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Week of September 5, 2010
Roundup
Former Saddam confidant says he'll likely die in prison, citing old age and long sentences (Breaking News)
Who will define ground zero? 9 years after 9/11, tug of war over 'sacred ground' grows heated (Breaking News)
LA police investigate discovery of 'mummified' babies (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TIMES IS WRONG ABOUT PEACE AND ISRAEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BLAIR: WE DID NOT UNDERSTAND ISLAMISM IS LIKE REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Top Ten Lost Technologies (Breaking News)
Wills of Famous Figures Revealed (Breaking News)
New 1981 Belfast hunger strike documents disclosed (Breaking News)
Veronica Guerin murder suspect finally caught (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: Congrats and Thanks (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Jay Brookman: Recasting Bush as the hero of Iraq is taking things much too far (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Moses: Islamophobia and Anti-Catholocism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Malcolm: War is hell on presidents' approval ratings (Roundup: Media's Take)
Albert Hunt: Beck's Pitch Channels Depression-Era Invective (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of August 29, 2010
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: the bst + the brytest (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Is Obama a Traitor to His Class? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Bone fragments represent unprecedented discovery (Breaking News)
Ancient Nubians Drank Antibiotic-Laced Beer (Breaking News)
Human Meat Just Another Meal for Early Europeans? (Breaking News)
Canada, U.K. discuss preserving shipwreck (Breaking News)
Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable (Breaking News)
Jerome M. McCabe, survivor of Korean War's Battle of Chosin Reservoir, dies at 84 (Breaking News)
First ever female cop in U.S. was an Irish woman (Breaking News)
Rare Roman lantern found in field near Sudbury (Breaking News)
Sweat and breath damaging Sistine Chapel's frescoes (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SLICHOT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Report: Ground Zero Mosque Investor Contributed to Designated Terror Group (Breaking News)
Fidel Castro dons military duds for 1st time since stepping down; possible sign of larger role (Breaking News)
Natural History Museum's Origins of Western Culture hall will close for a 3-year renovation (Breaking News)
A Detroit District Thrives by Building on the Past (Breaking News)
Marcel Albert, Air Ace of France in World War II, Dies at 92 (Breaking News)
Exhibit presents World War I from the Germans’ perspective. (Breaking News)
Last mission for World War II bomber squadron (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BLACK TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT JUMPS FROM 40.6% TO 45.4% (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
As Past Recedes, Germans Reconsider the Draft (Breaking News)
Mountain Meadows affidavit Hofmann forgery? (Breaking News)
History Buffs in Kansas Bring Back 'Town Ball' (Breaking News)
Historian Sean Wilentz claims Bob Dylan as one of his own. (Breaking News)
New Owners Acquire Ice Age Discovery in Wisconsin (Breaking News)
Rare German wartime bomber found in UK seabed to be raised for museum display (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Liberty and Power Lectures Launch (Jimmy Wales) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
French Teacher Suspended for Spending Too Much Time Teaching Holocaust (Breaking News)
World's 'oldest beer' found in shipwreck (Breaking News)
Winston Churchill 'ordered assassination of Mussolini to protect compromising letters’ (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: On Either Side of War (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Wiesenthal Worked for Israeli Spy Agency, Book Alleges (Breaking News)
Have LDS, Jews resolved proxy baptism dispute? (Breaking News)
Army Chaplain is 1st killed in action since 1970 (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Death of Politics (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Highest Paid Athlete Hailed From Ancient Rome (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CHILL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING and WATCHING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Rare Roman lantern found in UK field (Breaking News)
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle (Breaking News)
Stephen Hawking Picks Physics Over God for Big Bang (Breaking News)
White House Forbids Sale of 850,000 Korean War Rifles (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PEACE TALKS MEAN ISRAELI ORPHANS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Divers steal from Holland 5 submarine off Sussex coast (Breaking News)
Archaeologists in Jordan say they have unearthed a 3,000-year-old temple (Breaking News)
Palaeolithic funeral feast unearthed in Northern Israel (Breaking News)
Rare paintings found in Surrey attic saved from dustbin (Breaking News)
New York art courier loses $1.3 million painting on night out (Breaking News)
Fidel Castro regrets discrimination against gays in Cuba (Breaking News)
Blair: Bush world view had 'immense simplicity' (Breaking News)
Divers lift 200-year-old champagne from Baltic shipwreck (Breaking News)
History will be judge of war in Iraq, Gates says (Breaking News)
Giant Freeze Dryer To Preserve Ship Pieces At Texas A&M Lab (Breaking News)
Dig uncovers fort built by the British during the Revolution (Breaking News)
Homeowner’s Fight Involves Flag Tied to Tea Party (Breaking News)
Live Civil War cannonballs removed from KSU building (Breaking News)
Tony Blair says did not foresee Iraq "nightmare" (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: What More Is There to Say? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: The Guardian and Russ Roberts (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
TIMOTHY FURNISH: Hugo and Mahmoud: Twin Sons of Different Madres? (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: Mo' Money, Mo' Problems (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Magna Carta Getting a New Gas to Lie In (Breaking News)
Cavemen Accused of Wiping Out Cave Bears (Breaking News)
Prehistoric villages ruins discovered in North China (Breaking News)
Failed Search Deepens Mystery of Vanished Explorers (Breaking News)
South Sudan to end use of child soldiers (Breaking News)
Meat-eating 'dragon' terrorised Romania 80 million years ago (Breaking News)
Titanic wreckage to be raised digitally by new 3D map (Breaking News)
Israeli archaeologists say ancient shards of flint might be world's oldest disposable cutlery (Breaking News)
Nearly 15,000 people still missing from 1990s Balkan wars, Red Cross says (Breaking News)
Vietnam War-era artillery shell explodes in southern Vietnam, killing man and injuring wife (Breaking News)
Seeking clues to Bolivar's death, Venezuela exhumes bones of independence hero's sisters (Breaking News)
Former Argentine military officer fights extradition from US over 1972 massacre (Breaking News)
White House keeps lid on Obama, Bush talk (Breaking News)
U.S. combat mission in Iraq nears end (Breaking News)
The man who first saw Belsen (Breaking News)
Daniel Libeskind memorial to mark Canada's refusal of Jews in 1939 (Breaking News)
Most Russians unaware of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (Breaking News)
German war-dead find final resting place in Czech soil (Breaking News)
Oil aboard sunken WWII tanker may pose threat (Breaking News)
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to be reunited on 500-peso bill (Breaking News)
Rewriting History on Chappaquiddick (Breaking News)
Britain to Scrap Outmoded Bylaws (Breaking News)
French railways to open Nazi deportation files to US (Breaking News)
German Plans to Invade Ireland Revealed (Breaking News)
RAF relied on German sea rescue service during Battle of Britain (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Civil War relics shut down university building (Breaking News)
Fidel Castro says he was 'at death's door' (Breaking News)
U.S. Birthrate Declines to Lowest in Its History (Breaking News)
Obit: Historian John Russell-Wood (Historians in the News)
Plans Made for 1968 Olympics in East and West Berlin (Breaking News)
What Should Gettysburg Do With Its Empty Cyclorama Building? (Breaking News)
Oxford English Dictionary "Will Not Be Printed Again" (Breaking News)
Stocky Predatory Dinosaur Prowled Transylvania (Breaking News)
Skis from Scott's Fateful Antarctic Trek on Sale (Breaking News)
Rwanda threatens UN over DR Congo 'genocide' report (Breaking News)
Dry weather reveals archaeological 'cropmarks' in fields (Breaking News)
Battlelines drawn over Gettysburg casino (Breaking News)
Titian masterpiece damaged after sprinklers go off (Breaking News)
SNCF to open war archives to California (Breaking News)
Historic City in South Pakistan Saved from Floods (Breaking News)
King's niece defends rally on anniversary of "I Have a Dream" speech (Breaking News)
Britain carried out Cold War assassinations: Le Carre (Breaking News)
Bankers Told Recovery May Be Slow (Breaking News)
Mary Shelley’s 213th birthday celebrated by spooky Google Doodle (Breaking News)
Obama hails New Orleans spirit on Katrina anniversary (Breaking News)
Double meteorite strike 'caused dinosaur extinction' (Breaking News)
Dry weather reveals archaeological 'cropmarks' in fields (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: This One's A Toughie... (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Andrew Leonard: The key to economic growth? Stealing (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The New Old World Order (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jim Cullen, Review of Aziz Rana's "The Two Faces of American Freedom" (Harvard, 2010) (Books)
Steve Kornacki: The GOP's new fake racial history (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Anti-Islamic mood repeats history (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Doug Ireland: Forget Mehlman — What About Lincoln? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Sudhir Hazareesingh: Why is de Gaulle suddenly back in vogue? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Daniel Henninger: If Saddam Had Stayed (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alyssa Battistoni: Glenn Beck's revisionist, apolitical history (Roundup: Media's Take)
Norman Solomon: A Speech for Endless War (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Bacevich: Obama Wants Us To Forget the Lessons of Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stephen M. Walt: Whitewashing the failure in Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Tisdall: Sorry General Petraeus, Iraq and Afghanistan are only too similar (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Okrent: When Liquor Was Prescribed as Medicine [video, 2 minutes, 29 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Brad Hirschfeld: Who's Your Nazi? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley Kutler: Our Enabling Media Is Worse Than Ever (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Simon Jenkins: A trillion-dollar catastrophe. Yes, Iraq was a headline war (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alex Massie: Everybody Hates Tony Blair (Roundup: Talking About History)
Van Gosse: American Democracy (the Lack Thereof) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bob Herbert: We Owe the Troops an Exit (Roundup: Media's Take)
"The Box That Changed Britain" on BBC TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Paul D. Wolfowitz: In Korea, a Model for Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Rieff: At Least President Bush Was Sincere About Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen Hadley: Why We Fought and What We Achieved (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Helprin: The World Trade Center Mosque and the Constitution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hayder al-Khoei: Did Iran really do so well out of the Iraq war? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Cohen: In the Middle East, it's still 1947 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edward E. Curtis IV: Five Myths About Mosques in America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dana Milbank: Religious Tolerance Then and Now (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gadi Taub: In Israel, Settling for Less (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian E. Zelizer: Time for Obama to put cards on table (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard N. Haass: The Gulf war at 20; its lessons today (Roundup: Talking About History)
Neal Ascherson: Solidarity ... The strike that shook the Kremlin (Roundup: Talking About History)
Week of August 22, 2010
Blogs
AARON BADY: Reclamation (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Iraq 'bleeding antiquities' as instability continues (Breaking News)
"Lost" Language Found on Back of 400-Year-Old Letter (Breaking News)
BU archaeologists excavating Thomas Cemetery graves (Breaking News)
Japan police arrest relatives of dead 'centenarian' (Breaking News)
Oldest evidence of arrows found (Breaking News)
DR Congo killings 'may be genocide' - UN draft report (Breaking News)
Australian school apologises for awarding child dressed as Hitler costume prize (Breaking News)
Denbigh's Henry Morton Stanley statue 'celebrates racism', academics claim (Breaking News)
Glenn Beck 'hijacking' MLK anniversary (Breaking News)
Kenya enacts new US-style constitution after 20-year wait (Breaking News)
Kim Jong Il's trip spurs succession speculation (Breaking News)
Indicted Sudanese president visits Kenya, defies arrest warrant on genocide charges (Breaking News)
Pressure mounts for 'Sheriff' Elizabeth Warren, says Zelizer (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Playing the Genocide Card (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Archaeologists unearth Roman industrial estate in UK (Breaking News)
Nazi plan to wear British uniforms to invade (Breaking News)
Katrina Five Years After (Breaking News)
Japan reveals long-secretive execution process (Breaking News)
David Weber, Southwest Expert, Dies at 69 (Historians in the News)
Franz Schurmann, Cold War Expert on China, Dies at 84 (Historians in the News)
Australian school apologises for Hitler costume prize (Breaking News)
Attacks raise concerns in Northern Ireland (Breaking News)
Long-lost piano 'played by Mozart' found in Germany (Breaking News)
Ice age flint tools found during road repairs (Breaking News)
Ballet dancing agent leaked battle plans to Nazis (Breaking News)
Telegraph crossword: Cracking hobby won the day (Breaking News)
The U.S.S. Olympia may be headed to a watery grave (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
The evolution of home economics programs (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Montgomery (AL) Blacks Protest "Eminent Domain Through the Back Door" (Saturday) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Brutal slave history unearthed at Frederick County's L'Hermitage (Breaking News)
Archaeologists find new clues why the Maya left (Breaking News)
Blonde Nazi ballerina 'caused war setback' (Breaking News)
Oetzi the Iceman may have been ceremonially buried (Breaking News)
Nuremberg Laws handed over to US National Archives (Breaking News)
Fire razes historic site of 19th Century warrior king's tribal capital in Zimbabwe (Breaking News)
South African labor leader: Mandela's house was bugged during tumultuous period for ANC (Breaking News)
Medical instruments likely used by the Nazis for experiments obtained by Auschwitz memorial (Breaking News)
Nuns mark Mother Teresa's 100th birthday (Breaking News)
Despite diminishing numbers, a historical Jewish community thrives in Azerbaijan (Breaking News)
Blogs
GUS DIZEREGA: New Yorker Article on the Koch Brothers (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Independent Analysis Reveals Deep Flaws in Proposed Gettysburg Casino Economic Projections (Breaking News)
Japanese politician launches attack on 'River Kwai' Britons (Breaking News)
Indians remember Mother Teresa on birth centennial (Breaking News)
Rare collection of Nation of Islam papers discovered (Breaking News)
Walker finds skeleton of World War I soldier preserved in astonishing condition buried in glacier on Italian ski resort (Breaking News)
New Life in America No Longer Means a New Name (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Ancient Human Skeleton Removed From Mexican Cave (Breaking News)
Gardens of entire Leicestershire village dug up for BBC Four archaeology series (Breaking News)
Cao Cao’s Tomb is a Fake (Breaking News)
Ancient Bakery Found in Egyptian Desert (Breaking News)
Croatia extradites Djindjic plotter to Serbia (Breaking News)
National Archives Receives Original Nuremberg Laws from Huntington Library (Breaking News)
Roman 'industrial estate' unearthed in North Yorkshire (Breaking News)
Nixon Administration Attorney General William Saxbe Dies (Breaking News)
History in shadows: Exhibition in Turkey tells of Muslim world's contributions to science (Breaking News)
White Farmer Petitions U.N., Accusing South Africa Of Genocide (Breaking News)
Egypt discovers 3,500-year-old oasis trading post (Breaking News)
Bath historian finds diaries of woman who nursed Nelson (Historians in the News)
Finding stolen piece of history may not be easy task (Breaking News)
John B. Judis: Defending ‘The Unnecessary Fall of Barack Obama’ (Historians in the News)
Forever Young: Staughton Lynd at 80 (Historians in the News)
Flogging Genghis Khan for Tourists in Mongolia (Breaking News)
Home where Langston Hughes lived during high school in Cleveland condemned (Breaking News)
Is it simply British to 'get smashed'? (Breaking News)
After Mozart’s Death, an Endless Coda (Breaking News)
In History-Rich Region, a Very New System Tracks Very Old Things (Breaking News)
When an Arab Enclave Thrived in Downtown Manhattan (Breaking News)
Some Doubt if Any King Is Still Fit for Sweden (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: Elsewhere: Post-blogging 1940 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Hitler DNA Tests Reveal Possible Jewish and African Roots (Breaking News)
Historian uses ancient maps to block ramblers (Historians in the News)
Bath historian finds diaries of woman who nursed Nelson (Breaking News)
Spy Museum adds another former spy to staff in DC (Breaking News)
South Sudan plans mass return ahead of referendum (Breaking News)
Egyptian minister held over Van Gogh theft (Breaking News)
Isle of Wight home to thousands of dinosaur remains (Breaking News)
Rare 1950s Jaguar for sale - having done just 500 miles (Breaking News)
Greeks 'discover Odysseus' palace in Ithaca, proving Homer's hero was real' (Breaking News)
'Ground Zero Mosque' Imam: America Killed More Innocents Than Al Qaeda (Breaking News)
40 years later, FBI still hunts alleged bomber (Breaking News)
Grandfather's ghost story leads to mysterious mass grave (Breaking News)
Historian and China expert Franz Schurmann dies (Historians in the News)
Income inequality may contribute to financial crises, says Harvard economic historian (Historians in the News)
At Reagan's Presidential Library, the Kids Are in Control (Breaking News)
Red Menace: David Gentilcore Talks the Tasty History of the Tomato (Historians in the News)
NEH Announces $31.5 Million in Grants and Awards (Breaking News)
Library of Congress Launches National Digital Stewardship Alliance (Breaking News)
NEH Awards Initial Grants in its Bridging Cultures Program (Breaking News)
History Organizations Fight to Save Teaching American History Grants (Breaking News)
Speak Out in Opposition To Gettysburg Casino Proposal! (Breaking News)
Daniel J. Flynn: An FBI History of Howard Zinn (Historians in the News)
Lawrence of Arabia's secret 'X-flights' revealed in diary (Breaking News)
Navy's refusal to deliver Medal of Honor irks N.Y. officials (Breaking News)
'American Schindler’ helped 4,000 Jews escape the Nazis (Breaking News)
Civil War Battlefields To Share $1 Million For Land Acquisition (Breaking News)
'Grand Prince of All Russia' Sues to Get Kremlin Back (Breaking News)
60-acre property near battlefield approved for easement (Breaking News)
Legacy of Nazi era, Cold War make privacy-obsessed Germans wary of Google Street View (Breaking News)
Veterans groups and lawmakers suggest that VA take over Arlington Cemetery (Breaking News)
The secret behind Mona Lisa's smile Mona (Breaking News)
Kent battle between German bomber crew and British soldiers marked after 70 years (Breaking News)
World's oldest mechanical clock 'to be wound by hand for last time' (Breaking News)
Fidel Castro fascinated by book on Bilderberg Club (Breaking News)
Students Silenced for Singing Anthem at Lincoln Memorial (Breaking News)
Divers work to lift WWII plane from Calif. lake (Breaking News)
Inside Neurosurgery’s Rise (Breaking News)
Storm Topples Anne Frank Tree (Breaking News)
The Open Road Wasn’t Quite Open to All (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Regime Uncertainty: Are Interest-Rate Movements Consistent with the Hypothesis? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Japan team excavates ancient statues in Cambodia (Breaking News)
New Management Plan in the Works For Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail (Breaking News)
Hitler 'had Jewish and African roots', DNA tests show (Breaking News)
Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review (Historians in the News)
David Weber, Vice-president of the AHA’s Professional Division, Dies at 69 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Weird Fashion for Bashing Faith Schools (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Did Bozo the Clown Tell Lies and Sleep Around? (Breaking News)
Grandfather's ghost story leads to mysterious 1832 mass grave (Breaking News)
'Author JD Salinger's toilet' put on sale for $1m (Breaking News)
Claudy bomb: conspiracy allowed IRA priest to go free (Breaking News)
Ansel Adams trust sues over photographic print sales (Breaking News)
Egyptian minister held over Van Gogh theft (Breaking News)
Pont-Saint-Esprit poisoning: Did the CIA spread LSD? (Breaking News)
24 August 410: the date it all went wrong for Rome? (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
The Root Interview: William Jelani Cobb on Obama and Black Leadership (Historians in the News)
Dinosaur bones found in Canadian sewer tunnel (Breaking News)
Lockerbie bomber was visited by Gaddafi son on anniversary (Breaking News)
Crowds rally for and against Ground Zero mosque (Breaking News)
Egon Schiele artwork stolen by Nazis returned to Austria (Breaking News)
Acropolis to open for August full moon, after Greek officials solve dispute with guards (Breaking News)
Top culture ministry official detained and accused of neglect in Van Gogh painting theft (Breaking News)
Estonian Navy finds wrecks of 3 British World War I-era ships off Baltic Sea island (Breaking News)
Michelle Obama, Laura Bush to jointly mark terror attack anniversary (Breaking News)
Tree beloved by Anne Frank falls down (Breaking News)
Scant Progress Seen in Effort to Solve Old Racial Killings (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NO TO BOOK BURNING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Obama’s Teachable Mosque Moment: FrontPage Interviews Victor Davis Hanson (Historians in the News)
Author Credit for Widow of Baseball Historian (Historians in the News)
3 Years After a Windfall, an Unexpected Reality for the Genealogical Society (Breaking News)
Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say (Breaking News)
More Killings In Venezuala Than in Iraq (Breaking News)
40 years later, Wis. bomber is a 'ghost' (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MOSQUE DIVIDES MUSLIMS AS WELL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Peter Berkowitz: The Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated (Roundup: Talking About History)
Susie Mesure: Never has so little history been known by so few... (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jim Cullen, Review of Samuel Moyn's "The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History" (Harvard, 2010) (Books)
John Sainsbury: Why the Aussies Can Debate the Monarchy But Canadians Can't (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Erin Aubry Kaplan: President Obama, 'The View' and Race in America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alveda King: Glenn Beck's 8/28 Rally: It's a Matter of Honor (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Rodgers: Price of August Naps: History's Rudest Awakenings (Roundup: Talking About History)
Nicolaus Mills: Sex Shop and Strip Clubs Near Ground Zero Show Double Standard over Park51 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eugene Robinson: Even Beck Can't Mar King's Legacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Douglas E. Schoen: Time for Obama to Pull a Clinton (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gheorghe Apostol, Romanian Communist Who Criticized Ceausescu, Dies at 97 (Obituaries)
Marcel Albert, Air Ace of France in World War II, Dies at 92 (Obituaries)
Doyle McManus: Obama, Midterm Elections and the 2012 Race (Roundup: Media's Take)
Conrad Black: Decline, but Not Inevitable Decline (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Guns of August (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonathan Cohn: Reagan, Bush, and Rotten Eggs (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Herf: Fresh Air in Central Europe (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Raphael recalls era of Vatican intrigue (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Christopher Dickey: What an Irish Terrorist Teaches Us About Tolerance (Roundup: Media's Take)
Con Coughlin: Obama Risks Iraq's Future (Roundup: Media's Take)
Justin Marozzi: Neglect of Somalia will have high price (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bruce Craig: Teaching American History Grants: A Call for Action (Roundup: Talking About History)
History in shadows: Exhibition in Turkey tells of Muslim world's contributions to science (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
John B. Judis: The Unnecessary Fall of Barack Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
A Passion for History: Natalie Zemon Davis, Conversations With Denis Crouzet -- by Natalie Zemon Davis (Books About History & Historians)
Reuel Marc Gerecht: Moderate Muslims Are Not the Answer (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kathleen Parker: A Nation United in a Failure to Communicate (Roundup: Media's Take)
Martin Luther King III: Still striving for MLK's dream in the 21st century (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Saxbe, Attorney General During Watergate Inquiry, Dies at 94 (Obituaries)
Christine Stansell: A Forgotten Fight for Suffrage (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Artist’s Work, Out of Attics, Goes to Walls of a Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Hendrix in Britain and Handel's house (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sean Wilentz: New Dylan Recordings Unveiled (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Monroe: Why the Senate Should Block 'New Start' (Roundup: Media's Take)
James K. Glassman: The Failure of the Liberal Economic Experiment? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Lara Setrakian: Beirut in Baghdad ... Is the 'Lebanonization' of Iraq complete? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Caroline Alexander: The Shock of War (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: Now the U.S. Should Get Out of Iraq's Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
The Economist: India and China: A Himalayan Rivalry (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steve Hochstadt: Joe the Plumber: A Political Inspiration? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Rachleff: 25 Years on, Still P-9 Proud (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Greenwald: A Modest Proposal for Teacher Tenure Reform (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Sainsbury: Catholicism’s Culture of Secrecy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gary Bruce: When the Stasi Came for the Doctor (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Hartigan Jr.: What Does Race Have to Do With It? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Katie Holmes in recreation of day John F Kennedy assassinated (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Doug Bandow: Remembering the Unbelievable (Roundup: Talking About History)
Suhail A. Khan: Was George W. Bush America's First Muslim President? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tony Karon: Two Minutes to Midnight? (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Voegeli: Amid Record Debt, We Need a Welfare State We Can Believe In –- and Afford (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Cohen: No Compromise on Religious Freedom (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph A. Massey and Lee M. Sands: The Yen’s Lesson for the Yuan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: America — Compared to What? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steve Kornacki: Park51 and the Right's Willie Horton Syndrome (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Lind: The Liberal Case Against Race-Based Affirmative Action (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian E. Zelizer: GOP Needs a Reagan to Unite Its Factions (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stephen M. Walt: Obama should read up on the Weimar Republic (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bennett Ramberg: A Weak Start for START (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Lord: From Hanoi Jane to Imam Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: The Twenty Years' War (Roundup: Talking About History)
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez: We Are Spirit (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Conrad Black: Obama and the Muslims (Roundup: Historians' Take)
National Review: Obama: More a Carter than a Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Final Exams at Harvard are So Twentieth Century (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jack Shakely: How to Save Public Television (Roundup: Media's Take)
Neal Gabler: Disincentivizing Greed (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert J. Samuelson: How a Homeownership Fetish Hurt the American Dream (Roundup: Media's Take)
John J. Pitney Jr.: The GOP and the Temptation of Hubris (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fouad Ajami: The Guns of August, 1990 (Roundup: Talking About History)
Eric Foner: Born in the U.S.A. Is What Makes Someone American (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Benjamin Kaplan, 99, esteemed jurist, law professor (Obituaries)
Alex Massie: Why Britain Still Loathes Tony Blair (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of August 15, 2010
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Ron Paul on the Mosque Fiasco (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
200 years ago, health care a priority (Breaking News)
'Author JD Salinger's toilet' put on sale for $1m (Breaking News)
Infant skeletons from 1930s found in Los Angeles apartment (Breaking News)
Ivan the Terrible descendants launch court case to get Kremlin back (Breaking News)
Thieves steal Van Gogh painting valued at $50 million from Cairo museum (Breaking News)
DNC deploys George W. Bush in new ad (Breaking News)
How 'Worst President' Ended Up on Coin (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: A Complete History of the Soviet Union Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker, arranged to the melody of Tetris (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: Quite Rather (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: COOL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Glenn Beck's plans for rally on a hallowed date and spot spurs countermarches (Breaking News)
Jews, Muslims Make Pilgrimage To Auschwitz (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Mystery deepens over woman at heart of L.A.'s basement babies case (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA: FORGET IRAN. THINK DIRECT ISRAELI /PALESTIAN TALKS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Lenin statue rubs elbows with de Gaulle, sparking outrage in France (Breaking News)
Debating Dieppe's disaster (Breaking News)
Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz (Historians in the News)
Awesome courage of the D-Day piper who the Nazis thought was mad (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TURKISH TROUBLES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Original Magna Carta and replica get a cleaning (Breaking News)
Over a Billion Years, Scientists Find, the Moon Went Through a Shrinking Phase (Breaking News)
The Folk Hero Playbook (Breaking News)
American Ballet Theatre returns to Cuba after 50 years (Breaking News)
Chernobyl species decline linked to DNA (Breaking News)
Don't celebrate Lockerbie bomber's release, Libya urged (Breaking News)
Birthright hearings would be deja vu (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Mexico finds Aztec remains during subway drilling (Breaking News)
Part of Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentary army found (Breaking News)
5000 stone statues older than Terracotta warriors discovered in Hunan (Breaking News)
York River may yield new Revolutionary War shipwreck (Breaking News)
At Ground Zero, the proposed mosque is not the only controversy (Breaking News)
New York sues for return of Central Park drawings (Breaking News)
Last Palestinian linked to 1972 Munich massacre dies (Breaking News)
New records cast light on life in Victorian workhouses (Breaking News)
Dublin exhibition 'Irish history in pictures' (Breaking News)
Winston Churchill's Battle of Britain 'Few' remembered (Breaking News)
US senators renew call for independent probe Lockerbie decision (Breaking News)
Lockerbie bomber expected to live for two more years, Libyan official says (Breaking News)
Stolen Greek period statue returns home to Egypt from Canada (Breaking News)
Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim (Breaking News)
Blogs
GUS DIZEREGA: No Copyright Law may have fueled German Development (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : Jeremy Pilaar: Class-Based Affirmative Action, Round 4 (What College Newspapers are Saying)
HNN : Mark Hay: Class-Based Affirmative Action, Round 3 (What College Newspapers are Saying)
HNN : John Gee: Class-Based Affirmative Action, Round 2 (What College Newspapers are Saying)
HNN : Sam Barr: Class-Based Affirmative Action (What College Newspapers are Saying)
Roundup
Inquiry after two ring-forts destroyed (Breaking News)
Why a Tampa company wants payments denied by Hitler's Germany (Breaking News)
Ohio clock continues to baffle after 193 years (Breaking News)
Walmart near battlefield trial date set in Va (Breaking News)
U.S. Senate committee OKs effort to expand Gettysburg National Military Park (Breaking News)
Queen of the Inch to be re-interred (Breaking News)
Ancient temple complex discovered near Le Mans (Breaking News)
Skeleton of 'dismembered' child discovered by Chiltern Arcaeologists (Breaking News)
Russia marks 50th anniversary of space dogs flight (Breaking News)
Charles A. Stevenson: Don't Rehabilitate General Lavelle (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 71% VIEW MOSQUE AS INSULT TO 9/11 VICTIMS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Unearthed Ship In NYC World Trade Center Offers Clues Of Colonial Life (Breaking News)
National Trust recreates Winston Churchill's butterfly house (Breaking News)
The man who taped baseball's 'shot heard 'round the world' (Breaking News)
Remembering the Battle of Britain (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: More on Demolition of Black-Owned Homes In Montgomery, Alabama (Short But Powerful) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Actor Ernest Borgnine to receive lifetime award (Breaking News)
Montpellier pays tribute to Lenin (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: It's Dying -- Let's Eat It (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
S.Korea archaeologists uncover 7,000-year-old oar (Breaking News)
Queen of the Inch to be re-interred (Breaking News)
Giant turtle's demise the fault of humans, study says (Breaking News)
Archaeologists Discover the Tomb of a Teenager Buried for Over 1600 Years (Breaking News)
Afghan archaeologists find Buddhist site as war rages (Breaking News)
'Terror bird' was prize fighter (Breaking News)
Mandela charity trustee resigns over Campbell diamonds (Breaking News)
Lockerbie bomber: 500 youths to celebrate first anniversary of Megrahi's release (Breaking News)
Second World War veteran, 90, murdered by mugger (Breaking News)
Ground Zero mosque is 'local decision' Pelosi says (Breaking News)
Lockerbie bomber still causing an uproar a year after his release, just by staying alive (Breaking News)
DNA results settle Bobby Fischer paternity case (Breaking News)
Scientists find oldest record of animal life on Earth (Breaking News)
Undisturbed artifacts will detail lives of Civil War prisoners (Breaking News)
NZ historian 'Koro' Dewes dies age 80 (Historians in the News)
Adolf Hilter brought down to earth by Scottish historian (Historians in the News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: The Empire has a Glitch (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Politicizing 9/11: The Mosque Flap Is Not the First Time (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ARAB RESPONSE TO CORDOBA MOSQUE/ update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
TIMOTHY FURNISH: The Ground Zero 'Cordoba' Mosque: Da`wah, Not Religious Tolerance (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FED INCREASES THE "UNUSUAL UNCERTAINTY" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ancient temple complex discovered in France (Breaking News)
Last moments of hero World War II pilot's life revealed in letter (Breaking News)
Cherokee Students Excavate Ancestral House at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Breaking News)
Vuvuzela enters Oxford Dictionary of English (Breaking News)
Ex-Illinois Governor Blagojevich found guilty of lying (Breaking News)
Did concussions play role in Lou Gehrig's disease? (Breaking News)
Teaching History with Guns (Breaking News)
650-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Earliest Animal Life, Scientists Say (Breaking News)
US appeals court panel: Law against faking receipt of military medals is unconstitutional (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Mid-Week Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
New OAH Membership Dues Structure Adopted (Historians in the News)
Historian writes about Leichhardt findings (Historians in the News)
Why Gandhi stayed away (Breaking News)
Thousands gather for ceremony marking 65th anniversary of V-J Day (Breaking News)
'Forgotten army' of POWs hold final remembrance service for fallen comrades (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Neal Ascherson Reviews the New Biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: "Something Very Like a Club" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): It's Time for a Truce in the "War on Terror" Before It's Too Late (Mark A. LeVine)
Roundup
California to force rail companies to come clean on Holocaust role (Breaking News)
Ringo Starr's birthplace faces the bulldozers (Breaking News)
Former Italian president Francesco Cossiga dies (Breaking News)
Radovan Karadzic trial recalls siege of Sarajevo (Breaking News)
Q. & A.: Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan (Historians in the News)
Bernard Knox, distinguished classicist, dies at 95 (Historians in the News)
Basil Davidson, radical journalist and historian who charted the death throes of colonialism in Africa (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BBC PANORAMA ON IHH GAZA FLOTILLA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CAMBODIA & WEST : JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Australia's Gillard backs republic after Queen's death (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIA: OBAMA CONSENTED TO BUSHIR (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE ON OBAMA &THE MOSQUE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Old Irish bones may yield murderous secrets in Pa. (Historians in the News)
Notre Dame's 'Real' Hunchback Uncovered By U.K. Archivist (Breaking News)
Old Irish bones may yield murderous secrets in Pa (Breaking News)
Retracing the Titanic for posterity (Breaking News)
Turks see Ottoman legacy in new light (Breaking News)
Adolf Hitler a war hero? Anything but, said first world war comrades (Breaking News)
East India Company returns after 135-year absence (Breaking News)
Postcard sent from Durban to Dorset takes 53 years (Breaking News)
Senator seeks Lockerbie bomber whistleblowers (Breaking News)
Elvis fans make annual pilgrimage to Graceland (Breaking News)
Ground Zero mosque backed by Mayor of New York (Breaking News)
Who owns Michelangelo's David, Italy or Florence? (Breaking News)
Professor Ray Beachey, 94, of Makerere University (Historians in the News)
Chrysler Destroys Its Historical Archives; GM to Follow? (Breaking News)
Storied Trove of 1930’s Jazz Is Acquired by Museum (Breaking News)
Fans fill Graceland for vigil marking Elvis' death (Breaking News)
Private equity mogul equates president's plan to raise taxes on the rich with the beginning of World War II (Breaking News)
Robot to Expose Hidden Secrets of the Pyramids (Breaking News)
Precious historic collections have vanished from Sonobudoyo Museum in Indonesia. (Breaking News)
Veterans Outraged After Army Hero's Grave Site Turned Into Dog Park (Breaking News)
Major archaeological find at site of Civil War prison (Breaking News)
The Curse of Von Ribbentrop's Nazi Watch (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CORDOBA MOSQUE, LIKE SKOKIE MARCH, LEGAL BUT HURTFUL/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Can the Dead (Capitalism) Be Brought Back to Life? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SACHS: PANICKED OBAMA DROVE US DEEPER INTO THE DITCH/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Historians rethink key Soviet role in Japan defeat (Breaking News)
Cancer expert consulted in Lockerbie bomber case raises questions over medical advice (Breaking News)
'Hidden Darfur': A 60-year-old war swells camps with refugees as Myanmar junta gains ground (Breaking News)
Japanese cabinet shun controversial Yasukuni shrine (Breaking News)
US firm awarded $110m for salvaging Titanic artefacts (Breaking News)
Liberia's Charles Taylor: Naomi Campbell was 'excited' to meet me (Breaking News)
Real-life Quasimodo uncovered in Tate archives (Breaking News)
Barack Obama backtracks over Ground Zero mosque support (Breaking News)
Britain commemorates VJ Day with ceremony, reception (Breaking News)
India's Independence Day: Patriotism and the right to fly the flag (Breaking News)
Alaska plane crash a painful reminder for families of Boggs and Begich (Breaking News)
In our foodie culture, white bread is toast (Breaking News)
Hundreds kiss in NYC in honor of end of WWII (Breaking News)
Japan PM shuns shrine, apologizes at WWII ceremony (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: The Mob Disapproves (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Steve Conn: Goodbye Baghdad! (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Seema Jilani: Crown Jewels or Spoils of War? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Bob Franken: Whose "Sacred Ground"? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steven Clemons: What Would George W. Bush Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Philippe Cousteau: National Treasures or American Wastelands, the Choice is Ours (Roundup: Media's Take)
Have Your Say on the "Ground Zero Mosque" (HNN Polls)
Why Do More Americans Think Obama is a Muslim? (HNN Polls)
'Mao's Last Dancer' tiptoes through forgotten history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
NYT: Review of "Army of Crime" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Joseph A. Bosco: Straight Talk on Taiwan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aaron David Miller: Obama's Missing His Moment, and America's (Roundup: Media's Take)
Celebrated critic Frank Kermode dies aged 90 (Obituaries)
Yes, Modern Celebrities are Sleazy, but Not Originals (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bill Millin, Scottish D-Day Piper, Dies at 88 (Obituaries)
Max Boot: Winning the Peace in Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Brian Wilson: The Lockerbie Bomber and Scotland's Disgrace (Roundup: Media's Take)
Con Coughlin: Libya has made fools of us all over Lockerbie bomber Megrahi (Roundup: Media's Take)
John D. Negroponte: Did We Just Have A Saigon 1975 Moment in Iraq? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Fisk: US troops say goodbye to Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Please, No More Teachable Moments (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Presidents Flying Blind (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Pratap Chatterjee: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben White: 1948 and Israel's Deceptive Bargaining Position (Roundup: Media's Take)
Parag Khanna: Beyond City Limits (Roundup: Media's Take)
Larry P. Goodson: Why the U.S. and Pakistan Must Draw Closer (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steven J. Rosen: Obama should pick up where Bush left off in the Middle East (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Pilling: China at Number Two ... and counting (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steve Hochstadt: The End of Encyclopedias? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
James Kilpatrick, conservative commentator, dies at 89 (Obituaries)
An Israeli Finds New Meanings in a Nazi Film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bennett Ramberg: The Nowhere Bomb (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Civilian Control? Surely, You Jest (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Keown: America's Unjust Revolution: A Rejoinder to Mark Tooley (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Bethell: Our One-Term President (Roundup: Media's Take)
Martin Shaw: The Holocaust, Genocide Studies, and Politics (Roundup: Talking About History)
Daniel Branch: Kenya’s Referendum: “In the Name of God, No!” (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonah Goldberg: Lack of Foresight Lets Mosque Controversy Balloon (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dissent Video: Obama and the Left [video, 55 minutes 7 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Yascha Mounk: Europe's Disoriented Right (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stephen M. Walt: Why America is Going to Regret the Cordoba House Controversy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harold Meyerson: Reviving California's Economy: Meg Whitman Versus Jerry Brown (Roundup: Media's Take)
Haris Tarin: A Muslim's Faith in America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: Immanuel Kant vs. Israel (Roundup: Talking About History)
Aaron David Miller: Ground Zero's Wounds Are Still Too Deep to Build Upon (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ray Takeyh: Clerics Responsible for Iran's Failed Attempts at Democracy (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: How to Win the Clash of Civilizations (Roundup: Talking About History)
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Russian History Rewritten, Again (Roundup: Talking About History)
Walter Russell Mead: Pakistan's Failed National Strategy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alex Epstein: Obama Follows Nixon On Oil Spills (Roundup: Media's Take)
Caravaggio’s Sensual Art Is Baroque Film Noir: Martin Gayford (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Lind: Happy Birthday, Social Security! (Roundup: Media's Take)
Arthur Herman: The Re-Hollowing of the Military (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: China Discovers World Expo is No Olympics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alexander Golts: Putin’s Power Vertical Stretches Back to Kursk (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dore Gold: Debunking the Myth That Israel Is a Colonialist State (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Bethell: Our One-Term President (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: Our 'Moderate Muslim' Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)
Toby Harnden: The battle over the mosque at Ground Zero (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joan Walsh: Why Catholics Should Thank Anti-Catholic Bigots (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chalmers Johnson: Lowering the Flag on the American Century (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ross Douthat: Islam in Two Americas (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Leonard: Jimmy Carter: Worst. American. Ever! (Roundup: Media's Take)
When Should a Tenured Professor Retire? (HNN Polls)
William Astore: A "No Fault" Divorce from the Costs of Our Wars (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ilyon Woo: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel K. Gardner: China's Fight Against Disposable Chopsticks (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eric Foner: The History of White People (Roundup: Talking About History)
Julian E. Zelizer: The New Party Bosses (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alexander Zaitchik and Rick Perlstein: Whither Glenn Beck? [video 19 minutes 44 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Tom Engelhardt: What If Washington...? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Storied Trove of 1930’s Jazz Is Acquired by Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Juan Cole: An Israeli Attack on Iran Would Reduce Barack Obama to a One-Term President (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Claire Potter: I Will Go Voluntarily at 67 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Waller R. Newell: It's the Ideology, Stupid (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ross Terrill: Mao Zedong and All That (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama the Yuppie (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas J. Sugrue: School Daze (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jennifer Lind: Apology Diplomacy at Hiroshima (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gregory Rodriguez: Attack on 14th Amendment: It's Wrong (Roundup: Media's Take)
...The Origins of the Bumper Sticker? (Did You Know?)
