G. Bostom: The Pentagon's Willful Blindness (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Galston: What Would Reagan Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis: Et Tu, ACLU? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Daniel Franklin: Get Rid of the U.S. Senate: A Dangerous (and Undemocratic) Institution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeff Biggers: Mr. President, Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Murray Polner. Review of Stephen J. Taylor, Acts of Conscience: WWII, Mental Institutions and Religious Objectors (Syracuse University Press, 2009) (Books)

Henry Lewis Gates Jr.: It Wasn't the Devil that Hurt Haiti (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Andrew Kohut, Jodie T. Allen, and Richard Auxier: It's All About Jobs, Except When It's Not (Roundup: Media's Take)

Amy Wilentz: The Haiti Haters (Roundup: Media's Take)

Edward Serotta: A Book's Inscription and Jewish Tragedy (Roundup: Talking About History)

James A. Morone: On Healthcare, Democrats Should Channel Harry Truman (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Kagan: How Obama Can Reverse Iran's Dangerous Course (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonah Goldberg: Recognizing Terrorism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark E. Halperin: What Obama Can Learn from Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Patrick Hennessey: Good news from Afghanistan ... democracy is taking root (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jack Ross. Review of Jennifer Burns' Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford University Press, 2009) (Books)

Ron Radosh: Glenn Beck’s TV Documentary on 20th Century Totalitarianism (Roundup: Historians' Take)

William F. Shughart II: Earthquakes and Economic Development (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Our Wars Are Killing Us (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Sean Wilentz: The Return of Ulysses S. Grant (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jason Scott Smith: What Has Obama Learned from History? [Complete] (HNN Videos)

Alice O'Connor: What Has Obama Learned from History? (HNN Videos)

Samuel Pisar: Liberation From Auschwitz (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Brooks: The Populist Addiction (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael C. Dorf: The Supreme Court Rejects a Limit on Corporate-Funded Campaign Speech (Roundup: Media's Take)

E.J. Dionne: The Urgency of a Teddy Roosevelt Moment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Cullen, Review of "Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son" (Harper, 2009) (Books)

Bruce J. Schulman: The Reagan Revolution: It's Alive! (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alan Hamilton: What's the truth behind the fate that befell the prisoners of Stalag Luft III? (Roundup: Talking About History)

'Sphinx Alley' Gives Egypt Large Open-Air Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Alan Posener: Don't let Auschwitz be forgotten (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ranj Alaaldin: 'Chemical Ali' and Blair, the hero (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael White: Is it fair to blame Blair and Bush for continued violence in Iraq? (Roundup: Media's Take)

William McGurn: Clinton's Shadow Hangs Over Obama's Address (Roundup: Media's Take)

Soumitra R. Eachempati, Dean Lorich and David Helfet: Haiti ... Obama's Katrina (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sami Moubayed: Notorious 'Chemical Ali' Meets His End (Roundup: Media's Take)

Archeologist Zahi Hawass Unlocks the Secrets of Egypt [video 28 minutes 43 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Steam-Powered, Coal-Fired Vibrator [video 6 minutes 59 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

“Unaccommodated Man” in Vietnam [video 4 minutes 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Julian Zelizer: Learn From History Mr. President (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Sidney Mintz: Whitewashing Haiti’s History (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Trembley: Tiger Woods and King Edward VIII: When a Personal Problem Becomes a National Dilemma (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Will Winne Mandela biopic focus on heroism or crimes? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Rick Perlstein and Mark Schmitt: Theory of Change at Year One (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Larry Clayton: The Haiti I Remember (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Long Beach Museum of Art Celebrates 60th Anniversary of the Museum's Impressive Permanent Collection (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michael Gove: We are still in the shadow of the Holocaust (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rich Lowry: 1994 Nightmare ... Dems Look Out of Touch (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Cullen, Review of "Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture" by Paul Gilroy (Harvard University Press, 2010) (Books)

Ron Briley reviews Robert Cohen's Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). (Books)

Theodore Roosevelt has a big stick, but from where did he get it? (Did You Know?)

Harold M. Hyman: Fight over 'Negro' has a Sad History (Roundup: Historians' Take)

A new take on black history at the California Science Center (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Roger Pulvers: For all His Failings, MacArthur was a Fine Precursor of Obama's Bow (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jesse Lemisch: George Clooney's Haiti -- and Beyond (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Week of January 17, 2010

Roundup

Mary Ward honoured on path to sainthood (Breaking News)

Boris Yeltin's daughter attacks Vladimir Putin (Breaking News)

Leonardo da Vinci's bones to be dug up by Italian scientists (Breaking News)

London Museum Unveils Display of Forged Art (Breaking News)

Louis R. Harlan, biographer of Booker T. Washington, dies (Historians in the News)

Blogs

WENDY MCELROY: The Coming Grab at Your Wealth and Retirement (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

George Orwell named as 'writers' writer' (Breaking News)

Historical Society to Open a Children’s Museum (Breaking News)

Roe v. Wade anniversary marked by vigils, demonstrations (Breaking News)

State Parliamentarians to Be Checked for Stasi Affiliation (Breaking News)

Germany seeks arrest of former Argentine dictator (Breaking News)

Legacy of war - Iraq 'littered with contamination' (Breaking News)

Secret document which implicated Blair Peach coroner withheld by Home Office (UK) (Breaking News)

Ski resort that hosted 1936 Winter Olympics applies to co-host 2018 Games (Breaking News)

Seized forged art worth millions goes on display at the V&A (UK) (Breaking News)

500-year-old Nostradamus prophecies become first French book to be archived on Google (Breaking News)

A price on his head: Hamburg museum appeals for return of plundered pirate skull (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Sarkozy to visit Rwanda as France relations improve (Breaking News)

'Biblical' references to be removed from guns (Breaking News)

Claude Monet's remains 'to be moved to the Panthéon' (Breaking News)

Charges Withdrawn in Military Commissions for Sept. 11 Suspects (Breaking News)

Pashtun clue to lost tribes of Israel (Breaking News)

Should the Census Be Asking People if They Are Negro? (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: And Now We're Going to Rub It in Your Face (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Alan Brinkley sounds off on Obama (Historians in the News)

World's oldest lightbulb still burning bright after 109 years (Breaking News)

"Terror and Liberalism" author Paul Berman talks about Tariq Ramadan (Historians in the News)

'The Beaver', Canada's History Magazine, to change name in order to avoid porn filters (Breaking News)

The Forgotten Persecution of German Women in World War II (Breaking News)

'Miracle on Hudson' plane up for auction (Breaking News)

Historic Bentley snowflake photos for sale in US (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

In Education Minister's 'Bolt Out of the Blue,' National U. of Ireland Faces Extinction (Breaking News)

Battle over Franz Kafka archive kept for decades in cat-infested flat (Breaking News)

Notre Dame Says No Intention to Re-Hire Tariq Ramadan (Historians in the News)

University of South Carolina historian to lead National Council on Public History (Historians in the News)

Historians sound off on the popularity of the history of religion (Historians in the News)

Lost city of Atlantis 'could be buried in southern Spain' (Breaking News)

Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in France (Breaking News)

Auschwitz sign Arbeit Macht Frei is returned (Breaking News)

'Antiquities Theft in Israel' exhibition robbed (Breaking News)

Iran threatens to sever links with UK in row over Cyrus Cylinder (Breaking News)

Haiti Recovery Effort Draws on Lessons From 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (Breaking News)

Son: Bin Laden Worth More Alive Than Dead (Breaking News)

After decades of research, American archaeologist Mark Lehner has some answers about the mysteries of the Sphinx (Historians in the News)

Erosion threatens Cherokee cultural site (Breaking News)

Court imprisons Illinois man who dug up 13,000 artifacts (Breaking News)

After a lifetime loving India, historian Simon Digby breathes his last in Delhi at 79 (Historians in the News)

SCOTUS rules on campaign finance reform (Breaking News)

Obama's lost senate seat is a victory for Netanyahu (Breaking News)

Putting the Ph.D.'s to Work (Historians in the News)

Britain was keen to avoid Iraq war, according to former Foreign Secretary (Breaking News)

Obama Grade From Historians Will Drop Without Health-Care Bill (Historians in the News)

New book on the decline of Israel's left (Breaking News)

Hillary to Banned Muslim Scholars: Welcome Back! (Historians in the News)

Medals Stolen From San Juan National Historic Site 18 Years Ago Found Buried at the Park (Breaking News)

Tariq Ramadan, Islamic scholar, to be permitted to enter U.S. (Historians in the News)

Dinosaur tracks to be given protection (Breaking News)

Remembering Theodore Sizer (Historians in the News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Driving From the Center (Gil Troy)

Roundup

New theory on why van Gogh cut off his ear (Breaking News)

Picasso and Renoir, Unseen for Over 40 Years, Go on Public Display at Christie's (Breaking News)

Chamberlain's 1938 plane ticket to Munich sold for over 9,000 GBP (Breaking News)

Hermann Goering's great-niece: 'I had myself sterilised so I would not pass on the blood of a monster' (Breaking News)

WMDs in 45 minutes claim 'was asking for trouble', admits Blair's security chief (Breaking News)

Religion now hottest topic of study for U.S. historians (Historians in the News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Bi-Partisan Cover Up (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Peruvian historian Antonio Zapata leaves successful TV history series to return to academia (Historians in the News)

Prof. Allen Wells: Haiti's Past Marked by Uncommon Resilience in the Face of Centuries of Setbacks (Historians in the News)

Despina Stratigakos: Wins German Book Award (Historians in the News)

UNM Historian Paul Hutton to Appear on PBS' American Experience 'Wyatt Earp' (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

BRAD BIRZER: Habits of Empire (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

William Pfaff takes issue with historian Garry Wills (Historians in the News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Howard Fineman's Advice to Obama "Play a Little More Basketball." (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Most British men are descended from ancient farmers (Breaking News)

Man held over archaeological haul (UK) (Breaking News)

Viking Shipwrecks Face Ruin as Odd "Worms" Invade (Breaking News)

Evidence suggests some Mexican Indians dug up graves, dismembered bodies and reburied them (Breaking News)

Rwanda politician prompts row over genocide memorial (Breaking News)

NY Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site (Breaking News)

Joan of Ark 'Relics' confirmed to be fake (Breaking News)

Early queen's skeleton 'found in German cathedral' (Breaking News)

Skull of Medieval Pirate stolen from German Museum (Breaking News)

A twist in Getty Museum's Italian court saga (Breaking News)

Reenactment is fun, but it isn't history (Breaking News)

Iran threatens to cut cultural ties with UK over Cyrus Cylinder (Breaking News)

Lost Spanish colony in Melanesia may be found (Breaking News)

Tools point to early Cretan arrivals (Breaking News)

Zeus' altar of ashes (Breaking News)

Eadgyth: the oldest remains of an English princess (Breaking News)

Pope Tries to Soothe Tensions With Jews (Breaking News)

NAACP to again push South Carolina to remove Confederate flag from statehouse (Breaking News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: Media (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Israel in historic meeting to mark Holocaust (Breaking News)

Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left (Historians in the News)

Charles Stuart McGehee: Prominent West Virginia historian dies (Historians in the News)

Montgomery v Eisenhower: two generals at war (with Hitler and each other) (Breaking News)

Concentration camp survivor Thomas Blatt takes John Demjanjuk trial back in time (Breaking News)

Lucian Freud's black eye self-portrait expected to fetch up to 4 million pounds at Sotheby's (Breaking News)

Bring us the head of warrior killed by British centuries ago, Aborigines urge future king (Breaking News)

Gordon S. Wood Addresses W&L Founders' Day Convocation (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Scott Brown wins Massachusetts Senate special election race (Breaking News)

Vatican investigates Pope Pius XII 'miracle' (Breaking News)

Poe's mysterious vistor fails to show (Breaking News)

Conflict between historians in India over periodization (Breaking News)

Skeleton found buried at Yorkshire Museum (Breaking News)

John Demjanjuk trial: survivor speaks of nightmares about Nazi death camp (Breaking News)

Tehran slams attempts to deny Iranian history (Breaking News)

US troops issued with gun sights carrying coded references to Bible passages (Breaking News)

Black Conservatives Take Lead Role in Tea Party Movement (Breaking News)

Mystery Visitor Fails to Show Up at Edgar Allan Poe Grave (Breaking News)

Conservative Vision Ascendant In Latest TX History Textbooks Draft; Gingrich, Schlafly Back In (Breaking News)

Germany May Stage New War Crimes Trial (Breaking News)

1000-Year-Old Monument with Image of Mayan Ruler Found (Breaking News)

University of Maryland busy with 750,000 artifacts to study (Breaking News)

Glass cover for Taj Mahal graves to protect inlay (Breaking News)

Survey shows that British students think Dickens' Fagin is soccer player (Breaking News)

'Criminal' manipulation of Nietzsche by sister to make him look anti-Semitic (Breaking News)

Queen Berenike's cat goddess temple discovered in Alexandria, Egypt (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Portrait shows morbid Poe in more flattering terms (Breaking News)

Hunt for Russia's famed Amber Room leads to Nazi bunker (Breaking News)

A government genealogy service lets family history leap off the page (Breaking News)

The battle over Hawaii's history (Breaking News)

Wales joins world history project (Breaking News)

China to save its oldest cliff Buddha from collapse (Breaking News)

Pope gunman Mehmet Ali Agca freed and claims world to end this century (Breaking News)

Iraq Inquiry: Britain went to war on 'assumption' of Saddam Hussein WMD (Breaking News)

‘Messiah’ Mehmet Ali Agca hopes to cash in on Pope attack (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Haiti's Earthquake as France's Problem (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Winston Churchill cigar butt stubbed out in August 1941 up for sale (Breaking News)

Newton's Original Manuscripts Going Online (Breaking News)

Spain to extradite 'dirty war' pilot to Argentina (Breaking News)

Man who shot Pope John Paul II freed from Turkish jail (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

History of troubled ties between Haiti and the US (Breaking News)

WWII vets in Philippines still without benefits (Breaking News)

Filmmaker Lee Daniels vows biopic will not show Martin Luther King Jr. in bed with prostitute (Breaking News)

Vietnam Vet Reunites With War Buddy He Thought Was Lost (Breaking News)

Ancient arrowhead a 'chance find' at Sutherland school (Breaking News)

Pope says Vatican helped Jews during Holocaust (Breaking News)

Chemical Ali death sentence for gas attack (Breaking News)

Russian heir demands Tsar Nicholas II murder investigation (Breaking News)

Lazy, arrogant cowards: how English saw French in 12th century (Breaking News)

Pope stuck in 'Groundhog Day' scenario with Jews, expert says (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Four Years Ago... (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... January 2010 (This Week in History)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... December 2009 (This Week in History)

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

Roundup

Cambridge Exhibition Drags Spies in From the Cold (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nina Hachigian: The false promise of primacy in U.S. foreign policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Marci A. Hamilton: The Election of Scott Brown, the Newfound Power of Independents, and Why the Framers Would Be Smilings [sic] (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jim Sleeper: How the Roberts Court Announced Its Coup in September (Roundup: Media's Take)

Lawrence M. Krauss: The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking (Roundup: Media's Take)

Erwin Chemerinsky: Conservatives Embrace Judicial Activism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Erika Lee and Judy Yung: Angel Island's History Offers Lessons on Immigration Policy (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Betty Glad: The Real Jimmy Carter (Roundup: Talking About History)

Doug Bandow: Beware Crusader Temptation in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Godfrey Hodgson: It’s the Presidency, Not the President (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mark Danner: To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Martin Varisco: God is My Co-Sniper (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Hugh Fitzgerald: Lawrence of Arabia as an American Strategist? God Forbid (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Taranto: W II (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Nichols: A History of Campaign Finance (Roundup: Media's Take)

Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh: Why Military History Matters: Another Perspective (Roundup: Talking About History)

G. John Ikenberry and Charles A. Kupchan: A New Japan, a New Asia (Roundup: Media's Take)

Spencer Dew: Is the Devil a Black Man? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Following in JFK's Footsteps (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Did Obama Win the Iraq War? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Korea Times: Without Reflecting on Past, Tokyo Can't Plan Future (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Pipes: Thoughts on Tariq Ramadan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

AMC to develop miniseries on Teapot Dome scandal (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Ignatius: Haiti Quake has Parallels with Lisbon (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Barone: The Harshest Repudiation of a President Since 1974 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Our Philosopher-King Obama (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Alastair Campbell: We have learnt the wrong lessons from Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)

Oliver Kamm: Truman Myths Again (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Henniger: The Fall of the House of Kennedy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: What Scott Brown’s election portends for the Obama agenda (Roundup: Historians' Take)

John Summers: On "Masscult" and Snobbery (Roundup: Talking About History)

Bret Stephens: To Help Haiti, End Foreign Aid (Roundup: Media's Take)

Geremie R. Barmé: China's Year of Anniversaries (Roundup: Talking About History)

Gary Pierre-Pierre: Haiti's struggles originate from its blood-soaked history (Roundup: Media's Take)

Isaac Chotiner: The Legacy of Churchill (Roundup: Talking About History)

Online, It’s the Mouse That Runs the Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Mel Gibson to make Viking blockbuster (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Descendants of Göring, Eichmann speak out in Israeli documentary (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Eric Foner: Obama the Professional (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Julian Zelizer: The Myth of Republican Discipline (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Sotheby's to Offer the James S. Copley Library's Original Manuscripts (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Royal Academy of Arts Stages a Landmark Exhibition of the Work of Vincent van Gogh (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Denis MacShane: The Iraq Inquiry and the Rewriting of History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Fyodor Lukyanov: The Well of Soviet Nostalgia Is Running Dry (Roundup: Media's Take)

What does the Massachusetts election mean? (HNN Polls)

Jonathan Trembley: Mongolia Revokes the Death Penalty: A Relevant History of Capital Punishment (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Trembley: Mongolia Revokes the Death Penalty: A Relevant History of Capital Punishment (Roundup: Talking About History)

Melissa Harris-Lacewell: How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Scott Reynolds Nelson: Mad Men in the He-Cession (Roundup: Historians' Take)

William J. Astore: A Very American Coup (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: 666 to 1: The U.S. Military, al-Qaeda, and a War of Futility (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Nancy L. Cohen: 2010 as 1994? Relax, Democrats (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Aaron Miller: Obama's First Year (Roundup: Media's Take)

John L. Jackson Jr.: Hegel and Haiti (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joshua Keating: Haiti, the Unluckiest Country (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: Why I Stand with Geert Wilders (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Rosslyn Smith: The Brown-Coakley Race, 1978 Minnesota Version (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Parry: Lessons from America's Lost Decade (Roundup: Media's Take)

Roger Cohen: China Remembers the Cultural Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)

Johann N. Neem: MLK built on American tradition of organization and protest (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Cullen, Review of "Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance" by Michael Goldfarb (Simon & Schuster, 2009) (Books)

Ira Chernus: Martin Luther King's Legacy and Israel's Future (Roundup: Media's Take)

James G. Ryan. Review of Hirosoki Kuromiya's Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s (Yale University Press, 2007) (Books)

