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Week of April 21, 2008
The Last Time I Saw César by Richard Steven Street
Week of April 14, 2008
Arizona: Plan targets anti-Western lessons
Curators of Bush Library at SMU can learn from history of LBJ museum
ARAB MEDIA ON CARTER MEETING WITH MASHAL
CHENEY AT CORRESPONDENTS DINNER
Egypt's Colossi of Memnon to be reunited with their twins
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution drafts go online
Pitt's niece claimed to have 'found a cure for the plague'
Obama: A Man at Home in the World
Popes didn't always have a personal following
Joseph Ellis: Says Iraq War Violates America's "Historic Identity"
Historian questions claims that knife belonged to Crazy Horse
Did Thomas Aquinas actually wonder how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Nope.
The April 16 Archive: Remembering the Virginia Tech Tragedy
Films revisit the black Kent State shootings
William J. Astore: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Loathe the Bomb
The pope has offended some followers of other faiths but may be mending fences
Nadia Abu El-Haj: Profiled in New Yorker
Benedict XVI's clothing may show more than his fashion sense
Effort to Rework Arizona's 9/11 Memorial Fails
60s Radicals Become Issue in Campaign of 2008
Thomas D. Clark: Historian's words ring true today
Victor Davis Hanson: Casualties of the Campaign
CIA archives to go to National Archives
Marc Cooper: Hillary And The Commies
Steve Weinberg: "You Want ME to Write the Institutional History?"
Photographic image in auction may be from 1790s
New Museum Offers the Official Line on Tibet
Roger Cohen: Race and American Memory
Katyn Victims Memorial Day in Poland
The Relay of Fire Ignited by the Nazis (Courtesy: Leni Riefenstahl)
Vidal Sassoon: Anti-fascist warrior-hairdresser
Max Holland: Anatomy of a JFK Conspiracy Book by a Reputable Academic
Lincoln: Postwar Colonisationist?
David Kaiser: Response to Max Holland & John McAdams
Did FDR have melanoma? Did it kill him?
Daniel Pipes: A Democratic Islam?
COSMOPOLITANS HAVE "FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS"
Last Night's Democratic Debate
Peter Franchot Needs to be Instructed on Liberty
Michael T. Klare: The End of the World as We've Known It
Hillel Fradkin: Who speaks for Islam?
Give Students A Break This Year
Paul Rogat Loeb: Letter to Hillary ... Remember When John McCain Slimed Your Daughter
Efraim Karsh: Takes Israel's "New Historians" to task for alleged misuse of evidence
Neanderthals speak for first time in 50,000 years
Sherlock Holmes rarity among Oxfam finds
One lawmaker has budget solution: Plunder Florida's treasure
Prosecutor charges alleged Nazi-era 'hitman' with murder
Nikolas Gvosdev: Reagan Plagiarized
Robert McElvaine: Pope Should Start "Spiritual Renewal" with Bisexual God
OBAMA IS THE POST EVERYTHING CANDIDATE
Public historians hold annual conference
Mary Lefkowitz: Yale publishes her account of her fight with Afrocentrists
TAINTED TORCH CONTINUES TRUNCATED ROUTE
DEFENDING THE WEST AGAINST EDWARD SAID
Dov Levin: Historian gives back award received in 1993 from Lithuania
Ex-leader recalls Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Fritz Stern: Lectures at the Council of Foreign Relations
The Story of Barack Obama's Mother
John Hope Franklin: Endorses Obama
How much does the federal government spend on history projects?
Working Group on the Future of the AHA Reports
NYT Editorial acknowledges HNN Bush poll
Historical Stalemate: Chess Book May Have Leonardo Illustrations (or Not)
Polly Lauder Tunney, 100, Fighter’s Widow, Dies
Humberto Fontova: Former JFK Speechwriter Joins Obama. Yeah?
William Dalrymple: Historian illustrates fall of dynasty (Interview)
Edward L. Ayers: New President Sworn In At U Of Richmond
U of Pittsburgh prof named History Channel’s teacher of the year
Stanley I. Kutler: Blame Obama's latest controversy on the media
Julian E. Zelizer: United government no universal cure
Edwin Black: An Egyptian Jew Battles Coca-Cola in the USA for a Modern Day Injustice
John McCain returned from Vietnam determined to lead
E.J.Dionne: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, working hard to elect John McCain
ISRAEL MAKING STRIDES IN MISSILE DEFENCE
John B. Judis: Barack Obama's going to be the bitter one at the end of this
Blogging and the Future of the AHA
150th anniversary of black exodus from California
VA Gov. Kaine Wants $5M for Civil War Sites
Pre-Islamic icons symbolize Iran's confused present
Baroness Loses Appeal In Nazi-Era Art Case
Israel's Peres pays homage to victims at Nazi death camp
How epidemics helped shape the modern metropolis (N-Y Historical Society/Exhibit)
British pub tradition in trouble?
Churches crumble in France, and a country asks how it can save them
German advertiser breaks Hitler taboo
Smithsonian Official Resigned In Wake of Ethics Probe
Frederick W. Kagan: Progress, Actually
Jonathan Zimmerman: Are the Olympic games politicized? Yes.
Rumsfeld memoir to be published in 2010
John Hope Franklin Endorses Obama
END OF CHINA'S SURREPTITIOUS RISE
Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Titanic’s Doom?
Conservatives for Printing More Money
Win Scutt on 'This Week in Archaeology' [audio 15min at 2:30]
David Paul Kuhn: Obama as San Fran Liberal Elitist
Religion professor asks: How Just Is Islam's Just-War Tradition?
History Channel teams with Library of Congress
Bust of "Hidden" Roman Emperor Found
Giant Statue of Ancient Egypt Queen Found
Mixtec Indian Cremations Found; Show Elite Ate Dog
Hunt is on for t major outpost for free blacks and fugitive slaves in Florida
Boer War black camps uncovered
FBI Marilyn Monroe sex flick sells for $1.5 million
Virginia: Rules sought on ordnance from Civil War
Could famed national parks be developed from within?
Lawrence of Arabia negatives go for £6,572
Franco 'collaborated with Nazis' to prove Canary Islands were home to Aryan race
Don Bohning & Jack Hawkins: Kennedy, Bush made similar mistakes in Cuba, Iraq
Restaurant honours mass murderer (Australia)
Polish lawmakers honor memory of 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising fighters
For English churches, lead thieves destroy a rich heritage
Holocaust train overcomes Berlin station ban
Wagners end feud over Bayreuth festival
Mexico's black history is little-known
Philip Zelikow: NYT book review takes view that he tried to bias 9/11 Commission
Buzz Bissinger: Time to end the Olympics
Has Tibet always been a part of China or not?
Descendants of "witch" want ancestor exonerated
Holy Islamic key sets sale record
Lucien Freud's sleeping nude 'paid £20'
Aboriginal site among Australia's oldest
Discovery? Mini-Stonehenge in UK
Ancient Burial Cave Discovered (Philippines)
Jewish remains dug up in Belarus
Historic U.S. trove goes digital--Library of Congress
Tony Perrottet: Beware of Greeks Bearing Placards
A Bloody Era of Syria’s History Informs a Writer’s Banned Novel
NYT praises new Library of Congress exhibit
Daniel Pipes: Europe or Eurabia?
David A. Bell: What hinders historians from discovering the strangeness of the past?
Thomas G. Palaima: Airlines' excuses just won't fly
Raimondo to Barr and Garris to Raimondo
Sidney Blumenthal: Dick Cheney was never a "grown-up"
Thomas Fleming: Post-Presidency With Grace
Roosevelt Montas: Columbia Professor Takes On Overhaul of Core Curriculum
Robert P. Murphy v. Hummel and Henderson on the Fed and the Housing Bubble
Can the State Kill Someone Twice? The Strange and Disturbing Case of the Death of Willie Francis by Gilbert King
Department of Corrections: Barack Obama on Annie Oakley and Hillary Clinton by Sean Wilentz
Is the National Archives Preserving or Distorting the Heritage of the New Deal? by Martin Halpern
The Coming Age of Preventive War by Thomas M. Nichols
The Obama Coalition by Morton Keller
The Risks and Rewards of the Pope's Visit to the US by Thomas J. Carty
What If Someone from the Obama Camp Said Hillary Clinton Is Where She Is Because She's a Woman? by Arica L. Coleman
What Underlies Obama's Analysis of "The People" by Leo P. Ribuffo
What's Left of Bush's Democracy Agenda? by Daniel Mandel
Why Did Truman Fire MacArthur? (And Why Did He Wait So Long to Do It?) by Michael D. Pearlman
Will the Democrats Blow It (Again)? by Donald T. Critchlow
Week of April 7, 2008
Long Memories May Ensnare a Dictator (Surinam)
From Welfare Shift in 1996, a Reminder for Clinton
Milton Friedman: A Fresh Look at the Apostle of Free Markets
Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?
Norman Mailer-William F. Buckley Jr.: Requiem for a Champion
Why so many courses on Greek history at Princeton? Because a donor's grant commands it.
Pastor Wright blasts founding fathers over slavery
Juan Cole: Iran Supported al-Maliki against Militias
Keynes versus Mises on Gold and Money
Clinton Should Be More Honest -- Obama Should Be Less
George H. Smith: Thinking About War
RADICAL ISLAMIST BEAUTY CONTEST
Garry Wills: Two Speeches on Race
Archaeologists warn ancient Greek theatres crumbling
Skull returns to final rest place (UK)
Bejeweled Anglo-Saxon Burial Suggests Cult
Russia opens monument to space dog Laika
Bernard Lewis: Will Deliver Keynote Speech at ASMEA's Annual Conference
Kirk Bane: Review of John Dougan's The Who Sell Out (2006)
Pastor Wright: In Context by Steve Hochstadt
Thinking War, Thinking History: A Short Review Essay
Clayborne Carson on 'The Social Gospel Radicalism of Martin Luther King Jr.' [audio 18min]
Michael Honey on 'King, Black Workers, and the Spirit of Memphis' [audio 34min]
Lawrence R. Samuel on the 1964 New York World's Fair [audio 55min]
Historian Dunn unsatisfied with Fla. apology for slavery [audio 28min]
After the shot: Conspiracy theories surround Lincoln assassination [audio 28min]
David R. Stokes: The Preacher King ... His Last Year
John J. Pitney Jr.: Wishing for 1976
Neve Gordon: Decries politicization of archaeology in East Jerusalem dig
Max Boot: The Secret History of Neoconservatism
Donald Ritchie: The National Press Club, at 100
Island levelled by British to be whole again
Serb prisoners 'were stripped of their organs in Kosovo war'
Clues to the Mystery of a Writer Pilot Who Disappeared
Vermont Towns Try to Find Their Roads Less Traveled
Re-Created Library Speaks Volumes About Jefferson
Your help requested: Is London's Waterloo Bridge the "Ladies' Bridge"? [6min @21:40]
Mapping Scotland: Confusion between Gaelic, Scots placenames [audio 9min @ 7:45]
Royal Navy's Murmansk Mutiny of 1919 [audio 1st 8min]
Long and Beito at Historians Against the War Conference
Vibrators in history: Were they a 'cure' for hysteria? [audio 8min]
The Somnambulists: Photographing life-masks [audio 9min]
From Bloomsbury poet to bag lady: Celia Robertson recalls the life of her grandmother [audio 9min]
Bletchley Park code-breakers reunited [audio 45min]
The Norman yoke: 1067 and all that [audio 43min]
At Tribute, Mailer Children Recall a Family Man
Rev. Lee's Anti-Semitism: A Personal Story/update
Douglas A. Blackmon: WSJ reporter in new book says slavery didn't end with the Civi War
Man regains sight lost in the blitz
Patrick Cockburn: Petraeus's Ghost
Kinue Tokudome: The Bataan Death March and the 66-Year Struggle for Justice
107 year old WW I vet allowed burial at Arlington
Roman soldier's gift found (UK)
Smithsonian's American History Museum To Reopen In November
Gettysburg map creator's kin fight plans to scrap it
Park proposed for Civil War's 'Valley Forge'
Ice-cream stick ship sails for England
Bush emotional, again, as he talks about overcoming his drink problem
Cathedral bans popular hymn Jerusalem
UK historic bridges in danger from drivers using GPS
In a Czech city, '30s modernism lives on
Rick Perlstein: All Aboard the McCain Express
Jon Wiener: Obama and the Palestinian Professors
Norman Mailer-Requiem for a Champion
R.H. Lossin: Iraq's Ruined Library Soldiers On
Honorary Degrees awarded to Japanese Americans Who Were Expelled in 1942
Robert Kagan: The End of the End of History
FROG BITES SCORPION by BARRY RUBIN/update
Rick Perlstein: First review is in of Nixonland ... Wins praise in Atlantic
Susan Mann: Pioneering Historian of China Wins Highest Peer Honor
History Channel moves into Central Europe
Greg Dening: An imaginative and original historian, dies at 76
The Tragedy of Bataan, a forgotten battle
John H. Taylor: Comparing Bush with Nixon
Tom Engelhardt: 9 Propositions on the U.S. Air War for Terror
More Reasons to Doubt Bob Barr
ABC News: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Experts Work To Preserve Tequesta Indian Artifact
'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge dig
60 Years After Israel’s Founding, Many Are Not in the Mood for a Party
Air Force histories reveal secret CIA role in Laos and plan to possibly use nukes in 1959 crisis
Professors' petition protests alleged politicization of archaeological work in East Jerusalem
Missing Iraq antiquities haunt experts
David Paul Kuhn: Obama's Dukakis Moment ... Bowling Blunders Matter
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: Four lessons learned from Mugabe's horrific regime
Are we living in American comic books' true golden age?
Town hopes Nietzsche’s grave can halt coal mine
Holocaust survivors: German rail restrictions 'undignified'
Mass grave from Thirty Years' War found in Bavaria
Germans shun space race legacy
Pictures of feared Hitler henchman to be sold after almost 60 years in British home
New antislavery law may be wrongheaded
High School Student Raises Questions About Textbook Bias
Bush is depicted as foul-mouthed frat boy in new Oliver Stone movie
Catholic Church Reveals Extent of Forced Labor
War Crimes are Only the Beginning
Neve Gordon: Criticized by person he sued for allegedly suppressing freedom of speech
Juan Cole: Petraeus, Iraq and the Lebanon Analogy
Richard Reeves: On the Matter of Torture
"Library of Congress Experience" Debuts April 12
Zainab Bahrani: Desecrating history
Poisoned Penn – and Hillary’s Clinton Fatigue
If the Obama/Clinton fight goes on, it's bad for Dems right?