Fareed Zakaria: Gates's Lonely Battle to Rationalize the Pentagon (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian E. Zelizer: Time to Give Political Analysis a Rest (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mort Zuckerman: The End of American Optimism (Roundup: Media's Take)
“John Sergeant on Tracks of Empire” on BBC TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Peter Wehner: In Bush v. Obama, Bush Wins in a Rout (Roundup: Media's Take)
David A. Graham: A Short History of Presidential Vacation Outrage (Roundup: Media's Take)
WSJ Editorial: The Mosque of Misunderstanding (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Schama: Obama's brave remarks reveal a true patriot (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Hannah Gurman: The Iraq Withdrawal: An Orwellian Success (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen: Ignore the Fear-Mongering on Social Security (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Klarman: Is Public Opinion on Gay Marriage Ahead of the Supreme Court's? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Week of August 8, 2010
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: The Trillion Dollar Question: Should the National Debt be Repudiated? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FOOD FOR THE SOUL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
100-year-old Scotch pulled from frozen crate (Breaking News)
Tutankhamun excavation archive goes online (Breaking News)
Flood-hit Pakistan cancels Independence Day events (Breaking News)
Charles Taylor's lawyer silenced in war crimes court (Breaking News)
New York City aims to reclaim Central Park blueprints (Breaking News)
Wealth of today's sports stars is 'no match for the fortunes of Rome's chariot racers' (Breaking News)
Simon Wiesenthal Center criticizes Shimon Perez for saying Romania rescued Jews during WWII (Breaking News)
South Sudan hints at renewal of war if independence vote is delayed (Breaking News)
Are these the bones of John the Baptist? (Breaking News)
Construction vehicles are destroying Turkey's Hasankeyf, experts say (Breaking News)
Turkey discovers ancient underground tomb (Breaking News)
Historic Ship Brings Unwelcome Stowaways to Isle Royale National Park (Breaking News)
Searching for peace -- Japan's lost war children in China (Breaking News)
Replica spitfire, built in Ripon, goes up for auction (Breaking News)
'Swastika' and 'Crematorium' mountains cause uproar in Sweden (Breaking News)
Russia refuses to turn over Jewish library to US (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JUST STOP (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JONATHAN J. BEAN: “Born in the U.S.A.”: Damon Root’s Reminder of our Proud Exceptionalism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Win Wars? Today’s Generals Must Also Politick and Do P.R. (Breaking News)
Diving for Pearls, and a Connection to the Past (Breaking News)
Past Errors to Blame for Russia’s Peat Fires (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Lucy' species used stone tools, fossil study says (Breaking News)
Cannibal cavemen of Spain uncovered (Breaking News)
Europe's prehistoric tombs built in bursts (Breaking News)
Israel Finds 2,200-Year-Old Gold Coin, Most Valuable Ever (Breaking News)
Ancient Human-Bone Sculptors Turned Relatives Into Tools? (Breaking News)
"Thor's Hammer" Found in Viking Graves (Breaking News)
Teaching philosophy with Spider-Man (Breaking News)
2 burial sites dating back to 3,500 years located (Breaking News)
Ancient Phoenician city may have been 'relocated' (Breaking News)
Roman fortress Caerleon gives up new treasures to archaeology students (Breaking News)
Bin Laden chef sentenced to 14 years in jail (Breaking News)
Statue by Victorian sculptor stolen from Cardiff park (Breaking News)
Old College historical crime scene excavated (Breaking News)
Sierra Leone wants Naomi Campbell's blood diamonds back (Breaking News)
As Japan hunts for missing centenarians, pride in longevity turns to angst over aging (Breaking News)
Military looks for WWII dead in South Pacific (Breaking News)
George and Laura Bush surprise returning troops (Breaking News)
WikiLeaks preparing to release 15,000 more Afghanistan documents (Breaking News)
Newt Gingrich's Skeletons: His Past Wives (Breaking News)
National Archives Launches New “Our Archives” Wiki (Breaking News)
National Park Service Awards Battlefield Protection Grants (Breaking News)
NARA’s Roosevelt Library Unveils Newly Donated FDR Materials (Breaking News)
National Declassification Center Issues Initial Status Report (Breaking News)
NHPRC Reauthorization Bill Markup Postponed Indefinitely (Breaking News)
Fiscal Year 2011 Federal Funding Comes Into Focus (Breaking News)
Historians Join Effort To Preserve Federal K-12 History Education Funding (Historians in the News)
2010 Teaching American History Grants Awarded by U.S. Department of Education (Breaking News)
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Tony Judt: An Obituary (Historians in the News)
Rupert Cornwell: If Only America Understood Tony Judt (Historians in the News)
Documents suggest Demjanjuk link to 2nd Nazi camp (Breaking News)
History abounds in Boston (Breaking News)
Mark LeVine: Tony Judt: An Intellectual Hero (Historians in the News)
'White Jews', not 'good Nazis': How Germany rejected Holland's settler farmers (Breaking News)
Poles question Warsaw legend (Breaking News)
Rare 2,200-year-old gold coin found in Israel (Breaking News)
Russians remember Kursk submarine disaster, 10 years on (Breaking News)
Arctic rocks may contain oldest remnants of Earth (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Carnival Time (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
WPA murals, hidden for years, see light again (Breaking News)
$900,000 to help right wrongs done to Chinese (Breaking News)
The 14th Amendment: A History Lesson (Historians in the News)
History professor on Stevens' death: "Alaskans are going to have to start thinking about Alaska in a new way, I think" (Historians in the News)
The Semantics of Semiwar: Andrew Bacevich Takes on American Militarism (Historians in the News)
Paul Longmore: San Francisco Scholar a Giant of the Disability Rights Movement (1947 - 2010) (Historians in the News)
An affair to remember for South Texas veterans (Breaking News)
World War II veterans honor Allies in liberated French towns (Breaking News)
Scott McLemee: Arguing with Tony Judt (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: A PALESTINIAN MOTHER WRITES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Leaving a Job With a Bus, Not a Slide (Breaking News)
Missing in World War II, Unearthed in Germany and Now Back With His Family (Breaking News)
Russian Fires Raise Fears of Radioactivity (Breaking News)
Japan Apologizes to South Korea on Colonization (Breaking News)
Dressing Artists’ Hub in Something Button-Down (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING and WATCHING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Fire Hits Former Nazi Death Camp In Poland (Breaking News)
Cryptography machines: a photo history (Breaking News)
Germany Must Face Suit Over Hitler-Era Bond Default (Breaking News)
Bid to save Gone With the Wind gowns (Breaking News)
Ancient Scottish language mystery deepens (Breaking News)
Bodies found in search for victims of Bosnian massacre (Breaking News)
Russia combats wildfires in Chernobyl radiation zone (Breaking News)
Sri Lankan war inquiry commission opens amid criticism (Breaking News)
Marx's will among millions online (Breaking News)
Mystery of 1933 penny: Coin valued at 80,000GBP offered on eBay then suddenly withdrawn (UK) (Breaking News)
China to build replica of Salvador Dali's home town (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Mid-Week Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Is the e-book edition of Perlstein's Nixonland the future of publishing? (Historians in the News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: A Moment of Clarity (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
1934-2010: The Road to the Google-Verizon Proclamation (Breaking News)
Nikil Saval: On Tony Judt (Historians in the News)
Cambridge University connects communities with Domesday (Historians in the News)
A new study assesses the 12th-century memoir attributed to 'Herman the former Jew' (Breaking News)
Scapa Flow WWI salvage efforts remembered (Breaking News)
Marden Henge: the builder's yard for Stonehenge? (Breaking News)
Rare Aboriginal art found in school store cupboard (Breaking News)
Judge dismisses Geronimo lawsuit (Breaking News)
Oldest house in Britain discovered to be 11,500 years old (Breaking News)
How President Alvaro Uribe changed Colombia (Breaking News)
David Hirst: the voice of reason in Middle East journalism (Historians in the News)
India 'has treasure of Arabic documents' (Historians in the News)
162 years later, famous Cincinnati photos restored (Breaking News)
Historian reviews NC's Civil War death count (Historians in the News)
David A. Bell: Remembering Tony Judt (Historians in the News)
Why Obama is not first 'imposter' president and won't be the last, according to historians (Historians in the News)
Saul Goldberg: Tony Judt: the captivating wit and intellect of my friend and teacher (Historians in the News)
Illegal Turkish excavation reveals an important discovery (Breaking News)
Obsidian used as ancient scalpel found in Turkey's Samsun (Breaking News)
Trainee gladiators change library for sand pit in Austria (Breaking News)
Spain's Costa Blanca provided a safe haven for many Nazis (Breaking News)
Germany ready to take on ageing Nazi hitman (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HERBERT COVERING UP FOR OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Koreans warm to historic Japan apology on colonial rule – but want more (Breaking News)
Cloned cows: little has changed since the panic over Dolly the sheep (Breaking News)
John Lennon's killer fights for freedom, again (Breaking News)
Former NASA head on Alaska plane (Breaking News)
Campbell agent denies lying over Taylor diamonds 'gift' (Breaking News)
China Seizes on a Dark Chapter for Tibet (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Accused Dead Sea Scrolls identity thief rejects plea deal, plans trial (Breaking News)
Historian reviews NC's Civil War death count (Breaking News)
Japan marks Nagasaki atomic bomb attack of 1945 (Breaking News)
Statue of Liberty to close for refurbishment (Breaking News)
Ex-Liberian President Promised Naomi Campbell a Gift of Diamonds, the Model's Former Agent Says (Breaking News)
Scottish lawmakers demand release of medical files that secured Lockerbie bomber's release (Breaking News)
Monks say display case holding Padre Pio relics is damaged in hometown chapel in theft bid (Breaking News)
Why Obama is not first 'imposter' president and won't be the last (Breaking News)
South Korean pastor is also a trained killer (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Great Zora Neale Hurston Footage (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMALAND ECONOMIC MISERY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MOURNING FATHER IN A GLITZY SPANISH VACATION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
The Kangaroos: Canada’s forgotten regiment (Breaking News)
Brazilian World War II workers fight for recognition (Breaking News)
Roald Dahl's darkest hour (Breaking News)
In testimony, Israeli PM says Turkey was looking for a fight aboard bloody Gaza-bound ship (Breaking News)
Enhanced interrogation techniques: CIA Doctors Violated Medical Ethics (Breaking News)
Germany shuts 9/11 plotters' mosque in Hamburg (Breaking News)
Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal dies at 84 (Breaking News)
Blood diamonds: Mia Farrow contradicts Naomi Campbell's story (Breaking News)
Way Back Machine -- The Mayor Is Shot (Breaking News)
India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor? (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Neanderthal's Cozy Bedroom Unearthed (Breaking News)
Philadelphia public archaeology lab at Independence National Historical Park closed for up to two years (Breaking News)
Whale fossil stuck in Egypt customs wrangle (Breaking News)
Southern Sudan prepares own anthem ahead of referendum (Breaking News)
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi's cancer not fake - Sikora (Breaking News)
Lincoln Castle dig uncovers Saxon homes (Breaking News)
Acclaimed British historian Tony Judt dies aged 62 (Breaking News)
Naomi Campbell evidence faces scrutiny at The Hague (Breaking News)
'Nelson Mandela had illegitimate daughter', it is claimed (Breaking News)
Why the hero of Hotel Rwanda fears for his people (Breaking News)
Fidel Castro returns to Cuban parliament (Breaking News)
19 years for Khmer Rouge prison chief, drug dealers, political scapegoats: justice in Cambodia (Breaking News)
Military jurors fly to Guantanamo Bay to hear 1st war-crimes trial under Obama (Breaking News)
Away from the raw emotions of 9/11 and ground zero, other mosque plans face strong opposition (Breaking News)
Rwandan Immigrant Faces Genocide Allegations in Home Country (Breaking News)
Will Bush-bashing help Democrats win over weary voters? (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CORDOBA EVICTED BOTH MAIMONEDES AND IBN RUSHD (AVERROES) (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
TIMOTHY FURNISH: Martyrs and the Traditor-in-Chief (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MUST SEE - SERAPHINE DE SENLIS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Genealogy & Family History (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Julian E. Zelizer: It's Obama's White House, But It's Still Bush's World (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jim Sleeper: Grand Strategic Failure (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Gerson: Republicans are Ramping Up the Birthright Battle (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Tooley: Religiously Remembering Hiroshima (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Johnson: The Delightful Voltaire (Roundup: Talking About History)
Terry Lautz: China's Deficit in American Studies (Roundup: Media's Take)
Washington Times Editorial: Obama's Islamic America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Allan Lichtman: Another Chance for Same-Sex Marriage (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Samuel Moyn: Human Rights in History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A Long, Hot Summer in Mississippi That Still Burns (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Trita Parsi: Pro-Israel crowd is Hyping the Iran Threat (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steve Kornacki: What Carter-Bashing Tells Us About Bush-Bashing (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Engler: Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Everyone a Bigot? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martha Minow: Confirmation Battle: Justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice Elena Kagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Aikman: The Ground Zero Community Center is Not About Freedom of Religion (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gareth Evans: Taking Disarmament Seriously After 65 Years (Roundup: Media's Take)
Karl Rove: The Blame Bush Strategy Won't Work (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rupert Cornwell: If Only America Understood Tony Judt (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Pilling: Hiroshima Still Clouds a Postwar Friendship (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ted Galen Carpenter: Hamid Karzai and America's Vietnam Mistake (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Astore: In Place of Mental Health Care, Are Some Troops Being Evangelized? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nicolai N. Petro: Why the FSB is Not the KGB! (Roundup: Media's Take)
A.J. Goldmann: A New Film Examines Footage Staged by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Regina Jones: Watts in Retrospect (Roundup: Talking About History)
Julian E. Zelizer: A Governor Who Tests GOP Strategy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Niall Ferguson: ALP's Knight is a Thief in Rusty Armour (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Bean: Playing the Presidential Race Card (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steve Hochstadt: Saving the Earth for Our Grandchildren (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harold Meyerson: Why the GOP Really Wants to Alter the 14th Amendment (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ted Stevens, Longtime Alaska Senator, Dies at 86 (Obituaries)
Johnny Carson, Now Quipping Online (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Con Coughlin: Obama is running out of Iraq for all the wrong reasons (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ariel Cohen: Reset the Russian Reset Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fouad Ajami: The Obsolescence of Barack Obama (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ben Adler: Revoking Birthright Citizenship: What Would Bush Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gareth Evans: Nuclear Threat Cannot Be Ignored (Roundup: Talking About History)
Nile Gardiner: The Obama Presidency Increasingly Resembles a Modern-Day Ancien Régime (Roundup: Media's Take)
Justin McGuirk: Moscow's Architectural Heritage is Crumbling Under Capitalism (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Winship: The Wall and the Mosque: Divide and Unite (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tony Platt: Bombs Away (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Kaiser: Anger (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Just Who Deserves an "Elite" Education? (HNN Polls)
Jeffrey Lord: Nixon: The Republican Strategist of 2010 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Amy Davidson: A Beer with the General (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Eamon: The Disease Called Curiosity (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joel Mokyr: We Owe Our Modern Prosperity to Enlightenment Ideas (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonah Goldberg: Constitutional Amendments and Citizenship Rights (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry Olsen: Unemployment: What Would Reagan Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
William McGurn: Are Americans Bigots? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Cohen: The Economist's Unforgivable Silence on Sayyid Qutb's anti-Semitism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephan Salisbury: Anti-Muslim Fears and the Far Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christopher Hitchens: Mau-Mauing the Mosque (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nicolai N. Petro: Why the FSB is not the KGB! (Roundup: Media's Take)
M. J. Akbar: Kashmir's History of Blood and Tears (Roundup: Media's Take)
Greg Mitchell: How Press Censorship Hid the Shocking Truth About Nagasaki A-Bomb 65 Years Ago (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ian Buruma: Japan Can't Stay Postwar Forever (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen Eric Bronner: Socialism in America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: Milking the Mosque Cow (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jesse Lemisch: The Final Word on Radical History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Carl S. Pyrdum III: Professor Newt's Distorted History Lesson (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stephen Schwartz: History Corrupted in Islamic Textbook (Roundup: Talking About History)
Yascha Mounk: Long Live the Fascist? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Fred Block: Infrastructure, Deficits, and Global Recovery (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steve Kornacki: For GOP, Islamophobia is the New Anti-Communism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Tremblay: Superstition and Historical Leaders: “...All That is Wrong with the Western World” (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Ibson: The Honeymooners (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jackson Diehl: Can Raul Castro Modernize and Stabilize Cuba? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Matt Bai: I’m American. And You? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Powell: We will talk to Mullah Omar, and maybe to Bin Laden too (Roundup: Media's Take)
Warren Kozak: A Hiroshima Apology? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andy Yee: China rising ... what would Mackinder do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Sixty-five years after Hiroshima, the nightmare of nuclear war haunts us still (Roundup: Talking About History)
Malinda Maynor Lowery, 38 (Top Young Historians)
Week of August 1, 2010
Roundup
Tony Judt, Chronicler of History, Is Dead at 62 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Does Iran Have a Nuclear Weapons Program? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Newfoundland historian Peter Hart, 46, was an expert on the IRA (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Tony Judt, 1948-2010 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Mladic's Diaries And Their Impact (Historians in the News)
Conquistador monument draws Mexican Indians' ire (Breaking News)
Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Attacks Call for Nuclear-Free World (Breaking News)
Memorial service at Tinian's A-bomb assembly pit (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMALAND 2010 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
The lying art of historical fiction (Breaking News)
Accused Dead Sea Scrolls identity thief rejects plea deal, plans trial (Historians in the News)
History was made....congratulations California (Historians in the News)
Ron Radosh: Howard Zinn’s FBI Files: What It Reveals (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BLACK TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TO 40.6% (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ROMER OPTS TO STANDS BY HER RESEARCH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Archeologist shoots dead rampaging polar bear (Breaking News)
Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Byzantine Winery (Breaking News)
WWII Tank thieves in Bulgaria (Breaking News)
Thieves Nab Priceless Artifacts From Swedish Royal Castle in 6-Minute Heist (Breaking News)
New Iranian website with cartoons denying Holocaust angers Israel (Breaking News)
Hearing set for soldier in Obama birth certificate case (Breaking News)
Bronislaw Komorowski sworn in as Poland's president following the tragic plane crash of April 2010 (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Recent History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Tariq Aziz says West misjudged Saddam Hussein (Breaking News)
US attends first Hiroshima atomic bomb anniversary (Breaking News)
Chairman Mao's grandson proclaims nepotism was key to promotion (Breaking News)
Naomi Campbell: I handed 'blood diamonds' to Mandela charity (Breaking News)
Adolf Hitler not allowed to live with parents (Breaking News)
Pope Benedict wanted to be a librarian (Breaking News)
UN calls on Iraq to take steps so it can cancel sanctions adopted after Kuwait invasion (Breaking News)
Reginald Levy, pilot of plane hijacked by Palestinian militants in 1972, dies at 88 (Breaking News)
Campbell Tells Judges: I Was Given 'Dirty' Stones (Breaking News)
200 Germans come to Ukraine to apologize for Nazi forebears' crimes (Breaking News)
Obama starts mentioning Bush by name (Breaking News)
Senate approves Kagan for high court (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE OBAMA BOURBONS/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RAYS OF HOPE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Judge Is Still Missing, but Novel Tracks Him Down (Breaking News)
Capt. Vernon L. Micheel, hero of Battle of Midway, dies at 92 (Breaking News)
World War II Comes To Michigan’s Lake St. Clair (Breaking News)
Long-lost piano 'played by Mozart' found in Germany (Breaking News)
World War II Vet Kept Off Southwest Plane (Breaking News)
History of Congress Coming Back to Session During Breaks (Breaking News)
General dead for 31 years nominated for promotion to clear his record (Breaking News)
Salvador Dali rarities go on display in Atlanta (Breaking News)
Naomi Campbell tells Taylor trial of 'dirty stones' (Breaking News)
Yellowstone has record-setting July (Breaking News)
By bridging Jewish and Arab cultures, a pair of Oberlin historians hope to shape history (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Mexico Finds Tunnel, Possible Tombs Under Ruins (Breaking News)
Medieval treasure found in northeastern Bulgaria (Breaking News)
Historian doubts Demjanjuk's wartime account (Breaking News)
Naomi Campbell photo ban ordered at war crimes trial (Breaking News)
Fidel Castro to address Cuba's National Assembly for first time in four years (Breaking News)
Atlantis of the East? No, it is a theme park (Breaking News)
UFO files: Winston Churchill 'feared panic' over Second World War RAF incident (Breaking News)
Naomi Campbell will testify in war crimes trial Thursday (Breaking News)
Study finds New Orleans richer after Katrina (Breaking News)
In an Arctic bay, British naval relic stands at attention (Breaking News)
Son of Pilot Who Dropped A-Bomb Opposes Plan to Send U.S. Delegation to Hiroshima Ceremony (Breaking News)
U.S. historian throws doubt on Demjanjuk's wartime claims (Historians in the News)
Re-Remembering 9/11: The New Ground Zero Museum (Breaking News)
Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Manuel F. Ayau (1925-2010) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
A Medieval War -- Over Arizona (Historians in the News)
12 years after discovery, public to get Miami Circle access (Breaking News)
Revealed: 'Wickedness and vice' where Shakespeare became a hit (Breaking News)
Prehistoric Cave Paintings Discovered in Dominican Republic (Breaking News)
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site Offers Window Into the 19th Century (Breaking News)
2 World War II Liberty ships recycled in Tacoma (Breaking News)
In WWII, a black medic's help wasn't always wanted (Breaking News)
1066 and all those baby names (Breaking News)
Manga promotes 50 years of US-Japan military alliance (Breaking News)
In Japan, a North Korean Campus Keeps National Identity Alive (Breaking News)
Everest 1924 pioneers 'hit by storm' (Breaking News)
Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site (Breaking News)
A Place of Final Rest Changes Hands (Breaking News)
Building a New History by Exhuming Bolívar (Breaking News)
Michael Bellesiles Takes Another Shot (Historians in the News)
Michael A. Bellesiles Tries to Live Down Scholarly Scandal (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TROUBLED TIMES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Fox News on Eminent Domain Through the Back Door (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
FBI admits probing ‘radical’ historian Zinn for criticizing bureau (Historians in the News)
Rwandan Ntawukulilyayo gets 25 years for genocide crime (Breaking News)
Light cast on Robert Burns's last days (Breaking News)
Brian May, Guitarist for Queen, Discovers 150-Year-Old Photos Of An English Village (Breaking News)
Rare medieval artefact discovered on River Thames shore (Breaking News)
Aborigines claim Unesco list 'whitewashes' Australia's cultural heritage (Breaking News)
Fidel Castro unveils 'memoirs' in Cuba (Breaking News)
Joe DiMaggio made a poor soldier, military records show (Breaking News)
Alexander the Great poisoned by the River Styx (Breaking News)
Archaeologists unearth 67,000-year-old human bone in Philippines (Breaking News)
Website looks for social histories of Wales (Breaking News)
Chairman Mao Zedong's grandson, Mao Xinyu, becomes youngest general in China's history (Breaking News)
Tokyo's oldest person goes missing (Breaking News)
Once deadly warriors, today tourist draw: Polish city trying to cash in on Teutonic knights (Breaking News)
A Glittering Crossroads of Faiths at a Mosque in Damascus (Breaking News)
More troops for Somalia ignores lessons of 'Black Hawk Down,' is not a solution, experts say (Breaking News)
The Sims Medieval to be launched in spring 2011 (Breaking News)
Medieval Academy of America decides to keep its annual meeting in Arizona (Breaking News)
Panel denies landmark status for Islamic center and mosque site near ground zero (Breaking News)
Robert Stacy McCain: The Case Against Howard Zinn (Historians in the News)
Chris Hedges: Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn (Historians in the News)
Glass designed in 1962 could be big winner for glass company Corning (Breaking News)
After 378 years, NH family farm goes up for sale (Breaking News)
Book dealer jailed over stolen Shakespeare tome (Breaking News)
Bangladesh: Bringing a Forgotten Genocide to Justice (Breaking News)
Curious Skeletons Excavated in Ancient Icelandic Monastery Hospital (Breaking News)
Iraqi Official Says Thousands Of Artifacts Recovered (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown 'third worst PM since 1945', poll of historians finds (Breaking News)
Pius XI: The forgotten pope who challenged Hitler (Breaking News)
The final moments of Nazi Heinrich Himmler revealed in soldier's war diary (Breaking News)
Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Turns 80 (Breaking News)
GOP senators list what they say are the 100 worst stimulus projects (Breaking News)
Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history (Breaking News)
Midwest Seismic Zone Became Frozen in Time (Breaking News)
Antiques dealer jailed over stolen Shakespeare folio (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
WENDY MCELROY: Cost of the war in Iraq/Afghanistan (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Tobacco tins from Lawrence of Arabia’s army discovered (Breaking News)
Outsiders blamed for Easter Island’s historic demise (Breaking News)
Iraqi Official Says Thousands Of Artifacts Recovered (Breaking News)
Remains of John the Baptist found in Bulgaria (Breaking News)
Alex Salmond denies BP link to Lockerbie bomber release (Breaking News)
Surprise ally unearthed for anti-blood sports campaigners (Breaking News)
Holocaust Museum urges Romania to withdraw coin commemorating 'anti-semitic' patriarch (Breaking News)
Supermodel's war crimes testimony could be delayed (Breaking News)
Colonialism and the 'scramble for Africa' (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DID PERES CALL BRITS ANTISEMITES?/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
"Tea party" activists drawn to Williamsburg and its portrayal of Founding Fathers (Breaking News)
Stanford professors find works of art from darkest moments of Holocaust (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BDS = ANNIHILATION OF ISRAEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Mongolian neo-Nazis: Anti-Chinese sentiment fuels rise of ultra-nationalism (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREENSPAN: HAVE THE DOW RISE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Will Israel's New Archive Policy Set Back a Generation of Scholarship? CHE asks Benny Morris (Historians in the News)
Revealed: Industrial Revolution was powered by child slaves (Historians in the News)
Heirs of collector sue Hungary for return of art stolen by Nazis (Breaking News)
Robert C. Tucker, a Scholar of Marx, Stalin and Soviet Affairs, Dies at 92 (NYT) (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Triceratops 'Secret Location' Found in South Dakota Badlands (Breaking News)
Audubon's First Engraving Discovered (Breaking News)
Billy the Kid May Receive Pardon from N.M. Governor (Breaking News)
Donkey's Wild Ass Ancestor Confirmed (Breaking News)
Was Marden Henge the builder's yard for Stonehenge? (Breaking News)
A Facelift for an Ancient Kurdish Citadel (Breaking News)
X-Rays Reveal Secret of Ancient Mayan Dye (Breaking News)
Galapagos Islands withdrawn from endangered list (Breaking News)
David Cameron's ancestors helped suppress Indian mutiny (Breaking News)
UNESCO adds 5 sites to the World Heritage List, including Imperial Citadel in Vietnam (Breaking News)
Aging, forgotten but still loyal to Britain, WWII has never ended for fabled Burma fighters (Breaking News)
Google books may advance scholarly research (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IMAMS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST JIHAD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
TIMOTHY FURNISH: Magical Mahdist Tour (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Bruce McQuain: I Have Little Sympathy for the Japanese on this Subject (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joseph A. Palermo: University of Phoenix Mantra: Always Be Closing (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jane Braxton: Coming of Age with Hiroshima's Mourning (Roundup: Talking About History)
The Economist: Life of the Party (Roundup: Talking About History)
Judith Warner: What the Great Recession Has Done to Family Life (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Barone: Midterms: Route 66 for the GOP? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama: Not the Great Stone Face (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Greg Mitchell: U.S. Sends Envoy to Hiroshima for First Time -- But Use of Bomb, Then and Now, Still Defended (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kenzaburo Oe: Hiroshima and the Art of Outrage (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Engelhardt: Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Tobin: Hiroshima, Obama, and Truman (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Murray: The 'C' Should Stay in the YMCA (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peggy Noonan: America Is at Risk of Boiling Over (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley Kutler: 65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stan Katz: Get Right With History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joe Conason: Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich Need a History Lesson (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeremy McCarter: James Baldwin is Still Angry After All These Years (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne: Is the GOP Shedding Its Birthright? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yoani Sánchez: Fidel Castro, Present and Past (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edwin Black: Judge in Rubashkin Kosher Slaughterhouse Case Accused of Conflict-of-Interest (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harold James: Distressing Stress Tests (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gillis J. Harp: Are We All Ideologues Now? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Paul Rossi: Campaign Promises Now Ring Hollow for President Obama (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Doug Ireland, Review of "The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham" (Random House, 2010) (Books)
Timothy Egan: In Fire Country (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Stalking Charlie Chan (Roundup: Talking About History)
Seumas Milne: The U.S. Isn't Leaving Iraq, It's Rebranding the Occupation (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joe Klein: Iraq ... Requiem for a Profound Misadventure (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aleh Tsyvinski and Sergei Guriev: That ’70s Show in Russia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aristotle Tziampiris: Athens Meets Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)
What Do You Do When Confronted With a Plagarizing Student? (HNN Polls)
Daniel Pipes: Niqab Security Outrages at Canadian Airport (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ron Wilkins: The Other Side of Shirley Sherrod (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Are We Beginning to Hate Congress? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bernard Weiner: Come the Revolution: Are We There Yet? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Carl Mirra: The Battle over Radical History, Part 2 (Roundup: Talking About History)
Staughton Lynd: The Battle over Radical History (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Summers: What Politics Does to History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Harold Meyerson: Farmworkers, Overtime and Days Off: A California Shame (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nathan Gardels: Oliver Stone on Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, and Hugo Chávez (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stephen M. Walt: Rethinking the "Nuclear Revolution" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Brad Johnson: Meet the Man Who Predicted Global Warming (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Doty: Obama-FDR Parallel Should Make Dems Shiver in '10 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bill McKibben: We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Russell Mead: The Roots of Pakistan’s Rage (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dorothy Rabinowitz: Liberal Piety and the Memory of 9/11 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sunny Hundal: Neocons are hypocrites on WikiLeaks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ahmed Rashid: Divide Afghanistan At Your Peril (Roundup: Media's Take)
Matthew Norman: Obama ... an enigma instead of a leader (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark LeVine: Understanding the Muslim World (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert B. Townsend: What Do We Know about History in the Schools? (Roundup: Talking About History)
William Astore: Asking Too Much of Our Troops -- And Not Enough of College Students (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anne Applebaum: America's Peculiar Amnesia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sandy Levinson: George Packer On the Senate (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Timothy Burke: Evidence Is Old-Fashioned? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steven Conn: Xenophobia I Can Believe In (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Noemie Emery: Neither Roosevelt nor Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chris Hedges: Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: U.S. Military Mission in Iraq Ends Not with a Bang but a Whimper (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jesse Lemisch: Professors as Welfare Queens? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: Britain's New Export: Islamist Carnage (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Aaron Leonard, Review of "A Companion to Marx's Capital" (Verso, 2010) (Books)
Michael Kazin: The Democrats’ Big Tax Problem (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonah Goldberg: Nostalgia for Buckley Et Al is Misplaced (Roundup: Media's Take)
William McGurn: WTC Mosque, Meet the Auschwitz Nuns (Roundup: Media's Take)
King Tut’s Chariot Arrives in Times Square (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican Nationalist, Dies at 90 (Obituaries)
Rachel Schneller: Iraq and the American Pullout ... Separate We Must (Roundup: Media's Take)
Efraim Karsh: Shimon Peres Versus the Brits (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Vladimir Kozin: 6 Obstacles to Nuclear Zero (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Lerner: The Other Lockerbies (Roundup: Media's Take)
Editorial in the WSJ: Rewriting Fannie Mae History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: Is Afghanistan Worth It? (Roundup: Media's Take)
NYT Editorial: What They're Not Telling You About the Deficit (Roundup: Media's Take)
Clarence Lusane: Racism, Shirley Sherrod and the Obama White House (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gregory Rodriguez: Affirmative Action's Time is Up (Roundup: Media's Take)
Arthur Laffer: The Soak-the-Rich Catch-22 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Frank Rich: Kiss This War Goodbye (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Walker Howe: Missouri, Slave or Free? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Diane Ravitch: Obama's Race to the Top Will Not Improve Education (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ann Jones: In Bed With the Army (Roundup: Media's Take)
Todd Boyd: Miles Davis: Truly the Birth of the Cool (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian E. Zelizer: Don't Give Obama Blank Check On War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jeffrey Goldberg: What Would Brandeis Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bruce Fein: The Myths That Made an Empire (Roundup: Talking About History)
Xujun Eberlein: The Return of Politically-Charged Chinese Sci-Fi (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stan Katz: Walter F. Murphy, a Hero of War, and of Scholarship (Roundup: Talking About History)
What lies beneath: the fakes, mistakes and discoveries at the National Gallery (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
At National Gallery, Edvard Munch's 'Prints' reveal artist's methodical process (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Amil Imani: The Islamic Republic Is Not Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)
Efraim Karsh: The Palestinians, Alone (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ross Buettner: Running Government as a Cash Business (Roundup: Media's Take)
David E. Sanger: Rethinking the Afghanistan War’s What-Ifs (Roundup: Media's Take)
Marc Lacey: The Mexican Border’s Lost World (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Stacy McCain: The Case Against Howard Zinn (Roundup: Talking About History)
Gerry Adams: WikiLeaks and British lies in Ireland (Roundup: Media's Take)
Charles Moore: A timely recounting of the Weimar disaster that aided Hitler's rise to power (Roundup: Media's Take)
Editorial in the Vedomosti: New Warnings of a Return to Brezhnev Era (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen Schlesinger: Capturing the Birth of the UN on Film (Roundup: Talking About History)
Our Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Olusegun Obasanjo and Malik Dechambenoit: Reclaiming the Sword: 50 years later, a Brief Account of Africa’s Road to Independence (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ron Radosh: Oliver Stone's 'Empathy' for Hitler (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Linda K. Salvucci: Teaching History May Become a Thing of Past (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christina Snyder, 31 (Top Young Historians)
Steve Kornacki: Don't Call Obama the Next LBJ (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: Covering Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Reviews Bruce Cumings' The Korean War: A History Random House, 2010. (Books)
Week of July 25, 2010
Blogs
TIMOTHY FURNISH: All Work and No Play Makes Saladin a Null Jihadist (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
DAVID T. BEITO: Leonard Peikoff as a Modern Tom Watson (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Robert C. Tucker, 92, dies; scholar of Soviet-era politics and history (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Peggy Ann Pascoe, 55, historian at the University of Oregon (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LONG SUFFERING HUSBAND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING and WATCHING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Rare 3D Film Shows Warsaw Devastated After WWII (Breaking News)
"The Spirit of America" Is a Unique Combination of History and Art – See It at Ellis Island (Breaking News)
Oldest reptile footprints found (Breaking News)
Winston Churchill Goes Digital (Breaking News)
Picking up Penguins (Books) for 75 years (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Mostly Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Koh-i-Noor diamond 'staying put' in UK says Cameron (Breaking News)
German Nazi suspect Samuel Kunz 'may be tried as minor' (Breaking News)
Was Dr Crippen innocent of his wife's murder? (Breaking News)
Serbia seeks support for UN draft resolution on Kosovo (Breaking News)
Too ugly Christopher Columbus statue finds home after 20 years (Breaking News)
Second World War US bomber missing for 66 years is found in Adriatic Sea (Breaking News)
Ancient Greek 'to be taught in state schools' (Breaking News)
Lockerbie Senator considers sending investigators to Britain (Breaking News)
Man listed as oldest in Tokyo had been dead for decades; mummified body found at home (Breaking News)
Over 1,500 years after the Sack of Rome, the city grapples with modern-day vandals (Breaking News)
South Africa abolishes 6 traditional monarchies; leaders to challenge demotion in court (Breaking News)
Long Shrouded in Secrecy, Details Emerge on Spy Agency Called 'The Pond' (Breaking News)
Pre-Islam Saudi treasures on show for first time (Breaking News)
Italian artist sparks controversy with Hitler and Spiderman pictures (Breaking News)
New FDR letters could be a "trove," says Goodwin (Historians in the News)
Electric cars like Chevy's new Volt are too expensive today, but they won't be for long, if history is a guide (Historians in the News)
Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland" gets the digital treatment (Historians in the News)
Jewish group, Md. reach deal on future claims of Torah rescuer (Breaking News)
Swastika Is Deemed 'Universal' Hate Symbol (Breaking News)
Biblical Mystery of Dead Sea Scrolls Solved? (Breaking News)
Blogs
TIMOTHY FURNISH: Blue Mahdist Cult (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
Roundup
Last Navy rum sold, £600 a bottle (Breaking News)
US to attend Hiroshima anniversary for first time (Breaking News)
Nazi death camp guard charged with death of 430,000 Jews (Breaking News)
New government website collates 800 years of British laws (Breaking News)
Archaeologist finds old bones in Florida recreation area (Breaking News)
Civil War-era shell causes lockdown at Army Heritage and Education Center (Breaking News)
Pupils unearth long-lost WWII defence site (UK) (Breaking News)
'Up to 6,600 graves mislabelled' at Arlington Cemetery (Breaking News)
In Roosevelt Archive, History as He Made It (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE SELF HUMILIATION TOUR OF DAVID CAMERON (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: August's Carnivals (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Legitimate State Secrets Extremely Rare (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Zheng He: Symbol of China's 'peaceful rise' (Historians in the News)
Historian Carola Hicks Has Died (Historians in the News)
Lockerbie inquiry widened to stop "stonewalling" (Breaking News)
US to attend Hiroshima anniversary for first time (Breaking News)
Winston Churchill's Dentures on Auction in England (Breaking News)
Nazi Suspect Indicted in Germany for Role in 430,000 Murders (Breaking News)
Archaeologist finds old bones in Florida recreation area (Breaking News)
Ivy Bean, 'world's oldest Twitter user,' dead at 104 (Breaking News)
National Library of Medicine Receives Grant to Digitize "Medical Heritage" Works Dating Back to 17th Century (Breaking News)
Arctic archaeologists find ship lost in search for Franklin expedition (Breaking News)
Oliver Stone apologises over anti-Semitic remarks (Breaking News)
Solving the 800-year mystery of Pisa's Leaning Tower (Breaking News)
Italy turns to private sector to help Colosseum (Breaking News)
Hungary Sued in $100 million Holocaust Art Claim (Breaking News)
1,800-year-old care set found in southern Turkey (Breaking News)
Japan asked for annexation apology by Korean scholars (Historians in the News)
Treason expert says release of military files on war is not treason under the law (Historians in the News)
Iranian expert, historian, former hostage leaves State (Historians in the News)
Biblical Mystery of Dead Sea Scrolls Solved? (Breaking News)
US 'fails to account' for Iraq reconstruction billions (Breaking News)
Iraq inquiry: Army 'almost seized up' in 2006 (UK) (Breaking News)
Catalonia bans bullfighting in landmark Spain vote (Breaking News)
Ex-SS officer who escaped war crimes tribunals dies at 95 (Breaking News)
Spanish region says adios to bullfighting (Breaking News)
Arlington Cemetery problems were documented in 2005 but never fixed (Breaking News)
In a Tenement’s Meager Kitchens, a Historian Looks for Insight (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Archaeologists Find Ancient Hammurabi-Like Law Code in Israel Clay Tablet (Breaking News)
The Secret Town Fed By The Underground Railroad (Breaking News)
Vietnam rejects French officer's ashes request (Breaking News)
Convicted Khmer Rouge jailer Duch 'will appeal' (Breaking News)
Grants for 24 historic buildings in Wales (Breaking News)
Trinidad marks 1990 coup attempt (Breaking News)
Ansel Adams' Grandson: 'Lost' Negatives Aren't Real (Breaking News)
Germany launches campaign to save language from English (Breaking News)
US Senators postpone Lockerbie BP hearing over lack of witnesses (Breaking News)
Obama Missing Historic Boy Scout Jamboree for Fundraisers, 'View' Taping (Breaking News)
In latest art mystery, painting once suggested as Caravaggio may be work of his pupils (Breaking News)
Court sets ex-Bosnian leader free (Breaking News)
Fidel Castro to publish new book in August (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: U.S. Out of Pakistan! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Experts on history of lynching rebut Jeffrey Lord's Sherrod claim (Historians in the News)
Chinese archaeologists' African quest for sunken ship of Ming admiral (Breaking News)
Women workers could be found on the medieval construction site, study finds (Historians in the News)
Construction History Society of America – Newest AHA Affiliate (Historians in the News)
Big Money for Digital Humanities (Breaking News)
Construction History Society of America – Newest AHA Affiliate (Breaking News)
Boy Scouts march to celebrate 100 years of service (Breaking News)
Last Few Early Humans Survived in 'Eden,' Scientists Say (Breaking News)
Times Again Leaves Out Communism in Coverage of Khmer Rouge Atrocities (Breaking News)
Caravaggio did not paint disputed picture, now says Vatican (Breaking News)
Oliver Stone: 'Jewish Domination Of The Media' Propagates Holocaust Myths (Breaking News)
Oral tradition places a young Sacajawea with Crow (Breaking News)
Ramon Eduardo Ruiz: Honored scholar wrote a detailed history of Mexico (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ECONOMISTS KNOW NOTHING? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
WWII Japanese Commander's grandson fights for peace (Breaking News)
The Death of Paper Money (Breaking News)
New Titanic Expedition Will Create 3D Map of Wreck (Breaking News)
Capturing the world's oldest living things (Breaking News)
Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million (Breaking News)
Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled (Breaking News)
Is WikiLeaks the Pentagon Papers, Part 2? Parallels, and differences, exist (Breaking News)
In Cuba, Revolution Day Without Castro at Podium (Breaking News)
Anger in Cambodia Over Khmer Rouge Sentence (Breaking News)
As English Spreads, Indonesians Fear for Their Language (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Niall Ferguson slams Australian immigration policy (Historians in the News)
Historian stages sleep-ins to save SC slave cabins (Historians in the News)
Indian historian, academician dies at 84 (Historians in the News)
At the White House, Losing a Game of Phone Tag (Historians in the News)
Regal ruins: Palatial mansion near Philly crumbles (Breaking News)
Ancient woman suggests diverse migration (Breaking News)
Group saves Victorian once owned by man who saved Big Basin redwoods (Breaking News)
State budget cuts leave 7 historic sites available by appointment only in Louisiana (Breaking News)
Pillar of Eliseg: Archaeologists dig beneath 9th Century monument (Breaking News)
Evidence of human sacrifices found on Peru's northern coast (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE ARAB LOBBY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust debate (Breaking News)
Remains of Earth's largest rat discovered in cave (Breaking News)
Remains of Roman villa discovered in Wales (Breaking News)
A 19th-Century Piano Is So Square, It’s Cool (Historians in the News)
'Mad Men' series inaccurately depicts difficulties of divorce for women in '60s (Historians in the News)
Bangladesh indicts Jamaat-e-Islami four on 1971 war crimes (Breaking News)
Chile president rules out pardon for military abuses (Breaking News)
Closing arguments to begin in Rod Blagojevich trial (Breaking News)
John P. Gerber, 65, librarian and historian (Historians in the News)
Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch found guilty (Breaking News)
The War: A Trillion Can Be Cheap (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Chinese archaeologists' African quest for sunken ship of Ming admiral (Breaking News)
Historian stages sleep-ins to save SC slave cabins (Breaking News)
Scots will not attend US hearing on Lockerbie bomber (Breaking News)
Cuba's Fidel Castro makes a rare trip outside Havana (Breaking News)
Alex Salmond calls for release of Lockerbie files (Breaking News)
Cambodia awaits Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch verdict (Breaking News)
New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old whisky (Breaking News)
Row over statue of 'cruel' explorer Henry Morton Stanley (Breaking News)
Banker Julius Meinl V loses legal action to magazine that 'portrayed him as Hitler' (Breaking News)
Afghanistan War Logs: 90,000 classified documents revealed by Wikileaks (Breaking News)
White House Reportedly Preferred Scotland to Libya for Released Lockerbie Bomber (Breaking News)
Peres: Croatian WWII camp involved 'sadism'; Iran's president should visit it (Breaking News)
Filmmaker tracks Khmer Rouge killers to learn the truth (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Workplace Drugtesting (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CLAIRE B. POTTER: Surely The Obama Presidency Means We Are Now Beyond Race (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Clark Merrefield: Inside Howard Zinn's FBI Files (Roundup: Talking About History)
William Astore: Our Military's Disturbing Transition to Warriors (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jon Wiener: Change Comes to Nixonland (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Are We Beginning to Hate Congress? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Conrad Black: FDR and the Depression: A New Round (Roundup: Talking About History)
Max Boot: Impact of Past Defense Cuts Should Warn of Risks (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ariela Gross: Race, Law and Conservatism in America (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: The Closing of the Zionist Mind (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jayne Merkel: When Less Was No Longer More (Roundup: Talking About History)
Abraham Cooper: The Oliver Stone Danger (Roundup: Media's Take)
Cary Fraser: Shirley Sherrod, Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt and American Racial Hysteria (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Italian artist sparks controversy with Hitler and Spiderman pictures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
John R. Bohrer: War Room What Newt's Really Running For (Hint: It's Not President) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Leonard: Lyndon Johnson's Tea Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Konstantin Sonin: Russia's Little Castro in Belarus (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dimitri K. Simes and Dov S. Zakheim: Don't Rush START (Roundup: Media's Take)
Karl Rove: The Missing Word in Our Afghanistan Strategy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gary Wills: Obama's Legacy: Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Antoine du Rocher: "Inception" is a Derivative Feature that Stands on the Shoulders of Giants (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bill Eichenberger: Bloodshed at Little Bighorn: An Interview with Tom Lehman (Roundup: Talking About History)
Scott Lemieux: Hugo Black, History’s Greatest Monster (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jeff Shesol: Obama vs. FDR (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Real Problem (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Niall Ferguson: Sun Could Set Suddenly on Superpower as Debt Bites (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian E. Zelizer: Why Obama's Fate is Tied to Congressional Democrats (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Melvyn Dubofsky: Labor's Role in the Obama Era: A Comment (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard Perle: Against Evil (Roundup: Talking About History)
Achy Obejas: Yes, Virginia, There Is Racism in Cuba (Roundup: Media's Take)
Erwin Chemerinsky: Afghan War Documents Point to Overuse of Government Secrecy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Tooley: Was the American Revolution Just? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Vuk Jeremic: Kosovo's Disastrous Precedent (Roundup: Talking About History)
Charles Crawford: Belgrade must accept history and finally confront need for action on Srebrenica (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Jenkins: A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Will Heaven: The history of British India will serve David Cameron well – as long as he doesn't go on about it (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edward G. Lengel: Meuse-Argonne (Roundup: Talking About History)
William Voegeli: Why Liberalism Is Dangerous (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jerry Adler: Why Some Republicans Want to ‘Restore’ the 13th Amendment (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christian Caryl: Afghanistan Isn't the Graveyard of Empires (Roundup: Media's Take)
Doug Kendall: Strange Brew: The Tea Party Mocks the Founders' Stance on Armed Rebellion (Roundup: Media's Take)
Angus Johnston: Shirley Sherrod, the American Spectator, and the History of Lynching in America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Lind: Are the American People Obsolete? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Tremblay: Obama Fires General McChrystal: A History of Military Submission (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Conversation on Race (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Thomson: The Menace of ‘Metropolis’ (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stephen Morris: How America is Helping to Whitewash the Cambodian Genocide (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonah Goldberg: The New Journalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Donald J. Kochan: Benjamin Franklin on Wealth (Roundup: Media's Take)
Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Eamonn Fingleton: How to Lose an Empire ... America goes Ottoman shopping (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: From WikiLeaks to the Killing Fields (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gideon Rachman: Somali lessons for Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Con Coughlin: Wikileaks Afghanistan ... What do the leaks really tell us? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kathy Olmsted: "We Owe It to History to Publish It" (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ronald Brownstein: The Gray And The Brown (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Levy: Truman and Lessons for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Tomasky: A Quiz on the Eminent Historians (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ron Radosh: Oliver Stone Reaches a New Low: Anti-Semitism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Raban: Britain: A False Dawn? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Leakistan: The New Insurgency (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thor Halvorssen: Bolivar Would've Hated Chavez (Roundup: Media's Take)
David W. Blight: What Gives the Confederacy Its Staying Power (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jay Rosen: A Brief History of News Leaks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Singh: Iranian Re-Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Chambliss: Black Panther Brought to Life (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ross Douthat: The Right and the Climate (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Fallows: Does WikiLeaks Prove the War Can't Be Won? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joshua Kurlantzick: When Lobbyists Work for Authoritarian Nations (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fouad Ajami: The Cop on the Banks of the Nile (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rashmee Roshan Lall: Lawrence Of Eurabia? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jennifer Burns, 34 (Top Young Historians)
Vladimir Ryzhkov: The Wrong Kind of Monument (Roundup: Talking About History)
Henry Porter: Labour must come clean about Iraq and spurn its Blairite legacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of July 18, 2010
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: A Splendid Essay on the Two Great Classes in Contemporary America (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SINGING SEAN NOS IN IRELAND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SHORT TAKES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AUSTERITY BUDGET OR MORE DEFICIT SPENDING? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
55 years after the fact, culture still cries out for Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' (Breaking News)
Canadian archaeologists hunt long-lost Arctic explorers (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Biggest and Brightest Star In History Discovered by UK Astronomer (Breaking News)
Archaeologists Discover "the Bulgarian Machu Picchu" (Breaking News)
Egypt scours bed of Lake Qarun in search of antiquities (Breaking News)
Tourists heave menhirs to solve ancient mystery (Breaking News)
"'Mein Kampf" Comedy Will Struggle at Box Office (Breaking News)
Mark Bauerlein: An Episode at Hamilton--Paquette and Urgo (Historians in the News)
Stone Age Carving or Ancient Sex Toy? (Breaking News)
'Moorish revival' in southern Spain (Breaking News)
Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge (Breaking News)
Kosovo independence not illegal, says UN court (Breaking News)
How Christopher Browning realized the importance of eyewitness testimony (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Former Kosovo Leader to Be Retried (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Pre-Columbian burial ground unearthed in Costa Rica (Breaking News)
Peru archaeologists find pre-Inca remains (Breaking News)
Abe Lincoln Doc Survived Donner Party Ordeal (Breaking News)
Dead Sea Scrolls Made Locally, Tests Show (Breaking News)
Found after 4,000 years: the lost wooden 'sister' of Stonehenge (Breaking News)
David Cameron criticised over World War II history slip (Breaking News)
Alex Salmond writes to US over Lockerbie bomber Megrahi (Breaking News)
Bolshevik mass grave found in St Petersburg (Breaking News)
Ex-Kosovo Prime Minister facing retrial for war crimes (Breaking News)
Museum pays $19m to settle case over painting stolen by Nazi agent (Breaking News)
Elvis Presley autopsy kit up for auction (Breaking News)
Black box inventor dies, age 85 (Breaking News)
Nicolae Ceausescu exhumed 'wearing his black winter coat' (Breaking News)
David Cameron could still order inquiry into Lockerbie bomber release, say senators (Breaking News)
Unpublished Franz Kafka story 'discovered' (Breaking News)
Mad Men City | Jimmy’s La Grange (Breaking News)
‘Legendary’ SD historian dies at 92 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: Prometheus Awards Announced (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Bulldozers Meet Historic Chinese Neighborhood (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MERCENARY DOLPHINS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
18th-Century Boat to Leave World Trade Center in Pieces (Breaking News)
The extraordinary resurgence of Jules Verne (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Two Very Different Incidents Same Lesson (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
George Robert Healy, 87, dies (Historians in the News)
Educators to examine wars simplified by textbooks (Historians in the News)
Sixteen economists and historians joined in a consensus statement demanding urgent action on unemployment and the faltering recovery (Historians in the News)
Powerful Political Figures, Historians and Scholars Assert President Calvin Coolidge’s Relevance in Today’s Politically Charged Climate in a New Book Titled, Why Coolidge Matters (Historians in the News)
Coventry historian helps identify Battle of Fromelles fallen (Historians in the News)
Records Show Doubts on '64 Vietnam Crisis (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Why This Gigantic “Intelligence” Apparatus? Follow the Money (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Stasi files shed light on West German spy agency's Nazi past (Breaking News)
Himmler's efforts to turn sand into gold (Breaking News)
Business Exec Compares Black Tea Partiers to Jewish Concentration Camp Guards (Breaking News)
Competition launched to design national memorial for the Spitfire (Breaking News)
Cajuns on Gulf Worry They May Need to Move Again (Breaking News)
Former inmate recalls daring escape from Auschwitz (Breaking News)
Racial tensions roil NC school board; 19 arrests (Breaking News)
Nostalgia drives 'Mad Men' culture beyond small screen (Historians in the News)
Jim Clifford: Dr. Georgina Feldberg, 1956-2010 (Historians in the News)
Peter Zarrow: Me, Wang Hui, and Liberal Wishy-washy-ness (Historians in the News)
Colonial-era shipwreck moved from Corolla to Hatteras (Breaking News)
Archaeologists virtually excavate Stonehenge (Breaking News)
'Tome Raider' jailed over rare book thefts in London (Breaking News)
Ancient message on an Indian rock (Breaking News)
US treasure hunters lost in Superstition Mountains (Breaking News)
US soldiers' war paintings go on display for first time (Breaking News)
Grave of Hitler's would-be assassin discovered (Breaking News)
David Cameron orders review of Lockerbie bomber documents (Breaking News)
Former MI5 spy agency chief says there was no link between Iraq and 2001 attacks on US (Breaking News)
Judiciary Committee approves Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, sending nomination to Senate (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PROFILES IN COURAGE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
British PM may meet with senators about Lockerbie case (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: Celebrating A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Faulkner's Voice Revealed in New Audiotapes (Breaking News)
Lawyers open cache of unpublished Kafka manuscripts (Breaking News)
What the colonists might have quaffed (Breaking News)
Mark Williams, Author of Letter from “Coloreds,” Kicked Out of Tea Party (Breaking News)
Restoration of Eakins' "Gross Clinic" deemed a successful operation (Breaking News)
Ceremonies mark anniversary of failed plot to kill Hitler (Breaking News)
Competition launched to design national memorial for the Spitfire (UK) (Breaking News)
Ancient tomb unearthed in northern Peru (Breaking News)
Bowls of Human Fingers and Teeth Found in Mayan Tomb (Breaking News)
Lincoln tops in presidential tourism (Breaking News)
Conrad Black to be released from prison on bail (Historians in the News)
History buffs eye Canada's 'birth certificate' (Breaking News)
Women’s Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions (Historians in the News)
Counterfeit note rewrites chapter of Billy the Kid (Breaking News)
Australia's oldest painting prompts history rethink (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Looted antiquities worth millions recovered from black market by Italian police (Breaking News)
Archaeologists dig into Lymington's sea salt industry (Breaking News)
Smugglers sack Sassanid site in southwest Iran (Breaking News)
Tutankhamun – the secrets of the tomb go online (Breaking News)
Orkney Venus misses out on archaeology award (Breaking News)
Gateshead grandmother dies as UK's oldest person at 111 (Breaking News)
Croatia 'could drop genocide suit against Serbia' (Breaking News)
Cave yields marsupial fossil haul (Breaking News)
Franz Kafka's 'lost' manuscripts at centre of ownership row in Switzerland (Breaking News)
Cameron refuses to meet senators on BP-Lockerbie row (Breaking News)
Palin: Muslim facility near Ground Zero an 'unnecessary provocation' (Breaking News)
Anti-incumbent mood fuels term limit debate (Breaking News)
Leaders who still cause trouble from the grave (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BERWICK WRONG: BRITISH HEALTHCARE RATIONING HURTS POOR (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Foundation gives voice to Nazi-era forced laborers (Breaking News)
World War I soldiers laid to rest in Fromelles (Breaking News)
Stalin Bust Sparks Outrage Among Small-Town Residents (Breaking News)
Invoking Lincoln, war of words between NAACP, tea party escalates (Breaking News)
Stolen wartime paintings wing way back to German museum (Breaking News)
Long lost Charlie Chaplin film found at antiques fair (Breaking News)
Garibaldi letter on display (Breaking News)
Victorian England: a nation of coffee drinkers (Breaking News)
Medici Family Cold Case Finally Solved (Breaking News)
Derelict pub site reveals hidden secret as 46 bodies are unearthed (Breaking News)
Melbourne family's dance video spark Auschwitz outrage (Breaking News)
Stasi files shed light on West German spy agency's Nazi past (Breaking News)
Women’s Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions (Breaking News)
Vatican reveals Caravaggio painting 'found' in Rome (Breaking News)
Prince Charles attends last Fromelles soldier reburial (Breaking News)
Swiss bank to lift lid on hidden Kafka works (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: The ACLU Defends Gun Rights....Yes, Really (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
American art collectors ripe for study (Breaking News)
Second Orkney Venus found at Orkney dig (Breaking News)
Mandela's birthday: A day to help others across South Africa (Breaking News)
60 years on, US ponders Korea MIA decision, and Unsan's lost battalion waits to come home (Breaking News)
Man with Neo-Nazi Ties Leading Patrols in Arizona (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Daniel Schorr dies at 93 (Obituaries)
Jim Webb: Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peggy Noonan: The Power of Redemption (Roundup: Media's Take)
A Museum Display of Galileo Has a Saintly Feel (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Linda McMahon and the Reality of Wrestling's Sex and Violence Fantasy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Walls, General in Zimbabwe, Dies at 83 (Obituaries)
Joan Walsh: The Civil Rights Heroism of Charles Sherrod (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mod mad world of '64: year of Mad Men's fourth season (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tom Engelhardt: Advice for General Petraeus on the Rules of Engagement: It’s Neither/Nor, Not Either/Or (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Efraim Karsh: Who’s Against a Two-State Solution? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Sohrab Ahmari: Burying Uncle Napoleon (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Kuper: Soccer Explains Nothing (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The New Racial Mess (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William J. Astore: Why It’s Wrong to Equate Military Service with Heroism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Gapper: BP and Libya – a special relationship? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Dallek: On Medicare’s Complicated Birth (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ta-Nehisi Coates: On Lacking All Conviction (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Williams: Prolonging the Pain (Roundup: Media's Take)
Terence Samuel: Shirley Sherrod and the Politics of Overreaction (Roundup: Media's Take)
Cleaning Up Intersection of Ancient and Modern in Israel (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Amity Shlaes: On FDR, Shlaes Annotates Black (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ewan Crawford: Megrahi release was compassionate, not political (Roundup: Media's Take)
E. Wayne Merry: Are we overestimating China’s superpower strength? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Scott McLemee: Lifestyles of Mad Men (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jeff Wiltse: Swimming in the Long Shadows of Segregation (Roundup: Talking About History)
Julian Zelizer: Why Obama's Poll Numbers Have Sunk (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ari Rabin-Havt : The Willie Hortonization of Barack Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dori J. Maynard: Mandela and the Gift of Hope (Roundup: Talking About History)
Julia Baird: We Don't Hear About Africa's Oil Spills (Roundup: Media's Take)
Krista McCracken: Canadian Census Data: A Lost Resource (Roundup: Talking About History)
Eric Rauchway: David Brooks Doesn’t Understand Progressivism Very Well (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Brooks: The Technocracy Boom (Roundup: Media's Take)
Charles W. Hayford: Joan Hinton (1921-2010) (Roundup: Talking About History)
Peter Zarrow: Me, Wang Hui, and Liberal Wishy-washy-ness (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Palaima: Capitalizing on Socialism's Bad Name (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Amoda: Henry Louis Gates and the Slavery Blame Game, Part 2 (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Rieff: Justice Begins at Home (Roundup: Media's Take)
Deborah Blum: The Raw-Milk Deal (Roundup: Media's Take)
Natasha Simons: Mad Men and the Paradox of the Past (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Abe Greenwald: The Soft-Power Fallacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman: The Trouble with Chavismo (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eugene Robinson: The Tea Party Must Purge Racism from its Ranks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Matt Bai: Beneath Divides Seemingly About Race Are Generational Fault Lines (Roundup: Media's Take)
Restoration of Eakins' "Gross Clinic" deemed a successful operation (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Heghnar Watenpaugh: Armenian Church and the Getty Should Work Together (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Turner: Give R.B. Bennett His Place on the Hill (Roundup: Talking About History)
Walter Rodgers: The Right Wing's Perversion of Patriotism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stuart Whatley: The Dangers of Seeing America as a 'Christian Nation' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael L. Gillette: The War on Poverty (Roundup: Talking About History)
America's ageing beach boys to record the history of surfing's golden age (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sally Satel: The Battle Over Battle Fatigue (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lloyd Grove: Great Britain ... America's New Frenemy? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Russell Mead: Obama's Ideals Could Lead to War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Iain Mills: Japan's Notorious Unit 731 Rears Its Ugly Head (Roundup: Talking About History)
David E. Hoffman: Why Republicans Should Support Obama's Nuke Treaty (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Cameron: A Staunch and Self-Confident Ally (Roundup: Media's Take)
Angelo M. Codevilla: America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Tisdall: Explaining Anti-Europeanism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jacob Heilbrunn: End of the Republican Foreign-Policy Establishment (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ellen Cantarow: Big Oil Makes War on the Earth (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: Born Free, Unless You are Female (Roundup: Historians' Take)
J.E. Dyer: Rules of Engagement ... From Bosnia to Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mitsuzane Okauchi: Looted Cultural Property—Who Owns It? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Long lost Charlie Chaplin film found at antiques fair (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rebecca Kaplan: The Lessons of 1982 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dan Gillmor: Saving Our Digital Heritage (Roundup: Talking About History)
Niall Ferguson: Today's Latter-Day Keynesians Have Learnt Nothing (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Denis MacShane: The message Mr Cameron must deliver (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Preston, 36 (Top Young Historians)
Week of July 11, 2010
Roundup
Survivor's dance raises a question: Can the Holocaust be approached in a spirit of fun? (Breaking News)
Abbas says Israel must accept 1967 borders as baseline if direct talks are to resume (Breaking News)
Baltic divers find what they claim is world's oldest champagne in wreck near Aland islands (Breaking News)
Libyan oil official: Lockerbie wasn't part of BP talks (Breaking News)
Back on TV, Fidel Castro sticks to familiar themes (Breaking News)
Neolithic art find at Cambridgeshire village quarry dig (Breaking News)
Welsh service for martyred Saint John Roberts (Breaking News)
Venezuela's Chavez exhumes hero Simon Bolivar's bones (Breaking News)
Hillary Clinton raises Lockerbie bomber concerns (Breaking News)
Mayan king's tomb discovered in Guatemala (Breaking News)
US senators may quiz Mandelson in probe into BP role in Lockerbie case (Breaking News)
Naomi Campbell and blood diamond: the whole picture (Breaking News)
Documents show senators' Vietnam War struggles (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Montezuma celebrates church’s anniversary, DeWitt Clinton’s visit (Breaking News)
Historian Orlando Figes agrees to pay damages for fake reviews (Historians in the News)
Obama's vacation: Time with the family ... and the nuclear codes (Historians in the News)
Scientists attempt to crack Mona Lisa's smile (Breaking News)
New playhouse planned for Shakespeare theater site (Breaking News)
Relic of Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and silence, found at Silchester (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: An Obituary for Neoconservatism? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
George Washington's Whiskey For Sale? (Breaking News)
Diving Archaeologists Explore a Sunken Shipwreck (Breaking News)
New York races to uncover Ground Zero mystery ship (Breaking News)
Scientists discover prehistoric fish under Great Barrier Reef (Breaking News)
Long lost Charlie Chaplin film found at antiques fair (Breaking News)
Prison Term Extended for Lawyer Who Aided 1993 World Trade Center Bomber (Breaking News)
A call to correct history's mistakes from Rashid Al Khalidi (Historians in the News)
Italian police recover over 300 looted artifacts, display them at the Colosseum (Breaking News)
After many years under Siberian frost, Ice Age baby mammoth goes on display in French museum (Breaking News)
French scientists crack a secret of Leonardo da Vinci portraits (Breaking News)
Release of Lockerbie bomber was a mistake, British government says (Breaking News)
Happy 75th anniversary, oh parking meter (Breaking News)
Scholars Champion AZ Civil Rights Initiative (Breaking News)