Elizabeth Dickinson: Is the Pinochet era finally over? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nick Cohen: Blair will never be branded a war criminal (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of January 10, 2010

Roundup

Forgetting a great man: Victorian historian Thomas Macaulay (Historians in the News)

U.S. Seen Returning to Big Haiti Role (Breaking News)

Maui diver finds World War II wreckage (Breaking News)

Landmines still scar the landscape of Vietnam (Breaking News)

Former Haitian dictator pledges aid in an e-mail (Breaking News)

108-year-old woman emerges as Britain's oldest first World War veteran (Breaking News)

D.M. Giangreco on NPR's Weekend Edition (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Accomplice of former SS member testifies in Nazi murder trial (Breaking News)

Did King Tut's Discoverer Steal from the Tomb? (Breaking News)

Conservatives in, Ted Kennedy out of Texas U.S. history standards (Breaking News)

Temple discovery reveals clues of Indonesia's past (Breaking News)

Medieval defences found at Edinburgh Castle (Breaking News)

Salisbury Cathedral experts uncover hidden gothic text (Breaking News)

Spielberg to make World Trade Center documentary series (Breaking News)

Aborigines to ask Prince William to return warrior’s severed head (Breaking News)

Historic Black Schools Restored as Landmarks (Breaking News)

King's FBI files may be opened to public (Breaking News)

Remains of Indigenous Abductees Back Home after 130 Years (Breaking News)

WWI museum in Kansas City receives big donation of artifacts (Breaking News)

Treatise on eugenics by Nazi Dr. Mengele among documents to be auctioned off (Breaking News)

WW1 soldiers ready for reburial (Breaking News)

Ancient coins and artefacts found in Malaysia worksite (Breaking News)

Dutch give Iraq old tablet back (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRAD BIRZER: Any good American history text books out there? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Passengers Gather to Celebrate Anniversary of Hudson River Plane Landing (Breaking News)

Former Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Nabbed in Sex Sting (Breaking News)

Russian lawmakers sneer at Yuschenko proposal to set up tribunal on Soviet regime (Ukraine) (Breaking News)

'Doomsday Clock' moves a minute back (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Mysterious Jamestown Tablet an American Rosetta Stone? (Breaking News)

Mummy Keeps Mum on Packet's Secret (Breaking News)

Netizens keep digging into tomb ownership (Breaking News)

A Revolutionary Idea in Mexico: Don't Have One This Century (Breaking News)

Greenwich Olympic equestrian venue 'breaks 1866 law' (Breaking News)

Rome's chief rabbi says that only God can judge Pius XII on Jews (Breaking News)

White House Taps Bush, Clinton to Help Lead Haiti Relief (Breaking News)

Papal Bull for Scotland's University of St. Andrews is restored (Breaking News)

Oliver Stone suggests Hitler is 'easy scapegoat' (Breaking News)

Civil War battle flags imperiled by budget cuts (Breaking News)

Salon interviews Andrew Apter about Pat Robertson embroglio (Historians in the News)

New study reveals how Israel is taught in colleges (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Show me the Money. (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Private Toll Road Competition in the Wild West (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Civil War veterans hall found on Pennsylvania farm (Breaking News)

Historian at Demjanjuk trial says escapee guards were shot (Breaking News)

Doomsday Clock to be moved for first time in two years (Breaking News)

Missing 500-Years of Loggias, Porticos Described (Breaking News)

Vandalism discovered at rock art site in Arizona (Breaking News)

Apology for thalidomide survivors (UK) (Breaking News)

Moynihan correspondence to be published (Breaking News)

Blog names 25 most influential journalists in U.S. history (Breaking News)

Historian testifies in Demjanjuk case (Historians in the News)

Gays and lesbians have been a 'despised category,’ historian says at Prop. 8 trial (Historians in the News)

Canadian history magazine gets a new name (Breaking News)

Antarctic expedition finds vintage camera parts (Breaking News)

Neanderthals Enjoyed Surf and Turf Meals (Breaking News)

Homo Erectus Invented "Modern" Living? (Breaking News)

Museum center to host lecture on Treasures of the Holy Land exhibit (Breaking News)

CASS announces top archaeological discoveries in 2009 (Breaking News)

Rare travel books make £314,800 at Edinburgh auction (Breaking News)

Dutch inquiry says Iraq war had no mandate (Breaking News)

Alastair Campbell defends 'every word' of Iraq dossier (Breaking News)

Greece shuts museums as cut backs cause staff shortage (Breaking News)

Argentina puts torturers from its past on trial (Breaking News)

Controversy over Texas textbook standards (Breaking News)

Blogs

CLAIRE B. POTTER: And Now, You Will Be Judged By History: Perry v. Schwarzenegger (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Ron Radosh on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick (Historians in the News)

Secessionist candidates run for state office in Vermont (Breaking News)

Earliest Known Hebrew Inscription Bolsters Biblical Account of David's Kingdom (Breaking News)

Concerns that Northern Ireland sex scandal will break the peace (Breaking News)

Shipworm Threatens Archaeological Treasures (Breaking News)

Coney Island strongman hit by van, dies at 104 (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: The Reid Remarks (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Stolen Monet found in Poland (Breaking News)

Century-old lawsuit for removal of Macchu-Picchu artifacts (Breaking News)

Ancient wine presses carved in stone (Malta) (Breaking News)

Palestinians find ancient coin hoard in Gaza (Breaking News)

Would-be assassin of John Paul II to be released (Breaking News)

Robert the Bruce statue in place after 130-year delay (Breaking News)

Rabbi protests beatification of WWII pope (Breaking News)

Israel Uncovers the Earliest Building Ever Found in Tel Aviv (Breaking News)

David Starkey Announces 3.3 Million Campaign to Save the Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands (Breaking News)

Murder mystery over 'Rosa the Red' (Breaking News)

Investigation into massacre which inspired 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' reopened (Breaking News)

Jordan tries to reclaim Dead Sea Scrolls (Breaking News)

We can be proud of our role in Iraq, defiant Campbell tells inquiry (Breaking News)

Auschwitz asks Britain for help to preserve decaying death camp (Breaking News)

Blair 'hid intentions for bomber's release' (Breaking News)

'One in six British 9 to 11-year olds thought Auschwitz was a theme park' (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Tenth Amendment Defense in New Jersey (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

DAVID T. BEITO: Hear John Flynn Speak (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Chicago alderman reopens 1939 gangland murder case (Breaking News)

Marriage historian testifies in Prop. 8 trial in San Francisco (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HIATUS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Yale Says Lawsuit By Peru Should Be Dismissed (Breaking News)

Sailing into antiquity (Breaking News)

Buried treasure: Ship's skeleton emerges at Washaway Beach (Breaking News)

Palestinians find ancient coin hoard in Gaza (Breaking News)

Apollo moon rocks found in Hawaii governor's office (Breaking News)

Court Reinstates Death Sentence for Ohio Neo-Nazi (Breaking News)

Passion of Jesus to be staged in Trafalgar Square this Easter (Breaking News)

'Lost' Klimt landscape to join multimillion-pound London auction (Breaking News)

Stonehenge on 'most threatened' world wonders list (Breaking News)

Richard Nixon sought 'personal relationship' with Frank Sinatra (Breaking News)

Lawyer for 'Nazi war criminal' John Demjanjuk calls for trial into murder of 27,900 Jews to be suspended (Breaking News)

How Richard Nixon wished he could make speeches like Churchill (Breaking News)

Iraq invasion 'had no legal mandate', Dutch inquiry finds (Breaking News)

Blair pledged UK to war in notes to Bush - Alastair Campbell (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DECLINE OF FREEDOM CONTINUED 2009 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Rembrandt etching found in D.C. men's room (Breaking News)

Historians, Sons, Daughters (Historians in the News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: Mises on iTunes (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Game Change: Latest Account of 2008 Campaign Full of Juicy Bits (Breaking News)

Undiscovered Civil War letters found at Connecticut museum (Breaking News)

Bits of 81 ancient bronze mirrors unearthed in Japan (Breaking News)

Civil War Preservation Trust rescues 2,777 acres of historic land in 2009 (Breaking News)

Recording of Nazi officers who found Hitler's body released (Breaking News)

Ancient map with China at centre goes on show in US (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Chart Wars: Data Visualization (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Jordan wants the Dead Sea Scrolls back from Israel (Breaking News)

Ancient hominids may have been seafarers (Breaking News)

Laminated Linen Protected Alexander the Great (Breaking News)

British Museum Postpones Sending Artifact to Iran (Breaking News)

Tate show reveals artist's pyramid theft (Breaking News)

Ihor Sevcenko, 87; professor, scholar of Byzantine era (Breaking News)

MPs to grill Salmond on Lockerbie bomber's release (Breaking News)

Controversial 'Leonardo' painting goes on sale in New York (Breaking News)

Nixon papers shed light on political espionage (Breaking News)

Woman who hid Anne Frank dead at 100 (Breaking News)

Black Civil War troops to get recognition in South Carolina (Breaking News)

Blogs

JEFF SHEAR: Part Three, Continued: Fairly and Astor, the Spy Wars (Jeff Shear's History of "Cynthia," the World War II Spy)

Roundup

Prop. 8 trial to include testimony of historians (Historians in the News)

Ph.D. Supply and Demand (Historians in the News)

Is Obama History? (Historians in the News)

Protests Over Gay Rights Greet Historians' Meeting (Historians in the News)

North Korea presses to officially end Korean War (Breaking News)

The Trials of Tony Judt (Historians in the News)

New evidence that pyramid builders were free (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Pity the Poor Private-Sector Workers (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL LESS EASY TO THREATEN/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TIME TO STAND UP TO MUSLIM INTOLERANCE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

The fate of blacks in Nazi Germany (Breaking News)

Japan to Come Clean on Secret Nuke Deals With U.S. (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Neanderthal 'make-up' containers discovered (Breaking News)

Sunk Australia WWII hospital ship Centaur: first images (Breaking News)

Royal authors battle it out to write the Diamond Jubilee biography of the Queen (Breaking News)

Gunman Who Shot Pope John Paul II Reportedly Seeking $5M Book Deal (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NOT JUST TEHRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA'S PLANNED WITHDRAWALS RECRUIT JIHADISTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

How the Alexander Mosaic was Seen in Ancient Rome (Breaking News)

In Class, Marines Learn Cultural Cost Of Conflict (Breaking News)

Atlantic City historians: A life that might die out? (Historians in the News)

What Bill Clinton allegedly told Ted Kennedy about Obama: 'A few years ago he would have been getting us coffee' (Breaking News)

New book about Scalia manages the impossible: evenhandedness (Breaking News)

19th-century French church to be torn down (Breaking News)

Obama takes a new route to opposing parts of laws (Breaking News)

Secrets revealed in Turkey revive Armenian identity (Breaking News)

Freya von Moltke, Part of a Core of Nazi Resistance, Is Dead at 98 (Breaking News)

Video of Protest at AHA (Historians in the News)

AHA Portfolio Makes Gains in the Market (Historians in the News)

Roundup

Walter Russell Mead: The Death of the West (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Kirk Bane: Review of "The Searchers" by Edward Buscombe (BFI, 2008) (Books)

Eleanor Clift: A Modern-Day LBJ? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Wilmer J. Leon III: Necessity Isn't Always Just (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sex and Gore? That’s Ancient History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Julian Zelizer: Sports and Political Oversight Do Mix (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Philip Rucker: Haiti Holds a Special Place in the Clintons' Hearts (Roundup: Media's Take)

Patrick Cockburn: America is failing Haiti – again (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Singh: Why there can't be a Nixon-to-China moment in Tehran (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew J. Bacevich: Why Can't America Win Wars? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Joan Heifetz Hollinger: Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases (HNN Videos)

Ian Thomson: Haiti: Enslaved by Its Dark History (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Air Force versus Hollywood (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Scott McLemee: History is the Devil's Scripture (Roundup: Talking About History)

Deborah Blum: Civilization on a Fault Line (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: A New Middle East Cold War? Ahmadinejad slams Saudi Arabia over Yemen, Gaza (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jo Nubian: For Ayiti (Haiti) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Obama Should Go to Haiti (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: 2010: Our Year of Decision (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Estelle Friedman: Marriage on Trial: Lawyers and Historians in Same-Sex Marriage Cases (HNN Videos)

Ronald P. Sokol: Guilt by Birth (Roundup: Media's Take)

Wesley Hogan. Reviews Kimberly L. Metcalfe, ed., In Sisterhood: The History of Camp 2 of the Alaska Native Sisterhood (Juneau, Alaska: Hazy Island Books, 2008) (Books)

James Fallows: How America Can Rise Again (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Parry: America's Historic Debt to Haiti (Roundup: Talking About History)

Richard Bernstein: Intelligence Has Its Limitations (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Pfaff: Presidential Posturing Isn't Getting the U.S Anywhere (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frederick Kagan and Christopher Harnisch: How to Apply 'Smart Power' in Yemen (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jon Wiener: Nixon and the 1969 Vietnam Moratorium (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: The Televangelist Misuse of Haiti's History (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: Making Sense of the New CIA Battlefield in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Anthony Grafton: Kindled (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Gwynne Dyer: In the Name of Allah (Roundup: Media's Take)

Samuel Helfont: The Case of Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian Zelizer: It's the Institutions, Stupid! (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tate Britain Acquires Eight Unique Works by William Blake (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Chile Opens Museum of Memory for Dirty War Victims (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thomas Rid: Cracks in the Jihad (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael J. Totten: What Baghdad Can Learn from Beirut (Roundup: Media's Take)

BBC and British Museum create program ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dilip Hiro: Iran, 1979 and 2010 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Grossberg: Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases (HNN Videos)

"Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam" Opens May 2010 in Houston (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Edmund J. Hull: Al Qaeda's Shadowland (Roundup: Media's Take)

Carl Paulus: What's Been Missed with Harry Reid's Comment (Roundup: Historians' Take)

K. M. Mehrdad: Iran and Its Revolutions (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ivan Eland: Cheney vs. Eisenhower? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Cohen: Baader-Meinhof Gang, Fading Into Oblivion (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael L. Galaty: Afghanistan is not Vietnam - but it is a lot like 1940s Albania (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Lind: The Case for Economic Rights (Roundup: Media's Take)

Great Moments in Pop Music History: Long John Baldry, “Got My Mojo Workin” (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

What do you think of the filibuster? (HNN Polls)

Painting Once Thought to be by Leonardo Up for Auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jon Wiener: Obama's Secrecy Problem (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Eliot A. Cohen: Taking the Measure of Obama's Foreign Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ron Briley: Review of William L. O'Neill, A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001 (Books)

Victor Davis Hanson: Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Oliver Stone's 'Secret History' to put Hitler 'in context' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nikolas K. Gvosdev: The Realist Prism ... Barack W. Obama Revisited (Roundup: Media's Take)

Abby Rumsey: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age? (HNN Videos)

Anthony Grafton: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age? (HNN Videos)

James W. Cortada: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age? (HNN Videos)

Protest at the AHA (HNN Videos)

Week of January 3, 2010

Roundup

Protesters Picket Hyatt, AHA (Historians in the News)

At the AHA in San Diego (Historians in the News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: The Ford Conundrum (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Prehistoric Jewelry Reveals Neanderthal Fashion Sense (Breaking News)

Giuliani: No domestic terror attacks under Bush (Breaking News)

Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive? (Breaking News)

English invasion 'threatens French language more than Nazis did' (Breaking News)

Ahmadinejad Demands Compensation for WWII Invasion (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: James Coleman (Founder of Weather Channel) on Global Warming "Scam" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

AHA report: Put on a giant smiley-face mask, if you have to (Historians in the News)

Blogs

BRETT HOLMAN: To-day and to-morrow (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Relations between AHA and Committee for LGBT History strained by annual meeting (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Cliopatria Awards, 2009 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Historians Throw the Book(s) at Google (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ELVIS WOULD HAVE BEEN 75 TODAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Archaeologists claim discovery of oldest Hebrew writing (Breaking News)

15th-century relic discovered in Haveri (India) (Breaking News)

Iraqi archaeologists find ancient Sumerian settlement (Breaking News)

Belfast victorian demolition site quashed (Breaking News)

'Bargain 'lost' Chagall painting goes on display (Breaking News)

France to set up new court to investigate genocide (Breaking News)

Cleopatra's eye make-up 'had health benefits' (Breaking News)

Yuri Gagarin death mystery solved after 40 years (Breaking News)

Norwegian newspaper reprints Prophet Mohammed cartoons (Breaking News)

Liberty Head 1913 nickel sells for £2.3m (Breaking News)

Publisher Renames Joseph Conrad Classic 'The N-word of the Narcissus' (Breaking News)

Scientology Claims Lost Hubbard Works Restored (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FIRST YEMENIS CAME FOR SOLDIERS, THEN CIVILIANS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Le Vieux Lion roars again among a generation hungry for greatness (Breaking News)

Japan raises POW hopes by opening wartime archives (Breaking News)

Lord Lloyd-Webber foundation settles Nazi confiscation dispute over £33m Picasso (Breaking News)

Mexican government says Starbucks owes for using pre-Hispanic images on coffee mugs (Breaking News)

Ancient city of Amos (Turkey) to serve tourism (Breaking News)

In Ukraine, movement to honor members of WWII underground sets off debate (Breaking News)

Is Google Good for History? (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN JARRETT: Darn climate sceptics! get out of my field! (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

American Historical Association Annual Meeting begins today amidst controversy (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

'Slap In The Face'? Word 'Negro' Appears On 2010 Census Forms (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Rise of the Mathletes (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

San Diego Tsunami (Historians in the News)

Smaller AHA This Year (Historians in the News)

More Labor Pains at the AHA (Historians in the News)

Sympathetic Labor Pains for Recent Ph.Ds (Historians in the News)

Checking in on the AHA? (Historians in the News)

Who's a Historian to the AHA? (Historians in the News)

Marc Bousquet to Robert Townsend: Huh? (Historians in the News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: L&P Bloggers in Phoenix (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Past war offers Afghanistan lessons. And it's not Vietnam (Breaking News)

Tiny Dinosaur Creates Paleontology Puzzle (Breaking News)

Some "Non-Avian Feathered Dinosaurs" May Have Been Birds (Breaking News)

Viral phenomenon: Ancient microbe invaded human DNA (Breaking News)

Cao gets a makeover (Breaking News)

Historians embroiled in present-day battle (San Diego) (Breaking News)

Tributes paid to historian who honoured William Wallace (Breaking News)

Australia's Robin Hood 'attended his own funeral' (Breaking News)

Historians embroiled in present-day battle (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MUMBAI 2008; SRINAGAR 2010 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Chromatic Palette of Mexica Sculptural Art Identified (Breaking News)

Preserving History in the San Fernando Valley (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WITCH DOCTOR ADMITS TO CHILD SACRIFICE IN UGANDA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TYPICAL, THOUGH TOO EARLY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

In those retrospectives of the past 10 years the media largely overlooked historians (Historians in the News)

Chamberlain's 'peace for our time' flight ticket to 1938 meeting with Hitler goes under the hammer (Breaking News)