AHMADINEJAD, LIKE WRIGHT, ALSO SAID "GOOD MORNING"
Oratory is not enough. It often takes a national crisis to persuade Americans to make sacrifices
Alan Dawley, historian and activist, dies at 64
William Cronon to receive Colman Barry Award from SJU
Marvin Dunn: Historian Unsatisfied with Fla. Apology for Slavery
Historians help N-Y Historical Society raise $1.7 million
David McCullough: His next book is about Paris (interview)
Frederick W. Kagan: Talking back to antiwar-party talking points
Edward McClelland: How 1968 changed Hillary
Michael Robertson: Reading Whitman Religiously
Saul Friedlander: Historian wins Pulitzer Prize
67 bodies secretly exhumed from historic NM graveyard
Russian-American research team examines origins of whaling culture
Bay could reveal Viking secrets (Scotland)
Illinois Style: Much still to be learned about Cahokia Mounds
Remains of more 9/11 victims identified
UN expert stands by Nazi comments
'Hoodies' were the scourge of Medieval London
Omagh bomb relatives launch civil case (Northern Ireland)
Survivor recalls horrors of Cambodia genocide
Swedes find Viking-era Arab coins
James Bond Creator's Preposterous Plan to Outwit Nazis Revealed
Roger Pulvers: Why is there no Japanese Barack Obama?
Getcha Evil Here! Getcha War Here!
Edwin Lewinson: Blind historian heading to jail for civil disobediance protest
More Noted Things (Tech Edition)
Bush biographers mixed on script for Oliver Stone's 'W'
Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War
Kathy Shaidle: Obama's Church ... Gospel of Hate
David A. Hollinger: Says academic freedom is threatened
Beverly Gage: Was Warren Harding Our First Black President?
Taylor Branch: The Last Wish of Martin Luther King
Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation (Review/NYT)
Day on Campaign Trail to Remember Dr. King
Battle rages over Revolutionary War museum at Valley Forge
Daniel Walker Howe: Wins 2008 Pulitzer Prize in history
PUSHING BACK AGAINST MEDIA ATMOSPHERICS
Sean Wilentz: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning
New book tells the story of Chalabi ... the man who brought you the Iraq War
Todd Crowell: McCain is a brat
WHY DOES CHINA PROMISE TRANSPARENT SWF?/update
40 years later questions about James Earl Ray linger
Battle site protectors prevail (KY)
Charleston's Civil War legacy lies hidden, for now
Confederate Plates Bill Going No Where (FL)
Civil War Buffs Work to Restore Fort Lincoln's Earthen Walls
April brings mystery tribute to grave site
$103M museum-visitor center to help orient visitors to Gettysburg
Cities to declare Confederate History Month next week
‘Confederate Heritage Month’ Tries to Ignore Historical Injustice
Listed protection for Cold War bunker (UK)
U.S. soldier returns to My Lai
New Web Site Offers Vietnam War Records
Unique Tribute to War Photojournalists at Newseum
Using GPS historians find exact location of Revolutionary War battle (North Carolina)
ANZAC Tradition Honoured in NZ Post Stamps
The Red Baron flies back into role of the hero in Germany
Max Hastings: Says political correctness has denied wartime bomber crews the honour they deserve
Anti-Semitism group protests Nazi-themed cosmetics ad in South Korea
German foreign minister suggests joint German-Polish historical exhibition
Muslim graves desecrated in French WW1 cemetery
Appian Way, the queen of Roman roads, is under threat
William Caxton's prayer book saved by National Trust
Act repeal could make Franz Herzog von Bayern new King of England and Scotland
Margaret Thatcher 'would win election today'
Ancient stone tools found on Australia mine site
Possible Nazi Theme of Grand Prix Boss's Orgy Draws Calls to Quit (London)
In the trenches restoring Gettysburg's cyclorama (video)
14 Street NW, 1968: Where the riots began in Washington DC
Historic Building in Quebec City Nearly Destroyed in Fire, Collapses
Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and Voice of N.R.A., Dies at 84
David Treuer: If native tongues of Native Americans are lost, what remains of Indian culture?
DNA tests may solve mystery of Anastasia
The other civil rights leaders
Howard Zinn Interview Coming Up
Cliopatria Welcomes Claire B. Potter
Before Obama Was a Favorite Son by Timothy Stewart-Winter
Is Reverend Wright a Black Liberationist? by Clare L. Spark
London Calling: The Dollar is Falling! by James Livingston
OAH: Slighting '68 by Fran Shor
Predicting China’s Fate in the Year of 08/08/08 by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
The Follies of Instant History: Another Meaningless Poll of Historians by Larry DeWitt
The Olympics: A Return to Ethics: Character, Principles, and Consequences by William Thompson
The Worst Massacre of Blacks by Whites in U.S. History--And the Lesson It Teaches Today by Charles Lane
Time (Yet Again) for Preventative Regulation by Christopher McKnight Nichols
Week of March 31, 2008
David McNeill: Why the Japanese Will Not Be Seeing a Film About Yasukuni
Andrew Wilson: China’s Early Encounters with the West: A History in Reverse
WHAT IS THE LIFE OF A MUSLIM WOMAN WORTH?
What should elections, and primaries, measure?
Ferdinand Mount on Working for Mrs Thatcher
Forgiveness : Grandeur or Political Slogan? by Valérie Rosoux
Human rights and the ‘work of memory’ in international relations by Valérie Rosoux
Fred Siegel: The American Left has a long history of utopianism
Richard Steven Street: The photographer as historian
Pauper Chic: How Commerce Made Workers Better Off
Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Scary McCain?
Michael Radu: Kosovo ... The Revenge of CNN and the Politics of Emotion
MLK: ANTI-ZIONISM =ANTI-SEMITISM
DALAI LAMA CANNOT BE THE TIBETAN MARTIN LUTHER KING
Josh Marshall: Historian blogger predicts digital media takeover
Woody Holton: University of Richmond history professor receives Guggenheim fellowship
Answers due on WWII mystery (Australian sub disaster)
Fred Siegel, Jeff Herf & Thomas Cushman: Symposium on "The Unknown Obama"
Michael Barone: Obama Appeals to Academics and Clinton Appeals to Jacksonians
Bush library searches for Web site name
The world's oldest archaeologist
Historian flags Gallipoli visitor limits
David Nichols: Ike misunderstood
April 7th is Not the 75th Anniversary of the End of National Prohibition
Arnold Hirsch: Historian interviewed about post-Katrina housing in New Orleans
At least 1 teen in Confederate monument defacing to admit charges (Alabama)
For 50 Years This Has Been the Symbol Of Peace. Far Out
The retreat MLK visited for prayer & discussion
Decade on and still no report on Bloody Sunday (UK)
Pioneering British engineer also first to use Portland cement, it turns out
After 1,500 years as a ruin, gladiators' stadium to be restored
Moravian College plans to dismantle Colonial root cellars to build dorm
Remains of largest telescope in the world found in Cambridge
UK museum seeks cash to keep a rare astrolabe in public hands
Aztecs devised sophisticated arithmetic system
Fossilized feces upends timeline of human's arrival in North America
Tourists 'stripping ancient Rome bare'
In Test, Few Students Are Proficient Writers (US)
Sister remembers 'horrible moment' King was killed
Collector Sues Intrepid Museum Over War Photos
Britain releases records on female WWII spy who posed as cosmetics saleswoman
Robert P. Lockwood: Why JFK's speech on religion and Obama's on race sounded so different
The Night Washington Burned Black
Behind Coretta's Veil: Black Women and the Burdens of Loss
How developing nations translated King's message
US Holocaust Memorial Museum mapping genocide threats
Samuel Pepys: Re-discovering the vim of his vigour [audio 33min @ 19:08:20]
A Leftist Against the New Deal
The enduring legacy of Martin Luther King (as recalled by his son)
Conference: Columbia 1968 and the World
Nation Mag et al. to run April 9 conference on New Deal
The fourth estate gets a new home
Robert Creamer: What's wrong with Clinton's last argument in favor of her candidacy
Arthur Schlesinger Jr: Librarians and Book Dealers Dissect a Historian's Treasured Book Collection
Auto president Max Mosley has escalated the "sick Nazi orgy" row
NBC story on MLK's last days features color footage
Royal Mint reveals new coin designs (UK)
Listed buildings to be renamed 'registered heritage asset' (UK)
Lincoln's letter sets record at auction
February 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American woman to win an Oscar
Jim Sleeper: Obama's Racial Wisdom vs. Holdouts Left and Right
Savage Pastimes: Entertaining Violence
Why Don't More Colleges Teach Military History?
Medieval game gets sport status
Jim Geraghty: Comparing the Campaign To 'The Bataan Death March'
Andreas Umland: Is Putin’s Russia really “fascist”? A response to Alexander Motyl
Jonathan Zimmerman: Africa has corner on teacher abuse
Stanley I. Kutler: The Decriminalization of Corporate Crime
Tom Engelhardt: Why the Testimony of General Petraeus Will Be Delusional
Two Guns Used in RFK Assassination, Experts Say
New Independent Institute Beacon Blog
Bernard Chazelle: Saving the American Left ... The Case for a New Progressive Creed
Ruth Rosen: Give the Freedom Riders Honorary Degrees!
Walter Laqueur: Disraelia ... A Counterfactual History, 1848-2008
TERRORIST ATTACK FOLLOWS CHECKPOINT REMOVAL
NATO: YES TO MISSILE SHIELD, NOT YET TO UKRAINE AND GEORGIA
Frederick Kagan: Iraq's Benchmarks
April 4, 1968 by Joseph A. Palermo
New Lidice education centre offers detailed catalogue of Nazi horrors
Yale Builds Digital Archive Of Soviet Dictator's Life
Juan Cole: Why al-Maliki attacked Basra
Howard Zinn: What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About the American Empire
Howard Zinn: Now he's doing history through illustrations
Roger Pulvers: What happened to Ireland?
Eric Alterman: The death and life of the American newspaper
FBI: Parachute isn't hijacker Cooper's
History stood between Ireland and its future
Young pharaoh played with marbles
David Kaiser: Historian Plows Through New Kennedy Assassination Research
Reporter recalls 'eerie' but calm night with King's widow, children
RACHEL WINS ONE AGAINST EVIL FUNDING
Let’s Face It: All Three Leading Candidates Lack Executive Experience
From Libertarian to Apparatchik; or, How a Hard-Core Randian Ended Up With Wesley Mouch's Job
Alon Confino: An anti-history historian
Kathy G.: How Hillary Clinton is like Richard Nixon (hint: it's not what you think)
Neil Maher: It’s Time for A New and Improved CCC
Andrew Bacevich: Historian discusses Iraq War, criticizes Bush administration
National Press Club Releases '100 Key Dates in NPC History'
Robert S. Wistrich: 'UK is European center of anti-Semitism'
Kristie Macrakis: MSU historian takes reader behind the scenes of East Germany’s Stasi
Montpelier claims it's turned the corner
John Patrick Diggins disappointed HBO John Adams series skirted debates about the Constitution
Claire B. Potter: Historian with tenure wonders if we'd be better off without it
Daniel Pipes: Will Europe Resist Islamization?
Carrying Primary Scars Into the General Election
Mary Beard: Professor reminds everybody that Hitler invented the Olympic torch
Lack of resources leaves ancient sites unprotected in Iraq
Anne Boleyn: The real Tudor queen was more complex than seen in contemporary portrayals
Victor Davis Hanson: Nothing Succeeds Like Success
Frederick W. Kagan & Kimberly Kagan: Basra ... what we know and don't know
Critical test for NYC preservationists
What now for the 100-year-old TA? (UK)
Bin Laden Took Part in 1986 Arms Deal, Book Says
Wartime exploits of British agent with million franc bounty on her head
Peru necklace is oldest gold object in Americas
Hunting was just final straw for mammoth, study finds
Finland: Rock art from 5,000 years ago
Archaeologists dig deep to find origins of Stonehenge
Siberian, Native American Languages Linked -- A First
Ancient skeletons found on 2012 site of London Olympics
Kelly Schrum: Says history is being taught differently these days
Survivor calls for closure on Centaur shipwreck (Australia)
German Luftwaffe pilot returns to Bath to apologise for wartime bombing
Britain's National Gallery says Old Master painting was once owned by Adolf Hitler
Vienna State Opera comes to terms with its purge of Jews 70 years ago
Congress Passes First Ever Resolution on Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries
Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery
Mystery of discarded Picasso worth millions
Vatican: Islam Surpasses Roman Catholicism as World's Largest Religion
Obama Overstates Kennedys' Role in Helping His Father
On the quest to identify John Does, dead and buried
Oceanic Northwest Passage lures British explorers
Schiller relatives exhumed to identify poet's skull
Neanderthals Wore Make-up and Liked to Chat
Study shows life was tough for ancient Egyptians
UK head teachers want to drop National Curriculum -- including history -- in schools
Paul Arthur: 60, Film Historian and Critic, Dies
Art and History Clash in San Francisco
10 most historically inaccurate movies
Gray's Anatomy celebrates 150th anniversary
Race row over 'King Kong' Vogue cover
Yorktown Battlefield once a golf course
William Hyland, Who Guided Foreign Policy, Dies at 79
Okinawa Suicides: Japanese Court Rejects Defamation Lawsuit Against Nobel Laureate
Titanic survivor's secrets revealed
Monticello: Atop a Hallowed Mountain, Small Steps Toward Healing
Edison ...Wasn’t He the Guy Who Invented Everything?
Dith Pran, Photojournalist and Survivor of the Killing Fields, Dies at 65
Memphis sanitation worker remembers strike of '68, King's assassination
The Most Celebrated Hoaxers in British History
So What Are Their Kids Up To Now?
HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst by Robert S. McElvaine
BRAND MCCAIN DOES NOT DEPEND ON BIOGRAPHY
POLL: VOTERS AGREE ON ISRAEL & IRAN
Sean Wilentz: Obama was the first to play the race card
Our March of Folly in Iraq by William J. Astore
Those "Undemocratic" Party Conventions Were More Democratic Than You Think by Mark D. Nevin
What We Can Still Learn from the Whole Earth Catalog by Andrew G. Kirk
What We Can Still Learn from the Whole Earth Catalog by Andy Kirk
When Women and Blacks Fight to Get First in Line They Both Suffer by Stephanie Coontz
Why We Can Thank Judges for So Many of Our Rights by Anthony Lewis
Week of March 24, 2008
Perhaps British Airways Should Be Privatized
INDIA CANNOT PROTECT CHINA FROM TIBETANS
King's last march [audio 30min]
Iraq War's impact on America's international reputation, role [audio 23min]
Matthew Parker & 'Panama Fever' [audio 51min]
Have there been 50 years of education progress since Brown v Board of Education? [audio 29min]
Olympics history rife with politics, protest [audio 7min]
Modern piracy not always at sea [audio 23min]
Iraq War changed regional balance of power [audio 23min]
OAH 2008: David Greenberg, Todd Gitlin, and Eric Rauchway
State of the military historioblogosphere, March 2008
"Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be"
Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention: Day 3 by Rick Shenkman
RICE WANTS TO BE VICE PRESIDENT/update
Jeff Hummel Doesn't Blame the Fed for the Subprime Mortgage Mess
OAH 2008: Morning Coffee with Roy Rosenzweig: A Remembrance
Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention: Day 2 by Rick Shenkman
Vietnam Memorial Wall Now Online
MUSLIMS LEARNING TO DEAL WITH FREE SPEECH?/update
Labour Turns Away Women in Labor
5th-Graders spend day as 18th-century villagers
Thawing Tundra Releases Infected Corpses
Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention: Day 1 by Rick Shenkman
Edward Renehan: Historian charged with stealing Theodore Roosevelt letter
French Recording May Be World's First
Gideon Remez: Discovers error in Pentagon history. Pentagon admission.
