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On Other Websites: Week of January 28, 2013

  • James Grossman and Elaine Carey: An Undisciplined Report on the Teaching of History
  • Richard Pells: The Obsession With Social History
  • Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg: No Red States, No Blue States
  • Mae M. Ngai: Reforming Immigration for Good
  • Evan Thomas: Looking To Ike As Obama's Second Term Begins
  • Nancy F. Koehn: Lincoln’s School of Management
  • Amy L. Fairchild, David Merritt Johns, and Kavita Sivaramakrishnan: A Brief History of Panic
  • Grace Elizabeth Hale: When Jim Crow Drank Coke
  • Robert Whiting: Saying UnSorry ... Japan's New PM and His Country's Apology for World War II
  • Bernard Porter: Mali Intervention ... When Former Imperial Powers Step In