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NEW Former Gingrich Ally Claims Republican Leaders Blackmailed Him Over Affair
David A. Walsh

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Was Benjamin Harrison a More Significant President than Bill Clinton and Barack Obama?
Leo Ribuffo

Obama's Osawatamie Speech Proves He's the Anti-TR
Ira Chernus

Keynes and Hayek, Obama and the Republicans
Walter Moss

A Referendum on the Republican Party—Not Just its Leaders
Gil Troy

Social Conservatism Isn’t “White”
Jim Sleeper

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What’s Japanese for “Locavore?” Oh, Never Mind.
Jonathan Dresner

Ending the Palestinian "Right of Return"
Daniel Pipes

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1876: The Year When Things Went from Bad to Worse for Indians and Blacks
William Loren Katz

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Horatio Alger Theater Festival Explores Ninteenth-Century Rags-to-Riches Theme
Bruce Chadwick

Chilling New Play Oswald in Los Angeles Tackles the Kennedy Assassination
Bruce Chadwick

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Revew of Roger Ebert's Life Itself: A Memoir
Jim Cullen

Review of John M. Barry's Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State and the Birth of Liberty
J. Stanley Lemons


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Early Attacks on Romney's Bain Capital Record May Inoculate Him Against Democratic Attacks
Gil Troy

Lesson for Obama: GOP Mud Didn't Stick to FDR
Rosemarie Ostler

Americans Are Less Nationalistic than Flag-Waving Politicians Think
Lawrence S. Wittner

Let's Ditch "Detainee" and "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" and Use the Right Words: "Prisoner" and "Torture"
Caroline V. Hamilton

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"We're on a Destabilizing Planet": Interview with Tom Engelhardt
David A. Walsh

The Lost Generation? Youth and the Great Recession
Iwan Morgan

How Beijing Sees Us
Michael H. Hunt

South Sudan, Israel's New (Troubled) Ally
Daniel Pipes

Will Pakistan’s Crisis Affect the U.S. in Afghanistan?
Juan Cole

Who Will Be the Next Pope?
Charles Keenan

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Richard Nixon, from Mean-Spirited Disgrace to Elder Statesman
Yoav J. Tenembaum

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Review of Jason Heller's Taft: A Novel
Jim Cullen

Review of Louisa Thomas's Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacificists, One Family—A Test of Will and Faith in World War I
Murray Polner


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Highlights from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago

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News

Notes from the AHA Business Meeting
David A. Walsh and Rick Shenkman

AHA Features Panels on the Indifference of Journalists to History
Rick Shenkman

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Past AHA Annual Meetings

Cliopatria Awards 2011

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News at Home

Fed Up with the Iowa Corn Con 
Gil Troy

Can a Mormon Candidate Rise Above the Religious Issue to Win It All Next Year?
Vaughn Davis Bornet

Historians & History

You Want to Understand Occupy Wall Street? Start Reading Havel
James Livingston

Restoring Indian History at Jamestown and Williamsburg: Interview with Historic Anthropologist Buck Woodard
Priscilla Hart

A Video Interview with Juan Cole on Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Tunisia

Culture Watch

NEW Brutal 1973 "Goodbar" Murder Now Subject of Confused Musical
Bruce Chadwick

NEW The Return of Radical Writer Susan Sontag: History Ignored
Bruce Chadwick

The Lost Decade: The 1950s Comes Back with a Roar
Bruce Chadwick

War Horse a Winner Whether on Stage or Screen
Bruce Chadwick

It’s the Holidays and Time for History’s Dark Fairy Tale Champs, Hansel and Gretel
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Greil Marcus's The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
Jim Cullen


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