Tilman Allert: Sociologist treats larger significance of the Hitler salute
Study: Profs lean left, but students unaffected
Ypres: Modern Development Threatens Historic WWI Site in Belgium
Historian warns British Columbia it's in danger of losing ancient heritage by developers
Friedrich Nietzsche's grave under threat from search for brown coal
Art History Professor: Lawsuit Accuses Yale Of Making False Statements About Fake Degree
Anger over slave trader pub name
Civil Rights marches commemorated (UK)
Oldest European Human Fossil Found in Spain
Florida Legislature Apologizes for State's History of Slavery
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: The perils of forced modernity: China-Tibet, America-Iraq
Tom Stoppard: 1968 ... The year of the posturing rebel
A Meeting in Montreal Dedicated to Rwanda Genocide Denial
Tom Engelhardt: Rebuilding the American Economy, Bush-style
"They Couldn't Organize a Piss-Up in a Brewery"
POLL: BLACKS LIKE HILLARY MORE THAN WHITES
Debate over whether Coleridge translated Goethe roils Romanticists
So many Clinton voters won't vote for Obama and vice versa?
Dissolution of the monasteries: Religion in ruins [audio 43min]
A Nice Appreciation of Ron Paul
Ron Rosenbaum: Welcome to the Hotel Hiroshima
Daniel Gross: FDR is saving us again
Mark Danner: A Defeat Only American Power Could Have Brought About
The Candidates as Cousins Much Removed
Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer: Scholars announce debut of new message board
Greg Gaut: Rewriting the history of the end of the Cold War
ISLAMIST - MODERATE MUSLIM DEBATE
In Obama's New Message, Some Foes See Old Liberalism
Sorry Hillary, but Pat Nixon was first First Lady in combat zone
Victor Davis Hanson: Where We Stand on Iraq and the Election
Oops: Pentagon history mistakes Iran for Iraq
The women who stayed at home while their men went to sea [audio 7min]
Jorg Friedrich: Editor of The Fire says he knew Friedrich's book would be special
Marijuana Policy Moving Towards Change
Outbreaks of revisionist history are questioning deeply held views
Vt. stone shed carves war dead markers
Wisconsin River bridge to be tribute to American Revolution
Tougaloo College site chosen for civil rights museum
Ohio Web site locates Underground Railroad sites
Jefferson Davis, like Abe Lincoln a native of Kentucky, to be honored
HBO John Adams series writer defends program
Scholars Question Library of Congress's Plan to Relocate a Reading Room
Federal Judge Rules That Plagiarism-Detection Tool Does Not Violate Students' Copyrights
Treasure hunter asks OK to dig in state park
Virginia man says Soldiers Field Veterans Memorial contains factual errors
Famous Atlanta cemetery faces long recovery after tornado
Maryland: Confederate flag stirring up trouble
Beijing Olympics comparison to Nazi Berlin Games an insult: China
Nazi records given to Holocaust groups
Bevin Boys honoured for wartime service
Call to end bar on Catholic monarch in Britain
Jesus Doesn't Look Like Jesus Anymore, Says Scholar
Gorbachev Dispels 'Closet Christian' Rumors; Says He is Atheist
D B Cooper: Parachute may belong to famed hijacker
When is a misstatement a lie? When is an endorsement an embrace? The O-Ring Factor
Untold history of post-Civil War 'neoslavery' [audio 30min]
The Conservatives' Case for Obama
David Greenberg: The return of doughface liberalism
Lions in the Tower identified (UK)
Thomas Sowell: The Audacity of Rhetoric
Deborah Lipstadt: Boston's Musuem of Fine Arts ... A Horrible Comparison
OBAMA CAN NO MORE BE TRUSTED THAN MCPEAK /updates
BROOKS, SMERCONISH SHILL FOR OBAMA
Carter in interview says, yep, he had an engineer's eye for details
Anglo-Saxons honoured their dead with household objects
Ancient Seahenge 'returns home'
Car used by King sent to civil rights museum
The lowly sweet potato may unlock America's past
Earliest Signs Of Corn As Staple Food Found After Spreading South From Mexican Homeland
Easter Island statue 'vandalized'
Appeal launched for ladies' tomb (UK)
Welsh prince preceded Columbus by 3 centuries?
UK's first dedicated World Heritage Centre has been officially opened
BBC'S CREDIBILITY FROM BAD TO WORSE
Martin E. Marty: To his former professor, congregant, and friend, Jeremiah Wright has been both
Clinton 'misspoke' about '96 Bosnia trip
Stories of another escape route out of East Germany
Claims over Shetlands postponed
Bob Barr on Antiwar Radio Today
Debates Afrocentric and Eurocentric, Remote and Recent
Titanic offices open secrets of liner's history
Defense Ministry hopes teens will learn history through repairing monuments
Thousands mark 1916 Easter Rising
British Government plans to fly Union flag all year to enhance "Britishness"
Historic backdrop to Nicolas Sarkozy's speech
1986 message in bottle drifts 1,735 mi.
Aerial scanning reveals details of ancient sites
Early Americans may have arrived 2,000 years earlier than thought
Sailor to recreate Phoenicians' epic African voyage
Victoria, Canada suburb yields 850 BC archeological site
McCain on 2 occasions was said to be interested in Democratic Party
Martin E. Marty: Public Preaching
Andrew Ferguson: The Wit & Wisdom of Barack Obama
Obama's life of striking contrasts
Congressman compares Google. Likens China censorship to IBM's assistance to Nazis
James S. Robbins: ON the differences between Obama's race speech and Kennedy's religion speech
David Sirota: Remembering What Nixon Learned
WSJ editorial page still insists Saddam had strong ties to al Qaeda
Willard Sterne Randall: Let's kick religion off the campaign trail
Craig Unger: The Iraq War was a Conspiracy
AFGHANIS: "DEATH TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS"
Truth is the first casualty on the 'Tudors'
US MEDIA INCREASES DEATH TOLL IN IRAQ
Can This Election Produce Another Hundred Days? by Norman Markowitz
Has Obama Found Himself Trapped by a Myth? by Rick Shenkman
Is Industrial Civilization a Pyramid Scheme? by Eric Zencey
The Cultural Roots of the Dismissive Argument that Obama Supporters Are “Obamamaniacs” by B. E. Myers
Week of March 17, 2008
A Question for Critics of Ron Paul's Critics, Part 3
Jack Pitney: Nixon's record on race relations was pretty good
Lawrence S. Wittner: Possibilities for a Nuclear-Free World
Gordon Wood: American history author seeks to appeal to general public, academics
Mocked in Canada, ignored in France, the memory of Champlain suffers through historic year
History museum opens exhibit on severe weather
Martin Shaw: My Lai to Haditha ... war, massacre and justice
Claim: Proposed Ilisu Dam in Turkey will destroy ancient site
Matthew Connelly: Says backers of family planning made terrible mistakes
U.S. Pushed Allies on Iraq, Diplomat Writes
Vladimir Putin's last resting place - with Stalin
Beatles try to block historic bootleg
Maryland Legislation Attempts to Fight Hanging of Nooses
Study unlocks Latin American past
What Politicians Say When They Talk About Race
Hillary Clinton's Schedules Offer Chance to Test Assertions
In Mexico, on the Lam With Ken Kesey
Economic Life as Normal -- That's not News
John M. Pratt: Depression Era Tax Striker
His Bravest Moment: Obama's Refusal to Scapegoat His Pastor by Jeremy Cameron Young
WORTH READING and WATCHING/update
OBAMA ON HIS NOT "TYPICAL WHITE" GRANDPARENTS
White House: Computer hard drives tossed
Obama's Speech: A Turning Point
Rick Perlstein: Excerpt from his new book, Nixonland
Edward J. Blum: Interviewed about Obama and race
Adolph Reed Jr.: Race and the New Deal Coalition
The Nation: Toward a New New Deal
Tom Engelhardt: Blowing Them Away Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
George F. Will: Kosovo's Dark Meaning
New London Historical Society discovers its US flag may be worth millions
Glenn Williams: Clears up myths about GW's campaign against Iroquois
Craig Canning: Historian says ties between US and China have long been built of trade
Steven Waldman: John Adams ... God Damn America
Symposium: Radical Son: The Ten Year Anniversary
Peggy Noonan: A Thinking Man's Speech
'The Counterfeiters': A Holocaust Fable With A Happy Ending?
John Adams: Now the most widely sung unsung hero
Michael Nelson: Bush lacks persuasive powers, so how has he amassed so many other kinds?
Howard Zinn: Beyond the New Deal
Only Charlie remains at the checkpoint
Painting looted by Nazis is recovered by family of murdered Polish owner
The trial of a man accused of attacking Elie Wiesel set to begin
Germany to compensate WWII laborers
German museum to document Germans forced out of Eastern Europe
11,000 Long-Awaited Pages of Clinton's Schedules as First Lady Are Released (NYT)
Philip Jones Griffiths, War Photographer, Dies at 7
New Analysis Suggests Earlier Start for Upright Walking
Cartoonist sets out to take taboo out of swastika
Jewish group seeks to purge YouTube of anti-Semitic videos
Film details how Allies foiled Nazi pillage of Europe's art
Grave oversight: Men getting marker for Civil War vet
Dead Communist soldiers in South Korea still await repatriation
Nicholas Kristof: Obama and Race
Andrew Meyer: Obama, Race, and History
Germany marks 75 years since parliament ceded power to Hitler
Winston Churchill walked on moon, say pupils
Carl Byker: Was Jackson a vicious person for holding slaves or just a product of his time?
U.S. TV's The History Channel drops 'the' and 'channel' from its name
Catharine Crier: Religious Bigotry Across the Board
Yong Chen: The election in Taiwan and its impact on the US
3 Candidates' Passport Files Breached
Barry Rubin: Iraq, 5 years later, no easy answers
Jerry Bower: When He rose, empires fell
Thomas Madden: The Lost of Tomb of Jesus — one year later
Sizing Up Sacrifice- Iraq War vs. Major Battles Since WWII
Genetic study traces impact of colonialism in Latin America
Connecticut might absolve 'Witches'
William Polk: Iran .. Danger & Opportunity
Obama, Race, and North Carolina
Murray Rothbard on Slavery and the Civil War
Gabriel Lafitte: Tibet ... revolt with memories
Scholars' roundtable at Salon.com on the looting of Iraq's museum and archaeological sites
Daniel Sack: The Perils of publicity for churches suddenly in the news
Children need 'life skills' not historical dates, say UK teachers
World's Best-Known Protest Symbol Turns 50
Russian princess who died for a British soldier's love
Michael Wreszin: Says Obama's race speech was truly impressive
Tributes to IRA bombing victims
In Hillary Clinton's papers show she stopped being "co-president" after healthcare debacle
Nick Turse: The Golden Age of the Military-Entertainment Complex
John McAdams: Debunking JFK conspiracy claims made by David Kaiser
Some thoughts on Obama's speech
John Spiri: Tokyo Teachers Fight an Uphill Battle Against Nationalism and Coercion
Julian E. Zelizer: How Democrats can lose in November
MUHAMMED CARTOON SAGA CONTINUES
Joseph Lane: Ok, There’s Jeremiah Wright, but What About John Hagee, Pat Robertson?
Stephen B. Cohen: Democratic Party's split may lead down a path similar to 1968's
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's speech ... Untruth upon untruth—our new Nixon?
Claire Robertson: Violence and Politics in Kenya
A new Great Depression? It's different this time
John L. Esposito: Sad that his predictions came true about Iraq War
Defense Department-sponsored report that examined captured Iraqi documents now online
Thomas Malthus is back [audio 30min]
Iraq Museum: They still can't open it
John Patrick Diggins vs. Steven Waldman: Is HBO's John Adams series any good?
2nd Amendment Conveys Individual Right
David Kaiser: Should Harvard University Press have published his JFK conspiracy book?
Treasury Wins 2008 "Rosemary Award" as Worst FOIA Agency
Construction of a new subway line in Rome has unearthed some valuable--and vexing--artifacts.
Rare silver coin found in excavations in Jerusalem
Excavations for Romanov remains may resume in summer
Flight 93 Memorial Effort Gains Over 900 Acres
Schedules show Clinton plunged into health care quickly
A Cold War mission, deep in the Arctic
Michelangelo's David has dodgy legs
Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian
What First Lady Papers Show: Clinton a long way from the White House at key foreign policy moments
Wal-Mart, the Coast Guard, and Hurricane Katrina
Iranians: "Death to Ahmadinejad"
IRAN ADVOCATES ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: China's Olympic Delusion
Juan Cole: Five years of Iraq lies
'Space Odyssey' author Clarke dies at 90 [audio 2 x 4min]
Scotland independence [audio 1st 18min]
Germany to open center remembering post-WWII expulsions
MCCAIN: DEMOCRACIES, INCLUDING ISRAEL, SHARE DESTINY
Tim Weiner: Book on CIA comes under scathing attack
Jean Strouse & 'Morgan: American Financier' [audio 34min]
Update: Obama’s Speech Moves from Political Spin to Historic Vision
Civil War Preservation Trust Identifies Most Endangered Battlefields
David Rosner & Gerald Markowitz: Historians' testimony cited by state in lead paint case
Forbes: Ten Must-See History-Making Sights
Germany is 'filled with shame' over Nazi holocaust, Angela Merkel tells Israel
UK City remembers the secret blitz
Artifact smuggling aids Iraq insurgents
Mussolini's car sells for record
Cheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacks as bombing victims are buried
DOES OBAMA LOVE HIS GRANDMOTHER?/update
Paul Robeson Exhibit in Bay Area
Melvyn Leffler: Compared with John Lewis Gaddis
David Rattray: Two killers jailed for life
Jill Lepore: Fake memoirs, factual fictions, and the history of history
Rwanda: Historians Want to Write True History
Richard Turley named assistant LDS Church historian
Ilan Pappe: I'm not a traitor (Interview)
Roy Strong: A historian puts three diets from the past on trial
David McCullough: Says he knew Tom Hanks was serious about a film on Adams
John Allemang: Sam the sham ... The myth of Champlain
Clinton role in health program disputed
Clinton's first lady papers to go public
Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90
America's Stonehenge still surrounded by condos and controversy
Older than the pyramids, buried for centuries – found by an Orkney plumber
Ancient Greek Outpost Discovered, Spectacularly Preserved
Only World War II was costlier than Iraq war
Roger Cohen: Obama’s Brother in China
Deputy in Till Investigation Dies at 93
France honours last WWI veteran
Lost state of Jefferson ... still has its supporters
Florida Woman Sues to Collect on 147-Year-Old Promissory Note - With Interest
British schools to play off of Hollywood histories
Simmering Resentments Led to Tibetan Backlash
Ancient Babylonian city unearthed in Diwaniya
Bancroft prizes in history announced
Richard Hofstadter: Invoked by Susan Jacoby in her new book against anti-intellectualism
What's Inaccurate About the New HBO Series on John Adams
Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (Speech in Philadelphia)
Barack Obama Confronts Racial Division in U.S.