Libyan controversy adds to BP's woes (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Mystery of Rome's jigsaw skeleton skeleton (Breaking News)
900-year-old Song dynasty drains save Chinese city from deadly floods (Breaking News)
Who is behind the great stately home art sell-off (Breaking News)
Abu Dhabi preserves Muslim musical heritage (Breaking News)
The Real 'Mad Men' Behind the '60s Ad Revolution (Breaking News)
U. of Texas Regents Strike Off Klan Leader's Name From Dormitory (Breaking News)
The Zionist plan to kill Hitler (Breaking News)
BP Lobbied Brits Ahead of Lockerbie Bomber Release (Breaking News)
South Africa's ANC to visit Mandela, do public service on anti-apartheid icon's 92nd birthday (Breaking News)
Demjanjuk trial session in Germany postponed until next week over health concerns (Breaking News)
Tanzania lawyer at Rwanda genocide court shot dead (Breaking News)
Senators seek BP Lockerbie bomber probe (Breaking News)
TV networks reject controversial '9/11 mosque' ad (Breaking News)
Osama bin Laden's son says his father is still alive (Breaking News)
Japan: 900 Second World War bombs found under restaurant (Breaking News)
18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: A Little Less Hubris and A Little More Humility (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Actress uncovers 500-year-old church vault by accident (Breaking News)
Armor makers busy ahead of Medieval battle replay (Breaking News)
Row over African leaders at French parade (Breaking News)
Fossil links humans and monkeys (Breaking News)
900-year-old Song dynasty drains save Chinese city from deadly floods (Breaking News)
Memos reveal Tony Blair accepted Guantanamo rendition (Breaking News)
Obama Hitler billboard removed (Breaking News)
Mickey Mouse With Swastika, Nude Woman Ignites Polish Anger (Breaking News)
New details revealed in Da Vinci's 'Virgin of the Rocks' after 18-month restoration (Breaking News)
900-year-old Byzantine church unearthed in south Turkey (Breaking News)
Columbia historian puzzled why African leaders are celebrating Bastille Day (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Preferences vs. Incentives in Bringing About Social Change (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Taiwan seeks to save indigenous languages (Breaking News)
History is repeating, Valdez investigators say (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: Nobody could have foreseen this (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Google and the Digital Humanities (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: The Tea Party Movement and Gay Marriage (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Mid-Week Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Ancient Letter to Pharaoh Found (Breaking News)
Drought shows up south Oxfordshire bronze age graves (Breaking News)
Sutton bomb shelter discovered by council workers (Breaking News)
Bid to revamp Godalming Titanic memorial moves forward (Breaking News)
France to increase pensions for Africa war veterans (Breaking News)
Revamping AIDS strategy at home, Obama looks to what worked for Bush worldwide (Breaking News)
Landmark commission hearing may determine future of ground zero mosque (Breaking News)
Allan Lichtman's 13 Keys Predict Obama Will Get Re-Elected (Historians in the News)
Human load is a growing threat to Taj Mahal growing (Breaking News)
U.S. largely exculpated in Korean war crimes inquiry (Breaking News)
Army team at Arlington seeks to guarantee burial records (Breaking News)
Did Nazi scientist save Britain from Hitler's deadly gas that could have killed millions? (Breaking News)
Medieval castle uncovered on Samsø (Breaking News)
Words for 'canoe' point to long-lost family ties (Breaking News)
Archaeologists discover ancient ivory maskette on Canadian Arctic island (Breaking News)
Iroquois lacrosse team prevented from traveling on tribal passports (Breaking News)
An Angry Professor Mounts His Own Labor Protest in Alabama (Historians in the News)
In BP’s Record, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Isao Hashimoto's "1945-1998" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Dig aims to unearth Tullos Hill's secrets (Breaking News)
Remains of Aboriginal warrior laid to rest 180 years after death (Breaking News)
Imam arrested for painting Saddam Hussein's name on mosque (Breaking News)
Tiny fragment bears oldest script found in Jerusalem (Breaking News)
Earth hit by mass extinctions 'every 27m years' (Breaking News)
Sudanese President Charged With Committing Genocide in Darfur (Breaking News)
Castro blames U.S. for stoking nuclear tensions (Breaking News)
U.S. soldier killed nearly 92 years ago finally buried at Arlington (Breaking News)
Walking in the footsteps of the soldiers of the Somme (Breaking News)
In France, castle Guédelon being built to medieval standards (Breaking News)
Woman's World War I weapons shut down city center (Breaking News)
Fort renovation brings history to life in Copenhagen (Breaking News)
Settlement Reached To Return Indian Head Rock To Kentucky (Breaking News)
University of Texas may change dorm name that honors Klansman (Breaking News)
Remembering Srebrenica fifteen years later (Breaking News)
Spitfires take to the sky to mark Battle of Britain's 70th anniversary (Breaking News)
UK national census to be axed after 200 years (Breaking News)
Vietnam Memorial sculpture restored (Breaking News)
Manuel Noriega jailed for seven years in France (Breaking News)
Professors rank President Obama 15th best president (Breaking News)
Blackpool and disused RAF base bid for World Heritage status (Breaking News)
Dig uncovering mysteries of freed slave at heart of long lost Yogo Town (Breaking News)
D.U. professor influencing KKK history in Texas (Historians in the News)
UWI appoints new director for gender and development studies (Historians in the News)
A Sycophant's Sycophant in Old New York (Breaking News)
Amazement at the speed and efficacy of historical scholarship in UT dorm case (Historians in the News)
Stan Katz: Barry D. Karl and the Historical Profession (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Montpelier begins slave site excavation (Breaking News)
Conn. land dug up for items from tribe-settler war (Breaking News)
Catholic bishop demands urgent change to succession law (Breaking News)
Nelson Mandela autopsy painting sparks South Africa row (Breaking News)
Top Rwanda genocide suspect Uwinkindi pleads not guilty (Breaking News)
Australian towns at war over legacy of Mary Poppins author (Breaking News)
Former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic fears for his life if extradited to Serbian prison (Breaking News)
Dracula was not bloodthirsty, just a victim of bad propaganda, new exhibition claims (Breaking News)
Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table (Breaking News)
Kennedy's Influence Could Grow After Stevens' Exit on High Court (Breaking News)
Taiwan president urges China to use historic free-trade deal to improve relations (Breaking News)
Bosnia buries 775 Srebrenica massacre victims to mark 15th anniversary of the killings (Breaking News)
UK veterans mark 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (Breaking News)
90 years after his death, remains of World War I soldier found (Breaking News)
New Photos of Smiling Fidel Castro Posted on Web (Breaking News)
In Bosnia, Census Raises Specter of War's Horrors (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: The BP/Government Police State? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Going Against the Grain (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Marc Bousquet: The United States of Alabama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Greg Mitchell: How the First Nuclear Blast, 65 Years Ago Today, Set Truman on Path to Hiroshima (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joel Richard Paul: Which Tea Party? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kai Bird: Afghanistan: Vietnam Redux (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David H. Blackwell dies at 91; pioneering statistician at Howard and Berkeley (Obituaries)
Frank Mankiewicz and Joel L. Swerdlow: The Days of Presidential Slogans May Be Gone (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Gerson: Virginia Museum's Bust of Stalin is an Atrocity by Any Name (Roundup: Talking About History)
John McWhorter: But Is Jesse Jackson *Interesting*? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Walsh: Pope Benedict's Divisions (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Greenberg: Too Big To Fail, the 1912 Version (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eric Foner: Restless Confederates (Roundup: Talking About History)
Clifford D. May: From Berlin to Jerusalem (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Holder’s Hypocrisy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Bernstein: Do Governors Make Better Presidents? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jesse Lemisch: Mean Bastards as Culture Heroes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John M. Barry: How Prepared Are We for the Next Great Flu Breakout? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
George F. Will: The High Price of American Hubris (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: What the NAACP is Really Asking on Racism Within the Tea Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Furnish on Iranian Mahdism and WMDs [video, 82 minutes 44 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Robert F. Worth: Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: Worth a Response: Why Yemen is Not Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Underhill: Why is Tony Blair Beloved Abroad but Hated at Home? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Lee Gardner: Billy the Kid ... A Pardon at Long Last? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Timothy Garton Ash: Britain Has Spent 50 Years Hunting in Vain for Its Role (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Astore: George Steinbrenner and the Relentless Pursuit of Victory (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: Global Warming and al-Qaeda in the Greater Indian Ocean (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Vivien Green Fryd: Lifting the Veil of Race at the U.S. Capitol (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Joseph J. Ellis: On Constitutional Compromise (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Professor Robin Matthews, Oxford Master and Economist, 83 (Obituaries)
George Steinbrenner, Who Built Yankees Into Powerhouse, Dies at 80 (Obituaries)
Juanita M. Kreps, Commerce Secretary, Dies at 89 (Obituaries)
Jim Bohlen, Who Led in Creation of Greenpeace, Dies at 84 (Obituaries)
Joya Sherrill, Who Sang With Ellington and Goodman, Is Dead at 85 (Obituaries)
Henryk Jankowski, Pro-Solidarity Priest, Dies at 73 (Obituaries)
Nasr Abu Zayd, Who Stirred Debate on Koran, Dies at 66 (Obituaries)
Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, Shiite Cleric, Dies at 75 (Obituaries)
Greg Mitchell: Secrecy and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago (Roundup: Talking About History)
Sean Wilentz: Why I’m Actually Going to Miss that Meddlesome Pain in the Ass George Steinbrenner (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Adam Kirsch: Why Don't We Take the Russian Spies Seriously? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jed Babbin: Debating Groucho's War (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gwynne Dyer: U.S. bidding Iraq goodbye and good luck (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nuala O'Loan: Northern Ireland ... A violence from the past (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dermot Quinn: Wards of the State (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eugene Goodheart: Obama On and Off Base (Roundup: Media's Take)
Iraq’s Modern Art Collection, Waiting to Re-emerge (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Lee Bollinger: Journalism Needs Government Help (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert H. Giles: Denied a Nieman, by the U.S. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stuart Taylor, Jr.: Supreme Immodesty: Why the Justices Play Politics (Roundup: Media's Take)
Katrina vanden Heuvel: November's Unpalatable Choice (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rachel Reid: The Taliban War on Women Continues (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nick Turse: Death on Your Doorstep (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley Kutler: It’s Obama’s Empire Now (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Kaiser: Foreign Policy Traditions (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: Farrakhan Demands Reparations from Jews (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gregory Scoblete: Rewriting the History on Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gabriel J. Chin and Kevin R. Johnson: High Court Ruling Underpins Arizona Immigration Law (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Cohen: Michael Steele was Right about Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hugh Trevor-Roper -- by Adam Sisman (Books About History & Historians)
Martha Nussbaum: Veiled Threats? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Awaken: Memoirs of a Chinese Historian -- by Gu Chang-Sheng (Books About History & Historians)
Andrei Soldatov: Nostalgia for Soviet Spies (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Steele Gordon: A Short History of the Recess Appointment (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Matthew Omolesky: The Henchmen of Yesteryear (Roundup: Talking About History)
Walter Russell Mead: The Big Green Lie Exposed (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Temtsel Hao: Mao Zedong in Video-History's Gaze (Roundup: Talking About History)
Goran Fejic: Midnight in Belgrade, Dusk in Brussels (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anne Frank graphic novel released (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Mark Twain's Favorite Novel (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jordan Michael Smith: From Srebrenica to Baghdad (Roundup: Talking About History)
Max Boot: The Consummate Warrior (Roundup: Talking About History)
Damon W. Root: Civil Rights and Armed Self-Defense (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mackubin Thomas Owens: General Mattis Moves to CENTCOM (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anna M. Clark: Obama's Bigger Problem with the Gulf Oil Spill -- You (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kerry Madden: On the Trial of Harper Lee (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Engelhardt: Why Are We in Afghanistan? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Edward Tenner: The Myth of Anti-Intellectualism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian E. Zelizer: Sarah Palin Likes Government Too (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kumi Naidoo: Warriors of the Rainbow (Roundup: Media's Take)
Pierre Ranger: 'Tis the Season to March in Belfast (Roundup: Talking About History)
Harley Balzer: A Successful Waste of Money by the Russians (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael S. Roth: Good and Risky: the Promise of a Liberal Education (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sean Wilentz and Julian E. Zelizer: Teaching 'W' as History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Elaine Tyler May: Anger and Security (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert McHenry: The Radical Right in Retrospect (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sasha Abramsky: Look Ahead in Anger (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jacob Heilbrunn: The New START treaty deserves to be ratified (Roundup: Media's Take)
M K Bhadrakumar: US-Russia reset on the skids (Roundup: Media's Take)
David J. Kramer: U.S. Acted Too Hastily in Spy Swap (Roundup: Media's Take)
Vladimir Frolov: Most Humiliating Spy Flop in Russian History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alexei Bayer: Spying Is a Laughing Matter (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alexander Rose (Independent Historians)
Thomas G. Andrews, 38 (Top Young Historians)
Nicholas D. Kristof: Waiting for Gandhi on the West Bank (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Brookes and Owen Graham: U.S.-Russia's New START is a non-starter (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of July 4, 2010
Roundup
Ramon Eduardo Ruiz dies at 88; historian of Mexico and Latin America at UC San Diego (Historians in the News)
Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Niall Ferguson aims to shake up history curriculum with TV and war games (Historians in the News)
Spy Swaps Not a Cold War Relic (Historians in the News)
A Look At The U.S.'s Man-Made Environmental Disasters (Historians in the News)
Cold War-like spy exchange in Vienna (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: A Word About Comments Threads (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Taiwanese historian sentenced to prison for libel (Historians in the News)
Greg Mitchell: Andrew Bacevich, His Lost Son, and Obama's War in Afghanistan (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Dying man wants Ohio Historical Society to return artifact (Breaking News)
Century-old grenade found in Jerusalem wall (Breaking News)
Archeologists Explore Rural Galilee and Find Ancient Synagogue (Breaking News)
Researchers take aim at a forgotten battle (Breaking News)
4,000-year-old tomb site uncovered in Vietnam (Breaking News)
Pyramid Construction Supervisor's Tomb Found (Breaking News)
Artist to light up Moel Famau's Jubilee Tower (Breaking News)
Madonna film seeks museum help for Wallis Simpson film (Breaking News)
Turner masterpiece sold for £30m record at auction (Breaking News)
Huge Roman coins find for hobbyist (Breaking News)
Vienna is still a favourite playground for spies (Breaking News)
Queen places wreath at Ground Zero (Breaking News)
Britain's Lebanese ambassador praises Hizbollah founder (Breaking News)
US senators call for inquiry into release of Lockerbie bomber (Breaking News)
Georgian woman, 130, is 'world's oldest person' (Breaking News)
Art, antiques from Diana's family homes sold for $32 million in London (Breaking News)
Argentine 'dirty war' general sentenced to life for kidnap, torture and murder of 22 leftists (Breaking News)
Russian spy swap: Jeffrey Burds explains (Historians in the News)
Is Jousting the Next Extreme Sport? (Breaking News)
Now Recorded on Film, Memories of ‘the Black Y’ Provoke Smiles and Tears (Breaking News)
Blogs
WENDY MCELROY: Homeschooling, A hope for America Show (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
UMN's graduate programs face 'right-sizing' in tough times (Historians in the News)
The silence of the silent movies (Breaking News)
Me And Glenn Down By The Schoolyard: TPM Enrolls At Glenn Beck's 'University' (Breaking News)
In Mexico, Times report on network's use of blackface renews racism debate (Breaking News)
Joe Conason: Sure, listen to Niall Ferguson -- but always ignore his bad advice (Historians in the News)
Tar balls reveal the biological legacy of Gulf's early life (Breaking News)
Tombstone on Sidewalk Leads to a History Lesson (Breaking News)
Huge Roman coins find for hobbyist (Breaking News)
Unusual Research Finding From Nazi Policies at Universities (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Additionally Noted (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Lawrence Holiday Harris, historian and diplomat, dies at 89 (Historians in the News)
Oil in Gulf may destroy shipwrecks (Breaking News)
Humans may have first arrived in Britain over a million years ago (Breaking News)
Nixon considered nuking North Korea, according to declassified documents (Breaking News)
A walk through history: UTEP effort highlights Hispanics' significance (Historians in the News)
Ann Waldron, Biographer of Southern Writers, Is Dead at 85 (Historians in the News)
American Dream Is Elusive for New Generation (Breaking News)
A Home (Barely) Fit for Two Mrs. Roosevelts (Breaking News)
As Rome Modernizes, Its Past Quietly Crumbles (Breaking News)
Census historian weighs in on electronic future of census (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Beyond Hypocrisy in the Middle East (Mark A. LeVine)
JONATHAN JARRETT: Eadgyth after ealle (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Research looks at Bering Strait land bridge (Breaking News)
Colonial-era shipwreck found off the coast of St. Augustine (Breaking News)
Vermont prepared to seize cannon from re-enactors (Breaking News)
Hanover cops: 2 injured when mistaken Civil War gun powder tube explodes (Breaking News)
Queen Elizabeth addresses U.N. for first time since 1957 (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Manson family member Van Houten denied parole again (Breaking News)
Among Bobby Fischer's many mysteries: Chess champ's own father (Breaking News)
Historian warns of sudden collapse of American ‘empire’ (Historians in the News)
Long Lost Michelangelo Sculpture Found? (Breaking News)
Neanderthal Males Had Popeye-Like Arms (Breaking News)
Turner's painting of Flint Castle sells for £541,250 (Breaking News)
Tesco 'to exhume human remains' at Linwood store site (Breaking News)
Historic diary of Glasgow sailor goes online (Breaking News)
SS Great Britain: From seabed to national treasure (Breaking News)
Venezuela honours Simon Bolivar's lover Manuela Saenz (Breaking News)
Bayonet bearing Charles de Gaulle's name handed in to Australian police (Breaking News)
Thousands gather to celebrate Dalai Lama's 75th birthday (Breaking News)
No 4 on Nazi most wanted list dies before trial (Breaking News)
Niece Reveals During Burial Service That Byrd Had Dyslexia (Breaking News)
Soccer City site is historic anti-apartheid venue (Breaking News)
German museum finds rare work believed by expressionist Ludwig Kirchner in cellar (Breaking News)
'70s board game contains eerie BP oil spill scenarios (Breaking News)
As a historian in the House, Fred Beuttler puts current events in perspective (Historians in the News)
Pope praises life of 13th-century pontiff who quit (Breaking News)
Dig to discover Jersey's Ice Age (Breaking News)
Website maps Welsh archaeological finds (Breaking News)
Anglers catch ancient canoe in the Boyne (Breaking News)
Fifth of July is also a day to celebrate, say historians (Historians in the News)
Stars, Stripes and Space: NASA and the 50-Star American Flag (Breaking News)
The missing casualty of the Luftwaffe bombing of Jersey (Breaking News)
Tibetans underwent ”fastest genetic change” in human history to thrive at high altitude (Breaking News)
Local NYer standing up for Horatio Gates (Historians in the News)
Crannóg site revealed after lake's level drops (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: Greaves Publishes Book on Pearl Harbor Indicting FDR (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
New Ed. Dept. report documents the end of tenure (Historians in the News)
"Losing Our Cool": The high price of staying cool (Breaking News)
Gospels don't say Jesus was crucified, scholar claims (Breaking News)
A Brief History Of Civil War Reenactment (Breaking News)
21st-century technology helps Princeton U historian John Haldon study Byzantine era (Historians in the News)
Soccer historian tells of South African soccer's origins among political prisoners (Historians in the News)
Feathered Friends: Ostriches Provide Clues to Dinosaur Movement (Breaking News)
Unusual 17th-century Dutch horse burial site found (Breaking News)
African American historical site excavated in New Jersey (Breaking News)
Pillar of Eliseg: Archaeologists dig beneath 9th Century monument (Breaking News)
'Viking' anchor to return to the Isle of Skye (Breaking News)
Nazi executioner protected from jail by Germany (Breaking News)
Expert: Lockerbie Bomber Could Live Much Longer (Breaking News)
Extradition hearing begins for former Bosnian V.P. Ganic (Breaking News)
Chess icon's body exhumed in paternity case (Breaking News)
A House With a Role in the Revolution Is Now Left Unprotected (Breaking News)
A Language Thrives in Its Caribbean Home (Breaking News)
Unearthing doubts about Caravaggio's remains (Breaking News)
With reference to U.S. history, Biden nudges Iraqi leaders (Breaking News)
Tea party gatherings on the Fourth mix the educational and the patriotic (Breaking News)
Blogs
SCOTT MCLEMEE: Old Glory Floats Lazily in the Tainted Breeze (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern European Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Killers, Klansman, a King: The Legal Saga of Clarence Darrow (Breaking News)
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks (Breaking News)
Calvin Coolidge Has Become Hero to Tea Partiers (Breaking News)
Prehistoric Fossils Found in Tennessee Backyard (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRAD BIRZER: A (very late) review of Skoble's DELETING THE STATE (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: Does Hamas Owe Israel An Apology? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Discovery of U-boat wrecks rewrites the history books (Breaking News)
Thomas Jefferson a closet royalist? Hardly (Breaking News)
Scottish government stands by advice to free Megrahi (Breaking News)
Clinton says US to give $15m to preserve Auschwitz (Breaking News)
The ancient art of hidden writing (Breaking News)
Hezbollah 'mentor' Fadlallah dies in Lebanon (Breaking News)
Pope calls for sober lifestyle as he pays homage to Celestine V, hermit pope who resigned (Breaking News)
Suspected Munich massacre mastermind dead, reports say (Breaking News)
Poor Andrew Johnson: Poll Ranks Worst (and Best) Presidents (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Independence Day Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
John Hanc: The Curious London Legacy of Benedict Arnold (Roundup: Talking About History)
Derek Thompson: Ronald Reagan Raised Taxes in a Recession, Too (Roundup: Media's Take)
Konrad Yakabuski: Obama’s 'We' Philosophy Collides with Capitalism’s 'Me' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Luke Slattery: There's Always Been some East in the West (Roundup: Talking About History)
Amity Shlaes: Obama Threatens to Follow in FDR's Economic Missteps (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Of Local History and Hepcats (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Where's the Outrage About Lebron James's Salary? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Paul Rollert: The Surprising Star at Elena Kagan's Hearing: Thurgood Marshall (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nancy Koehn on Lincoln's Wartime Leadership [video, 3 minutes 41 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Harold James: Central Banking Deflowered (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: A Colossus Has Departed (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Natalia Rulyova: Poetry in Pictures: a Film about Joseph Brodsky (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Doug Bandow: So Much for the European Project (Roundup: Media's Take)
William J. Astore: Hope and Change Fade, but War Endures (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: American Decline Is a State of Mind (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Amitai Etzioni: Return of the Hooverites (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephanie Cronin: Afghanistan's Armies, Past and Present (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ian Milligan: Contextualizing G20 Policing in Toronto (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Christine McLaughlin: The Moral Economy of the 2010 Toronto G20 Crowd? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
George F. Will: Another Round of Prohibition, Anyone? (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Ignatius: Obama Needs a Foreign Policy Machiavelli (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Egan: Obama's Lincoln Moment? (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Pilger: The charge of the media brigade (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chase Madar: Obama’s Gitmo (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Obama the Non-Believer (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Melvin A. Goodman: What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Levy: 7/7: The London Bombings of 2005 Remembered and Muslim Perspectives (Roundup: Media's Take)
Evelyn Leopold: Here Comes the Queen: A Sense of History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Lee Ruddin: Understandng Pakistan through the Film "Bhutto" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Lee Ruddin: Understandng Pakistan through the Film "Bhutto" (Roundup: Talking About History)
Is America Headed for Imminent Collapse? (HNN Polls)
Daniel Pipes: On NASA's Strange Priorities (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas E. Ricks: The Worst Generals’ Memoir of World War II? (Roundup: Talking About History)
What Should Be Done Now That Tenure is Dead? (HNN Polls)
Rageh Omaar: Somaliland -- Small Country, Big Election Result (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jason Epstein: The Netanyahus and the Epsteins (Roundup: Media's Take)
T.H. Breen: The Secret Founding Fathers (Roundup: Talking About History)
Sean Wilentz: July 4th's Forgotten Partisan History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Toby Lester: How America Got Its Name (Roundup: Talking About History)
William C. Kashatus: Was Thomas Paine an Anarchist or Founding Father? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jayne Merkel: When Less Was More (Roundup: Historians' Take)
A Portraitist, and His Images of the Famous, Come to Light (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stephan Salisbury: Stage-Managing the War on Terror (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: Trust the Palestinian Authority? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Douglas Murray: Britain has not learnt the lesson of the July 7 suicide bombing (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Curtis: Bin Laden, the Taliban, Zawahiri ... Britain's done business with them all (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mitt Romney: Obama's worst foreign-policy mistake (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anne Applebaum: Democracy in trouble (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: A (Better) Reason to Hate BP (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nicholas von Hoffman: 7 Lessons Saul Alinsky Would Give Progressives Today (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ron Radosh: A Poor Historian Tries to Make a Case for the U.S. Breaking with Israel: Where He Goes Wrong (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thaddeus Russell: Does Israel Make Us Safer? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Walter Russell Mead: London Fourth (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeremy R. Hammond: Israel’s attack on Egypt in June ’67 was not ‘preemptive’ (Roundup: Talking About History)
M. Shahid Alam: Israel: A Failing Colonial Project (Roundup: Media's Take)
Todd Gitlin: Confessions of an Epistemological Skeptic (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joel Richard Paul: How We Really Won Our Independence (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Davis Hanson: Afghanistan Agonistes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bill Fowler: The Queen Still Rules the Waves (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ussama Makdisi: Understanding Past Could Help Restore U.S.-Arab Ties (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gary Leupp: The McChrystal Affair: A Boon for Obama? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: On Fourth of July, Let Iraq Go (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martin Kramer: Amazingly, Ayatollah Fadlallah Dies of Natural Causes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Fear of China is Overblown (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Frum: Who Killed Detroit? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Gotcha Politics Gone Wild (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ian C. Friedman: We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident (Roundup: Talking About History)
Eva Balogh: How European Politicians Get American History Wrong (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: With the U.S. Trapped in Depression, This Really is Starting to Feel Like 1932 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jill Lawrence: Another Patriotic Holiday, Another Day of Liberal Flag-Avoidance Syndrome (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gregory Rodriguez: One Man's One-Korea Dreams (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Hiltzik: The False Promise of Hoover Dam (Roundup: Media's Take)
Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Violence, Gun Rights, and Compassionate Progressivism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stanley Kutler: It's Still All About Race (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nathan Ward: Take Me to the River in New York, Finally (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeremiah Moss: Nighthawks State of Mind (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ian Williams: The Cold War is so over (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fred Hiatt: Around the world, freedom is in peril (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peggy Noonan: Happy 234th Independence Day (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Stokes: The Forgotten Old South Church of the American Revolution (Roundup: Talking About History)
Rodolfo Acuña: The Death of the Fourth Estate (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Nichols: Thomas Jefferson Feared an Aristocracy of Corporations (Roundup: Media's Take)
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez: From Manifest Destiny to Manifest Insanity (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonah Goldberg: Byrd Tributes Go Overboard (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michelle Malkin: Assimilation and the Founding Fathers (Roundup: Media's Take)
Morris Dickstein: The 1950s at War and at Home (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Marc Grossberg: The Day a Jewish Immigrant in Texas Took on the Klan (Roundup: Talking About History)
Henry D. Fetter: The Fight of the Century -- Really (Roundup: Media's Take)
Danny Heitman: Fourth of July and Thoreau Remind Us That U.S. Progress is Linked with its Ecology (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Rodgers: July 4 is Important -- But So is July 3 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eric O’Keefe: The Founders Didn't Create America; America Created the Founders (Roundup: Media's Take)
Akbar Ahmed: Thomas Jefferson and Mohammed Ali Jinnah: Dreams from Two Founding Fathers (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Carlson: For the 2010 Census, Knocking on America's Doors (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Rosen: Brandeis’s Seat, Kagan’s Responsibility (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sue Fishkoff: Red, White, and Kosher (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen Marche: Byrd and the Bard (Roundup: Media's Take)
Adrian Tinniswood: America’s Revolution: The Prequel (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Frank Rich: Fourth of July 1776, 1964, 2010 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel J. Sargent, 30 (Top Young Historians)
Week of June 27, 2010
Roundup
KKK Disowns Robert Byrd (Breaking News)
Tibetan DNA study reveals human evolution (Breaking News)
Ancient sperm whale's giant head uncovered (Breaking News)
Pius XII's Efforts to Save Jewish Culture Revealed (Breaking News)
Kyrgyzstan inaugurates Central Asia’s first female president (Breaking News)
Women recount World War II service (Breaking News)
Papers Show Moynihan in Full Voice Under Nixon (Breaking News)
Blogs
CLAIRE B. POTTER: Asian American Civil War History: Chinese Soldier Dies At Gettysburg (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Scattered Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Michael Steele Gets It Right (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Documents on Hitler's time in jail in 1924 auctioned off in Germany (Breaking News)
Political leaders bid farewell to West Virginia's favorite son (Breaking News)
War crimes suspect averts extradition from Australia (Breaking News)
Ugandan police arrest Rwandan genocide suspect (Breaking News)
8 nominees who didn't go to the Supreme Court (Breaking News)
Analysis confirms "subjects-citizens" change in Declaration (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Dinosaurs Nestled Up to Geysers, Hot Springs to Incubate Eggs (Breaking News)
Andrea Doria Bell Rings Out Again (Breaking News)
One family's story of World War II liner tragedy (Breaking News)
Leonardo da Vinci case and investigation costs revealed (Breaking News)
David Livingstone's 'lost letter' deciphered (Breaking News)
The untold story of the Great Fire of London (Breaking News)
Somali president leads troops in anniversary battle (Breaking News)
Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue re-opened after £2.7m face lift (Breaking News)
Amedeo Guillet Obituary (Breaking News)
Garibaldi letter on display (Breaking News)
Rwanda genocide: suspect sentenced to 25 years for killing thousands (Breaking News)
Witnesses offer support, opposition to Kagan (Breaking News)
'Sea monster' fossil found in Peru desert (Breaking News)
Tim Scott is making history by running away from it (Breaking News)
The Liberty Bell: a sliver of American history (Breaking News)
University of Colorado Professor Uncovers First Holocaust Liberation Photos, Highlights Overlapping Narratives (Historians in the News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Disaster, Heartbreak, and Unavoidable Trade-offs (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Efraim Karsh Appointed Middle East Quarterly Editor (Historians in the News)
The end of the Soviet Union was not inevitable, says Norman Stone (Historians in the News)
John Updike's Archive: A Great Writer at Work (Breaking News)
Black Landowners Fight to Reclaim Georgia Home (Breaking News)
Costs rise as Capitol Building crumbles (Breaking News)
Bollywood film about Hitler puts Indian fascination with Nazis to test (Breaking News)
Man killed in duel with Andrew Jackson given new burial site (Breaking News)
Demjanjuk's health deteriorating; trial delayed (Breaking News)
Sherrod Brown declares that opposition to health-care on "wrong side of history," like segregation (Breaking News)
German archives cannot afford Hitler papers (Breaking News)
In Japan but surrounded by U.S. influence, Okinawa struggles with split identity (Breaking News)
Giant predatory whale named for 'Moby Dick' author (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Additionally Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Egypt Finds Evidence of Unfinished Ancient Tomb (Breaking News)
Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch (Breaking News)
Lock of Napoleon's hair sells for £9,000 (Breaking News)
Sean Flynn not buried in Cambodia war (Breaking News)
Tony Blair to be awarded Liberty Medal (Breaking News)
Son of Hamas founder granted asylum in US (Breaking News)
Naomi Campbell 'to be called to give evidence in Charles Taylor's war crimes trial' (Breaking News)
Archeologists uncover 51 horse skeletons in the Netherlands, likely killed in 17th-century war (Breaking News)
10 years after returning to Cuba, Elian Gonzalez says he's not angry at Miami relatives (Breaking News)
Kagan pledges judicial independence (Breaking News)
Bass fisherman re-enact lure makers' 1910 competition (Breaking News)
Search for Franklin's lost ships to resume (Breaking News)
Is King Tut's Penis Missing? (Breaking News)
Why do some Muslim converts change their whole names and others only part? (Breaking News)
U.S. expo at Shanghai World's Fair to display American history for Chinese visitors (Breaking News)
1000 Reward for Information on Theft of Antique Wagon Wheels in Colorado (Breaking News)
Author Jeffrey Kroessler rips into ex-rival, borough historian Jack Eichenbaum for being passive (Historians in the News)
Obama Nominates Larry Palmer, former historian, as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela (Historians in the News)
Review of Harvard Scholar's Arrest Cites Failure to Communicate (Historians in the News)
Environmental historian Brian Black talks about impacts of oil spill (Historians in the News)
French rail firm to disclose war role under bill compromise (Breaking News)
Nazi hunter criticizes Latvia over commemoration (Breaking News)
Rally for Confederate flag held at SC Statehouse (Breaking News)
Russians blame Stalin’s ‘blunders’ for WWII losses: poll (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Archimedes set Roman ships afire with cannons (Breaking News)
Workers hunting for the body of first Michigan gov. (Breaking News)
House Panel Holds Hearing on Federal Records Management (Breaking News)
Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress Meets (Breaking News)
NEH Announces $20 Million in Grants and Awards (Breaking News)
National Park Service Names New Cultural Resources Head (Historians in the News)
Morphy Retires as National Archives CIO (Breaking News)
New Director of Education Named at the Smithsonian (Historians in the News)
Historian William Roger Louis to Discuss “The European Colonial Empires in Asia and Africa” (Historians in the News)
Study shows many Austrians see country as victim of Nazis (Breaking News)
Death of historian and art author Carola Hicks, 68 (Historians in the News)
Preservation of UT's history at stake in debate on whether to rename Simkins Hall (Breaking News)
Dissenting opinion of McDonald v. Chicago engages with historians (Historians in the News)
Historian, journalist Rick Atkinson wins $100K military lit prize (Historians in the News)
Science historian cracks "the Plato code" (Historians in the News)
Contact Congress Today on NHPRC Reauthorization Bill! (Historians in the News)
Senator Robert C. Byrd Dies after a Lifetime of Accomplishments (Breaking News)
Traces of Neolithic civilisation found in India (Breaking News)
Serbian site may have hosted first copper makers (Breaking News)
Council worker stumbles across 3,000-year-old carving (Breaking News)
NEH Grant Opportunity Deadline September 15 (Historians in the News)
Project reveals 1300 years of history for Peterborough and its Cathedral (Breaking News)
Harold Bluetooth's Palace discovered and other medieval archaeology news (Breaking News)
The ultimate cold case: Anthropologist 'bones up' on site of early medieval invasion (Breaking News)
Project Gargoyle begins in Leicestershire (Breaking News)
On Day 2, Kagan deploys humor and the artful dodge (Breaking News)
Goofs mar Palin's Reagan college tribute, legal fund appeal (Breaking News)
Prehistoric man went to the movies, say researchers (Breaking News)
Byrd to lie in Senate chamber where he served (Breaking News)
Penzance's South Pier given upgraded heritage status (Breaking News)
Blogs
GUS DIZEREGA: BP, the Gulf spill, and classical liberal theory (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Long history of deep-cover 'illegals' (Breaking News)
China and Taiwan sign a landmark trade deal (Breaking News)
Indian tribe threatened with extinction by encroaching tourists (Breaking News)
Cleopatra died of drug cocktail not snake bite (Breaking News)
Connecticut Marines Fight for 'Don't Tread on Me' Flag Display (Breaking News)
Confirmation hearing focuses on 'don't ask, don't tell' (Breaking News)
Ex-freedom fighter Kenneth Kaunda on Africa's new battles (Breaking News)
Korea, 60 years ago and now (Breaking News)
History swept under a prairie (Breaking News)
Hunt for Bronze Age golden hoard sparked by robbery (Breaking News)
In pictures: The DR Congo at 50 (Breaking News)
Robert Byrd: The Senate's memory keeper (Breaking News)
Archibald Hanna, Jr., curator of Americana at Yale, dies at 93 (Historians in the News)
Cross-strait relations improving between Taipei and Beijing (Breaking News)
Brazil's crucial archives could perish, leaving questions unanswered (Breaking News)
Science Uncovers the Hidden Secrets of World-Famous Paintings (Breaking News)
Science historian cracks "the Plato code" (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Hatch & Marshall in Historical Perspective (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Teachers 'arrested for stealing Auschwitz memento' (Breaking News)
The Nixon Administration’s Response to Salvador Allende and Chilean Expropriation (Breaking News)
Rev. Wright: Civil Rights Movement About 'Becoming White' (Breaking News)
Colleagues mourn longest-serving U.S. senator (Breaking News)
Kagan pledges open mind, impartiality if confirmed to Supreme Court (Breaking News)
OutHistory.org Announces LGBTQ Local Histories Contest Winners (Historians in the News)
Blogs
AEON J. SKOBLE: Individual Rights get a boost (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
History Professor Ferenc Szasz Dies (Historians in the News)
Nazi plan "Grün" to invade Ireland (Breaking News)
Battle of Britain: "The Luftwaffe doomed itself by being overconfident and undermanned" (Breaking News)
Stolen '$100 million' Caravaggio recovered by police (Breaking News)
Panama's Noriega tried in France over 'drug money' (Breaking News)
Marilyn Monroe chest X-rays fetch $45,000 (Breaking News)
Reviving the last Pasha of Marrakech (Breaking News)
Sen. Robert Byrd, Defender and Prolific Sponsor of Academic Earmarks, Dies at 92 (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
LIFE in the Korean War (Breaking News)
Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Months as Castaway (Breaking News)
Charles Dickens' fans host garden party for Kent chalet (Breaking News)
Queen to make historic UN address and appeal for 'world peace' (Breaking News)
Haunting portrait of Andy Warhol goes on display (Breaking News)
Georgian authorities pull down another Stalin monument, at night to avoid protests (Breaking News)
Kagan hearings to begin with questions from left and right (Breaking News)
Former VP Cheney's hospitalization related to his heart trouble (Breaking News)
Military-led Guinea holds first free election since 1958 (Breaking News)
Custer's last flag: Banner carried at Little Bighorn to be sold (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Patrick Allitt: How to Succeed in Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steve Clemons: Lindsey Graham: In Today's Republican Party, Reagan Wouldn't Make It as a Republican (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Winship: This Fourth of July, Celebrate 1776 -- The Movie (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ruth Graham: The Real Betsy Ross was a Hard-Nosed, Snuff-Loving Businesswoman (Roundup: Talking About History)
Dahlia Lithwick: Kagan v. Marshall (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Bradley: The Afghan War and the Spirit of Jefferson (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chris Weigant: The Forgotten Battle Which Won The American Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Ferling: George Washington -- the Teflon Founding Father? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
“Steve McCurry Retrospective” at Birmingham Museum (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Alan M. Kraut: Is Obama the New Lincoln? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Christopher Dickey: Take Up the White Man's Burden (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley Kutler: What Kind of Supreme Court? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Cassidy: Back to the Thirties? Now It’s Britain’s Turn (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Rosen: Why Louis Brandeis Matters (Roundup: Media's Take)
Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past -- Edited by Marcus Hall (Books About History & Historians)
Mary L. Dudziak: Thurgood Marshall Got Kagan Treatment, Too (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Van Gosse: Thank You, Rand Paul (From a Historian) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Josh Marshall: Was Byrd Compromised By the Klan? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rockwell Paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Peter Rachleff: You Can't Care for Patients with Bayonets: Lessons from History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: (Even a Few) Words Matter (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Fred Branfman: When Rolling Stone Calls the Shots, It’s Time to Negotiate (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Herbst: Why Dictators Love the United Nations (Roundup: Media's Take)
Martha C. Nussbaum: Why are Liberals so Impressed by China and Singapore’s School Systems? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
James K. Glassman: Notes on Europe’s Economic Decadence (Roundup: Media's Take)
Xu Guoqi: Where Are China’s Soccer Stars? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gwynne Dyer: Rewriting History No Way to Rehabilitate a Nation's Past (Roundup: Talking About History)
Sung-Yoon Lee: U.S. Misses History Lessons on Korea (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ann Jones: Counterinsurgency Down for the Count in Afghanistan… (Roundup: Media's Take)
Algirdas Brazauskas, First Lithuanian President, Dies at 77 (Obituaries)
William Taylor, Vigorous Rights Defender, Dies at 78 (Obituaries)
Dolph Briscoe, Texas Governor in the ’70s, Dies at 87 (Obituaries)
Dwight Armstrong, Who Bombed a College Building in 1970, Dies at 58 (Obituaries)
Pete Quaife, a Bassist for the Kinks, Dies at 66 (Obituaries)
Prescott Bush Jr., Scion of a Political Family, Dies at 87 (Obituaries)
Edith Shain, Who Said Famous Kiss Came Her Way, Dies at 91 (Obituaries)
Charles Ensley, Labor Leader and Union Critic, Dies at 69 (Obituaries)
Gerald W. Heaney, a Judge Who Ruled for the Desegregation of Public Schools, Dies at 92 (Obituaries)
Texas Freedom Network: Politics and Curriculum Standards in Texas (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Parry: Rethinking Iran-Contra (Roundup: Media's Take)
Suzy Khimm and David Corn: Michael Steele's Thurgood Marshall Fail (Roundup: Media's Take)
'Mummies of the World' at California Science Center uncovers history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
George Ball: The United States Should Join the Commonwealth (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Americans Have Reasons to Root for Ghana (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David S. Broder: Sen. Robert Byrd's Vanished Ethic (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Danger of Moral Equivalence (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anne Applebaum: Up to their old spy tricks again (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gary Wills: McChrystal Does Not Matter (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Brian Palmer: What Does an Exalted Cyclops Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Honda: Honduran Coup: One Year Anniversary Beckons Better U.S. Policy Towards Latin America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Wright: The Myth of Modern Jihad (Roundup: Media's Take)
Baktybek Abdrisaev and Alexey Semyonov: Back on Track in Bishkek (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Saul Cornell: Judicial Activism, Historical Revisionism, and the Legacy of the Roberts Court (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Rapley: Jamaica is a Neo-Medieval State (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alison LaCroix: The Use and Misuse of Legal History in McDonald (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Nichols: Elena Kagan Embraces Jefferson's Original Intent (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Gidley: Are Jews the Model Immigrants in England? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Burt Folsom: What Works and What Doesn’t Work in the U. S. Economy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Allan Meltzer: Why Obamanomics Has Failed (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Leonhardt: Governments Move to Cut Spending, in 1930s Echo (Roundup: Media's Take)
Shireen K. Burki: Bring Back the Afghan Monarchy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephanie J. Jones: Thurgood Marshall's Legacy Deserves Cheers, Not Sneers (Roundup: Media's Take)
Marvin Hier: Holocaust: a Huge Word Made Small (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dayo Olopade: Why Are 53 Countries Rooting for Ghana? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonah Goldberg: The Un-Borkable Elena Kagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ruth Marcus: Unhinged on the Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dahlia Lithwick: Elena Kagan is "Green Tea" at Her Confirmation Hearings (Roundup: Media's Take)
Erik Voeten: David Brooks, Epiphanies, and Social Science (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eric Rauchway: Of Shakedowns and Slush Funds (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Giles Slade: Oh Boy, Russian Spies! (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: McChrystal’s Tragedy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Kazin: Necessary Changes of Mind (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: Faisal Shahzad, Jihadi, Explains Terrorism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mary Dejevsky: A Spy Mission Left Behind by History, or a New Tactic by post-Soviet Russia? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Con Coughlin: Don't they know the Cold War is over? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Ashurst: An Open Letter to King Albert II (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jim Cullen, Review of Tom Rachman's "The Imperfectionists: A Novel" (The Dial Press, 2010) (Books)
Daniel Oliver: The New History of the New Deal (Roundup: Talking About History)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: Whose Supreme Court Is It? (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Cole: The Roberts Court's Free Speech Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Palin's Play of the Obama as Hitler Card Was Inevitable (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steve Kettmann: Byrd, Despite Dark Past, May Have Been the Last Great U.S. Senator (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christopher Hitchens: The Narcissism of the Small Differences in Ethnic Conflicts (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Saving Obama From Himself (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stephen Kinzer: BP in the Gulf -- The Persian Gulf (Roundup: Media's Take)
Charles Glass: Prince Charles Saves Chelsea Barracks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Howard Fineman: Roberts vs. Marshall at the Kagan Hearings (Roundup: Media's Take)
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez: How Not to Block a Mideast Bomb (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas E. Ricks: Patton the Last (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Johnson: Rwanda Takes a Strict Line on Genocide Denial. The U.S. Should Support That (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eugene Robinson: Robert Byrd: A Story of Change and Redemption (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mario Loyola: Echoes of Korea (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aleksander Kwasniewski: On Holocaust Education (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Brooks: Bill Wilson’s Gospel (Roundup: Media's Take)
Roger Cohen: The Black and the White of It (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bernard Weiner: Potholes, Petroleum, Pashtuns: Afghanistan As a Local Issue (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mona Charen: Obama Owes Bush an Apology (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christian Caryl: What Japan Still Owes America (Roundup: Talking About History)
Dominic Lawson: A Napoleonic Lesson on Austerity (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: Afghanistan ... Eyes Wide Shut (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Krugman: The Third Depression (Roundup: Media's Take)
Brad Hirschfield: Remembering Korea: The Forgotten War (Roundup: Talking About History)
Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, Jefferson Did Not Date His Documents 'In the Year of Our Lord Christ' (Roundup: Talking About History)
Lee Smith: The Return of the Ottomans (Roundup: Media's Take)
Matthew Continetti: The Two Faces of the Tea Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Dreyfuss: The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die (Roundup: Media's Take)
William J. Astore: Leave Afghanistan Now (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Garrett Epps: McChrystal Seen Through Washington's Glasses (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eliot A. Cohen: Will there be an Afghanistan Syndrome? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Max Boot: Obama Shone in McChrystal Affair (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gregory Rodriguez: The Roots of Redneck Pride (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dana Frank: A Year Later, Obama Still Shores Up the Honduran Coup (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: How Afghanistan Became the Ignored War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Endless War, a Recipe for Four-Star Arrogance (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael A. Bellesiles: Teaching Military History in a Time of War (Roundup: Talking About History)
Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92 (Obituaries)
Lisa Abend: The BP Spill ... Learning from Spain's 2002 Disaster (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas E. Ricks: In Afghanistan, Petraeus will have difficulty replicating his Iraq success (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen G. Rademaker: The Kremlin’s Nuclear Trump Card (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fouad Ajami: Petraeus and Obama's Uncertain Trumpet (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ron Radosh: To Chavez, With Love (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Joyce Appleby: Getting Ready to Lead a World Economy: Enterprise in Nineteenth Century America (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Sylla: The U.S. Banking System: Origin, Development, and Regulation (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Roger E. A. Farmer: Economic Policy Through the Lens of History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Charles Francis and Bob Witeck: The Smithsonian Museum Puts Gays In The Vault (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bethany Moreton, 39 (Top Young Historians)
Film review: "City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!)" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of June 20, 2010
Blogs
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): General McChrystal and the Wages of Hypocrisy (Mark A. LeVine)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Acton on Rhadamanthus? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Global Warming - A Couple of Stories You May Have Missed (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SHABAT SHALOM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: Israeli Arabs – Modernity Up, Birth Rate Down (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
China rewrites history of Korean War (Breaking News)
Ex-commissioner calls Congo's colonial master a 'visionary hero' (Breaking News)
Well-preserved Roman road found in southern Serbia (Breaking News)
Archaeologists uncover Harald Bluetooth’s royal palace (Breaking News)
Oldest surviving WWII submarine commander turns 100 (Breaking News)
Romans 'killed babies at brothel' (Breaking News)
Details of secret US-UK 'spying pact' released (Breaking News)
World marks Michael Jackson anniversary (Breaking News)
US photographer Max Desfor relives Korean War (Breaking News)
Mich. museum's Little Bighorn flag for sale in NYC (Breaking News)
S Korea marks 60th anniversary of Korean War (Breaking News)
Israel marks fourth anniversary Gilad Shalit capture (Breaking News)
Archeologists find evidence of St Peter's prison (Breaking News)
China rewrites history of Korean War (Breaking News)
Romans 'killed babies at brothel' (Breaking News)
Details of British-US Cold War intelligence-sharing pact made public (Breaking News)
Rwandan opposition candidate represented by detained US lawyer denied run for president (Breaking News)
Stalin monument dismantled in dictator's Georgian hometown to make way for 2008 war memorial (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: The Audacity of A Dope (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Ceremony Will Dedicate Marker on Glendale Battlefield (Breaking News)
Cell towers put Georgia battlefield "at risk" (Breaking News)
Robert B. Townsend: Recession Takes Toll on AHA Membership (Historians in the News)
Robert B. Townsend: Is There an E-book in Your Future? A Report from the University Presses (Historians in the News)
Conrad Black given fresh hope of early release after US supreme court ruling (Breaking News)
Tomb raiders unearth new marketplace (Breaking News)
Colosseum to open gladiator passageways for first time (Breaking News)
Separation between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens might have occurred 500,000 years earlier (Breaking News)
Archaeologists make 'spectacular' discovery at Delancey (Breaking News)
World's Largest Dinosaur Graveyard Found (Breaking News)
Why the Fossil 'Hobbit' of Flores Isn't so Strange (Breaking News)
King Tut Died of Blood Disorder: Study (Breaking News)
McChrystal Firing Not Unusual in U.S. History (Breaking News)
Lake Michigan shipwreck found after 112 years (Breaking News)
Japan PM apologises for US bases in Okinawa (Breaking News)
Jesus did not die on cross, says scholar (Breaking News)
Floods in Bosnia wash away river banks containing land mines planted during the war (Breaking News)
Boer War records show 86 were struck by lightning (Breaking News)
Booker Prize winner Yann Martel says 'Jews don't own the Holocaust' (Breaking News)
Band of six brothers served in World War II (Breaking News)
Council of Europe takes notice of ancient sites in Turkey (Breaking News)
Rare 4,600-year-old Ontario burial lifts lid on prehistoric Canada (Breaking News)
New documents describe Adolf Hitler's time in prison (Breaking News)
Conrad Black fraud case returns to court of appeal (Breaking News)
Lack of Funds May Force Korean War Museum to Surrender Its Land (Breaking News)
Adolf Hitler wrote begging letter for Mercedes loan (Breaking News)
Obama on McChrystal, Truman on MacArthur (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Victorian Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Angela Gugliotta, Environmental Historian and Lecturer at the University of Chicago, 1963-2010 (Historians in the News)
Andrew Bacevich sits down with Salon on Gen. McChrystal's ouster (Historians in the News)
Steinbeck archive draws little interest at auction (Breaking News)
Jonathan Gelbart: Joel Beinin's Old Time Religion of Israel Bashing (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Archaeologists seek protection for Afghan treasures (Breaking News)
Last Lakota code talker Clarence Wolf Guts dies at 86 (Breaking News)
Mussolini instructed Diary be sealed "for 80 years" (Breaking News)
Nurse in iconic WWII photograph dies aged 91 (Breaking News)
Remains of 72 people found at World Trade Center site (Breaking News)
Russian intelligence agency given KGB-style powers (Breaking News)
New WW1 Epic: All Quiet on the Western Front (Breaking News)
Budget: UK faces worst cuts since World War II (Breaking News)
Manet self portrait fetches record £22m at London sale (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Police Kill Grandmother's Dog (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: The Corporate State, Perfected (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Still More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Digs in Cyprus uncover more of Phoenician fort (Breaking News)
Descartes letter found by web surfer heads home to France (Breaking News)
Jerusalem moving ahead with controversial park project (Breaking News)
Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth (Breaking News)
Andrew Jackson's duel victim, once forgotten, gets second burial (Breaking News)
Roman fort found in Cornwall 'rewrites history' (Breaking News)
Tolkien festival to recreate Middle Earth in mid Wales (Breaking News)
Ancient Egyptian city located in Nile Delta by radar (Breaking News)
Plastic Mao statues outlawed in China (Breaking News)
Earliest known images of apostles discovered under Rome streets (Breaking News)
Most expensive feather ever fetches £4,000 at auction (Breaking News)
Dutch police use 'decoy Jews' to stop anti-Semitic attacks (Breaking News)
Britain's 150-year-old budget box, first used by William Gladstone, takes its last bow (Breaking News)
Americans expect woman president, cancer cure, but also world war, nuclear attack by 2050 (Breaking News)
The African sculptures mistaken for remains of Atlantis (Breaking News)
How the power of oil dogged former presidents, and could tar Obama (Breaking News)
AHA, OAH, and NCPH endorse new guidelines for tenure (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ATLAS MCCHRYSTAL IS SHRUGGING/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
China unearths more Terracotta Warriors [Photo gallery] (Breaking News)
Shop's 'Hitler style' war medal provokes row (Breaking News)
Bloody Sunday paratroopers attack Saville report as 'fundamentally flawed' (Breaking News)
West Point gathering examines endings of US wars (Historians in the News)
"Lucy" Kin Pushes Back Evolution of Upright Walking? (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Nothing plucky about breaking up Belgium (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MUST FEMINISTS and GAYS PUT LEFTISM FIRST? updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING and WATCHING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IT'S NOT JUST DEBT, IT'S CONSUMPTION/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Historical Associations Issue Recommendations about Rewarding Public History Work for Promotion and Tenure (Historians in the News)
Buried ancient Egyptian city revealed by radar imaging (Breaking News)
CIA releases details of failed 1952 Chinese mission (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IF ONLY THIS WAS THE PROBLEM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New school site yields ancient tools (Breaking News)
Do not open until 2025: Mussolini 'hid secret diaries in Italian hillside but ordered them sealed for 80 years' (Breaking News)
Turkish historian again denies Armenian genocide (Historians in the News)
British hero who seized key German port during World War II is honoured ... by Germany (Breaking News)
General Franco gave list of Spanish Jews to Nazis (Breaking News)
John Lennon's A Day in the Life lyrics sell for $1.2m (Breaking News)
Ex-Rwandan PM reveals genocide planning (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Ancient Humans May Have Dined on Hyenas (Breaking News)
Utah Firing Squad Execution Likely Last of its Kind (Breaking News)
Spectacular Roman remains unveiled in Sofia (Breaking News)
US returns 7 stolen ancient Cambodian sculptures (Breaking News)
Airport Scanners Take on Mummies (Breaking News)
Pope Joan film sparks Roman Catholic Church row (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Bartlett on Treasury Default (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Battle of Waterloo re-enacted in Belgium (Breaking News)
First pictures of French Resistance killed by Nazi firing squad (Breaking News)
Nico Smith, white anti-apartheid cleric who lived in black township, dies at 81 (Breaking News)
New Agers and neo-pagans descend on Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice (Breaking News)
E-mails show confident, brassy side to Kagan (Breaking News)
Families wash Vietnam memorial to honor fallen fathers (Breaking News)
Where Gulf Spill Might Place on the Roll of Disasters (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: QATAR WANTS CREDIT FOR LEGITIMIZING HAMAS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
How the Nazis Used War Rubble as Propaganda (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: Another Attack on Pearl Harbor (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Jeffrey S. Reznick: The 'Convalescent Blues' in Frederick Cayley Robinson's 'Acts of Mercy' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Timothy Garton Ash: Look Out for Another Financial Avalanche (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Bercuson: Sixty Years Later, Canada Can Still Learn from the Korean War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Laurent Dubois: France's Soccer Empire in Ruins? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Brooks: The Culture of Exposure (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aaron Zelinsky: Borking Barak: Why the Right's Newest Attack on Kagan Is Wrong (Roundup: Media's Take)
Will Bunch: My Own Personal Odyssey with American Soccer (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: America Detached from War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: The Left's New Enemy: "Empire" (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Baldwin: Is the EU Too Big to be Democratic? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rosemary Bechler: 50.50 – Equal but Different: a Reply to Ruth Rosen (Roundup: Media's Take)
Neal Ascherson: Charles de Gaulle Remembered (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jim Sleeper: McChrystal's Master-Stroke? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Boubacar Boris Diop: Why is France Still Propping Up Africa's Dictators? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rory Miller: Why the Irish Support Palestine (Roundup: Media's Take)
Abigail Thernstrom: A Political Moment to Savor (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Sowell: Beyond the McChrystal Flap (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Barone: Whether He Likes It or Not, Obama Must Command (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lucian K. Truscott IV: The Unsentimental Warrior (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas E. Ricks: Lose a General, Win a War (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Rubin: Turkey, from Ally to Enemy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Kennedy: A Time to Appease (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeffrey Lord: Eric Holder is Obama's Harry Daugherty (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: A McChrystal Endnote (Roundup: Historians' Take)
George F. Will: Why McChrystal Had to Go (Roundup: Media's Take)
Was Sacking McChrystal the Right Thing to Do? (HNN Polls)
Julian Zelizer: Not Quite MacArthur (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Astore: McChrystal Must Go (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bruce Ackerman: An Increasingly Politicized Military (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Leon Aron: In Russia, a Climate of Fear is Stifling Innovation (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jack Shafer: The Time and Life Acid Trip (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Pinsky: Meet Abraham Lincoln, Poet (Roundup: Talking About History)
Eliot Cohen: Why McChrystal Has to Go (Roundup: Media's Take)
Charles Homans: How Soyuz Outlasted the Space Shuttle (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yulia Latynina: Oil Spill Is BP’s Chernobyl (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard H. Kohn: Thoroughly Debate McChrystal’s Fate (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Max Boot: Judging McChrystal’s War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Dallek: The Other Truman Doctrine (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Doris Kearns Goodwin: What Would Lincoln Do? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Obama Should Assess the Afghanistan Surge Before Firing McChrystal (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jim Sleeper: Conservatives See McChrystal's Folly; Neo-Cons Can't (Roundup: Historians' Take)
African American History Reconsidered -- by Pero Gaglo Dabovie (Books About History & Historians)
James P. Pinkerton: Why Obama Won't Fire McChrystal (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Taplin: McCrystal & MacArthur (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eve Fairbanks: Bring Back the Sports Boycott (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Kynaston: Austerity was a Hard Sell in the 40s -- Today It's Harder Still (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dominic Sandbrook: Historians are Wrong to Kick Football into Touch (Roundup: Talking About History)
Nicolas Kinloch: How Do We Record History Education? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: Obama's MacArthur Moment (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Obama, Cool in a Crisis (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mark Medish: Where Is Russia? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael J. Strauss: A Way to Rescue Greece (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul H. Rubin: A Tale of Two Disasters (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Traub: In the Beginning, There Was Somalia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kevin Mooney: Ted Kennedy's KGB Correspondence (Roundup: Talking About History)
Scott Horton and Baktybek Abdrisaev: U.S. and Russia Can End the Suffering in Kyrgyzstan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: Is America Tuning Out Capitol Hill? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Fisk: German Captains, U-Boats and Other Lies About Ireland (Roundup: Talking About History)
Benjamin Ross: The Hundred Years' War over Toxic Chemicals (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hervé Kempf: American Chernobyl (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lucian A. Bebchuk: Don’t Gut Proxy Access (Roundup: Media's Take)
A Sculptural Showcase in Siena (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Matthew Dickinson: Why Obama Should Not Have Given Tuesday’s Speech (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Patti Davis: Ronald Reagan, America's Father (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eleanor Clift: What Would the Tea Party Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joshua Horwitz: "Second Amendment Remedies" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Leon T. Hadar: Popping Pipe(s) Turkey Dreams (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Alter: Obama, BP, and Theodore Roosevelt (Roundup: Media's Take)
Craig Comstock: Castro's Big Nuclear Secret (Roundup: Talking About History)
Timothy Ruddin: Jerry Brown and his Joseph Goebbels Gaffe (Roundup: Media's Take)
John P. Rossi: The World's Most Dangerous Summer (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ted Widmer: On Writing Speeches for Presidents (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bret Stephens: Iran Cannot Be Contained (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: How Obama Changed the Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Roya Wolverson: Before BP ... The History of Allowing Industries to Police Themselves (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lee P. Ruddin: How to Rebuild the Special Relationship (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edward Stourton: Kyrgyzstan ... Stalin's deadly legacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Elliot Hen-Tov and Bernard Haykel: Turkey’s Gain Is Iran’s Loss (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard Snow: The Man Who Left, the Father Who Came Back (Roundup: Talking About History)
Daniel and Tony Judt: Generations in the Balance (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: What the Foreign Media Misses in Covering China's Labor Unrest (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Randal Jelks: A Tale of Two Oil Rich and Degraded Deltas (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Why are Liberals Always on the Edge of Despair? (HNN Polls)
François Furstenberg, 37 (Top Young Historians)
Jim Cullen, Review of Dave Eggers's "Zeitoun" (Vintage, 2010) (Books)
Week of June 13, 2010
Blogs
CHARLES W. NUCKOLLS: Revitalizing America (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Lessons from failed Cold War spy mission in China (Breaking News)
French Gen Marcel Bigeard dies aged 94 (Breaking News)
Nobel-winning author Jose Saramago dies at 87 (Breaking News)
Honour for major who led capture of German port in WWII (Breaking News)
Aung San Suu Kyi's supporters mark her 65th birthday (Breaking News)
Remains of chess champion Bobby Fischer to be exhumed (Breaking News)
First World War Bosnian postcard finally reaches family (Breaking News)
The Catcher in the Rye 'to be made into Hollywood film' (Breaking News)
John Lennon's 'A Day in the Life' fetches $1.2 million (Breaking News)
Carlos Monsivais, renowned Mexican journalist, social critic, leftist activist, dies at 72 (Breaking News)
Kagan notes label KKK and NRA as 'bad guy' organizations (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: State Laws Mandating Private Discrimination Before 1964 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
SHELDON RICHMAN: Cato Unbound Response (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SHABBAT SHALOM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Frank Views from Chinese Historian About Korean War (Historians in the News)
U. of Tennessee Wins Grant to Digitize Newspapers (Historians in the News)
Controversy in France over de Gaulle literature, Robert Paxton weighs in (Historians in the News)
Retired Vanderbilt professor, Paul Hardacre, passes away (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BOB DYLAN ON A NEIGHBORHOOD BULLY CALLED ISRAEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: YES, VERY ANNOYED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New Dates for Egypt's Pharaohs (Breaking News)
A war museum, Hezbollah-style (Breaking News)
Michelangelo hid anatomical sketches in Sistine Chapel in Church attack (Breaking News)
French President and Prince of Wales comemorate Nazi defiance (Breaking News)
Winston Churchill 'agonised' over finest hour speech, papers reveal (Breaking News)
Mexican experts to tunnel for Aztec rulers' tombs (Breaking News)
US returns 7 stolen ancient Cambodian sculptures (Breaking News)
Vatican Calls The Blues Brothers “Catholic” (Breaking News)
French Gen Marcel Bigeard dies aged 94 (Breaking News)
Bobby Fischer to be exhumed (Breaking News)
Nobel-winning author Jose Saramago dies at 87 (Breaking News)
Radiocarbon dating verifies ancient Egypt's history (Breaking News)
Seventy Years Later, Churchill’s ‘Finest Hour’ Yields Insights (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: YALLA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Yet More Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
University of MN historian objects to Pawlenty comments on Daily Show (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: "GREEN" BP GULF DISASTER BENEFITS CHINA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DISHEARTENING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Tea Party, American Revolution resonate around the globe (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: The World Cup (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Medieval three lions badge found in UK looks like Soccer logo (Breaking News)