Chicago Man Admits he Sold Bogus Picassos on eBay (Breaking News)

West repeating mistakes of the past in Afghanistan says ex-commander (Breaking News)

Northern Irish loyalist group disarms (Breaking News)

Prince Charles 'should face Iraq inquiry' (Breaking News)

Blair adviser poses Machiavellian question (Breaking News)

Britain 'negotiated truce before leaving Basra' (Breaking News)

Cardinal says Christian Europe is to blame for Islamisation (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

KEITH HALDERMAN: Hopefully this is the Start of a Trend (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Lighthouse trust puts rare books up for sale (Scotland) (Breaking News)

The medical secret behind Mona Lisa's smile? (Breaking News)

'Flaws' in key Lockerbie evidence (Breaking News)

Swedes 'masterminded Auschwitz sign theft' (Breaking News)

Mich. High School Students in Trouble for Twin Towers Shirts (Breaking News)

Suspect in Holocaust Museum shooting dies (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JIHAD AND GENOCIDE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

First American to die in Afghanistan, Nathan Chapman, remembered eight years later (Breaking News)

Davy Crockett's Marriage License Application at Center of Florida Court Battle (Breaking News)

Iraqi police seize artifacts amid smuggling fears (Breaking News)

Obama's Oval Office gets history makeover (Breaking News)

Survivor of 2 Atomic Bombs Dies at 93 (Breaking News)

Ex-Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov fights his last World War Two battle (Breaking News)

DNA analysed from early European (Breaking News)

Ancient tomb remains a mystery (China) (Breaking News)

Photos reveal Barack Obama's Oval Office (Breaking News)

GOP Chief: Republicans 'Screwed Up' After Reagan (Breaking News)

Britons to Get Extra Holiday for Queen's Diamond Jubilee (Breaking News)

Human Skull Linked to Yale Secret Society to Be Sold (Breaking News)

Blogs

RACHEL LEOW: Review: Singapore, A Biography (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Unique Canadian plane expected to fetch $1M in auction (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DEMOCRACIES TILTS TOWARDS AUTOCRATIC CHINA, IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

AEON J. SKOBLE: Disney anti-Nazi film (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JONATHAN JARRETT: Know Ye Not That We Shall Judge Politicians? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Ihor Sevcenko, Byzantine and Slavic Scholar, Dies at 87 (Historians in the News)

"Lost" Amazon Complex Found; Shapes Seen by Satellite (Breaking News)

Egypt archaeologists discover huge tomb near Cairo (Breaking News)

Obama effigy hanged in Jimmy Carter's home town (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

DAVID T. BEITO: Historians Against the War (For Progressives Only, Libertarians Not Welcome) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: How Government Grows (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WE ARE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: “Harvard absolutely declines Einstein” (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT HIGGS: Regime Uncertainty - Now Maybe People Will Take the Idea Seriously (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Interviewing at the AHA (Historians in the News)

Serving a Father by Bringing Long-Lost Koreans Home (Breaking News)

Voice of Disneyland's Lincoln takes criticism (Breaking News)

Moors give up ancient secret (Breaking News)

100 Years Ago: The Amazing Technology of 1910 (Breaking News)

Remains of historic S. Ind. mill possibly found (Breaking News)

Children of Blackshirt women live with shame (UK) (Breaking News)

US appeals court upholds Moussaoui conviction for 9/11 (Breaking News)

Egypt archaeologists discover huge tomb near Cairo (Breaking News)

Civil rights hero caught in corruption probe to begin serving sentence (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: "A Culture That Is Utterly Incapable of Valuing Liberty" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA - ONE YEAR LATER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Entitlement U.S.A.: Colleges as Attendance Centers (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Troubling News on Job Market for History PhDs (Breaking News)

Twitter feed to replay JFK's 1960 campaign (Breaking News)

A Grim Year on the Academic Job Market for Historians (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA HAS NOT KEPT HOMELAND SAFE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

New Chile museum dedicated to dictator's 31,000 victims (Breaking News)

1959: The Year That Changed Everything (Breaking News)

Sir John Major criticises Tony Blair over Iraq war (Breaking News)

Serbia Arrests War Crimes Suspect Wanted in 19 Killings (Breaking News)

Survivor of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Dies at Age 107 (Breaking News)

Nazi Resister Freya von Moltke Dies in Vermont (Breaking News)

Historian claims to have finally identified wartime 'Man Who Never Was' (Historians in the News)

Renowned Historian Claims Abraham Lincoln was Not Gay (Historians in the News)

FDR kept deadly disease hidden for years (Breaking News)

Children of Blackshirt women live with shame (Breaking News)

Historian claims to have finally identified wartime 'Man Who Never Was' (UK) (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Jim Cullen: Review of "Wolf Hall: A Novel" by Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt, 2009) (Books)

Jonathan L. Walton: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections (HNN Videos)

Jennifer Manion: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections (HNN Videos)

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman: What Has Obama Learned from History? (HNN Videos)

Jason Scott Smith: What Has Obama Learned from History? [Excerpt] (HNN Videos)

Julian Zelizer: What Has Obama Learned from History? (HNN Videos)

Paul Duguid: Is Google Good for History? (HNN Videos)

Daniel Cohen: Is Google Good for History? (HNN Videos)

History of "Berlin" on BBC TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Stephen P. Cohen: Take a tip from Eisenhower, Truman on the Mideast (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Kagan: Obama's Year of Failed Diplomacy (Roundup: Media's Take)

75 Bits of Elvisiana in Honor of Elvis Presley’s 75th Birthday (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Tremblay: The Vatican Reveals Secret Documents: Selling off History (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Paul Wolfowitz: Wahid and the Voice of Moderate Islam (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Greenberg: The Honeymooners (Roundup: Historians' Take)

UK National Portrait Gallery Commissions New Painting of Prince William and Prince Harry (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jeffrey Lord: The War of the Presidents ... Reagan Battles Obama in 2010 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tara McKelvey: Remembrances of Battles (Roundup: Media's Take)

Princeton N. Lyman: Paying the Price for Apartheid (Roundup: Talking About History)

John B. Judis: Barack Obama, You Remind Me of Herbert Hoover (Roundup: Talking About History)

Michael Lind: The Clintonites Were Wrong (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Kennedy: A Trainspotter's Guide to the Future of the World (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: An American World of War: What to Watch for in 2010 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Paul Krugman: That 1937 Feeling (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ben Macintyre: Heroes of the moral resistance against Hitler (Roundup: Talking About History)

Devlin Leonard: A Writerly Approach to the Financial Crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tolstoy Recalled Fondly in Chechen Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Small Museum Captures a Rare Chagall (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History -- Edited by Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, and Adam Rothman (Books About History & Historians)

Thomas Fleming: Prohibition: A Cautionary Tale (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Walter Russell Mead: Obama's Carter Syndrome (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Warren Beatty 'has slept with 12,775 women' biography claims (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John McGlynn: Japan, Israeli Settlements, and the Future of a Palestinian State (Roundup: Media's Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Blame Game Won't Stop Terrorism (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Mark Franchetti: Can the West avoid Russia's fate in Afghanistan? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Christopher Hitchens: The Death of Theocracy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of December 27, 2009

Roundup

Myths of the American Revolution (Breaking News)

Local officials taking inventory of bomb and fallout shelters (LA) (Breaking News)

Trawler war rescue commemorated (UK) (Breaking News)

Arabia takes the New Silk Road to China, spurning the West (Breaking News)

Relatives of Lockerbie victims begin new legal fight for public inquiry (Breaking News)

Desperate for Edge in Election Year, Dems Turn to Old Strategy (Breaking News)

Somali Man Charged With Attempted Murder for Attack on Cartoonist (Breaking News)

Relic of Antarctica's first plane found on ice-edge (Breaking News)

Vatican reveals Secret Archives (Breaking News)

Department of Interior lax in care of museum collections, report says (Breaking News)

Israeli historian outlines two-state plan (Historians in the News)

IMF economist and historian Margaret Garritsen deVries passes at the age of 87 (Historians in the News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: John Crace Saves You Having to Read Next Year's Memoirs (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

Roundup

Relic reveals Noah's ark was circular (Breaking News)

Historians chew over mystery of old tooth from Boleyn home (UK) (Breaking News)

Margaret Garritsen deVries, 87; IMF economist and historian (Breaking News)

New Year honour for Lockerbie councillor (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Events planned to mark death of poet Tannahill (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Belfast Auschwitz survivor Helen Lewis dies aged 93 (Breaking News)

Great Orpheus Roman mosaic replica up for sale (UK) (Breaking News)

Degas artwork stolen from museum (Breaking News)

Argentina media heirs take DNA test in Dirty War abduction row (Breaking News)

Lessons learned from 9/11 terrorist attacks? (Breaking News)

Special relationship with UK stronger than ever, says US ambassador (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: Your Alma Mater Wants Your Money (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

AEON J. SKOBLE: 2010 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Looking Forward to the 124th Annual Meeting in San Diego (Historians in the News)

How the Byzantines dealt with Werewolves (Breaking News)

Army Historians Find Early Missteps in Afghanistan (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAPPY 2010 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

The Atlantic: Five predictions of the past decade we'd like to take back (Breaking News)

Creative impulses: A history of the world in 100 objects (Breaking News)

Debunking the Myth of Lady Jane Grey (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: I'm a Winner! (Black Maverick and From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

Roundup

Coin tossing through the ages (Breaking News)

Below Berlin, Tours of Another World (Breaking News)

Court: Vatican Bank can't be tried in U.S. for storing Nazi loot (Breaking News)

Uncovered relics may point to 197-year-old battle’s location (Texas) (Breaking News)

700-year-old stone cross found in England (Breaking News)

Ten years at the top for Vladimir Putin (Breaking News)

At 90, a legal legend rests his case (Breaking News)

Wilberg Coal Mine Disaster Remembered (Utah) (Breaking News)

Daniel Pipes: Why did Nidal Hasan Read the Middle-East Forum? (Historians in the News)

Liverpool celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of William Gladstone (UK) (Breaking News)

Serb official quits over failure to capture war criminal (Breaking News)

Neo-Nazi bomb plot linked to Auschwitz sign theft (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Thirteen Outstanding Books of the Past Decade (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Executive Order Reduces Total Of Classified Papers (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NOT JUST TEHRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Hammams: sweating, scrubbing and socializing (Breaking News)

Historical Bath promoted thanks to new UNESCO website (Breaking News)

Anglo Irish Agreement civil servant Dermot Nally dies (Breaking News)

Picasso toy guitar found in Italy (Breaking News)

Former Indonesian President Wahid dies (Breaking News)

Orwell's birthplace to be saved from decay (Breaking News)

Poland to ask Sweden for help over theft of Auschwitz sign (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Cheney: Obama pretending 'we are not at war' (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SYSTEM WORKED; OBAMASPHERICS FAILED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Mayan Text Details Blood Sacrifices (Breaking News)

More on the discovery of Cao Cao's tomb (Breaking News)

Lady Thatcher opposed official recognition of MI6 (Breaking News)

Files show US-UK tensions over Northern Ireland in 1979 (Breaking News)

Auschwitz hero Denis Avey in line for Israeli honour (Breaking News)

Japan planned 'karate ladies' escort for Thatcher (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: History Carnivals in 2010 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Plagiarism charges leveled against New Zealand historian (Historians in the News)

Tony Judt writes publicly about his battle with Lou Gehrig's disease (Historians in the News)

Historian Dan Cohen laments small number of panels on digital history at the AHA convention (Historians in the News)

Biography of Macaulay published (Historians in the News)

National Coalition for History appeals for funds (Historians in the News)

Historians & economists predict high unemployment for the next 10 years may profoundly change America (Historians in the News)

Historian, author and journalist Stanley Hoig, was 85 (Historians in the News)

Did Elephants doom the Norse in Greenland? (Breaking News)

Beneath Texas sands, a historic ranch awaits funding for preservation (Breaking News)

Obama's America remembers Lincoln (Breaking News)

China refers to controversial Opium Wars with Britain (Breaking News)

Detroit terror attack: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab 'defended 9/11' (Breaking News)

Poland Probes Swedish Link in Auschwitz Sign Theft (Breaking News)

Navy Officer Who Survived USS Cole Bombing Dies in Florida (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BLOODY, HOPEFUL (but for oil prices), IRANIAN ASHURA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

STEVEN HORWITZ: Another Old Picture (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

The Nobel judge who hobnobbed with Nazis (Breaking News)

A Report Card on Obama's First Year (Time Mag.) (Breaking News)

AHA Convention: Leading Historians to Address Changing Ideas of Marriage and Family Across Time and Place (Historians in the News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Let's Hear It for Gladstone! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

C.J. MALONEY: A Most Demanding Mistress (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Ancient Mayans Likely Had Fountains and Toilets (Breaking News)

More Money for Auschwitz After Theft of Sign (Breaking News)

Sunken treasure case headed to federal appeals court (Tampa Bay) (Breaking News)

Pope's 15th Century letter saved (Breaking News)

Pocket watch given to Edward VIII by Wallis Simpson to be auctioned (Breaking News)

Percy Sutton, trailblazing businessman, dies at 89 (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : ISRAEL ENACTED NEW US REGULATIONS MONTHS AGO/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : GAZA REALITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

TMZ Falls For JFK Photo Hoax (Breaking News)

Sigmund Freud saved by Nazi admirer (Breaking News)

How 1989 brought an end to the Cold War: Legacy (Breaking News)

Turkey seeks return of Santa Claus' bones (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Some of the Most Iconic Photographs Ever Taken are Tinged by Controversy over Being Staged or Altered (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: Standing Up to the TSA (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Liverpool exhibition to mark Gladstone's bicentenary (Breaking News)

The accidental Afghan war veteran (Breaking News)

Last Kon-Tiki raft crewman Knut Haugland dies (Breaking News)

Archaeologists believe tomb belongs to notorious general Cao Cao (China) (Breaking News)

Mystery No More: Scholar Finds Clue to van Gogh's Ear (Breaking News)

His Specialty? Making Old New York Talk in Dutch (Historians in the News)

Might the voters reject healthcare reform after it's passed? (Breaking News)

Watergate's Role in the Health Overhaul (Breaking News)

Czech Wounds Still Open, Communists Face a Ban (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : ANOTHER ROUND - (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

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

Roundup

Max Hastings: Stalin would have shot the bankers for their greed (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ray Neff: My Response to Steers & Chaconas and McPherson (HNN News Archives)

Edward P Djerejian: The Radical Legacy of 1979 (Roundup: Talking About History)

Orwell's Birthplace Will Be Restored (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Oral Histories: Wisconsin Holocaust Survivors [24 Audio clips] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Jeremy Warner: We forget the lessons of the past at our peril (Roundup: Talking About History)

In Remembrance: Vivid Personalities of a Decade (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Yoram Ettinger: In defiance of demographic fatalism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Kishore Mahbubani: Can America Fail? (Roundup: Talking About History)

America in Black and White: The Americans Revisited (Exhibit/NYC) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Last Meal: NY's Tavern on the Green restaurant dies (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Kim Long: Rare Moons (On the Occasion of the Year-Ending Blue Moon of 2009) (Roundup: Talking About History)

“The Art of Russia” on BBC TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Historian/Documentary Editor, Joseph Smith Papers Project (Jobs)

Paul Kennedy: Rome offers Obama a lesson in limits (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tim Rutten: Jihadism and the Cold War (Roundup: Media's Take)

George Walden: Before Preaching, Remember the Opium Wars (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: The Origins of Obamism (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power By Robert E. Sullivan (Books About History & Historians)

Jack Hunter: Obama Is Like Clinton -- And Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gabriel Schoenfeld: British anti-Semitism returns with a vengeance (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Top Ten Middle East Crises, 2009 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Leslie H. Gelb: Obama's Jimmy Carter Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Laskin: Jimmy Carter and the Politics of Apology (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes & Wafa Sultan: Moderate Islam: Western Ally or Western Myth? - A Debate (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David Swanson: An Avatar Awakening (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Daniel Martin Varisco: Grinding a Greater Axis of Evil (Roundup: Talking About History)

Niall Ferguson: The decade the world tilted east (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Julian E. Zelizer: Four new Kings on the Hill in Washington (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Dropping the ball on Times Square (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Grown-Up War Story for a Nation Weary of War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Deadly Style: Bauhaus's Nazi Connection (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Week of December 20, 2009

Roundup

Crossing the Delaware: Defense contractor funds GW re-enactment (Breaking News)

NYT profiles New Deal towns set up to save people from starving (Breaking News)

Passions over 'prosperity gospel': Was Jesus wealthy? (Breaking News)

Asia marks fifth anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

DAVID T. BEITO: More Light on Possible U.S. War Crimes During World War II (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Venomous Dinosaur Discovered--Shocked Prey Like Snake? (Breaking News)

Early Whale Was Dwarf Mud-Sucker, Fossils Hint (Australia) (Breaking News)

Scribe writes Torah atop emblematic Masada fortress (Israel) (Breaking News)

Opening of President's House pushed back (Philadelphia) (Breaking News)

Major-General Miloslav Kaspar (Breaking News)

Battle of the Bulge barracks facing closure (Breaking News)

Chinese dissident's jailing draws international anger (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Season's Greetings (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Photograph of Jesus (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: How Dark Were the Dark Ages? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Irish pensioner finds Santa letter sent 70 years ago (Breaking News)

Captain of Jewish immigrant ship the Exodus dies (Breaking News)

China dissident Liu Xiaobo tried for subversion (Breaking News)

Vatican tries to calm anger over Pope Pius XII (Breaking News)

Auschwitz sign 'stolen to fund Swedish terror attacks' (Breaking News)

Son: Venezuelan Ex-President Caldera Dead at 93 (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: James Hansen Answers His Own Question (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Ex-President Carter offers apology to Jews (Breaking News)

Perplexity After Auschwitz Sign Theft (Breaking News)

Vatican justifies beatification of wartime pope (Breaking News)

12 Days of Gift-Giving Cost True Love $21,466 (Breaking News)

AHA annual convention will feature many politically relevant panels (Historians in the News)

Ancient Mayans Likely Had Fountains and Toilets (Breaking News)

Iraq inquiry reveals chaos that led Britain to war (Breaking News)

Cleopatra's mausoleum discovered (Breaking News)

Ceausescu was blind to his fate (Breaking News)

Ceausescu: 'The day I shot a dictator' (Breaking News)

Former member of German leftist militant group to be released (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

ROBERT HIGGS: The State of Our Affairs: Seven Haiku (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MERRY CHRISTMAS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: INDIAN GIRL IN 1956 BUDAPEST (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MASS MURDERER ON OBAMA HOUSE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

French WWII babies shed shame, find roots (Breaking News)

The saintly spirit of Father Christmas (Breaking News)

Blogs

BRETT HOLMAN: After; and before? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Gordon Wood: Empire and Liberty, then and now (Historians in the News)

Historian of the Future? (Historians in the News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Untrustworthy Chase Bank (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