"Spengler": The peculiar theology of black liberation
Gordon Wood: A sage historian laments the "present-mindedness" of many of his colleagues
Novelist turned historian claims Churchill should have negotiated with Hitler
David Greenberg: Wins $50,000 Hiett Prize in the Humanities
Shelby Steele: The Obama Bargain
PLAYING AUTHORIZED TAPES=LYNCHING?!
Edwin Black: Barack Obama--Mentored by an anti-American, anti-Zionist Black Separatist
Eric Lane & 'The Genius of America' [video 57min]
High-tech hunt aims to find missing Da Vinci mural [audio 6min]
Marx, Reason, and the Art of Freedom
Obama's Mealy-Mouthed Reaction to His Pastor's Venom
Should we sympathize with this cop?
How President Bush's Executive Order on FOIA Failed to Deliver
Historic agreement for Israel, Germany
Germany Opens Massive Cold War Bunker as Museum
The Red Baron: unease, but national hero at last as film hits theaters
There WILL be a public inquiry into Iraq, says Brown
Marchers honor German combat unit from World War II
Treasure hunter finds rare Carausius coins
Donatello's David shines after laser clean-up
John Reader: The Fungus That Conquered Europe, Led to the Irish Migration, Started in the US
German pilot fears he killed writer Saint-Exupery
Discovery of ancient stone structure reveals proof of life in Eastern Canada 10,000 years ago
Search Leads to German War Ship Sunk in 1941
U.S. veterans, Japanese mark 1968 Vietnam massacre
Dubai to set up Muhammad museum
Long-hidden recordings of a US army inquiry into the so-called My Lai massacre revealed
On Manson's Trail, Forensic Testing Suggests Possible New Grave Sites
Paris exhibition re-examines Marie-Antoinette
Egyptian mummy exhibit is son of Ramesses II
Anniversary of invasion: Iraq five years on (View from UK media)
Pre-Inca temple uncovered in Peru
'Ben Franklin,' 'Betsy Ross' to marry
Now you can look at Fort Sumter LIVE 24 hours a day!
Nicholas J. G. Winter: Why Race, Gender, and Politics Are Dangerous Frames
Jon Wiener: Clinton's Iraq Vote -- Five Years Later
The 5 defining characteristics of stupidity
INDIA, CHINA AND RIOTING TIBET
OBAMA ON HOW TO TALK TO WHITE PEOPLE
Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate
Holocaust survivors saved by Schindler march in Krakow
Titanic letter could fetch £9,000
France's last WWI veteran dies and receives honors
My Lai survivors gather, 40 years later
McGuinness to lead White House delegation [video 2min]
Ireland celebrates St Patrick's Day [audio 4min]
St Patrick's Day looms large in US consciousness [audio 5min]
Islam and science [audio 30min]
No, Bear Stearns Was Not ‘Rescued’
Identity Politics in a Nutshell
Enough Already with McClinton by James Livingston
Rich Guys in Politics by Thomas Fleming
Superdelegates: An Obstacle on the Road to Democratic Elections by Nancy C. Unger
The Real Eisenhower by Ira Chernus
The Right to Bear Arms? What History Tells Us. by Nathan Kozuskanich
Year One of the Empire: Why We Wrote a Play About the Spanish-American War by Joyce Antler and Elinor Fuchs
“God Damn America” in Black and White by Edward J. Blum
Week of March 10, 2008
Thinking Twice About the No. 2
Retracing Tank Busters' European tracks [audio 1st 20min]
WHERE ARE MODERATE AFRICAN-AMERICANS?/update
Dan Leon: Review of Bernard Avishai's The Hebrew Republic (Harcourt, 2008)
Privatized Profits, Socialized Losses
McCain's mixed signals on foreign policy
The State in Action - Destroying Families Edition
Late Calls Rarely Merit Snap Decisions
Mark Steyn: Obama's pastor disaster
Jeff Jacoby: Patton and the 2008 vote
Samantha Power: Profiled in NYT after monster slip
Frederick Kagan: Says US has most effective counterinsurgency military in the world
Alan Dawley: Historian dies of heart attack
Mississippi's Pioneering Gun and Ammunition Control Law
Living in 'the suspect society' [audio 54min]
European artists in WWII 'exile' in America [audio 51min]
40 years later: Hersh on My Lai [audio 13min]
Gurkhas seek right to retire in UK [audio 14min]
History, scope of modern torture [video 17min]
Examining origins of America's 'Founding Faith' [audio 39min]
Artist inspired by Negro Leagues [audio 8min]
G. Wayne Clough to Head Smithsonian Institution
Former NYT reporter claims fight over Panama Canal remade American politics
New Winter Soldier stories from Iraq echo Vietnam
Gerald Posner: Rev Wright and Barack
Daniel Pipes: "America's Chickens are Coming Home to Roost"
Saudi "Scholar" on Al Aqsa TV: 50-60 Jews Died in the Holocaust
FALLON IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MACARTHUR
David McCullough: Adams Family Values [video 4min]
Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and Modern American Conservatism [video 57min]
So Thatcher didn't exploit stereotypes?
Newsweek 5 part video series: Japanese-Americans return to internment camp
New Yorker tells the story behind the story about the recently found Auschwitz photo album
NYT says actor who plays John Adams in HBO series was miscast
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-19
Ted Widmer: It's time to remember the French arrived before the British in what became New England
James McPherson: Called greatest living historian of the Civil War
AHA monthly mag. focuses on film
H-Net celebrates (quietly) 15th anniversary
Victor Davis Hanson: Looking at Iraq
THE PATH TO THE FINAL SOLUTION
Gordon N. Bardos: Hillary’s Balkan “Experience”
Christopher Hitchens: The 2,000-Year-Old Panic (Re: Anti-Semitism)
Barry Rubin: Let's Talk About the Nazis
O'Reilly: "I don't see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis," KKK
Remains issue clouds Tokyo-Seoul ties
David Irving: Historian discuss the Holocaust at Bletchley Park
New Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart portrait found
Archaeologists discover ruins of Inca temple in Peru
Vietnam: Australian veteran visits young victim of war-era shell
Majority in Austria oppose continued investigation of Nazi past
Nazi Landmines Block Egypt's Access to Oil and Gas
The challenge of moving a U Boat (the last one sunk in WW II) (UK)
Hitler's Austria Through the Eyes of the Press
Bomb squad blow up WW II bomb (UK)
British firm under attack for mining near Grand Canyon
Relics of 'radio priest' and 'labor priest' presented to Pittsburgh diocese by relatives
Hillary Clinton: I was 'instrumental' in Northern Ireland peace process
Poor John Adams gets no respect
Howard M. Metzenbaum, Who Battled Big Business as Ohio Senator, Dies at 90
Bernard Lewis: Conservatives taking him to task now
Mark Naison: Spitzer, Clemens and Bonds ... A Case of Fiddling While Rome Burns
Bloggers say Air Force new slogan has Nazi odor
Scott Horton: Armenia and the Unfinished Business of Ethnonationalism
Jonah Goldberg: Response to Michael Tomasky critique of "Liberal Fascism"
Sam Wineburg and Chauncey Monte-Sano: The Changing Pantheon of American Heroes
Not Tony Soprano but John Adams on HBO
David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'
British teachers in uproar over one-sided Iraq War lesson plans
1,121 Muslim suicide bombers have blown themselves up in Iraq
Environmental and Classical Liberal Authoritaranism
Building remains from First Temple period exposed west of Temple Mount
Grant allows insight into Jackson's slaves
Manning Marable: Obama's Problem--And Ours
Richard Bushman: Mormon historian sees perfect storm in recent Mormon-related events
A steamy history of political sex scandals
Indian DNA Links to 6 'Founding Mothers'
Latest report on the state of Civil War battlefields, "History Under Siege"
Magna Carta what? English charter 'a mystery to 45pc of population'
Dorothea E. Wyatt: Founding Professor Leaves U. of Michigan at Flint Its Largest Donation
Salon.com likes HBO's "John Adams"
Steven Waldman: What Did the Founders Believe About Church and State?
BLACKS, LIKE MUSLIMS, HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO HATE
Sean Wilentz: Response to Orlando Patterson's essays on the Clinton campaign's use of race
George F. Will: Running-Mate Math
Tom Engelhardt: The First Sixth-Anniversary-of-the-Iraq-War Article
The Greek myths: Soap opera of the gods [audio 43min]
9/11 was catastrophe for FBI [audio 15min]
Richard Cohen: Dems are working hard to give McCain a fighting chance
L.A. Theatre Works will stage a revised 1991 play on the Pentagon Papers case
Sherry F. Colb: Client 9 and President 42 ... Drawing Parallels Between Spitzer and Clinton
Stephen Feinstein: A Great Expert on Genocide Dies on the Job
Michael T. Klare: The Bad News at the Pump
Stanley I. Kutler: Why George Bush Loves John McCain
British art historian elected grand master of Knights of Malta
Psst! Follow Me and I’ll Show You the Exhibition (Review/National Cryptologic Museum/US)
Henrietta Bell Wells, a Pioneering Debater, Dies at 96
Greek team finds ancient skull that underwent surgery: reports
So how many have died in the Iraq War?
Unseen pictures of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
Documentary about World’s Oldest Animation (Involving Iranian Pottery) Stirs Controversy
Anger over 'racist eviction' of Aboriginals from Australian hostel
Disillusioned with the US, Navratilova defects again
Students Imagine Little Rock, on Film
A Slavery Museum Negotiates the Treacherous Route to Funding
Some Danes say Swedes swiped booty 350 years ago. They want it back.
Holocaust Group Opens Office in Berlin
Looking Back at World War II From 3,000 Feet
Belgium: $170 Million in Holocaust Compensation
At Gettysburg, Farther From the Battle but Closer to History
Vatican spokesman calls rumors of rehabilitation of Luther groundless
Death squad Nazi faces justice at age of 86
India's Survivors of Partition Begin to Break Long Silence
Modern day sea pirates [audio 23min]
Celebrity Death Match: Bastiat vs. Proudhon
David Levering-Lewis on Euro-Islamaphobia [audio 1st 14min]
Josh Patashnik: Obama's evolution on education issues
The Federal Bureau of Incompetence [audio 15min]
Hillary’s 3 A.M. Ad – Neither Racist Nor Accurate
Scholar: Photo that shocked America was misinterpreted
Historians asked to rally behind Iranian scholar fired for "ideological nonconformity"
Sean Wilentz: Hold On--'3 A.M.' Wasn't Racist
Juan Cole: John McCain runs for George Bush's third term
Clinton Ad Distorts Reality by Michael H. Creswell
This Won't Be the Last Political Sex Scandal by Thomas A. Foster
William Lee Miller: What would Hillary supporters have said about Lincoln?
A $100 Million Donation to the N.Y. Public Library
Bulgarians commemorate protests that saved Jewish countrymen
Austria opens "painful" exhibit on Nazi annexation
Hitler's vision of a super-city fit for the Reich takes shape - in miniature
House of Augustus opens to public
'Exceptional' Roman ruins found at Wansford (UK)
Mysterious pits shed light on forgotten witches (UK)
700-year-old artifact found thanks to pub smoking ban (UK)
"Outstanding" smugglers' tunnel unearthed beneath Castle Street (UK)
The students boycotting Shakespeare
New Adams documentary based on McCullough biography invents some scenes
J. Edgar Hoover’s Hollywood Obsessions Revealed
Thomas A. Bailey: Anecdote told about him
National Geographic TV show on Kent State takes fresh look
The Mafia and the Mob on Wheels [audio 15min]
Dominick Lizzi: Historian who wrote book about impeached NYS governor reacts to Spitzer scandal
Michael Burleigh: The reluctant guru
Fury at BBC's English history of Scotland
NCH asks historians to back $177 million for NEH
Historians asked to write Congress in support of funds for National History Day
Andrew Leonard: So long, John -- gas is $4 a gallon
Home movies of Hillary's childhood surface, reflecting ties to Pennsylvania
Bret Stephens: A President, Not a Symbol
A new book and a new film take a fresh look at three collective killings known as Katyn
Newly Published George Washington Papers Shed Light on Revolution in Autumn 1778
BBC to exonerate Judas in Jesus Christ drama
Frozen remains of WWII airman identified
Ancient graves found in Greece
US envoy admits role in Aldo Moro killing
Trying to honor Asians who died building Burma-Thailand rail in WWII
Sober thoughts of Sir Walter Raleigh
British World War Two ship found in Norwegian fjord
Joseph Lane: Memo to Senator Obama: Concede Florida & Michigan!
Politics, and Scandal, as Usual
Victor Davis Hanson: Let Obama Be Obama
Outlaw Ned Kelly's remains found
Win Scutt: This Week in the World of Archaeology [audio 15min]
William R. Polk: The Iraq War and the Presidential Election
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida
Michael K. Honey: The legacy of MLK ... Defending the right to organize
Orlando Patterson: Sociologist sees racist overtones in Hillary Clinton's Red Phone ad
London pea-souper kills thousands in 1952 [audio 15min]
Gallery buys playwright painting
Dickens statue 'against wishes'
Pirates not just peg-legs, parrots, pistols [audio 23min]
9-11-01, the world changed for America; 3-20-03, America changed for the world [audio 23min]
Navy still owns cannons found from 1846 wreck
Dig uncovers Iron Age waterhole (UK)
Reburial for Anglo Saxon remains
Seven new deadly sins: are you guilty?