WWII Italian Ship Wreck Found off Albania Coast (Breaking News)
French 'using de Gaulle anniversary to cover up WWII collaboration' (Breaking News)
Native Canadians to testify on decades of abuse (Breaking News)
Canadian report into 1985 Air India crash is expected (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: Good Luck and Good Hunting (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Arlington National Cemetery headstones found lining stream bed (Breaking News)
Congress Dedicates Plaques Acknowledging Slaves Who Helped Build Capitol (Breaking News)
Skulls show New World was settled twice: study (Breaking News)
Call for full excavation of HMS Victory shipwreck (Breaking News)
India 'human safaris' threaten ancient tribe (Breaking News)
Remains of first king of England's sister found in German cathedral (Breaking News)
Grandmother jailed over WWII 'family heirloom' pistol (Breaking News)
World Cup: Medieval three lions badge found in Coventry (Breaking News)
Rare Rabindranath Tagore paintings sold in the UK (Breaking News)
Campaign to save the Arabic language in Lebanon (Breaking News)
Sudan: Darfur rebel leaders surrender to Hague court (Breaking News)
Falklands veteran returns trumpet seized from Argentine soldier (Breaking News)
Mystery of Caravaggio's death may be solved (Breaking News)
Jacques Tati's ode to his illegitimate daughter (Breaking News)
The image that changed the course of South Africa's history (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Carter & Obama (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN AND HEZHOLLAH FLOTILLAS ARE SAILING/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New Kennedy Docs Show Perseverance, FBI Relationship, Says Goodwin (Historians in the News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: "Phrases Tacked Together Like the Sections of a Prefabricated Henhouse" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
SHELDON RICHMAN: Debate Over the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FACING UP TO OBAMA'S ANTICAPITALISM/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RICH TALIBAN? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Greece's Archaeological Tourism Industry Under Threat (Breaking News)
Vandals deface Jaffa archaeological site (Breaking News)
Hitler memorabilia 'attracts young Indians' (Breaking News)
History of deadly earthquakes (Breaking News)
Presidential historians (pre)assess Obama speech (Historians in the News)
Critics say copies of rare slave photos have been on eBay (Breaking News)
Bruce Fraser, historian of Connecticut, dies at 63 (Historians in the News)
De Gaulle truth played down? (Historians in the News)
Douglas Brinkley says to use BP money to save wetlands (Historians in the News)
Human Sacrifices Found at Ancient China Complex (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Carnivals (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Hendrik Hertzberg: Historians for Kagan (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BHO ADMISTS TO BEING A MUSLIM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMALL FAVOR FOR NEDA AND FRIENDS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Pelosi Announces Retirement of House Historian, Search Committee (Historians in the News)
Stimpson Prize for Feminist Scholarship awarded to Ellen Samuels (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: In Defense of Permissiveness (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Nixon aides pressed FBI on Kopechne (Breaking News)
Indiana University historians says that Isaac Newton doubled as an alchemist (Historians in the News)
Netherlands appoints first professor of Dutch slavery history (Historians in the News)
Unesco launches fresh effort in Africa to teach the continent its history (Breaking News)
Bloody Sunday report: David Cameron apologises for 'unjustifiable' shootings (Breaking News)
American archaeologists find ruins of four ancient castles in western Turkey (Breaking News)
Nazi sign commemorating World War Two Navy raid gifted to UK Royal Navy Museum (Breaking News)
WWII freighter wreck found off Albania? (Breaking News)
Winston Churchill's cigar airbrushed from picture (Breaking News)
What's up with all the Nazi symbols in India? A historian answers (Historians in the News)
50 years later, "To Killl a Mockingbird" still as popular (Breaking News)
1960s Green Revolution's diet of big carbon savings (Breaking News)
Historians weigh in on released Kennedy FBI files (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Humans Did Not Invent the Wheel -- Nature Did (Breaking News)
Warm-Blooded Marine Reptiles at the Time of the Dinosaurs (Breaking News)
The Thunderstone Mystery: What's a Stone Age Axe Doing in an Iron Age Tomb? (Breaking News)
500 shot in Stalin cops' mass grave (Breaking News)
Mousehole evacuees return 70 years after arriving (Breaking News)
Bloody Sunday: soldiers should face trial but not jail, families say (Breaking News)
First stages for Egypt's new museum completed, including state-of-the-art conservation center (Breaking News)
Modigliani Sculpture Sells for Record $52.8 Million at Paris Auction (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FINALLY, INDIA GOT IT'S REASONABLE WISH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
In the footsteps of the Oregon Trail pioneers (Breaking News)
John Barrett: Jeff Shesol to give Jackson Lecture at the Chautauqua Institution (Historians in the News)
Churchill name for military base opposed, 100 years on (Breaking News)
UC-Irvine Suspends Muslim Student Group for Disrupting Speech of Israeli Ambassador (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA'S BLUFF ALIENATED BRAZIL AND TURKEY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Why do graduating students wear academic robes? (Breaking News)
Skeleton Found in Wyoming Could Be Prehistoric, Coroner Says (Breaking News)
Benedict, in Basilica address, pledges to "do everything possible" to end abuse (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HIRSI ALI CONFRONTS MULTICULTURALISM COVER FOR ISLAMISM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
The Terrezin Nazi ghetto was home to many artists (Breaking News)
Dr. Jack Kevorkian has no regrets (Breaking News)
Big Bad John singer Jimmy Dean dies at 81 (Breaking News)
Prehistoric mammal hair found in Cretaceous amber (Breaking News)
Newsweek asks presidential historians what other presidents would have done with BP (Historians in the News)
FBI releases secret Ted Kennedy files (Breaking News)
Oil spill is 'Environment's 9/11' (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Why should history have to engage the public, asks Richard Overy (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Early print of Declaration of Independence visits Maryland for History Day (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
A Cooler Pacific May Have Severely Affected Medieval Europe, North America (Breaking News)
Crocodile and Hippopotamus Served as 'Brain Food' for Early Human Ancestors (Breaking News)
Gold Rush shipwreck named historic site (Breaking News)
Over centuries, trash to treasure (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIANS TRY TO REMEMBER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN DIASPORA REMEMBERS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JIHADIST FLOTILLA TO FOLLOW GOLDSTONE REPORT? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Pain of capture at St Valery-en-Caux recalled (Breaking News)
Belfast loses replica Titanic anchor bid to Dudley (Breaking News)
Paterson calls for end to Bloody Sunday 'speculation' (Breaking News)
World Cup fears over North Korea in 1966 (Breaking News)
Finland sentences Rwanda preacher to life for genocide (Breaking News)
ICC pushes UN for arrests of Sudanese suspects (Breaking News)
Tehran clashes reported on Iran vote anniversary (Breaking News)
Absinthe could be legalised in France after 100-year ban (Breaking News)
Mark Twain memoir and the 'filthy-minded' secretary (Breaking News)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards cash in after a year of suppressing dissent (Breaking News)
What lies beneath: the fakes, mistakes and discoveries at the National Gallery (Breaking News)
Vatican beatifies Slovenian student killed by communists during WWII (Breaking News)
As Supreme Court justice, Kagan would be forced to sit out some big cases, muddying outcome (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Which End, if Any, Is Near? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Jonathan Jones: Coalition's Cuts are Final Betrayal of Stonehenge (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jill Fields on why the cone bra is pops with pop stars (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Paul A. Rahe: An Absence of Executive Temperament (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tariq Ali: Obama’s War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Dalrymple: We Should Learn from the 1842 Anglo-Afghan War (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry Allen: From Vietnam to Afghanistan: Not Winning Hearts and Minds (Roundup: Media's Take)
'Stonewall Uprising': Turning Point in Gay Rights History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Haggai Carmon: The Sick Man Upon the Bosphorus: Déjà Vu? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kofi A. Annan: The Myth of 'Never Again' (Roundup: Talking About History)
Aung Lynn Htut: The Burma-North Korea Axis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gal Beckerman: Hijacking Their Way Out of Tyranny (Roundup: Talking About History)
Paul Krugman: That ’30s Feeling (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch -- by Eric Miller (Books About History & Historians)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Great Anglo-American Spat (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stephanie Coontz: Divorce, No-Fault Style (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Cathy Young: Racism, Civil Rights, and Libertarianism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: 'Bush Did It’ Is Not a Foreign Policy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nick Turse: BP and the Pentagon's Dirty Little Secret (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Garton Ash: De Gaulle and Churchill Have a Message for Sarkozy and Cameron (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steve Richards: The real purpose of public inquiries (Roundup: Media's Take)
Craig Murray: Kyrgyzstan ... Death, dictators and the Soviet legacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ira Chernus: Obama's Conservative Call to War Against Oil (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Freddy Umutanguha: Peter Erlinder Charges in Rwanda: A Genocide Survivor's Perspective (Roundup: Talking About History)
Timothy Lavin: Coming Clean on Northern Ireland's "Bloody Sunday" (Roundup: Talking About History)
Douglas Brinkley: To Save the Gulf, Free the Mississippi (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Tomasky: A Historical Argument Against Despair (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dayo Olopade: At the World Cup, the Empire Strikes Back (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yotam Jacobson: Have We Lost Turkey? (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Underhill: Bloody Sunday Redux (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ethan Porter: V-Day in the Culture Wars for the Left (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Dannatt: Bloody Sunday ... We must not dwell on the errors of the past (Roundup: Talking About History)
Lee Harris: The Tea Party vs. the Intellectuals (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joel Kotkin: To See the Future of America's Working Classes, Look at England (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Arax: Suddenly, the Israel Lobby Discovers a Genocide (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gabriel Winant: Obama Needs to Learn from Wilson and Truman to Get Things Done (Roundup: Media's Take)
Doug Kendall & Hannah McCrea: The Tea Party Ought to Remember the Whiskey Rebellion (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph A. Palermo: Obama's "Fireside Chat" (FDR or Jimmy Carter?) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martin Kettle: The Perfect Match of Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Battersby: South Africa's Great Leap Forward (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tim Rutten: Bloomsday and James Joyce (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Thomas Frank: The Old "Widows and Orphans" Defense (Roundup: Media's Take)
History Channel Seeks Host for New Series, "The Jefferson Project" (Jobs)
Melissa Harris-Lacewell: You've Got to Be Carefully Taught (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joyce Appleby: Living Wages are Key to Poverty Eradication (Roundup: Historians' Take)
History and the Enlightenment -- by Hugh Trevor-Roper (Books About History & Historians)
Christopher Corbett: The Pony Rides Again (and Again) (Roundup: Talking About History)
Burt Folsom: How Not to Pay For Damages from the Oil Spill (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Willy Lam: Shaking Up China's Labor Movement (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrei Lankov: Son Rising for a Post Dear Leader Era (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mick Fealty: Bloody Sunday Inquiry: Laying the Ghosts to Rest (Roundup: Talking About History)
Josh Kron: Burundi and Rwanda, Mirror Images of Each Other (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ramesh Ponnuru: The Right’s Civil Wrongs (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Lord: The Original Mr. Anti-Establishment: Ronald Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
John C. Wohlstetter: Cuba 1962 and Iran 2010: Will There Be a Mideast Nuclear Castro? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Some Truths Trump Even Crucial Alliances (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gregory Rodriguez: In America, Old Glory Represents More than Just Patriotism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Cohen: Fighting the Viet Cong in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
James N. Wood, President of the Getty Trust, Dies at 69 (Obituaries)
Van Gosse: Black Republicans' Problem with History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Robinson: Immigration ... What Would Reagan Do? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Bret Stephens: Requiem for a Revolution ... The Iranian Green movement is dead (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anne Applebaum: The oil spill isn't Obama's Katrina (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Macintyre: De Gaulle would have hated the Saville inquiry (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kevin R. Kosar: The Anger is Real; the Media Picture Isn't (Roundup: Media's Take)
Evaggelos Vallianatos: Ill Fares the Land (Literally) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez: Arizona: Rushing Toward the Wrong Side of History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bernd Fischer: Albania and Enver Hoxha's Legacy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martin Marty: The Chosen People (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Dickerson: Presidential Anger Management (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Academia's Twisted Logic (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Moshe Dann: Why Is the State Department Covering for a Known Terror Group? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Feffer: Pax Ottomanica? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bernard Weiner: Bibi as Bullyboy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Doug Bandow: Germany's Lesson for America: Wars of Necessity, not Choice (Roundup: Media's Take)
Muriam Haleh Davis: Africa and the World Cup: Soccer as Evolution? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard Overy: The Battle of Britain 70 Years On (Roundup: Talking About History)
James P Rubin: Obama's Foreign Policy Success (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edward Tenner: Celebrating 50 Years of the Xerox Machine (Roundup: Talking About History)
Leon de Winter: Anti-Semitism Is Salonfähig Again (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Russell Mead: The World Must Do More For Middle East Peace (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul Bew: The Bloody Sunday Inquiry ... Was It Worth It? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stephen Schwartz: Let’s Hear It for Tex Avery (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Broder: California Switch Could Affect Elections Nationally (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: For Obama, Crisis May Outweigh Record (Roundup: Historians' Take)
'Rude Britannia' spotlights artists' comic view of British politics, culture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of June 6, 2010
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Activists' Goal Keeping Haitians in Poverty (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
TIMOTHY FURNISH: Back to the (Mahdist) Future? (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Landmark Conviction in Colombia's Palace of Justice Case (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SURPRISING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Brinkley announces a "Gulf Recovery Act" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Obama as the Pentagon's Best Friend (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICAN ARE RIGHT TO BE FRUGAL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN - WHAT'S NEXT? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA DO WHAT EU IS DOING, CUT GOVENMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Who Is Crying Wolf? Developing Controversy over New Program (Historians in the News)
Spelman College historian analyzes Obama: ‘So far I would give him a B’ (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IGNORING RED FLAGS LET TO BP OIL DISASTER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
'Nobody denies Jewish history here' says Abbas (Breaking News)
BP spill only latest black mark in industry history (Breaking News)
'Spare Rome' pleaded Pope in secret wartime letter to US President Roosevelt, which has emerged after 60 years (Breaking News)
Book on Chavez in prison, “I saw him cry”, triggers controversy (Breaking News)
Anger in Northern Ireland at claims Bloody Sunday inquiry has found soldiers 'guilty of unlawful killing' (Breaking News)
Mismarked Graves Cited in Arlington Ousters (Breaking News)
Ethnic tensions continue to simmer in Belgium, despite financial crisis (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN - ONE YEAR LATER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Et Plagieringseventyr (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Locals hope Crown Heights excavation unearths Revolutionary War artifacts (Breaking News)
Underwater Ruins Give Glimpse of Cleopatra (Breaking News)
Historic Clinton museum closed, but director volunteers to give tours (Breaking News)
Rare Photo Of Slave Children Found In NC Attic (Breaking News)
Schoolgirl's bid to honour Barmouth's Titanic hero (Breaking News)
Guardian Bloody Sunday inquiry story 'speculation' (Breaking News)
Polish inmates help restore Jewish legacy (Breaking News)
Swedish millionaire 'with far-right sympathies' linked to Auschwitz theft (Breaking News)
Ground Zero deal sees victims given £486 million (Breaking News)
Groups Consider Renaming 'Helen Thomas' Awards (Breaking News)
Experts examine mummy of 13th-century saint, say she died of a heart defect (Breaking News)
With Revolutionaries 'Looking On,' Teachers Take Kids on a Protest Trip to Arizona (Breaking News)
Iranian opposition leaders cancel anniversary protests (Breaking News)
Seven convicted over 1995 Srebrenica massacre (Breaking News)
Hotel Rwanda hero: Rwanda is a volcano waiting to erupt (Breaking News)
Army inquiry finds 211 graves mishandled at Arlington Cemetery (Breaking News)
Nevada challenger can "beat Reid," says Nevada historian (Historians in the News)
London partygoers reliving spirit of the Blitz (Breaking News)
Gettysburg-area Casino Proposal Prompts Outcry (Breaking News)
Publishing Company Under Fire for Putting Warning Label on Constitution (Breaking News)
Tallest German surrenders to short soldier in Second World War picture (Breaking News)
Chilean museum more than willing to pay huge sum for Princess Di dress (Breaking News)
Quest to find lost Scottish monastery intensifies (Breaking News)
Jack Harrison, one of last survivors of The Great Escape, dies at 97 (Breaking News)
Life in 3,500 BC (Breaking News)
Army Fires Top Two Administrators Over Mismanagement of Arlington Cemetery (Breaking News)
Sentence for Bosnian Serbs over genocide at Srebrenica (Breaking News)
Blogs
CLAIRE B. POTTER: Today's Assigned Reading: Ayn Rand and Tony Judt (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
A Brief History of Political Profanity (Breaking News)
Researchers: Cavemen feasted on lions (Breaking News)
Vandals deface Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire (Breaking News)
First Beehives from Biblical Israel Discovered (Breaking News)
5,500 year-old shoe found in Armenia (Breaking News)
When worlds collide: Soccer vs. politics (Breaking News)
American historian receives Norway's Holberg Prize (Breaking News)
William Simpson's care home to open doors to women (Breaking News)
Sir Andrew Burns named as first post-Holocaust envoy (Breaking News)
Genetic study sheds light on Jewish diaspora (Breaking News)
"Cry Wolf" draws the ire of Breitbart's Big Hollywood (Historians in the News)
Mir-Hossein Mousavi 'involved in massacre', says report (Breaking News)
Empire State Building refuses to light up for Mother Teresa (Breaking News)
Commoner marrying Swedish crown princess 'has aristocratic roots' (Breaking News)
Jesus ultrasound picture used in campaign (Breaking News)
Wartime Pope begged allies not to bomb Rome (Breaking News)
Joanna Weiss: Brian Black Envisions Alternative Lifestyle to Cult of Oil (Historians in the News)
Conn. senator says Machu Picchu artifacts held by Yale belong to people of Peru (Breaking News)
The Historian Knows, and Walks, About Queens (Historians in the News)
Government Figures: A History of Gulf Oil Spills (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JIHADIST MARMARA CARRIED NO HUMANITARIAN AID (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN SANCTIONS VOTE UNDERLINES OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY INCOMPETENCE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Galileo's Fingers And Tooth On Display (Breaking News)
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Marks First Anniversary of the Loss of Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns (Breaking News)
Clam boat dredges up a catch of mustard gas in NY (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOO GOO Genocidaires: The Blood Is Dripping From Their Hands (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SHORT TAKES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New Institute of Medieval Studies created in Paris (Breaking News)
Scholar asks if the Crusaders had a Muslim ally in the First Crusade (Historians in the News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: In Which I Sound Like a Broken Record (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Archaeologists discover medieval building at Rochester Cathedral (Breaking News)
Could Medieval Mason's Marks make a comeback? (Breaking News)
John van Engen wins Grundler Prize (Historians in the News)
Historian reveals new insights into medieval rune stones (Historians in the News)
Historians among 2010 ACLS Fellows (Historians in the News)
Letters reveal key role played by 'passionate' wife in securing justice for Alfred Dreyfus (Historians in the News)
Papal Aide: Cyprus Is Key in Evangelization History (Breaking News)
Presidential scholars see recent White House job offers as nothing new (Historians in the News)
David Valaik, emeritus professor at Canisius College, dies at 74 (Historians in the News)
Historian criticizes Beck's "ludicrous" embrace of anti-Semitic author (Historians in the News)
Canada makes preparations to commemorate War of 1812 (Breaking News)
Bollywood to make Hitler film (Breaking News)
Leading Polish historian, killed in Katyn crash, now the victim of credit card theft (Historians in the News)
Mass. teacher finds 1792 document in classroom (Breaking News)
Rogue's gallery -- the Queens warehouse that holds a fortune in stolen art (Breaking News)
Not forgotten: Remains of US soldier sought in Vietnam (Breaking News)
Obama's Swearing Nothing New for Presidents (Breaking News)
Rwanda: US genocide lawyer denied bail (Breaking News)
Rare photos of Kim Jong-il's youngest son, Kim Jong-un, released (Breaking News)
Musical tastes of Nasa's mission control revealed (Breaking News)
Diana dress sells for £192,000 at auction (Breaking News)
Spain to reopen Altamira caves with prehistoric paintings, despite scientists' warnings (Breaking News)
World's foremost authority on the book of Leviticus, Rabbi Jacob Milgrom, dies (Breaking News)
US college returns long-lost letter by philosopher Descartes to French library (Breaking News)
Centennial of birth of Jacques Cousteau, pioneer marine explorer, marked by ship restoration (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Ambush of Helen Thomas (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
NARA Seeks Input on Records Declassification Prioritization Plan (Breaking News)
Clinton Presidential Library Releases Additional Kagan Files (Breaking News)
House Oversight Subcommittee Schedules Series of NARA Hearings (Breaking News)
NHPRC Recommends $7 Million in Grants (Breaking News)
National Declassification Center Director Named (Breaking News)
National Park Service Awards $3 Million for WWII Japanese American Confinement Sites (Breaking News)
Historian Spence Delivers 2010 NEH Jefferson Lecture (Historians in the News)
Civil War Preservation Trust Issues List of Engandered Civil War Sites (Breaking News)
President Obama Names Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (Breaking News)
National Trust for Historic Preservation Releases Annual List of Endangered Sites (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Why Some Jews Would Rather Live in Siberia than Israel (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
WENDY MCELROY: Atlas Shrugged to Go Into Production (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Cardiff's role in Captain Scott's trip to South Pole (Breaking News)
Last 'Great Escape' survivor dies (Breaking News)
Row over 'Russian theft' from Polish plane wreck (Breaking News)
Tiananmen leader's 'diary' revealed (Breaking News)
Argentine media heirs submit to 'Dirty War' DNA tests (Breaking News)
Lost Hollywood films from 1920s discovered in New Zealand vault (Breaking News)
Rangel: Obama Borrowing Iraq War Strategy from Bush & Co. (Breaking News)
British Politician Jokes About Wanting to 'Assassinate' Former PM Margaret Thatcher (Breaking News)
Archaeologists dig up 3,500-year-old pagan religious vessels in northern Israel (Breaking News)
Museum unveils 'hidden gem' in Depression-era photos by Sekaer (Breaking News)
Protesters descend on Ground Zero for anti-mosque demonstration (Breaking News)
Roman gladiator cemetery found in England (Breaking News)
Lost WWII battlefield found -– war dead included (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: YOUNG CHOSE ISLAMISM IN BELGIUM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Bletchley Park documents to go online (Breaking News)
Community Center To Rise Near D.C. Civil War Battlefield (Breaking News)
Medieval life 'could teach us about debt-free living' ' (Breaking News)
New heritage sites to be opened in Hawaii (Breaking News)
Jackie Kennedy's Love for John F. Kennedy Revealed (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BETTER LATER THAN NEVER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Controversy continues to dog Lincoln scholar Frank J. Williams (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN WANTS SOME GLORY, TOO (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 49% OF AMERICANS BLAME IHH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
U. of Cambridge Library Will Digitize Rare Books (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WHAT HAPPENED ON THE MARMARA? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Conservative class on Founding Fathers' answers to current woes gains popularity (Historians in the News)
Stars and stripes a ubiquitous symbol in patriotic American life (Breaking News)
Honored scholar Norman A. Graebner dies at 94 (Historians in the News)
Randolph Roth says that Juárez murder rate like that of civil war (Historians in the News)
American people cynical and uninvolved, says historian (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AFTER JEWISH AMERICANS, COME INDIAN AMERICANS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Muhammad Cartoonist Retires, Citing Old Age, Not Murder Threats (Breaking News)
Helen Thomas, White House reporter since the days of Eisenhower, quits over Israel comments (Breaking News)
Do psychologists still listen to Freud? (Breaking News)
EU reviving policies from the Great Depression (Breaking News)
Bhopal trial: Eight convicted over 1984 India gas disaster (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WILL THEY SUCCEED IN COVERING UP THE IHH KNIVES? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
66th D-Day anniversary marked in France (Breaking News)
International-Relations Professor to Advise on Bush Oral-History Project (Historians in the News)
The Vatican Loves a Good Saint Story (Breaking News)
On 66th anniversary, D-Day continues to resonate (Breaking News)
Kennedy remembered as lawmaker who changed history (Breaking News)
Shanghai rediscovering its pre-revolutionary heritage, just in time (Breaking News)
Bust of Stalin on display at Virginia D-Day monument (Breaking News)
Original Fort Sanders may have been bigger than historians thought (Breaking News)
Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei warns opposition ahead of key anniversary (Breaking News)
Today's California GOP could snub even Reagan (Breaking News)
Greece's economic crisis strands sculpture for Washington's Martin Luther King Jr. memorial (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Beachcomber stumbles upon historical shipwreck (Breaking News)
Common Genetic Threads Link Thousands of Years of Jewish Ancestry (Breaking News)
Yangtze River's Ancient Origins Revealed (Breaking News)
World's best-preserved gladiatorial relics are discovered in the suburbs of York (Breaking News)
Kent WWII evacuees thank Welsh host families (Breaking News)
Oldest Ireland census goes online (Breaking News)
Rare stamp sells for £400,000 on Jersey (Breaking News)
Tiananmen activist released after trying to break into Japan's Chinese Embassy (Breaking News)
Support mounts for opposition presidential pick, ex-East German revolutionary (Breaking News)
Protesters descend on Ground Zero for anti-mosque demonstration (Breaking News)
Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery Solved (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JEWS USED OBAMA'S SEDER TO UNDERMINE ISRAEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Raza studies author says "occupied" does not mean "to take over" in Arizona embroglio (Historians in the News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: Why don't I care about strategy? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Will Last Century’s Styles Open Today’s Wallets? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Daniel Okrent: No Closing Time for Income Taxes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Pekka Hämäläinen, 42 (Top Young Historians)
Susan Ware (Independent Historians)
Sebastian Mallaby: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ira Chernus: Why Don't We Have a National Narrative of Empathy? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martin Johnes: What are Academic Historians For? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ramin Jahanbegloo: Iran's Failing Legitimacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sandy Tolan: How Oil Spills Like BP's Can Reshape Politics (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Starobin: Don't Expect Obama to be Superman (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Egan: How Failure Became an Option (Roundup: Media's Take)
What Do You Make of the "Cry Wolf" Project? (HNN Polls)
Brian Phillips: The Secret History of American Soccer (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tze M. Loo: The Okinawa Question (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Olivia Judson: The Human Phenome Project, Thanks to Francis Galton (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael H. Hunt: The Obama National Security Strategy: “Mush” Ado about Nothing? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
"Robin Hood – The Movie" exhibition at Nottingham Castle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian Ryall: Did the U.S. Wage Germ Warfare in Korea? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Timothy Garton Ash: Don't Forget the Iranians Who Have Gone Up Against the Regime (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tony Judt: Israel Without Clichés (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mark Hertsgaard: BP Gets a Bitter Lesson From Bhopal (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jim Sleeper: From Beit Shemesh, a Cry to American Jews (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jason Zengerle: The Roots of Rand Paul’s Radicalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Iran’s Green Movement: One Year Later (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Burt Folsom: Don’t Copy Europe (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: History Down the Danube (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Matthew Dickinson: Why the Oil Spill Tells Us Nothing About the Effectiveness of Obama’s Management Style (Roundup: Media's Take)
Elizabeth Wydra: A Sober Look at Proposals to Repeal Portions of the Constitution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nelson Lichtenstein: Labor’s Role in the Obama Era: A Troublesome and Unreliable Ally? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas J. Sugrue: The Myth of Post-Racial America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: Carter, Obama, and the Left-Center Divide (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Judith Stein: The Perils of Portugal (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Seumas Milne: This Attempt to Rehabilitate the British Empire is a Recipe for Conflict (Roundup: Talking About History)
Vladimir Milov: Pining for a Soviet Paradise (Roundup: Media's Take)
Benedict Brogan: This Relationship is Special, Despite the BP Oil Spill (Roundup: Media's Take)
Do You Know How to Mix a Martini to the Exacting Standards of the 1940s? (Did You Know?)
Steve Hochstadt: We Have Met the Environmental Enemy and He is Us (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andre Gerolymatos: Hamas, Israel and the War for Hearts (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Henry Blodget: In 1930, They Didn't Know It Was "the Great Depression" Yet (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History -- by Susan Jacoby (Books About History & Historians)
Bringing New Art to Old Havana: A Q&A with Dealer Concha Fontenla (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
James W. Loewen: Not Aesopian Enough: A Chinese Publishing Fable (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tyler Priest: The Ties that Bind MMS and Big Oil (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Korda: Ike’s Decision (Roundup: Talking About History)
Daniel Franklin: The U.S. Senate: Undemocratic and Anachronistic (Convert It into a U.S. House of Lords) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph Lane: When Founders’ Envy Becomes Political Obstruction (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Niall Reynolds: An Ancient Continental Conflict that Never Ends (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Rosica: A Martyr to Solidarity (Roundup: Talking About History)
J.D. Dolan: Anniversary of a Disaster: Edison's Mohave Generating Station Explosion (Roundup: Talking About History)
Matthew Duss: Inconvenient Alliance ... Israel and South Africa (Roundup: Talking About History)
David A. Graham: Bibi Is the New Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Ferrara: Obama's Total Eclipse for America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Shogun 2: Total War to be released in 2011 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Scott Carlson: Happy Birthday, F.H. King, Professor and Pioneer of Sustainable Agriculture (Roundup: Talking About History)
PBS' History Detectives Puts a Question to the Nation: Is Andy Warhol's Art on the Moon? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Art of Seaborne Humiliation (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Geoffrey Wawro: Blockading Palestine: Lessons from Exodus 1947 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway: Quantcast Seeds of Doubt against Climate Science (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nicholas Griffin: How Soccer Defeated Apartheid (Roundup: Talking About History)
Can the White House Revoke a Reporter’s Credentials? (Did You Know?)
Hendrik Hertzberg: Elena Kagan’s Not-So-Final Conflict (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Rid: The State of Strategy Today (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ross Douthat: Israel and Outremer (Roundup: Media's Take)
Imani Perry: Putting the 'Public' in 'Public Intellectual' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Beinart: The Gipper Wasn't the Warhound His Conservative Followers Would Have You Think (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: Islamist Turkey Overreaches (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Lewis H. Lapham: The CIA & Me & Other Adventures in American Sports (Roundup: Media's Take)
R. Taggart Murphy: With Friends Like Us, Why Would Japan Need Enemies? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Cohen: What Helen Thomas Missed (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Conyers: Ending America's Longest War (Roundup: Media's Take)
David C. Rose: Elena Kagan and the Consequences of Consequentialist Thinking (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Brooks: Trading History for Dollars (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ron Radosh: The Flotilla Crisis and Israel’s Would-Be Friends (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Clayton E. Cramer: Arizona Immigration Law Not Historically Unusual (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Our 1979? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Moshe Dann: Ehud Barak’s Theater of the Absurd (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harrison Schmitt: Apollo 13, the Gulf Oil Spill, and BP (Roundup: Media's Take)
James T. Patterson: America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Pt. 1 [Podcast, 40 minutes] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Our Leaders' Privacy Isn't All We Might Lose (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harold James: China’s Renminbi Seen as a Major Reserve Currency (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ilan Pappe: What Drives Israel? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter A. Coclanis: An Optimist Envisions America at Midcentury (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Roy Schreiber: Should Indiana Reform How It Awards College Degrees? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
The Gores and “Gray Divorce” [Audio, 45 minutes 47 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Amy Siskind: Why the 'Pro-Women' Movement Should and Will Replace Feminism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Why Obama Should Forget "Change You Can Believe In" (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Larry J. Sabato: The U.S. Supreme Court: Reforming the Least Democratic Branch (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eliot Spitzer: Read the Gettysburg Address (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jay Mathews: The Myth of Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Rob Grace: U.S. vs. ICC? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nick Foulkes: Racing Through History at Britain's Epsom Derby (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ehud Eiran: Are Israel’s Battles Costing the Country Its Soul? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ilan Stavans: The Novelists and the Dictators (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard V. Allen: Reagan’s Secure Line (Roundup: Talking About History)
Timothy Egan: Backward, Into The Future (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gerald M. Steinberg: The War Against Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dmitry Trenin: The Reset Has Begun (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fawaz A. Gerges: Did Obama's Cairo Speech Make Things Worse? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rodolfo F. Acuña: The Meaning of Occupation (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeffrey A. Engel, 37 (Top Young Historians)
Daniel Okrent (Independent Historians)
Week of May 30, 2010
Roundup
Arizona Immigration Law No Different from the Past, Says Texas Tech Historian (Historians in the News)
Bletchley Park WWII archive to go online (Breaking News)
Chinese paper prints 'Tiananmen' cartoon (Breaking News)
New 'Operation Condor' trial starts in Argentina (Breaking News)
South Africa removes Shaka Zulu statue from airport (Breaking News)
Tiananmen Square memoir claims China decided to 'spill some blood' (Breaking News)
Sir Paul McCartney 'should apologise to American people for Bush insult' (Breaking News)
Cleopatra papyrus goes on display (Breaking News)
John Paul II the Musical to open next week (Breaking News)
German neo-Nazi parties 'consider merger' (Breaking News)
Colleague says US professor accused of denying Rwanda's genocide remains jailed there (Breaking News)
Clinton records give enough material for people to see what they want on high court pick Kagan (Breaking News)
Fond memories return with lost wallet after nearly 70 years (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: This Is Why Communists Shoot Rich People (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Media Sponsor of State Terrorism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Garris on Israeli/Gaza (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TIME TESTS US (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
CLAIRE B. POTTER: Oh, The Joy Of Political History! Day 2 at Policy History Conference (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ERDOGAN: NO ONE IS MISSING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SHOOTING STARTED AFTER 4 ISRAELI MARINES TAKEN HOSTAGE/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Indonesia undecided on underwater heritage convention (Breaking News)
Items hint at Amelia Earhart’s final struggle and resting place (Breaking News)
Golden Girl Rue McClanahan dies at 76 (Breaking News)
Noah Webster, the father of the National Spelling Bee (Breaking News)
McMaster: Hey, the U.S. military has adapted and is now back in the game (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
SCOTT MCLEMEE: Back from the Grave and Ready to Party (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING ON FLOTILLA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Flotilla raid could be fatal blow to Turkey-Israel friendship, says Israeli historian (Historians in the News)
Historian tapped as running mate for GOP governor candidate in South Dakota (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JUST FOR THE RECORD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Armenian church sues Getty over ancient Bible pages (Breaking News)
Stone Age color, glue 'factory' found (Breaking News)
Henry VII statue 'needed' at Pembrokeshire castle (Breaking News)
Medals sold of Raj mutiny officer who inspired Flashman (Breaking News)
Russia finds WWII Nazi arms ship in Baltic (Breaking News)
Rwanda: US genocide lawyer 'attempted suicide' (Breaking News)
BA apologises for Bin Laden 'boarding pass' gaffe (Breaking News)
Oldest member of Swedish royal family will not attend royal wedding due to Alzheimer's (Breaking News)
Monet water lily painting to raise 40m poinds at auction (Breaking News)
The U.S. Paid Money to Support Hugo Banzer's 1971 Coup in Bolivia (Breaking News)
Rightwing historian Niall Ferguson given school curriculum role (Historians in the News)
Setting the memory of Holocaust victims in stone (Breaking News)
National Battlefield Group Donates 54 Acres of Perryville Battlefield to Commonwwealth of Kentucky (Breaking News)
Flight nurse tells old stories of World War II service (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Criminalizing Routine Politics (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Massacre in Czechoslovakia: Newly Discovered Film Shows Post-War Executions (Breaking News)
Robert Boyle's prophetic scientific predictions from the 17th century go on display in the UK (Breaking News)
The Holocaust in Lithuania: One man's crusade to bring justice (Breaking News)
Ukraine's parliament votes to abandon Nato ambitions (Breaking News)
Ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich trial set to start (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JIHADIST, NOT HUMANITARIAN, FLOTILLA/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
As Oil Slips Away, So Do Chances for Obama, says Doug Brinkley (Historians in the News)
Italy Focuses on a Princeton Curator in an Antiquities Investigation (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Lost in translation, or, Inside Higher Ed needs 'une durée critique plus longue' (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Contemporary Historical Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
French archaeologists dig up 30-year-old banquet (Breaking News)
Christians and Muslims are distorting crusades, says historian (Breaking News)
Family remember WWII airman's burning plane escape (Breaking News)
MSPs debate Robert Owen banknotes call (Breaking News)
Gaza flotilla attack: Israeli ambassador compares raid to Second World War (Breaking News)
India demands return of Koh i Noor diamond (Breaking News)
Anti-Washington Anger Triggers Highest Number of Congressional Challengers in 35 Years (Breaking News)
TRENDING: George W. Bush joins Facebook (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GUTSY JEW (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Christians and Muslims are distorting crusades, says historian (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MERKEL, UNLIKE OBAMA, LOWERS UNEMPLOYMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New National Standards Seek to Make All Students Ready for College (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID AUSTIN WALSH: The Gore Separation as an Iconic Baby Boom Act (Gil Troy)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NETANYAHU TELLS IT LIKE IT IS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Col. Robert Gould Shaw, sans sword, cuts deep (Breaking News)
100 German tombs from both world wars desecrated in France (Breaking News)
Mothers of Tiananmen Square victims still searching for answers (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PUTTING PUBLIC OPINION FIRST IS DANGEROUS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
David Firestone: So You Still Want to Choose Your Senator? (Breaking News)
Claude Monet stayed in room next door to the Monet Suite at the Savoy, claim scientists (Breaking News)
Volkswagen camper van marks 60 years of production (Breaking News)
Sir Winston Churchill memorabilia auction may fetch $1.5m (Breaking News)
Indiana town working day and night for Michael Jackson museum (Breaking News)
Henrietta Lacks' Unmarked Grave Given a Headstone (Breaking News)
A Black Power Couple in the Early 20th Century (Breaking News)
Segregated clubs in Kentucky raise issues for private business, civil rights law (Breaking News)
American law professor arrested in Rwanda for "minimizing genocide" (Breaking News)
North Korea Trying for Unexpected in World Cup Again (Breaking News)
Workers try to repair the sinking sea wall at the Jefferson Memorial (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Consent of the Governed? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Jay Driskell: Petitioning the AHA to Use INMEX to Avoid Labor Disputes (Historians in the News)
Jamestown settlers' trash confirms hard times (Breaking News)
Phoenix Pterosaur Rises Again Out of the Sahara (Breaking News)
Jamestown Trash Reveals Struggling Settlement (Breaking News)
Three dead as Second World War bomb explodes in Germany (Breaking News)
Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mind (Breaking News)
A Family Feud Over Mendel’s Manuscript on the Laws of Heredity (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THAT THE WAY IS WAS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Living memories of long ago war's dead (Breaking News)
The nation's Vietnam War memorials help vet revisit a past he tried to bury (Breaking News)
What happens with Texas textbooks will most likely stay in Texas, say experts (Breaking News)
Laurie Penny: Niall Ferguson and Michael Gove (Historians in the News)
Lila Weinberg, Chicago historian and author, dies (Historians in the News)
66 years later, missing WWII vet's dogtag returned to son (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TURKEY, LIKE IRAN AND RUSSIA, SEEKS TO RECAPTURE LOST GLORY/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Shaping Gotham's Past with Richard Rabinowitz (Historians in the News)
The 1970s get a second look by historians (Historians in the News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: I Am Big -- It's the Pictures That Got Small (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Neanderthal man was living in Britain 40,000 years earlier than thought (Breaking News)
Tools show ancient human diet (Breaking News)
Mexico heroes' bones paraded (Breaking News)
Flint findings in Kent reveal new era of prehistory (Breaking News)
Lost tomb of ancient Egyptian official Ptahmes re-discovered (Breaking News)
Al and Tipper Gore to separate after 40 years (Breaking News)
Tintin ban is 'like book burning' (Breaking News)
Mullen to Honor Six Troops Being Added to Vietnam Memorial Wall (Breaking News)
Black Boxes in Polish Crash Reveal Pilots Warned (Breaking News)
Oil spill threatens Native American land (Breaking News)
Ohio village stages WWII battle re-enactment aimed at educating public (Breaking News)
The Vatican Archive: the Pope's private library is secret no more (Breaking News)
James Bond's Aston Martin featured in Goldfinger to sell for $6m (Breaking News)
Voters could make history in Alabama (Breaking News)
Rare photo shows Marilyn Monroe with JFK, RFK (Breaking News)
Mexico exhumes independence heroes (Breaking News)
The cave of bones: The survival of the solenodon (Breaking News)
Early American colonists 'were hit by severe drought' (Breaking News)
US sculptor Louise Bourgeois dies aged 98 (Breaking News)
5 Questions for Patrick J. Charles on Gun Control and the Second Amendment (Historians in the News)
Tidbits on Early Modern Publishing from Jonathan Spence at the 2010 Jefferson Lecture (Historians in the News)
What headstones say about the living (Breaking News)
Historians called "seedy and devious" by children's history books author (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Online record of 'religious dissenters' published for first time (Breaking News)
The last 100 children of Civil War soldiers fading fast (Breaking News)
New York City at war (Breaking News)
Cricket legends' letters auctioned for Glamorgan museum (Breaking News)
Bid to reopen 12th century Reading Abbey (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DETERIORATION OF TURKEY - AMERICAN (ISRAEL) RELATIONS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Wartime saviour nun from Brighton on road to sainthood (Breaking News)
Russia gives Poland copies of probe into April 10 plane crash that killed Polish president (Breaking News)
KKK re-enactments at two schools show generational divide (Breaking News)
Purported piece of Ark of the Covenant in Zimbabwe museum draws controversy (Breaking News)
Looking for a ‘New’ Narrative of Founding Fathers (Historians in the News)
A brief history of illegal immigration (Breaking News)
Lost Tomb Found Near Cairo, Egypt (Breaking News)
Tripura relics spark rethink on history (Breaking News)
Flirtation with Franco dents Picasso's left-wing credentials (Breaking News)
New! More unseen photographs from the First World War (Breaking News)
The nation's Vietnam War memorials help vet revisit a past he tried to bury (Breaking News)
Remembering the revolutionary ballerina (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Billionaire Entrepreneur Complains of Regime Uncertainty (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
By the Numbers: Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Breaking News)
John Finn, Medal of Honor Winner, Dies at 100 (Breaking News)
Dunkirk anniversary: 'We didn't feel defeated or exhilarated. We just felt bloody scared' (Breaking News)
Forgotten battlefield; Kiska one of last from WWII (Breaking News)
Egypt: Lost ancient Memphis tomb rediscovered (Breaking News)
Setting the memory of Holocaust victims in stone (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GAZA FLOTILLA DISASTER/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
WENDY MCELROY: Nonvoting (by Carl Watner) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Virtual Romanesque Monuments Being Created (Breaking News)
Ancient Jaw Bones Discovered in Sahara Help Scientists Identify New Pterodactyl (Breaking News)
Palaeontologists Solve Mystery of 500 Million-Year-Old Squid-Like Carnivore (Breaking News)
New Skeletons from the Age of Dinosaurs Answer Century-Old Questions (Breaking News)
A Stone Says More Than a Thousand Runes (Breaking News)
Nondestructive Methods for Evaluating Ancient Coins Could Be Worth Their Weight in Gold (Breaking News)
Scientists Detect Huge Carbon 'Burp' That Helped End Last Ice Age (Breaking News)
New Horned Dinosaur: Two-Ton Plant-Eater Lived 78 Million Years Ago in Montana (Breaking News)
Experts in Turkey find 8th century Arabic text from Byzantine's Istanbul (Breaking News)
Lost ark or African treasure? Relic stirs passions (Breaking News)
Great Wall of China's strength 'comes from sticky rice' (Breaking News)
Archaeologists discover 13th century BC 'lost tomb' of ancient Egyptian capital's mayor (Breaking News)
Israeli Army Radio plays 1962 interview with legendary spy executed by Syria 45 years ago (Breaking News)
Bones believed to be remains of Mexican independence heroes removed from crypt for exams (Breaking News)
Southern California does indeed have a Civil War history (Breaking News)
The Censor and the Censored, Linked by Literature [in South Africa] (Breaking News)
In Czar Peter’s Footsteps (Breaking News)
In the Koreas, Five Possible Ways to War (Breaking News)
Texas museum devoted to barbed wire (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
David Sirota: From Shared Sacrifice to Hedonism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Interview from the Lincoln Bedroom with Harold Holzer [video 47 minutes 4 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Interview with Greg Robinson: The Japanese Internment Camps (Roundup: Talking About History)
Amity Shlaes: The University Guild vs. Glenn Beck (Roundup: Media's Take)
Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories -- by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp (Books About History & Historians)
Transformations in American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz --- Edited by Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brophy (Books About History & Historians)
No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America -- by David T. Courtwright (Books About History & Historians)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The Anniversary of Tiananmen Square (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David E. Hoffman: You Know What Would Make the Spill Worse? Nukes (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Barfield: Yes, Afghanistan is Medieval (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gary Bruce: Ich bin ein Ost-Berliner? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martin Kettle: With No Common Culture in Britain, a Common History is Elusive (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joe Conason: No, This Isn't "Watergate" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bill Clinton film stars clash over Lewinsky scene (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Raul A. Reyes: The Other Arizona Battle: A New Law Makes Ethnic Studies Classes Illegal (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Garton Ash: Norway's Many Lessons (Roundup: Historians' Take)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: David Souter vs. the Constitutional Originalists (Roundup: Media's Take)
George F. Will: The Danger of a Government with Unlimited Power (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ashley Sayeau: "Sex and the City" and Women's Consumption (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robert Scheer: Treat Palestinians Like Jews (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mickey Edwards: The Various Types of Constitutionalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Sides: A Rebuttal to Mark Lilla on the Origins of the Tea Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Ortiz: Arizona's New Laws: An Attempt to Secure Cheap Labor? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Astore: Doubling Down in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Forget Katrina — is the BP spill Obama's Iran hostage moment? (HNN Polls)
David S. Broder: Is President Obama's Carter Moment Nearing? (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Woolsey: Parallels Between Present-Day Iran and Nazi Germany (Roundup: Media's Take)
Shelomo Alfassa: Beware the Cordoba Initiative (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martin Kettle: Germany, Too Weak Yet Too Strong (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Irvine: Remember 1947 and the Exodus Ship (Roundup: Media's Take)
Louis René Beres: America Must Come to Terms with a New Vulnerability (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ronen Bergman: Siege Fatigue and the Flotilla Mistake (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph A. Palermo: Glenn Beck Riffs on My Article (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Leslie H. Gelb: Israel Was Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sherrilyn A. Ifill: Disturbing Lessons of the Rand Paul Fallout (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Foster: Should We Nuke the BP Oil Well? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Turkish Government as Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William A. Galston: The Case Against Keynes (With Some Questions for Krugman, Too) (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Choong: Is North Korea's Kim Jong-il a madman or a genius? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Jenkins: Let Cameron hasten the end of our absurd Afghan war (Roundup: Media's Take)
Matthew Dickinson: Obama Wonders: Will You Still Love Me at 64? (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Ridgeway: Obama's "Revelations" and the Oil Industry's Slimy History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Is it OK for novelists to fictionalize historical figures? (HNN Polls)
Jim Cullen, Review of Richard Schickel's "Clint: A Retrospective" (Sterling, 2010) (Books)
Mark LeVine: Israel's 'Friends' Also to Blame (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Havelock: Germany's Past Has Led to a More Equal Present (Roundup: Talking About History)
Philip Weiss: The U.S.S. Liberty and the Culture of Impunity (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nicolaus Mills: Conservative Split with the Tea Party (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jesse Walker: The Id and the Odyssey of Dennis Hopper (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gershom Gorenberg: A Brief History of the Gaza Folly (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christian Caryl: Why the 1970s Are Still Haunting Us Today (Roundup: Talking About History)
Mohammad Qayoumi: Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan... (Roundup: Talking About History)
Dino Mahtani: Battling Corruption (and the Past) in Liberia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Tremblay: History Shows that Sex is Much Better than Torture (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Engelhardt: Living in a State of Denial (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Voegeli: The Meaning of the Tea Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Sowell: The Real Public Service (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Derbyshire: Genomics, Humanity's Past, and Humanity's Future (Roundup: Media's Take)
Clayton E. Cramer: Rand Paul and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
James Lewis: Obama Seems a Lot Like Woodrow Wilson (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy R. Furnish: Former Air Force JAG Looks to Drive All Christian Symbolism from Military (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dan Miller: What Would Winston Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
J. Robert Smith: How the GOP Can Learn from General Giap to Rout the Democrats (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stan Katz: Publishing and University Prestige (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Firestone: So You Still Want to Choose Your Senator? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Toby Miller: Soccer Conquers the World (Roundup: Talking About History)
Julian Zelizer: The Legacy of 'Drill, Baby, Drill' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Mackey: Echoes of Raid on ‘Exodus’ Ship in 1947 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Israeli Attack on the High Seas (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Lind: Texas Textbooks and the Truth About the Confederacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
William R. Forstchen: A Tale of Two Americas On Memorial Day 2010 (Roundup: Talking About History)
Doug Ireland, Review of James Lord's "My Queer War," (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) (Books)
James T. Patterson: The Moynihan Future (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ian Black: Gaddafi the Younger Looks to Scrap Libya's Pariah Statu (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jon Meacham: The Price of Forgetting (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Cannadine: Man and Volcano, an Explosive History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Kinsley: Cut the Boomers a Break (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Fontana: The Postradical Legal Generation (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kathy Olmsted: California... Yesterday and Today (Roundup: Talking About History)
John J. Rooney: Ancient History from Just Yesterday (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: The Truth About 'Nam (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bryan Doerries: Answering the Call to Help Our Soldiers Heal (Roundup: Media's Take)
Allen C. Guelzo: Don't Let the USS Olympia Sink from Memory (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Memorial Day, for a Father Whose Son was Killed in Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew B. Wilson: Rolling Back the Socialist Tide (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ted Galen Carpenter: Obama’s Security Strategy is Clueless (Roundup: Media's Take)
Max Boot: America is still the best guarantor of freedom and prosperity (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Frida Ghitis: Kosovo is not the right model for Palestinians (Roundup: Media's Take)
Clive Crook: Obama’s security strategy falls short (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Preston: Afghanistan ... Vietnam, minus the jungle (Roundup: Media's Take)
Will a Second Korean War Break Out? (HNN Polls)
“Picasso: Peace and Freedom” opens at Tate Liverpool (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Douglas L. Kriner and Francis X. Shen: America's Casualty Gap (Roundup: Media's Take)
Danny Heitman: Louisiana, Land of Audubon … and Now? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nancy L. Cohen: Nuance Matters in Abortion Debate (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Joe Mathews: California, Ruined by the Supermajority (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jessica Valenti: The Fake Feminism of Sarah Palin (Roundup: Media's Take)
Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past -- by Paul A. Cohen (Books About History & Historians)
Orlando Patterson: Jamaica’s Bloody Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Katherine Zoepf: Why So Few Medals of Honor in Iraq and Afghanistan? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: William Quandt's Embarrassing Memo (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Charlotte Brooks, 38 (Top Young Historians)
Week of May 23, 2010
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: It's 1229 at Guédelon ... (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
SHELDON RICHMAN: Should Whites-Only Lunch Counters Be Allowed? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IN SOLIDARITY ON MEMORIAL DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
MARK BRADY: Alexander Cockburn on U.S. Government Deception (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HEROINE CALLED ANDREA FLEYTAS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Questions raised about 'Ardi' as man's ancestor (Breaking News)
Genetic Data Added to Archaeology and Linguistics to Get Picture of African Population History (Breaking News)
Bosworth battlefield boar badge declared 'treasure' (Breaking News)
Slovaks retaliate over Hungarian citizenship law (Breaking News)
ICC refers Sudan war crimes cases to UN (Breaking News)
French arrest Rwandan doctor accused over genocide (Breaking News)
Silvio Berlusconi compares himself to Mussolini (Breaking News)
Auction house to sell rare memorabilia of comic strip reporter Tintin (Breaking News)
Rwandan police say they have arrested a US lawyer on allegations of genocide denial (Breaking News)
Three-time war veteran shares his photos (Breaking News)
Lindsay Porter on assassinations (Historians in the News)
Back of the house: Monticello’s kitchen works (Breaking News)
The truth is out: Army fudged Kargil war history (Breaking News)
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Evolution of Robert Byrd (Breaking News)
How Jane Austen's Heroines Shape Romantic Life (Breaking News)
50 Years Later: Turkey's first coup still a raw nerve (Breaking News)
Ardi's place in human ancestry challenged (Breaking News)
Long lost poem reveals a soldier's torment (Breaking News)
Dunkirk veterans return to site of evacuation (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BRENNAN UNFIT TO PROTECT US FROM JIHADISTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Robert Dallek: The character issue is "always out there" (Historians in the News)
The First Functional, Modern Kitchen? (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: The Paranoid Center: The Global Version (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
SHELDON RICHMAN: TGIF: Libertarianism = Anti-racism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
House votes to repeal military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy (Breaking News)
Tour a castle on the Hudson, while it still stands (Breaking News)
Picasso nearly risked his reputation for Franco exhibition (Breaking News)
Army's tank school leaves Fort Knox after 70 years (Breaking News)
The Trial of Benedict XVI (Breaking News)
Llanrwst Almshouses at centre of history celebrations (Breaking News)
Bradford killings: Fear returns to the Ripper's streets (Breaking News)
Fonteyn: Revolutionary ballerina? (Breaking News)
Ships recreate Dunkirk journey for 70th anniversary (Breaking News)
Horned dinosaurs 'island-hopped' from Asia to Europe (Breaking News)
Queens to name boro historian next month (Historians in the News)
Botticelli's Venus and Mars 'high on drugs' Mars (Breaking News)
MN Historian Calls Ft. Snelling 'Site Of Genocide' (Historians in the News)
Oldest US Medal of Honour recipient from Second World War dies (Breaking News)
The Vatican opens its Secret Archives to dispel Dan Brown myths (Breaking News)
Myanmar opposition quietly marks anniversary of 1990 election victory (Breaking News)
NC's Jesse Helms garnered favor from Hoover, FBI; later asked agents to probe leak to media (Breaking News)
Gingrich drops presidential hints (Breaking News)
Controversy over medieval conference location in AZ (Historians in the News)
Researchers track climate change in northwest Africa back to the Middle Ages (Breaking News)
Archaeological project to look for medieval and ancient remains in Oxford (Breaking News)
"Cry Wolf" Project -- Request for Proposals (Historians in the News)
Niall Ferguson gives financial advice to investors (Historians in the News)
Charles Zelden's take on Florida Senate race (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: REPUBLICANS MUST BLOCK NEW STIMULUS, ESPECIALLY DOC FIX (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
2,000-year old 'icebox' unearthed in NW China (Breaking News)
Historical marker honoring slaves unveiled near Ebenezer Creek (Breaking News)
Underwater Archeology Projects in Outer Banks Parks Address Intriguing Questions (Breaking News)
Muscovites Stop Razing of Historical Site (Breaking News)
Blueprint for Fort Monroe taking shape (Breaking News)
"Che Trail" to be opened in South America (Breaking News)
KKK Reenactment: Ground-Breaking High School History Lesson, or Extremely Bad Taste? (Breaking News)
Hiking the Oregon Trail is an on-the-ground history lesson (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Additionally Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Explorers Set Out to Find the Fabled Northwest Passage From the Straits of Mackinac (Breaking News)
Black soldiers honored for helping to save the Union (Breaking News)
Tourists to visit Colosseum underground (Breaking News)
Roman ingots to shield particle detector (Breaking News)
National Security Archive publishs new installment of Anatoly Chernyaev diary (Breaking News)
Jamie Glazov interviews Olga Velikanova (Historians in the News)
Stalin twice called off Hitler assassination attempts (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: NY REVIEW OF BOOKS Deplores Growing Libertarian Sentiment (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
The Rise of Conservatism, in Historical Scholarship (Historians in the News)
North Korea possibly gearing up for war (Breaking News)
Chicago considering bringing in the National Guard to clamp down on violence (Breaking News)
New Info on Malcolm X's 1965 Assassination (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: Civil Rights and the Libertarian Principle (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Space shuttle Atlantis returns from its last scheduled mission (Breaking News)
Thousands of pieces of slave pottery found in South Carolina (Breaking News)
Discovery of an ancient Etruscan home (Breaking News)
New Zealand flying ace from WWII dies (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Twelve Parallels in Political Economy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Bannerman Castle on the Hudson crumbling (Breaking News)
Cypriot Maronites look forward to papal visit (Breaking News)
Frederick Douglass church placed on list of endangered historical sites (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WHEN ANDREW LOVES FERGIE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Jewish group denounces comparisons of Arizona to Nazi Germany (Breaking News)
Hayworth wrongly says U.S. never declared war on Nazi Germany (Breaking News)
In Walpole, MA, Rebels’ pride still sparks a fight (Breaking News)
Greenwich woman gains support in Nazi art case (Breaking News)
Jill O'Neill: H.R. McMaster's War Against PowerPoint (Historians in the News)
Dave Lieberson: Who Are the Most Widely-Cited Historians? (Historians in the News)
Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years (Breaking News)
Divers explore sunken ruins of Cleopatra's palace (Breaking News)
CIA Had Plan to Portray Saddam Hussein as Pedophile (Breaking News)
'Pink Hitler' advertisement upsets Sicilians (Breaking News)
'Bone relic traffickers' arrested in Greece (Breaking News)
Scientists 'to determine if dinosaurs were warm or cold-blooded' (Breaking News)
Swedish university invites Muhammad artist to complete lecture disrupted by protests (Breaking News)
Gadhafi's son says Lockerbie bomber released from UK jail on compassionate grounds is very ill (Breaking News)
As a young lawyer at high court, Kagan was on guard against Supreme Court's conservative shift (Breaking News)
University of Arizona historians asks why Mexico is poorer than the U.S. (Historians in the News)
Experts: Accused Jamaican drug lord akin to Robin Hood, Pablo Escobar (Breaking News)
The birth control pill's legacy at 50: Talking with Elaine Tyler May (Historians in the News)
Texas State Board of Education Approves Controversial Social Studies Curriculum Changes (Historians in the News)
Women behind the rise of the house of Orange-Nassau (Historians in the News)
Doug Brinkley: Obama could pay "huge price" for spill response (Historians in the News)
Stalin blocked attempts to kill Hitler (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: And Then, In 1850, Some Friends Got Together and Created a Social Custom Requiring the Return of Fugitive Slaves from Free States (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Musical Chairs (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
US orders deportation of ex-Nazi Anton Geiser to Austria (Breaking News)
British tank battle hero who stopped Rommel in his tracks (Breaking News)
Relic thief stopped at Macedonian airport (Breaking News)
Where U.S. Helped to Rebuild Europe, Past Glories Are Restored (Breaking News)
Lost Settlement found under Qatar sand (Breaking News)
Mega Mummy Find: 45 Tombs Unearthed (Breaking News)
'Bone relic traffickers' arrested in Greece (Breaking News)
Family wants Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic declared 'legally dead' (Breaking News)
'Amityville Horror' home goes on sale for $1.15m (Breaking News)
Celebrating 30 years, Google offers pac-man and wastes millions of work hours (Breaking News)
Dorm named after Klansman at UT Austin to be possibly renamed (Breaking News)
Science discoveries getting rarer, made by older researchers (Breaking News)
Israel's president denies offering South Africa nukes (Breaking News)
Teacher Stands Behind Students Wearing Ku Klux Klan Outfits (Breaking News)
Orthodox Leaders Meet to Heal a Rift (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: "Horrific and Absurd" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TOM FRIEDMAN and ANDREA MITCHELL ARE LIBERAL FASCISTS/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
MARK BRADY: Patents for Synthia (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIA IS A MAFIA RULED COUNTRY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TRUTH IS POWERFUL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all (Breaking News)
Man discovers historic flag error outside Md. State House (Breaking News)
U.S.S. Olympia, Dewey's flagship at Manila, may be turned into artificial reef (Breaking News)
Mark Twain Memoirs Unsealed After 100 Years (Breaking News)
As Mammoths Died Out, Earth Chilled (Breaking News)
Drug-dealing ex-dictator facing murder charges makes gains in Suriname polls (Breaking News)
Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus buried, again (Breaking News)
Settlement found under Qatar sand by Lampeter academic (Breaking News)
English Civil War battlefield 'may be in wrong place' (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: POOR ECONOMY LEADS TO AHMADINEJAD BEING HECKLED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Will Mandela's old law offices ever be revamped? (Breaking News)
Last Romanov born in Russian empire dies aged 95 (Breaking News)
Beneath South Africa's surface, history is marked by bones and stones (Breaking News)
Bad social studies standards: Not just in Texas (Breaking News)
Former dictator emerges as strong candidate to gain power in Suriname despite murder trial (Breaking News)
Cambodian genocide tribunal to deliver verdict on Khmer Rouge jailer July 26 (Breaking News)
University of Texas Considers Renaming Dorm After KKK Link Found (Breaking News)
Rand Paul withdraws from appearance, but dominates discussion (Breaking News)
Blumenthal: 'I'm sorry' (Breaking News)
$7.85 Million for U.S. Coin, and Extra for a Stamp (Breaking News)
Criminal defense lawyers dispute Rwanda’s genocide history (Breaking News)
Confederacy museum could be reality in Appomattox soon (Breaking News)
Victims Of Top Secret West Loch Disaster Finally Honored (Breaking News)
Historian Stuart Macintyre slams Australian school course (Historians in the News)
Reviving Jewish Race Science at Columbia U Conference (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: EXPORTS UNLIKELY TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Carlin Romano: Vetting Tariq Ramadan (Historians in the News)
University of Arizona professor heckled at commencement for denouncing ethnic studies ban (Breaking News)
Company, Harvard prof work on Web-linked textbook, WWII game (Historians in the News)
W. Joseph Campbell corrects the record on 10 important misreported stories (Historians in the News)
Vietnam presses U.S. for compensation over use of Agent Orange (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Demoting a Dinosaur: New Fossil Material Redefines Azendohsaurus as a Peculiar Early Reptile (Breaking News)
Odd Geometry of Bacteria May Provide New Way to Study Earth's Oldest Fossils (Breaking News)
England's Oldest Royal Remains Unearthed (Breaking News)
Businessman donates £1m to revamp national museum (Breaking News)
World's most expensive stamp sold (Breaking News)
Rand Paul is Learning What It's Like to Be Me, Says Sarah Palin (Breaking News)
Archeologists unearth 57 ancient tombs in Egypt, most boasting a painted sarcophagus and mummy (Breaking News)
Papers reveal Kagan's lighter side (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ANTI- ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITISM. (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WHY DOES HILLARY REVERT TO FIRST LADY IN SHANGHAI? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Catherine Cocks (Independent Historians)
Peggy Noonan: Obama Was Supposed to Be Competent (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dana Milbank: Obama - Apologist in Chief (Roundup: Media's Take)