State Dept Series Falls Farther Behind Schedule (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : CONGRESS TO IGNORE CITIZENS' WILL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Sixty Headless Skeletons -- 3,000 Years Old -- Discovered in Pacific Ocean Archipelago Vanuatu (Breaking News)

Builders Unearth a Mystery in Times Square (Breaking News)

Auschwitz security to be tightened after theft (Breaking News)

Team finds Australian hospital ship sunk in WW2 (Breaking News)

Happy Birthday, Joe: Russia's Rehabilitation of Stalin (Breaking News)

A decade that left a mark on U.S. history (Breaking News)

Lithuania hosted secret CIA prisons (Breaking News)

Germany refuses to return Nefertiti bust to Egypt (Breaking News)

Shakespeare was a 'secret Catholic' new exhibition shows (Breaking News)

French king's mistress poisoned by gold elixir (Breaking News)

Book: Osama bin Laden came within minutes of killing Bill Clinton (Breaking News)

Tsunami survivor: Baby brought me luck (Breaking News)

Centenarian honored by Obama dies (Breaking News)

Ceausescu draws tourists 20 years after firing squad (Breaking News)

The Sassoon Archive's new home (UK) (Breaking News)

Gilad Atzmon: Auschwitz yet Again (Historians in the News)

Longtime historian Eliza Stewart passes away at 89 (Historians in the News)

Kansas City WWI museum gains new artifacts for its collection (Breaking News)

Obama plan could limit secret documents from WW2 and Cold War (Breaking News)

3D Nazi propaganda to be auctioned (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Hope and Change: Prime Mortgage Defaults Up in Third Quarter (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Auschwitz sign theft 're-enacted' by three suspects (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

ROBERT HIGGS: The Supreme Court Has Spoken: You Have No Rights (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: The Velvet Revolution: 1989 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

British Newspapers Misquote German Hitler Researcher (Breaking News)

Relatives of Holocaust victims tell of their grief in Demjanjuk trial (Breaking News)

British Army 'waterboarded' suspects in 70s (Breaking News)

Steven Spielberg buys rights to War Horse (Breaking News)

Pope visit to synagogue in doubt (Breaking News)

'Low-ranking airline worker' al-Megrahi had 1.8 million pounds in Swiss bank account before Lockerbie bomb conviction (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN CONTINUES TO BOIL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

LESTER HUNT: Avatar (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DISHONORABLE REPORTER ON A DISHONORABLE SURVIVOR (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

First Jesus-Era House Found in Nazareth (Breaking News)

Poland police question men over stolen Auschwitz sign (Breaking News)

Chavez seeks to rename Venezuela's Angel Falls (Breaking News)

Current Decade Rated As Worse In 50 Years (Breaking News)

Russia's Communists mark Stalin's birthday (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: Of Social Snowflakes (re-post) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

C.J. MALONEY: Automatic for the People... (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

NYT Interactive Timeline: Science and Politics of Climate Change (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

ROBERT HIGGS: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in U.S. Contracts in Afghanistan (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Vikki Bynum vs. John Stauffer: The debate turns ugly (Historians in the News)

British nun on road to sainthood (Breaking News)

Bomber's condition 'deteriorates' (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews 'stemmed from First World War' (Breaking News)

Poland Tightens Border in Hunt for Auschwitz Sign (Breaking News)

Lockerbie Bomber Had Secret Swiss Bank Account (Breaking News)

Stash of obscene etchings discovered inside UK Ministry of Justice (Breaking News)

Rise of British middle classes in 18th, 19th centuries shaped wine industry (Breaking News)

Underwater robots make underwater archaeology easier, cheaper (Breaking News)

Spirit level: Review of Nicholas Wade's "The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures" (Breaking News)

La fin de l'histoire: Enough of history in France's school curriculum, decides the state (Breaking News)

Christmas has long been a time for gluttony (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SNOWE: HEALTHCARE BILL IS LEGISLATIVE INSANITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

HNN : DRAMA- OBAMA IN COPENHAGEN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Stanford technology helps scholars get 'big picture' of the Enlightenment (Historians in the News)

Blogs

HNN : HAPPY HOLIDAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Juan Cole's blog is now an iPhone App (Historians in the News)

Five years later, the tsunami remembered (Breaking News)

Team Finds Australian Hospital Ship Sunk in WW2 (Breaking News)

U.S. Prison Population to Drop for First Time in 4 Decades (Breaking News)

Looking Back Two Decades On Managing The Greater Yellowstone Ecoystem (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Jim Cullen: Review of Ken Auletta's "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" (Penguin, 2009) (Books)

Daniel Pipes: Some Common Sense in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Neve Gordon: Breaking Palestine's peaceful protest (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jordan Michael: What the Soviets Learned in Afghanistan (Roundup: Talking About History)

Movie Review: "Glorious 39" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David Stokes: Christmas Coming In From The Cold (Roundup: Talking About History)

Steve Plaut: Sir Winston a war criminal? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: New war on Christmas? Not so new after all (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Martin Wolf: How the noughties were a hinge of history (Roundup: Talking About History)

Amatzia Baram and Robert J. Lieber: Preventing nuclear war between Iran and Israel would be more difficult than between the US and USSR (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tom Engelhardt: In Nightmares Begin Responsibilities: Why War Will Take No Holiday in 2010 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Moshe Dann: One Pakistan is enough (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ron Briley reviews Robert V. Wells's Life Flows On in Endless Song (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009). (Books)

Maziar Bahari: The Legacy of the People's Ayatollah (Roundup: Talking About History)

Juan Cole: Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Meyer: Death of Ceausescu, 20 Years On (Roundup: Talking About History)

Cristian Segura: China's Rehabilitation of Chiang Kai-shek (Roundup: Talking About History)

Sasha Polakow-Suransky: Early conflicts over colonialism and genocide explain many of the United Nations' modern-day failures. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Nazir-Ali: We Must Not Leave Afghanistan Yet (Roundup: Media's Take)

Adam Clymer: A Bill Fit for a Kennedy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nikolas K. Gvosdev: A Bismarckian Approach for U.S. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jordan Michael Smith: How Panama Invasion Paved the Way for Iraq (Roundup: Talking About History)

Martin Fletcher: Somalia is greatest victim of President Bush’s War on Terror (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jack D. Elliott Jr.: Should American Heritage be Preserved? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Edwin Black: Mesopotamia: Robbing the Cradle (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tanaka Sakai and Gavan McCormack: Japanese Bureaucrats Hide Decision to Move All US Marines out of Okinawa to Guam (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Rebecca Solnit, Earth, Too Big to Fail? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sheldon H. Laskin: The Individual Mandate: An Unconstitutional Exercise of Congressional Power (Roundup: Media's Take)

Luther Spoehr: Review of John Milton Cooper's Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (Knopf, 2009) (Books)

Alex Tallarida: RN, A Man Before His Time On Healthcare (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jack A. Smith: Afghanistan ... It’s Not a Just War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tony Platt: Review of Douglas Cazaux Sackman's Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America (Books)

Clare Spark: Assimilation and citizenship in a democratic republic (Roundup: Talking About History)

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama and the Malleability of History (Roundup: Historians' Take)

A gold elixir of youth in the 16th century French court [video 12 minutes] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Week of December 13, 2009

Blogs

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Is Scandal Inevitable when Scientists Become Activists? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Silvio Berlusconi has had a Mussolini moment, thanks to the man who attacked him (Breaking News)

Wartime Pope Pius XII moved step closer to sainthood, despite Jewish objections (Breaking News)

Las Vegas Teacher Accused of Denying Holocaust (Breaking News)

F.B.I. Accused of Abuse of Power in Clinton Case (Breaking News)

Blogs

TIMOTHY FURNISH: The Islamization of American Network TV?! (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)

Roundup

The Palin Wonder (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Study finds cereal is much older than we thought (Breaking News)

Bones find from abandoned village 'show tough life of medieval women' (UK) (Breaking News)

Century-old butter found in Scott's Antarctic hut (Breaking News)

Voice of Disneyland's Lincoln takes criticism (Breaking News)

Knight's tale artworks stay in UK (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Typhoid Mary and other curiosities in Irish biography (Breaking News)

Churchill's unpaid India bill on show (Breaking News)

Rwanda genocide tribunal ICTR extended until 2012 (Breaking News)

Khieu Samphan, the Khmer Rouge's 'naive' head of state (Breaking News)

Monica Lewinsky says Bill Clinton lied, new book claims (Breaking News)

Auschwitz sign stolen 'by neo-Nazis' (Breaking News)

Josef Stalin defaced drawings with rude comments (Breaking News)

John Paul II closes in on sainthood at a miraculous pace (Breaking News)

Martial Arts Organization Defends Ban on Nazi-Like Apparel (US) (Breaking News)

Bill to Increase the NHPRC's Reauthorization is Derailed in the Senate (Historians in the News)

How did King Harold die at the Battle of Hastings? (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: EMIGRE DILEMMA: FROM AYN RAND TO MOSHEN SAZEGARA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Ancient Book of Mark Found Not So Ancient After All (Breaking News)

Monument Lifted From Cleopatra's Underwater City (Breaking News)

US man freed by DNA evidence after 35 years in prison (Breaking News)

Auschwitz death camp sign stolen (Breaking News)

Obama's 2010 Challenge: Wake Up Liberals, Calm Down Independents (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: John Kennedy O'Hara (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: British Notes & Randy Thoughts (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JANE S. SHAW: Maverick and Hero (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: U.S. Support for Drug Dealers (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THIS IS HOW I/WE FEEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

LESTER HUNT: Capitalism vs. Tiger Woods (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT HIGGS: Higgs is Just a Pessimist (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

STEVEN HORWITZ: My New FreemanOnline Column (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN CONUNDRUM GOES ON/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Harvard Archaeologists Find Traces of 17th-Century Indian College in the Yard (Breaking News)

Why Humans Outlive Apes (Breaking News)

Genocide charges for two former Khmer Rouge leaders (Breaking News)

Dr Zahi Hawass: Britain must return Rosetta stone to Egypt (Breaking News)

Lorca's civil war grave found empty (Spain) (Breaking News)

Shroud from Jesus' era found, researchers say (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA ACTIVISM, NOT ‘FAT CATS,’ CAUSE UNEMPLOYMENT /updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WHO KNEW SENATOR HATCH HAD IT IN HIM? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

SCOTT MCLEMEE: Decade Ends (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Congress maintaining history budgets (Historians in the News)

20 questions: Historian Thomas Fleming (Historians in the News)

Historians seek $1.5M for Tecumseh memorial (Historians in the News)

Blogs

GIL TROY: Name That Decade: the '00s, the Whatever Decade (Gil Troy)

Roundup

The John Hope Franklin File: FBI Looked At Esteemed Historian For Communist Ties (Historians in the News)

'Out West' at the Autry examines the history of homosexuals and transgender people in the Old West (Breaking News)

4,000-year-old flowers found at Bronze Age dig (Scotland) (Breaking News)

Ripper's letters to be auctioned (UK) (Breaking News)

Turkey finds 39 leftists guilty after 28-year trial (Breaking News)

Venezuela flood victims still live in ruins 10 years on (Breaking News)

Dickens toothpick fetches $9,000 in New York auction (Breaking News)

China rejects calls to release dissident Liu Xiaobo (Breaking News)

Tea Party Movement Evolves Into Political Force With Eye Toward 2010 (Breaking News)

Year One As President Worthy Of B+: Obama (Breaking News)

Millions of 'lost' Bush emails recovered (Breaking News)

'Obscene' Gillray cartoons shown after 170 years (Breaking News)

The legend of Mitterrand’s opposition to German reunification (Breaking News)

Diplomat urges UK to 'avoid' Iraq mistakes in future (Breaking News)

Bonnie Prince Charlie may not be all it seems, says UK gallery (Breaking News)

How the Nazis stole Christmas (Breaking News)

UK courts "irresponsible" for trying to publish US intelligence says Foreign Secretary (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Congressional Oral History Sites (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JONATHAN J. BEAN: “Not-So-Silent”: Coolidge and Civil Rights (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Ancient Babylonian city left unattended in Iraq (Breaking News)

Lost dream restored to Japanese American family (Breaking News)

Russia(n) is back (Breaking News)

Natural History to exhibit rare blue diamond (Breaking News)

History Channel plans scripted Kennedys miniseries (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

DAVID T. BEITO: New Dealers for the Second Amendment (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Ancient Amazon civilisation laid bare by felled forest (Breaking News)

Wild Dingoes Remember Human Gestures (Breaking News)

Did Ancient Sicilians Build Temples to 'Fit In?' (Breaking News)

Viking Weapon-Recycling Site Found in England? (Breaking News)

Gin and Titonic ice tray makers in deep water for making light of Titanic sinking (UK) (Breaking News)

Bidder scoops 'castle Christmas' (UK) (Breaking News)

Film-makers dispatch historian to the fence over distorted history (Australia) (Breaking News)

Hamas celebrates 22nd anniversary since founding (Breaking News)

France Returns Disputed Wall Paintings to Egypt (Breaking News)

Plaque That Marked Revolution's Start Stolen (Boston) (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Paul A. Samuelson, 1915-2009 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

When Branding Was Fit for a King (Breaking News)

Father Christmas 'buried in Ireland' (Breaking News)

Charles Darwin had vomiting illness, claims professor (Breaking News)

NJ woman finds treasure trove of historic photos from Nazi era (Breaking News)

Bob Dallek warns ... Obama's risking failure (Historians in the News)

Garry Wills turns against Obama (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Paul A. Samuelson, Economist, Dies at 94 (Breaking News)

Legislator Sees Echoes of Vietnam in Afghan War (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DO NOT MISS "TERROR IN MUMBAI" ON CNN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREENSPAN: TEMPORARY CENSUS JOBS WILL LOWER SPRING UNEMPLOYMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

The Orient Express Takes Its Final Trip (Breaking News)

Yosef H. Yerushalmi, Scholar of Jewish History, Dies at 77 (Historians in the News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Far Worse Than Scrooge (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

Roundup

Howard Zinn's show has been "hyped" says Ron Radosh in a highly critical review (Historians in the News)

Roundup

Whose Christmas Is It? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Hitchcock: That Bloody Shower and Its Violent Offspring (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Holidays at War: Recollections from the Front (Canada) [audio 7 clips] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Max Blumenthal: Obama, The Fallen Messiah and The Problem With Secular Salvation Narratives (Roundup: Media's Take)

Renee Romano. Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor's Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) (Books)

Robin Hood Trailer Released (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Arthur Herman: The 35-Year War on the CIA (Roundup: Talking About History)

Movie Review: "Precious" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Tom Engelhardt: William Astore, grinding down the US Army (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Robert Mackey: Secrets, Iran and a Healthy Skepticism (Roundup: Historians' Take)

"Stalin's Back" on BBC TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Lawrence of Arabia offers lessons for Afghanistan (Deutsche Welle interview with John Hulsman) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Leading Collection of Tibetan Buddhist Art in the West to be Presented to the Public for the First Time (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

France Returns the Louvre's Wall Paintings Sought by Egypt (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Oleg Kalugin: How the Soviets Invaded Afghanistan (Roundup: Talking About History)

Victor Davis Hanson: Are We to Be Led in War by a "Tiger" or a Kitten? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Peter Hayes and Michael Hamel-Green: The Path Not Taken, The Way Still Open: Denuclearizing The Korean Peninsula And Northeast Asia (Roundup: Historians' Take)

George Neumayr: Peacenicked ... Obama's Sister Souljah moment in Norway (Roundup: Media's Take)

Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova: How to Avoid the Soviet Mistakes in Afghanistan (Roundup: Talking About History)

Senate Foreign Relations Committee: How Osama bin Laden Escaped (Roundup: Talking About History)

Con Coughlin: Obama Gives Britain the Cold Shoulder (Roundup: Media's Take)

Greg Victor: “The People Speak”: Matt Damon rewrites American History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Michelle Malkin: Hollywood and Howard Zinn’s Marxist Education Project (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeremy Kuzmarov. Review of Michael Fellman's In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History (Yale University Press, 2010) (Books)

Abbas Milani: The Great Satan Myth (Iran/Mossadegh) (Roundup: Talking About History)

Tom Engelhardt: Martin Chulov, Is Iraq's Next Crisis Ecological? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Movie Review: "Invictus" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gareth Porter: US-Iran Talks: The Road to Diplomatic Failure (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Michael Goodwin: Obama's Peace of History (Roundup: Media's Take)

George Weigel: Obama Misunderstands Just-War Tradition (Roundup: Media's Take)

Doyle McManus: Obama doctrine emerges in Oslo speech (Roundup: Media's Take)

Week of December 6, 2009

Roundup

Blair: I would have removed Saddam Hussein anyway (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: The Federal Bureaucracy-Plutocracy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

BRAD BIRZER: Moreno on the Democratic Party (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

Roundup

Khmer Rouge victims seek new voice at UN tribunal (Breaking News)

Blackwater denies covert CIA help (Breaking News)

Removal of Saddam Hussein 'right', says Tony Blair (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAPPY CHANUKAH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

DAVID T. BEITO: Opportunity Knocks from the Institute for Humane Studies (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Maccabee era correspondence discovered (Breaking News)

Blogs

TIMOTHY FURNISH: A Nobel Prize...for Ignorance of Islam? (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN EMIGRE REFUSES TO BE COWED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

AMY H. STURGIS: The Perils of Crossing the Border? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Heroes at Hawaii's Ewa Field defended against Japan attack (Breaking News)

Ancient Peruvians proven to have been 'highly stressed' (Breaking News)

Auschwitz survivor finally reveals why he fears doctors (Breaking News)

Official: KGB chief ordered Hitler's remains destroyed (Breaking News)

Albania takes strides towards EU accession (Breaking News)

T.rex 'little cousin' discovered (Breaking News)

Grave robbers steal former Cyprus president's corpse (Breaking News)

Historian Shearer Davis Bowman dies at the age of 60 (Historians in the News)

Obama Administration Issues Sweeping Open Government Directive (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Charles Babbage's "Difference Engine" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

C.J. MALONEY: How To Extend and Deepen A Depression, In One Easy Step (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

HNN : OBAMA SURPRISING NOBEL SPEECH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Russia Upholds Ruling Against Stalin's Grandson (Breaking News)

Anonymous Donor Drops Two Rare Coins In Salvation Army Kettles (Denver) (Breaking News)

Blogs

STEVEN HORWITZ: Do We Really Need a Central Bank? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: It is Always About Him (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Robert Mugabe's supporters 'used rape as a weapon' in election (Breaking News)

Scotland’s oldest book goes on display for first time (Breaking News)

Algonquins file competing claims on Ottawa archeological dig (Breaking News)

Guatemala tourism capitalizing on '2012' (Breaking News)

Ancient Mediterranean flood mystery solved (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Banned! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

English whisky bottled for first time in a century (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Remember Pearl Harbor Day (Breaking News)

Turkish parliament awards renowned historian (Historians in the News)

Inequality the new normal, historian says (Historians in the News)

Norwegian historian writes about war in Vietnam (Historians in the News)

Spilling the Blood of Bulls to Preserve Zulu Tradition (Breaking News)

Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero (Breaking News)