Medic Stationed in Afghanistan Becomes 2nd Woman to Be Awarded Silver Star
Researchers document Germans who died at Soviet internment camp for Nazis after World War II
Haunted by a convicted Nazi killer in their midst, Germans re-examine wartime murders
Samantha Power: Max Boot comes to her defense
Stan Katz: His hopes for the History Center
Arab/Israeli Conflict Debate between Hatem Bazian, David Meir-Levy]
Thomas Sugrue: Talks about his upcoming book, Sweet Land of Liberty
Was Austria Nazism's victim or ally? [audio 29min]
Global Warming and the Local Weather
The end of J Edgar Hoover's empire [audio 15min]
A Historian Reflects on the Rural-Urban Divide and Election '08 by Daniel Herman
Is Obama Channeling Marcus Garvey? by Colin Grant
Latin American Independence: The Rodney Dangerfield of World Historical Events? by John Chasteen
Misremembering Reagan by Michael H. Creswell
Reading Stalin's Secret Police Files of the Executed by Hiroaki Kuromiya
The Army Monograph that Predicted Just About Everything that's Happened in Iraq by Conrad C. Crane and W. Andrew Terrill
What Are We to Make of the West's First Genocide? by Mark Gregory Pegg
Why Today's Peace Activists Should Not Be Discouraged: An Example from 1958 by Lawrence S. Wittner
Week of March 3, 2008
No sign of stigmata as monk's body is exhumed after 40 years
Neanderthal treasure trove 'at bottom of sea'
David Palmer: Can the U.S. and Japan Confront Forced Labor and Atomic Bombing?
Grave of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly possibly found
Daniel Martin Varisco: So if it’s not about religion …
Noel Malcolm: Is America the new Rome?
Frank Gannon: An Addition to the Watergate Bookshelf
Seattle's Northwest African American Museum opens to acclaim
How Not to Make the Revisionist Case on the Second World War
Gordon S. Wood: Chastises writers who use history to advance an agenda
Indian-American historian Ted is dead
Cherished WTC survivors staircase moved
Irish advisor to Obama steps down [video 2min]
Paisley quietly folds his tent and slips away [audio 22min]
Daylight Saving Time: War over an hour [audio 1st 5min]
Vitaly Fedorchuk, 89, of K.G.B., Dies
History of air travel [audio 30min]
History of sea travel [audio 30min]
History of rail travel [audio 30min]
Voting fairness in America [audio 12min]
35 years in Pakistan jail cell [audio 11min]
The often distressing stories about Jewish refugees who had survived the Holocaust
Scottish kilt or plaid skirt? [audio 7min @22:15]
Ex-F.B.I. Chief's Book Revisits Watergate
Robin Wright interview [audio 51min]
Women in silent comedy: The witty women stars, directors and writers of silent film [audio 9min]
Kucinich wins Ohio primary ... for House seat [audio 1st 11min]
Revenge of the nerds: D&D master Gygax dies [audio 7min]
Economic costs of military operations in Iraq [audio 51min]
Across the water: Journey to Robben Island [29min]
Medvedev wins Russian presidential election [audio 51min]
Women of the Qur'an: The role of Hava [audio 4min]
Smoke-filled rooms & Teapot Dome [audio 51min]
What does it say that in our system Obama is favored because he doesn't have a record?
Breaking Bad: A Subversive Not-Too-Guilty Pleasure
British hold a poll on whether the time has come to build a statue to Dickens
ISRAEL FACES A TWO FRONT PROXY WAR
Doug Feith ... Ex-Defense Official Assails Colleagues Over Run-Up to War
ANOTHER DANISH "KILLER CARTOON"
Andreas Umland: Dmitri Medvedev may prove a surprisingly liberal president of Russia
The Dictatorship of Relativism
Stanley I. Kutler: The Folly of Experience
Jews in Germany share a history - if not its context
UK: History of the world to be told in 100 museum pieces
David Irving: Irish university cancels appearance
Archaeologists unveil finds in Rome digs
Britain honors sailors killed in WWII
Sculptor's D-Day heroes to overlook Utah Beach
Treason laws outdated, says Lord Goldsmith
Nobel winner: Hillary Clinton's 'silly' Irish peace claims
'No mystery here' say the Knights of Malta
Englishman imprisoned in Auschwitz dies
Lockerbie bomb document bid fails
IRAN PLANS ASSASSINATIONS OF ISRAELI LEADERS
Mark Naison: Speaks out about "white privilege"
EZ Comics: Members for advisory panel wanted
A Family Tree of Literary Fakers
What history predicts about this presidential election
High-Tech Look at the New York City’s Black History
National Archives to Release Hillary Clinton White House Records
E. H. Carr: historian of the future
Max Byrd: How I came to write a novel about Jefferson
Steven Hill: A Way Out Of the Nader Dilemma
GLOBAL POPULARITY POLLS REFLECT INTEREST AND IDEOLOGY
Greg Grandin: Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate
Paul Finkelman: What the voters want is an optimistic candidate
Tom Alderman: Email Is Changing the Way We Communicate and Historians Are Worried
Peter Feinman: Save local history by educating youth
Daniel Pipes: Middle East Forum Launches "Islamist Watch" Website
Robert Perkinson: It's time to revise the conventional wisdom about the Duke Lacrosse Case
Vanity Fair: Bush & Condi Rice backed militia takeover of Gaza after Hamas won elections
Neve Gordon: On Israel's use of collaborators
Neve Gordon: Loses court case claiming he'd been defamed
Jim Sleeper: Has History Canceled Farrakhan’s Endorsement?
Stanley I. Kutler: Where's FDR When You Need Him?
British historian questions BBC's choice for new flagship series
David Rattray: New developments in murder trial of his alleged assailants
Polish history casts shadow over US shield - PM
Samantha Power: Resigns from Obama campaign after calling Hillary a monster
'Harassment' by civilians led border troops to suffer stress
FBI investigates 26 civil-rights era cold crimes
Gettysburg ghost-hunting summit cancelled
New Museum at Gettysburg Battlefield to Open in April
Acquisition Fight Lost for Historic 1776 Print
King William portrait to replace grim reaper in Northern Ireland town
Temporary 9/11 center makes lasting imprint
Is the Pope Catholic? Now he plans to rehabilitate 'heretic' Martin Luther
Battle for the multimillion dollar sea fortress (UK)
George Fredrickson, 73, Historian, Dies (NYT obit.)
Pentagon unveils portraits of "forgotten" WWI veterans
Harriet Washington: Wins National Book Circle Award
Lincoln slavery letter on sale in NY
Helen Keller 'doll' photo turns up [audio 1min]
FDR's antidote to Great Depression: Totalitarianism [audio 5min]
Curator: Situation at the Baghdad Museum is bleak but looting decreases
Remembering an infamous New York institution [audio 12min]
Harriet Tubman's road to freedom [video 35min]
Why did Hillary's Red Phone ad work?
Julian E. Zelizer: Democrats Need to Hear From Florida and Michigan
Evan R. Goldstein: What happened to the pragmatism that marked early Israeli leaders?
Black minister calls for creation of Africa Town in San Francisco
The lost women of the popular rhymes [audio 6min]
J Edgar Hoover vs Martin Luther King, Jr [audio 15min]
'Birth of a Nation' re-assessed [audio 45min]
Women's History Presented by Porn Stars
Last known U.S.-born WWI vet visits president
Wikipedia hit count statistics
John Larner: Historian of Italy and Marco Polo, dies
Stephen Feinstein: Historian's death called loss to study of the Nazi Holocaust
David Kennedy: Conference to honor historian, who is retiring
Recent finds at Macedonian site of Pella reveal a city beneath the city
Ancient tomb found on Greek island
Temple wins national pride poll (London)
Italy row over Galileo's remains
George Fredrickson: 73, authority on history of racism (LAT obit.)
'Low key' Lockerbie memorial plan
National Archives Celebrates New Deal's 75th Anniversary in March
75th anniversary of the New Deal celebrated by a website
TERROR ATTACK IN THE HEART OF JERUSALM
Colombia, Israel, Turkey revisit the Bush doctrine
Scott Carlson: On Jane Jacobs's legacy
Omer M. Mozaffar: Caliphate is the New Jihad
David Porter: Why the way we judge China is misguided
Nell Painter: Interviewed by Bill Moyers about the real meaning of populism
Dean Starkman: Why does the press use “populist” to refer to policies that are simply liberal?
OBAMA SUPPORTERS THREATEN VIOLENCE
ISRAEL: NO MORE RELIANCE ON MIRACLES
Ronald Hutton donates fascinating exhibit to Museum of Curiosity [audio 30min]
Ada Lovelace: Prophet of the computer age [audio 43min]
Commies, bugging and secret files [audio 15min]
FBI has a good war [audio 15min]
Mark D. Tooley: Bush Library for Southern Methodist University
Stephen Schlesinger: Obama and The Myth of Pledged Delegates
"Chicago 10"--Another review. More disappointment. But ...
Letters Suggest Lincoln Wanted to Buy Slaves for $400 Apiece in "Gradual Emancipation"
1888 photo depicts Helen Keller, teacher
Revealed: pioneering British Army surgeon actually a woman
Celebrate IRA woman connected to bombs? (UK)
Why don't we care about Stonehenge?
Bush legacy: Farewell to the Monroe Doctrine?
Israeli Researcher Suggests Moses, Followers Were High On Drugs
Old Fort getting a Revolutionary War fort (NC)
Should PA American Revolution Center have its own site and hotel?
Civil rights museum tug of war escalates over its planned location
No pardon for Spanish civil war helpers (Switzerland)
Man on a mission to get recognition for slaves who fought for Union and were buried on Hilton Head
Last Scots fighter in Spanish civil war dies
Display of alleged Nazi-looted art causes stir in Austria
Jewish community sues police for allowing Nazi salutes (Czech Republic)
NAACP asks for federal investigation regarding Klan-Nazi files in Greensboro
Former Nazi camp guard Geiser fights deportation
German town plans memorial to Nazi euthanasia victims
Schindler's List survivor tells stories of camps, Nazi regime
Ian Paisley to quit as First Minister
San Jose council again shoots down 'Little Saigon' name
Obama and Hillary on the same ticket?
Ruth Rosen: The Politics of Fear---Again
David Greenberg: It's too early to talk about Hillary's withdrawal
Adrian Karatnycky: Russians try to forget some of Stalin's crimes
America's Shame: The Absurd Primary System
Michael Kazin: Speaking Well And Doing Great
Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom: Is race out of the race?
Barron H. Lerner: Review of Gavin Mortimer’s The Great Swim (Walker, 2008)
David Greenberg: The relationship of the neoconservative movement to Bush's foreign policy
Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan: The Patton of Counterinsurgency
Jerry Z. Muller: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism
For Kosovo, history depends on which historian you ask
Improved U.S.-Russia relations a 'possibility' under Medvedev, says historian
Venezuela and Colombia Have a Long History of Tension
Thomas Schwartz: State historian offers new look at Mary Todd Lincoln
US conventions: Lessons from history
Will Paul Gets the Last Laugh? (Election Results Tonight)
Realtors raise concerns about proposed 'historic artifacts' bill (NH)
Mystery of Leonardo's lost work 'almost solved'
Bach bust displayed in Berlin--Is this what he really looked like?
Preserving One of Hawaii's Internment Camps
Pullman porters tell tales of a train ride through history, accept honors from Amtrak
Conn. officials solve postcard mystery
Jack the Ripper returns (London/Exhibit)
Fiber-optic map details Vicksburg siege
Now you can visit the secret underground WW1 city built by British Tommies
Comics criticized for calling Maori "cannibals" and Asians "Nips"
Fatal wartime Tube crush marked (UK)
New film explores fate of Nazi Germany's "Titanic"
Second World War Nazi tanks put up for sale
Gun that killed JFK assassin in pop culture auction
Popular Italian Catholic saint exhumed 40 years on
Kelly Nuxoll: Barack Obama on the Path to Sainthood
Hillary's counting on people being stupid
Barry Rubin: Charisma Isn't Enough
"I Broke Henry Jenkins's Collectible Wax Cylinder From the 1920s"
Daydream Believers by Fred Kaplan
Jonathan Zimmerman: Of peace and ethnic blending
Joseph Lane: Clinton Plagiarizing (and Desperate)?
Fred Siegel: William F. Buckley’s Unmaking of a Mayor
POLITICIAN OBAMA'S WINKS EXPOSED
The lesson of the Civil Rights Movement was ...
Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde' traced back to Celtic Drystan and Essylt [audio 30min]
What's the point of the Archbishop of Canterbury? [audio 30min]
Don't shoot, G-Man, don't shoot! [audio 15min]
Philippa Gregory: Movie about Boleyn Girls based on her novel
British 'studied' Hitler's stars
First Sioux receives Medal of Honor
Daniel Pipes: Receives apology from "Muslim Weekly"
Iraq's legacy of looted treasures is revealed using digital photos
NPR's Cochran didn't realize "dark continent" would offend
Michael Tomasky: What to make of Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism"?
Chronicle of Higher Ed Contest: How would you design the Bush library?
Study Finds American Religious Affiliations Are Fluid
When Is a Cigar Not a Cigar? When It Tries to Kill Castro (TV Documentary)
William Hague on William Pitt the Younger [audio 30min]
Brits on Acid and Joke Warfare
Chavez: "Colombia is the Israel of Latin America."
Beeswax from centuries-old shipwrecks still found on Oregon beaches
Ancient Lebanese city chokes under rubbish dump
Paul Revere Poem's Old North Church goes modern
Cannibalism May Have Wiped Out Neanderthals
Homo neanderthalensis in London?
Ireland in danger of losing ancient spirit? Yes, says Nobel Laureate
3000-year-old burial site unearthed
Storm saved Mick Jagger from assassination
Christianity popular in ancient China?
Holocaust Hoax: It's Getting Worse
Obama and the Foreign Relations Committee
FBI history series starts on BBC Radio 4 [audio 15min]
Martin Kramer: Obama, Samantha Power and Israel
John Taylor: So Nixon and Clinton are to be lumped together?