Patrick Cockburn: A stable Iraq is still a very long way off (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chris Wilson: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Baathists? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Philip Stephens: Is Merkel the New Thatcher? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Bohm: MAD About Nothing in Russia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dr. Douglas Fields: Michelangelo's Secret Message in the Sistine Chapel (Roundup: Talking About History)
Van Gosse: Why President Obama Is Not (and Is) a Socialist (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Sally Kohn: Why Ethnic Studies Are Good for America (Roundup: Media's Take)
The New Robin Hood: Libertarian Rebel? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Eric Rauchway: When and Why Did the Parties Switch Places? (Roundup: Talking About History)
B. R. Myers: South Korea’s Collective Shrug (Roundup: Media's Take)
The Founders of Cubism, Ardent Fans of Film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Diane Ravitch: Why I Changed My Mind (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Our Confessor-in-Chief (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Lisa Camner: Why Would North Korea Sink a South Korean Warship? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fred Siegel: Insatiable Liberalism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dilip Hiro: The American Century Is So Over (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dmitry Shlapentokh: Kadyrov Makes Unlikely Overtures to Israel (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Sydney Schanberg: My Four-Decade Fight to Report the Truth (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alexander Cockburn: Sometimes Conspiracy Theories are True (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Will Iraq Be Forgotten Like Vietnam? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jon Wiener: Art Linkletter and Richard Nixon: Alcohol vs. Pot (Roundup: Talking About History)
Moshe Dann: Is There a Plan B in Israel? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Name Withheld: Thailand’s Crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)
David S. Broder: The Perils of Tampering with Political Done Deals (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sheldon Richman: Rand Paul was Right about the Civil Rights Act (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeff Biggers: President Obama and the Unlearned Lessons of 1924: Oil Spills, Coal Disasters and Immigration Hysteria (Roundup: Talking About History)
Wajahat Ali: The Many Problems with France's Proposed Burqa Ban (Roundup: Media's Take)
Judith Miller: When Germ Warfare Happened (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jim Sleeper: How and How Not to Engage Liberalism and Islam (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew F. March: The Flight of the Intellectuals and Tariq Ramadan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Quin Hillyer: Dunkirk Conservatism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Karl Rove: Yes, the Gulf Spill Is Obama's Katrina (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Lilla: The Tea Party Jacobins (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David S. Landes: The Enterprise of Nations (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Timothy Snyder: Springtime for Stalin (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nicolaus Mills: Richard Blumenthal, Liberal Guilt, and Vietnam (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alan Brinkley: When Washington Took On Wall Street (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Afi-Odelia Scruggs: The Miseducation of Texas School Kids (Roundup: Talking About History)
Cord Jefferson: Is the Tea Party the New Black Panther Party? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Beinart: Why Israel Has to Do Better (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Kirchick: Curing the Israel Estrangement Syndrome (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Goldberg: Beinart, Chait, and that Disappearing Zionist Feeling (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Chait: A Reply To Peter Beinart (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Sullivan: The Anti-Beinart Fallacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Carlo Strenger: Liberal Zionism (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stephen M. Walt: Belated Thoughts on Peter Beinart (Roundup: Media's Take)
Noah Pollak: Peter Beinart and the Destruction of Liberal Zionism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Beinart: The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment (Roundup: Media's Take)
The American History Guys: Teed Off: The Tea Party, Then and Now [audio, 25 minutes 52 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Marcy S. Sacks: The Danger of Careless Rhetoric About Civil Rights (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Yoo: An Executive Without Much Privilege (Roundup: Media's Take)
Algis Valiunas: The Playboy [Hugh Hefner] and His Western World (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alan Johnson: The New Authoritarian Marxism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Cameron Abadi: The German Debate Over Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Gidley: Israel and the British Left (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nick Gillespie: How to Save Cleveland (and Other Dying Cities) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael B. Sauter, Ashley C. Allen, and Douglas A. McIntyre: The Net Worth of the U.S. Presidents: Washington to Obama (Roundup: Talking About History)
Benjamin Schwarz: Gentrification and Its Discontents in Manhattan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Olivia Hampton: North Korea ... Obama's 'Dumb War'? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ronan Thomas: Korean War ... A Conflict That Won't End (Roundup: Talking About History)
Should Arizona Repeal Its Ethnic Studies Ban? (HNN Polls)
Christopher Hitchens: We are Kim Jong-il's Willing Accomplices (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ariz. Ban On Ethnic Studies Divides Educators [audio, 30 minutes 20 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Garrett Epps: Rand Paul's American Mistake: Taking 'New' for 'Unconstitutional' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Baktybek Abdrisaev and Alexey Semyonov: Nurturing Central Asia's Democratic Blossom (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Charles Armstrong: The Korean War Never Ended (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Subhankar Banerjee: BPing the Arctic? Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeremy R. Hammond: The Simplicity of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Cohen: A Right Not to Fight in Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonah Goldberg: Rand Paul's Civil Rights Act Comments Revisited (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ian Bremmer: Dangerous North Korean Insecurity (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Ethnic Studies End Up Shortchanging Everyone (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez: Wiki-Constitutionalism in Latin America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Chait: Our Idiotic Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: How Islamists Came to Dominate European Islam (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Cary Clack: Curriculum Decision Shortchanges our Children (Roundup: Media's Take)
John P. Lewis, an Adviser to Presidents on Economic Aid, Dies at 89 (Obituaries)
David Brooks: Two Theories of Political Change (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and Gerald Kauvar: A Degree in Three (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Kagan: Obama's Hollow 'Reset' with Russia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Vernon Bogdanor: What history teaches us about the Tory-Liberal love-in (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Bolton: Don't mourn the euro ... It's always been anti-American (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: The Mosque at Ground Zero (Roundup: Media's Take)
Glenn Frankel: Israel's Most Illicit Affair (Roundup: Talking About History)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" celebrates its 50th this year (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Barbara D. Metcalf: History with Controversy, and History Without (Roundup: Talking About History)
Saul Cornell: Elena Kagan and the Case for an Elitist Supreme Court (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tim Rutten: Newt's Tea Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Craig Fehrman: Ghostwriting and the Political Book Culture (Roundup: Talking About History)
Gregory Rodriguez: Arizona's Anglo Insecurity (Roundup: Media's Take)
Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Peter S. Goodman: Make Money by Avoiding Rules (Roundup: Media's Take)
John F. Burns: Into Kandahar, Yesterday and Tomorrow (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edwin E. Kintner, Nuclear Power Pioneer, Dies at 90 (Obituaries)
John Burton, a Columbia Dean, Dies at 77 (Obituaries)
Lindy in the Sky With Amelia, Orville and Wilbur (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Joys of Jumpology (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
“A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School” -- PBS documentary showcases a separate, "equal" NJ school (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
"John Rabe": An old-fashioned, manipulative epic (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Film review: The Ghost Writer (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Max Boot: The Way of the Kurds (Roundup: Media's Take)
Noel S. Anderson: Texas Politics is More Than Just Textbooks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anthony Milner: History Shows Australia Would Be More Successful Finding Friends in East Asia (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: Democrats Shouldn't Be So Blue Anymore (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Dickerson: Rand Paul's Comments Could Spell Trouble for the GOP (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ross Douthat: The Principles of Rand Paul (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Gros: Barbarians at the EU Gates (Roundup: Media's Take)
Arthur Herman: Obama at West Point ... Lessons Unlearned (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We won't forgive and forget Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)
Will Obama's Progressive Agenda Be Successful? (HNN Polls)
Clare Spark: Dirty Little Secrets Exposed by the Radosh-Berlinski Spat (Roundup: Talking About History)
Claire Berlinski: Closed Minds: A Response to Ron Radosh, Et Al (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Davis Hanson: The New Old German Problem (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Moshik Temkin, 39 (Top Young Historians)
Week of May 16, 2010
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Hillary Clinton: The Mouth That Roars (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Corey Robin: Garbage and Gravitas (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ARROGANT BUT GOOD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New pyramid discovered in Peru linked to ancient copper industry (Breaking News)
Stirling Castle knight revealed as English nobleman (Breaking News)
US cartoonist apologises over Facebook Muhammad row (Breaking News)
French police hunt thief of five art masterpieces (Breaking News)
Cannes protest over Algeria film Hors la Loi (Breaking News)
Mojave Desert war cross 'returned' (Breaking News)
Series of security blunders allowed thief to carry out art raid in 15 minutes (Breaking News)
Rwanda puts outspoken Hutu presidential candidate on trial to avoid backslide to genocide (Breaking News)
Commemorative marker to be placed at Kaczynski plane crash site (Breaking News)
Tensions between North, South Korea growing (Breaking News)
Texas Textbooks: Is America 'Exceptional'? (Historians in the News)
Texas School Board Set to Vote Textbook Revisions (Breaking News)
Obama's Middle Name Ignites Textbook Battle (Breaking News)
History, Not Politics, at Jonathan Spence Jefferson Lecture (Historians in the News)
North and South Korea: A history of violence (Breaking News)
Mexico to dust off, examine war hero bones (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WILL US LEARN FROM SPAIN THAT GREEN JOBS ARE AN EXPENSIVE MIRAGE? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
STEVEN HORWITZ: Thinking Government Shouldn't Try to Solve a Problem Doesn't Mean it's Not a Problem. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA BEGINS TO TAKE TERROR SERIOUSLY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Pagan altar unearthed at building site in Israel (Breaking News)
Memorial service for victims of Great Famine discovered in mass grave (Breaking News)
Archeological team of the Xian Warriors win top Spanish prize (Breaking News)
Headless Egypt King Statue Found; Link to Cleopatra's Tomb? (Breaking News)
When kin of slaves and owner meet (Breaking News)
Israel releases Hamas man jailed after Shalit capture (Breaking News)
Brownsea Island in Dorset celebrates rare birth (Breaking News)
Carlos the Jackal complains over 'inaccuracies' in film biopic (Breaking News)
Thousands of Mohammed images uploaded on Facebook (Breaking News)
Pink Hitler posters provoke fury (Breaking News)
War crimes prosecutors seek Naomi Campbell as witness (Breaking News)
Precious artworks stolen in Paris heist (Breaking News)
Saudi woman beats up virtue cop (Breaking News)
Authors defend Pope Benedict, say sex crisis will mold legacy (Breaking News)
Experts agree painting is likely self-portrait by da Vinci (Breaking News)
Texas wants to rename slave trade as "Atlantic triangular trade" (Breaking News)
Stalin projected Moscow University's Museum of Earth Sciences as church, says historian (Historians in the News)
Scott McLemee: Amazing Disgrace [of Michael Bellesiles] (Historians in the News)
Cathedral warning as English Heritage cuts grant (Breaking News)
George Washington's library book returned 221 years late (Breaking News)
Confederate Flag in Movie Theater Removed (Breaking News)
Demjanjuk has chest pains, trial delayed (Breaking News)
Russia slams Strasbourg court for seeking to revise WWII results (Breaking News)
Rebel flag's days at South may be numbered (Breaking News)
Neo-Nazi permit approved (Breaking News)
British granddad may have killed Black Baron (Breaking News)
Files reveal Britain's secret biological weapons trials in second world war (Breaking News)
Japan's last vets of Nanking massacre open up (Breaking News)
Men developed thicker foreheads and jaws due to fighting over women (Breaking News)
President of Ukraine 'attacked by wreath' during memorial ceremony (Breaking News)
UK defiant on Falklands sovereignty (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Additionally Noted (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
NAACP president, ex-education secretary joining chorus against Texas book plan (Breaking News)
Texas SBOE set to vote on social studies changes (Breaking News)
U.S. history panelists express “collective disgust” over SBOE changes (Historians in the News)
Thomas Fleming receives best book award from American Revolution Round Table of New York (Historians in the News)
Cyprus: crews stumble on 2-millennia-old coffins (Breaking News)
King Tut's Leftover Bandages Yield New Clue (Breaking News)
Anglo-Saxon finds at new Cheltenham academy site (Breaking News)
147 years later, Wis. Civil War soldier gets medal (Breaking News)
Derbyshire Iron Age bones were of pregnant woman (Breaking News)
Israeli contractors dig up Muslim graves at 'museum of tolerance' (Breaking News)
Vladimir Putin laments Soviet Union ignoring his spy intelligence (Breaking News)
Former Nazi guard to be deported from US to Austria (Breaking News)
Avedon, Adams: Images created by giants of 20th century photography to be auctioned (Breaking News)
'Everybody Draw Mohammed' Day Unleashes Facebook Fracas (Breaking News)
Malcolm and Martin, closer than we ever thought (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIA & CHINA TO IRAN: WE CANNOT BE BYPASSED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT HIGGS: Great Moments in American Statesmanship (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Strange Trip for a Piece of Nazi Past (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Greek Police Seize 2 Statues From 2 Farmers (Breaking News)
Unlicensed salvagers 'biggest threat' to HMS Victory (Breaking News)
Would Bloggers Have Cracked Chandra's Case? (Breaking News)
Ex-Royal Marine's Military Cross sold for £3,200 (Breaking News)
Politicians and their senior theses (Historians in the News)
Wartime bomb is found at Banbridge Academy (Breaking News)
Senate hopeful denies Vietnam-era service allegations (Breaking News)
Reunited with the Vietnamese 'girl in the picture' (Breaking News)
Australian aims to solve great Everest mystery (Breaking News)
White explorers couldn't recognise a smile on native symbols (Breaking News)
Barack Obama's former pastor says President 'threw him under bus' (Breaking News)
Professor warnings over conservatism in China (Historians in the News)
Who gives a Figes for Orlando? (Historians in the News)
AHA Calls on the Texas State Board of Education to Reconsider TEKS Social Studies Amendments (Historians in the News)
Big names back political social network Vote iQ (Historians in the News)
University of Arizona law professor defends United Nations criticism of new laws (Breaking News)
Face of Stirling Castle warrior reconstructed (Breaking News)
Thailand: Will It Be Civil War? (Breaking News)
Uncovering Albania's role in the Kosovo war (Breaking News)
Ancient pyramid tomb found in Mexico (Breaking News)
Reunited with the Vietnamese 'girl in the picture' (Breaking News)
Smallpox demise linked to spread of HIV infection (Breaking News)
France frees killer of Iranian ex-PM Shapour Bakhtiar (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: For Once AP Gets it Right (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KAREN KWIATOWSKI: DHS wants a piece of historic Vermont dairy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: INDIA'S BLOODY MAOISTS/NAXALITES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THAI KING MISSING IN ACTION/ update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
History of anti-Americanism discussed in London lecture (Breaking News)
Extinct Giant Shark Nursery Discovered in Panama (Breaking News)
Prehistoric Fish Extinction Paved the Way for Modern Vertebrates; Event of Unknown Origin Occurred as First Vertebrates Tested Land (Breaking News)
Charting the Development of Human Populations in the North and South of the Mediterranean Region (Breaking News)
Colossal statue of Thoth discovered at temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor (Breaking News)
Prehistoric 'footprints' falsified by science (Breaking News)
Ultra-Orthodox Israelis protest grave removal (Breaking News)
Indonesia Criticized for Murky Rules on Sunken Treasures (Breaking News)
Is Rome's Ancient Heritage Crumbling? (Breaking News)
Ulster Museum shortlisted for top award (Breaking News)
Apartheid fighter Frederik van Zyl Slabbert dies (Breaking News)
Ground Zero mosque plan angers New Yorkers (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AHMADINEJAD CHECKMATES OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
White House Asks Clinton Library to Release Kagan Papers (Breaking News)
Cheney Likens Meg Whitman to Reagan in California Gubernatorial Endorsement (Breaking News)
Honduran strongman and twice-president Lopez Arellano dead at 89 (Breaking News)
Indonesian director begins filming movie about Obama's childhood in Jakarta (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 46% AMERICANS THINK US WILL'DEFAULT' IN 10 YEARS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
For Rwandan Students, Ethnic Tensions Lurk (Breaking News)
FBI investigated Cronkite over Vietnam (Breaking News)
Palestinians mark anniversary of 1948 war (Breaking News)
Memorial unveiled to first RAF pilot to shoot down Nazi bomber (Breaking News)
Royal Navy 'does not keep sea monster sighting archive' (Breaking News)
Hudson to play Winnie Mandela amid legal threats (Breaking News)
"Bud" Mahurin, top WWII fighter ace, dies at 91 (Breaking News)
Uncovering Nottingham’s hidden medieval sandstone caves (Breaking News)
Civil War anniversary prompts push to get records online (Breaking News)
Is Bainbridge's Vanished Village Better Off Preserved, or As a Park? (Breaking News)
Project aims to bring historic Fort Benton back to life (Breaking News)
Historian helps to save Lake Ontario steamship (Historians in the News)
Lake Champlain Bridge: Elegant, historic, destroyed (Breaking News)
Man tells of being forced to join Hitler youth league (Breaking News)
Rimah Fakih is First Arab-American to Become Miss USA (Breaking News)
New Vatican strategy seeks to deny all liability between accused priests and Rome (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Was Supreme Court Nominee Kagan a Youthful Socialist? (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Thomas Sugrue: Stories and Legends [of Barack Obama] (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Greenberg and Tony Michels: Elena Kagan Could Have Been a Great Historian (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jane LaTour (Independent Historians)
Julian Zelizer: Bad Midterms Not Always Bad for White House (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul Kennedy: Do Leaders Make History, or Is It Beyond Their Control? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Douglas J Feith and Abram N Shulsky: The Dangerous Illusion of 'Nuclear Zero' (Roundup: Media's Take)
What is "American Exceptionalism"? (HNN Polls)
Bruce Fleming: The Service Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity (Roundup: Media's Take)
Charles Krauthammer: The Fruits of Weakness (Roundup: Media's Take)
Diarmaid MacCulloch: Benedict Rewrites History of Vatican II (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mary L. Dudziak: Rand Paul's Constitutional Confusion (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: Facebook vs. the Holy Book (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ron Radosh: Claire Berlinski on Soviet Espionage: A Misleading Article Appears in City Journal (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christopher Hellman: Will Bad Times and a Bad Economy Finally Discipline the Pentagon? (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Brooks: Children of the ’70s (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joshua Kurlantzick: What the Heck Is Going on in Thailand? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Garton Ash: Europe is Sleepwalking to Decline -- We Need a Churchill to Wake It Up (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jim Sleeper: Peter Beinart Unbound? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Technocrats’ New Clothes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ted Galen Carpenter: Dealing with Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)
Abe Greenwald: Saving Iraqi Kurdistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Russell Mead: The End of Trilateralism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kirk W. Johnson: Left Behind in Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph Nye: China's Century is Not Yet Upon Us (Roundup: Media's Take)
Donald Kirk: Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the Lessions for North Korea (Roundup: Media's Take)
Larry Pressler: The Technicality Generation (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ann Gordon and Lynn Sherr: Sarah Palin is No Susan B. Anthony (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jon Wiener: Arizona Ethnic Studies Ban Defended by Fox News (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bethany Moreton: To Serve God and Walmart [Video, 7 minutes 57 seconds] (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bethany Moreton: To Serve God and Walmart [7 minutes 57 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Charles Postel: The Tea Party and the Dark Side of Conservatism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert C. Koons: Liberal Bias Evident in Simplistic Narrative in Which Powerful Federal Government is Sole Engine of Progress and Equality (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fred Barnes: Obama's No Henry Clay (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeff Bergner: Europe Is No Model (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Obama’s Flailing Wars -- A Study in BP-Style “Pragmatism” (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kathryn Jean Lopez: The Mixed Legacy of the "Pill" (Roundup: Talking About History)
Arun Gupta: Republicans and the Tea Party of No (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Michael Green: The Age of Political Ennui (Roundup: Media's Take)
Cynthia Dagnal-Myron: Why I'm Not Surprised by Arizona's Racism (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andrew Leonard: Elena Kagan's "Socialist" College Thesis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Franks: That Bright, Dying Star, the American WASP (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Cohen: A Superpower -- and a President -- With Declining Clout (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gil Troy: A Careerist Conundrum of Supreme Proportions (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Neil Reynolds: What Gladstone Can Teach David Cameron (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Bolton: The new British government and Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry Olsen: Britain's Compassionate Conservatives (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: The End of Nuclear Diplomacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Senate Should Accept Kagan's '95 'Challenge' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Hudson to play Winnie Mandela amid legal threats (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Marjorie Cohn: Kagan's Troubling Record (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Scheer: Verify, Baby, Verify! (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fred Kaplan: The White House's New Afghanistan Plan? Be Nice to Hamid Karzai (Roundup: Media's Take)
Brett Edkins: China's Undocumented Migrant Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Okrent: An Illegal Substance Sold Legally (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David S. Broder: How the 1960 West Virginia Election Made History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Other European Volcano (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Haddick: Obama's Nixonian Withdrawal Strategy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julius Purcell: Baltasar Garzón ... General Franco's Latest Victim (Roundup: Media's Take)
LA Times editorial: A New Spanish Civil War (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Rawnsley: Queen Victoria would be amused by this Clameron coalition (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of May 9, 2010
Roundup
Historian probes native perceptions of foreign diseases (Historians in the News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Leftists Protest Obama ("Worse than Bush") (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Everyday items found in archaeological dig give clues to Civil War's devastation (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: LET'S GO ZEN FOR A MOMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Odd Dental Features Reveal Undocumented Primate: Previously Unknown Species Complicates Understanding of African Evolution (Breaking News)
Duties to Human Remains in Universities and Museums (Breaking News)
First Large-Scale Formal Quantitative Test Confirms Darwin's Theory of Universal Common Ancestry (Breaking News)
Fossil Find Fills in Picture of Ancient Marine Life (Breaking News)
Robin Hood's Prison: Uncovering Nottingham's Hidden Medieval Sandstone Caves (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SHORT TAKES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
China sentences to death 4 robbers of old tombs (Breaking News)
U.S. Returns to El Salvador Looted Mayan Artifacts (Breaking News)
The Man Who Unearthed 200 Mass Graves in Spain (Breaking News)
Remembering King Henri, a smelly philanderer who won France's heart (Breaking News)
Historic Castle Douglas fighter pilot honoured (Breaking News)
Durlston Castle £5.5m makeover starts (Breaking News)
Stoke BNP councillor in Nazi salute picture (Breaking News)
India royals in row over Gayatri Devi's will (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Black Maverick, Forgotten Man (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Rama First Nation: Duo canoeing along ancestors' fur trade route (Breaking News)
From Tory to Turkey: Maverick historian Norman Stone storms back with partisan epic of Cold War world (Historians in the News)
Deed confirms city founded in 1815: historian (Breaking News)
Harvard Business School historian compares Bono to Abraham Lincoln (Historians in the News)
Thousands of Studs Terkel interviews going online (Historians in the News)
With state's nod, Indians' spirits can walk free (Breaking News)
4,000-year-old campsite found in Wyoming (Breaking News)
Archaeologists Unearth Biggest Stash of Byzantine Coins Ever Found in Macedonia (Breaking News)
Land Girls' efforts honoured in WWII stamps (Breaking News)
Giant 380ft beacon planned to commemorate Battle of Britain (Breaking News)
Nasa's Atlantis space shuttle ready for final voyage (Breaking News)
Happy 50th birthday to the laser (Breaking News)
Mark Mancall on the idea of public space in a democracy (Historians in the News)
Norman A. Graebner, diplomatic historian, dies at 94 (Historians in the News)
Glenview author traces roots of civil liberties in California history (Breaking News)
Bomber Command: veterans celebrate after memorial approval (Breaking News)
USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969 , claims Chinese historian (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Intellectual History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IT'S ALL ABOUT NUMBERS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Crackdown on Thai protesters turns bloody; state of emergency extended in provinces (Breaking News)
Hemp fans look toward Lyster Dewey's past, and the Pentagon, for higher ground (Breaking News)
In Search of a Modern Humanism in China (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MUSLIM ORGANIZES YEARLY "HITLER YOUTH WEEK" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Apollo Astronauts Attack Obama’s NASA Plan (Breaking News)
Kagan's relationship with Marshall cut both ways (Breaking News)
D.C.'s Fort Stevens, the Wilderness in Va. among endangered Civil War battlefields (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA HELPS IRAN TARGET DISSIDENTS IN US (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
China, Arab world working on new Silk Road (Breaking News)
Rare film footage found from the Lakes District in England (Breaking News)
UN criticizes Arizona ethnic studies ban (Breaking News)
Funeral held in Lanark for French schoolgirl spy (Breaking News)
Satan's administration: Journey into Nazi death records (Breaking News)
Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board (Breaking News)
Ancient DNA set to rewrite human history (Breaking News)
9 Indicted on Charges of Accessing Obama's Student Loan Records (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
New Report Shows Little Growth in Salaries for History Faculty (Historians in the News)
Longitude project to chart new waters in an untold story of science and the State (Breaking News)
Greek archaeologists uncover ancient austerity (Breaking News)
Falling mortar renews worry over Rome's Colosseum (Breaking News)
Historic Seattle: Viaduct work will reveal long forgotten neighborhood (Breaking News)
Can Kagan Bridge Divided Court? Consensus Is No (Breaking News)
Indonesian film makers plan Obama movie (Breaking News)
Australia arrests Serb war crimes suspect Vasiljkovic (Breaking News)
China unearths 114 new Terracotta Warriors (Breaking News)
Last Ziegfeld Folly dies aged 106 (Breaking News)
Fossil of pre-dinosaur predator found in Brazil (Breaking News)
Richard Nixon's grandson seeks office (Breaking News)
Spanish marquis to be exhumed to solve gin inheritance row (Breaking News)
Queen reduced to giggles by '17th century' military officer (Breaking News)
Michelle Obama 'shocked' by Bruni's sex talk? (Breaking News)
It's official -- we have the oldest Congress ever (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Alternative Fuel Decisions (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: YOM YERUSHALAYIM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Unheard Tales of Gallantry From Dogs at War (Breaking News)
War hero's weapons found after house cleaning (UK) (Breaking News)
Robin Hood: where to see Britain's greatest myths and legends (Breaking News)
The True Story of How Israel Captured Adolf Eichmann (Breaking News)
"In the eyes of the majority, Stalin is a winner," says Russian historian Nikolai Svanidze (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BROOK GETS STEPFORD KAGAN RIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Gallipoli photos saved by quick-thinking removalist (Breaking News)
The $37,000 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 'ghost' painting (Breaking News)
Elvis Presley wrote 'I love ya mama' on Bible after mother's death (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIA MAKES LIFE HARDER FOR ITS FAVORITE, OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
At Christie’s, a $28.6 Million Bid Sets a Record for Jasper Johns (Breaking News)
Beatles press conference tapes auctioned (Breaking News)
A New York Bloc on the Supreme Court (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: The "New Bellesiles" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FIGHTING WITH THE MARKETS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
David A. Walsh: Michael Bellesiles is Back with a New Book (Historians in the News)
Scientists document painted portals to a vanished past (Breaking News)
Mapping Ancient Civilization, in a Matter of Days (Breaking News)
Most Fat Dinosaurs Didn't Chew (Breaking News)
Dinobird Chemistry Revealed (Breaking News)
Ancient Egyptian 'Nilometer' Helped Measure River's Height (Breaking News)
Nearly 18,000 Still 'Missing' on China Quake Anniversary (Breaking News)
Medieval Aqueduct Found in Jerusalem (Breaking News)
Everyday items found in archaeological dig give clues to Civil War's devastation (Breaking News)
Swedish Prophet Muhammad cartoonist 'head-butted' (Breaking News)
Pakistani officials know where Osama bin Laden hiding: Hillary Clinton (Breaking News)
Investigators prepare to exhume mass graves in Serbia (Breaking News)
Borough of Queens looking for new resident historian (Historians in the News)
Celebrity Chinese historian severely criticizes Mao on state TV (Historians in the News)
Cross at center of SCOTUS case stolen from Mojave Desert (Breaking News)
Maryland labor union donates money for Vietnam memorial (Breaking News)
David Cameron is new prime minister; Clegg deputy PM (Breaking News)
Electoral reform in the UK: The battle for fairer votes begins here (Breaking News)
Physicist spots 99-year-old mistake in Oxford English Dictionary (Breaking News)
Archival Discovery Reveals a Ruined Berlin (Breaking News)
Naomi Oreskes finds that out of 928 articles on climate change, 0 challenge consensus (Historians in the News)
Turkish Scholar Taner Akcam Advocates Change in Policy of Genocide Denial (Historians in the News)
Elena Kagan is "a home run," says David Greenberg (Historians in the News)
Elena Kagan, the "Establishment" candidate? (Breaking News)
Kagan Nomination Leaves Some Longing on the Left (Breaking News)
Making 'Mr. Nixon' proud (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Babylon ruins torn between preservation and profit (Breaking News)
Skeletons unearthed by Gloucester Linkages workmen (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown 'stepping down as Labour leader' (Breaking News)
Writer tries to stop sale of original Schindler's List (Breaking News)
Slabs of plaster fall from ceiling of Colosseum (Breaking News)
NHS spent £10,000 on survey asking: 'was Hitler cool? (Breaking News)
Europe's oldest person dies (Breaking News)
Obama Nominates Elena Kagan, Former Dean of Harvard Law, to Seat on Supreme Court (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: KAGAN IS AN ELITIST ACTIVIST IN A JACKSONIAN ERA/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Between a Rock and a Hard Place Place for Elena Kagan (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Not Surprising (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Irish famine dead to be remembered in Mayo (Breaking News)
Lancashire Fusilier war hero's grave saved after plea (Breaking News)
Giant flying dinosaur fossil found (Breaking News)
Z Street lobbying group awards Daniel Pipes prize for peace plan (Historians in the News)
Elena Kagan: '10th justice' has deep legal knowledge but no bench experience (Breaking News)
Kagan predicted to have easy confirmation (Breaking News)
Kagan: A Climb Marked by Confidence and Canniness (Breaking News)
The Way We Used To Describe And Enjoy National Parks (Breaking News)
World War II collector in Netherlands finds dog tag of American Soldier (Breaking News)
Piece of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree to be carried into space (Breaking News)
Barack Obama criticises iPod and Xbox era (Breaking News)
Czechs rebrand communist holidays (Breaking News)
New mass grave 'of Kosovo Albanians' found in Serbia (Breaking News)
Obituary: Lena Horne (Breaking News)
Obama nominates Elena Kagan for SCOTUS (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
New analysis of 40-year-old recording of Kent State shootings reveals that Ohio Guard was given an order to prepare to fire (Breaking News)
Heritage Project Reclaiming History for Israel's Youth (Breaking News)
Remains of Fromelles soldiers identified (Breaking News)
Chinese president calls for correct view of history (Breaking News)
3-D Boston watershed map from 1893 restored at Tufts (Breaking News)
Modern Syria sheds inhibitions about its tumultuous past (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Drama Continues (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: The NYT on the Jewish & Other Questions (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Claire Berlinski: Why Doesn't Anyone Care About Unread Soviet Archives? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeremy Kuzmarov, 30 (Top Young Historians)
Johann Hari: This Is Not What the British People Voted for (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Putting the Accent on Bigotry (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: The New Realities of the U.S. Sphere of Influence (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eugene Robinson: In Arizona, Just Say No to Latino Heritage (Roundup: Talking About History)
Linda Chavez: American History, Not Ethnic Studies (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joel Beinin: Egyptian Workers Demand a Living Wage (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Profiling, Diversity, and Arizona’s New Law (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gabriel Winant: Arizona Prohibits "Hateful" Ethnic Studies Classes (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Podhoretz: Life in New York, Then and Now (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ruth Harris: How the Dreyfus Affair Explains Sarkozy's Burqa Ban (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Greg Grandin: Glenn Beck, America’s Historian Laureate (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mike Rogers: Fighting terror like it's 1993 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Haass: Goodbye to Europe as a high-ranking power (Roundup: Media's Take)
Is the Lack of Regional/Educational Diversity on the Supreme Court a Cause for Concern? (HNN Polls)
Burt Folsom: The Tyranny of Good Intentions (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ira Chernus: Why Are So Many Americans Scared of Undocumented Immigrants? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Iain McLean: Tories Avoid Irish Entanglements (Roundup: Historians' Take)
How Robin Hood became a socialist (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Peter Rachleff: Don’t Give Us Your Tired, Poor (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Leonhardt: Students of the Great Recession (Roundup: Media's Take)
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: The Mother of Hung Parliaments? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Geraldo L. Cadava: Arizona Has a Long History of Demonizing Mexican Migrants (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gabriel Winant: What's with Conservatives' Fetish for the Founding Fathers? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Lind: Will the Great Recession Lead to World War IV? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Russell Mead: The Middle East Peace Industry (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julia Ioffe: An Awkward Celebration in Moscow (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alexander Golts: Preparing for World War III (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Romano: Even Reagan Wasn’t a Reagan Republican (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Cohen: The Banality of Love (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stephen Fielding: The Last Time the Liberals Supported a Minority Government (Roundup: Historians' Take)
New Third Reich Monument in Berlin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
PBS’ Masterpiece Mystery Deals with Communist Atrocity and UK, US Complicity (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Clayton E. Cramer: Slavery Reparations: A Dead Issue, and Well-Deserved (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Swanson: Afghan Escalation Funding -- More War, Fewer Jobs, Poor Excuses (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bernard Weiner: Get Out of Afghanistan Now (Roundup: Media's Take)
Charles L. Zelden: New Political Movements Seek a Hold on U.S. Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: Accepting Israel as the Jewish State (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas Sherlock: Stalin's Ghost (Roundup: Talking About History)
Linda Greenhouse: Just Answer the Question, Ms. Kagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Brooks: The Proliferation of "Organization Kids" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: What Is Happening to Turkey? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Malcolm Potts: The Pill — A Modern Philosopher's Stone (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Lourie: The Next Round of the Great Game (Roundup: Media's Take)
Max Boot: Maliki's Actions, and Obama's Inaction, Threaten an Iraq Democracy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Erwin Chemerinsky: Even Terrorism Suspects Have Rights (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anne Applebaum: Greece and the New Colonialism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: It's Time for Schools of Education to Embrace New Routes to Teacher Certification (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dahlia Lithwick: The Limits of Influence (Roundup: Media's Take)
Norman Solomon: Kagan in Context: Shafting Progressive Values (Roundup: Media's Take)
Niall Ferguson: The Unappealing Choices After an Inconclusive British Election (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anthony Giddens: Brown, Blair, and Labour's legacy in Britain (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Davis Hanson: Greek Tragedies (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Huntington: Tinkering With History: Historic Aircraft, Winged Survivors (Roundup: Talking About History)
Iain McLean: That Cabinet Manual in Full (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Cohen: Elena Kagan and John Roberts: Yin and Yang or Two of a Kind? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gabriel Winant: Smart Money Says Kagan Will be Confirmed, with Some Grumbling (Roundup: Media's Take)
Should Elena Kagan be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice? (HNN Polls)
Bruce Walker: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat (Roundup: Talking About History)
Paul Campos: Is Elena Kagan the Next Harriet Miers? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ilya Somin: Preliminary Reflections on the Kagan Nomination (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Gov. Daniels -- GOP's best hope for 2012? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92 (Obituaries)
David E. Apter, Yale Political Scientist, Is Dead at 85 (Obituaries)
S. J. Ledogar, Shaped Arms Treaties, Is Dead at 80 (Obituaries)
Walter Hickel, Nixon Interior Secretary, Dies at 90 (Obituaries)
John Nichols: Will Kagan Take Up Stevens's Fight for Checks on Executive Power? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Goldstein: The Ten Biggest Issues Elena Kagan Will Face (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Rosen: The Next Justice (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael D. Shear: What Obama Sees in Kagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Doty: The Liberal Case Against Kagan is Overstated (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Eidelson: Liberals are Making the Wrong Case Against Racial Profiling (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Dalrymple: The Ghosts of Gandamak (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jim Sleeper: The Value of a Liberal Education for Leaders (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Week of May 2, 2010
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: "IN LIGHT OF MEMORIES" ON MOTHER'S DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Greatest Fossil Fuel Disasters In Human History (Breaking News)
Marcos Seeks to Restore Philippine Dynasty (Breaking News)
Civil rights-era murder case delayed (Breaking News)
We need to be vigilant not to let war happen again, says Richard Overy (Historians in the News)
Eminent historian of Irish ascendancy ascendancy dies at 79 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: When a Congressman Says X, He Is Thinking Y (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Gary Johnson (Possible GOP Presidential Candidate) on Hannity (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
David Brooks: Leading With Two Minds (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FELICIDADE - HAPPINESS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BRITISH ELECTIONS ARE LOCALIZED LIKE THAT OF US (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Reinventing a Historic Space in Hong Kong (Breaking News)
On the Origin of Dinosaurs (Breaking News)
Crete fortifications debunk myth of peaceful Minoan society (Breaking News)
5,000-Year-Old Skeletons Found in Moroccan Cave (Breaking News)
Stolen India silver of 'priceless historic importance' (Breaking News)
WWII fighter plane buried in Wales for 65 years 'to be displayed' (Breaking News)
Simon Bolivar died of arsenic poisoning (Breaking News)
Medvedev criticises USSR over human rights (Breaking News)
Adolf Hitler 'did not shoot himself' (Breaking News)
'Fake' Raphael turns out to be worth £25m (Breaking News)
Alaska fishermen still struggling 21 years after Exxon spill (Breaking News)
Jesus Christ cartoon in development at Comedy Central (Breaking News)
A polyglot effort to keep L.A. history alive history (Breaking News)
Canadian Military Historian Knighted By the Netherlands (Historians in the News)
Historian facing Spanish tax bill for First World War hero (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FIRST KURT WALDHEIM; NOW RICHARD GOLDSTONE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Woman Says Christie's Misattributed a Da Vinci, Costing Her $150 Million (Breaking News)
Bideford mayor hunts US 'lost colony' clues (Breaking News)
Group wants to add Wal-Mart to battlefield lawsuit (Breaking News)
Lawyers in Egypt call for Arabian Nights to be banned (Breaking News)
Fort Monroe cleanup at $60 million-70 million (Breaking News)
Conan O'Brien insults his Irish heritage, says TV critic (Breaking News)
Jacksonville State fraternity investigated over Confederate flag display (Breaking News)
Half U.S. backs Confederate History Month (Breaking News)
Austria marks 65 years since Mauthausen liberation (Breaking News)
Two Nazi collaborators awarded honorary citizen titles in Ukraine (Breaking News)
Hung parliament in the United Kingdom -- final result still unclear (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint (Historians in the News)
Six Jewish babies born in Dachau reunite 65 years later (Breaking News)
Russian who 'cremated' Adolf Hitler refuses to reveal where he scattered his ashes (Breaking News)
French Jewish grandmother banned from telling school gendarmes handed her over to Nazis (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JAISH E MOHAMMAD OF 9/11 FAME, NOT DRONES, RESPONSIBLE FOR TIME SQUARE TERROR (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Cracking open the Soviet biological weapons system, 1990 (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREEK HEALTHCARE COMING TO AMERICA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH RAICO: Video of Missouri SWAT Raid (Pets Killed With Children Present) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
The Kremlin is once again nurturing adoration of Joseph Stalin (Breaking News)
Oxford University Press to publish OAH's Journal of American History and Magazine of History (Historians in the News)
Oxford University Press to publish OAH's Journal of American History and Magazine of History (Breaking News)
Harvey Klehr sits down with FrontPageMag (Historians in the News)
K.C. Johnson, Steve Gillon to appear in Bank of America ad on "History" (Historians in the News)
Twitter archive at Library of Congress could help redefine history's scope (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Today's British General Election (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THEY HAVE NOT GIVEN UP (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
MARK BRADY: Would John Locke Approve? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PROMINENT WOMEN LEADERS PRESS HILLARY CLINTON TO DENOUNCE ELECTION OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN TO U.N. WOMEN’S RIGHTS COMMISSION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: STRESS MAY MAKE US FAT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
CHRIS BRAY: Arizona? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREECE IS GOING TO COST US/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Maya plumbing, first pressurized water feature found in New World (Breaking News)
Mummified baby corpse missing from NH grave site (Breaking News)
Fire crews work to save historian Rendell's archive (Breaking News)
University divers plumb new depths in Egypt (Breaking News)
Bronze Age heritage for Denbighshire pupils' film (Breaking News)
Sir Keith Park statue removed from Trafalgar Square (Breaking News)
Hat worn by Lord Baden Powell up for auction in Lewes (Breaking News)
Douglas Brinkley: the oil spill isn't Obama's Katrina moment (Historians in the News)
Ahmadinejad: 'Osama bin Laden is living in Washington' (Breaking News)
FGS announces plan to fund digitization of War of 1812 pension records (Breaking News)
India bans leather shoes in schools as 'vestige of colonial rule' (Breaking News)
Pop star claims Bible written by drunks (Breaking News)
Giant Maya Figureheads to be Restored (Breaking News)
A New Openness to Discussing Allied War Crimes in WWII (Breaking News)
Soviet commander admits USSR came close to defeat by Nazis (Breaking News)
The £1million Churchill sale (Breaking News)
30 Years Later: Iranian embassy siege - negotiator 'felt he failed' (Breaking News)
A New Openness to Discussing Allied War Crimes in WWII (Historians in the News)
Picasso painting fetches record $106m at auction (Breaking News)
In Britain, Tight Race Has No Precedent (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Happy Birthday, Karl Marx (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Scientist says Bolivar likely died of poison (Breaking News)
France to return mummified Maori heads to New Zealand (Breaking News)
Archaeological dig in Kent discovers ancient and medieval sites (Breaking News)
Arizona strikes again: Now it is ethnic studies (Breaking News)
Senate Bill to “Preserve America’s Historical Record” Introduced (Breaking News)
NARA Assesses Federal Agency Records Management Compliance (Breaking News)
Audit Reveals Wide Variation In Agency Open Government Plans (Breaking News)
Saving America’s Treasures Grant Opportunities (Breaking News)
Civil War Sesquicentennial Exhibit Opens At National Archives (Breaking News)
Transylvania Dinosaur Dwarfs: More Evidence Found (Breaking News)
Jordan River, Site of Jesus' Baptism, Could Dry Up (Breaking News)
Carlisle Castle's decade dig is complet (Breaking News)
Archaeologists in Egypt find Ptolemaic king statue (Breaking News)
Europe pressed on slavery reparations (Breaking News)
1970 Kent State shootings are an enduring history lesson (Breaking News)
Inquiry into WWII veteran's death continues in Dorset (Breaking News)
Sir Winston Churchill memorabilia 'could fetch £1m' (Breaking News)
Argentina's Videla faces new murder charges (Breaking News)
Vietnam-era students finally get to graduate (Breaking News)
Thailand's Uneven Democratic History Continues (Breaking News)
Chinese explorers stand by claim of Noah's Ark find in Turkey (Breaking News)
Pope Benedict says Shroud of Turin authentic burial robe of Jesus (Breaking News)
Q&A with Niall Ferguson (Historians in the News)
First World War hero to be honoured with memorial in France (Breaking News)
Tito 'Symbol Of Better Times' For Ex-Yugoslavs, Historian Sabrina Ramet Says (Historians in the News)
Europe pressed on slavery reparations by historians (Historians in the News)
Office of the Historian, Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume XIX, Part 1, Korea, 1969-1972 (Breaking News)
National Park Service prepares for Civil War anniversary (Breaking News)
"Socialism" Not So Negative, "Capitalism" Not So Positive to the American Public (Breaking News)
Ancient Weapons Emerge From Melting Arctic Ice in Canada's Mackenzie Mountains (Breaking News)
Mesolithic cave discovered in Pagaralam (Breaking News)
Artifacts reveal Fort Jackson, SC history (Breaking News)
16,000 year old Meadowcroft Rockshelter and historic village reopens today (Breaking News)
Local expert says Gulf Coast oil spill worst in US history (Breaking News)
1970 Kent State shootings are an enduring history lesson (Breaking News)
Framework Set in Mideast for Indirect Peace Talks (Breaking News)
America's architectural heritage: the Navajo hogan (Breaking News)
Israel Looking for the Rightful Owners of 55,000 Unclaimed Holocaust Victims’ Assets (Breaking News)
V-E Day celebrations 2010: veterans criticise lack of 'enthusiasm' to mark anniversary (Breaking News)
Anthropologists explore treasures near Lake Koshkonong (Wisconsin) (Breaking News)
Police Raid in Bulgaria Saves Archaeology Treasures (Breaking News)
German police say pigs find WWII anti-tank weapon (Breaking News)
U.S. reveals it has 5,113 nuclear warheads (Breaking News)
US Supreme Court closes iconic main entrance (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Additional Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Blackberry 'predicted a century ago' by pioneering physicist Nikola Tesla (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: An Interesting Video (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Evidence shows merchants flouted imperial Chinese trade ban (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Why the U.S. Still Doesn't Get the Message (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Court Puts Pressure on Germany to Open Adolf Eichmann Files (Breaking News)
New Documents Reveal Truth on NATO's 'Most Damaging' Spy (Breaking News)
Burials Were Discovered at Tlatelolco (Breaking News)
Remains of Errol Flynn's Son Spark Feud in Cambodia (Breaking News)
Welsh archaeologist plays Indiana Jones in reverse (Breaking News)
Scholarly Squad Debunks Biblical 'Discoveries' (Breaking News)
Donner Party cannibalism -- it's still true (Breaking News)
Archaeologists: Graveyards date back to Roman & bronze era unearthed in Syria (Breaking News)
A new view onto the Third Reich 'center of evil' (Breaking News)
'Secret' writer Jane Duncan's work reprinted (Breaking News)
Why Muslims regard images of Mohammed as blasphemous (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA'S POLICIES SECURE IRAN'S REGIONAL SUPREMACY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
KEITH HALDERMAN: How to Really Protect the Children (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
A Supreme Court without Protestants? (Breaking News)
Secret papers shed new light on Britain's presence in Iraq in 1920s (Breaking News)
Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre in Bristow: Everyday 19-century life (Breaking News)
Pope essentially authenticates Turin Shroud (Breaking News)
Greeks have a conflicted relationship with the state (Breaking News)
Va. seeks balance in marking Civil War's 150th anniversary, tapping Kennedy-era historian (Historians in the News)
Angus Maddison, Economic Historian, Dies at 83 (Historians in the News)
British political historian explains the role of class in UK elections (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Medieval African possibly found buried in England (Breaking News)
Special graduations set 40 years after Kent State (Breaking News)
Salinger copyright case appealed (Breaking News)
Pope pays homage to Turin Shroud (Breaking News)
Mammoths 'developed anti-freeze blood' (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TERRORISTS DISS OBAMA YET AGAIN/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Russ Roberts on the Financial Crisis (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: Excluding Indians Not Taxed, and Three Fifths of All Other Persons (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Arizona Legislature Passes Bill to Curb 'Chauvanism' in Ethnic Studies Programs (Breaking News)
Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies (Breaking News)
NY-19: Candidate says GOP liberated Europe in WWII (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Hawaiian history stirringly told in "Kaiulani" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Lisa L. Kirchner: Feminism's Mommy Issues (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Winship: Kent State and the Frisbee Revolution (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andrew Roberts: General Election 2010 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Fisk: The Arabs have their gulags too (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alistair Osborne: UK General Election ... 1974 doesn't look any better second time around (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Blyth and Jonathan Hopkin: Labour Pains ... Why the British General Election Is a Referendum on Its Past (Roundup: Media's Take)
Matthew Spalding: The New Despotism of Bureaucracy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Guy-Uriel Charles , Anupam Chander, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, and Angela Onwuachi-Willig: The White House's Kagan Talking Points are Wrong (Roundup: Media's Take)
Si Liberman: Remembering V-E Day (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joseph J. Ellis: Immaculate Misconception and the Supreme Court (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Cholene Espinoza: An Elegy for the Dragon Lady (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Ruse: Three Loud Cheers for the European Community (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peggy Noonan: Lessons from Britain's Long War with the IRA (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ira Chernus: Blood or Treasure? Obama’s Crucial Choice in the Middle East (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Nichols: Enlightened Founders Favored Pluralism Not a Law Setting a National Day of Prayer (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Szreter: Proportional Representation -- Historical Destiny Beckons? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: Hate, Times Squared (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Lowry Clinton: The Marbury Myth (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nicolaus Mills: Pulling a Goldman (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nick Serpe: Hannah Arendt's Enduring Legacy (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joshua Green: The Oil Spill Has Failed to Change Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chalmers Johnson: Another Battle of Okinawa (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Guenter Wendt dies at 86; storied overseer of early NASA space flights (Obituaries)
KC Johnson: The Virginia Murder Case and the Duke "Rape" Case (Roundup: Historians' Take)
A Bank’s Ads, Dressed Up in Historical Garb (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
James Howard Kunstler: Worse Than 1789? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Egan: Groundhog Day for Oil (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yulia Latynina: Another Munich Agreement (Roundup: Media's Take)
Antonia Senior: Don’t write the Restoration out of British history (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kurt Volker: The next Prime Minister must nurture the Special Relationship (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gerry Hassan: Goodbye to Gordon Brown and All That (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: Why Would Anyone Want to Blow Up Times Square? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Chris Brooke: A hung parliament wouldn't leave Nick Clegg in the driving seat (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Freedland: Remember 1983? I Warn You That a Cameron Victory Will Be Just as Bad (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Garton Ash: This Could Be the Most Pivotal Election in British History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kathryn Lofton, 32 (Top Young Historians)
Tom Engelhardt: All-Volunteer Wars (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Geraldo L. Cadava: Arizona's Long History of Scapegoating (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stan Lee to host series for History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sadanand Dhume: Why Pakistan Produces Jihadists (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, Israel Opponent, Dies at 86 (Obituaries)
Nick Turse: The Pentagon Book Club (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gideon Rachman: A nuclear-free world? No thanks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Patrick J. Buchanan: "Bigots" Like Churchill and Jimmy Carter (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alexei Bayer: Not Much Victory on Victory Day (Roundup: Media's Take)
Naomi Wolf: The Great American Escapism (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Brian Bow: Canada Can’t Return to Its Special Relationship with the United States (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Garton Ash: Fair Britannia, Splashing Around in Coalition Waters (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Charlotte Higgins: Gordon Brown invokes Demosthenes and Cicero - Badly (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael White: A History of Hung Parliaments (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dallas Darling: From Vietnam to Iran and the March of Either/Or Thinking (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steven Fielding: Hung Parliament! (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Matthew Grant: The Nuclear Weapons Issue in British Elections (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jordi Savall: Tracing Jerusalem's History In Music (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sean Wilentz: Is Bob Dylan a Phony? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Simon Schama: Three-Way Race for the UK's Top Slot (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Amii Omara-Otunnu: Confronting Tyranny In Africa In The Era Of Barack Obama (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dennis Prager: Jews Who Cheapen the Holocaust (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Sowell: Resenting Achievement More than Wealth (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Arizona Law Foes' Best Weapon is Dollars (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nicholas Schmidle: The Divide Between Old and New Jihadists in Pakistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jim Cullen, Review of Daniel Okrent's "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" (Scribner, 2010) (Books)
Bret Stephens: The NPT Illusion (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jim Guirard: The Two Vietnam Wars (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Davis Hanson: Liberal Presidents Have It Easy in War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Roger Cohen: The Banality of Good, Explored in a German Novel from 1947 (Roundup: Talking About History)
Walter Laqueur: Europe's Decline is No Cause for Schadenfreude (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Anton: Iran and the Costs of Containment (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Lowry Clinton: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Remains of a California Day (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Barone: Obama, Brown, and the ‘Third Way’ (Roundup: Media's Take)
The Invaluable Legacy of Willard Wirtz, 94 (Obituaries)
Camillo “Mac” Bica: Atrocity and War (Roundup: Media's Take)
Meenakshi Ganguly: Sri Lanka's War: Time for Accountability (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anthony Barnett: The Sculptures of "the Greatest Englishman" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Guy Lodge: A Hung Parliament Will Provoke a Constitutional Crisis over England (Roundup: Media's Take)
Marek Dabrowski: Remembering My Friend Yegor Gaidar (Roundup: Talking About History)
Dovid Katz: The Crime of Surviving (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Maidhc Ó Cathail: Israel's Nuclear Espionage Didn't End After It Got the Bomb (Roundup: Media's Take)
K.R. Bolton: The Neo-Trotskyist Foundations of U.S. Foreign Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Shermer: Humans Have Never Had It So Good (Roundup: Media's Take)
A new view onto the Third Reich 'center of evil' in Berlin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Paul Krugman: Drilling, Disaster, Denial (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Murphy, Author and Princeton Political Scientist, Dies at 80 (Obituaries)
Grace Kelly: A Legacy of Wholesome Elegance (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gordon S. Wood: Our Founders Were Not Political Amateurs (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Anton: Iran and the Costs of Containment (Roundup: Media's Take)
Philip Klein: Will Petraeus Be Like Ike? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alan Beattie: Lessons for the Greek crisis from Philip II of Spain (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bruce Anderson: David Cameron could be Britain's de Gaulle (Roundup: Media's Take)
James M. Banner, Jr (Independent Historians)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Shanghai Illuminations: 1890-2010 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: On Colonels, Pantyhose and Honor Killings (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Week of April 25, 2010
Roundup
Exhibition charts life of Peter Pan creator JM Barrie (Breaking News)
Rwandan President Kagame snubs lawsuit during US visit (Breaking News)
Lebanon's amnesia for those missing since the civil war (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN J. BEAN: Profile in Cowardice: Allah is Great! Die South Park Die! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Pope to bow before Turin Shroud on Sunday (Breaking News)
Second World War 'Ghost Army' helped Allies win war (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Happy Birthday T.R.M. Howard (Online Documentary) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: European History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THAT WAS A VOICE! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Miss him? Bush's reputation might be ready for a rebound (Breaking News)
Afghans Commemorate Anniversary of Mujahedeen Victory (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREECE: BEGINNING OF THE END? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Henry VIII replica wine fountain unveiled (Breaking News)
WWII weapons found near Coloney's Italian home (Breaking News)
Native American gloves stolen from Western Michigan historical display (Breaking News)
'Stone of Destiny' replica found dumped (Breaking News)
The art of map making (Breaking News)
The Germans who took up arms against Hitler (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE WAR BETWEEN INTELLECTUALS AND CAPITALISM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Founder of Stalin museum killed in Russia (Breaking News)
Family of WW1 soldier reunited with medal he threw away (Breaking News)
Kennedy mini-series provokes outrage among American liberals (Breaking News)
Vietnam celebrates 35th anniversary of end of war (Breaking News)
South Pacific tribe preparing for return of ’god’ Prince Philip (Breaking News)
German police say a couple of hungry pigs digging for food found a WWII anti-tank weapon (Breaking News)
Buddies, hometowns honor last two Marines killed in Vietnam War (Breaking News)
Historic Manhattan hospital shuts doors (Breaking News)
Anne Frank's tree, now dying, still inspires hope and new life (Breaking News)
Blogs
WENDY MCELROY: Ayn Rand to Blame for Goldman Sachs? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GENERALS: ISRAEL IS US SECURITY ASSET (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Is Stephen Hawking right about aliens? (Breaking News)
Expo Offers Shanghai a Turn in the Spotlight (Breaking News)
In Abuse Crisis, a Church Is Pitted Against Society and Itself (Breaking News)
Humans Interbred with Neanderthals, Study Suggests (Breaking News)
Anglo-Saxon treasures revealed by Parker Library website (Breaking News)
Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past, 400-1000 research project gets funding (Historians in the News)
Caferro and Gerstel awarded Guggenheim Fellowships (Historians in the News)
Conference aims to bring medieval, early modern and Latin American historians together (Historians in the News)
Viking necklace discovered in Ireland (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Light Tea, Heavy on the Milk (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Radical Historian George Barnsby, 1919- 2010 (Historians in the News)
'Zionist myth' book on prize shortlist (Breaking News)
Website launched to challenge Holocaust denial (Breaking News)
Is academic snobbery to blame in the Figes affair? (Historians in the News)
Classified Soviet documents published in English at National Security Archive website (Breaking News)
Historians say state should toss proposal (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: Laura Bush “two symbiotic souls:” (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Barack Obama eulogizes Civil Rights icon Dorothy Height (Breaking News)
Mount Rainier celebrates its centennial (Breaking News)
Auction House withdraws Roman sculptures with 'Medici link' (Breaking News)
Native American gloves stolen from Western Michigan historical display (Breaking News)
Nazi U-boats plagued Maine coast during WWII (Breaking News)
Iraqi antiquities officials receive Artifacts from Third Dynasty of Ur (Breaking News)
Viking treasure found in cave baffles expert (Breaking News)
John Lennon lyrics 'to fetch $700,000' (Breaking News)
Moscow backs down from Stalin poster plans (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Anne Frank house in guided online tour (Breaking News)
Where Will A. P. Hill Painting Hang Next? (Breaking News)
Congolese man wants Belgium to ban 'racist' Tintin Au Congo (Breaking News)
Complete diary of Anne Frank exhibited at Dutch museum (Breaking News)
Veterans group accuses church of stealing flags (Breaking News)
Ghost ship may be older than originally thought (Breaking News)
U.S. military community volunteers help uncover Roman history (Breaking News)
Odd Wisconsin: Burnt toast survives test of time (Breaking News)
Texas Has a New Toothy Pterosaur (Breaking News)
Dinosaur Giants Evolved All-Terrain Bodies (Breaking News)
Chernobyl Still Poses 'Urgent' Threat on Anniversary (Breaking News)
Road named to honour first London to Manchester pilot (Breaking News)
TRENDING: Laura Bush alleges poisoning in new book (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN J. BEAN: Freedom from Bad Academic Writing (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Soviet records of Katyn massacre released by Russian government (Breaking News)
For Now, a Refuge for the Catholic Church in Poland (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Archives reveal belief in Loch Ness Monster (Breaking News)
Has Noah's Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop? (Breaking News)
A Fresh Look At John Lindsay, And Questions About Why Now (Breaking News)
Excavations near Reading show evidence of Boudicca (Breaking News)
Island which spent £600,000 getting rid of rats over-run with rabbits (Breaking News)
Roman sculptures withdrawn from auction amid fears they are stolen (Breaking News)
Noah's Ark found? Not so fast (Breaking News)
Arson Was Common Mayan Ritual, Say Archaeologists (Breaking News)
Former dictator General Noriega claims 'prisoner of war' status (Breaking News)
'Tsar Marathon' plans anger Nicholas II descendants (Breaking News)
Archives exhibit explores little-known aspects of Civil War (Breaking News)
Stephen Ambrose's Work Faces New Scrutiny (Historians in the News)
Birmingham celebrates St.George's Day with medieval battle (Breaking News)
Irish Walled Towns Initiative receives €850,000 (Breaking News)
Sacred music of medieval Nottinghamshire revived (Breaking News)
The Medieval Churches of the City of Norwich (Breaking News)
Viking Thomasinas: Cross-gender name elements in Viking naming practices (Breaking News)
Malcom X slayer goes free in New York (Breaking News)
Malcolm X killer to go free after 44 years (Breaking News)
Portraits on U.S. Currency Keep Getting Younger (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Malcolm X Defends the Second Amendment (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Clegg was at top of his class at University of Minnesota, professor says (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICANS, IF NOT OBAMA, KNOW ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC VALUE/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Future Pope's Role in Abuse Case Was Complex (Breaking News)
Underwater 'safe' protects £5m shipwreck treasures off Croatian coast (Breaking News)
Nazi flag theft upsets widow (New Zealand) (Breaking News)
Croatian underwater 'safe' protects £5m shipwreck treasures (Breaking News)
Grim convict past revealed in archaeological dig (Australia) (Breaking News)
Ancient city mapped in Mexico sheds light on the Purepecha (Breaking News)
Ancient artifacts revealed as northern ice patches melt (Breaking News)
Panama's Manuel Noriega 'to fight charges' in France (Breaking News)
Hollywood sign is saved at last minute by Hugh Hefner (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: American History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
'Band of Brothers' author Stephen Ambrose accused of faking Eisenhower interviews (Breaking News)
Vermont Towns Finally Settle Land Dispute From The 1760s (Breaking News)
Ancient Building Came With DIY Instructions (Breaking News)
ICRC warns Colombia conflict victims 'forgotten' (Breaking News)
George W Bush to admit 'flaws and mistakes' in memoir (Breaking News)
Sudan president wins election, officials say (Breaking News)
Was Shakespeare's ghost writer ... Shakespeare? (Breaking News)
TRENDING: Details of Bush memoir revealed (Breaking News)
Lieberman opens up about becoming an independent (Breaking News)
Ernest Freeberg named winner of the 2010 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award (Historians in the News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Making Sense on Ending the "Slavery Blame-Game." (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
TCNJ profs say they've solved Civil War mystery (Historians in the News)
Martin Barillas: Wikipedia Struggles with Holocaust Disinformation; Ravensfire Deletes Jewish Content (Historians in the News)
Phoney reviewer Figes has history of litigious quarrels (Historians in the News)
Indian Justice Inches Closer to Chapters of Violence (Breaking News)
No compensation for 100-year-old PoW (Breaking News)
'Dear Uncle Adolf': documentary details fan letters sent to Hitler (Breaking News)
Lotus plant grown from 700-year-old seed (Breaking News)
Brazil's traditional cowboys struggle to survive (Breaking News)
30 Years on: The legacy of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Breaking Libertarian on Breaking Bad (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Oliver Kamm: Figes' Furies (Historians in the News)
Cell keys and a phonebox from the Maze prison for sale (Breaking News)
Austria's 'Reich Mother' poised to return far-Right to prominence (Breaking News)
Hollywood turns to ancient warriors and legends to win audiences (Breaking News)
Novelist Alan Sillitoe dies (Breaking News)
Iran marks anniversary of failed US rescue attempt (Breaking News)
Obama avoids labeling massacres of Armenians 'genocide' (Breaking News)
Cult leader, ex-Nazi Schaefer dies in Chile (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Saturday, In The Burbs, With The New York Times (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
BRETT HOLMAN: Australia forgets (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes Ancient & Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Ken Hughes: The Myth That Congress Cut Off Funding for South Vietnam (Roundup: Talking About History)
Peggy Noonan: The Big Alienation Between the Government and the People (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Brooks: Energy Innovation is the Transcontinental Railroad of Today (Roundup: Media's Take)
HBO's "The Pacific" Gives Lie to Generational Exceptionalism (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Adam Minter: China Rules the World at Expo 2010 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Charles Kenny: Thomas Malthus was Wrong About the Population Bomb (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jon Lawrence: When the Wheels Came Off Brown's Campaign Bus (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War -- by Jeffrey S. Reznick (Books About History & Historians)
Elwood Watson: Ugly Resistance Against the President Continues (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kwabena Akurang-Parry: Some Perspectives on Henry Louis Gates's Reparations (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jimi Hendrix's patchwork coat heads to the Museum of the American Indian (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Tremblay: Do you know the long, sordid history of typos? (Did You Know?)
