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NEW No, Newt, the U.S. Cannot Make the Moon a State. That's Illegal Under International Law.
Daniel S. Margolies
Former Gingrich Ally Claims Republican Leaders Blackmailed Him Over Affair
David A. Walsh
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- Did Anyone Care that George Romney Was Mormon?
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Blogs
News at Home
How Newt Gingrich's GOP Rivals Blackmailed Him Back in the '90s
Scot Faulkner
A Brief History Of Debt
Louis Hyman
What I Told the Hedge Fund Managers in Miami
James Livingston
GOP Debate Trivializes First Ladies
Gil Troy
Taking the Long View on Presidential Transcript Releases
Leslie Kitchen
News Abroad
Keep Karzai in the Loop
Matt Jacobs
Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict
William J. Astore
Don't Ignore Electoral Fraud in Egypt
Daniel Pipes
Historians & History
A History Lesson for Newt Gingrich: Andrew Jackson was a Savage Indian Killer
William Loren Katz
Culture Watch
The Convert: a Disturbing, Moving Look at Colonialism in Zimbabwe in the 1890s
Bruce Chadwick
Red Tails: World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen Fly Again in Film and on Stage but Much History is Ignored
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Conor O'Clery's Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
Murray Polner
Up Front
NEW Former Gingrich Ally Claims Republican Leaders Blackmailed Him Over Affair
David A. Walsh
NEW Did Teddy Roosevelt Write Obama's State of the Union Address?
Videos from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Assocation
Session #17: John McCormick's Machiavellian Democracy
Full Coverage of the AHA Annual Meeting
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- Who Chooses the Theme for Black History Month?
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News at Home
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
News Abroad
What’s Japanese for “Locavore?” Oh, Never Mind.
Jonathan Dresner
Ending the Palestinian "Right of Return"
Daniel Pipes
Historians & History
1876: The Year When Things Went from Bad to Worse for Indians and Blacks
William Loren Katz
Culture Watch
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
Books
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
Up Front
Videos from the American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Historians and the Obama Narrative
Full coverage of the AHA annual meeting
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- Did Johannes Kepler Murder Tycho Brahe?
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Blogs
News at Home
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
News Abroad
"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
Historians & History
Richard Nixon, from Mean-Spirited Disgrace to Elder Statesman
Yoav J. Tenembaum
Books
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
Index
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Notes from the AHA Business Meeting
David A. Walsh and Rick Shenkman
AHA Features Panels on the Indifference of Journalists to History
Rick Shenkman
Videos
- Lynn Hunt: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
- John Dichtl: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
- Edward J. Balleisen: Jesse Lemisch: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
- Jesse Lemisch: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
- Padraic Kenney Interview on Popular Protest Movements
- Andrew J. Bacevich: The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
- Juan Cole: Interpreting the Arab Spring
- Thomas Bender: Where Did We Go Wrong? The Past and Prospects of the History Profession
- Anthony Grafton: Presidential Address: The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies
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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