Bush plus Clinton Plus Obama Equals Warren G. Harding? by Phillip G. Payne
HNN Poll: How Historians Rank the Presidency of George W. Bush (2008) by Robert S. McElvaine
How Eloquence Has Paved the Way to the White House by Robert Brent Toplin
Is Obama Unpatriotic for Not Wearing the Flag on his Lapel? by Fran Shor
Obama's Run a Great Campaign--That Says Something, Doesn't It? by Leonard Steinhorn
Resurrecting Christendom: A Blueprint by Timothy R. Furnish
The Echo of the Culture Wars in the Obama-Clinton Fight by James Livingston
What It Takes to Be President by Rick Shenkman
What Students Don't Know About History: The Latest Findings by Diane Ravitch
Why George Mason Matters by Jeff Broadwater
Week of February 25, 2008
Another columnist who's counting on the American people being stupid
Winter Soldiers to Testify Against War
Robert S. McElvaine: A Feminist Response to Robin Morgan
Death in Anglesey [audio 15min]
Anthony Lewis & Ronald Collins: The First Amendment [video 58min]
The New Deal presidential campaign of 1932 [video 57min]
William F. Buckley, Jr., remembered [audio 6min]
Digitally reassembling shredded Stasi files [audio 6min]
James Livingston: Articles on Election 2008
The Russians Are Coming (To a Theater Near You)
How Obama piled up that record in the Illinois state senate
'72 McGovern Team Rallies for One of Its Own: Clinton
Economist claims Russia's a good example of the benefits of radical privatization
Immigration issues never made a president and won't this year either
Two Guys Who Loved Them Some Stock Exchange
Family Disputes Claims of JFK 'Love Child'
ABC News gets peak at hidden art treasures in Teheran
Faked Holocaust Memoir: The Saga Continues
Julian Zelizer: A political historian political scientists read
Misleading Phrase “War on Terror”
Carnival, William Buckley, & Public Intellectuals
Nixon in Canada--Smiles. In US--Glowers.
Historic sign for WTC is being donated
NYT Verdict on "The Other Boleyn Girl": A slog
NYT pans documentary: Chicago 10 (2007)
Bill Would Remove Doubt on Presidential Eligibility
Noam Chomsky: Terrorists Wanted the World Over
Russian historian fears Kosovo Albanians will destroy Orthodox shrines in Macedonia
The most powerful campaign media bias isn't for a person
WH aide lifted passages for op-ed in Fort Wayne newspaper
CALL FOR PAPERS- Emeregent Order Conference
Declassified Studies from Cheney Pentagon Show Push for U.S. Military Predominance
E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Obama 2008 = Reagan 1980
Guiding your way through Texas's deeply confusing primary process
Juan Cole: Fact Check on McCain and Political Progress in Iraq
Oldest hominid discovered is 7 million years old: study
The Cold War-Era Assault on Comic Book Culture, Revisited
Region to commemorate Brown's raid
Edward Ball: The Bush Family's Slaveholding Past
Swedish Viking women dressed more provocatively than believed
Researcher says Turkey Foot Rock is upside down
One of George Washington's Philadelphia slaves is remembered
1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says
Britain's equality chief: Obama will only prolong America's racial divide
Creationists 'peddle lies about fossil record'
Britain's last 'witch' may be pardoned
Trial Date of Teens in Confederate Monument Vandalism (Alabama)
Fla. legislator proposes 'Confederate Heritage' license plates
Local Georgia Group Threatens Lawsuit To Return Confederate Flag
Guatemala to open war archives
Jugo Chavez seeks to prove Bolivar was murdered
Shiloh Military Park to expand Corinth unit
From colonial-era slavery, Great Hopes spring
A legacy left unmarked for black Civil War vets
"Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism" [audio 71min]
'King Lear': Shakespeare's finest fairy tale [audio 43min]
Art in World War I trenches [audio 30min]
Jason Emerson on 'The Madness of Mary Lincoln' [video 45min]
Does the War on People Who Use Certain Kinds of Drugs Have Anything to Do with This?
Ridley Scott takes on tale of Reagan-Gorbachev summit
Stephen F. Hayes: Obama as Carter
John Judis: Obama and the cult of the new
Spengler: Obama's women reveal his secret
Frances Trix: Kosova ... Stories the Press Missed
Geraldine A. Ferraro: Why Democrats created Super Delegates
Ginor and Remez: Their arguments about USSR role in 6-Day War receiving more support
Holocaust Hoax: An Author Admits She Lied
Jim Sleeper: Obama in a Valley of Insinuations and Lies
Sean Wilentz: Essay on Obama strikes a nerve
British army to assist at cultural sites in Iraq
Ben Johnson: William F. Buckley Jr., RIP
John Judis: Buckley biographer remembers the great conservative
Racist hate groups aren't mobilizing against Obama
Academics concerned about the release of college papers written by H. Clinton and M. Obama
Fox News Falsely Claims That Weatherman Bill Ayers Was Obama's "Mentor"
Barbara Seaman, crusading pioneer of the women's health movement
Glenn Greenwald: The "father of modern conservatism"
Allan J. Lichtman: Sex, Lies, and John McCain
McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out
Jacob Weisberg: Bush Reads History Narcissistically
Food Fight: History of 20th Century Wars Through Food
Jonathan Zimmerman: Abstinence Programs May Be Right For Africa
Rick Perlstein: Why William F. Buckley Was My Role Model
Larry Diamond: We are about to move from "the silly season" to "the ugly season"
5th anniversary of looting of Iraq Museum commemorated
Resolution on rights for Jewish refugees from Arab lands voted by House Committee
Ariel Toaff: Drops suggestion that Jews used Christian blood for Passover rituals
Feeling blue? Not like a Maya sacrificial victim
Ancient Mayans: Temples for Everyone!
Pablo Picasso's burial site opened to public
Turkey in radical revision of Islamist texts
Over 100 Bulgarian ministers are ex-secret police spies
Director of the documentary "Chicago 10" defends his approach
Humberto Fontova: Cuba's New and Improved Tyrant
William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82
Imagining nuclear holocaust: Remembering "The Day After"
Sean Wilentz: How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton
Rockwell on the Hegelian Election
HEZBOLLAH-SYRIAN - IRANIAN RIFT?
George Washington: Initiator of the Imperial Presidency
Historian's office in India vandalized by activists
Obama Should be a Muscular Moderate Overseas
Is Kosovo Serbia? We ask a historian
LDS Church will publish early papers
Three's a crowd -- A history of third-party campaigns
University of Kentucky denies rumor that it dropped Holocaust course at Muslim demand
OAH Treasurer: Membership down, revenues down, investments off
In defeat, the Clintons are remarkably adept at picking up the pieces
Josh Marshall: Picks up a George Polk Award
George M. Fredrickson: Remembered as a great scholar
GOP Halts Effort to Retrieve White House E-Mails
Jeremi Suri: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam by Threatening to Use Nukes
Gary Leupp: Condi vs. Putin on Bullying Belgrade
A Lead on the Ark of the Covenant
White House Ignored Repeated Warnings That E-mails Were at Risk
Landmark Digital History Monograph Project Goes Open Access
Jon Wiener: Republicans for Obama
Harry Reid: Hitler quip misread, aides say
Daniel Pipes: Destroying Sculptures of Muhammad
Oratory Has Helped Drive Obama's Career -- and Critics' Questions
Stephen Hayes: Obama and the Power of Words
Harvard economist says assassinations have little effect in democracies but can end dictatorships
SMU historians criticize Bush library agreement
History Survey Stumps U.S. Teens
Khmer Rouge torture chief weeps at "Killing Fields"
Storms Dig Up Historic Secrets Along Oregon Coast
Hunt continues for Nazi treasure
Gennifer Flowers tapes up for bid
Australia soccer player in trouble over Hitler garb
Charles L. Blockson: One man's quest to document black history
Catholic natives want Mohawk named a saint
Archeologists find 5,500-year-old plaza in Peru
Alfred McCoy: History professor part of Oscar-winning documentary
It Went By in a Blur: PATH's 100th Anniversary (NYC)
In Boston, Mayor and Librarian Clash Over Control
John Taylor: Nixon didn't need to hear Goldwater's warning to know it was time to go
Daniel Martin Varisco: Muslims on the American Landscape
Eleanor Dwight: Pleads to preserve Edith Wharton House
Ronald Radosh: The Left Offers Obama a Strategy
David A. Hollinger: The Obama candidacy challenges our notions of identity politics
Former internees to get degrees from U. of Wa.
David Irving: "Who's on first" routine draws hoots of derision
HAMAS BUNNY TEACHES ON DANISH CARTOONS AND MARTYDOM
Visiting sites of tragedy to touch history, ease grief
Pentagon cites MIA deal with China
Scott's slippers up for auction
A painful past sparks concern about Obama's safety
Hitler, Frankenstein battle for votes in India
Fresh tests on Shroud of Turin
London: City boss calls for statue of war hero in Trafalgar Square
Douglas A. Fraser, 91, Union Chief Who Helped Chrysler, Is Dead
'The ping heard round the world' revisited
Jamison Foser: John McCain and the Clinton Rules
Clinton Camp Pushes O-Bomber Links: Ignores Her Own Radical Ties
Iraq War costs, Bush 43 v. Bush 41, Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Wordsworth [audio 45min]
The NYPL, Historians, and the Homeless
Anne Frank given musical makeover
Hi-tech Indiana Jones hunt for Leonardo da Vinci secrets
Over Himalayas and Internet, lost flights found
Man Buys 4 Strands of George Washington's Hair for $17G
Paper: DA was part of JFK movie deal
Hillary's First Hundred Days Promise by Bob Miller
How to Game a Presidential Legacy by Joseph Wheelan
Lincoln's Generation Also Faced Crises Involving Religion and Terrorism by Vernon Burton
Ridley Scott's American Gangster and the Myths of the Vietnam War by Jeremy Kuzmarov
Russia – Again America’s “Dark Twin”? by David S. Foglesong
What Are the Origins of “Reasonable Doubt”? by James Q. Whitman
Why Liberals Are Weak When Faced with Fundamentalism by James Simpson
Week of February 18, 2008
Remember Jeff Davis? Many Say Forget It
MLK's driver remembers 'chasing the dream'
Former Peruvian first lady blasts Yale for refusing to turn over Machu Picchu artifacts
David Nasaw: New CUNY Center to Focus on the Art of the Biography
Will Smith wins libel pay out after Hitler slur
The C.I.A. Officer Who Said No to Killing Lumumba
Alan S. Blinder: From the New Deal, a Way Out of a Mess
Recapturing the ’60s, in DayGlo Colors
Texas Women, With a Strong Legacy, Size Up the Democratic Field
A Wandering Kazakh, Before Borat
David Greenberg: Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Speech
Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes: The three trillion dollar war
GAZA PALESTINIANS HURT THEMSELVES
Kirk Bane: Review of Zachary Lazar’s Sway (Little, Brown and Company, 2008)
New evidence on JFK assassination [audio 51min]
Executive power and Congressional oversight [audio 51min]
Who was the mysterious Master of Paspardo? [audio 15min]
Eric Burns on the Founding Fathers' pursuit of fame [video 41min]
Naftali discusses his George H.W. Bush biography [video 72min]
Northern family confronts legacy as largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history [video 75min]
Edward Lengel on WWI's Meuse-Argonne Offensive [video 64min]
Who's the man from Hope this year?
NO US VISA TO "CONNECTED IRANIANS"
It's Official: SMU gets Bush library
AHA Objects to Destruction of Guantanamo Records
Slave manifests offer link to ancestors
Civil War flag faces new battle
Q&A: The history of strife in Kosovo
Nicolaus Mills: Who Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Daniel Pipes: Resisting Islamic Law
Michael Burleigh: A Scholar Who Dares To Look Terror In The Face
Isabel Hilton: So farewell, Castro
Historian Pete Forcey dies at age 83 from bee sting
David Tal: Says Israeli historian's role is making sense of "chaos"
Sonoma Council approves post of city historian
Historian discovers bomb shelter under his house (UK)
LA Times admits it used to ignore Black History Week (Month)
Getting into the personal history business
Should the NYT have done that story on McCain?
Barack Obama's Place In History
Historians lament absence of commemorations of the end of the slave trade
Psychiatrist: Albert Einstein & others 'found genius through autism'
Paul Krugman: Don’t Rerun That ’70s Show
Rev. James E. Orange, 65, Aide to Dr. King, Dies
Gene studies confirm "out of Africa" theories
Air Transport Auxiliary women to be honoured
Karen J. Greenberg: Barbarism Then and Now
Andrew C. McCarthy: When Jihad first came to America
Fareed Zakaria: The End of Conservatism
Joe Enge: American history textbooks are too liberal
Peter Wallenstein: Historian arrested for hit-and-run accident
Critic assails NYU Academic Freedom Conference
Newsweek puts Michelle Obama on the cover
Georgia Claims a Sliver of the Tennessee River
Time Magazine Appeals Ruling That It Libeled Suharto
Humberto Fontova: Fidel Castro: The Teflon Tyrant Resigns
Obama once visited '60s Weather Underground radicals
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Statement in Defense of Philip Zelikow by Christopher A. Kojm, Daniel Marcus, Steven M. Dunne, John J. Farmer, Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg, Susan Ginsburg, Barbara A. Grewe, L. Christine Healey, C. Michael Hurley, Douglas J. MacEachin, John Roth, Kevin J. Scheid, Dietrich L. Snell
Federal government was unsure it could win tax case against Al Capone
Upton Sinclair, Lost in the Hollywood jungle
Victor Davis Hanson: Ivy League Populism
Dan Balz: Johnson's Legacy, Today's Democratic Race
Stolen Art on Display in a Search for Owners
August Wilson’s 1900s to Be a Cycle Onstage
In Rwanda, Bush Mourns 2 Conflicts
Tony Judt: The Banalization of the Holocaust?
Jon Wiener: Anti-Hillary Sentiment On The Rise Among Leading Feminists
Peter Kornbluh: The Day After Fidel
Alleged Nazi concentration camp killer dies at 86
U.S. Capitol is monument to African-American slaves who built it [video 2min]
Brother From Another Planet, Part 2
Diana Muir: Who really said it? ... “A Land without a People for a People without a Land”
George F. Will: How McGovern Made This
Weapons, Space, and Unilateral Tendencies
A Korean Village Torn Apart From Within Mends Itself
Shelby Steele: Why Obama is a "bound man" (interview)
FT ENDANGERS CHINESE DISSIDENT'S WIFE
MICHELLE OBAMA RESTRICT ACCESS TO THESIS/update
A view of Long Island's slave history
Ari Kelman: First Black Communist President
Martin Feldstein: Why this recession may be worse than other recent ones
Thai Prime Minister Stirs Outrage With Denials of 1976 Massacre of Students
Ireland's Blarney Stone may be baloney: study
Possible Druid Grave Enchants Archaeologists
At Folger, England Emerges From the Myths of Time
Memorial at Capitol will pay tribute to those who fought for desegregation (Virginia)
Mayor: Relics dealer's garage like ammo dump (Virginia)
Italian police recover dozens of looted artifacts
Winston Churchill's letters to his dentist on sale
Website hosts Britain's First World War records
William Grimes: Separating the Mythology From the Raw Politics of a Senate Campaign
Krissy Clark: Why didn't it matter in Lincoln's day that he shared his bed with a man?