Stanley Fish: The First Amendment and Kittens (Roundup: Media's Take)
Seth Perry: The Geography of the Book of Mormon (Roundup: Talking About History)
Whitney Harris, Nuremberg Prosecutor, Dies at 97 (Obituaries)
F. E. Dominy, Who Harnessed Water in the American West, Is Dead at 100 (Obituaries)
History channel's Kennedy miniseries has been cast (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Garrison Keillor: Confessions of a Plagiarist (Roundup: Media's Take)
First look: 'Conspirator' follows the drama after Lincoln's death (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Historiography of Communism -- by Michael E. Brown (Books About History & Historians)
Contesting Clio's Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History -- Edited by Christopher Dummitt and Michael Dawson (Books About History & Historians)
Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History -- by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett (Books About History & Historians)
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century -- by John Burrow (Books About History & Historians)
Bernard Weiner: Rage and Rebellion: How Will the Left Respond? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nikos Konstandaras: The Kindness of Strangers (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley Crouch: Gates' Cold Shower on the Reparations Debate (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Walter Russell Mead: Europe in Crisis (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Amartya Sen: Adam Smith Wasn't a Free-Market Fundamentalist (Roundup: Talking About History)
My Lai on PBS: A Dark Day That Still Resonates (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Katrina vanden Heuvel: The UK Now Has a Credible Third Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Kuttner: Obama Should Stop Listening to the Deficit Hawks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christopher Dickey: Noriega's Last Laugh (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's Nuclear Naivety (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Marquand: The 1926 UK Elections Revisited (Roundup: Media's Take)
King Tut Returns to New York City in New Exhibit (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gil Troy: Obama the President is Not Alexander the Great (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harold James: Another Failed British Experiment (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jim Downs: Historical Context Can Help Us Better Understand Debate Over New Health Care Legislation (Roundup: Historians' Take)
George Wolf : A Different Observation of Yom Hashoah at Congregation Habonim (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ta-Nehisi Coates: What is Skip Gates Thinking? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Thomas Sowell: Misusing a History of Slavery (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Davis Hanson: What's Happening with Israel? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Upham: Is Texas Messing With History? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Dreyer: The Ugly History of Afrikaans (Roundup: Talking About History)
Anne Applebaum: Britain's Spot of Tea Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jill Lepore: Who Owns the American Revolution? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dariush Zahedi and Gokhan Bacik: Kemalism Is Dead, Long Live Kemalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: In Europe, Remorse Has Turned to Masochism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Feldberg: How the Credo of American Jewry Took Hold (Roundup: Talking About History)
Simon Ramo: Humans on Mars? Forget it (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hal G.P. Colebatch: Space Is Lost (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simone Dinah Hartmann: The Austrian-Iranian Axis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: Peace Processes Never Work (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kai Bird: The Hebrew Republic (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eric Alterman: Bill Moyers Retires (Roundup: Media's Take)
Vicken Cheterian: Armenian Genocide and Turkey -- Then and Now (Roundup: Talking About History)
Elena Godlevskaya: Russian History Doesn't Explain Why Russia is Great (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andrew Mycock: British Identity and the Legacy of Empire (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert F. Nagel: Stevens, the Radical (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sean Trende: It's 1974 All Over Again in Pennsylvania (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Fumento: The Gulf War Syndrome ‘Mystery’ (Roundup: Media's Take)
Marc Ambinder: Gingrich Further Enables the Right's Flight From Reality (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Why We Won’t Leave Afghanistan or Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Q&A: Historians Richard Norton Smith & Douglas Brinkley [video 60 minutes 26 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Joshua Brown: Arizona Shreds the Constitution (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andreas Umland: Is Europe Losing Ukraine? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Q&A with Egyptian Antiquities Chief Zahi Hawass (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robert Zaller: If This is Capitalism, Bring on Socialism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: Washington has Always Helped Set Rules for Wall Street (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nicole Hemmer: Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are Not Guilty of Sedition -- But Over-the-Top 'Tea-Party' Rhetoric Doesn’t Help (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John B. Judis: Why Hysteria Has Won Out in Arizona (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert McHenry: H.L. Mencken: Prohibition, the War on Drugs, and the Dead Hand of Puritanism (Roundup: Talking About History)
Nicholas Carr: Luddites, According to Thomas Pynchon (Roundup: Talking About History)
James F. Brennan: Personal Lessons From the Kent State Tragedy (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jerry Lembcke: The Times, They Changed (Roundup: Talking About History)
Todd Crowell: Is Thailand Going the Way of 1936 Spain? (Roundup: Media's Take)
George F. Will: Japanese American Heroes, Bereft of Bitterness (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Ruse: The Sins of Orlando Figes (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Service: The Shame of Orlando Figes (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonah Goldberg: What Kind of Socialist Is Barack Obama? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Doyle McManus: Obama and Wall St. — it’s not 1936 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bari Weiss: Miss Me Yet? The Freedom Agenda After George W. Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Mark Twain's Travels With the 'Savages' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Lectureship in History, La Trobe University, Melbourne (Jobs)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Shanghai’s Expo: What Everyone Needs to Know (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Oliver Kamm: Figes' Furies (Roundup: Talking About History)
Elaine Tyler May: Promises the Pill Could Never Keep (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Week of April 18, 2010
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 95 YEARS AGO FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ex-Rwandan diplomat now in Ala. probed in genocide (Breaking News)
Bone-Eating Worms 30 Million Years Old (Breaking News)
Retracing the Tracks of Dinosaurs Reveals Ecosystem the Size of a Continent (Breaking News)
Primate Fossil More Than 11 Million Years Old Discovered (Breaking News)
Grant's brigade fights push for Reagan on $50 bill (Breaking News)
Cadets mark 150th anniversary in St George's Day parade (Breaking News)
South Park creators warned over Muhammad depiction (Breaking News)
Argentina aims to rediscover a love of books (Breaking News)
'Holocaust' tax dodger jailed for hiding funds in UBS (Breaking News)
Paris museum's fakes exhibition condemned for 'vampire' plagiarism (Breaking News)
Killer to face firing squad in Utah (Breaking News)
Dinosaurs died from sudden temperature drop 'not comet strike', scientists claim (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: NYPD Damages/Removes Bikes on Earth Day (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: The Future Is Not Like the Past (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
WENDY MCELROY: Yes, I'm guilty! No, I'm innocent! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
106-year-old singer settles suit over Nazi performance (Breaking News)
Bomb squad inspects Civil War era cannon ball (Breaking News)
$1M funding will restore Fort Gibson Military Park (Breaking News)
Orlando Figes admits: 'It was me' (Historians in the News)
Another Blow to the Reputation of Stephen Ambrose (Historians in the News)
Dinosaur Killer Could Return (Breaking News)
Mysterious Desert Lines Were Animal Traps (Breaking News)
Dawn of Urban Life Uncovered in Syria (Breaking News)
Ancient Hominids Had Human-Like Grip (Breaking News)
Years later, looking for traces of Sept. 11 victims (Breaking News)
Team to map Gallipoli's underwater terrain (Breaking News)
Hobbit debate goes out on some limbs (Breaking News)
Lice hang ancient date on first clothes (Breaking News)
Egyptian official chides museums over antiquities (Breaking News)
Search for budding archaeologist Sam Clark (Breaking News)
Ancient ruin reminiscent of Ikea furniture (Breaking News)
French archaeologists begin digs in north Iraq (Breaking News)
3D archeology is coming to the MFA (Breaking News)
Author says he wrote vicious reviews, not his wife (Breaking News)
Roman altar stones unearthed at Scottish cricket ground (Breaking News)
Pageant of St George returns to London after 425 years (Breaking News)
9/11 arrest pilot Lotfi Raissi wins compensation battle (Breaking News)
OK Corral documents discovered in court storeroom (Breaking News)
Opposition leader Ingabire released in Rwanda (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: The Peasants Do Tend Toward Ignorance, Do They Not? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
The Discomfort of African Americans in South Africa (Breaking News)
Nixon papers moving to Yorba Linda (Breaking News)
Poison pen reviews were mine, confesses historian Orlando Figes (Historians in the News)
Robert Grimes, WWII piolot that evaded the Nazis, dies at 87 (Breaking News)
Whitney R. Harris, prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, dies at 97 (Breaking News)
Leonard Nimoy retires from being Spock after 40 years (Breaking News)
Hoard of 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Coins Found in Desert Oasis (Breaking News)
Hawaii Struggles with Historic Preservation (Breaking News)
Austria spooked by Nazi past in election (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
It’s war: Anzac Day dissenters create bitter split between historians (Historians in the News)
A Primer on China from Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Historians in the News)
Indian Tribe Wins Fight to Limit Research of Its DNA (Breaking News)
Roots of Islamic fundamentalism lie in Nazi propaganda for Arab world, Jeffrey Herf claims (Historians in the News)
Archaeologists unearth 6th century Ikea-style temple (Breaking News)
First Earth Day in U.S. had feel of '60s, says historian (Historians in the News)
Historian's wife and her poison pen expose dark side of literary criticism (Historians in the News)
Row over Second World War tribute featuring Nazis (Breaking News)
Elian Gonzalez saga still vivid for many, 10 years later (Breaking News)
Born in 1970, Earth Day has cause for celebration -- and a midlife crisis (Breaking News)
Sharon Sievers, Historian and Women's Studies Activist at Cal State- Long Beach, May 27 1938-April 5 2010 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Lenin exhibit returns to Ukraine after 2 decades (Breaking News)
Jerusalem reopens popular Old City gate (Breaking News)
Treasury unveils new $100 bill (Breaking News)
Blogs
AEON J. SKOBLE: Reason Papers 31 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Gov. McDonnell Approves Battlefield Preservation Funds (Breaking News)
Plans for Austria's Nazi-era flak towers spark controversy (Breaking News)
'Degenerate Art' Database Shows 21,000 Works Seized by Nazis (Breaking News)
Jon Wiener: Stephen Ambrose, Another Historian in Trouble (Historians in the News)
Piecing Together Germany's Shredded Stasi Files Stasi (Breaking News)
John Quincy Adams letter found in Mass. city hall (Breaking News)
Park withdrawn as site for secession monument in SC (Breaking News)
Jefferson Davis statue to be dedicated (Breaking News)
British historian weighs in on Thai crisis (Historians in the News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: "The State is All" (Outer Limits) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Casting light on a dark part of Britain's history in India (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Laser to scan Robin Hood's prison under Nottingham city (Breaking News)
Ancient Maya Buried Relatives, Artifacts Under Homes (Breaking News)
Ancient Hereford ditch was 'royal city boundary' (Breaking News)
Recreating Capt Bligh's famous Bounty mutiny sea voyage (Breaking News)
North Korea: rare photograph of Kim Jong-il's heir apparent emerges (Breaking News)
Los Angeles cardinal accuses Arizona of 'Nazi and Communist' immigration techniques (Breaking News)
Queen's baby pictures released to celebrate her 84th birthday (Breaking News)
Holocaust Museum Shooter's FBI File Went Back 47 Years (Breaking News)
Arrest Warrant Issued for Saddam's Daughter (Breaking News)
Argentina's last dictator gets 25 years in prison (Breaking News)
Federal Agencies Release "Open Government Plans" (Breaking News)
Twitter Donates Its Digital Archive to the Library of Congress (Breaking News)
NHPRC Proposes Removing Grant Eligibility for Individuals (Breaking News)
Activities of the Senate Intelligence Committee, 1976-2009 (Breaking News)
Secrecy System Churned Along in 2009 (Breaking News)
NEH Launches “Bridging Cultures” Grants Initiative (Breaking News)
Public Interest Declassification Board to meet April 22 (Breaking News)
Leading academics in bitter row over anonymous 'poison' book reviews (Historians in the News)
1930s books revived to teach pupils traditional British history (Breaking News)
University of Glasgow creates first Chair of Gaelic in Scotland (Historians in the News)
Trebuchet Competition to take place in June (Breaking News)
The Newberry Library and the University of Notre Dame acquire rare fourteenth-century book (Breaking News)
Tunnels discovered under medieval house in England (Breaking News)
Flooding caused massive environmental damage in medieval China, study finds (Breaking News)
England's 700 year old Coronation Chair to be restored (Breaking News)
Jon Wiener: Orlando Figes and his Sock Puppet (Historians in the News)
Mood Is Dark as Israel Marks 62nd Year as a Nation (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Dorothy I. Height, founding matriarch of civil rights movement, dies at 98 (Breaking News)
Ruling on racial isolation in Miss. schools reflects troubling broader trend (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Historians weigh in on the Tea Party in the NYT (Historians in the News)
Obama v. Roberts: The Struggle to Come (Breaking News)
Eisenhower's Four Star Army Helmet up for Auction (Breaking News)
Tours of Iraq's ancient wonders open up (Breaking News)
Remains in UK 'could be Roman temple' (Breaking News)
Venezuela celebrates bicentenary with Caracas parade (Breaking News)
The forgotten Dutch threat to Virginia (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Water Hates Hydrogen and Oxygen (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Stonehenge Down Under: Australians copy Neolithic rock structure to draw tourists (Breaking News)
England 'least patriotic' country (Breaking News)
New Bony-Skulled Dinosaur Species Discovered in Texas (Breaking News)
Religious Beliefs Seen as Basis of Origins of Palaeolithic Art (Breaking News)
Iran wants $300,000 in British Museum antiquity row (Breaking News)
Tours of Iraq's ancient wonders open up as violence ebbs (Breaking News)
Study of unmarked African-American graves at Boone Cemetery continues (Breaking News)
Old Farm Site Found Under Urbana Bike Path Project (Breaking News)
Skull finally finds a home, but where's the body? (Breaking News)
Ancient stones older than Stonehenge discovered on Dartmoor (Breaking News)
Ziegler’s Grove is next on NPS’ restoration list (Breaking News)
Confederate history doesn't always travel well (Breaking News)
Preservation issues related to battlefields likely to increase (Breaking News)
Concentration camp liberators gather in Washington (Breaking News)
English bishop convicted of Holocaust denial in German court (Breaking News)
Russian parliament approves amnesty for WWII vets (Breaking News)
Judge says Klan can have barbecue at battle site (Breaking News)
Osama bin Laden tried to watch 9/11 bombings live on TV but satellite failed (Breaking News)
WWI chemical weapons cache found in D.C. yard (Breaking News)
Distrust of government approaching all-time high (Breaking News)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Announces 2010 Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members (Historians in the News)
Roger Ekrich makes history more interesting in telling true story of "Kidnapped" (Historians in the News)
Richard Rayner: Stephen Ambrose exaggerated his relationship with Eisenhower (Historians in the News)
Martin Barillas: Wikipedia Blocks Users in Response to Edwin Black Article (Historians in the News)
Team of Sherpas to clear dead bodies from Mount Everest (Breaking News)
15 years later, victims, residents remember Oklahoma City bombing (Breaking News)
Blogs
AEON J. SKOBLE: Someone posts this every year; this year it's me (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Were the 'mad' heroines of literature really sane? (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL REMEMBERS THE FALLEN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
'Little Ships' Rerun Finds Its Own Dunkirk (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
No 10 Downing Street bugged by MI5, claims historian (Historians in the News)
Probe turns up collection of human bones (Breaking News)
No 10 Downing Street bugged by MI5, claims historian (Breaking News)
Remains in Southwell 'could be Roman temple' (Breaking News)
Poland holds state funeral for President Lech Kaczynski (Breaking News)
Radovan Karadzic toys with judges at Hague trial (Breaking News)
Polynesian canoes re-live Pacific migration (Breaking News)
Zimbabwe's child cadets parade for independence anniversary celebrations (Breaking News)
Titanic letter fetches £55,000 (Breaking News)
Pakistani officials suspended after U.N.'s Bhutto report (Breaking News)
Orlando Figes's wife responsible for Amazon reviews trashing his rivals (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MEDIA HELPS OBAMA IGNORE UMEMPLOYMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT HIGGS: Data Don' t Bleed (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
TIMOTHY FURNISH: Out of Africa: Caliphate and Muslim Violence (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan -- by Reba Soffer (Books About History & Historians)
Steven Fielding: Meet the Nick Clegg of 1942 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry Irving: Revisiting the 'Big Society' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jenna Phillips: Why the PM Candidates Should Mention the War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Greg Rosen: Should Labour Learn to Love Coalitions? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew Blick: Proposal for UK Constitution Should Worry Historians (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Nash: The Chartists: Charting a Future Democracy (Roundup: Talking About History)
US history given some dramatic re-creation on "History" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Francis Beckett: Britain Will Never Have It So Good Again (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Erik Christiansen and Jeremy Sullivan: The Tea Party Challenge to History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Ending the Slavery Blame-Game (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ron Rosenbaum: The Tea Party's Toxic Take on History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Allan Lichtman: Vote for Your Favorite Corporation (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Niall Ferguson and Ted Forstmann: Back to Basics on Financial Reform (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Palaima: Pre-Empted by the War in Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stephen Wertheim: When Humanitarianism Hurts (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bill Barnhart: John Paul Stevens and the U.S. Navy at War (Roundup: Talking About History)
Glenn Greenwald: Diane Wood Would Make an Excellent Justice (Roundup: Media's Take)
Light Townsend Cummins: Commemorating San Jacinto Day (Roundup: Talking About History)
Burt Folsom: Can We Get Out of this Economic Mess? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas Sowell: Why Was It Necessary to Pay Certain Slaves? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Pete du Pont: The VAT Would be Horrible for America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Zachary Karabell: Obama Needs a Reset Button on His Own Foreign-Policy Machine (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Inaction on Immigration Reform a Travesty (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ridley Scott claims his new "Robin Hood" will be the most accurate rendition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Steele: Afghan Ghosts ... American Myths (Roundup: Media's Take)
Khaled Diab: Congo's Colonial Ghost (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Erofeyev: The Past, the Present and the Future of Katyn (Roundup: Media's Take)
Scott Martelle: America's Dark History of Coal (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christopher L. Eisgruber: Justice Stevens Will Not Be Easily Replaced (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kathleen Parker: A Library for Our First President (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mary Dejevsky: Are Britons the next 'new' Europeans? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Clarke: Britain's Third Party Looks to History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: AIDS, Sex, and Crime: Why is Darren Chiacchia Facing Jail Time? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bruce J. Schulman: The Costs of Crossing the President (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Matthew Pitt: A Civil Rights Watershed in Biloxi, Mississippi (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alexander Cockburn: His Supreme Court Nominee Will Be Obama's True Legacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
William J. Astore: American Kleptocracy -- How Fears of Socialism and Fascism Hide Naked Theft (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steve Kornacki: The GOP's Changing Definition of "Moderate" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jon Meacham: Atticus Finch and Benjamin Hooks (Roundup: Talking About History)
Connecting Kids to History with Museum Exhibitions -- Edited by D. Lynn McRainey and John Russick (Books About History & Historians)
Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks -- by Kyle Ward (Books About History & Historians)
Aaron David Miller: The False Religion of Mideast Peace (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rashid Khalidi: Bad Faith in the Holy City of Jerusalem (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.: An Economy of Liars (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: Obama's Approach to American Muslims the Same as Bush's (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Summers: Henry David Thoreau Stands the Test of Time (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christian Science Monitor: Take a Cue from Europe and Invest in Surface Infrastructure (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonah Goldberg: Tea Parties a Delayed Bush Backlash (Roundup: Media's Take)
Clifford J. Levy: Russia and Poland Poland Have a Blood Feud Rooted Deep in the Past (Roundup: Talking About History)
Benjamin L. Hooks, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 85 (Obituaries)
Antony Flew, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies at 87 (Obituaries)
Daryl F. Gates, L.A.P.D. Chief in Rodney King Era, Dies at 83 (Obituaries)
Civil Rights Leader Dorothy Height Dies at 98 (Obituaries)
Barbara Crossette: Benazir Bhutto's Death Still Unresolved (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Rubin: Iran ... The Case for “Regime Change” (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christopher L. Eisgruber: Justice Stevens will not be easily replaced (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Why All the Wounded Fawns? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Charles Fried: Why Elena Kagan has Earned the Respect of Conservatives Like Me (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Cohen: Learning the Lessons of the Oklahoma City Bombing 15 Years Later (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Nichols: Sarah Palin Should Listen to Reagan on National Defense (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lori Allen, Vincent A. Brown, and Ajantha Subramanian: Condeming Martin Kramer's Remarks (Roundup: Talking About History)
T.H. Breen: America's Other Independence Day (Roundup: Talking About History)
Raymond Ibrahim: Was Marco Polo an 'Islamophobe'? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Edwin Black: Is A Life Sentence for Iowa Kosher Butcher Disproportionate Justice? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Geoffrey R. Stone: The Protestant Seat on the Supreme Court (Roundup: Media's Take)
San Francisco before and after the 1906 earthquake [video 5 minutes 7 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Alexei Bayer: Lenin's Scent Still Lingers over Russia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert McFarlane: Mideast Peace, One Brick at a Time (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hadley Arkes: An Austen Chamberlain Moment for the Democrats (Roundup: Media's Take)
Moshe Dann: Is Obama Using Israel as a Scapegoat for His Foreign Policy Failures? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Barack Obama: Black by Choice (Roundup: Media's Take)
Benny Morris: U.S. Following the Path of the Munich Pact on Iran (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Frank Rich: Welcome to Confederate History Month (Roundup: Media's Take)
Catrina Stewart: The decline of Israel’s left (Roundup: Media's Take)
Graham Allison: Obama's Nuclear Mistake (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of April 11, 2010
Roundup
Leonardo da Vinci conspiracy claims 'startling' (Breaking News)
Holocaust-denying bishop fined by German court (Breaking News)
Peru Shining Path leader Guzman in hunger strike threat (Breaking News)
George Washington's $300,000 library book fine (Breaking News)
Ash cloud prevents leaders attending Polish funeral (Breaking News)
The secret war mission that inspired Goldfinger scene (Breaking News)
Cuban writer, activist Carlos Franqui dies at 89 (Breaking News)
Bhutto's party says Musharraf failed to prevent her death (Breaking News)
Clinton draws parallels between 'upheaval' of 1995, today (Breaking News)
LBJ's daughter Luci hospitalized (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: The Digital Economy Act: This Means War? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Defense Spending Is Much Greater than You Think (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
STEVEN HORWITZ: A Few Late Words on the Coverture/Nostalgia Debate (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
WENDY MCELROY: Global Maternal Mortality is Actually Down (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: REMEMBER - IT IS SPING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Clovis Mammoth Hunters: Out With a Whimper or a Bang? (Breaking News)
Stalagmite Reveals Carbon Footprint of Early Native Americans (Breaking News)
Classic Maya History Is Embedded in Commoners' Homes (Breaking News)
The eruption that changed Iceland forever (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: My Experience as Grand Inquisitor Makes Me a Much More Tender and Gentle Person (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Lost section of Darien colony petition found (Breaking News)
Book donated to Devon Oxfam fetches £37,000 (Breaking News)
Ceremony to honour Rhyl World War II Spitfire hero (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ELI WIESEL STANDS US FOR JERUSALEM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
National Gallery to reveal its fakes in exhibition (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SPEAKING TRUTH TO UN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: JEWS TURNING AWAY FROM OBAMA/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Cockroach Ancestor Predates Dinosaurs (Breaking News)
Ankylosaurid Skull Found By High School Teacher (Breaking News)
King Tut's Dad's Toe Returns Home (Breaking News)
Appeal over rare Gateshead VE Day footage (Breaking News)
Karadzic 'called for Muslim homes to be attacked' (Breaking News)
World War pilot and his downed Lancaster bomber found in Germany (Breaking News)
Mexico: Fakes dominate seized artifact collection (Breaking News)
1964 Jackie Kennedy interviews to be published (Breaking News)
French booksellers discover first adult Rimbaud picture (Breaking News)
U.N. report: Benazir Bhutto's assassination was preventable (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Couch wars erupt in France over Sigmund Freud claims (Breaking News)
King Philip's War boardgame draws ire (Breaking News)
Tomb of ancient royal scribe unearthed (Breaking News)
Court to Decide if East Germans are Ethnic Group (Breaking News)
DNA on letters helps ID Pearl Harbor victim (Breaking News)
Old Economy Village reopening in Pennsylvania (Breaking News)
First televised debates in the U.K. (Breaking News)
Technology, politics have rendered public protest obsolete, according to Tony Judt (Historians in the News)
Donner Party Ate Family Dog, Maybe Not People (Breaking News)
Taking the Texas SBOE to School (Breaking News)
Volcanic role in Scottish famine (Breaking News)
Morwellham mining museum in Devon saved from closure (Breaking News)
Nazi fairy tales paint Hitler as Little Red Riding Hood's saviour (Breaking News)
Rare sketch showing Adolf Hitler 'playing chess' with Lenin (Breaking News)
World Bank Head: Time to Retire Term 'Third World' (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: LINKING IS/PA DEAL TO IRAN IS ABSURD AND COUNTER PRODUCTIVE/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Historians on the 2010 List of Guggenheim Fellows (Historians in the News)
Civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks dies (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Historians Call on Texas State Board of Education to Delay Vote (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CHINA 2010 = GERMANY 1870 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
KEITH HALDERMAN: An Ironic Extradition? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Rare silent film about Lincoln saved from old barn (Breaking News)
Time Out Chicago profiles gender historian John D'Emilio (Historians in the News)
For some 20-somethings, growing up is hard to do, says Penn State historian (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NAPOLEON WAS HORSE WHIPPED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Poll: Paul v. Obama in 2012 ( A Dead Heat) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Schlesinger Interviews With Jacqueline Kennedy to Be Published (Historians in the News)
95-year-old doctor tops 10 most wanted Nazi war criminals list (Breaking News)
Apollo 11 Moon landing flight plan sells for $150,000 (Breaking News)
Archaeologists discover a Roman-era mummy (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Robert Higgs’s Recent Interview by Libertad Digital (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Obama: Governor's failure to mention slavery unacceptable (Breaking News)
British warship of Revolution resurfaces (Breaking News)
Katyn, the cursed place in Polish history (Breaking News)
Puritan values must replace MBA values (Breaking News)
Genealogy can open 'Pandora's box' of family secrets (Breaking News)
Archaeologists dig up Shakespeare's 'cesspit' (Breaking News)
Serge Sarkisian on Armenian-Turkish Relations 'We Wanted to Break Through Centuries of Hostility' (Breaking News)
5 presidents more 'radical' than Obama (Breaking News)
Ancient city yielding new clues in Michoacan, Mexico (Breaking News)
Ex-Bosnian president Ejup Ganic accuses UK government (Breaking News)
Prince of Wales will take wedding 'secret' to his grave (Breaking News)
Poland's President Will Be Buried in State Funeral on Sunday (Breaking News)
N.J. Elementary School Cancels 'Cross-Dressing' Fashion Show After Complaints (Breaking News)
Award-wining historian Natalie Zemon Davis talks to American Prospect (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA'S TWO AMERICAS/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Vatican now approves of the Beatles - still no word on the Rolling Stones (Breaking News)
Alan Brinkley concerned about "current surge of fear and loathing toward Obama" (Historians in the News)
Hundreds of rare Roman pots discovered by accident off Italy's coast by British research ship (Breaking News)
Alive and well... and living in Wisconsin: Stalin's daughter (Breaking News)
Ringo Starr: 'Vatican has more to talk about than the Beatles' (Breaking News)
Pulitzer Prize in History awarded to Liaquat Ahamed (Historians in the News)
The rise, rise and rise of the Downfall Hitler parody (Breaking News)
John Demjanjuk tells court he is a victim of Hitler (Breaking News)
Radovan Karadzic faces first trial witnesses (Breaking News)
Titanic 'did not send distress signal for 45 minutes', book claims (Breaking News)
Historian links homicide rates to the way people feel about their government (Historians in the News)
Justice John Paul Stevens's Most Controversial Position (Breaking News)
Highs and Lows in U.S.-China Relations (Breaking News)
Can the Pope resign? (Breaking News)
Polish Crash in Russia Creates Contrarian Bond (Breaking News)
Book Reveals Unheard Interviews With Jacqueline Kennedy (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Hopi Ruins At Risk After Ariz. Closes State Parks (Breaking News)
Ancient Pre-Human Skeleton May Contain Shrunken Brain (Breaking News)
UK accused over sale of 'looted' Italian treasures to pay tax bill (Breaking News)
Authenticating Thomas Jefferson's Artifacts (Breaking News)
Unshrouding the science of the Shroud (Breaking News)
Solicitor claims 'no conspiracy' in artwork transaction (Breaking News)
Despite outrage from critics, popes rarely resign (Breaking News)
Vanderbilt biography, Cold War arms race history among arts Pulitzer winners (Breaking News)
Vatican forgives The Beatles for 'bigger than Jesus' comment (Breaking News)
Original member of group that inspired 'Dirty Dozen' dies (Breaking News)
Princess Diana's dress worn on first official appearance to be sold (Breaking News)
La Bella Principessa: a £100m Leonardo, or a copy? (Breaking News)
Romeo and Juliet get Twitter makeover (Breaking News)
On Holocaust day, Israel warns of Iranian threat (Breaking News)
Jews honor Holocaust victims, Polish officials (Breaking News)
Greco-Roman mummy, tombs uncovered in Egypt oasis (Breaking News)
Miss. Confederate History Month ignores slavery (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICAN JEWS ARE SILENT AGAIN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Manzanar National Historic Site To Mark its 41st Annual Pilgrimage (Breaking News)
Hungary elections: first step to power for far-Right since Nazi era (Breaking News)
List of Buchenwald Concentration Camp inmates goes online (Breaking News)
Social workers' actions befitted 'Stalin's Russia', says judge (Breaking News)
Idi Amin's son arrested (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: President Worship by Journalists in 1945 and Now (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: A Wave of Blood Washes Over America (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Archaeologists Uncover Land Before Wheel; Site Untouched for 6,000 Years (Breaking News)
Rewiring of Gene Regulation Across 300 Million Years of Evolution (Breaking News)
Cultural Identity of Indigenous Society of Patagonia Restored (Breaking News)
Thick-Shelled Turtle Species Lived With World's Biggest Snake, Reveals Fossil Found in Columbian Coal Mine (Breaking News)
Researchers Shed Light on Ancient Assyrian Tablets (Breaking News)
Hungary elections: first step to power for far-Right since Nazi era (Breaking News)
Henry Kissinger 'cancelled warning against political assassinations' (Breaking News)
Sudan votes on re-electing indicted President Bashir (Breaking News)
Images mark 20 years of Hubble telescope (Breaking News)
Mississippi Gov. Barbour Backs McDonnell on 'Confederate History' Declaration (Breaking News)
Poland mourns as president's body arrives home (Breaking News)
Shroud of Turin on display for first time since 2002 restoration (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: YOM HASHOA - WE ARE STILL HERE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SNL: OBAMA'S CENSUS INCLUDES ANTISEMITIC OVEROTNE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Boris Tadic: An Apology for Srebrenica (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christopher Caldwell: Amnesties help bring dictators to heel (Roundup: Media's Take)
Wiktor Osiatynski: President Lech Kaczynski and the Katyn Mystique (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Martin: Whatever Happened to Lincoln's Bodyguard? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Olga Tokarczuk: Where History’s March Is a Funeral Procession (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley Kutler: A Supreme Court Choice We Can Believe In (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Judy Dempsey: Tragedy as Harbinger of Change (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Karzai Should Study Chiang Kai-shek to Stay in Power (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alexey Semyonov and Baktybek Abdrisaev: Another Chance for Democracy in Kyrgyzstan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harold James: Obama Can Spur Asia to Greater Heights (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes, Review of Jeffrey Herf's "Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World" (Yale, 2009) (Books)
Amy Wilentz: Renew Haiti from the Ground Up (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edward E. Baptist: The Panic of 1837 and the Panic of 2008 (Roundup: Talking About History)
Walter A. McDougall: Shooting the Moon (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alan Brinkley: The [Tea] Party of Me (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rick Perlstein: The Same Old Grievances from the Tea Party (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jennifer Rubin: Why the Western Sahara Matters (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: So What Happened to Iraq? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eric Gordy: Serbia’s Mixed Messages (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Krzysztof Bobinski: Poland’s Second Katyń: Out of the Ashes (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrei Kolesnikov: Russia-Poland: A History Too Terrible (Roundup: Talking About History)
Humberto Fontova: They Fought Like Tigers at the Bay of Pigs (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Ghost of Bobby Lee (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joel McCleary and Mark Medish: A History of American Assassination Programs (Roundup: Media's Take)
Douglas Rogers: Zimbabwe’s Accidental Triumph (Roundup: Media's Take)
Greg Mitchell: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Undermine No-First-Use Policy (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stephen Schwartz: American Labor Unions and How They Got That Way (Roundup: Media's Take)
Wayne H. Bowen: President Obama and Africa: The Irony of Neglect (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Grace Elizabeth Hale: Confederate History is All About Race (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: A Tour Through Recession America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Engelhardt: U.S. War-Fighting Numbers to Knock Your Socks Off (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Ongoing Melodrama of Victims and Oppressors (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Gods and Monsters: Fighting American Wars From On High (Roundup: Historians' Take)
C.E.S. Franks: Should the Governor-General be Canada's Head of State? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Macintyre: In Dark Times Poland Needs the Sunlight of Truth (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anatole Kaletsky: The Old Politics is Dead in the UK, but Where is the New? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Norman J. Ornstein: A Pragmatic Moderate Faces the 'Socialist' Smear (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Kennedy: The Catholic Church Adrift (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew B. Wilson: Saved by the Bomb (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul B. Henze and S. Enders Wimbush: Russia's Encounter With Islam (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: The Fog Over Katyn Forest (Roundup: Media's Take)
Wen Liao: Bismarck’s lessons for Beijing (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anna M. Grzymala-Busse and Joshua A. Tucker: The Unlikely Triumph of Polish Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tony Platt, Review of Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" (Crown, 2010) (Books)
Tevi Troy: A New Wave of American Populism Could be Good for the Jews (Roundup: Media's Take)
Marc Ambinder: Sexual Politics and the Supreme Court (Roundup: Media's Take)
Roger Pilon: Is Federal Power Now Unlimited? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Rieger: Pentagon Must Stop Dissembling Before Repeal of DADT (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aaron David Miller: U.S. Acts as Though It Seeks Regime Change in Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)
Adam Chmielewski and Denis Dutton: A Fog of Questions in the Polish Plane Crash Tragedy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Allen C. Guelzo: Slavery, Treason, and True Southern Courage (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: College Admissions: What Matters Most -- SAT Scores, Grades, or Just Luck? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anne Applebaum: Out of Tragedy, a Detente of Sorts Between Russia, Poland (Roundup: Media's Take)
Katherine S. Newman and Steven Attewell: Obama's Health-Care Gamble: History Is on His Side (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: Why Controlling Nukes is Good Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Burt and Anita Folsom: Did FDR End the Depression? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eugene Robinson: Haley Barbour's 'Diddly' Sense of Slavery's History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: The Solace of Poor U.S.-Israel Relations (Roundup: Historians' Take)
NOLA Gathering to Watch Their City’s Star Turn in "Treme" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Lech Kaczynski, 60, Often a Source of Tension Within E.U. (Obituaries)
Anatoly F. Dobrynin, Longtime Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Dies at 90 (Obituaries)
Abel Muzorewa, African Cleric and Politician, Dies at 85 (Obituaries)
Malcolm McLaren, Seminal Punk Figure, Dies at 64 (Obituaries)
Anna Walentynowicz, Polish Provocateur Who Spurred Communism’s Fall, Dies at 80 (Obituaries)
"Have You Heard From Johannesburg": The Long Story of a Long Revolution (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Roger Cohen: The Glory of Poland (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bernard Weiner: What Happens When We Don't See the Tipping Points (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: What's the Real Story in China? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Henry R. Nau: Obama’s Foreign Policy - The Swing Away From Bush ... How Far To Go? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joshua Stanton: Why the U.S. Army Should Leave Korea (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Fisk: Malaya 1948 ... another shameful episode in Britain's colonial past (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joan Smith: Obama – the idealist turns assassin (Roundup: Media's Take)
Angus Burgin: The New Intellectual History of Conservatism (HNN Videos)
Beverly Gage: The New Intellectual History of Conservatism (HNN Videos)
Jennifer Burns: The New Intellectual History of Conservatism (HNN Videos)
Renee Romano: Ronald Reagan's Neshoba County Speech in National Memory (HNN Videos)
David Chappell: Ronald Reagan's Neshoba County Speech in National Memory (HNN Videos)
Week of April 4, 2010
Blogs
WENDY MCELROY: WWI, Xenophobia and Suppressing Political Opposition (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: The Great Thing About Writing News Is That You Just Have to Change the Names on the Old Stories (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Russia honours 'legendary' diplomat Anatoly Dobrynin (Breaking News)
Polish president dies in plane crash en route to Katyn memorial (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Recent History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Relics found in Dinajpur date back to 10th century (Breaking News)
Kipling first edition with author's poignant note found (Breaking News)
Sweden extradites Auschwitz sign suspect to Poland (Breaking News)
Sherpas cancel plan to spread Hillary ashes on Everest (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ANEMONES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
English megaliths linked to death rites (Breaking News)
Remains of medieval synagogue uncovered under Northampton kebab shop (Breaking News)
Possible 9/11 remains found in landfill (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: QUOTE OF THE DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Salutes and anthems at Terreblanche funeral (Breaking News)
Sotheby's Chinese art auction breaks world records (Breaking News)
Saving the souls of Russia's exiled Lipovans (Breaking News)
New Bio of Executed WWII Pastor/Spy Reveals U.S. Influence (Breaking News)
Obama: Governor's failure to mention slavery unacceptable (Breaking News)
Retiring justice an 'unexpected liberal,' negotiator (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA , UNLIKE MERKEL, MUST RUN AWAY FROM ECONOMY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Canadian archeologists discover Old Testament-era tablet (Breaking News)
IU archaeology lab bores into U.S. history at Thomas Jefferson's home (Breaking News)
Red Army Faction militant charged over 1977 murder (Breaking News)
Second set of Hitler artworks set to fetch high prices at British auction (Breaking News)
Account of Nazi massacre in Italy published (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
STEVEN HORWITZ: More from the "Glenn Beck is No Libertarian" File (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Drinking and Liberty (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MUSLIM CLERICS CAUSE DEATH OF ANOTHER CHILD BRIDE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Egypt hosts meeting on recovery of 'stolen treasures' (Breaking News)
Old WWII bomb shuts down Berlin's Tegel airport (Breaking News)
Danes who helped Jews escape Nazis are sought for thanks (Breaking News)
Nepal and China agree on Mount Everest's height (Breaking News)
Two million year old fossils 'could help understanding of how man evolved from apes' (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: History argues against cuts in academia (argue academic historians) (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Rare letter from Teddy Roosevelt to son 'Quenty-Quee' hits market (Breaking News)
Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Anarchists for Big Government (Maybe Not After All) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Thomas Blanton wonders why the Pentagon still has Berlin material classified (Historians in the News)
McDonnell's Confederate History Month proclamation irks civil rights leaders (Breaking News)
Ancient Indian Village in Rhode Island Pits Preservation Against Property Rights (Breaking News)
Stele names Roman Emperor Octavian Augustus as Egyptian Pharaoh (Breaking News)
Russia, Poland Honor Soviet Massacre Victims (Breaking News)
King Tut Wore Orthopedic Sandals (Breaking News)
Virginia Governor McDonnell Declares April ‘Confederate History Month’ (Breaking News)
JM Barrie christening gown appeal (Breaking News)
Plaque in Sidmouth church marks 1951 death of soldier (Breaking News)
Rwanda boat sinking mars genocide commemoration (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MAOISTS KILL TO KEEP INDIANS POOR (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
British museum under pressure to give up leading treasures (Breaking News)
Number of cars declines for the first time since Second World War (Breaking News)
50 years after he was chained and set afire, WWI veteran is honored (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CRICKET ROMEO, TENNIS JULIET and "A BLUE DRESS" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: EVEN MIA KNOWS BETTER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
AARON BADY: How Does a British Imperialist Spell "Free Black Labour" in 1866? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
John H. Lauten dies at 96; Army captain helped plan invasion of Normandy (Breaking News)
Morris 'Dick' Jeppson dies at 87; weapons specialist armed the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Breaking News)
The ancient gold tablet that a Holocaust survivor swapped some cigarettes for in post-war Berlin (Breaking News)
Last orders... the final first class Titanic menu (Breaking News)
Remembering Katyn Massacre, 70 years later (Breaking News)
Blogs
KAREN KWIATOWSKI: Wikileaks and State Murder (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
BRETT HOLMAN: Intertextuality (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
TIMOTHY FURNISH: The Soft Mahdism of Neo-Ottoman Expectations (Tim Furnish: Occidental Jihadist)
Roundup
Oldest Man-Made Structure Found in Greek Cave (Breaking News)
What Does the Easter Bunny Have To Do With Easter? (Breaking News)
Da Vinci painting 'handed over in pub car park' (Breaking News)
Druids reburial appeal rebuffed (Breaking News)
Crew works to save oldest-known shipwreck on N.C. coast (Breaking News)
Prehistoric City Discovered in Syria (Breaking News)
Confronting the Nazi Perpetrators: New Exhibition Explodes Myth of SS Castle Wewelsburg (Breaking News)
'Mineral Mona Lisa' crystal is national treasure (Breaking News)
Hitler 'wanted to steal' Turin Shroud (Breaking News)
CIA victim said to have rescued future Afghan pres (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Elections Have Consequences (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Peru Gets $1 Million to Preserve Archaeological Treasure (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN SANCTIONS NOT EVEN ON UNSC APRIL AGENDA/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Archaeology sparks new conflict between Sri Lankan Tamils and Sinhalese (Breaking News)
Now 16, Elian Gonzalez Shown at Cuba Youth Meeting (Breaking News)
Fossil find shows Velociraptor eating another dinosaur (Breaking News)
History Doctoral Programs Site Updated at AHA Website (Historians in the News)
OAH Reacting to the Past Session to Meet on April 9 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
AARON BADY: Massey Coal seems to have a lot of "accidents" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Irish high crosses in peril (Breaking News)
Rosslyn Chapel was haven for bees (Breaking News)
Plan in works to salvage remnants of N.C. shipwreck (Breaking News)
Archaeologist will help determine if 130-year-old house was built using materials from Native American site (Breaking News)
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in Texas Slowly Yielding its Secrets to NPS Archeologists, Volunteers (Breaking News)
Inca Skeletons Show Evidence of Spanish Brutality (Breaking News)
When did the First Settlers Come to Iceland? (Breaking News)
Nazi-era soap a controversial collectible (Breaking News)
Austrian cattle farmer is Hitler's cousin (Breaking News)
Japanese vets admit on film to Nanjing atrocities (Breaking News)
Medieval document reveals new insights into a 13th century Welsh uprising (Breaking News)
Group works to preserve Va slave cemetery site (Breaking News)
History of the North Korean Army (1952) (Breaking News)
Haiti in U.S. History: A Timeline (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Masters and Children (III) (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: The Pentagon Exposed - Courtesy of the CIA? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: A JACKSONIAN MOMENT IN THAILAND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Britain's fight for its battlefields (Breaking News)
North Korea pledges to stop returning U.S. war dead (Breaking News)
Senegal unveils colossal statue amid criticism (Breaking News)
China Bars Noted Scholar From Planned Trip to U.S. (Breaking News)
As Texas messes with history, worry that it'll multiply (Historians in the News)
The historian Tony Judt says being paralysed by a wasting disease has made his mind sharper (Historians in the News)
Wisconsin continues to lead the nation in drunkenness (Breaking News)
Lending a helping hand to Agent Orange victims (Breaking News)
Emmitt Smith's family tree has slaves, slave owner (Breaking News)
Cows are key to 2,500 years of human progress (Breaking News)
Dig seeks William Shakespeare's shards for ale in his Stratford back garden (Breaking News)
Bronze Age finds at Guernsey airport (Breaking News)
As Texas messes with history, worry that it'll multiply (Breaking News)
President’s Features Reunited After 176 Years (Breaking News)
Why 2010 May Not Be as Dire for the Dems as 1994 (Breaking News)
Interpol ramps up hunt for Saddam Hussein's daughter (Breaking News)
GE Fondly Recalls Its Own 'Reagan Era' (Breaking News)
Fossil Find May Be 'Missing Link' in Human Evolution (Breaking News)
Renewed search for 9/11 remains in New York (Breaking News)
Pompeii's frozen victims on display (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Masters and Children (II) (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Colonial-Era Dispute Agitates South Koreans (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OREN: ISRAEL SAVES AMERICAN LIVES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREENSPAN: OBAMACARE TO HAVE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SARKOZY KNOWS THE RIGHT WAY TO TREAT OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
STEVEN HORWITZ: Brownshirts, Greenshirts and Rotten Granny Smith Apples (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Secret Michaelangelo sketch uncovered (Breaking News)
Martin Luther King's Easter message (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: McChrystal's Admission of Guilt (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Tom Malinowski: How Not to Run an (American) Empire (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tony Kinsella: Redundancy of warheads signals end of big wars (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hew Strachan: Clausewitz and the First World War (HNN Videos)
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal: From the Bottom Up: Sailors and Democracy (HNN Videos)
Jesse Lemisch: From the Bottom Up: Sailors and Democracy (HNN Videos)
James Boyden: Explaining the Apocalypse: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina (HNN Videos)
Jason Friedman: Rethinking the Carter Administration (HNN Videos)
Eduardo Canedo: Rethinking the Carter Administration (HNN Videos)
Matthew Sutton: Rival Revivals: Religion, Politics, and Labor in the Great Depression (HNN Videos)
Jared Roll: Rival Revivals: Religion, Politics, and Labor in the Great Depression (HNN Videos)
Alison Greene: Rival Revivals: Religion, Politics, and Labor in the Great Depression (HNN Videos)
Hillary Clinton: Our giant step towards a world free from nuclear danger (Roundup: Media's Take)
Todd Holmes: Political Networks: Coalition Building on the Left in the Late 1960s and 1970s (HNN Videos)
Melissa Estes Blair: Political Networks: Coalition Building on the Left in the Late 1960s and 1970s (HNN Videos)
Ernest Freeberg: A.P. U.S. History Roundtable: The 2009 Exam, Teaching Social History, and Future Directions. (HNN Videos)
William Tinkler: A.P. U.S. History Roundtable: The 2009 Exam, Teaching Social History, and Future Directions (HNN Videos)
Eli Lake: The 9/14 Presidency ... Obama Using the War Powers Granted to Bush After 9/11 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Keith B. Payne: Disarmament Danger (Roundup: Media's Take)
Max Boot: When suicide bombing is simply strategic suicide (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ralph Peters: The bad-nukes myth (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fred Kaplan: How revolutionary is Obama's nuclear posture? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Knox Beran: The Roots of Violence in Politics are on the Left (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Sowell: Race and Politics (Roundup: Media's Take)
Newt amd Callista Gingrich: John Paul II an Inspiration to Mankind (Roundup: Talking About History)
Malou Innocent: The Iraq War is Still a Massive Mistake (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian E. Zelizer: New RNC Scandal, Old GOP Arrogance (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Anti-Catholic Bias Irrelevant to Scandal (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anne Applebaum: Why Is Vladimir Putin Going to Katyn? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Lind: Glenn Beck's Partisan Historians (Roundup: Talking About History)
David E. Hoffman: Four Minutes to Armageddon (Roundup: Talking About History)
Raffi K. Hovannisian: Armenia’s Stand: Justice At Home, Justice Abroad (Roundup: Talking About History)
Max Fisher: Why the Taliban's U.S. Consulate Bombing Could Backfire (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom McNichol: Papalgate: The Pope's Nixon Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Tremblay: Children in a Concentration Camp Trumps a Sad Pope (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ashley Cruseturner: A Fair-Minded View of the Progressive Impulse (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Charles Muscatine, a Champion of Free Speech at Berkeley, Dies (Obituaries)
Joshua Brown: MLK's Unfulfilled Dream (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christopher Hitchens: Turkey Denies History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeremi Suri: The Promise and Failure of American Grand Strategy after the Cold War (Roundup: Talking About History)
James Bissett: Croatia Should Apologize for World War II Genocide Before Joining the EU (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Russell Mead: Make The Relationship Special Again (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Beaumont: Why America preferred to forget about the Pacific war – until now (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robert Lipsyte: Is Baseball a Fading Allegory for the Fading American Way of Life? (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Astore: Baseball Has Lost Some of Its Soul (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Week of March 28, 2010
Roundup
UM digs find 10,000-year-old Native oasis (Breaking News)
Why America preferred to forget about the Pacific war – until now (Breaking News)
Pony Express ran into history 150 years ago (Breaking News)
Fire at former World War II Suffolk airfield (UK) (Breaking News)
Senegal inaugurates controversial $27m monument (Breaking News)
Victorian-era women enjoyed making love, according to earliest sex survey (Breaking News)
Rise of Hungary's far-Right Jobbik party stirs disturbing echoes of the 1940s (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Masters and Children (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: Congressman Phil Hare, Take A Bow (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Missing link between man and apes found (Breaking News)
White House Butler to 8 Presidents Dies at 90 (Breaking News)
Turkish envoy to return to Washington (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SPRING WISHES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: EVERYBODY IN OBAMALAND KNOWS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
KAREN KWIATOWSKI: Power and Fear (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Papal aid compares sex abuse accusations to anti-Semitic persecution (Breaking News)
Bulldozers overhaul Luxor, city of pashas and pharaohs (Breaking News)
Andean mummies afflicted with arsenic (Breaking News)
Scandal threatens Pope Benedict's legacy (Breaking News)
Serbia issues warrant for 'Nazi murderer' Peter Egner (Breaking News)
Microsoft founders lead tributes to 'father of the PC' (Breaking News)
Jesus was son of an architect, book claims (Breaking News)
School memorial to working class WWI hero who studied with Prince Edward at Oxford (Breaking News)
Hitler's student sketches up for sale (Breaking News)
To some brave Danes, thank you for saving Jews (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN J. BEAN: Tax Police and the Health Mandate: We Will, We Won’t, We Are Not Saying (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Breaking: Victorian women liked sex! (Breaking News)
Vietnam’s forgotten victims of Agent Orange (Breaking News)
Argentina to see biggest anti-British protests for years (Breaking News)
The True Story of Desert Explorer Laszlo Almasy (Breaking News)
How a Molesting Case Emerged Decades Later in Germany (Breaking News)
A Concise History Of Changes In U.S. Tax Law (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Some right-wingers ignore facts as they rewrite U.S. history (Historians in the News)
Chapel built with remains of Hitler's luxury retreat 'becomes Nazi shrine' (Breaking News)
More debate over Jon Wiener's tobacco expose (Historians in the News)
Will Hoffa mystery be buried with Giants Stadium? (Breaking News)
Nazi scandal engulfs Human Rights Watch (Breaking News)
When Did April Fool's Day Begin (Breaking News)
Leonardo da Vinci accused in car accident (Breaking News)
Radovan Karadzic war crimes trial to resume (Breaking News)
Queen Victoria's stockings sell for £700 (Breaking News)
New evidence on WWII mystery of Raoul Wallenberg (Breaking News)
Former Greek PM Tzannetakis dies at 82 (Breaking News)
Barbara Bush released from hospital (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CHINA AND INDIA: FRIENDS OR FOE? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
E.U. Finds Serbia Censure Lacking (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Anarchists for Big Government (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
History prof thinks more of us should know about the 1910 Mexican Revolution (Historians in the News)
Duke Graduate Student Discovers Haiti’s Original Declaration of Independence in British Archives (Breaking News)
Haiti’s Founding Document Found in London (Historians in the News)
April Fools' pranks from around the world (Breaking News)
Blogs
AARON BADY: Our Post-Racial Cyborg Future of 1910 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Japanese nationalists 'worshipping' at temple to war criminals (Breaking News)
World's oldest hot cross bun (Breaking News)
Hillary's ashes to be scattered on top of Mount Everest (Breaking News)
Roulette wheel stops spinning at former Rat Pack casino (Breaking News)
Peru's Machu Picchu set to reopen to tourists (Breaking News)
Jazz guitarist Herb Ellis dies aged 88 (Breaking News)
Leonardo: An early Dr Strangelove? (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIANS CONTINUE TO PROTEST (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
1963 letter shows former pope knew of abuse (Breaking News)
Diet Changed Dinosaur's Head Shape (Breaking News)
New Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered (Breaking News)
Partial train service resumes to Peru's Machu Picchu (Breaking News)
What, or who, killed the last mammoths? (Breaking News)
Signed Jane Austen novel sells for £325,000 (Breaking News)
Europe's oldest woman reaches 114 (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ENJOY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
ANC fury at apartheid song ban (Breaking News)
Arms Control May Be Different on Paper and on the Ground (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIAN TERRORISTS TRAINED IN PAKISTAN? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Why do more people listen to economists than historians? (Historians in the News)
Free Guide to Texas Social Studies Revision Process from University of Texas (Historians in the News)
Post-it notes inventor and Jacques Cousteau enter Inventors Hall of Fame (Breaking News)
Turin Shroud 3D glasses condemned by church (Breaking News)
Serbia Apologizes for Srebrenica Massacre (Breaking News)
Group hopes to preserve Ulysses S. Grant's last refuge (Breaking News)
Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity? (Breaking News)
Archaeologists find mysterious 1000 pound lead coffin (Breaking News)
Historic Charleston, S.C., struggles to balance tourism with preservation (Breaking News)
Sarcophaguses found in Georgia (Breaking News)
South Korea protests textbooks calling islets part of Japan (Breaking News)
Indian Changunarayan temple on verge of collapse (Breaking News)
2 suspects in Utah artifacts case take plea deals (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MSM and POLICE IGNORE HATE and VIOLENCE AGAINST REPUBLICANS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
President Reagan will likely appear on the presidential $1 coin in 2016 (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Men owe women for 'creating beer', claims academic (Breaking News)
Knife crime has grown because the decline of Empire, says Joanna Lumley (Breaking News)
Historian of terrorism worried about rise in militia groups (Historians in the News)
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts go up for auction at Christie's (Breaking News)
NEH Awards $16 Million In Grants & Offers (Breaking News)
Eisenhower Memorial Commission Approves Design by Architect Ghery (Breaking News)
National Archives Announces Relocation of its New York City Facility (Breaking News)
History Coalition Submits Congressional Testimony on FY 2011 NARA & NHPRC Budgets (Historians in the News)
House Passes Electronic Message Preservation Act (Breaking News)
Obama Administration Issues Plan to Reform K-12 Education (Breaking News)
History Coalition Endorses “Faster FOIA Act” (Breaking News)
National Security Archive Finds Mixed Results for Obama Administration FOIA Initiative (Breaking News)
Guernsey the Roman Empire's trading post (Breaking News)
Part Of Nero's Palace Collapses In Rome (Breaking News)
Lead "Burrito" Sarcophagus Found Near Rome (Breaking News)
Men owe women for 'creating beer' claims academic (Breaking News)
Rosslyn Chapel was haven for bees (Breaking News)
Is this the real face of Jesus? (Breaking News)
South Korea Protests Textbooks Calling Islets Part of Japan (Breaking News)
UN delays Bhutto assassination report (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Q&A on Obamacare (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Former Urguayan president Bordaberry condemned for 1973 coup (Breaking News)
Russia’s Fear of Female Bombers Is Revived (Breaking News)
Second World War propaganda posters fetch £15,000 (Breaking News)
Your request is being processed... Census Bureau Director Apologizes For 'Negro' Category On Form (Breaking News)
Obama learning from LBJ, according to presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (Historians in the News)
Presteigne collector offers stolen stamps reward (Breaking News)
Rhydymwyn Valley Works: Lifting the lid on secret site (Wales) (Breaking News)
Leonardo da Vinci operation 'hooked' solicitor (Breaking News)
Birmingham bog which inspired Tolkien to be restored (Breaking News)
Agile 'roadrunner' dinosaur fossil discovered in China (Breaking News)
Uganda mourners at Buganda tombs in deadly crush (Breaking News)
Invitation to Charles II coronation to be auctioned (Breaking News)
US general apologises for gay Dutch troops slur (Breaking News)
Australian to face trial in Croatia for war crimes (Breaking News)
The #@*!#*! office copier turns 50 (Breaking News)
Karl Rove heckled, called 'war criminal' at book event (Breaking News)
Under shadow of 1957, Arkansas stays out of health-care fight (Breaking News)
First Superman comic sells at auction for $1.5 million (Breaking News)
Serbia debates Srebrenica massacre apology (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Early portrait of slave banned from export (Breaking News)
Rare items from home of UK's Diana to be auctioned (Breaking News)
Airman MIA from Vietnam War buried (Breaking News)
Pessimism back in fashion in historical circles (Historians in the News)
First census in 1790 reveals the soul of Rhode Island (Breaking News)