Ted Kennedy staffer's clock winds down (Breaking News)

Is Hiroshima memorial a fair legacy for Harry Truman? (Breaking News)

Ancient Tablets Decoded; Shed Light on Assyrian Empire (Breaking News)

Boy Scout founder Lord Baden-Powell 'executed PoW' (UK) (Breaking News)

Cheney Rips 'Radical' Obama, Warns 9/11 Trial Will Make Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a 'Hero' (Breaking News)

UN may curtail 400-year-old 'freedom of the seas' (Breaking News)

Blogs

SCOTT MCLEMEE: "Brother West" Reloaded (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

HNN : MAY BE WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

WWII Veteran Had Hitler's Art Book on Bookshelf (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : LAUGH, IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Hitler skull fragment in Moscow authentic: FSB (Breaking News)

Remains Of Minoan-Style Painting Discovered During Excavations Of Canaanite Palace (Breaking News)

Artworks by Rembrandt and Raphael sell for 50m GBP (Breaking News)

'Red Baron' death certificate turns up in Poland (Breaking News)

Blogs

SHELDON RICHMAN: Patents: End Them. Don't Mend Them (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: Maybe It's Just Me ... (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS JOIN IN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

9/11 to climate change: Historians look back on the decade (Historians in the News)

Vietnam historian Stanley Karnow plans his memoir (Historians in the News)

Stanford history professor questions role of historians as researchers for the defense in such a lawsuit (Historians in the News)

A plainer view of our past: Howard Zinn and 'The People Speak' TV special (Historians in the News)

Operation Mexico: Secret Argentine Rendition Program Illuminated by Declassified Documents (Breaking News)

Census Finds Rise in Foreign Workers (Breaking News)

South Asian oral history archive goes online (Breaking News)

Years Later, Destruction of a Mosque Still Echoes (India) (Breaking News)

Scholars Nostalgic for the Old South Study the Virtues of Secession, Quietly (Historians in the News)

Scholars Nostalgic for the Old South Study the Virtues of Secession, Quietly (Breaking News)

Filmmaker Mike Barber inspired by James Loewen examines 'White Man's Burden' (Historians in the News)

Ancient Volcano's Devastating Effects Confirmed (India) (Breaking News)

9/11 to climate change: Historians look back on the decade (Breaking News)

OAH selects new executive director (Historians in the News)

Blogs

WENDY MCELROY: What Will Obama's War Cost Every American Taxpayer? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

Roundup

Youth is a Double-Edged Sword for the President (Breaking News)

US settles case with Native Americans after 13 years (Breaking News)

Finding sparks rethink of Russo-Japan War (Breaking News)

'Walking with Dinosaurs' robot goes walkabout in Mexico (Breaking News)

World War II Flare Gun Sparks House Fire in Nevada (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : IRANIAN STUDENTS WILL NOT BE SILENCED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Gunman who tried to kill Pope to be released (Breaking News)

North Korean leader's 007-style secret escape tunnels revealed by defector (Breaking News)

Ownership of Adena tablet in dispute (Breaking News)

Gordon Brown did not understand Afghan war, says former British Army chief (Breaking News)

Pearl Harbor Day 2009: three enduring mysteries (Breaking News)

Taxi driver 'source of Iraq 45-minute WMD claim' (UK) (Breaking News)

Egypt ignores rebuff and demands British Museum return Rosetta Stone (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler's war record among hundreds of thousands published online (Breaking News)

We really do have Hitler's skull, say Russians... despite US claim bones are female (Breaking News)

South Africans protest at plans to cast Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela in new film (Breaking News)

Sorry we ate your great-great grandpa: Island cannibals apologise for killing missionary 170 years ago (Breaking News)

German Excavation Reveals Signs of Mass Cannibalism (Breaking News)

Former Nazi SS member admits to murder of Dutch civilians (Breaking News)

George H.W. Bush Dedicates War Museum on Pearl Harbor Day (Breaking News)

Howard Zinn film coming to the History Channel (Historians in the News)

Six arrested over 'assassination' of former Chilean president (Breaking News)

Army historian traces roots to Arsenal's beginnings (Historians in the News)

Historian Finds Red Baron's Death Certificate (Historians in the News)

Pearl Harbor Day 2009: three enduring mysteries (Breaking News)

A chilling reminder: Remembering the 1917 Halifax Explosion (Canada) (Breaking News)

Dusan Batakovic: A Historian of the Present (Historians in the News)

Al Gore meets with President Obama on climate change (Breaking News)

Lebanon's Palestinians: refugees for life (Breaking News)

Dinosaur skeleton to be assembled (UK) (Breaking News)

Island holds reconciliation over cannibalism (Breaking News)

A Gwynedd photographer works with Victorian techniques (UK) (Breaking News)

Chile reburies coup victim and singer Jara (Breaking News)

Chile judge charges six over ex-president's 1982 death (Breaking News)

Dr Crippen's relative fails in bid to secure pardon (Breaking News)

GOP erupts over Reid slavery, segregation remarks (Breaking News)

Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery (Breaking News)

Tea Party movement threatened by internal rifts (Breaking News)

Gun Control Issue Reveals a Changing Canada (Breaking News)

Pearl Harbor survivors dwindle, memories don't (Breaking News)

WSJ book review of Robert E. Sullivan's "Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power" (Historians in the News)

A conversation with architectural historian Martin Wachadlo (Historians in the News)

Conservative viewpoint: Doris Kearns Goodwin's cross into partisan politics (Historians in the News)

Blogs

JONATHAN JARRETT: From the sources II: Sant Joan de les Abadesses and the men of Gombrèn (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FRIEDMAN TO GREGORY: ISLAM NEEDS A CIVIL WAR (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Paris restaurant auctions wine from famed cellar (Breaking News)

Iraq Inquiry: Army officer urged Tony Blair to delay war (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler thought Jewish doctor poisoned his mother (Breaking News)

Report: White House Security Breached 91 Times (Breaking News)

Discovery Brings Dinosaurs Roaring to Life (Breaking News)

Discovery of Pearl Harbor Mini-Sub Reportedly Might Solve Longstanding Mystery (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: REIGNITED IRAN ARRESTS BEREAVED MOTHERS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

RALPH E. LUKER: Happy Anniversary! (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Roosevelt as Defender of Japanese Imperialism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: Replay of Live Radio Coverage of Pearl Harbor Attack from 1941 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Pearl Harbor Survivor Returns to Site for First Time Since War (Breaking News)

Spain apologises for jailing homosexual in the 1970s (Breaking News)

'Red Baron' death certificate turns up in Poland (Breaking News)

George Washington letter sells for $3.2M (Breaking News)

Matalin: With Afghan surge, Obama resembles George W. Bush (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Palin Supports Stealing Arab Land (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Niall Ferguson moderated conversation with Kissinger [video] (Historians in the News)

American Indian land sold off by IRS to pay off taxes (South Dakota) (Breaking News)

Ancient Volcano's Devastating Effects Confirmed (Breaking News)

Rusesabagina: Rwanda has not healed (Breaking News)

The Demons That Haunt the Pakistanis (Breaking News)

New Zealand historian badly hurt by truck (Historians in the News)

Resolute academic who looked into Switzerland's soul: Jean-François Bergier remembered (Historians in the News)

Obama's Afghanistan decision evokes LBJ's 1965 order on Vietnam buildup (Breaking News)

Historian talks about industry and climate (UK) (Historians in the News)

Guatemala colonel given 53 years for civil war crime (Breaking News)

Tradition of an open People's House vanished long ago (Breaking News)

Ancient site reveals signs of mass cannibalism (Germany) (Breaking News)

Fabio L Grassi says 'History is not a fight between good and evil' (Historians in the News)

No clues on Bin Laden for 'years' (Breaking News)

Egypt to demand the Rosetta Stone from British Museum (Breaking News)

Historian discovers unique account of John Brown's Vt. visit (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

John McAdams: Another "Unspeakably Awful" Book About the JFK Assassination (Roundup: Talking About History)

You Know You're Sick [audio 6 minutes 30 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Against the Grain: Frida Kahlo [audio 48 minutes 19 seconds combined] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

In Germany, 'National Guilt' Stirs Against Afghan War [video 7 minutes 48 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself [audio 5 minutes 59 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Celebrating 350 Years Of Notable Scientific Papers [audio 5 minutes 33 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

From Dickens Himself, Notes On 'A Christmas Carol' [audio 3 minutes 19 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Exhibition at National Museum in Taiwan Showcases 70 Works of Art Made by Van Gogh (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The National Portrait Gallery Presents Two Exhibitions on Elvis Presley in 2010 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Scott Lemieux: Presidential Reputation (Roundup: Talking About History)

Viggo Mortensen: "Great Man" Theory? History Is Driven by the Little Guy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Aaron Zelinsky: Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson: Three Flawed Ideas that Could Mean a Cold Homecoming from Copenhagen (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Livingston: Review of Matthew B. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work (Books)

Daniel Martin Varisco: More Than Just (a) War (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Keith Livesey: What's Wrong with "Positive History" (Roundup: Talking About History)

History Channel Documentary Show Casting (Jobs)

Antony Adolph: A Missile Shield by Any Other Name (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Abe Greenwald: Obama Goes Neocon in Norway (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason: Afghanistan Is Obama's Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Prados: Beware Presidents' Use of History (Roundup: Media's Take)

Greek Museum Exhibition Bares All on Sex in Ancient Times (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ruth Schechter: A historical perspective on gender issues in China (Roundup: Talking About History)

Naughty & Nice: A History of The Holiday Season [podcast 54 minutes 56 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Tom Engelhardt: The Nine Surges of Obama’s War: How to Escalate in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Zoe Alsop: Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill: Inspired by the U.S. (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Milton Cooper: Obama's Wilsonian Moment (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Yŏng-ho Ch'oe: Korean Prisoners-of-War in Hawaii During World War II and the Case of US Navy Abduction of Three Korean Fishermen (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ralph Brauer: Sarah Palin Is No William Jennings Bryan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Garry Wills: Afghanistan: The Betrayal (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Saving cultural treasures in war-torn lands (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David C. Engerman: Jihadology (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Rami G. Khouri: The refugees, still essential to peace (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joe Scarborough : Remembering John Lennon, 29 Years Later (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ellen Cantarow: Living by the Gate From Hell: A Portrait of Nonviolent Resistance in One Palestinian Village (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andy Worthington: Chaos and Confusion: The Return of the Military Commissions (Roundup: Media's Take)

Walter Shapiro: Obama's Afghanistan Decision and the Art of the Tick-Tock (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joshua Kurlantzick: Burma's junta plays us again (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alex Koppelman: Does Reid need a "history lesson" for slavery remarks? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Carlin Romano: Of Minarets and Massacres (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Laprarie: The Wrong Side of History (Roundup: Media's Take)

John Fund : Harry Reid's History Lesson (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Danly: An Army Takes Time to Build (Roundup: Media's Take)

Behold the Beer Can, Its Beauty Faded in the Eyes of the Young (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Andrew Feffer. Review of Stephen H. Norwood's The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Books)

William R. Gruver: Why Clausewitz would not be happy with Obama's new Afghanistan strategy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Dallek: U.S. history is littered with war blunders (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Harold Meyerson: Obama's FDR moment (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andrew McGowan: How December 25 Became Christmas (Roundup: Talking About History)

Daniel Pipes: Swiss Minarets and European Islam (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Perspective on: Inspirations of African art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Lawrence Korb: Paying for Our Wars (Roundup: Media's Take)

Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency" (Roundup: Media's Take)

Edward Sanders dies at 87; advisor to President Carter on the Middle East (Obituaries)

Berkeley reconsiders landmark status (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Patrick Cockburn: US surge will only prolong Afghan war (Roundup: Media's Take)

Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The Politics of Minaret (Roundup: Media's Take)

Donald Craig Mitchell: Getting Punked by Fabulists in a Technological Society (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stanley Kutler: Financial Oversight: We're Still Waiting, Mr. President (Roundup: Historians' Take)

William R. Gruver: Why Clausewitz would not be happy with Obama's new Afghanistan strategy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul R. Gregory and Kate Zhou (Roundup: Talking About History)

Fredericksburg museum is victory for history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

English Village Tries to Milk a Connection to Its Cheesy Past (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Gerald F. Seib: Obama Abroad Mirrors Bush Senior (Roundup: Media's Take)

Attorney Who Raised the Bar on Drunk-Driving Defenses (Obituaries)

Fifty Years of Second City (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Raphael Breaks Year's Record; Sells for $48 Million (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Victor Davis Hanson: Riding the Back of the Tiger (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Bill McKibben: The Physics of Copenhagen (Roundup: Media's Take)

Thomas Palaima and Stephen Sonnenberg: Our wounds, our duty (Roundup: Media's Take)

Salem News Editorial: History was forever changed 68 years ago (Roundup: Talking About History)

Peter Hankoff: Remembering Pearl Harbor (Roundup: Talking About History)

The Pearl Harbor Attack Remembered (”The Back Door to War Theory”) [video 8 minutes, 45 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Chris Hedges: Liberals Are Useless (Roundup: Media's Take)

William Rivers Pitt: In Iraq, the war is far from over (Roundup: Media's Take)

Altogether more than a footnote: reviewing Joe Sacco's new graphic novel, "Footnotes in Gaza" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James Gardner: The George W. Bush Presidential Library Is So … Conservative (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

De Niro, Springsteen Receive Kennedy Center Honors (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Groundbreaking for $10M Jefferson Davis library (Miss.) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Tremblay: Vladimir Putin to Run for Third Term: A History of Russian Baldness (Roundup: Historians' Take)

NYT Editorial: A Bishop's Words (Roundup: Media's Take)

Honolulu museum brings Pearl Harbor Day history to life (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James F. Brown, Radio Free Europe Chief, Dies at 81 (Obituaries)

Victor Davis Hanson: Our Present Anxieties (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Richard F. Miller: Obama's not very good "Midst of Battle" speech (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Fred Hiatt: Shades of Iraq in Afghan Surge (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tara McKelvey: Is Democracy Promotion Dead? (Roundup: Media's Take)

James Rubin: The Decline of Human Rights in Age of Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Burleigh: Al-Qaeda's Decade of Terror (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ron Briley reviews Larry Tye's Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (New York: Random House, 2009). (Books)

Jim Cullen, Review of How They See Us: Meditations on America, edited by James Atlas (Atlas & Co., 2009) (Books)

Niall Ferguson moderated conversation with Kissinger [video 50 minutes, 21 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Frank Gannon: President Obama's Vocal Minority Speech (Echoes of Richard Nixon) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Henry Kissinger On The President's Afghanistan Speech [video] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

John J. Pitney: Provocative Nonsense (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Rich: Obama's Logic Is No Match for Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

'White Christmas' and the reasons it endures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

An Actor Nails the Cadence and the Charm, a Review of "Invictus" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James Bradley: Diplomacy That Will Live in Infamy (Roundup: Talking About History)

Week of November 29, 2009

Roundup

First U.S. Ambassador to Vatican Dies (Breaking News)

Son Lost in Saddam-Led Chemical Attack Found Alive 21 Years Later (Breaking News)

Italy Police Find Secret Stash of Van Gogh, Picasso Paintings (Breaking News)

Ancient Hall Opened in Jerusalem (Breaking News)

India, Pakistan and the Battle for Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Frustrated With West, Turks Revel in Empire Lost (Breaking News)

India Says It Detained Separatist Leader (Breaking News)

Reflections on the First Decade of the 2000s (Breaking News)

Student finds letter 'a link to Jefferson' (Breaking News)

George Washington letter smashes auction record (Breaking News)

Americans turning away from the world as isolationism rises to highest level since Vietnam war (Breaking News)

Book: Hitler's Gulf War (Breaking News)

Historian's new book considers America's all-volunteer Army (Historians in the News)

Bulgarian president awards Serbian writer and historian (Historians in the News)

We join a movement in progress: a review of Cynthia Griggs Fleming's "Yes We Did?' (Historians in the News)

Rediscovering the history of India (Historians in the News)

Historian Kevin Tennent on the Economics of Scottish Nationhood (Historians in the News)

Dems want temporary 'don't ask' immunity (Breaking News)

Surge Strategy Borrows From Bush Argument (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

NY symposium will study abolitionist John Brown and contemporary reverberations (Breaking News)

Duke Press Releases Obama's Late Mother's Book (Breaking News)

Fortresses Inspired by West Crumble in a New China (Breaking News)

History comes alive at Demjanjuk trial (Breaking News)

One Man's War Story Illuminates the Heroism of One Million (Breaking News)

Sarah Palin Goes 'Birther': Obama Birth Certificate 'A Fair Question' (VIDEO) (Breaking News)

Stasi Spy Revelations Rock German State (Breaking News)

Major Gets 17 and a half Years in Iraq Contract Case (Breaking News)

Karen Armstrong, religious historian, on the Golden Rule [video] (Historians in the News)

Residents, historians work for landmarks (Historians in the News)

Historians comment on Obama role as consoler in chief (Historians in the News)

Obama takes on role as consoler in chief (Breaking News)

Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files on the 1989 Meeting, 20 Years Later (Breaking News)

Timerman Case Threatened Argentine Military Regime (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Liberty and Power's Robert Higgs Interviewed by Andrew Napolitano (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Conservative religious freedom group says more businesses are including Christmas in advertising (Breaking News)

Fighting a Regime He Helped Create (Breaking News)

Imelda Marcos Opens Run for Philippine Congress (Breaking News)

In Iraq's African Enclave, Color Is Plainly Seen (Breaking News)

Rebuttal of Decade-Old Accusations Against Researchers Roils Anthropology Meeting Anew (Historians in the News)

What Lincoln Would Have Tweeted (Breaking News)

Report Examines Civil Rights During Bush Years (Breaking News)

Some critics beleive Germany's stance towards Iran shows it has not learned from its Nazi history (Breaking News)

Rome unveils ancient luxury complex (Breaking News)

Radovan Karadzic rejects British defence lawyer (Breaking News)

Iron Curtain kept out alien birds (Breaking News)

Actor who immortalised Soviet spy Stirlitz dies at 81 (Breaking News)

Veterans vow to find 'Walter Mitty' Remembrance Day marcher (Breaking News)

Is Tony Blair a war criminal? (Breaking News)

Edgar Allan Poe's Tamerlane sets record at NY auction (Breaking News)

Rembrandt world record expected at Christie's (Breaking News)

Virginia Veteran Gets Extra Week Before He Must Remove Flag or Face Consequences (Breaking News)

Student finds letter 'a link to Jefferson' (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : POST MODERN WARFARE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Iwo Jima flag raiser's body 'was never sent to rest' (Breaking News)

After 60 years, Ministry of Defense department that investigated UFO sightings 'closed' (UK) (Breaking News)

Archaeologists celebrate ancient Scandinavian settlement find (Breaking News)

Looted artifacts being returned to Italy from NYC (Breaking News)

Bad teeth tormented ancient Egyptians (Breaking News)

Thais worried by health of King and country (Breaking News)

Ancient city of Pompeii added to Google Street View (Breaking News)