Peter Dreier: The History of Hope
Secrets of Stonehenge [audio 30min]
Juan Cole: McCain's Holiday from History in Pakistan
Author of biography of cartoonist Bill Mauldin interviewed
SOCIALISTS STAND UP TO HIZB; CARTOONIST ASKED TO LEAVE HOTEL
BBC Ends English Shortwave Service in Europe
PBS documentary 'Banished' recounts history of forced segregation [audio 14min]
History mystery | S.C. black regiment to be featured on PBS
Keith Windschuttle: Accused by Australian historian of ignoring facts about the Stolen Generations
Pro-white, anti-immigrant BNP website 'the most popular in politics'
Has Nazi treasure finally been found?
WWII Bomb Explodes at Czech Work Site
Victor Davis Hanson: Kosovo Was Then, This Is Now ...
New Journal of Ayn Rand Studies + Call for Papers
Mark W. Hendrickson: Ranking (and Timing) the Presidents
Amy Chua: Interviewed about her book, Day of Empire: How hyperpowers rise to global dominance
Mary Queen of Scots' death warrant copy saved
Art Looted by Nazis During World War II to Go on Display in Jerusalem
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says his history degree was great preparation
Catholic bride? Won't ever be king of England
France views the Resistance with fresh eyes
Revealed: the first draft of dossier that took Britain to war in Iraq
Tom Engelhardt: The Million Year War
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
This Week in the World of Archaeology [audio 15min]
New Trove Opened in Kennedy Killing
MUST READ: "WHO OWNS THE PALESTINE CARD?"
Uncovered photos of Lincoln's second inaugration [audio 4min]
Mark M. Smith: The tactility of Abraham Lincoln
Marty Kaplan: Washington, Lincoln, Bush
Mark M. Smith: Interviewed about his book about "sensory history"
"HAPPY DENMARK " STICKING TO ITS GUNS
Tim Rowse : Australia’s apology .. the shadow on the sun
Found at last: the world's oldest missing page (from a Christian text)
Rare Egyptian "Warrior" Tomb Found
Lost JFK Assassination Documents?
Confucius family tree sprouts to more than two million: report
NZ Tunnellers Museum in France Commemorates Kiwis
Discovery of the tragedy of four sons lost in WW I
Belgium: Scots' World War One Shelter Discovered
Sweden Posts Wallenberg Records Online
"Katyn"--New movie tells taboo tale of Polish massacre
Oldest scene of human sacrifice in Africa discovered
Natural-gas drilling threatens ancient rock art (Anasazi ruins, Utah)
Bronze Age art discovered in Scotland after storm
104 year old Nazi-era singer returns to stage ... and controversy
Search is on for WWII wreckage in New Guinea
Gettysburg prepares to limit walking tours
Man Says He Found Missing Confederate Treasure, But State Won't Let Him Dig
Abbey body identified as gay lover of Edward II
Now even Richard Nixon is blogging
William Hogeland: Our Founding Lame Duck
Americans Rank Lincoln as Top President
Paul Greenberg's Historical Malpractice
Drew Faust: Academia's big hit
France softens Sarkozy's plan for Holocaust education
John F. Kennedy 'assassins' plot revealed'
Ancient city discovered in India
Museum IDs last ax wielded by Lincoln
Reforming the Democratic System?
Florida Boys Find Live WWII Grenade with Metal Detector
HBO Inaugurates 'John Adams' in March
A Christian Nation? by Carol V. Hamilton
A Truly Pointless War ... The War of 1812 by Jon Latimer
An Obama Supporter Speaks Out by Daniel Herman
Both Germany and Russia Are Reinventing Their Pasts by Dr. Dmitry Shlapentokh
Clintonites Need to Realize the Left Won the Debates of the 1960s by James Livingston
Should the Candidates Be Talking More About History? by Alexander Heffner
The Great Danger If Russia Stays on the Path It's On by Andreas Umland
Why DC's Gun Law Is Unconstitutional by David E. Young
Week of February 11, 2008
WAFA SULTAN ON ARAB MISTREATMENT OF INDIANS
Austrian village faces down its Nazi past
The greatest mistake in British history. You decide
Tyler Cowen: It’s an Election, Not a Revolution
Do we know whether a candidate will make a good president?
An Iranian Revolutionary, Dismayed but Unbowed
Peace symbol turns 50 years old on Feb. 21st [audio 9min]
Gitmo's pop-culture moment [audio 11min]
William Noel and the Archimedes Codex [video 42min]
Beatles' trek to India recalled on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's death [audio 12min]
Jackie Robinson's Civil Rights correspondence [video 56min]
David Blight on 'A Slave No More' [video 103min]
Thomas Henriksen on 'American Power after the Berlin Wall' [video 62min]
Marcus Garvey's dream of Mother Africa [audio 55min]
Irish Illusions: Four Knocks Passage Grave [audio 15min]
Election season, 19th-century style [audio 1st 6min]
Hair Club for Presidents [audio 1st 4min]
In nuclear-armed Pakistan, political crisis is way of life [audio 2x30min]
Laton McCartney on Teapot Dome [audio 51min]
Dynastic politics in Pakistan [audio 11min]
Nuremberg & the history of toys [audio 4min]
Butterfly McQueen remembered [audio 9min]
Upper Palaeolithic graffiti in Portugal [audio 15min]
Southern terrorism after Appomattox [audio 55min]
Stephanie Coontz: She wants your help with her survey on Betty Friedan
Sean Wilentz and Julian E. Zelizer: A Rotten Way to Pick a President
DANISH MPs: "IRANIANS MUST BE NUTS"
Election season, 19th century style ... a lot's changed
Last black school in Virginia county open to visitors
Costumes star in The Other Boleyn Girl
German Left condemns call for return of Stas
Sarkozy Defends Holocaust Education Plan
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: One, two or many Chinas?
Bryan Appleyard: Reassessing the Seventies
Paula Sutter Fichtner: Austria, the Habsburg empire and Islam
David Levering Lewis: Interviewed about his new book on Islam
AHA: Archives Wiki Now Available
Louis Fisher: Examining the State Secrets Privilege
Jonathan Schwarz: Bill Kristol's Obscure Masterpiece
Jim Sleeper: Obama, Crowds, and Power
Philip Zelikow vs. Eric Alterman: The 9-11 Commission controversy
David Halberstam: Driver sentenced in writer's death
Niall Ferguson vs. Amartya Sen: How inspiring was the example of the British Empire?
Humberto Fontova: Obama's Supporters Say "Viva Che!"
Ron Rosenbaum: Why Hillary doesn't mention her work on Nixon's impeachment
John Roughan: Stolen generations story a distortion of history
Kanagawa plans compulsory Japanese history
Smithsonian American history museum delays reopening
French historian 'unhappy' at condition of historical buildings in India
Conservative black leader chastises Bush for celebrating Black History Month
History written in concrete (WW II)
Hilary Ballon: Headed to Abu Dhabi
Hermann Giliomee: South African historian says his country is in crisis (interview)
Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein: Superdelegates will help not hurt the democratic process
Historian reveals how Pius IX decided to proclaim dogma of Immaculate Conception
Belgian soil hides battle scars (WW I)
Scott Horton: So Bush is another Lincoln?
Kathleen Parker: Just what century are we living in?
Exhibition in Venice rehabilitates Vandals, Goths and Huns
Russians are drawing inaccurate historical parallels with Constantinople
Books about Lincoln, Douglass, Lee Win 2008 Lincoln Prize
Oliver Kamm: An open letter to the editors of Media Lens - finis
Robert McHenry: How Low Can Ben Stein Go? (To the Maligning of Charles Darwin)
John Esposito: Assailed by Campus Watch
Andrew Arato: A Victory of the Better America?
What are the "must read" dystopias?
Neo-Nazi Leader Ran as Ron Paul Delegate in Tennessee Republican Primary
The Lake Wobegon Effect works both ways
Spain remembers the Peninsular War
Sarkozy's Holocaust education plan slated
Mao offered U.S. 10 million women
17th century Japanese village uncovered in Cambodia
James Conlon's mission: Revive operas banned by Hitler
The US Military: An Uncontrollable Juggernaut?
Clinton, Caucuses, and the Maine Vote
Secrets of Cambridge 'porn' library revealed
British royal defends comments on colonialism
Where Lincoln Sought Refuge in His Dark Hours (NYT museum review of Lincoln's summer cottage))
Land Next to Hollywood Sign Once Owned by Howard Hughes Up for Sale for $22M
The Statue of Liberty - From France with love... [audio 47min]
CARTOON RIOTS RESUME IN AND OUT OF DENMARK/updates
Gary Hart: Politics as Transcendence
Eric Rauchway: George Milhous Bush
Patrick Hunt on 'Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History' [video 57min]
Philip Zelikow: A critic assesses his role in steering the 9-11 Commission
Tom Fawthrop: Agent Orange Deforming a Third Generation in Vietnam
Harvey J. Kaye on Thomas Paine [54min]
Robert Reich: The American binge is over
A Well-Argued Case against Intervention Abroad
Nicholas Thompson: Review of Philip Gordon's Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America
Imad Mughniyeh blown up for Harriri murder?
Michael Crowley: Is Obama's Iraq record really a fairy tale?
Reed College Howls With Landmark Recording by Beat Poet
Settlement of Americas a 3-Act Play
Spanish civil war veteran has bullet removed
Joseph Loconte: The Decade of Appeasement (75th anniversary of Hitler's rise to power)
Nothing's the Matter With Anarchy
Bush, at Commemoration, Says Nooses Are Symbol of "Gross Injustice"
Can Obama really bring about "change"?
Max Boot: Good Riddance ... The death of terrorist Imad Mugniyeh
DANES FINALLY GET IT; WILL THE REST OF US?
To Revive, Hillary Needs to Learn from Nixon and Reagan
Did JFK sire child who now lives in British Columbia? Well ...
Who Killed King Charles of Sweden?
Tolkien classic to be auctioned
Historians Flood OHRP With Comments
Anguish of the Stolen Generations (Australian Aborigines)
Anguish of the Stolen Generations (Australian Aborigines)
Bush Honors John Lewis, Others For Black History Month
Daniel Walker Hollis: USC historian, dies
Wal-Mart gives $250,000 for restoration of African Meeting House
Stephen McGinty: It's time we gave Scotland's history its proper place
Justin McCarthy: Says Armenians didn't die from genocide during WWI
Ruth Rosen: Tells about her time on a jury
Philip Zelikow: Both criticized and defended over work on 9-11 Commission
Mark Carey: Environmental Historian, Wins Leopold-Hidy Prize
Daniel Pipes: Britain's Encounter with Islamic Law
With Climate Swing, a Culture Bloomed in Americas
David McCullough: Historian to Teach Online Classroom about George Washington
Chris Hedges: Christianizing US History
Anniversary of DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
Aborigines open Australian parliament
British colonial legacy--Spam--at heart of South Pacific obesity crisis
Final Verdict: Napoleon didn't die from arsenic poisoning
Castro, McCain spar over Cuban torture in Vietnam
History shows experience does not guarantee success in the White House
Lewis Lehrman: Goes from funding history projects to writing a history book
James Moore: Leaving it Up to Texas? Again? Seriously?
Leon Wieseltier: More Reasons To Be Skeptical Of Barack Obama And His Legions Of The Blissful
Debra Burlingame: The Clintons' Terror Pardons
Godfrey Hodgson: America’s change election ... reality or mirage?
Diana Muir Appelbaum and Paul S. Appelbaum: Genetics and the Jewish identity
Elizabeth Brown Pryor: Wins Lincoln Prize for her book on Lee
John J. Pitney, Jr.: Airbrushing Reagan
Scott Kurashige: California's Multiracial Challenge to America
PLOT TO MURDER DANISH CARTOONIST
IRAN CELEBRATES BY "HANGING" ISRAEL AND THE US
Richard Carwardine on Lincoln's life of purpose and power [audio 34min]
Whites to be minority in US by 2050: study
Doris Lessing: Obama 'would be killed'
Nepal honours two Everest heroes
Gunmen grab $163m in art at Swiss museum
Vietnam parade marks 40 years since Tet Offensive
Veteran recalls epic days of Tet offensive
Am Rev treasures to be unveiled
Soldier's message in a bottle surfaces – 90 years later
Tad Taube: Auschwitz needs gravitas and tourism, not one or the other
Former WWII pinup girl from Lake Station, 81, honored for morale work
WW2 bomb forces highway closure (Germany)
Mark Stoler: Gen. George Marshall understood the wise use of authority
Cash luring filmmakers to Germany
Pilgrims flock to Lourdes for 150th anniversary
Domesday Book makes leap to the internet
Oldest Oil Paintings Found in Afghan Caves
Arrest made in Seoul landmark blaze
Ohio and Kentucky fighting over rock
Paul Krugman: Hate Springs Eternal
Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
Robert Frost is hardly the first to give editors trouble
Atop Vietnamese Noodle Shop, War’s Course Shifted
Russians Reveal Hoard of 46,000 Art Treasures Stolen by Nazis
Australia Seeks to Protect World War II Kokoda Trail
Man credited with saving Jews in WWII to repay survivor he allegedly swindled
Discovery: Oldest lighthouse at ancient Roman port
Ancient human remains held in museum archives are set to be DNA-tested for tuberculosis (UK)
Iran's salt men hazardously exposed
Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos, member of congress, is dead at 80
Martin E. Marty: Mormons and Idiosyncracy
Seth Perry: Romney's Religious Dilemma
Italy takes Jewish teachers "blacklist" off Internet
George Weigel: Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
Senate Panel Holds Hearing on Founding Fathers Papers
Barry Rubin: The Middle East shell game
The C.V. Starr Center Fellowships at Washington College
Sarkozy's odes to religion are stirring controversy
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Interviewed in Newsweek about AANB
Tony Dokoupil: The War We Forgot (WW I)
Tom Engelhardt: Iraq's Deplorable Refugee Crisis
Stephen Zunes: Behind Obama and Clinton
Richard Tanter: East Timor ... The Crisis Beyond the Coup Attempt
Brother, Can You Spare A Bong?
Does Hillary Clinton Really Have More Experience than Barack Obama? by T. Alissa Warters and Scott Kaufman
Is Globalization Here to Stay? (Maybe, Maybe Not) by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke
MLK Was Both a Talker and a Doer, Hillary by Harvard Sitkoff
The Hidden-Hand Style of Mamie Eisenhower by Marilyn Holt
We Cannot Afford to Neglect Nuclear Disarmament by William Lambers
When Will We Be Ready for the Real Harriet Tubman? by Milton C. Sernett
Who Chooses the Theme for Black History Month? by Kati Singel
Week of February 4, 2008
GOOD NEWS: AL QAEDA IRAQ IN CRISIS
Jean-Marie Le Pen guilty over Nazi comments
Rick Perlstein: Mitt Romney ... Not in His Father's Footsteps
American Religious History Week?