Film restoration projects imperiled by financial meltdown, says historian (Historians in the News)
History or cash for Turnpike stops? (Breaking News)
History or cash for Turnpike stops? (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Breaking Up Big Banks? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAPPY PASSOVER; WE SHALL OVERCOME YET AGAIN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Pyramid of Mystery Pharaoh Possibly Located (Breaking News)
Mycenaean tombs discovered might be evidence of classless society (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HERE WE GO AGAIN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Battle over resort 'threatening Andamans tribe' (Breaking News)
FBI gives a glimpse of its most secret layer (Breaking News)
Habsburg emperor's great-nephew fights to rule Austria again (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DENNIS ROSS ACCUSED OF DUAL LOYALTY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Nazi-era soap a controversial collectible (Breaking News)
Egyptian Tomb Holds Door to Afterlife (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: George Mitchell equates building in Jerusalem and Manhattan (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Christian faith: Calvinism is back (Breaking News)
Opium magnate castle wins funding (Breaking News)
Historical Beijing quarter 'to be destroyed' (Breaking News)
Ageing spies unable to use the internet (Breaking News)
Searchers: Remains of Errol Flynn's Son Found (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: You Say You Want A Revolution? Think Again (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: What They are Voting For (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Nothing Outside the State: Part II (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA TO LOSE ARABS TO PUTIN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIANS HAPPY WITH OBAMA CONCESSIONS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Project explores origins of the Koran (Breaking News)
Rare rhinoceros horn cup goes for £80,000 at auction (Breaking News)
Biblical plagues really happened say scientists (Breaking News)
Barbara Bush hospitalized for routine tests (Breaking News)
Civil rights activist Dorothy Height in 'very serious' condition (Breaking News)
Blogs
GIL TROY: Welcome to Obama's America (Gil Troy)
CHRIS BRAY: Journalism: Where History Goes to Die (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Eugene Allen, Butler to Presidents, Is Dead at 90 (Obituaries)
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Economic Dream Still Unfulfilled, 42 Years Later (Roundup: Talking About History)
Paul Kengor: Buchenwald and the Totalitarian Century (Roundup: Talking About History)
David E. Hoffman: What Nixon Could Teach Obama About Nukes (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History -- by Peter Fritzsche (Books About History & Historians)
Steven J. Rosen: Obama’s Foolish Settlements Ultimatum (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Perry: Petraeus Wasn't the First General Critical of Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)
Marilyn Lake: 'Yellow Peril' Racism Rears its Ugly Head (Roundup: Historians' Take)
J.F. terHorst, Ford Press Secretary, Dies at 87 (Obituaries)
Jaime Escalante, Inspiration for a Movie, Dies at 79 (Obituaries)
Vasily Smyslov, Former World Chess Champion, Dies at 89 (Obituaries)
Diane Ravitch: A New Agenda for School Reform (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tim Judah: Serbia’s Honest Apology (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peggy Noonan: The Catholic Church's Catastrophe (Roundup: Media's Take)
Donald Worster: Historians and Nature (Roundup: Talking About History)
Moshe Dann: Obama’s Two-State Delusion (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Remembering the Pacific War (Roundup: Talking About History)
Fred Schwarz: Tea Parties Old and New (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Henninger: Would the Founders Love ObamaCare? (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Mann: Behold China: Repressive at Home, Aggressive Abroad, Driving Obama Nuts (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nathaniel Popper: A Conscious Pariah: On Raul Hilberg (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael C. Scott: Hollywood’s Obsession with the Ancient Epics (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael C. Scott: Healthcare Disagreements in Ancient Greece (Roundup: Talking About History)
Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels: China May Be More Open to Fundamental Political Reform than the U.S. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hasan Suroor: The Myth of the U.K.-U.S. “Special” Relationship (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: Are Cuba's True Martyrs a Portent of a New 1989? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rep. Carol Alvarado: Stop Texas Curriculum Rewrite Until New Board Takes Over (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: "Spartacus" is Little More than Soap Opera (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Klare: Is the World’s Future Resource Map Tilting East? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Doherty: The Real-ish World of ‘24’ and the Magic One of ‘Lost’ See Their Last Hours (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Timothy Garton Ash: Old King [Helmut] Kohl (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gary J. Bass: When Israel and France Broke Up (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harry de Quetteville: Serbia's Apology Is Not Enough (Roundup: Media's Take)
David M. Weinberg: Woe will be a divided Jerusalem (Roundup: Media's Take)
Con Coughlin: The U.S. Timetable Isn't Right for Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Charles Lane: The Tea Party, and a History of Going to Extremes (Roundup: Media's Take)
Shelby Steele: Barack Obama's Love Affair with Big Government Liberalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert A. Pape, Lindsey O’Rourke, and Jenna McDermit: What Makes Chechen Women So Dangerous? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey W. Rubin: Cesar Chavez and Hugo Chavez: More Alike than They are Different... (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jerry Z. Muller: Why Do Jewish People Succeed? Study Their History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Why are economists more prominent than historians? (HNN Polls)
John Willingham: Alamo Remembered; Goliad Often Forgotten (Roundup: Talking About History)
Martin Marty: Abuse in the News (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rajan Menon: Russia's Hot Spot in the North Caucasus (Roundup: Media's Take)
Miriam Pawel: We Should Critically Examine, Not Just Praise, Cesar Chavez (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harold Meyerson: A Flawed American Political Model Aids China (Roundup: Media's Take)
T.H. Breen: Are Tea Party Protests Really Modeled on the American Revolution? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: White Elephant in Baghdad (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eric M. Patashnik and Julian Zelizer: Now the Real Health Care Fight Begins (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: Are the Hutarees on a Jihad for Jesus? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Hayden: We Can't Afford to Be Quiet About the Rising Cost of College (Roundup: Historians' Take)
James Renton: Forgotten Lessons from Palestine and the British Empire (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Chris Bowlby: Was There Ever a Golden Age for Retirement? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Holger Nehring: The Cold War ... the forgotten impact of a war that didn't happen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alexander Golts: An Illusory New START (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gabriel Winant: More Americans Disagree About Israel, but Elite Consensus Holds Together (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joan Walsh: What's the Matter with White People? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Lind: The U.S. is Stuck in the Cold War (Roundup: Media's Take)
David B. Ottaway: Egypt after Mubarak (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Macintyre: Winston Churchill ... an unlikely adviser in the Afghan conflict (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Tomasky: Whither the 'Special Relationship'? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonah Goldberg: A Few Broken Windows is No Kristallnacht (Roundup: Media's Take)
Boris Dittrich: An Unfair Attack on Gay Troops (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sergey Kuznetsov: Moscow Under Attack (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sean Wilentz: America's Long, Sordid Affair with Nullification (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: Alleged Christian Terrorists Has Much in Common with Mahdi Army (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dara Horn: What Do Southerners and Jews Have in Common? Reenactment! (Roundup: Talking About History)
Shikha Dalmia: How to Oppose Obama With Lessons from Gandhi (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jennifer Burns: The Return of Market Fundamentalism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Vin Suprynowicz: Obamacare's Prussian Origins (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Astore: Military Clothing for Presidents? No, Sir! (Roundup: Historians' Take)
James Kunstler: Is It America's Turn to Go Crazy? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Zaller: Bring Back the Drachma? The Greek Economic Crisis and Europe (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Giddy About Remaking America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John R. Guardiano: The Civil War History of Obamacare (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Nelson: Neustadt's 'Presidential Power' at 50 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Gross: Is 2010 Going To Be 1994 or 1934? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Alter: 1965 All Over Again? The reach of persistent progressivism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Catherine Mayer: Special Relationship? Why Britain's Affair With the U.S. Is Over (Roundup: Media's Take)
David A. Nichols: Obama's Inner Ike (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Charmley: The Special Relationship Has Been a Myth for Decades (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ramesh Ponnuru: The Dead End of Liberalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chris Hedges: Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism?’ (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jørgen Johansen: Hitler and the Challenge of Non-Violence (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Bliss: The Problem of Saying No to the Sick (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Neil Reynolds: American Intellectuals and the ‘Fictitious Personality' Gambit (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Risk for GOP Comes from Extreme Fringe (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Beinart: Obama Just Fired His Air Traffic Controllers (Roundup: Media's Take)
Frank Rich: The Rage Is Not About Health Care (Roundup: Media's Take)
Silk Road treasures go on display in Los Angeles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of March 21, 2010
Blogs
CLAIRE B. POTTER: On Political Violence: Vandalism And Mortal Threats In The Wake Of The Wake Of The Health Care Vote (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: Baghdad Bob (II) (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Bangladesh sets up 1971 war crimes tribunal (Breaking News)
Russia bans Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' over fears it fuels rise of far-Right (Breaking News)
Turin Shroud to be exhibited for first time in a decade (Breaking News)
Diaries reveal Queen Victoria's affection for her 'Indian John Brown' (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JONATHAN J. BEAN: The Tunnel of Oppression: Communist Theme Park (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WE MUST REMEMBER THIS . . . (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUSSIAN ANTI-AMERICANISM INCREASED UNDER OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Health care bill anger a sign of the times? (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: EGYPTIAN TV WEST/SATAN OPPOSE WIFE ABUSE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Shanghai reopens Bund after 280m pound restoration (Breaking News)
Limerick pubs allowed to open on Good Friday for rugby match (Breaking News)
Group wants southerners to put 'Confederate Southern American' on the Census (Breaking News)
SC license tag would help preserve relic of Civil War (Breaking News)
Narragansett Indians want Navy land in Newport, RI (Breaking News)
'Missing' portrait of Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly posts record price (Breaking News)
Threats, violence common reaction to political change (Breaking News)
Historic moments in Dakotas by former SDSU professor (Historians in the News)
Great Scots to inspire Holyrood (Breaking News)
Mortar bomb recovered from Windermere (Breaking News)
DNA identifies new ancient human dubbed 'X-woman' (Breaking News)
Mary Rose dog skeleton on display at Portsmouth museum (Breaking News)
Southern 'cousin' of T. rex found (Breaking News)
Rwanda opposition politician jailed for genocide (Breaking News)
Lebanon's archaeological sites a pillager's paradise (Breaking News)
Shanghai reopens Bund after £280m restoration (Breaking News)
Flight plan confirming Armstrong's first words on the moon to be auctioned (Breaking News)
Bin Laden: Americans Will Die if Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Is Executed (Breaking News)
Trailblazing paratrooper broke color barrier in secret (Breaking News)
Wreckage of WWII plane found in Oregon (Breaking News)
Pelosi, Clinton celebrate Women's History Month, even as they make history, too (Breaking News)
National Identity Bill Divides Slovakia (Breaking News)
Replica of U.S. slave ship from "Amistad" sails to Havana (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Canterbury Tales manuscript to be digitized (Breaking News)
Summers were wetter in the Middle Ages than they are today (Breaking News)
Repair and archaeological work at Bury St. Edmunds nears completion (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: Was Moses a war criminal? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Disinformation campaign by special interests at heart of climate change skepticism, say historians of science (Historians in the News)
Portraits of Josef Stalin not to be part of Victory Day celebrations (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Outside Agitators (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: EXPECTING DEFEAT OBAMA PUSHES ACCELERATOR TO RUN DOWN ISRAEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
U-2 Spy Plane Evades the Day of Retirement (Breaking News)
Signs of Rebellion in Richmond, VA (Breaking News)
Dracula creator's relative seeks Dublin memorial (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Health Care & Legislative Tactics (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Obama's improbable win on health-care reform is one for the history books and will boost his credibility (Historians in the News)
War veteran to fly to Burma to honour dead comrades (Breaking News)
Egyptian State Security Demolishes Anglican Church in Luxor (Breaking News)
Trailblazing WW2 paratrooper broke color barrier in secret (Breaking News)
Chavez extends Easter to save energy (Breaking News)
Pope Benedict faces child abuse cover-up queries (Breaking News)
Campus Watch issues challenge to Juan Cole (Historians in the News)
Tracing the tragic history of the couple behind the first D.C. cherry blossoms (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Historian: Arabs were more than just pawns in Cold War (Historians in the News)
French historian dismisses comparison of Quebec sovereignty movement to French resistance (Historians in the News)
Caergwrle Castle and the Bronze Age Caergwrle Bowl (Breaking News)
Hitler sketches that failed to secure his place at art academy to be auctioned (Breaking News)
Wristwatches Made of Fossilized Dino Dung (Breaking News)
Former Indian revolutionary commits suicide (Breaking News)
Bolivian army adopts Cuba's revolutionary slogan (Breaking News)
DNA identifies new ancient human dubbed 'X-woman' (Breaking News)
Space Archaeologists Want to Preserve the Moon (Breaking News)
Researchers Dig up Controversy in Jerusalem (Breaking News)
Did Climate Change Drive Human Evolution? (Breaking News)
Stone Age could complicate N.Sea wind farm plans (Breaking News)
Ruins of 2,000-year-old city found in China (Breaking News)
Fossil of 'sand monster' dinosaur found in Utah (Breaking News)
Illuminated manuscripts to fetch up to £16m at Christie's (Breaking News)
Back in the U.S., South African Scholar Urges End to Policy That Had Kept Him Out (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: An Impending Shake-up? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC AID TO USA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Wet with Blood: The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln’s Cloak (Breaking News)
In One Surname, the Turmoil of Two Nations (Breaking News)
New AHA Executive Director: Jim Grossman to Succeed Arnita Jones (Historians in the News)
Obama looks to Lincoln as an example for his presidency (Breaking News)
A history of British budgetary battles (Historians in the News)
Headed for Auction: Back-Channel Gloom on Revolutionary War (Historians in the News)
1916 Irish Rising flag fails to sell at New York auction (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOOGLE STANDS UP FOR OBAMA IS NO REAGAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
30 Years Later: El Salvador marks Archbishop Oscar Romero's murder (Breaking News)
New dating technique could establish age of the Turin Shroud (Breaking News)
French children of Wehrmacht soldiers seek German nationality (Breaking News)
French guillotine exhibition opens 33 years after the last head fell (Breaking News)
Waiting for the end of the world: Georgia's 30-year stone mystery (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: Prometheus Awards Finalists (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Nell Painter Does White People (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: The Health-Care Reform Act: Que Paso? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: A Study on the Study of Studies (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 7 FAMINE YEARS TO FOLLOW IN OBAMALAND? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Major New Russian Archive for World War II (Historians in the News)
Why Do Humans Dance? (Breaking News)
Remains near bridge site may be old fort (Breaking News)
After Years of War and Abuse, New Hope for Ancient Babylon (Breaking News)
One up on Egyptian mummies (Breaking News)
Japan, S. Korea researchers at odds over forced labor, 'comfort women' (Breaking News)
Robert M. White, who made history with a 1962 test flight into space, dies at 85 (Breaking News)
First Mary Queen of Scots stamp issued (Breaking News)
Medieval music of monks unearthed (Breaking News)
Staffordshire Hoard saved for the West Midlands (Breaking News)
Irish reporter tries to place Tony Blair under citizen's arrest for 'war crimes' (Breaking News)
Gay soldiers attack US general who claimed homosexuals were to blame for Srebrenica (Breaking News)
Marilyn Monroe pictured on Some Like It Hot set (Breaking News)
Niall Ferguson: 'Rid our schools of junk history' (Historians in the News)
Christian Science Church Seeks Truce on Medicine (Historians in the News)
23,000 year old stone wall found at entrance to cave in Greece (Breaking News)
Search engine collects historical resources (Breaking News)
Historians ask which American war has been the longest (Historians in the News)
Opposition to red coat memorial at Culloden battlefield (Breaking News)
Pelosi may enter history as one of the great House speakers, according to scholars (Historians in the News)
Food in Last Supper paintings has gotten bigger over time (Breaking News)
The little blue pills that sent Abraham Lincoln into a rage (Breaking News)
Republicans kick off repeal attempt, says Julian Zelizer (Historians in the News)
SS killer convicted in German court for WWII Dutch slayings (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: The Complete Private Medical Option (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BEING JOHN YOO AT UVA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: POLL: AMERICANS, IF NOT OBAMA, KNOW ISRAEL NOT THE PROBLEM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 21st Century SEDER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Nominations for the least-accurate political memoir ever written (Historians in the News)
Human ancestors walked comfortably upright 3.6 million years ago, new footprint study says (Breaking News)
3 arrested for disturbing indian burial site (Breaking News)
Documents of Auschwitz death camp doctors found (Breaking News)
Onions Made Pre-Human Ancestors Cry Too, Study Suggests (Breaking News)
Scientists use carbon-dating to check wine vintages: study (Breaking News)
Relief road dig exhibit attracts over 3,000 (Breaking News)
Lethal landmine legacy from battle of El Alamein (Breaking News)
Bill Clinton pokes fun at Al Gore during Gridiron dinner (Breaking News)
Neanderthals go to Washington (Breaking News)
'Schindler's list' to sell for £1.5m (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CLINTON'S GRANTING PNTR TO CHINA REVISITED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
West German spy agency ‘employed about 200 former Nazi criminals’ (Breaking News)
A Synagogue’s Unveiling Exposes a Conundrum in Egypt (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Brad DeLong Comes Up Short (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes in Modern History (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: State prison Population Declines (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Historic win or not, Democrats could pay a price, according to historians (Historians in the News)
Historic win or not, Democrats could pay a price (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Beginning of the End for Vladimir Putin? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Niall Ferguson: "Rid Our Schools of Junk History" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Points in Controversy (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
The Aztecs, through old-world eyes (Breaking News)
Cyprus bishops' tombs vandalised (Breaking News)
Bolivian general who captured Che Guevara investigated over plot against Evo Morales (Breaking News)
Grave robbers steal remains of Cyprus Archbishops (Breaking News)
In Texas Curriculum Fight, Identity Politics Leans Right (Historians in the News)
Sharpeville, 50 years later: a crime that still echoes (Breaking News)
Roundup
Colbert I. King: In the Faces of Tea Party Shouters, Images of Hate and History (Roundup: Media's Take)
David D. Laitin: Laïcité or Discrimination Against Muslims in France? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Moshe Dann: Israel Won’t Be Bullied by Obama, But Bibi’s Tactic Could Fail as Well (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stanley Kutler: So Much for a ‘Post-Racial’ America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stephen Walt: Were the NeoCons a "conspiracy"? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jack Goldsmith and Lawrence Lessig: Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement Raises Constitutional Concerns (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sebastian Mallaby: For Rising China, An Identity Crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, Ed Broadbent and Lloyd Axworthy: Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons (Roundup: Media's Take)
Natasha Gill: Britain's Historic Role in West Asia (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert O'Neil: Lord Baden-Powell Must Have Been a Nazi Piece of Work (Roundup: Talking About History)
Graham Hodges and Eric Foner: New York City Underground Railroad [video 57 minutes and 27 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Brian Thevenot: The Textbook Myth (Roundup: Media's Take)
Philip Johnson: Could Ireland Really Rejoin the Commonwealth? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jill Lepore: Glenn Beck, Eugenics, and History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jesse Lemisch: Invoking "Sedition" Against Tea Partiers is Short-Sighted, Ahistorical, and Suicidal (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Should PhD Programs be Decreased in Length? (HNN Polls)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Reaction to Violence Muted by Stereotypes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rick Perlstein: "Whatever Happened to Hope: Why Barack Obama Cannot Become a Transformational President" [video 91 minutes and 36 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
David Brooks: Return of History in Economics (Roundup: Media's Take)
Burt Folsom: First Principles of American Governance (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Gladstone bicentenary show closing in Liverpool (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bernard Weiner: "Shallow Throat": Obama, the GOP and "Potomac Fever" (Roundup: Media's Take)
New "Camelot" TV series to be made (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Mark Steyn: Health Care Reform Could Lead to Global Collapse (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jerry Z. Muller: Antisemitism and This Recession: The Dog That Didn’t Bark (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John J. Pitney, Jr.: As Lincoln Never Said, And Other Famous Quotes (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joseph Crespino: Lessons on States' Rights (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Damon Linker: Liberalism and the American Exception (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kenneth W. Mack: How the Congressional Process Has Changed (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Engelhardt: All the World's a Stage (for the U.S.) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Albert J. Rosenthal, Columbia Law Dean, Dies at 91 (Obituaries)
Harold W. McGraw Jr., Publisher, Dies at 92 (Obituaries)
Edmund Dinis, Prosecutor in Chappaquiddick Case, Dies at 85 (Obituaries)
Midge Costanza, a Top Assistant to Carter, Dies at 77 (Obituaries)
Ben Macintyre: Barack Obama Must Justify Covert Killing Or Halt It (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne: Back to the 1830s ... Health Care and the New Nullifiers (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley Kutler: The Wages of De-Regulation (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Henry A. Giroux: On Pop Clarity: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Language (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Another Partisan Push for Another 'Comprehensive Reform'? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Walter Russell Mead: Remembering Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Justin Miller: Health Care Reform Isn't Very Historic (Roundup: Media's Take)
Benjamin Wittes: Obama's Lawyers were Smeared--But Guess What, So were Bush’s (Roundup: Media's Take)
Malcolm A. Kline: History Makes Partial Recovery (Roundup: Talking About History)
James Taranto: The New York Times Relaxes Taboos about Nazi Germany (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Heineman Jr.: No Presidential Greatness Without Spending Political Capital (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley Kutler: Obama v. Roberts a Pseudo-event (Roundup: Historians' Take)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: What Real Conservatism is All About (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Cohn: Truman, LBJ, Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mickey Edwards: Patrick Henry's Speech is an Anniversary Worth Noting (Roundup: Talking About History)
Did you know that a 1792 law required militiamen to supply their own arms? (Did You Know?)
What Does Health Care Reform Mean for the Nation? (HNN Polls)
Molly M. Wood: Thinking about Remembrance of Past Wars (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonathan Tremblay: U.S. General Blames Srebrenica Massacre on Open Gay Policy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tony Karon: Israel Won't Change Unless the Status Quo Has a Downside (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Baktybek Abdrisaev and Alexey Semyonov: Kyrgyzstan's Tulip Revolution Wilts (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Moshe Dann: Obama’s Israel Ambush Backfires (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alan M. Dershowitz: Obama's Legacy and the Iranian Bomb (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tevi Troy: Health Care ... A Two-Decade Blunder (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Cohen: The Health-Care Vote: One More Step on a Long, Slow Journey (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Pells: The Peculiar Generation Born During World War II (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jamie M. Fly: Obama Is Making Bush's Big Mistake on Russia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Dallek: Obama Has Done What LBJ and FDR Couldn’t (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gerald F. Seib: Vast Ambition, Colossal Risk at Work in Health Care Reform (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Taranto: Why ObamaCare Makes Us Nostalgic for the Cold War (Roundup: Media's Take)
G. Derek Musgrove: CBC Investigations are Neither Conspiracy Nor Post-Racialism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Elesha Coffman: The History of Glenn Beck's 'Social Justice' (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Nichols: A Historic Vote for Health-Care Reform (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: We’ve Crossed the Rubicon (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Czitrom: Texas School Board Whitewashes History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ranj Alaaldin: Iraq's Democracy is Messy but Genuine (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dana Milbank: Health Reform and the Specter of Alf Landon (Roundup: Media's Take)
Neanderthals go to Washington (National Museum of Natural History) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Vladimir Kozin: The New Cuban Missile Crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Pratap Chatterjee: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne: Yes, they made history (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Chait: Obama's Place In History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Pelosi Emerges as Powerhouse in D.C. (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kevin Kosar: Susan Jacoby Bungles Education Reform (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of March 14, 2010
Roundup
Dinosaurs Did Not Gradually Die Out (Breaking News)
Earliest Signature of Renaissance Artist Raphael Found in Painting (Breaking News)
Iraq Inquiry asks to question George Bush's senior officials (Breaking News)
LBJ aide Liz Carpenter dies at 89 (Breaking News)
Stewart Udall dies (Breaking News)
In Texas Curriculum Fight, Identity Politics Leans Right (Breaking News)
Call for Battle of Culloden red coat memorial (Breaking News)
New York judge rejects Ground Zero dust pay-out deal (Breaking News)
Nepal leader who helped end king's rule dies at 86 (Breaking News)
Tokyo marks 15th anniversary of subway gas attack (Breaking News)
Blogs
CLAIRE B. POTTER: Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Gendering War In The Hurt Locker (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Holland, Naftali, and the Wisdom of Discretion (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: Friday, On The Subway, With The New York Times (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
British soldiers to march in Red Square with Russian troops for first time (Breaking News)
Urine Containers, 'Space Boots' and Artifacts Aren't Just Junk, Argue Archaeologists (Breaking News)
Rome to Display Ancient Greek Silverware (Breaking News)
After looting in Iraq damaged invaluable antiquities, archaeologists work to restore the cradle of civilization’s cultural heritage (Breaking News)
Larry Flynt to write history of presidents' sex lives (Breaking News)
Governors Island’s Castle Williams is closing to build walk on the roof (Breaking News)
Threat may see Irish high crosses moved (Breaking News)
Gay Dutch soldiers responsible for Srebrenica massacre says US general (Breaking News)
Medieval child's brain to unlock human thought processes (Breaking News)
New book claims Anne Frank entertained children in Auschwitz (Breaking News)
Confederate general Johnston's fans find his statue a home (Breaking News)
Famous Bataan Death March photo turns out to be mislabeled (Breaking News)
Mexican drug smugglers embrace bandit as patron saint (Breaking News)
Reality show contestants willing to kill in French TV re-creation of Milgram experiment (Breaking News)
World War II veterans honored by Hanks, Spielberg (Breaking News)
Adolf Hitler 'wanted to use cricket to train troops for war', new book claims (Breaking News)
Illegal metal detecting crackdown in England (Breaking News)
New Zealand boy pulls 200-year-old sword from his backyard (Breaking News)
Kosovo police take over historic site of Gazimestan (Breaking News)
Davy Crockett actor Fess Parker dies, aged 85 (Breaking News)
Velociraptor's cousin discovered (Breaking News)
Dutch fury at US general's gay theory over Srebrenica massacre (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
In Afghanistan, lessons from the Soviet war (Breaking News)
Fenwick human remains dated to medieval times (Breaking News)
Dogs domesticated in Middle East, not Asia (Breaking News)
N.C. shipwreck may be oldest found (Breaking News)
'Hobbit' island's deeper history (Breaking News)
US man admits 1968 Cuba plane hijacking (Breaking News)
Historians blast proposed Texas social studies curriculum (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Papiere Bitte! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Jeffrey Goldberg: Juan Cole's Anti-Israel Propaganda Campaign (Historians in the News)
Scholars say what was thought to be an ancient Jewish temple is actually an Islamic palace (Breaking News)
Germans Cringe at Hitler's Popularity in Pakistan (Breaking News)
Polish court jails three men for Auschwitz sign theft (Breaking News)
Up to 25,000 died in Dresden's WWII bombing - report (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Nothing Outside the State (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Book Burning in Ukraine Stokes Controversy About History (Breaking News)
Texas and its history mess--deja vu all over again (Breaking News)
Change Comes to Myanmar, but Only on the Junta’s Terms (Breaking News)
New Smithsonian human evolution exhibit opens Wednesday (Breaking News)
Religion is now the hottest topic for American historians (Historians in the News)
Planned Parenthood 1952: Abortion 'Kills the Life of a Baby,' Danger to Mother (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Additionally Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Eric Foner & Stephen Colbert Discuss a Texas Edjukashun (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Archaeologists: Maya Blue pigment recipe moved around (Breaking News)
Wrong religion: Israeli ruins re-identified (Breaking News)
Historians blast proposed Texas social studies curriculum (Breaking News)
Sir Walter Scott's stolen Waterloo souvenir returned (Scotland) (Breaking News)
Ukrainians uncover Crimean British Navy vessel (Breaking News)
DNA tests fail to identify unknown WWI soldiers (Breaking News)
Record estimate for disputed Picasso painting (Breaking News)
Vatican investigates Bosnia 'apparition' of Virgin Mary (Breaking News)
Kim Jong-il predicted to die before 2013 (Breaking News)
Childhood photo of Barack Obama in Indonesia found (Breaking News)
Turkey threatens to expel 100,000 Armenians over 'genocide' row (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HILLARY BACKS DOWN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
National Leprechaun Museum Opens Its Doors in Dublin (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SAUDI LAWYER SUES MOHAMMED CARTOON PUBLISHERS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: INDIA ANGRY WITH OBAMA SELLING AFGHANISTAN TO PAKISTAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
States' rights a rallying cry for lawmakers and scholars (Historians in the News)
Emory University preserves 18 gigabytes of Salman Rushdie's personal files (Breaking News)
Lunar Orbiter Spots Long Lost Russian Rover (Breaking News)
Book by religion historian Wendy Doniger draws criticism by Hindus (Historians in the News)
Historians blast proposed Texas social studies curriculum (Historians in the News)
Full C-SPAN Archives Now Online (Breaking News)
Trove of 4,000-year-old mummies discovered in China (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN PROTESTERS SEEK THE COVER OF DARKNESS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ask Congress to Support National History Day! (Historians in the News)
Ask Congress to Support National History Day! (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HILLARY TO DISCUSS ISRAEL, NOT IRAN, WITH RUSSIANS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Midweek Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KAREN KWIATOWSKI: C-SPAN's archives and Government/Media Propaganda (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
FBI makes new push to solve biggest art theft in US history (Breaking News)
Gunman tries to attack Lenin's corpse in Red Square (Breaking News)
FBI makes new push to solve biggest art theft in US history (Breaking News)
Meat-Eating Amphibian Predated Dinos (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Imperial Russia, Redux (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Dinosaurs Choked on Ozone (Breaking News)
DNA tests give names to Fromelles fallen (Breaking News)
Students protest tenure denial to historian Ronald Granieri (Historians in the News)
Oliver Kamm: David Irving on the Pacific War (Historians in the News)
University of Toronto historian wins prestigious Holberg Prize (Historians in the News)
Scientists turn North America migration theory on its head (Breaking News)
Neolithic man puts major bypass on hold outside Belfast (Breaking News)
Iron Age hopes for Moray field (Breaking News)
Bronze age remains in County Kerry block broadband plan (Breaking News)
Bronze-era Buddhist sites discovered in Pakistan (Breaking News)
Sotheby's to offer Corot painting taken by Nazis (Breaking News)
Oh, say you can see: Geocache through history (Breaking News)
Ruins of 7th century Arab palace identified in Israel (Breaking News)
Latvian Nazi unit veterans march (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Has 'Decoupling' Finally Begun? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Rewriting History in Texas (Breaking News)
3,400-Year-Old Statues Unearthed in Egypt (Breaking News)
WWII veterans given lottery cash (Scotland) (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WHAT ARABS TELL EACH OTHER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
JD Salinger letters shine light on a recluse (Breaking News)
The Movie "La Rafle" confronts wartime stain on French history (Breaking News)
Congress to vote on healthcare cash for 9/11 rescuers (Breaking News)
Nazi victims' mass graves found in Austria under soccer field (Breaking News)
Living History Program At Joshua Tree National Park Takes You Back to The 1940s (Breaking News)
Mona Lisa smile created using 'trick' (Breaking News)
'Lost' Shakespeare play Double Falsehood published (Breaking News)
Abba receive Hall of Fame honour (Breaking News)
Omagh bombing: demand for investigation into whether intelligence withheld (Breaking News)
Ghetto Laborers Still Waiting for German Pensions (Breaking News)
A-bomb survivors react fiercely to revelation of secret pacts (Breaking News)
Top secret interviews with WW2 Japanese navy brass to be published (Breaking News)
Drew Student Is Accused of Stealing and Selling Valuable Historic Letters (Breaking News)
Florida Hemingway home designated landmark (Breaking News)
Fort Ontario supporters rally to keep historic monument open (Breaking News)
Casino fight in Gettysburg flares up (Breaking News)
Historic Savannah, GA square reopens (Breaking News)
Arizona town opens time capsule, can't find brandy (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
AEON J. SKOBLE: Liberty: Positive and Negative (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Headless Man's Tomb Found Under Maya Torture Mural (Breaking News)
Russian church wants czar's burial site (Breaking News)
Medieval Child's Brain Found Preserved (Breaking News)
World War I tunneller's nephew is traced (Breaking News)
Fire destroys 19th Century church in Cambridgeshire (Breaking News)
Hero's medals given to Duxford Imperial War Museum (Breaking News)
Wallenberg: The lost hero (Breaking News)
Princess Diana book claims her driver was framed (Breaking News)
World War II Propaganda Posters to be Auctioned off (Breaking News)
Nazis planned to infiltrate Vatican with spies dressed as monks (Breaking News)
30 years later: The long road to clearing Falklands landmines (Breaking News)
Wembley Way built by German Prisoners of War (UK) (Breaking News)
James F, McMillan, Scottish historian of France, dies at 61 (Historians in the News)
Dotcom web address celebrates silver anniversary (Breaking News)
Ties between Israel and US 'worst in 35 years' (Breaking News)
Project to digitize Canada's 1812 artifacts (Historians in the News)
Renewed controversy in Australia over Boer War executions (Historians in the News)
Historian warns against copyright-fight heavy hitting (Historians in the News)
HBO sought Easton professor's expertise for 'The Pacific' war series (Historians in the News)
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change (Breaking News)
Kenneth Dover, a Provocative Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature, Dies at 89 (Historians in the News)
After the Earthquake, a Military Chile Can Love Again (Breaking News)
Tea-ing Up the Constitution (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Ancient Norse Settlements Hit Cold Spell (Breaking News)
Expedition Sought to Find George Mallory's Camera (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Iraqi People Worse Off (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Dig may find signs of Viking town in Thetford (Breaking News)
Henry Kissinger released from South Korea hospital (Breaking News)
Texas board endorses conservative-backed curriculum (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA BEATS UP ISRAEL TO DISTRACT ARABS FROM IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Professor Jack Pole's reassessment of American 'exceptionalism' (Historians in the News)
Roundup
Phyllis Schlafly: Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias From Textbooks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sophal Ear: Khmer Rouge Tribunal and a Miscarriage of Justice (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andreas Whittam Smith: To Understand Modern France, You Really Must See "La Rafle" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ron Radosh: A Sad Attempt to Build a New Left-Right Alliance (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Susan Jacoby: One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonah Goldberg: Our Political Leaders Believe in Two Different Americas (Roundup: Media's Take)
Conrad Black: Don’t Give Up on Europe (Roundup: Media's Take)
Max Boot: Obama's Actions No Way to Treat Israel (Roundup: Media's Take)
Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and Abolitionism, A Debate with Joao Pedro Marques -- Edited by Seymour Drescher and Pieter C. Emmer (Books About History & Historians)
David Brooks: Our Broken Society Needs to Be Transformed (Roundup: Media's Take)
Amity Shlaes: Conservatives are Giving Liberals a Taste of 'Balance' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steve Haycox: We Prefer a Shiny Image of America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Christine M. Flowers: A Textbook Case of Hysteria (Roundup: Media's Take)
Istvan Rev: Outrageous "Inglorious Basterds" Based on Real History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Thomas Frank: Don't Mess With the Texas Board of Ed (Roundup: Media's Take)
Francis A. Boyle: The Irish Famine was Genocide (Roundup: Talking About History)
Burt Folsom: Race and Pearl Harbor (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Joe Conason: Right Wing Gone Wild, Just Like the 1950s (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ray McGovern: Yoo Besmirches Legacy of Jefferson (Roundup: Media's Take)
Eric Foner: Twisting History in Texas (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Joshua Frank: A Trip to America's First Nuclear Reactor (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ashley Cruseturner: The Clinton Strategy That We Almost Forgot: Confrontation (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Let's End Black History Month (Roundup: Talking About History)
Martha Cooper: Lusting for Old Shanghai (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Going to Philadelphia...With Shanghai on My Mind (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Scott: Was Ancient Greek Democracy Really Similar to Our Own? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Fred Barnes: The Health-Care Wars Are Only Beginning (Roundup: Media's Take)
American Heritage Reviews “The Pacific” (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Joseph A. Palermo: Brutal Weather is a Factor in the Cornell Suicides (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew Cohen: The Revival of the Extreme Anti-Government Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nicholas D. Kristof: Health Care Opponents are on the Wrong Side of History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Jeff Goldberg's Blood-and-Soil Israeli Nationalist Fantasy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian E. Zelizer: Obama Risks Being Called 'The Undecider' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William F. Gavin: "McCarthyism" is a Bigoted Term Offensive to the Irish (Roundup: Talking About History)
William J. Astore: Five Questions for the Pentagon (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: General Petraeus Says Israeli and U.S. Interests Diverge (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Reflections on the "Liberal Revolution" in America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael B. Oren: For Israel and America, a Disagreement, Not a Crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)
The History of the Jewish Star in the Realm of the Union Jack - a Review of the Jewish Museum London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gregory Rodriguez: The White Anxiety Crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andres Martinez: The Next American Century (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ellen Ratner: What Would Nixon Do On Health Care? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonah Goldberg: The Truth About the Tea Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Cahill: How the Irish Saved Literacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Our Reset Reset Foreign Policy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: American History -- Right and Left (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Kagan: Allies everywhere feeling snubbed by President Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Roger Hardy: Islamism ... why the west gets it wrong (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dana Milbank: Dick Armey's "Tea Party' History is a Strange Brew (Roundup: Talking About History)
Daniel Pipes: America's Shiny New Palestinian Militia (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mitchell Bard: Israeli Attack on Iraqi Reactor Offers History Lesson for Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Gettleman: Why Africa's Wars are Never-Ending (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Barone: Tea Party Brings Energy, Change and Tumult to GOP (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Rector: Losing the War on Poverty (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ross Terrill: How Not to Gain China's Respect (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Lind: Bring It On, Ayn Rand Geeks (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mike Davis: Labor War in the Mojave (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Lourie: Russia, A Country Without Icons (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lewis H. Lapham: How the “Lively Arts” Became “the Media” (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
First Exhibition Ever to Focus on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's Enthusiasm for Art (London) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Walter Russell Mead: Obama and the Jacksonian Zionists (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anne Applebaum: Between the U.S. and Britain, an ideological parting (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: The Israeli Settlements Aren't the Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mary Dejevsky: Illusions that the anniversary of perestroika should dispel (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kevin R. Kosar: Have National Education Standards Arrived? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Binoy Kampmark: Education in Texas is Moving Right & Going Wrong (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Diane Ravitch: Texas Promotes Ignorance in its Textbook Requirements (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kelly Shackelford: Why the Texas Textbook Wars Matter to Every American (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gabriel Winant: Texas Messes with History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Asahi Shimbun: The Great Tokyo Air Raid and the Bombing of Civilians in World War II (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonathan Tremblay: Slovakia's Wall to Keep out Gypsies Will Fail - Just Like These Others (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Havelock: Two Perceptions of America Speed Toward Decisive Clash (Roundup: Media's Take)
Geoffrey Alderman: Why British University Standards Have Fallen (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kevin Cullen: Northern Ireland Remains a Segregated Society (Roundup: Media's Take)
John B. Judis: Obama Needs to Learn Reagan's Lessons from 1982. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Kazin: The History of Sarah Palin's Theology (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ismael Hossein-zadeh: Champions of Neoliberal Economics are Reversing New Deal Economics (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gillis J. Harp: Conservatives Should Not Get Too Close to Ayn Rand (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Meet the new action heroes: Lincoln, Da Vinci, Dickens and Queen Victoria (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Thomas Meaney and Harris Mylonas: Greece's Crisis, Germany's Gain (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Diane Ravitch: The "Big Idea" -- It's Bad Education Policy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: Is Gordon Brown Great Britain's Harry Truman? (Roundup: Media's Take)
David McKittrick: What Really Happened on Bloody Sunday? (Roundup: Talking About History)
James Fallows: The Danger of Romanticizing China's Past (Roundup: Media's Take)
"Green Zone": Jason Bourne Goes to Iraq This Isn't (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
What are the pros and cons of Texas's new history curriculum? (HNN Polls)
Jeff Shesol: Obama Should Take Heed from FDR on the Supreme Court (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika Lost (Roundup: Talking About History)
Sean Wilentz: The Vindication of Ulysses S. Grant (Roundup: Talking About History)
Week of March 7, 2010
Roundup
Ancient Tribal Meeting Ground Found in Australia (Breaking News)
Villagers threatening Achaemenid tomb in southern Iran (Breaking News)
Jewish retiree creates stir defending Pope Pius (Breaking News)
Richard Stites, Historian of Russian Culture, Dies at 78 (Breaking News)
Da Vinci trial hears of loan request (Breaking News)
'Despicable' raid at WWII heroine Andree Peel's home (Breaking News)
Cypriot 'Al Capone' suspected of stealing president's body (Breaking News)
Apollo astronauts dismay at axing of Nasa mission to return mankind to the Moon (Breaking News)
Vandals Ransack Former Nazi Concentration Camp (Breaking News)
Alleged Ku Klux Klan Member Loses Appeal in 1964 Murders (Breaking News)
Settlement offer worth millions in 9/11 case to go before judge (Breaking News)
Kissinger admitted to South Korean hospital (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Sullivan's Fun with "Historical" Maps (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Richard Stites, Historian of Russian Culture, Dies at 78 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RELAX (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
CHRIS BRAY: Eating People (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Miniature portrait of Scots naval hero goes on sale (Breaking News)
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert art shown in London (Breaking News)
Sweden to extradite Auschwitz sign theft suspect (Breaking News)
Ex-Bosnian leader 'owed apology by British government' (Breaking News)
Israel in legal battle over Kafka's papers (Breaking News)
No let-up in row over ex-Bosnian leader's arrest (Breaking News)
New York agrees World Trade Center 9/11 dust payout (Breaking News)
Winnie denies interview criticising Nelson Mandela (Breaking News)
Atheist in battle to remove 'In God We Trust' from US currency (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TRUTH IS TRUTH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NYT & TERRORISM; PICASSO EXHIBIT & THE HOLOCAUST (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ancient Corpses Ritually Dug Up, Torn Apart, Reburied (Breaking News)
Saxon pottery found at a playground (Breaking News)
Israel in legal battle over Kafka's papers (Breaking News)
Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts (Breaking News)
Germany fights to keep Holocaust organiser's files sealed (Breaking News)
Paths could retrace Jacobite night march of 1746 (Breaking News)
Texas SBOE members clash over racial balance in history (Breaking News)
New photos of Beatles' John Lennon appear after 40 years (Breaking News)
Israel in legal battle over Kafka's papers (Breaking News)
Austrian gov't finds mass graves of Nazi victims (Breaking News)
Decapitated bodies in britain found to be Vikings (Breaking News)
Blogs
WENDY MCELROY: Will a 2nd American Revolution be French? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING ABOUT ISRAEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Thomas Garden Barnes, Berkeley professor and advocate of Canadian history, dies at 80 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WILDERS CAUSES SWEDISH MEDIA TO DEVELOP SPINE?/correction (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
D.C. Recorder of Deeds moving but fate of murals unclear (Breaking News)
New Harriet Tubman artifacts to go on display at the Smithsonian (Breaking News)
Sea dog from 16th century English warship to go on display (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Ron Paul on the Lindsey Graham/Chuck Schumer Proposal for National I.D. Card (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
University of Dayton historian criticizes textbooks for minimizing Reagan (Historians in the News)
Guy Ritchie to direct Hollywood version of King Arthur (Breaking News)
Germany wants “Graf Spee” Nazi eagle displayed in a museum (Breaking News)
Biblical City's True Location Discovered, Researchers Claim (Breaking News)
Egypt Restores 11 Historic Synagogues (Breaking News)
Roadworks dig finds millions of Aboriginal artifacts in Tasmania (Breaking News)
Stalin to be put on billboards in Moscow for VE Day (Breaking News)
WWII female pilots honored at Capitol Hill on March 10 (Breaking News)
Sweden to extradite Auschwitz sign theft suspect (Breaking News)
43% say their kids' U.S. history textbooks are inaccurate (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): The Evolution Will be ooVood (Mark A. LeVine)
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Google, Italian government reach agreement to digitize collections (Breaking News)
The remarkable stories of Britain's Heroes of the Holocaust (Breaking News)
DNA of extinct birds extracted from ancient eggshell (Breaking News)
Lost Jewish tribe 'found in Zimbabwe' (Breaking News)
DR Congo ring may be giant 'impact crater' (Breaking News)
1980s star Corey Haim dies at 38 (Breaking News)
Winnie Mandela urged to clarify comments about Nelson (Breaking News)
Home of Khmer Rough leader Pol Pot protected as tourist attraction (Breaking News)
Ex-MI5 chief: US hid torture from us with lies (Breaking News)
An Old Essay by Richard Hofstadter Used to Explain Tea Partiers (Historians in the News)
Caravaggio displaces Michelangelo as Italy's top artist (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Mid-Week Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
J. Matthew Gallman responds to Jon Wiener's tobacco exposé (Historians in the News)
Obama, reading up on Roosevelt (Theodore) (Breaking News)
Heirs delay sale of historic papers in Italy tax tussle (Breaking News)
Mbonyumutwa son protests at Rwanda leader exhumation (Breaking News)
Pope's brother admits slapping choirboys (Breaking News)
Prince of Wales pictured during Royal Marines training (Breaking News)
Israeli spy with Iran-Contra scandal links dies (Breaking News)
Tourists banned from Indian islands over risk of killing off local tribes (Breaking News)
Corpse of dead Cyprus ex-president recovered from bodysnatchers (Breaking News)
Al-Qaeda came within days of terror attack on Britain last year, court hears (Breaking News)
Sir Kenneth Dover, classicist who wished to kill colleague, dies at 89 (Historians in the News)
Peru drops some claims against Yale in Machu Picchu controversy (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Launching a Left/Right Coalition Against Empire (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Berliners hope new proposed airport will revitalize city (Breaking News)
"Mafia congressman" James Traficant out of jail, considering new congressional run (Breaking News)
12 shipwrecks discovered in the Baltic by gas company (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICANS ARE RIGHT; OBAMA'S US LESS RESPECTED/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Feminism is showing signs of life (Breaking News)
Sikh WWII flying ace was "saved by turban" (Breaking News)
Czech archaeologists find oldest settlement (150,000 years old) in Arbil, north Iraq (Breaking News)
Chile quake moves the city of Concepcion more than 10 feet west (Breaking News)
Rodney Alcala, convicted serial killer, won on 'Dating Game' back in 1978 (Breaking News)
Japan confirms Cold War-era 'secret' pacts with US (Breaking News)
Historic ocean liner "United States" adrift, on the block (Breaking News)
Northern Ireland: Ulster officials defy 'bullying' after George W Bush 'intervention' (Breaking News)
Iraq inquiry: action against Saddam Hussein vital for UN authority, says David Miliband (Breaking News)
Iraq Inquiry: David Miliband says war has boosted Britain's reputation in Arab world (Breaking News)
Virgin Mary icon 'crying tears of oil' in France (Breaking News)
One third of 7/7 survivors had post traumatic stress: research (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Sergo Mikoyan, Russian historian and son of Stalin associate, dies at 80 (Historians in the News)
Eminent China Scholar Will Deliver 2010 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (Historians in the News)
British intelligence deemed Irish playwright and IRA man Brendan Behan "too drunken to be dangerous" (Breaking News)
Evidence of Mormon Participation in Mexican War Found (Breaking News)
Plans to celebrate 'Copperopolis' (Wales) (Breaking News)
Da Vinci artwork return 'starting figure' heard (Breaking News)
Society plans restoration of 18th Century Devon canal (Breaking News)
Indonesian villages cashing in on 'hobbit' craze (Breaking News)
US Congressional Panel's Decision Against Turkey Shows Blatant Hypocrisy (Breaking News)
'Closet-Nazi' in running for Austrian presidency (Breaking News)
JFK Condolence Letters Published for 1st Time (Breaking News)
Woman Certified as Country's Oldest Dies at 114 (Breaking News)
14th century Giotto frescoes exposed under ultraviolet light (Breaking News)
French resistance heroine who saved over 100 lives dies (Breaking News)
The blonde who captivated Cairo: Glamorous Nazi spy had romantic affairs with two British secret agents (Breaking News)
Scientists reaffirm theory that giant asteroid killed dinosaurs (Breaking News)
The mystery of Hitler's 'spyclists' (Breaking News)
Toronto used bookstores bases its business model on medieval predecessors (Breaking News)
Female WWII pilots get their due (Breaking News)
NCPH to meet in Portland, OR on March 12 (Historians in the News)
Amateur pro-Pius XII Jewish historian draws controversy (Historians in the News)
NJ street named after Marshal Petain stirs controversy, according to Robert Paxton (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Excellent EconTalk Podcast (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CHARLES W. NUCKOLLS: Dr. Pangloss: Patron Saint of the United States (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
New book claims Robin Hood stole from the rich and lent to the poor (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PETRAEUS: CONTAINMENT OF A NUCLEAR IRAN UNACCEPTABLE EVEN TO ARAB STATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Dinosaurs Older Than Once Thought (Breaking News)
Weymouth Relief Road artefacts to go on show (UK) (Breaking News)
U.S. push for former President Ronald Reagan to be immortalised on $50 bill (Breaking News)
Official: Armenian genocide resolution unlikely to get full House vote (Breaking News)
Trafalgar cannons fired to mark 200th anniversary (UK) (Breaking News)
Karl Rove regrets weak defence of Bush on Iraq (Breaking News)
ACLU Likens Obama to Bush in Ad Slamming Possible Reversal on KSM Trial (Breaking News)
Fire Destroys Historic Pennsylvania Forge That Made Ashtrays for Hindenburg (Breaking News)
Bill Mauldin stamp honors grunts' hero (Breaking News)
Iranian president: 9/11 was 'big lie' (Breaking News)
45 years after march, Selma priest remembers Bloody Sunday (Breaking News)
Roundup
Ralph Peters: Why our 'post-modern presidents' fail (Roundup: Media's Take)
Max Holland: The Historian as Hustler (Roundup: Talking About History)
Nicolas Kinloch: What is History in Schools For? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Godfrey Hodgson: Barack Obama and America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ann Woolner: Liz Cheney Would Call John Adams a Terrorists’ Pal (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alexander Zaitchik: Where Did David Brooks Get the Bizarre Idea That the Tea Party Crowd Resembles '60s Movements? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edmund Morris: Why Is Obama Reading My Book? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Uri Dromi: Will Israel Join the March of Folly? (Roundup: Media's Take)
George F. Will: As a Progressive, Obama Hews to the Wilsonian Tradition (Roundup: Media's Take)
Davidson Loehr: Beck, Coulter and Limbaugh are Avatars of Julius Streicher (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Beinart: Obama Gets His Mojo Back (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Kengor: Mikhail Gorbachev vs. the Evil Empire (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ashley Cruseturner: Rick Perry Tamed the Tea Party (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ariel Dorfman: Earthquate Exposes Chile's History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joe Conason: The New McCarthyism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Henninger: Why Obama Is No LBJ (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Kaplan: Man Versus Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alexander J. Motyl: Difficult Task Defining Bandera’s Historic Role (Roundup: Media's Take)
MLK speaking on the future of integration at Bethel College in Kansas, Jan. 1960 [audio 69 minutes and 3 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Julian Zelizer: Watching Congress Make Sausages (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Diane Ravitch: Why I Changed My Mind About School Reform (Roundup: Historians' Take)
National Portrait Gallery Presents First Ever Exhibition Devoted to Indian Portraits (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Centre Pompidou Shows Fifty Large-Format Paintings in Tribute to Lucian Freud (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tony Platt: Remembering History's Shame (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul V. Dutton: France Reformed Health Care in Tough Times; Why Can't We? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Joseph N. Tatarewicz: American Spaceflight's Murky Future (Roundup: Historians' Take)
James Traub: America Isn't Very Good at Nation-Building (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Washington’s Cult of Narcissism and Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mark E. Halperin: How Obama Is Making the Same Mistakes as Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Darrell Issa: Obama ... The New Nixon? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mark Mazower: Greece’s History is Defined by Foreign Meddling (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bret Stephens: Iraqis Embrace Democracy. Do We? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Hayden: Exit Strategies for Afghanistan and Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Ruse: Philosophers Rip Darwin, But They're Ignorant of Science (Roundup: Talking About History)
Gary Scharrer: Does State Board Need a History Test? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul C. Rosier: Native Americans' Enduring Struggle for Justice (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Adam Crymble: Canadian Historians in the Newspaper (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Benny Morris: Why the "Peaceniks" in Israel Have Been Unsuccessful (Roundup: Historians' Take)
One hundred years later, evolution continues for Smithsonian's Natural History museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Tobin: Smearing Theodore Roosevelt (Roundup: Talking About History)
Philip Jenkins: The Real Showdown Between Christians and Muslims is in Africa (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rodric Braithwaite: Bullying in the Russian Army (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert G. Rabil: Israel's Changing Strategic Situation (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ed Koch on "Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Sűss (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Marc-William Palen. Review of John Lukacs's "the Legacy of the Second World War" (Yale, 2010) (Books)
Diego Gambetta: The Legacy of the Red Army Faction (Roundup: Talking About History)
Julian Zelizer: GOP Health Care Refusal Could Backfire (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anne Applebaum: The End of Germany's War Guilt (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bernard Weiner: "The Hurt Locker": When Great Art Meets Lousy Politics (Roundup: Media's Take)
Francis J. Gavin: No Need to Ban the Bomb (Roundup: Media's Take)
Prado Museum Opens Exhibition Dedicated to the Armour and Paintings of the Spanish Court (Madrid) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Film awakens France's shame in the Holocaust (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robert Fisk: Living Proof of the Armenian Genocide (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Aaronovitch: Iraq Has Moved Forward. It's Time We Did Too (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Fisk: Is Iraq's 'Democracy' Worth It? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: No Allies — But Plenty of Enemies (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Will Gray: Germany to Greece: Drop Dead (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Elstein: Daniel Goldhagen Recycles Fantasy on Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising (Roundup: Talking About History)
China and the Vocation of History in the Twentieth Century: A Personal Memoir -- by Frederick W. Mote (Books About History & Historians)
Joan Waugh: Ulysses S. Grant Earned His $50 Bill (Roundup: Talking About History)
Fred Barnes: Obama's No FDR (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Hughes: The Armenian Genocide Resolution and the Price of Moral Courage (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gabriel Winant: Why Does David Brooks Hate the Tea Partiers? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Heavy Turnout in Bloody Iraqi Election (Roundup: Historians' Take)
No Enchanted Evenings in "The Pacific" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Melanie Bayley: Alice in Wonderland is a Parody of Nineteenth Century Math (Roundup: Talking About History)
Do you know all of the myths and urban legends about al Qaeda? (Did You Know?)