Pew Research: GOP Seen as Friendlier to Religion than Democrats (Breaking News)

Pew Research: Negative Views of U.S. Unchanged in Turkey (Breaking News)

Last U.S. veteran of World War I testifies for memorial (Breaking News)

Survey Finds Isolationism on the Rise (Breaking News)

Bridge Over River Thames Sells for $1.6 Million (Breaking News)

Conservative Bible Project creating 'a Bible suitable for contemporary conservative sensibilities' (Breaking News)

Death mask of WWII hero finally buried with legend (Breaking News)

Poll: America's Place in the World (Breaking News)

Historian David Reynolds says Obama should pardon John Brown (Historians in the News)

Blogs

AARON BADY: UC Governance and Blaming "Sacramento" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Wreck may hold clue to nation's discovery (Australia) (Breaking News)

Babylon Ruins Translate Into Tourist Dollars for Hopeful Iraqis (Breaking News)

French museums closed by civil service strike (Breaking News)

Afghan troop increase similar to Iraq surge of 2007? (Breaking News)

What really killed Jane Austen? (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

MARK BRADY: The Mystery of Tony Blair's Finances (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

American Revolution Center Releases National Survey Results: 83 Percent of U.S. Adults Fail Test on Nation's Founding (Breaking News)

New York City returning two stolen artifacts to Italy (Breaking News)

Historians react to Obama's Afghan plan (Historians in the News)

Historians quarrel about prince's role in Indonesia coup (Historians in the News)

Carpentersville students chat with renowned historian Howard Zinn (Illinois) (Historians in the News)

Vineland Holocaust survivor remembers seeing John Demjanjuk at Sobibor death camp (Breaking News)

Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala (Breaking News)

Should Dems fear losses in 2010 'cause of high unemployment? (Breaking News)

Oldest surviving Civil War monument to get new home (Kentucky) (Breaking News)

A Cadbury Descendant Crusades Against Kraft Taking Over Icon (UK) (Breaking News)

Rasmussen Reports: Partisan Trends (Breaking News)

Rasmussen Reports: Afghanistan and Obama By The Numbers (Breaking News)

Cheney: 'I Basically Don't' Think Bush Administration Responsible For Afghanistan Problems (Breaking News)

Palin's book sales top one million (Breaking News)

Time asks: What to Do About Europe's Secret Nukes (Breaking News)

The U.S. Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Getting...Richer? (Breaking News)

Archaeologists to dig up Shakespeare's rubbish (Breaking News)

Wars of Roses silver coins fetch 29,000 GBP in auction (Breaking News)

Indonesia 'bans' film on journalists' deaths in E Timor (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: Obama’s Easily Discredited Speech (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Khmer Rouge war crimes prosecutor is appointed (Breaking News)

John Demjanjuk trial: Nazi prison guard case delayed for three weeks (Breaking News)

Soviet commander: U.S. faces similar Afghan fate (Breaking News)

Rumsfeld says Obama made 'bald misstatement' (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: What is Obama Thinking? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Finland marks 70th anniversary of Winter War against Stalin's Soviet Union (Breaking News)

Viking 'recycling' centre discovered near York (Breaking News)

Ancient gold unearthed in Southern Hungary (Breaking News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Stuped Is As Stooped Does... (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

RALPH E. LUKER: MidWeek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

The School Hershey Built (Breaking News)

Supreme Court rules in favour of feudal system (Channel island of Sark) (Breaking News)

Russia sheds light on murder that sparked purges (Breaking News)

Horse racing was best before British, says historian (Historians in the News)

Historian Finds John Brown's Link To Vermont (Historians in the News)

Interview with D.N.Jha, eminent historian: "Historians who come in proximity to power change their secular lines" (Historians in the News)

Historian examines the lives of war generation (Australia) (Historians in the News)

People Who Hate Their Government Kill Other People, Historian Claims (Historians in the News)

Remembering Jean-François Bergier: Swiss historian (Historians in the News)

U.S. to stop counting new missiles in Russia (Breaking News)

North Korea Reissues Won, a Blow to Unofficial Economy (Breaking News)

AP: Obama's aunt "didn't want to become fodder for his foes" (Breaking News)

UAE National Day marks turning point in country's history (Breaking News)

Lewis H. Lapham and His Present-Day Soapbox for Voices of the Past (Historians in the News)

Will Obama's war become his Vietnam? (Breaking News)

Will Congress Resist Obama's Warmaking Plans? (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: If Obama's Speech Writers Wanted to Quote Eisenhower..... (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Suspected US troop remains sent home from Vietnam (Breaking News)

Lockerbie bomber hid bullet proof vest under shellsuit (Breaking News)

Iraq shoe thrower Zaidi faces Paris shoe-ing (Breaking News)

Russian textbooks attempt to rewrite history (Breaking News)

For Sesquicentennial, Cooper Union Puts Artifacts on View (Breaking News)

Pete Doherty apologises for singing 'Nazi' anthem (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk 'was enthusiastic Nazi' (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk Accused of Following Nazi Ideology (Breaking News)

Aunt Jemima Cartoon Angers Supporters of Ohio Lawmaker (Breaking News)

Cheney beats back 2012 efforts (Breaking News)

Berlin Wall checkpoint up for auction on eBay (Breaking News)

Russian Fabergé collection breaks records (Breaking News)

Wreckage of 17th-century Dutch cargo ship found near Brazil (Breaking News)

Science Digs Into Civil War Sites (Breaking News)

Tests begin on Shakespeare deathplace as archaeologists plan dig next year (Breaking News)

Economist Banerjee, historian Upinder Singh get Infosys Prize 2009 (India) (Historians in the News)

History buff defends McKean's name (Deleware) (Historians in the News)

Prove me wrong, challenges Khoo (Kuala Lumpur) (Historians in the News)

Demjanjuk Nazi Trial Raises Historic, Legal Questions (Breaking News)

Arrest highlights clergy's role in Rwanda genocide (Breaking News)

Records show feds used ultra-right radio host for years (Breaking News)

Death penalty in 9/11 trials may be difficult (Breaking News)

Vanity Fair, 60 Minutes Poll: Rush Limbaugh Is Most Influential Conservative (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN DRESNER: 2009 Nominations Closed (The Cliopatria Awards)

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

Roundup

Saving Africa's precious written heritage (Breaking News)

Science Digs Into Civil War Sites (Atlanta) (Breaking News)

Artifacts untouched at Ariz. bombing ranges (Breaking News)

A Museum Hails Caesar, Even if Some Antiquarians Don't Agree (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk trial shows double standards, lawyer says (Breaking News)

Rwanda and France restore diplomatic relations (Breaking News)

WWII plane recovered from Lake Michigan (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA WOULD NOT HAVE FREED THE SLAVES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Blair ordered MoD Iraq plan nine months before war (Breaking News)

British Library to return looted 12thC book (Breaking News)

Did US promise Russia Nato wouldn't expand after German unification? New evidence suggests the answer is no, but there's plenty of ambiguity. (Breaking News)

Historian seeking student bloopers (Historians in the News)

World War Two hero's memorabilia to be auctioned (Breaking News)

Singer Pete Doherty booed off stage for singing Nazi anthem (Breaking News)

Peru apologises for abuse of African-origin citizens (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Another Conservative Republican Against Obama's War (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

John Demjanjuk Nazi crimes trial starts in Munich (Breaking News)

Blogs

JONATHAN JARRETT: From the sources: your actual medieval simony (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Moving Beyond Khmer Rouge's Ghosts (Breaking News)

Colorado History: The Massacre at Sand Creek (Breaking News)

Author shines light on the history of the memoir (Breaking News)

Royal Society's 350th anniversary year begins (Breaking News)

Mysterious satellite channel broadcasts 'Saddam Channel' (Iraq) (Breaking News)

Government will not open Bhopal plant as memorial (Breaking News)

Studs Terkel: Democracy Now! Tribute [video 59 minutes] (Historians in the News)

Historian unearthes Civil War war criminal (Historians in the News)

Remains of Missing Gulf War Pilot Hidden in Iraqi Sand for 18 Years (Breaking News)

Obama Keeps Mum on Military Secrets (Breaking News)

How English Heritage snubbed the Scientologist founder L Ron Hubbard (UK) (Breaking News)

Why Ireland Is Running Out of Priests (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

ROBERT HIGGS: A Reader’s Guide to Bernanke’s Preemptive Attack (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Rwanda joins the Commonwealth (Breaking News)

'1428' tells Sichuan quake survivors' stories (Breaking News)

Village of the 'cloned': Mystery of Brazil's 'Mengele' twins (Breaking News)

Mein Kampf a hit on Dhaka streets (Breaking News)

Alleged Nazi Guard's Trial Marks End of an Era (Breaking News)

Senate Report Explores 2001 Escape by bin Laden From Afghan Mountains (Breaking News)

Blogs

JANE S. SHAW: The First Assassin (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: On This Week in History...November 2009 (This Week in History)

BONNIE K. GOODMAN: On This Week in History...October 2009 (This Week in History)

MARK BRADY: An Interesting Take on Ayn Rand (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

MARK BRADY: A Climate of Suspicion (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

Roundup

"HappyBirthdaysUSA.com: A Funny Historical Skit on the Happy Birthdays of the USA" [video 10 min] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Tim Padgett: After Honduras ... Obama's Latin American Policy Looks Like Bush's (Roundup: Media's Take)

Fareed Zakaria: The Post-Imperial Presidency (Roundup: Media's Take)

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett: How Obama Wound up with Bush's Iran Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

J. Sri Raman: Bhopal Reminder for Nuclear India (Roundup: Talking About History)

Paula Hawkins, 82, Florida Ex-Senator, Dies (Obituaries)

Roy Gutman: U.S.-Afghan history overlooked in Obama address (Roundup: Media's Take)

Larry Beinhart: Why Should We Get Out of Afghanistan? Because Imperialism Is a Fool's Game (Roundup: Media's Take)

Melvin A. Goodman: Strategy and Logistics in Afghanistan: Flawed Thinking (Roundup: Media's Take)

Russia and Georgia Go to War Again — on Screen (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Heather Wilhelm: Is Ayn Rand Bad for the Market? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Graham E. Fuller: Stretching Out an Ugly Struggle (Roundup: Media's Take)

WSJ Editorial: The Welfare State and Military Power (Roundup: Media's Take)

Karen Armstrong, religious historian, on the Golden Rule [video 9 minute, 51 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Barbara Ehrenreich: Welcome to the Women's Movement 2.0 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joe Conason: TA Crushing Legacy of Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Italy: Is that Caravaggio hiding in that painting? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Bob Cesca: Obama's Unavoidable Cure for the Afghanistan Cancer (Roundup: Media's Take)

Dave Zirin: Message to Obama: You Can't Have Muhammad Ali (Roundup: Media's Take)

Luke A. Nichter: Who Was Fritz Kraemer? And Why We Should Care. (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Suketu Mehta: A Cloud Still Hangs Over Bhopal (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jon Haber: Boycott revival? (Israel) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Patrick Seale: Turkey, the Kurds and Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)

Are Mattel's New Dolls Black Enough? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

'His Highness' Helped Put a Micronation on the Map (Obituaries)

Andrew Leonard: Christianity's role in the financial crash (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Bernstein: As Notorious Khmer Figure Is Tried, Few in U.S. Take Notice (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nicholas D. Kristof: Johnson, Gorbachev, Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)

Doha's treasure trove of Islamic history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Actor who immortalised Soviet spy Stirlitz dies at 81 (Obituaries)

China vs. Disney: The Battle for Mulan (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jill Lepore: Health care hopes ... from the 1910s (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Susan M. Reverby: A New Lesson from the Old "Tuskegee" Study (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: You think you know Tiger Woods? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tom Engelhardt: Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Teaching What Really Happened: How To Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History By James Loewen (Books About History & Historians)

Andrew J. Bacevich: Obama's folly (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jon Wiener: From Grant Park to Afghanistan: Obama's Defining Moment (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Gary Leupp: It's Obama's War Now (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Obama's surge: Has the president been misled by the Iraq analogy? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jim Sleeper: Commander-in-What? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

For Poe, This Has Been the Year to Die For (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Henry Morgenthau III: Crashing F.D.R.'s Party (Roundup: Media's Take)

Richard Viguerie: Conservatives Don't Need a Litmus Test for RINOs (Roundup: Media's Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Dean Obama (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: Why the Liberal Anger Over the Asian Tour? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: A Manifest Disaster (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Elliott Abrams and Michael Singh: Spoilers: The End of the Peace Process (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Buzz Behind Jane Austen's Death (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dr. Joseph Gerson: Obama's Afghan 'Strategy' - Another American Tragedy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Melvin A. Goodman: President Obama, Afghanistan and US National Security (Roundup: Media's Take)

Elizabeth D. Samet: A Lonely Kind of Courage, The view from within Eisenhower Hall at West Point (Roundup: Media's Take)

John B. Judis: Sorry, But I Hear Echoes of Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)

A Christmas Rewrite, as Dickens Edits Dickens (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jennifer Loven: Obama's War Strategy Recalls That of President Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Alex Koppelman: A major defection in the conservative blogosphere (Roundup: Media's Take)

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson: The Real Shock of Fort Hood (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Kagan: Obama's lonely decision (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael H. Hunt: Obama Pronounces on Afghanistan: Deja Vu All Over Again! (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Top Ten things that Could Derail Obama's Afghanistan Plan (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Atlantic Honors Rich History With Box Set (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dick Morris And Eileen McGann: Obama Channels Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)

Tommy Henrich, Yankees Clutch Hitter, Dies at 96 (Obituaries)

Tony Horwitz: The 9/11 of 1859 (Roundup: Talking About History)

David S. Reynolds: It's time for the nation to grant John Brown a posthumous pardon (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jonathan Alter: The Faux Populism of Palin, Dobbs, and Beck (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Swanson: Afghanistan: Our 177th Colony (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stephanie Guilloud: From Seattle to Detroit: Ten Lessons for Movement Building on the Tenth Anniversary of the WTO Shutdown (Roundup: Talking About History)

Greville Janner: John Demjanjuk trial: we mustn't draw a line under crimes of the Holocaust (Roundup: Media's Take)

Damon Linker: Against Common Sense (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: Obama Partnering with Afghan Gov't But is there any there ? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Joan Walsh: Yes, it's Obama's war now (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Brooks: Clear, Hold and Duct Tape (on Afghanistan) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Grand Rapids museum shares the story behind Amway (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Bigger, Bolder Lennon Tribute (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

What do you think of President Obama's West Point address? (HNN Polls)

"When FDR Tried - And Failed - To Move Thanksgiving" [audio 3 min 48 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

John Sweeney: Russian textbooks attempt to rewrite history (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mary Dejevsky: Iraq exploded the special relationship (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jean MacKenzie: Karzai's Fall (Roundup: Media's Take)

Loretta J. Ross: Birthers and Birchers: Hiding Behind Stars and Stripes (Roundup: Media's Take)

Executive Summary: Countering Democratic Regression in Europe and Eurasia (Roundup: Media's Take)

Peter Bosshard: Lessons from China's Three Gorges Dam (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: The Swiss Ban on Minarets: A Possible Turning Point (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Film has chaste appeal in a promiscuous time, 'Twilight' fans may be reacting to 'hookup' culture (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Juan Cole: Swiss Islamophobia Betrays Enlightenment Ideals (Roundup: Historians' Take)

WSJ Editorial: John Kerry's Tora Bora Campaign (Roundup: Media's Take)

For Sesquicentennial, Cooper Union Puts Artifacts on View (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

James Taranto: Decisions, Decisions President Obama has no trouble making them! Well, except when they're hard. (Roundup: Media's Take)

Norman Solomon: The Hollow Politics of Escalation (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Moore: An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore (Roundup: Media's Take)

Harry de Quetteville: 'Last Nazi' trial ... why we must listen to Demjanjuk's story (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Tremblay: Switzerland Bans New Islamic Structures: The Long-Standing Myth of Swiss Neutrality (Roundup: Historians' Take)

A Monk Saves Threatened Manuscripts Using Ultramodern Means (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

A Composer's Ties to Nazi Germany Come Under New Scrutiny (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Niall Ferguson: An Empire at Risk (Roundup: Historians' Take)

William Underwood: Wartime forced labor and the future of Japan-China-Korea Relations (Roundup: Talking About History)

Sherwood Ross: Obama Never Considered Diplomacy in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Juan Cole: IAEA Condemnation of Iran: An Omen of New Sanctions or a Symbolic Slap on the Wrist? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

A Museum Hails Caesar, Even if Some Antiquarians Don’t Agree (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Ross Douthat: A Generation in the Balance (Roundup: Media's Take)

RI museums consider relocating 2nd century sarcophagus (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Studs Terkel 1912-2008: A Democracy Now! Special Tribute to the Beloved Oral Historian and Broadcasterm [video 59 minutes] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Historian-author Thomas Flagel tells of Hood's charge at Franklin [video 1 minute, 10 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Sandro Contenta: Shattering Canada's collective myths (Roundup: Media's Take)

John B. Judis: The Case for Deficit Spending (Roundup: Media's Take)

Bennet Kelley: Patrick Kennedy Takes On The Bishop And The Church's Moral Myopia (Roundup: Media's Take)

Intimate Ella Fitzgerald, Rediscovered (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

History museum on the move: Denver diorama gets kid-glove care (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

The History of Splurging [video 4 minutes 32 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Simon Critchley: To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die [video 1 hour 23 minutes 12 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Fingering Shakespeare's First Drafts [audio 8 minutes 19 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Alonzo Hamby: Afghanistan and the public opinion polls (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Jonathan Tremblay: From Jesus' Foreskin to Mussolini's brain: History's Relics (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jim Cullen, Review of Gordon Wood's Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford University Press, 2009) (Books)

H.G. Callaway: Review of Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought, The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2007) (Books)

Week of November 22, 2009

Roundup

Obama Makes History: Thanksgiving Proclamation First Ever to Omit Direct Mention of God (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler's Mercedes, the ultimate war trophy for a Russian collector (Breaking News)

Argentine Dirty War Victims Cautiously Embrace Trials, Hope for More (Breaking News)

Big Break for Nazi Hunters (Brazil) (Breaking News)

Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again (Breaking News)

Ivan the Terrible film 'slanders Russia' and should be banned, historian says (Historians in the News)

The Vikings raided, pillaged...and wrote love poems (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: Victims of the Tax State: The Singing Nun (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Anger At Inquest For 7/7 Victims And Bombers (UK) (Breaking News)

Nelson Mandela 'fake foreword' in Congo president's book were his words (Breaking News)

Ivan the Terrible film 'slanders Russia' and should be banned, historian says (Breaking News)

Zulu warriors who defeated British to be honoured (Breaking News)

Mein Kampf a hit on Dhaka streets (Breaking News)

Dig to start at Shakespeare site (Breaking News)

Lenin Statue Vandalized by Ukrainian Nationalists in Kiev (Breaking News)

Historian discovers Niebuhr quote was correct (Historians in the News)

Historian's case for Tuhoe independence (New Zealand) (Historians in the News)

Historians seeks to capture and preserve 100-year farm heritage (Historians in the News)