Rupert Cornwell: Are we going to see Ronald Reagan on America's $50 bill? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Haddick: The Long Death of the Powell Doctrine (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephanie Pearson: Falklands ... Last Outpost of the British Empire (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Joyner: Are Nuclear Weapons Obsolete? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alan Philps: An opportunity for Iraqis to rewrite their history (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steven F. Hayward: Would Reagan Vote for Sarah Palin? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Week of February 28, 2010
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: A Carnival & Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Pre-war PM made study of Hitler (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Icelanders against the State (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Stanford Considers Bringing R.O.T.C. Back (Breaking News)
Napoleon-era sea walls blamed for French storm deaths (Breaking News)
Lufthansa embarrassed after Russian 'Stalingrad' hijack (Breaking News)
Partisanship in Washington was worse in the past (Breaking News)
Search on to decipher Gothic text (Breaking News)
Avatar director James Cameron defends Hiroshima author (Breaking News)
Mikhail Gorbachev accuses Russia of rolling back reform (Breaking News)
First lady donates dress to Smithsonian (Breaking News)
Rove: Bush didn't 'lie us into war' (Breaking News)
A Chance for Closure for One WWII Widow (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Art History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Liberals rap Kremlin as Stalin is worshipped (Breaking News)
Celebrities root through family history (Breaking News)
Castro and Guevara photos sold in Gloucestershire (Breaking News)
Iraq inquiry: Gordon Brown says war was 'right' (Breaking News)
Ex-Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic back in British jail (Breaking News)
US administration to block vote on Turkey 'genocide' (Breaking News)
Rove-elations: Former Bush Adviser Opens Up About Katrina, WMDs, Obama (Breaking News)
Rove: Cheney 'squirmed' when offered VP spot (Breaking News)
White House considers military trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DISCO DUBAI (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: 2010 CENSUS HIRING DOUBLES TO RESCUE DEMOCRATS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Chile earthquake may have slightly shortened th (Breaking News)
Dutch Prince Bernhard 'was member of Nazi party' (Breaking News)
Cushing to be honored with Medal of Honor (Breaking News)
From political maverick to historical footnote in Scotland (Breaking News)
Jewish group: The 'Armenian Resolution' Should be Opposed and Defeated (Breaking News)
View from Gettysburg battlefield uncertain for now (Breaking News)
War of 1812 collections scattered around world (Breaking News)
200 years of neglect - remains of soldiers neglected and desecrated (Breaking News)
Principal apologizes for Black History Month celebration that included O.J. Simpson, Rodman, RuPaul (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Excellent Short Discussion of the Crisis (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Turkey pulls envoy after U.S. vote on "genocide" label (Breaking News)
US gives Russia back Czar's stolen medallion (Breaking News)
Source in artifact case apparently commits suicide (Breaking News)
Former Swiss wine grower uncovers Sudan's ancient roots (Breaking News)
1641 massacre accounts examined (Ireland) (Breaking News)
WWII bomb found by builders in central Southampton (Breaking News)
Diana's feng shui letter sells for £640 (Breaking News)
Tony Blair's £4 million memoirs to go on sale after election (Breaking News)
Dinosaurs wiped out by asteroid impact that turned earth into a 'hellish' place (Breaking News)
After criticism, LAPD pulls RFK clothing from homicide exhibit (Breaking News)
House panel risks Turkey's ire in approving Armenian 'genocide' resolution (Breaking News)
Oldest known dinosaur relative found (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TIGER WOODS IS SON OF RELIGIOUS THAILAND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICANS ARE JUSTIFIED IN MISTRUSTING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Quotation of the Week (On Treason) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: YES! THEY MISS HIM AND NOT ONLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Friends of Wilderness Battlefield to receive preservation award (Breaking News)
World War II flight nurses exhibit now open at the National Museum of the US Air Force (Breaking News)
U.S. vets return to Iwo Jima to mark 65th anniversary of battle (Breaking News)
US committee to vote on Armenian 'genocide' measure (Breaking News)
Archbishop condemns Kennedy's 1960 Catholic speech (Breaking News)
RFK's son Maxwell criticizes LAPD in LA Times op-ed (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Is the Current Recovery a Piñata with No Candy Inside? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Program will bring 600,000 trees to Old 15 to honor Civil War dead (Breaking News)
Joan Waugh objects to call to replace Grant on the $50 bill with Reagan (Historians in the News)
Blogs
WENDY MCELROY: Left Goes Postal on Rand (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Seldovia's Russian Orthodox church rests in transition (AK) (Breaking News)
Hitler letter hoping for 'cordial relationship' with Britain for sale (Breaking News)
Hiroshima book pulled from shelves over doubts about sources (Breaking News)
Hellenistic coins dating back Alexander the Great's era found in northern Syria (Breaking News)
Burial chamber of ancient Egyptian queen unearthed (Breaking News)
Clues to Antarctica space blast (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: Human Rights Treaties Are Worthless And Unacceptable If They Violate Islamic Law! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Va. wind firm clears final hurdle (Breaking News)
Second World War Veteran discovers 'arthritis' was German bullet (Breaking News)
Queen 'to make first visit to Ireland' (Breaking News)
Diane Ravitch's School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up Debate (Historians in the News)
New Islamic proclamation condeming terror - historian Furnish unsure of its effectiveness (Historians in the News)
Mystery of how Napoleon's hair turned up in Sydney (Breaking News)
Train horns go silent in Flagstaff, AZ (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL NO MORE ROGUE THAN NATO; ILLEGITIMATE THAN BRITAIN, FRANCE, RUSSIA OR NORTH KOREA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Minsk Marks Anniversary Of Jewish Massacre By Nazis (Breaking News)
Hockey may first have been played in Nova Scotia (Breaking News)
Teaching Canadian history through hockey (Historians in the News)
Falklands: Britain Refuses US Offer Of Help (Breaking News)
'Ruthless' Kray's criminal record unearthed (UK) (Breaking News)
Former Labour leader Michael Foot dies (UK) (Breaking News)
Suit worn by O. J. Simpson during 1993 murder trial donated to museum (Breaking News)
Hurt Locker co-producer Nicolas Chartier banned from Oscars (Breaking News)
Prince of Wales says George VI's stammer 'cut him off' from family (Breaking News)
New footage allows Germans to watch World War II in full colour in revolutionary new film (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: "70 Million" by Hold Your Horses! (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: CRY AMERICAN MOTHERS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Larry Lessig calls for campaign to reform the Constitution (Breaking News)
From political maverick to historical footnote (Breaking News)
Study shows Titanic and Lusitania survival differences (Breaking News)
Dinosaur-eating snake discovered (Breaking News)
Bosnian Muslims 'planted corpses' and exaggerated death tolls, Karadzic claims (Breaking News)
French medieval statues march in New York (Breaking News)
Hitler abortion poster sparks anger in Poland (Breaking News)
Britain in diplomatic row over Bosnian leader's arrest (Breaking News)
Rove Admits to Error on Iraq as Bush Strategist (Breaking News)
Grandson of Winston Churchill Dies After Battle With Cancer (Breaking News)
'Monster of Grbavica' held in Spain for Bosnian war crimes (Breaking News)
Hamas founder's son: I spied for Israel (Breaking News)
Who is a Jew? DNA can hold the key (Breaking News)
D.C.'s U Street gets visitors' center (Breaking News)
Former Somali prime minister, currently living in U.S., may face war crimes lawsuit (Breaking News)
Present-day Marines return to Iwo Jima to commemorate battle (Breaking News)
Aborigines to sue British Government over nuclear tests (Breaking News)
Field Museum archaeologists amend the written history of China's first emperor (Breaking News)
Professor Jack Pole: historian of the US, dies at 87 (Historians in the News)
Residential school graves research a daunting task (Historians in the News)
Purge Nazi past, doctor tells medical community (Breaking News)
Hastings, Beevor to publish competing general histories of World War II (Historians in the News)
Studying and debunking Civil War myths (Historians in the News)
Harvard gets first Egyptologist in 68 years (Breaking News)
Turkish politicians fear that U.S. will recognize Armenian Genocide (Breaking News)
Controversial historical Irish slaughter re-examined by Scottish and Irish academics (Historians in the News)
Pellegrino's atom bom book withdrawn from circulation (Historians in the News)
Medieval fortifications dating back to 9th century discovered at Prague Castle (Breaking News)
Communist Party Needs to Loosen Its Grip in China (Historians in the News)
Vichy remains a source of discomfort in modern France (Historians in the News)
‘Hero of Ukraine’ splits nation, inside and out (Historians in the News)
Rwanda president's widow held in France over genocide (Breaking News)
Cold war nuclear bunker for sale on eBay (Breaking News)
Blair warned in 2000 Iraq war was illegal (Breaking News)
Nail from Christ's crucifixion found? (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DUBAI TO IRAN AS SWITZERLAND TO NAZI GERMANY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Historians (among others) honored at White House ceremony (Historians in the News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: My Review Of "Complicit" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
David Bankier, Scholar of Holocaust, Dies at 63 (Historians in the News)
Former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic arrested at Heathrow (Breaking News)
Oldest example of written English discovered in church (Breaking News)
Hunt for WWI tunneller's Swansea relatives (Breaking News)
A torch from the 1948 Olympic Games has been found (Breaking News)
Football programme signed by Eisenhower weeks before D-Day to be sold (Breaking News)
'Letters to Jackie' captures a nation's anguish (Breaking News)
Debate in Australia over history curriculum standards (Historians in the News)
South Korea to Fund New Road network at Cambadia's Angkor Temple Complex (Breaking News)
Gang 'threatened to destroy Leonardo da Vinci painting' (Breaking News)
Karadzic defends Bosnian Serb 'holy' cause at trial (Breaking News)
House approves measure to investigate U.S. intelligence actions in 1970s Argentina (Breaking News)
Huge head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt (Breaking News)
Zimbabwean deminers clear deadly legacy of Falklands war (Breaking News)
Gordon S. Wood wins American History Book Prize (Historians in the News)
Letter surfaces telling how Queen's ancestor escaped the marriage from hell (UK) (Breaking News)
German victim is first to break silence on Red Army rapists after 65 years (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: Stemming the Tide of History (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Britain's "Land Girls" upset over portrayal as flighty nymphomaniacs (Breaking News)
A window into how Russia sees the role of the Soviet Union in WWII (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
60 Minutes focuses on Armenian Massacre (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: The Myth of Census "Confidentiality" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
U.N. presses for more investigations into Israel-Gaza war (Breaking News)
Obama Signs One-Year Extension of Patriot Act (Breaking News)
Tony Blair 'almost resigned over Iraq' (Breaking News)
Sept. 11 Hijackers' Florida Apartment Demolished (Breaking News)
Unveiling of WWI Chorley Pals' memorial (Breaking News)
Bosnian Serb ex-general Tolimir in genocide trial (Breaking News)
Queen to give President Jacob Zuma 'history lesson' tour of private exhibition (Breaking News)
'I saved Shimon Peres from plot' says son of Hamas founder (Breaking News)
German woman breaks silence about Red Army rapes (Breaking News)
Official British history of the Falklands War is considered too pro-Argentina (Breaking News)
Roundup
Climate Control: A History of Heating & Cooling [audio 54 minutes and 55 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
How Smithsonian Selects, Rejects Donations [audio 4 minutes and 3 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Peter Hoffenberg: Demonizing Israel Does Not Advance Mideast Peace (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Owen Polley: Northern Ireland Proves Peace is Possible (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harold James: Euro-Jitters a Reflection of International Problems (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom De Luca: Save Your Outrage for the Unconstitutional Filibuster (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jack Wertheimer: The High Cost of Jewish Living (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Burt Folsom: Government Can't Compete with the Free Market (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Should the House pass a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide? (HNN Polls)
Does economics explain "social reality" more simply than history? (HNN Polls)
John Fea: Pennsylvania is Erasing Its History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Roger Cohen: Iran in Its Intricacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Adan Liptak: America and Europe Have Very Different Ideas of Privacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Brooks: Tea Partiers are the Wal-Mart Hippies (Roundup: Media's Take)
Asli Aydintasbas: Bashing Turkey's Army (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Lowry & Ramesh Ponnuru: The Obama Administration's Assault on American Exceptionalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The U.S. Should Stand by Britain in the Falkland Islands (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Feffer: Has the U.S. Empire of Bases Reached Its High-Water Mark in Okinawa? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gabriel Winant: Goodbye, Ulysses. Hello, Ronnie! (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Baker: A Synagogue in Cairo (Roundup: Media's Take)
Did you know that Yugos were constructed in a factory that previously made hand grenades? (Did You Know?)
Andrei Lankov: Is the Dear Leader Losing His Grip? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Douglas Brinkley: History According to Tom Hanks (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jill Lawrence: Obama Applies the Edmund Burke Theory of Leadership to Health Care (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jim Cullen, Review of Adam Haslett's "Union Atlantic: A Novel" (Doubleday, 2010) (Books)
Daniel Henninger: Bring Back the Robber Barons (Roundup: Media's Take)
Naomi Klein: Milton Friedman did not save Chile (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ron Radosh: Growing Anti-Semitism On The Campus (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Raymond Ibrahim: How the Islamist Mindset Rationalizes - and Promotes - 'Sex Sins' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chris Hedges: The Death of American Journalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fouad Ajami: Another Step Forward for Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Roberts: Israel is No More Rogue than America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
In the Shadow of "Jew Süss" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Charles Postel: The Real Populist Tradition in America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Major Collection of Middle Eastern Photography being Built for National Museums (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Saddam Hussein's Personal Physician to Show Works at University of Leicester (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gabriel Partos: Karadzic reawakens ghosts of the past (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeremy Sharon: Israel's Historic Roots Are Real (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Should Schools be Giving Out Computers? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Engelhardt: A Modest Proposal for Waging Better Wars (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ramzy Baroud: Challenging History: Why the Oppressed Must Tell Their Own Story (Roundup: Talking About History)
Barnabe F. Geisweiller: Vestiges of War: How We Choose to Remember (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stanley Kutler: The System Works, Even if These Bozos Don’t (Roundup: Media's Take)
Greg Melleuish: Australia's New History Standards Neglect the Individual (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Willy Lam: China's Congressional Concerns (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Korski: America and Europe are Partners in Decline (Roundup: Media's Take)
Patsy McGarry: How Ireland Lost Its Faith (Roundup: Media's Take)
Roger Cohen: Greece, Europe and Alexander Hamilton (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Brooks: Norway's Legendary Toughness is Why They Win Gold Medals (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paolo Veronese, the Petrobelli Altarpiece, and Venice in Texas (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Chris Hedges: Socialism is Not a Dirty Word (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Rosen: Just How Radical is the Chief Justice? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Lind: Why Republicans Want Gridlock (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bret Stephens: How Milton Friedman Saved Chile (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gideon Rachman: How Reagan ruined conservatism (Roundup: Talking About History)
Wesley Pruden: An FDR Lesson Obama Missed (Roundup: Media's Take)
New Museum on Life of Frederic Chopin Opens in Warsaw on the Composer's 200th Birthday (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rare Tintin drawings to be auctioned [video 1 min 27 secs] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
John Dietrich: Man's Need for Apocalyptic Thinking (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joshua Brown: Great Gaps in Presidential History (Illustration) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History -- by Michael Fellman (Books About History & Historians)
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation -- by Christina Schwenkel (Books About History & Historians)
Windows into the Past: Life Histories and the Historian of South Asia -- by Judith M. Brown (Books About History & Historians)
London's new Jewish Museum gears up for grand opening in March (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jennifer Rubin: Going After Joe Lieberman (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Tremblay: Canada Hosts the Olympic Games – A Curse of Their Own (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Campaign to Save the Staffordshire Hoard has Reached 1 Million (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Detroit Institute of Arts Opens New Permanent Islamic Gallery (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
New Cleopatra Exhibition to Make World Premiere at Franklin Institute (US) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Thomas Doherty: The Death of Film Criticism (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Leon Fink: Populism With Brains (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: Time for Democrats to Take a Risk (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Henry D. Fetter: Are U.S. Olympic Medals a Harbinger of Decline? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Haass: Failed States Are Causing Global Instability (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Barnes: Gun Case Presents Quandary for Supreme Court Justices (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Is There a Philosophy of Hypocrisy? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Efraim Karsh: Muslims Have a History of Fighting Each Other (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Niall Ferguson: American Empire ... Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Purim and the End of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of February 21, 2010
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IN THOSE DAYS - AT THIS TIME (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
When Special Delivery Meant Deliverance for a Fugitive Slave (Breaking News)
First woman USAF general dies at 88 (Breaking News)
Official British history of the Falklands War is considered too pro-Argentina (Historians in the News)
Back-to-basics approach for Australia's classrooms (Breaking News)
Obama Stays Neutral Ahead of Vote on Armenian Genocide (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHARLES W. NUCKOLLS: OJ Simpson and Climate Change (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
1,300-year-old fragments of Hebrew Bible reunited after centuries (Breaking News)
SS Mendi's stories told almost 100 years after sinking (Breaking News)
Lockerbie bomber: family hopes Megrahi 'will beat cancer' after release from jail (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Testifying for Tobacco (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life (Breaking News)
China, Kenya to search for ancient Chinese wrecks (Breaking News)
Prince's Palace Found in Volcanic Crater (Breaking News)
Heated memos over Northern Ireland Cold War data (Breaking News)
'Photogenic' Khrushchev reassessed (Breaking News)
Danish newspaper apologises over Prophet Mohammed cartoon (Breaking News)
Accidental Discovery Pieces Together Ancient Biblical Manuscript (Breaking News)
Iraq to reinstate 20,000 former Hussein army officers (Breaking News)
Partisan ploy overshadows Elbridge Gerry's legacy (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Forecast: A Housing Shortage (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Biloxi bomb squad to detonate Civil War cannon balls (Breaking News)
Roman remains in York are 'elite' African woman (Breaking News)
Roman urn contains human ashes (Breaking News)
China, Kenya to search for ancient Chinese wrecks (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: I AM IN THE MOOD FOR PURIM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
DNA test traces Hitler's cousin 'Norbert' and 39 other relatives (Breaking News)
Adolf Hitler nude sketch for sale (Breaking News)
Frontpage Symposium examines Hannah Arendt with Bernard Wasserstein and David Satter (Historians in the News)
Has Britain lost its stiff upper lip? (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
US returns historical artifacts to Iraq (Breaking News)
Unearthing colonial New York: South Ferry project yields 65K artificats (Breaking News)
Fromelles soldiers are laid to rest (Breaking News)
Pompeii to Offer Live Excavation Experience (Breaking News)
The man who refused to die (Breaking News)
Secret papers 30-year rule reduced to 20 (Breaking News)
Rwanda genocide official jailed for 25 years (Breaking News)
Queen Victoria's silk stockings to be sold (Breaking News)
Nicolas Sarkozy admits French errors over Rwanda genocide (Breaking News)
Obama's McCain Smackdown: Stop Campaigning, Election's Over (Breaking News)
Ex-Ku Klux Klan Member Convicted in 1964 Murders Sues FBI (Breaking News)
American Pilot Who Dismissed Initial Pearl Harbor Report Dies at 96 (Breaking News)
Bush, Cheney meet for first time since 2009 inauguration (Breaking News)
Spanish king needs to rebrand himself for hard times, says historian (Historians in the News)
Health summit a 'stunt' and 'spectacle,' scholars say (Historians in the News)
Egyptian priests ate like gods – and paid by dying young (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Anatomy of the Current Recession (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Historian examines changes in Greek nationalism (Historians in the News)
Anne Boleyn was guilty of adultery, new biography claims (Breaking News)
Key Letter by Descartes, Lost for 170 Years, Turns Up at Haverford (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SOLOMON FORTIFICATIONS? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Author Charles Pellegrino to remove 'Hiroshima' impostor from future editions (Historians in the News)
Renegade German war hero who saved French port of Bordeaux dies at 91 (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GALLUP: DEMOCRATS SUPPORT ISRAEL MUCH LESS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Florida historian says the sexual revolution began in 1940s, not 1960s (Historians in the News)
France Wants Better Relations With Rwanda, Sarkozy Says (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NEW VIDEO SHAKES UP IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Not So "Bizarre" After All: More on Bernanke, Paul, the Fed, and Watergate (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
The man who cried 'Van Gogh' proved right after all (Breaking News)
Poll shows concern about American influence waning as China's grows (Breaking News)
Families Uprooted as Alley of Sphinxes Revived (Breaking News)
Kermit Tyler: Officer got warning of Pearl Harbor raid, didn’t act (Breaking News)
Vintage Reagan Bemoans 'Socialized Medicine' in YouTube Sensation (Breaking News)
iTunes sells 10 billionth track (Breaking News)
From neo-Nazi skinhead to Orthodox Jew in Poland (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Washington College Announces George Washington Book Prize Finalists (Historians in the News)
Ancient Human Ancestors Faced Fearsome Horned Crocodile (Breaking News)
How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race (Breaking News)
Greek rescue in danger as deputy prime minister attacks 'Nazi' Germany (Breaking News)
Platform shoes were born in the 16th century as symbol of wealth (Breaking News)
Hamas founder's son spied for Israel, report claims (Breaking News)
The man who cried 'Van Gogh' proved right after all (Breaking News)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The Dalai Lama's Visit to D.C.: A Short Interview With Historian A. Tom Grunfeld (Historians in the News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Ben Bernanke Gives Ron Paul the "Idiot Treatment" (Watergate Payoffs) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
TROY KICKLER: BLACK HISTORY MONTH (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Black History Today: A Profile of Historian Crystal Feimster (Historians in the News)
Small dogs first bred in Middle East, says gene study (Breaking News)
One of Nation's Most Highly Decorated Soldiers Laid to Rest (Breaking News)
Beacon Press accepting submissions for video tribute to Howard Zinn (Historians in the News)
Tear Down This Myth: Questions for Will Bunch (Historians in the News)
Edinburgh Castle and Kelvingrove museum 'most visited' (Breaking News)
Giant predatory shark fossil unearthed in Kansas (Breaking News)
Argentine stolen at birth, now 32, learns identity (Breaking News)
Germany apologizes for luxury Gandhi pen (Breaking News)
Matt Damon To Star In New RFK Biopic (Breaking News)
Former camp guard implicates Demjanjuk at his trial (Breaking News)
Car bombing in Newry, Northern Ireland, raises fears of renewed conflict (Breaking News)
Weatherhead Center at Harvard: Martin Kramer did not advocate genocide (Historians in the News)
Stanford historian talks about China's "ethnic" parks (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Additionally Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
New species of dinosaur found in eastern Utah rock (Breaking News)
Michael Kazin says America is an optimistic nation (Historians in the News)
Newly Discovered Archaeological Sites In India Reveals Ancient Life (Breaking News)
Sudan signs ceasefire deal with Darfur rebel group (Breaking News)
Abbey Road studios given listed building status (Breaking News)
Conservatives revive Reagan slogan to ask voters if are better off under Labour (Breaking News)
Paris museum pins hopes on exhibition of the English artist Turner (Breaking News)
Cheney had mild heart attack, office says (Breaking News)
Martin Kramer: I am not an advocate of genocide, but a victim of smears (Historians in the News)
Juan Cole: Martin Kramer's Modest Proposal: Starve the Gazans into Having Fewer Babies (Historians in the News)
Is Martin Kramer an advocate of genocide? (Historians in the News)
Ole Miss votes on replacement for old "Col. Reb" mascot (Breaking News)
The 'Boneyard': £22bn 'military cemetery' pictured in stunning Google Earth photos (Breaking News)
£15.7 million given out to repair 154 churches in England (Breaking News)
Treasures from Medieval York: England’s other capital - at the British Museum (Breaking News)
Genetic Breakthrough Traces Human Ancestry in the Americas to Siberia (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: American History Begins in 1877 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
When There Were Arts Olympians (Breaking News)
Destroying C.I.A. Tapes Wasn’t Opposed, Memos Say (Breaking News)
Israel 'stole Palestinian heritage' (Breaking News)
Abbey Road studios listed by English Heritage (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown to apologise to British child migrants (Breaking News)
A family and a conscience, destroyed by North Korea's cruelty (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Shouting Down the Israeli Ambassador: Boneheaded? Perhaps... Illegal? Not So Fast. (Mark A. LeVine)
Roundup
Archaeology finds evidence that Old Testament descriptions of Jerusalem are accurate (Breaking News)
U.S. to Return 3,000-Year-Old Pharaonic Sarcophagus to Egypt (Breaking News)
King Tut’s Many Curses (Breaking News)
Stanford scholar links Rome and America in Philadelphia exhibition (Historians in the News)
Washington's Farewell Address (Breaking News)
Unabomber's writings raise uneasy ethical questions for Stanford scholar (Breaking News)
Hell’s Angels may hold key to pirate hero Störtebeker’s missing skull (Breaking News)
Clinton Detects Similarities Between 2010, 1994, But Says Democrats Can Still Win (Breaking News)
UC - Riverside historian named Officer of the British Empire (OBE) (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA - AN IDEOLOGUE WITHOUT PITY/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Sarah Strangelove's Advice for Obama (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Caravaggio's madness 'caused by lead poisoning' (Breaking News)
Atomic veterans group lashes out at author of "Last Train to Hiroshima" (Historians in the News)
Britain's oldest shipwreck discovered off Devonshire coast (Breaking News)
Unearthing the riches of Ur in war-ravaged Iraq (Breaking News)
Archaelogical find in Turkey changes the story of human evolution (Breaking News)
In ancient wall, scholar sees proof for Bible (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL HAS NEW DRONES/UPDATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: I LOVE THE PLACE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Replica of Aztec Capital to be Built in Mexico (Breaking News)
Racy Memoir by Casanova for the French National Library (Breaking News)
Is Washington Broken Compared to Its Achievements in the '50s? (Breaking News)
Michelle Obama's 'socialist books' disappear on closer study (Breaking News)
Poland admits role in CIA rendition programme (Breaking News)
History shows that intellectual property is more complex than either its creators or copiers care to admit, says a Chicago scholar (Historians in the News)
SC archaeologists say early octagonal house found (Breaking News)
Bennington battlefield on list of N.Y. park budget cuts (Breaking News)
Newtown Battlefield State Park could close (Breaking News)
For blacks, WWII brought two wars as soldiers discovered racial divide (Breaking News)
Judge to determine Walmart case in Orange (Breaking News)
Veteran's death aged 109 leaves just two survivors who fought in World War I (Breaking News)
Retracing an ancestor's steps with Continental Army (Breaking News)
Poll: 3 of 4 think our most trusted presidents have lied (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH RAICO: Glenn Greenwald on Libertarianism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Recycling High-Tech Body Implants (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Spain to recognise civil war poet Miguel Hernandez (Breaking News)
Collapse prompts Moroccan examination of old mosques (Breaking News)
US renames Negrohead Mountain after black pioneer (Breaking News)
Indiana Christian College Lifts Century-Old Ban on National Anthem (Breaking News)
Objections over proposed bypass near Newgrange in Ireland (Breaking News)
Megalithic site found in South Sumatra (Breaking News)
Stone Age pictographs get a reinterpretation (Breaking News)
7000-year-old bricks discovered in China (Breaking News)
Glenn Beck wraps up CPAC with a vintage tour of paranoid history and melodrama (Breaking News)
Putting New Perspective on Illinois Corruption (Breaking News)
Doubts Raised on Book’s Tale of Atom Bomb (Historians in the News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Ron Paul Wins CPAC Presidential Staw Poll (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Prehistory (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes in Recent American History (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Joseph B. Margolick: We Need Another Speech Like Lincoln's at Cooper Union (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lifting Hazy Veils From Centuries of Vietnamese Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robert J. Myers, Actuary Who Shaped Social Security Program, Dies at 97 (Obituaries)
Francis Lam: The Rice Fritter that Freed the Slaves (Roundup: Talking About History)
Damon Linker: Taking Exception to "American Exceptionalism" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Carlo Strenger: Talking-Cure Diplomacy in the Middle East (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Rauch: It's George Wallace's GOP Now (But Not in a Racist Way) (Roundup: Media's Take)
'Photogenic' Khrushchev reassessed in Moscow exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jon Wiener: Big Tobacco and the Historians (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jacob Heilbrunn: Germany is Becoming Introverted (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Herf: How Nazism Shaped Islamist Views (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert S. McElvaine: Let's Start Calling Conservatives "Regressives" (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Norman Solomon: We Have Become Numb to the True Cost of War (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sean Wilentz: Obama, Fire Your Staff! (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard A. Posner: Maybe It Wouldn't Have Been So Bad if Roosevelt Packed the Supreme Court (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Wiest: Is Afghanistan Today's South Vietnam? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: America's Youth are the New New Dealers (Roundup: Media's Take)
Clif Garboden: The Tea Party is the Woodstock Moment for Conservatives (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel A. Bell: China’s Confucian Alternative to Communism and Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jim Spencer and Curtis Ellis: Most "Tea Partiers" are Aging Boomers Reliving the 60s (Roundup: Media's Take)
Piers Brendon: Is America Like Rome Before the Fall? Not Yet (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jimmy Carter: Walter Russell Mead Does My Presidency a Disservice (Roundup: Talking About History)
Walter Russell Mead: Drinking Tea in America Today (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Edward Luttwak: In Praise of Aerial Bombing (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alexandre Dumas to be played by Gerard Depardieu in new film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Calleja: The My Lai Massacre – Vietnam’s Holocaust (Roundup: Talking About History)
Valery Kalnysh: Preserving Ukrainian Nationhood (Roundup: Media's Take)
Melvin A. Goodman: The Secret History of Gen. Alexander Haig (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Parenti: What Do Empires Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ashley Cruseturner: Healthcare May Be “Manifest Destiny” for this President and Congress (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Matt Damon To Star In New RFK Biopic (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Alter: Glenn Beck Hates the Progressive Era (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Why the United States Must Withdraw from NATO (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonah Goldberg: The Left Tends to get Schoolgirl Crushes on Foreign Regimes (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘I Am Not George Bush’ Policy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
"Formosa Betrayed" a haunting history lesson (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Simon Jenkins: From Newry to Helmand, the lessons are the same (Roundup: Media's Take)
I Have Not Yet Begun to Rot [audio 7 minutes and 5 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Love Me Did: A History of Courtship [audio 54 minutes and 56 seconds] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
John J. Pitney Jr.: FDR's Map Speech During WWII (Roundup: Talking About History)
JFK Miniseries isn't really character assassination (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: A Tale of Two Presidents in China (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kate Merkel-Hess: As China Beat Heads Into Its Third Year… (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Tremblay: A Brief History of Heroin at Oxford University (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eduardo Skzlarz and Martin Barillas: Tensions Rising between Argentina and UK, but War Unlikely (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Mandel: The Concept of "International Opinion" is Beyond Bogus (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anthony Shadid: Old Mistakes in Iraq Cast a Long Shadow (Roundup: Media's Take)
Pete Hegseth: 2010 Reconciliation or 2005 Redux? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alex Alexiev: Afghanistan at the Crossroads (Roundup: Media's Take)
Art deco ocean liner exhibition opens in New York (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Schools Must Teach Our Children that Free Speech Requires Civility (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard Cohen: The Crazy Factor in Iran and in History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Deborah Blum: How the Government Poisoned People During Prohibition (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stephen Rohde: Terrorism Law, the New McCarthyism (Roundup: Media's Take)
M. Shahid Alam: Disturbing Parallels Between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer -- by Mary Bilder, Maeva Marcus, and R. Kent Newmyer (Books About History & Historians)
Africa and the West: A Documentary History, Volume 2: From Colonialism to Independence, 1875 to the Present -- by William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark, and Edward A. Alpers (Books About History & Historians)
Africa and the West: A Documentary History, Vol. 1: From the Slave Trade to Conquest, 1441-1905 -- by William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark, and Edward A. Alpers (Books About History & Historians)
3 Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn -- by Howard Zinn (Books About History & Historians)
Did you know that pink used to be the "masculine" color and blue used to be the "feminine" color? (Did You Know?)
George Weigel: Why the Russians Whined about the Olympic Medal in Figureskating (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Samuelson: Why China Views Google as a Tool of the U.S. Government (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Teresa Iacobelli: What is the Use of Official Apologies to Historical Misdeeds? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rosamund Bartlett: Remembering Anton Chekhov in Russia (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Arquilla: The U.S. Military Needs to Adopt a Network-Centric Vision of Warfare (Roundup: Media's Take)
Reuel Marc Gerecht: The Islamic Republic of Iran is Alive but Not Well (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chris Wilson: How the U.S. Military is Changing Its Hierarchical Model of Its Enemies (Roundup: Media's Take)
Don Peck: How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Fallows: The OPR Report is this Era's 'Hiroshima' (Roundup: Media's Take)
B.R. Myers: North Korea is More Hitler than Stalin (Roundup: Media's Take)
Susan J. Douglas: The Backlash to 1970s Feminism (Roundup: Media's Take)
East Germany Makes a Comeback at the Berlinale (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian Zelizer: Don't Blame Congress for Leaders' Faults (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul Gauguin: The Breakthrough into Modernity Opens at the Van Gogh Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Landmark Exhibition Reveals Deep Artistic Dialogue Among Early Impressionists (US) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Saswato R. Das: Farewell to NASA's Glory Days (Roundup: Media's Take)
Byron Williams: One Month Does Not Do Black History Justice (Roundup: Talking About History)
Seumas Milne: Irish Unity is Inevitable (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dominic Sandbrook: Argentina is living in a nationalist dreamland (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Fixing What's Wrong in Washington... in Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Some Thoughts on the War on Terror (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jon Meacham: The System’s Not to Blame - We Are (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alexander M. Haig Jr., 85, Forceful Aide to 2 Presidents, Dies (Obituaries)
Week of February 14, 2010
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Bob and Ray's Comedy Send-up of American History (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Kipling's Indian legacy (Breaking News)
Henry Moore 'copied drawings from magazine' (Breaking News)
Found: 'Jurassic Parkette' – the prehistoric island ruled by dwarf dinosaurs (Breaking News)
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi living in luxury villa six months after being at 'death's door' (Breaking News)
Darfur Rebels Sign Truce Deal With Sudan (Breaking News)
The checkered history of the Mossad, Israel's spy agency (Breaking News)
Lost Nazi nuke-project uranium found in Dutch scrapyard (Breaking News)
Study Debunks Millennia-Old Claims of Systematic Infant Sacrifice in Ancient Carthage (Breaking News)
Nelson Mandela flag 'saved from auction by patriotic South African businessman' (Breaking News)
Prince of Wales visits Anglo-Saxon gold hoard (Breaking News)
Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig dies at 85 (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Exhibitions: 20th Century Abstractions (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: History Blogging in Continental Languages (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Why Did the British Bomb German Cities? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Controversy Arises Over King Tut Findings (Breaking News)
Dinosaur Extinction Led to Fat, Flightless Birds (Breaking News)
Some 'Dinosaurs' Evolved from Birds? (Breaking News)
Swansea's darkest hours told in history DVD (Breaking News)
Fresh calls over Lockerbie advice (Breaking News)
WWI survivor marks 109th birthday with RAF cake (Breaking News)
Queen meets Australians to celebrate 100 years of diplomatic relations (Breaking News)
Michelangelo drawings of his muse go on display (Breaking News)
New Battle of Bosworth Field site revealed (Breaking News)
Dumas film with white actor Depardieu sparks race row (Breaking News)
Pope approves Mary MacKillop as Australia's first saint (Breaking News)
Moscow to be decorated in images of Stalin (Breaking News)
Letters shed new light on British despair during the American War of Independence (Breaking News)
FBI concludes investigation into 2001 anthrax mailings (Breaking News)
Report clears Bush officials of misconduct over 'torture' memos (Breaking News)
During UF visit, historian paints picture of state during WWII (Historians in the News)
Park Service presents plan to renovate Mall to Commission of Fine Arts (Breaking News)
Washington DC monuments won't be getting labels (Breaking News)
Shroud of Turin packs in the visitors (Breaking News)
Call for Papers/Proposals for 2011 Mining History Association meeting in Montana (Historians in the News)
Canada’s last World War I vet, John Babcock, dies (Breaking News)
Niagara-on-the-Lake's Fort George to get a face lift (Breaking News)
How to move a museum in 20,000 pieces (Breaking News)
Ulysses S. Grant letters found in Illinois museum archives (Breaking News)
NY Parks Advocates Call for Potential Closure List (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Baghdad Bob (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RATE HIKE FOLLOWS FAILED BOND SALE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Commemorating the Roman Empire at the BBC (Breaking News)
New Battle of Bosworth Field site revealed (Breaking News)
Keep Calm and Never Mind, Britain Says in Its X-Files (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Revealing the Hidden Transcript (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Clinton Expresses 'Remorse' For His Role in Impeachment, But No Apologies for Kenneth Starr (Breaking News)
US reaches historic $1bn settlement with African-American farmers (Breaking News)
Giant fish swam prehistoric seas (Scotland) (Breaking News)
Ex-NY police chief Bernard Kerik jailed for four years (Breaking News)
Study Debunks Millennia-Old Claims of Systematic Infant Sacrifice in Ancient Carthage (Breaking News)
WWII vet of both the U.S. and the Red Army honored in Moscow (Breaking News)
North Carolina history-lesson changes fizzle (Breaking News)
“Dolley Madison” Documentary Features UC-Riverside Historian (Historians in the News)
Under Indonesia’s Surface, an Intricate Quilt of Faiths (Breaking News)
Nazi helmet stolen from Chatham dockyard (Breaking News)
Zimbabwe displays 'Ark of Covenant replica' (Breaking News)
Home renovation in Jerusalem reveals ancient Arab texts (Breaking News)
Prosecutors turn over evidence on looting of artifacts in the Southwest (Breaking News)
Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio wants to play role of Joseph Stalin (Breaking News)
Historian tells how the taco became a global food staple (Historians in the News)
Figurines provide clues to lost African civilisation (Breaking News)
Golden Bough from Roman mythology 'found in Italy' (Breaking News)
Red Army soldier who helped raise Russian flag over Hitler's Reichstag dies (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Those Reponsible (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Has Partisanship Really Gotten So Bad On Hill? Yes (Breaking News)
French leader brings reconstruction plan to Haiti, but bitter memories of ex-colonizer remain (Breaking News)
Protests from Holocaust Institute; Berlinale Resists Call to Pull Romanian Film (Breaking News)
Interview with Architect Daniel Libeskind (Breaking News)
Catholic scholars ask Pope Benedict XVI to slow Pius XII's path to sainthood (Breaking News)
Tut's ills won't kill fascination, historians say (Breaking News)
Scientists in aurochs genome sequence first (Scotland) (Breaking News)
Catholic scholars ask Pope Benedict XVI to slow Pius XII's path to sainthood (Breaking News)
France's Sarkozy Pledges Aid in Historic Visit to Haiti (Breaking News)
Machu Picchu to reopen in April (Breaking News)
Kennedy Miniseries Stirs Controversy (Breaking News)
Blood on the sofa in Pushkin's apartment from the poet (Breaking News)
Historians say that Obama's chance to be next FDR or Reagan fading fast (Historians in the News)
Cutty Sark to be restored in time for Olympics as funding gap is met for £46 million campaign (Breaking News)
Is heckling at speakers during university functions a right? (Breaking News)
Plans to alter history lessons spark outrage in N.C. (Breaking News)
Paul Johnson, Churchill biographer, talks to WSJ (Historians in the News)
Blogs
WENDY MCELROY: Of Labor Notes and Time Stories (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Everglades restoration threatens historic sites (Breaking News)
Sir Paul McCartney hopes Abbey Road can be saved (Breaking News)
Study Finds Public Discontent With Colleges (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Ancient copper workshop big find in Ill. (Breaking News)
Kennedy Miniseries Stirs Controversy (Historians in the News)
Archaeological dig in grounds of Linton Village College (UK) (Breaking News)
Fossils 'record past sea changes' (Breaking News)
Ghana dig reveals ancient society (Breaking News)
Joe the Plumber says John McCain 'screwed up my life' (Breaking News)
Charles Dickens dog collar sells for £7,350 (Breaking News)
King Tut died of malaria and bone condition, says new research (Breaking News)
Bronze Age shipwreck found off Devon coast (Breaking News)
Steve Jobs Authorizes His Biography, by Historian Walter Isaacson (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PARTY OVER; HANGOVER STARTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
DNA Tests Reveal Mysteries of Boy-King Tut (Breaking News)
North Carolina as It Was, Split and Seething: "Blood Done Sign My Name" (Historians in the News)
Henry Louis Gates donates his handcuffs to Smithsonian (Historians in the News)
Descartes was 'poisoned by Catholic priest,' according to philosopher (Breaking News)
Film released of JFK arrival in Dallas (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Michael Bérubé and My Post on Gun Free Zones (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
What you may not know about Presidents Day (Breaking News)
Pope meets Irish bishops over abuse report (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GODS STRIKE BACK? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
In biographies for children, presidents are great even before they become president. (Breaking News)
John Castellucci: The Night SDS Burned Orest Ranum's Papers (Historians in the News)
John F Kennedy's love letters put up for auction (Breaking News)
Azerbaijan mugham music makes revival (Breaking News)
Vatican Secret Archives Documents (1939-1945) Going Online (Breaking News)
Airship crash site off the coast of California declared historic (Breaking News)
Casino proposal brings another battle in Gettysburg (Breaking News)
France used troops as nuclear "guinea pigs" (Breaking News)
Blogs
STEVEN HORWITZ: A Guest Blog at FreeRangeKids.com (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Unexpected Good Policy Choice (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
John Berlau: America's First Entrepreneur-in-Chief (Historians in the News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Sunday, In The Park, With The New York Times (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Just one long ordeal? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Did Alexander the Great Fight the Yeti? (Breaking News)
Biden: Congress' Grip on Money Could Determine Courtroom for 9/11 Plotter (Breaking News)
On Presidents Day, We Honor ... Someone (Breaking News)
Zahi Hawass, media-savvy guardian of Egypt's past (Breaking News)
1,400 year-old Byzantine wine press uncovered (Breaking News)
Azerbaijan mugham music makes revival (Breaking News)
Presidents Need Degrees Too (Breaking News)
Happy ... Presidents Day? (Breaking News)
North Carolina's Real History Reform: "History did not begin in 1877!" (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREECE TODAY - US TOMORROW? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
WENDY MCELROY: Playing with Wollaston's Significancy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
US admits salvaging sunken Soviet submarine (Breaking News)
Globe theatre to stage Shakespeare's Henry VIII 400 years after fire (Breaking News)
Canada secures historic gold medal (Breaking News)
When presidents and slaves mingled at the White House (Historians in the News)
The Dresden Debate Won't Die (Breaking News)
Lebanon marks fifth anniversary of Hariri assassination (Breaking News)
Nazi loyalist and Adolf Hitler's devoted aide: the true story of Eva Braun (Breaking News)
Human bones could reveal truth of Japan's 'Unit 731' experiments (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: Military History Carnival 21 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Summing It Up (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... February 15-21, 2010 (This Week in History)
Roundup
Southern Oregon Historical Society Looks to the Past for a Future (Breaking News)
Methodist Church and its horseback preacher John Wesley (Breaking News)
Gerry Adams admits he was not always 'in tune' with Jesus (Breaking News)
Russell Shorto: Christianizing American History (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: INDIA ATTACKED AS FOREWARNED; US NEXT? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (Historians in the News)
Roundup
Eleanor Clift: The 2010 Midterms are Looking a Lot Like the 1994 Election (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Swift: A Guide to the International Conflicts Playing out at the Winter Olympics (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeff Randall: David Cameron and the Tories Should Learn Lessons from History (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Franke: The Mount Vernon Declaration in Historical Perspective (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Kuttner: How the Religious Right Has Taken Over the Republican Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
Abby Wisse Schachter: The Problem with the Jewish Holiday of Purim (Roundup: Talking About History)
Joseph J. Ellis: James Madison's Radical Constitutional Agenda (Roundup: Talking About History)
Eric Felten: Abbey Road and the Day Studio Music Died (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Brooks: The Decline of Trust in the Power Elite (Roundup: Media's Take)
Barbara Crossette: Sri Lanka Wins a War and Diminishes Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Erwin Chemerinsky: UC Irvine's Free Speech Debate (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gene Lyons: "Justice Jim" Johnson and the Far Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Beinart: Why Washington Is Tied Up in Knots (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: The Decline of the Israeli Right and the Increasing Desperation of the 'Anti-Semitism' Charge (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gail Collins: Time to Party Like It’s 1854 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kevin M. Schultz and Paul Harvey: Religion is Everywhere in History, but Nowhere in Historiography (Roundup: Talking About History)
William J. Astore: Why the U.S. Military Fetishizes the Wehrmacht (Roundup: Historians' Take)
George Will: A Brief History of Populism in the United States (Roundup: Media's Take)
“Dolley Madison” Documentary Features UC-Riverside Historian (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Theater Review: "Black Angels over Tuskegee" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
John Nagl and Mitchell Reiss: Iraq lessons can guide Afghan surge (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christian Caryl: Obama's 'Mission Accomplished' Moment on Iraq (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Tisdall: This isn't Falklands II (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fred Pearce: The Chagos archipelago – where conservation meets colonialism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Protests from Holocaust Institute; Berlinale Resists Call to Pull Romanian Film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bennett Ramberg: The Libya Option for Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Lourie: Russians Must Take Responsiblity for Themselves (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yevgeny Bazhanov: Dispersing the CIA Myth as a Catalyst for the Soviet Collapse (Roundup: Media's Take)
Counting Down to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Shahid R. Siddiqi: Threats to Pakistan’s Strategic Nuclear Assets (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Pfaff: Europe Needs to Believe in Its Own Adequacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Lippman: Bosnian Voices, Yugoslavian Memories from the Last Balkans War (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Gabriel Tokatlián: Obama and Latin America: Curse of the 'Local' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Farhang Jahanpour: Iran - What Happened, Where Now? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jack Hunter: Liberal and Conservative Uses of the Term "Terrorism" in History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Julian Zelizer: Obama Can Model Ike in Fighting Off GOP Hawks (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bernard Weiner: Can the Ticking Middle East Conflict Be Defused? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Can the U.S. Military Bring Lasting Change in Afghanistan? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nassrine Azimi: Japan's Iran Moment (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jason Capehart: A Scary Tea Party Looks Like Right-Wing Extremists in the 1990s (Roundup: Media's Take)
Museum Marks Presidents Day with Release of Amateur Footage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tony Kinsella: Debt-free Haiti can banish spectre of slavery (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy W. Ryback & Florian Beierl: A Damnation of Memory at Berchtesgaden (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Prados: Diplomats Among Warriors (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kennedy Miniseries Stirs Controversy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Holly Brewer: North Carolina's Devaluing of History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harvey Wasserman: Our Founders were NOT Fundamentalists! (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: Mullah Baradar, No. 2 Man in Old Taliban, Captured by ISI in Karachi (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gordon S. Wood: An Excerpt from "Empire of Liberty" (Roundup: Talking About History)
Henry A. Giroux: Democracy and the Threat of Authoritarianism: Politics Beyond Barack Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Rodgers: Is it Presidents Day or President's Day or Presidents' Day? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Bill Fletcher, Jr.: Lessons From Black History: Understanding How Change Happens (Roundup: Media's Take)
Carl Gershman: The Dalai Lama's Principled Pursuit of Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ruth Graham: Was President Lincoln's Wife Bipolar or Just Ahead of Her Time? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tara Bynum: The African-American Story is Not Just Activism and Resistance (Roundup: Talking About History)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The African Roots of Carnival (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Castellucci: The Night SDS Burned Orest Ranum's Papers (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Lind: Mythological Politics are the Key to Understanding the Populist Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Jefferson Invented the Swivel Chair? (Did You Know?)
Martin Kramer: America and Afghani, the Historical Hero of Afghanistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: In Mideast, Bet on a Strong Horse (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Beinart: Cheney's Real Enemy Is Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Rubin: Taking Tea with the Taliban (Roundup: Talking About History)
Peter West: Mammoth Cave and Racial Imagination (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kate Merkel-Hess and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: A New Consensus on the Rape of Nanking (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Barone: Under Obama, Crony Capitalism Again Rules the Day (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Did Rome Fall—And Why Does It Matter Now? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Samuel M. Edelman: A Week of Uncivil Discourse on Campus (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Mozur: China's Self-Defeating Censorship (Roundup: Media's Take)
Wolfgang Ischinger and Ulrich Weisser: Why NATO Should Withdraw Nukes from Germany (Roundup: Media's Take)
Philip Bowring: Are Political Dynasties Good or Bad? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harold Holzer: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Roundup: Historians' Take)
André Glucksmann: The Velvet Philosophical Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Great Literature is Often Profane and Offensive (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Randal Maurice Jelks: What is Going on with the Congressional Black Caucus? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Hold Onto Your Underwear, This Is Not a National Emergency (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mark Ames: The Hero of the Orange Revolution Poisons Ukraine (Roundup: Media's Take)
Naomi Klein: Haiti: A Creditor, Not a Debtor (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christopher M. Fairman: The Case Against Banning the Word 'Retard' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Samuelson: The Danger Behind China's 'Me First' Worldview (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne: What Bill Clinton Could Teach President Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
John R. Miller: George Washington Set the Precedent for Civilian Control of the Military (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Charlie Wilson, Texas Congressman Linked to Foreign Intrigue, Dies at 76 (Obituaries)
Xie Zhiliu's Traces and Originality in Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
WWII bomb causes a scare in France [video 1 min 9 secs] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Bruce Anderson: We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty (Roundup: Media's Take)
Caryl Churchill and Amir Amirani: The people's brakes on war (Roundup: Media's Take)
North Carolina as It Was, Split and Seething: "Blood Done Sign My Name" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Russell Shorto: Christianizing American History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeremy Kotkin: R.I.P. Mr. Wilson, Father of the Taliban (Roundup: Talking About History)
Thomas Friedman: 1977 vs. 1979 in the Muslim World (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert W. Merry: The Myth of the One-Term Wonder (Roundup: Historians' Take)
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
‘The Mountaintop,’ Play About Martin Luther King Jr., Planned for Broadway (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of February 7, 2010
Roundup
Archaeological 'Time Machine' Greatly Improves Accuracy of Early Radiocarbon Dating (Breaking News)
Stonehenge "Hedge" Found, Shielded Secret Rituals? (Breaking News)
NYC's Lincoln Building loses its name just in time for Presidents Day (Breaking News)
Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power (Breaking News)
A murdered spy and coded messages from beyond the grave... Will opening this tomb prove Shakespeare didn't write his plays? (Breaking News)
Unesco World Heritage site St Kilda seeks archaeologist (Breaking News)
Bomber Command: Still fighting (Breaking News)
America's Kennedy dynasty set to end (Breaking News)
New Louisiana museum pays tribute to legendary black coach (Breaking News)
German Neo-Nazis Protest Bombing Anniversary That Ended WWII (Breaking News)
Poll: Bush still blamed for economy (Breaking News)
Tuskegee Airman buried at Arlington (Breaking News)
Princess Diana's letters reveal personal details (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: The University of Alabama at Huntsville (Another "Gun Free Zone") (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TWENTY NO LONGER SEEMS OLD, STILL . . . (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Uncovered documents reveal spy who fed information on Hitler's secrets (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Save the Man, Kill the Indian (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Simon Heffer: We Can't Afford to Have Less History Taught at Universities (Historians in the News)
John Crace: Writing Off the UK's Last Palaeographer (Historians in the News)
History of England starts at 1700, says university (Historians in the News)
Italian police reopen murder case 450 years after crime (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: The terrible situation of King's College London (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Clinton Out of Hospital After Heart Surgery (Breaking News)
Skip Gates on Black History Month (Historians in the News)
Saudi Arabia announces a new archeological finding (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: Compassion at home? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Adolf Hitler painting may have hung on Sigmund Freud's wall (Breaking News)
Imperial War Museum shows how Britain fed itself in WWII (Breaking News)
Holocaust survivor heirs sue Hungarian railway company MÁV for USD 1.24 bn (Breaking News)
Saddam shadow darkens Iraq elections (Breaking News)
Frisbee inventor Walter Frederick Morrison dies aged 90 (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown admits to leadership deal with Tony Blair (Breaking News)
Student says 'slaughter the Jews' remark was misunderstood (UK) (Breaking News)
Royal Navy consigns 141-year-old ranking to history (Breaking News)
Skinhead group give Hitler salute on visit to death camp where 120,000 people died (Breaking News)
18th Century Encyclopaedia set bought for 15 pounds is now worth 9,000 pounds (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes on Knitting Fiction (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Patriot Act Reauthorization Ploy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Experts to explore modern Mayan version of '2012' (Breaking News)
Site museum planned for housing remains of Iron Age burials (Breaking News)
Italian court demands Getty Museum return ancient statue (Breaking News)
Valentine's day letters and cards from 1850s unearthed (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown: I should have been PM not Tony Blair (Breaking News)
History of England starts at 1700, says university (Breaking News)
Bill Clinton Hospitalized With Heart Issue (Breaking News)
Rashid Khalidi draws fire from the right for remarks at awards ceremony (Historians in the News)
Faulkner Link to Plantation Diary Discovered (Breaking News)
Iranian opposition leaders attacked during anniversary rallies (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THEY MARCH IN IRAN, AS THEY MARCHED IN THE USSR (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New inquiry into Australia's aboriginal child care system (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA'S OPPORTUNITY TO BE REGANESQUE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
The Nazi board game that taught the Hitler Youth how defeat the enemy (Breaking News)
The Nazis' Bid to Control Carnival (Breaking News)
Newly released 9/11 photos show World Trade Center from above (Breaking News)
BBC Paris bureau closes after 40 years of coverage (Breaking News)
Auschwitz sign theft: Swedish man arrested in Stockholm (Breaking News)
Nelson Mandela's 1990 release marked in South Africa (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TOUGH DAY IN NUCLER IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
C.J. MALONEY: Bash A Fattie For Freedom (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Historian says Morant does not deserve pardon (Historians in the News)
Work to restore 17th century palace begins (Breaking News)
Rebuilt DNA Could Lead to Cloned Neanderthals (Breaking News)
Mary Rose crew man's recreated face goes on display (Breaking News)
Reagan Brothers Feud Over Father's Response to Tea Party Movement (Breaking News)
Relatives Claim Cuban Woman Just Turned 125-Years-Old (Breaking News)
White House concert honors music of civil rights era (Breaking News)
Main road of Jerusalem from the Byzantine era exposed (Breaking News)
No dumb blonde: New book reveals the other side of Hitler's mistress Eva Braun (Breaking News)
Swiss art collection back on show after heist (Breaking News)
Analysis of hair DNA reveals ancient human's face (Breaking News)
20 Years ago: The Mandela moment that changed South Africa (Breaking News)
Charlie Wilson, ex-Texas congressman and Mujahideen supporter, dies at 76 (Breaking News)
Obama as professor-in-chief: The history of "professor" as a term of derision (Historians in the News)
Philosopher Left to Muse on Ridicule Over a Hoax (Breaking News)
Alexandre Dumas novels penned by 'fourth musketeer' ghost writer (Breaking News)
New biography of Eva Braun by German historian Heike B. Goertemaker creating a stir (Historians in the News)
Why Iran unrest is not revolution re-run, according to experts (Historians in the News)
Henry Louis Gates practices genealogy for PBS's "Faces of America" (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRAN: GETTING READY FOR FEB 11 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Binyam Mohamed torture allegations must be disclosed, say judges (Breaking News)
Australia asks Queen to pardon disgraced Boer War soldiers (Breaking News)
Dramatic images of World Trade Centre collapse on 9/11 released for first time (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Rand Paul is No Libertarian (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Founders of British obstetrics 'were callous murderers' (Historians in the News)
Hans L. Trefousse, Historian and Author, Dies at 88 (Historians in the News)
Dominic Sandbrook: Historians ignore the human element at their peril (Historians in the News)
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)
Roundup
Salvaging a Famous Rust Bucket (Breaking News)
Darfur rebel Abu Garda will not face ICC charges (Breaking News)
Asian skeleton found in ruins suggests Roman Empire larger than thought (Breaking News)
Hidden fire chokes last life from US ghost town (Breaking News)
Teacher Claims He Was Fired After Complaining Muslim Pupils Called 9/11 Hijackers 'Heroes' (Breaking News)
Khamenei: Iran Set to Deliver 'Punch' to Stun West on Anniversary (Breaking News)
World War II-era navigation system shutting down (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: The Most Worstest Thing in Forever (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Treasure hunters: watching the detectors (Breaking News)
Pennsylvania rep. John Murtha dies at 77 (Breaking News)
Victorian historian tells what we can learn from Victorian ideas on thrift (Historians in the News)
Senate Holds, Filibusters, and the “Nuclear” Option (Breaking News)
Fairfield’s Voices of Youth tells black history through music (Breaking News)
Video shows plane with US missionaries shot down in CIA operation in Peru (Breaking News)
Historic sites in California being looted for Iron (Breaking News)
Blogs
PAUL MORENO: The Milk Man Cometh (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Iran marks revolution anniversary amid ongoing dissent (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SPORTING ISRAEL/US FLAG PIN, PALIN FIRES AT OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Blix: Straw 'gave incorrect answers' to Iraq inquiry (Breaking News)
Race is on to save site of Roman chariot track (UK) (Breaking News)
Iran cuts cultural links with British Museum over Cyrus Cylinder (Breaking News)
20 million pounds Stonehenge visitor centre criticised by Government design watchdog (Breaking News)
New ways to write the story of the world (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: For All The Saints ... (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... February 8-14, 2010 (This Week in History)
Roundup
Niall Ferguson leaves his wife for Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Historians in the News)
Prehistoric human bones found in Asian cave (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GREENSPAN: JANUARY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE UNREAL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Sam Husseini: U.S. Afghanistan Offensive Violates Olympic Truce (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen Farrell: Marja 50 Years Ago: Model Villages and American Money (Roundup: Media's Take)
New Louisiana museum pays tribute to legendary black coach (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Alexander Cockburn: Fifty Years After Greensboro, Whatever Happened to the American Left? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peter Roff: ‘President’s Day’ is a Ridiculous Insult to George Washington (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph Chingyong Liow: Malaysia's "Allah" Controversy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yang Yao: The End of the Beijing Consensus (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fred Kaplan: Should We Stop Worrying and Love the Iranian Bomb? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Gerson: Guantanamo prison ... Ugly but necessary (Roundup: Media's Take)
George H. Wittman: The Old Afghan Waltz (Roundup: Media's Take)
Noam Scheiber: What Obama could learn from Bush about bipartisanship (Roundup: Media's Take)
Martin Kramer: The Chronologically-Challenged Stephen Walt (Roundup: Historians' Take)
HDS Greenway: Charlie Wilson’s war and the politics of blowback (Roundup: Talking About History)
Julian Zelizer: The Historical Cost of Partisanship on National Security (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Marcia Alesan Dawkins: Tom Tancredo's Fear of a "Multicultural" Nation (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nelson Mandela's 1990 release marked in South Africa [video 1 min 18 secs] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
National Gallery Visitors will be Able to Flip through Fragile Art Books (Canada) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Exhibition Explores the Egyptians' Beliefs about Life and Death and the Afterlife (US) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Johann Hari: Obama's secret camps are worthy of Bush's (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard N. Haass: Only one force can stop Iran now ... its people (Roundup: Media's Take)
Con Coughlin: A bloody history may be about to repeat itself in Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thaddeus Russell: Undercover Boss' Creepy Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gendering Historiography: Beyond National Canons -- Edited by Angelika Epple and Angelika Schaser (Books About History & Historians)
Jon Pahl: Malls Versus Mecca? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Lisa Daftari: Exalting Khomeini’s Legacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Martin Gorsky: The Different Approaches of America and Europe to Health Care (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steve Fraser: How the Obama Administration Ended Up Where Franklin Roosevelt Began (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aaron Zelinsky: WWJD: What Would Johnson Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Francis Fukuyama: What Became of the 'Freedom Agenda'? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aaron Zelinsky: WWJD: What Would Johnson Do? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Laurel T. Ulrich: An American Album, 1857 (HNN Videos)
Matthew Kroenig: China and Russia Aren't Interested in Non-Proliferation in Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The Mystery of Yo-Yo Ma's Name (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William J. Astore: On Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bloody Irreversibility (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: When Athletes Praise God at the Super Bowl and Other Sports (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Henry Louis Gates practices genealogy for PBS's "Faces of America" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian Zelizer: Obama Must Define Himself (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Leon Aron: Can Medvedev Emulate Gorbachev? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Erin Aubry Kaplan: "Negro" Needs to be Retired (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gregory Rodriguez: America's Distrust of Government Started with George III (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tim Rutten: The Winter of America's Discontent (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry J. Barkey and Thomas de Waal: Armenia and Turkey: The Truce in Need of a Rescue (Roundup: Media's Take)
Representative John P. Murtha Dies at 77; Ex-Marine Was Iraq War Critic (Obituaries)
J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91 (Obituaries)
'Gangland bling' of Beowulf era to go on show in Staffordshire (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Fred Barnes: The Ideologue ... Obama’s No Clinton (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: U.S. Is Winning War on Terror (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Our Top Anti-Terrorism Advisor Must Go (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Hollis Robbins: The Minstrel Origins of "Who Dat?" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael O'Donnell: Scalia v. The World (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nick Turse: The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bob Brecher: Iraq and the Fig-Leaf of Just War Theory (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jen Paton: Europe and Its Cannibals (Roundup: Talking About History)
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)
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)
Budget cuts 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Ira Chernus: Martin Luther King's Legacy and Israel's Future (Roundup: Media's Take)
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 (The Honey Trap: The True Story of Madame Elizabeth Brousse, A/K/A "Cynthia" -- by Jeff Shear)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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: 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Copyright Office Assails Google's Settlement on Digital Books (Breaking 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)
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