Historian one of 10 human rights award winners (Toronto) (Historians in the News)

Still much to discover about Lisbon's role in WWII, says UK historian (Historians in the News)

Elisabeth Roudinesco, historian and psychoanalyst, discusses her new book "Back to the 'Jewish Question'" [video] (Historians in the News)

Poland Imposes Strict Ban on Communist Symbols (Breaking News)

Protestant church officially apologizes for 17th century Native American massacre (Breaking News)

UK diplomat questions post of Jews on Iraq panel (Historians in the News)

UK diplomat questions post of Jews on Iraq panel (Breaking News)

Listening sessions intended to help national park service preserve World War II internment sites (Breaking News)

Nightmarish memories of the Nazis' Sobibor death camp (Breaking News)

Is Time Running Out to Dig Up S Korea's Mass Graves? (Breaking News)

Iran seizes 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi's medal (Breaking News)

Ohio Looks to Replace Statue of Gov. William Allen in US Capitol (Breaking News)

StoryCorps Oral History Project calls for Day After Thanksgiving to be a 'Day of Listening' (Breaking News)

New online tool for searching early modern and nineteenth century British history (Historians in the News)

Mental State Cited in 9/11 Case (Breaking News)

The re-emergence of historian Richard Hofstadter (Historians in the News)

Historian's says Hudson's 'did not discover anything' (Historians in the News)

Historians are at war over 'old-fashioned' flagship series (Historians in the News)

Casualties of Hitler's sterilisation programme still suffer (Breaking News)

Catholic Church in Ireland given immunity for child sexual abuse cover-up, report shows (Breaking News)

The Queen plants tree for Bermuda's 400th anniversary celebration (Breaking News)

Khmer Rouge jail chief Duch demands acquittal (Breaking News)

Suspect in Nazi Trial Proud of His SS Service (Breaking News)

New group tries to convince Cheney to run in 2012 (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: Stand Up for the Bill of Rights! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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

Roundup

Israeli historian calls Jewish people an invention--and reaps controversy (Historians in the News)

Harnessing Darwin to Push an Ancient Intellectual Center to Evolve (Breaking News)

Joshua Brown: LBJ also promised to get the job done (illustration) (Historians in the News)

Pictish throne built as part of new research project (Breaking News)

Jesus 'may have visited England', says Scottish academic (Breaking News)

There was no happy Thanksgiving for the lost colonists of Roanoke Island (Breaking News)

Ukraine tears down controversial statue (Breaking News)

Barbados prehistoric carvings damaged (Breaking News)

U. of Vermont Archaeologists search for War of 1812 hospital (Breaking News)

Revolutionary War skull to get military burial in Connecticut (Breaking News)

Ancient theatre under the Acropolis to be restored (Breaking News)

Call for 40-year term for ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief (Breaking News)

Argentina veterans divided over Falklands 'abuse' case (Breaking News)

Woman reveals she is Jewish child of the Holocaust (Poland) (Breaking News)

Rassmussen Reports: 50% Still Blame Bush for Bad Economy (Breaking News)

Secret CIA 'magic' manual from Cold War era on sale (Breaking News)

Chile's Mapuche Indians wage war against history (Breaking News)

Families of Military Suicides Seek White House Condolences (Breaking News)

Republican candidates face 'Ronald Reagan' test (Breaking News)

Alaska's Rural Schools Fight Off Extinction (Breaking News)

She refused to give up her seat before Rosa Parks (Breaking News)

Staffordshire treasure hoard valued at 3.28m GBP (UK) (Breaking News)

Iraq inquiry: deal might have been 'signed in blood' by Blair and Bush in 2002 (Breaking News)

Mumbai terror attacks: India holds tearful first anniversary (Breaking News)

South Korea Confirms Nearly 5,000 Wartime Executions (Breaking News)

Book Outlines Intertwined History of Cotton, Race (Historians in the News)

Haiti Bans Former President Aristide's Party From 2010 Election (Breaking News)

Web site posts what it says are half million text messages from 9/11 (Breaking News)

Thanksgiving Day: Pilgrims were a surprisingly worldly, tolerant lot (Breaking News)

"Nazi Twins" a Myth: Mengele Not Behind Brazil Boom? (Breaking News)

"Nazi Twins" a Myth: Mengele Not Behind Brazil Boom? (Historians in the News)

Edmonton OK's historian laureate (Canada) (Historians in the News)

Edinburgh historian lists names of Irish war dead (Historians in the News)

BBC and museum launch world history project (Breaking News)

Peer challenged over CND and 'Soviet funds' (UK) (Breaking News)

Ex MI6 chief attacks Government on Afghanistan (Breaking News)

Chile's Mapuche Indians wage war against history (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: A COWARD CALLED NICHOLAS KRISTOF/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Last echo of Nuremberg? (Breaking News)

USSR meets YouTube in nostalgia project (Breaking News)

CIA used famous magician for his tricks during the Cold War (Breaking News)

Iraq war deal 'signed in blood' by Blair in 2002 (Breaking News)

McCain: Obama Administration Giving 9/11 Mastermind 'His Wish' by Giving Him Civilian Trial in New York (Breaking News)

French Government Launches Debate on the French Identity (Breaking News)

Obama's Mother's Dissertation Gets Star Treatment From Duke U. Press (Breaking News)

U.S. embassy hands 5,000 artifacts to Iraq Museum (Breaking News)

Memorial for victims of Stalin's brutal act (UK) (Breaking News)

Mongolians destroy Great Wall of China (Breaking News)

U.K. Officials Tell Inquiry Iraq Wasn't Main Worry (Breaking News)

Native American artifacts thousands of years old halt sewer installation in Warwick RI (Breaking News)

How prisoners of war got crafty, making toys for children of their captors (Breaking News)

Argentina veterans divided over Falklands 'abuse' case (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

KEITH HALDERMAN: Just the First of Many Attempts (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

DAVID T. BEITO: "Smoking Gun" on the Climate Research Scandal (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

How FDR Tried To Make Thanksgiving Arrive Earlier (Breaking News)

The History of the Presidential Turkey Pardon (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : HAPPY THANKSGIVING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Wikileaks publishes 500,000 pager messages sent on 9/11 (Breaking News)

Jesus may have visited Britain, film suggests (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT HIGGS: Will the Real Rate of Unemployment Please Stand Up (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Obama's delay 'is affecting British support' (Breaking News)

40-year sentence demanded for Khmer Rouge torturer 'Comrade Duch' (Breaking News)

Britain 'knew Saddam had destroyed WMD' (Breaking News)

Gordon Brown to push for royal Roman Catholics law change (UK) (Breaking News)

Rediscovered painting of Charles I to be shown at National Gallery (UK) (Breaking News)

"Islam non-existent in the world system until mid-1970s", says leading French academic (Breaking News)

Efforts to Preserve Barack Obama's Ancestral Home (Breaking News)

New book exonerates Jefferson in DNA controversy (Breaking News)

Yosemite's Park History Includes Buffalo Soldiers (Breaking News)

Saudi Arabia returns artifacts to Iraq (Breaking News)

UNH historian pens book on how nation denied liberty to a free black man (Historians in the News)

Democrats Contemplate 1970s-era Jobs Program (Breaking News)

Toxic legacy of the Cold War (Ohio) (Breaking News)

CNSNews.com United Nations Says HIV Outbreak Peaked in 1996 (Breaking News)

David Forsmark reviews Thomas Fleming's 'founding fathers The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers' (Historians in the News)

The politics of perceiving skin color (Breaking News)

2009 AHA Election Results (Historians in the News)

Senator Robert Byrd Becomes Longest-Serving Member of Congress (Breaking News)

Paris rediscovers its first medieval fortifications (Breaking News)

Heir to Oswald boardinghouse shares its history (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Otto von Bismarck received fan mail and marriage proposals (Breaking News)

Blogs

MARK BRADY: More on "Climategate" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Sunken Canadian stern-wheeler is an underwater time capsule (Breaking News)

Google to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online (Breaking News)

Sophisticated hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction (Breaking News)

Appeal over Charles Darwin's missing Galapagos notes (Breaking News)

Lech Walesa libel trial starts in Poland over spy claim (Breaking News)

DR Congo 'warlords' deny atrocities at ICC trial (Breaking News)

High jumper banned by Nazis honoured in Germany (Breaking News)

Obamas' First State Dinner Marks Departure From Previous Administration (Breaking News)

Fox News: Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents (Breaking News)

Britain 'had no policy' to overthrow Saddam (Breaking News)

British Panel Begins Investigation Into Iraq War (Breaking News)

Historic Envelope Valued at $300,000 Up for Auction (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MANDATED RISK AVERSION RESPONSIBLE FOR US UNEMPLOYMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

JONATHAN J. BEAN: Climate Conspiracy: U.K., U.S. “ClimateGates” (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: "ALLEGED" EMAILS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

Roundup

Czech Students Look Back at What Their Forebears Started (Breaking News)

Police using 300 year-old law to target gang violence (Breaking News)

Thousands Demand Closure of Fort Benning's School of the Americas (Breaking News)

Scholars Honored John Hope Franklin (Historians in the News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

What Niall Ferguson thinks now (Historians in the News)

Europe's largest rondel enclosures unearthed in Bohemia (Breaking News)

Ancient stone moved from archaeological site in Cyprus (Breaking News)

Indus Valley's civilisation 'had first sophisticated exchange system' (Breaking News)

Valley in Jordan irrigated for 13,000 years (Breaking News)

Early humans may have been 'hobbits', scientists say (Breaking News)

Hunters' remains earliest known in Scotland (Breaking News)

Ancient hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction (Breaking News)

Pope John Paul II 'whipped himself in remorse for sins' (Breaking News)

Aerial Images by Daring Allies Revealing Hitler's Weapons (Breaking News)

Demjanjuk trial to hear testimony from the dead (Breaking News)

New Executive Order Aims to Avoid Declass Deadline (Breaking News)

Another mystery grave at Arlington (Breaking News)

Jeffrey Herf defends his analysis of "Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World' (Historians in the News)

Son Objects to Moving Camus's Remains (Breaking News)

Indiana history buff restores Civil War gravestone (Breaking News)

Catholic teachers find themselves intensely immersed in Jewish history (Breaking News)

David Hamilton and his 2005 judicial opinion on God's secular title (Breaking News)

US couple plead guilty to spying for Cuba over 30 years (Breaking News)

Roemer could be key to U.S.-India relationship (Breaking News)

Politico says: Senate filibusters aren't what they used to be (Breaking News)

Czech Celebrations Muted 20 Years After Velvet Revolution (Breaking News)

Leaked Indian report 'blames BJP for 1992 destruction of mosque' (Breaking News)

English Heritage seeks missing link as Darwin documents go online (Breaking News)

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez defends 'Carlos the Jackal' (Breaking News)

UN confirms Lebanon body is British journalist (Breaking News)

Russian Investor to Shell out Millions for 'Hitler Limousine' (Breaking News)

Blogs

JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA BLINDERS ARE FALLING OFF (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

ROBERT HIGGS: Government Responds to Economic Woes by Making More Bad Mortgage Loans (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

What Do Presidential Libraries Say About Their Namesakes' Legacies? (Breaking News)

This Time, Egyptian Riot Over Soccer, Not Bread (Breaking News)

Archaeologists warn Taliban destroying Pakistan's ancient heritage (Breaking News)

Historian analyzes Second World War surveys (Historians in the News)

Gerald Ensley: Mission won't be the same without historian Hann (Historians in the News)

It's time to talk turkey about Thanksgiving traditions (Breaking News)

Four-decade historian of UAE finally translates lifes work into native language (Historians in the News)

Civic groups want to preserve colonial-era artifacts at Queens Plaza site (Breaking News)

US Senator says Lockerbie bomber should return to jail (Breaking News)

In Central America, Coups Still Trump Change (Breaking News)

WWII Diary reveals Great Escape plot (Breaking News)

Vatican tries to woo back the art world (Breaking News)

Former Soviet cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov dies (Breaking News)

Cleric Wields Religion to Challenge Iran's Theocracy (Breaking News)

Cambodian Khmer Rouge trial of Comrade Duch set to end (Breaking News)

Revealed: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's secret plot to deny the Queen the throne (Breaking News)

9/11 Suspects to Plead No Guilty, Seek Show Trial (Breaking News)

In Turkey, Trial Casts Wide Net of Mistrust (Breaking News)

Rare Charles Darwin Book Found on Toilet Bookshelf (Breaking News)

Leaked U.K. Documents Reportedly Detail Iraq War Chaos (Breaking News)

Iraq PM Steps Up Campaign Against Saddam Loyalists (Breaking News)

Historian adds fuel to Turin Shroud debate (Historians in the News)

Local author and historian Robert Jahn, 62, dies (Historians in the News)

Indian democracy unique, it thrives in every state: Cambridge historian (Historians in the News)

Historian Adam Schor dives into Christianity's early days (Historians in the News)

Abolitionist, historian wraps up Global Perspectives series (Historians in the News)

Blogs

RACHEL LEOW: Yuri Dojc's Last Folio: An Exhibition (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

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

Roundup

Ray McGovern: Obama's Profile in Courage, or Cave-In? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeff Cohen: Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance (Roundup: Media's Take)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: No JFK Moment for Obama on Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

When a Bombastic Young Man Bestrode the Boards of the Mercury Theater ('Me and Orson Welles') (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Glenn Greenwald: A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack (Roundup: Media's Take)

Serenity Prayer Skeptic Now Credits Niebuhr (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Yang Xianyi, Translator of Chinese Works, Dies at 94 (Obituaries)

Jacob Weisberg: Obama is having the best first year of any president since Franklin Roosevelt (Roundup: Media's Take)

Paul Reynolds: US-UK 'special relationship' not so special anymore (Roundup: Media's Take)

800 Unpublished Drawings from the Venetian 19th-Century to Go on View (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Prague Museum Depicts Country's Communist Past (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jeremy Kuzmarov. Review of Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, editors, The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (New York Univsreity Press, 2009) and Stephen Irving Max Schwab, Guantanamo USA: The Untold Story of America's Cuban Outpost (University Press of Kansasa, 2009) (Books)

Alan Wachman: China's Lincolnophilia (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Rothkopf: America's new crisis of confidence (Roundup: Media's Take)

David R. Stokes: Will Mr. Obama Seize His Big Mac Moment? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Elisabeth Roudinesco, historian and psychoanalyst, discusses her new book "Back to the 'Jewish Question'" [video 12 minutes, 15 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Stephen Herzenberg: FDR vs. the Great Recession ... We must tackle four big issues to revive our economy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Buyers are trolling for Romanov heirlooms (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Discovering Jewish Music (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

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

Hugh Morgan Hill, the Storyteller Brother Blue, Dies at 88 (Obituaries)

Thomas Wilner: Obama Made the Right Call on KSM (Roundup: Media's Take)

First Book to Deal with Relationship Between Titanic Home Port of Liverpool Published (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Nick Danforth: How the West Lost Turkey (Roundup: Media's Take)

Joshua Brown: LBJ also promised to get the job done (illustration) (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Victor Davis Hanson: The New War against Reason (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Dallas Darling: From Radical Republicans to Rich Republicans? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Review: The Beatles Go On Record in New History Channel Special (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

New Jackie Kennedy Dress on Display at John F. Kennedy Library (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Leonardo's "Angel in the Flesh" to Make Appearance with Work by Bill Viola (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Reynolda to Feature Works of Mid- Nineteenth Century American Expatriates (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Wizards owner helped transform D.C. (Obituaries)

Arianna Huffington: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Harry Mount: Mark Lowe is right: The Romans said it better (Roundup: Media's Take)

Nicholas D. Kristof: The Religious Wars (Roundup: Media's Take)

Max Hastings: A cowardly Navy, a cautious SAS and Britain's humiliation by a pirate rabble (Roundup: Media's Take)

H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn and Mozart Scholar, Dies at 83 (Obituaries)

"Stalin's Legacy" debate stirs strong emotions [video 1 minute, 25 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

A History Of The World In 100 Objects: priceless treasures from the British Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

John Reid: Remember Mumbai (Roundup: Media's Take)

Toy marble museum finds America's oldest Santa at toy factory site: Discovery identifies the original North Pole (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Randall Stephens: Rebunking the pilgrims (Roundup: Talking About History)

Maureen Dowd: Thanks for the Memories (on the WH's Greg Craig) (Roundup: Media's Take)

W. Barksdale Maynard: Mr. Wilson's University (Roundup: Talking About History)

Barron H. Lerner: Did cancer kill FDR? (Roundup: Talking About History)

George Will: Obama ... The First 'Pacific President'? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Sergei Guriev and Aleh Tsyvinsky: Russia Regresses into Stalinist Past (Roundup: Media's Take)

Praveen Swami: One year after the Mumbai bomb attacks, the threat is as great as ever (Roundup: Talking About History)

Rebecca Solnit: Learning How to Count to 350, Remembering People Power in Seattle in 1999 and Berlin in 1989 (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Zimmerman: Doctors can't write Rx for reform (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Steve Benen: The RNC's Purity Test (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jessica B. Harris: You Say Potato, I Say Yam (Roundup: Talking About History)

Novice, die-hard Beatles fans will love new History documentary 'On Record' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Melanie Kirkpatrick: Happy Franksgiving (Roundup: Media's Take)

Saswato R. Das: A Permanent Outpost on the Moon? (Roundup: Media's Take)

A History of 20th-Century Russia, Warts and All (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Bennett Ramberg: The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan Through CIA Eyes: Lessons for the United States Today (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: Islamism 2.0 (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Dr. John Nagl: Let's Win the Wars We're In (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mazin al-Mutabaqani: A Saudi View of Orientalism (Roundup: Media's Take)

Mark Bauerlein: Who (or What) Killed JFK? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Marty Peretz: The Accelerating Decline Of Europe (Roundup: Media's Take)

Ray McGovern: McChrystal Testing the Limits (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Rubin: Review of The Next Founders, Voices of Democracy in the Middle East (Roundup: Media's Take)

Stanley Kutler: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Tunku Varadarajan: Obama's Forgotten Friends (Roundup: Media's Take)

The Real Alice in Wonderland's Book up for Auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Pearl Duncan: Ancestors-Pirates Had Bloodthirsty Treasure Adventures (Roundup: Talking About History)

Murray Sperber: The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps (Roundup: Media's Take)

Allan Gerson: Lessons From Nuremberg (Roundup: Media's Take)

The 'King of the Pop-Ups' Made Books Spring to Life (Obituaries)

Bret Stephens: The Carter Ricochet Effect (Roundup: Media's Take)

Barron H. Lerner: Did Franklin D. Roosevelt actually die from cancer? (Roundup: Talking About History)

Ken Blackwell: Welcome Back, Carter (Roundup: Media's Take)

David Rothkopf: Why Obama is less like Carter than people think (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charlie Chaplin's Last Home in Geneva to Become a Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Google Chief Eric Schmidt Announces Documentation of Iraqi Museum Treasures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Bret Stephens: The Carter Ricochet Effect (Roundup: Media's Take)

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: Obama's Trip to China--The View from the Seventies (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Ruth Rosen: Why are Americans fascinated by Sarah Pahlin? (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Fred Siegel: 1919: Betrayal and the Birth of Modern Liberalism (Roundup: Historians' Take)

David R. Stokes: This Thanksgiving, Please Pass The Brisket (Roundup: Talking About History)

Melik Kaylan: Was the U.S. unfairly blamed for damage to Iraq's heritage? (Roundup: Media's Take)

TNR Slideshow: Famous Filibusters (Roundup: Talking About History)

Elyssa East: Thanksgiving, A Moveable Fast (Roundup: Media's Take)

Progress lagging on President's House project (Philly) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Akiva Eldar: Jerusalem Syndrome (Roundup: Media's Take)

E.J. Dionne: Obama's Third Way in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jeffrey Herf: Hate Radio, a Review of 'Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11' (Roundup: Talking About History)

Mary Anastasia O'Grady: The End of Bolivian Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)

It's Barbie in a burkha: World-famous doll gets a makeover to go under the hammer for 50th anniversary (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

David P. Colley: How World War II Wasn’t Won (Roundup: Talking About History)

Film examines history of Kalamazoo River pollution (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Reuel Gerecht: Major Hasan and Holy War (Roundup: Media's Take)

Christopher Hitchens: The "war on terrorism" didn't cause the Fort Hood shootings (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Hiltzik: The world still can learn from Keynesian economics (Roundup: Talking About History)

"Rare Darwin Book Found In Guest Bathroom" [audio 28 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"Parking Garages: A Multilevel History" [audio 5 min 48 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"* Share this page using one of the following services: * Facebook * Twitter * Stumble Upon * Yahoo! Buzz * Reddit * Digg What is this? An Unlikely African-American Music Historian" [audio 4 min 45 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"American as Pumpkin Pie: A History of Thanksgiving" [audio 54 min 55 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

"The Man Who Made You Put Away Your Pen" [audio 4 min 3 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Allan Gerson: Lessons From Nuremberg (Roundup: Media's Take)

Gordon Cucullu: Fort Hood ... terror's 'third wave' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Howard Fineman: How Obama Is Like Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Herbert J. Miller Jr., 1924-2009 (Obituaries)

Nick Turse: The Pentagon Garrisons the Gulf (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Warren Breckman: A Man of Parts: Jeremy Bentham and dead bodies (Roundup: Talking About History)

Did the Mob Kill JFK? / JFK: The Ruby Connection (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Martin Jacques: Why America Must Learn to Bow (Roundup: Media's Take)

Citizen Welles as Myth in the Making, a Review of , "Me and Orson Welles" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Thomas J. Graff, an Expert on West Coast Water Use, Is Dead at 65 (Obituaries)

Michael Jackson's gleaming glove sells for $350K, plus tax, at NYC auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Robert Wright: Who Created Major Hasan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Robert Cameron, High-Flying 'Above' Photographer, Dies at 98 (Obituaries)

BBC/HBO production “Into the Storm” on UK TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Week of November 15, 2009

Roundup

Fossils of dinosaur-era crocodiles found in Sahara (Breaking News)

Germany Concerned Its Evidence to Be Used to Back Death Penalty in 9/11 Trial (Breaking News)

EU history will be all the history taught in schools (Breaking News)

Cigar Churchill smoked as he planned D-Day is discovered after being hidden for 66 years (Breaking News)

Video link: Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics by Taylor Branch (Historians in the News)

Obama's Approval Goes Below 50% In Gallup Poll (Breaking News)

Balzan Prize 2009 for the History of Science Awarded (Historians in the News)

TIME says: Three Key Lessons from Obama's China Tour (Breaking News)

Rasmussen Report: 55% in New York Oppose Civilian Terror Trials (Breaking News)

Guerrilla Tourism Helps El Salvador Heal (Breaking News)

Analysts Fear British Economy Could Echo Japan's 'Lost Decade' (Breaking News)

Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute (Breaking News)

Teachers, Paul Gross win Canadian history awards (Historians in the News)

Blogs

C.J. MALONEY: Obama in Asia (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Pilot's wartime love letters sold (Breaking News)

UN marks 20 years of Convention on Rights of the Child (Breaking News)

German Auction House Pulls Painting Owned by Nazis (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Because I Love Good Country Music, ... (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Vietnam Vet Stages Hunger Strike in Front of White House to Raise Awareness About PTSD (Breaking News)

Historian investigates the 'lost village' of Garscadden (Scotland) (Historians in the News)

Jones lecture features children's book historian (Historians in the News)

Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out (Breaking News)

A New Garden at the U. of California at Davis Honors Patwin People (Breaking News)

Evangelicals Give Away 170,000 Copies of Darwin's Book With 'Special Introduction' (Breaking News)

The Rise of China's Auto Industry (Breaking News)

'Global warming' and '9/11': words that define the decade (Breaking News)

Prehistoric Jaws: Meet the family of crocs that ate dinosaurs 100million years ago (Breaking News)

Archaeologists Plead for Import Restrictions on Common Coins (Breaking News)

Treasure trove of history found at SugarHouse site (PA) (Breaking News)

Crews search for Civil War history (Texas) (Breaking News)

Ronald Reagan: Accidental Champion of the Black Underclass? (Breaking News)

India Steps Up Its Fight Against Naxalites (Breaking News)

Klan Enters Debate Over Song at Ole Miss (Breaking News)

Conservatives go after Bruce Cumings new book on the American empire (Historians in the News)

Lawmaker tells Texas' State Board of Education that Hispanics are lacking in textbooks (Breaking News)

Evolution and history compulsory (England) (Breaking News)

German court orders return of ancient vessel to Iraq (Breaking News)

Senior counsel to 9-11 Commission claims the government sanitized the record to make itself look good (Breaking News)

WWII bomber pilot's Victoria Cross fetches record price (Breaking News)

Henry VIII's love nest for sale (Breaking News)

Easyjet apologises for photoshoot at Holocaust memorial (Breaking News)

Mussolini's 'brain and blood for sale on internet' (Breaking News)

Ethiopian Jews in Israel still await the promised land (Breaking News)

Adolf Hitler is 'German Mussolini' warns 1924 French document (Breaking News)

Jesus Christ's 'death certificate' found on Turin Shroud (Breaking News)

Italy Museum to Display Fingers, Tooth Believed to Be Galileo's (Breaking News)

Russia's Gorbachev Considers Political Comeback (Breaking News)

Lincoln letter to schoolboy sells for $60,000 (Breaking News)

Will a New Bear Market Bring Eugenics Movement Back? New Study from Socionomics Institute Says It's Happened in the Past, Could Happen Again (Breaking News)

Blogs

AEON J. SKOBLE: Dan Klein on the Invisible Hand (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

SHELDON RICHMAN: TGIF: The Mandated Health Insurance Outrage (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Alan Philps: Shlomo Sand 'cleared away a lot of 19th century debris' (Historians in the News)

Expelled historian laments subverted rule of law (Historians in the News)

Kevin Wright hosts talk, "1609--A Country That Was Never Lost," (Historians in the News)

Presidential Historian: Time to Release JFK's Files (Historians in the News)

New York Times Washington correspondent Jodi Kantor to write book on Obamas (Breaking News)

Blogs

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

Roundup

Forgotten 1958 Time Capsule on Display at University of Chicago Law School (Breaking News)

British Support for Afghan War Fades (Breaking News)

2009 National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction: T. J. Stiles's 'The First Tycoon' (Historians in the News)

Sweden sends back Maori remains (Breaking News)

Obama confronts history on Great Wall of China (Breaking News)

Ancient Greek worshippers showed inclination towards the Sun (Breaking News)

D-Day piper to be honoured by the French (Breaking News)

Dominican archaeologist closes in on Cleopatra, top Egyptologist says (Breaking News)

US Army Corps blamed for Katrina floods (Breaking News)

Victorian railway lines found beside the Thames (Breaking News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: The Two Most Corrupt Countries in the World (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

Pamela Crossley's " The Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800: An Interpretive History" (Historians in the News)

"September 11 didn't change everything," says British academic (Breaking News)

Blogs

CHRIS BRAY: Self-Satirizing Institutions (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Interview With Rick Perlstein, author of "Nixonland" [video] (Historians in the News)

Commission Sends Schools Civil War History Lesson (Virginia) (Breaking News)

Events planned to commemorate first major engagement of Civil War (Breaking News)

200-year-old Trading Post Renovated in New Mexico (Breaking News)

Trust Targets Historic Civil War Parcel (Breaking News)

Robert Byrd, longest-serving Congress member, considered historian (Historians in the News)

Watergate 'Gap' Mystery to be Solved? (Breaking News)

Wales is a country of grant junkies, claims historian (Historians in the News)

Kimberly Kagan on How Taliban and Al-Qaeda Differ (Historians in the News)

Documents show secret messages from Moscow sparked German unification plans (Breaking News)

'USA Today' Gets an Early Look at Bush Library Plans (Breaking News)

Obama Administration Has Achieved More in Middle East Than Bush Did in Eight Years, State Dept. Says (Breaking News)

Obama Meets With Half Brother in China (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Notes Ancient & Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Magazine closure ended two decades of gay media in Atlanta (Breaking News)

Soviet lessons from Afghanistan (Breaking News)

1769 Thames toll bridge up for sale (Breaking News)

AP report Obama confident of KSM conviction (Breaking News)

Archaeologists find pre-Columbian cemetery in Costa Rica (Breaking News)

Water pipeline of Peter the First epoch discovered under Moscow (Breaking News)

Celebrating Revolution With Roots in a Rumor (Prague) (Breaking News)

Ancient university buildings under threat (UK) (Breaking News)

New Web Site Makes Internet Time Traveling Easier (Breaking News)

Project makes Illinois history available online (Historians in the News)

13th Century castle is to be sold (Wales) (Breaking News)

Ancients 'had heart disease too' (Breaking News)

Nabokov's unfinished work is published (Breaking News)

Germany arrests top Rwanda rebels (Breaking News)

Cheating bankers nothing new, 19th century 'Madoff medal' shows (Breaking News)

'It's Magical': Obama Tours China's Great Wall (Breaking News)

U.S. Attends International Criminal Court Meeting for First Time (Breaking News)

Body of Kidnapped British Journalist Reportedly Found in Lebanon 23 Years Later (Breaking News)

Letter Lincoln Wrote to Boy After Inauguration for Sale (Breaking News)

Oldest U.S.-Born Person Dies at 114 in New York (Breaking News)

Noteworthy Senate debates throughout U.S. history (Breaking News)

West Virginia's Byrd becomes the longest-serving member of Congress (Breaking News)

Angolan historian at Brazzaville international colloquium (Historians in the News)

Gordon S. Wood: Defending the academicians (Historians in the News)

Emily Chang, CNN Reporter, Detained In Shanghai Over Obama-Mao T-Shirt (Breaking News)

Obama Tours Forbidden City (Breaking News)

Jerusalem: To two faiths, a holy patch of land; to the world, a powder keg (Breaking News)

Blogs

RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Israel: Specter of Meir Kahane continues to haunt politics (Breaking News)

Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship Endowment Still Needs Support (Historians in the News)

Old African-American cemetery relocation takes slow, delicate work (Atlanta) (Breaking News)

Prague marks Velvet Revolution (Breaking News)

'Ex Nazi' charged with 58 murders (Breaking News)

Bishops reprise old abortion fight with higher stakes (Breaking News)

Proposed Merger Threat to Black Colleges in Mississippi (Breaking News)

Duke Professor Publishes Book with Muhammad Images (Breaking News)

30 Years After Murder, Is His Appeal Too Late? (Breaking News)

Online Maps: Now Everyman Offers New Directions (Breaking News)

To cut deficit, Red Cross sells treasures amassed over decades (Breaking News)

Medvedev rejects WWII history 'rewrites' (Breaking News)

Byrd Will Set Another Record (Breaking News)

Defendant's Words May Help 9/11 Case (Breaking News)

How Is Obama's Extended Family Handling Reflective Fame? (Breaking News)

CBS News launching turn-of-decade look at America's position in the world (Breaking News)

What happens to the archives of minority newspapers that go out of existence? (Breaking News)

Blogs

KEITH HALDERMAN: A Portent of Things to Come (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Cory Maye Reversal (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Preserving access to papers relating to Lord Palmerston and Mountbatten: the Broadlands Archives campaign (Breaking News)

Shakespeare Quartos Archive launched online (Breaking News)

GOP faces struggle to recapture House in 2010 (Breaking News)

Blogs

HNN : AMERICA ONLY TALKS, SO CHINESE NEED NOT LISTEN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)

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

Roundup

LGBTQ Taskforce Statement (Historians in the News)

David Segal: Naming the '00s (Breaking News)

Families of first world war tank crew commemorate historic battle (France) (Breaking News)

Blogs

TIMOTHY FURNISH: Going Rogue, or Going Down Allah’s Path? Ottomans, Ayatollahs and Nidal Malik Hasan (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)

Roundup

Metal Thieves Steal 1,500 Pound Cannon From Veteran's Cemetary (California) (Breaking News)

Officials Discuss Plans to Bring Gitmo Detainees to Illinois (Breaking News)

Black Panthers denounce 'new' Panthers (Breaking News)

U.S. Supreme Court declines 'Redskins' suit (Breaking News)

South Pole explorers to drill for Sir Ernest Shackleton's Whisky (Breaking News)

Evidence for kings David and Solomon (Breaking News)

The child of Auschwitz's Kommandant (Breaking News)

Yemen Finds Dreamland of Architecture (Breaking News)

Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers at Northwestern University (Breaking News)

Suspect Is Key to Pace in 9/11 Case (Breaking News)

Renowned historian angers Scottish World War II veterans (Historians in the News)

Arabs Hostile Approach to Iran is a "Big Mistake." an Arab Historian says (Historians in the News)

From the archives: Oklahoma woman historian who struggled to rise above prejudices (Historians in the News)

Drake Bennett: How historians are looking deeper at the fall of the Berlin Wall (Historians in the News)

Blogs

DAVID T. BEITO: The Neocons Favorite "Maverick" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

Roundup

McCain asks staffers to hold their fire on Palin (Breaking News)

Muslim academics and students are turning against Darwin's theory (Breaking News)

MI6 chiefs to give evidence at Iraq inquiry (Breaking News)

Blogs

ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Celebrating Ernest Gruening (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

Roundup

Napoleon's hair on display in London (Breaking News)

Indian heroine's letter unearthed (Breaking News)

Rwanda genocide ruling overturned (Breaking News)

Where have all the protests gone? US students in limbo (Breaking News)

Benito Mussolini regarded Adolf Hitler as a 'sentimentalist' (Breaking News)

How the Nazis tried to take Christ out of Christmas (Breaking News)

Palin: I Can't Be Blamed for GOP Losing Presidency in 2008 (Breaking News)

'Forgotten Australians' get apology (Breaking News)

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

Fareed Zakaria: Is America Losing Its Mojo? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Simon Schama: China's on-off American romance (Roundup: Talking About History)

David Jackson: Obama follows in the Chinese footsteps of Richard Nixon (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jonathan Movroydis: Another Misinformed Vietnam Analogy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Gannon: US-Japanese relations 1969 (Roundup: Talking About History)

David R. Stokes: A Joke Too Far (Obama in light of the Kennedy Assassination) (Roundup: Media's Take)

Jack Pitney: KSM: Obama's words carry great weight in Manhattan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Frank Gannon: Presidential Libraries (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

How Soccer Explains Soviet Life [video 56 minutes 7 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

The Goddess of the Market: The Meaning of Ayn Rand [video 1 hour 14 minutes 46 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Steven Hill: America's House of Lords debates health care (Roundup: Media's Take)

C.M. Sennot: How to finance the war in Afghanistan? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Illuminating Hadrian's Wall--A Line of Light from Coast to Coast (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor: Alexander Sokurov's 'The Sun' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Smithsonian Pop Quiz: How old was Elvis when he got his first guitar? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Jonathan Schell: Obama's Vietnam Syndrome (Roundup: Media's Take)

US protest by 9/11 responders [2minutes, 34 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)

Andreas Umland: Understanding the Orange Revolution: Ukraine's Democratization in the Russian Mirror (Roundup: Talking About History)

Leonardo da Vinci Exhibit Opens in Times Square (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Museum of the History of Science in Florence to Show Fingers, Tooth Said to be Galileo's (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Pompeii and the Roman Villa Exhibition Arrives in Mexico (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Dickens's Original 'A Christmas Carol' on View at the Morgan Library (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Aaron Leonard: Review of Slavoj Zizek’s First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (Books)

Oprah's Kremlinologist (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

WSJ Editorial: Obama union rules , a federal agency rips up 75 years of labor policy (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Johnson: 1,000,000,000,000 (Roundup: Media's Take)

WSJ Editorial: Why We're Not 'Post-Racial' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Phyllis B. Taylor: Review of Stephen Cox's The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison (Yale University Press, 2009) (Books)

Steve Benen: Foxx's Notion of 'Revisionist History' (Roundup: Media's Take)

Andy Worthington: Obama’s Failure to Close Guantánamo by January Deadline Is Disastrous (Roundup: Media's Take)

Maybe Your Great-Grandmother Really Was Cherokee (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

William Pfaff: Enough G-2 Talk Already (Roundup: Media's Take)

Brett H. McGurk: A surge to sovereignty in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)

Yoram Ettinger: In contrast to Clinton's statement, demography does not threaten Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)

Charles Krauthammer: Travesty in New York (Roundup: Media's Take)

Michael Grunwald: Will the Katrina Ruling Prevent Another Disaster? (Roundup: Media's Take)

Christina Davidson: Recession Pressure on Labor Rights (Roundup: Media's Take)

Daniel Pipes: Maj. Hasan's Islamist Life (Roundup: Historians' Take)

Saints at a Cultural Crossroads (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)

Joe Queenan: Stop Picking on Fat People (Roundup: Media's Take)

Akash Kapur: India's Path Was Paved by Soviet Fall (Roundup: Talking About History)

Jeanne-Claude, Part of a Creative Powerhouse Behind Ephemeral Artworks (Obituaries)

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)

Richard Williams: 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's and Don Reo's 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)

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.'s 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's 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's 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)

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)

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RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

KEITH HALDERMAN: Walter Cronkite Opposed Drug Prohibition (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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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)

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DAVID T. BEITO: What Obama Should Have Said About the Gates Arrest (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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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)

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JAMES C. COBB: Why Not Kick Us Again? You Might Have Missed A Tooth OrTwo! * (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

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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)

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

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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)

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ROBERT HIGGS: Most Investors, Economists, and Policy Makers Are Blind to the Mountain of Malinvestments (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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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)

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DAVID T. BEITO: The Gates Arrest: More than Just About Race (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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Barack Obama condemns arrest of black scholar (Breaking News)

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CHRIS BRAY: Whither the Great American Unicorn? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)

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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)

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JANE S. SHAW: A Libertarian Dilemma? This Is Easy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)

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Fed-up historian offers a citizen's guide for FOIA requests to the FBI (Historians in the News)

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