Neck and Neck, Democrats Woo Superdelegates
Recalling the Maharishi and Carville's Killer Ad
Dan H. Laurence: 87, Bibliographer and George Bernard Shaw Scholar, Is Dead
Hemingway, Your Letter Has Arrived
Tad Devine: Superdelegates, Back Off
Nicholas Kristof: When Women Rule
Charles Fernley Fawcett: Helped rescue Jews in WW II
Who's starting the civil war in the Democratic Party?
EMAIL OF THE DAY: "A MUSLIM TO TRUST"
Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century
Eleanor Roosevelt's Defense of Japanese Internment
New book reveals clashes behind the 9/11 probe
Col. H.R. McMaster: Says army is slow to adapt to change
Andre Vltchek: Indonesia After Suharto – The Last King of Java Forgiven (By Elites)
Gavan McCormack: The Comfort Women, the Asian Women’s Fund and the Digital Museum
Laura Flanders: The Grassroots and the Party, 1964 and 2008
San Jose Valley's black history uncovered by unlikely SJSU scholar
How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Columbus
Charles Nicholl: New book opens a window onto Jacobean London and Shakespeare
Zeev Sternhell: Wins 2008 Israel Prize
$450 million Newseum to Open April 11
Critics: Down With the Newseum!
Daniel Ellsberg and Ben Bradlee finally meet
Meditation on the Man Who Saved the Beatles
Christopher Hitchens: Islamo-Fascism is the right term to use
Zinn's 'People's History' to become documentary
Columbus 'didn't bring lice' to the Americas
Hillary loans her campaign $5 million
Family confronts the North's slave-trading past
Stan Katz: Invited to testify about founding fathers' papers
Charles Freeman: Says Christianity made the West close-minded
Senate's Long Losing Streak on Presidency Could Be Near an End
Historians concerned about death threats against members of a Guatemalan forensic anthropology team
Why Ron Paul Must Run Third Party
And One More Bit of Environmentalist Authoritarianism
Addiction is a Choice to be Discussed in London
Latte Liberals versus Dunkin Donut Democrats
Obama on Marijuana Decriminalization
A Collective Act of Historical Amnesia
James Wolcott: How Bush Stacks Up
Joseph Stiglitz: The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush
Jonathan Zimmerman: At Africa Cup of Nations, lingering bias against blacks
Daniel Pipes: How to Turn Gaza Over to Egypt
Tom Engelhardt: The Spectacle of Campaign 2008
Early history of the Republic of Texas mirrored our own difficulties (Exhibit)
Radio 4 90-part series to cover US history
Does a cave prove Romulus and Remus are no myth?
Tariq Ramadan: Calls for Book-Fair Boycotts
Alfred Regnery: How McCain Can Convince the Right
Mark Bauerlein: Why are we making such a fuss about the youth vote?
Drew Gilpin Faust: Harvard Leader Drew Faust Breaks New Ground Studying the Past
'Anti-Semitic' children's book faces ban (Germany)
Medici philosopher's mystery death is solved
Head lice came with us out of Africa: study
New book on U.S. civil rights trail
Floyd M. Boring, Agent Who Guarded 5 Presidents, Is Dead at 92
One of Two Known U.S. WWI Vets Dead at 108
Finally, WWI commander stands as hero (Australia)
'Digger graves' snub for Aussies
Archeologist revises read of ancient seal inscription
Hope of finding first King's home (Scotland)
Quick Follow-up on Environmental Heretics
The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg
Historians Against the War: Holding conference in April in Georgia
Nobody Asked Me But...(with a genuflection to Jimmy Cannon)
Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo: Why Obama is my Man
Can movies teach us about African-American history?
Paul Mirengoff: Obama's a masked man
Remembering FDR's accomplishments, influence [video 50min]
Marc Ambinder: Candidates who invoke the spirit of Reagan may live to regret it
Michael Beschloss: Says presidents who served in the military helped them be better presidents
A Warhol Surfaces and Is Headed for Court
Deborah Lipstadt: Stanley Fish nails it ... "Hillary hatred" is just like antisemitism
Robert Weible: Appointed New York State's chief curator of history
Senegalese historian denounces "autocratic trends in Africa"
Joint Hungarian-Slovakian history book planned
Can movies teach us about African-American history?
Environmentalism as Religion, Religion as Environmentalism
The public can't get into the Baghdad museum, but Newsweek got a peek
Eric Alterman: What Super Tuesday Means
Arthur Herman: The Lies of Tet
Edward J. Larson: LIberal Democrats are ashamed of many of their party's past leaders
Drew Gilpin Faust: Business Week misquoted her, she says, igniting controversy
Russia 'ditching Cold War pacts'
Seattle builds Northwest African American Museum
Messed-up Databases and Terrible Commercials
How close did America come to attacking Pakistan’s nuclear base in 1970s? [audio 29min]
The Transformation of Psychiatry
Ten Most Famous Americans: What, GW's not included?
Constitutional Changes Ratified by AHA Members
How do history projects fare under the Bush budget?
Newsweek cover story features McCain
Earl L. Butz, Secretary Felled by Racial Remark, Is Dead at 98
SUPER TUESDAY SPECIAL: Historians' Comments
Oliver Kamm: Getting Hiroshima wrong time and again
David Forsmark: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender
Susan Brownell: Beijing Olympics FAQ #2: Would a boycott succeed?
PBS documentary about African prince who became a Mississippi slave
Ruth Rosen: Why would a feminist vote for Obama?
Black History Month--It's Still Relevant
Karen Armstrong: Fate of Pakistan is pivotal
Tristram Hunt: UK students need to be taught history, not pc or patriotic narrative
JAH Special Issue on Katrina Draws Attention
Sean Wilentz on Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
John Perazzo: Why Does Obama's Pastor Matter?
Alan Dershowitz: Who’s Making These Nazi-like Statements?
Archeological Turkish team to count Ottoman castles in Yemen
In Timbuktu, a new move to save ancient manuscripts
German town names school after Nazi rocket expert
Tragicomic Tale of the 9/11 Report
Damage to artifacts is one reason for government crackdown on museums
An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus
Famous Black Lives Through DNA’s Prism (TV Show)
Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized
George Westinghouse: Subject of a new documentary
Dimona struck--but thankfully not its nuclear plant
Historians and Other Scholars Fight Proposed Expansion of IRB Rules
Police protecting U.S. icons 'failed,' report says
Last man in iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo dies
Wreckage of Scuttled Nazi Ship Identified Off Argentine Coast
The graphic way Germany teaches its youth about the Holocaust
Russia remembers Stalingrad carnage
New, 800-Page German Dictionary Warns Against Words Used by Third Reich
Anne Frank Fund tries to stop musical based on her life
Museums, re-enactors worry over NYC plan to regulate antique firearms
Bones found of Indians from 1,000 years ago (Alabama)
Philip Zelikow: Ties between White House, Sept 11 chief
Extra funding for Holocaust trips (UK)
Cabinet of 1955 feared storm over Sunday TV (UK)
Navy's glory days captured by serving sailor
UK's WW II mixed-race babies 'were sent to the US'
Adolf Hitler's 'lost fleet' found in Black Sea
Terry Eagleton: Crucifixion? It wasn't that bad, says professor
Jack Bass: Still need truth, reconciliation, 40 years after Orangeburg
Death photo of WWII reporter Ernie Pyle found
Winston Churchill didn't really exist, say teens
Historians Join New York Feminists For Peace and Barack Obama
February 7, 1839: Henry Clay declares "I had rather be right than president."
David P. Redlawsk: Did Iowa matter?
Susan Dunn: The Case for Disunity
Kathleen Dalton: What Would Change If a Woman Were President?
Ian Kershaw: How Democracy Produced a Monster
Frank Rich: Ask Not What J.F.K. Can Do for Obama
Argentina Rises, Minus Its Swagger
The Party Animal Either Plays Well or Fights Well
NYT Ethicist deals with problem posed by historian
Matt Bai: Superdelegates could decide the Democratic race
Rick Perlstein: Getting Past the '60s? It's Not Going to Happen.
Anarchist Anthology Advenes Auspiciously
Symphonic Forensics: Alsop's 'CSI Beethoven' [audio 12min]
Archivist charged with stealing historic documents [audio 5min]
Because Americans Know Little History, Washington DC's Building Visitor Centers. Really. by Steven Knipp
Don't Get Tough, Barack by James Grossman
Mukasey Still Doesn't Know Water Boarding Is Torture? by William Loren Katz
Obama’s New Math by Robert S. McElvaine
Was the Civil War a Terrible Mistake? by Jim Powell
Welcome Back to American Politics, LBJ! by Randall B. Woods
Why Obama's the Real Deal by James Livingston
Week of January 28, 2008
Museum of American Finance (Review/NYT)
WHO'S FIRST - COUNTRY OR PARTY?
Jim Sleeper: Why It Should Be Obama vs. McCain
Meir Zamir: Churchill Gov't Secretly Proposed Anti-Zionist Plan, Scholar Says
Still Trying to Bring Their Fallen Heroes Home
How Former President Clinton Is Viewed Could Affect Vote
Napoleon, Egypt and the beginnings of archaeology [audio 55min]
The MLK and LBJ tapes [audio 5min]
Roy Harris on 'Pulitzer's Gold' [audio 51min]
The Legless Ladies of Creswell Crags [audio 15min]
Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison [video 66min]
Daniel Walker Howe on 'What Hath God Wrought' [video 49min]
Timothy Naftali on GHW Bush's difficult monetary decisions on monetary policy [video 72min]
America's search for purpose in the post-Cold War world [video 60min]
Hillary, Barack & the future of liberalism [audio 52min]
Tim Weiner on 'Legacy of Ashes' [video 60min]
The President of Bling Gets Married
Clinton's Gradual Education on Issues of Race
Archives Challenges Clinton Papers Case
The Clintons' Southern Strategy
An Alternative History of Technology
ECONOMIST: NIE UNDERMINED DIPLOMACY
Robert M. Ball Is Dead at 93; Led Social Security
Jim Zwick: Twain scholar, dead at age 51
Matt Childs: Historian leaves Florida to get around state ban on trips to Cuba
Gandhi's ashes reappear for anniversary
Historians Could Be Helped by Google Experiments with Search
Bush's executive order against earmarks could kill history projects
Tom Palaima: What we've lost in the Iraq war
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Man on Whom Everything Was Lost, says Joseph Epstein in Commentary
Jean Johnson and Scott Bittle: Where does the money go?
Sarah Imhoff: American Anti-Semitism, New and Old
Fran Shor: Obama, the Kennedys and "Change We Can Believe In"
Lisa Pine: Genocide ... twentieth-century warnings for the twenty-first century
Paul Katz: What shall we do with the dead dictator?
UK Teachers' Group: "Don’t teach children patriotism"
Juan Cole: Historian Says Political Language About Islam Aims to Manipulate Voters
Norweigan students don't know much about history...
Chris Toensing: Troop surge in Iraq not successful, historian says
Eric Weitz: Historian Says Weimar Republic Holds Potent Lessons for Today
James Barr: Historian says Lawrence of Arabia invented rape scene to hide his own sexuality
19th Century Shipwreck Washes Ashore On Cape
Seminole fight to be reenacted on battle site
Shuttle disaster memories linger in town
Chinese vase holds 300-year-old shopping list
Lost city could have been cradle of life
Holocaust float banned from Rio Carnival
Thomas Bass and Maurice Isserman: Iraq of '08 eerily like Vietnam of '68
UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara’s prehistoric art
Tom Engelhardt: Normalizing Air War from Guernica to Arab Jabour
Michael T. Klare: How Oil Burst the American Bubble
Juan Cole: Blowback from the GOP's holy war
Jonathan Zimmerman: Sports, Dictators, and Democracy
Athanasios Moulakis: Twelve Ways to Know the Past
The Orwellian Schoolmaster v. the Huxleyian Nanny
Thomas Sugrue: Law school students need to be taught about history of racism, he says
Blogger digs up 1979 ad showing a plane and WTC
Howard Zinn: Roasted in New Criterion
Salil Tripathi: Does Gandhi still matter?
John Nagl: Another academic star leaving the military
An Investigation Focuses on Antiquities Dealer
Another effort to block Bush library
Website helps keep citations straight
AMERICA, NOT ONLY MAC, IS ON IT'S WAY BACK
Eileen McNamara: Shades of 1960
Jimmy James, P.O.W. Plotter of Escapes, Is Dead at 92
Marvel Comics revives Capt. America
Berlin dig finds city older than thought
Far right disrupts German Nazi remembrance
Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis
Find may shed light on Roman era (UK)
Daniel Martin Varisco: What is There to Study? (Re: Afghanistan Study Group)
Clinton's LBJ Comments Infuriated Ted Kennedy
The lost powerhouse of Renaissance ideas [audio 45min]
Ron Paul Does Well....In Spite of Anderson Cooper
Investigating fantastic claims of Templar secrets and treasure [audio 27min]
Speakers bemoan loss of Iraqi art
Arafat: He Didn't Give at the Office
Bernard-Henri Lévy: How Monica Lewinsky Continues To Dominate American Politics
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: Tragedy In Kenya ... Why Blaming European Imperials Won't Cut It Anymore
Court Denies Alleged Nazi Guard's Appeal
Physics professor says he's on a mission to draw attention to positive face of Islam
Library of Congress Places 3,000 Photos on Flickr
Danish library to exhibit Mohammed cartoons
Arlington tomb repairs must get Congress' OK
From Nazi Court to Posh Apartments
Restoration Efforts Giving Chattanooga's Medal of Honor Museum a Face-Lift
Victor Davis Hanson: In War ... Resolution
Kathleen Parker: Chasing John Kennedy & Ronald Reagan
Rudy Giuliani: A Preliminary Autopsy
Legos: 50th anniversary of enduring toy
Turkish Professor Gets Suspended Sentence for Insulting Nation's Founder
Oh, Yugoslavia! How They Long for Your Firm Embrace
Australia will make a formal apology to the indigenous stolen generations
New Yosemite Indian war: Tribes fight over place in history
Germany still wrestles with Adolf Hitler's legacy
Craig Childs: How much more of the world's treasures do museums need?
Jon Wiener: If Obama is JFK, Who Does That Make Hillary?
Sean Wilentz: How do Clinton, Obama, Romney, and McCain understand the role of commander-in-chief?
Mark E. Neely Jr.: His new book given a blistering review by James McPherson
“Secrets of the Parthenon” (Documentary/PBS)
Clues to Black Plague's Fury in 650-Year-Old Skeletons
Remembering When U.S. Finally (and Really) Joined the Space Race
McCain Wins Florida....My Limb is Cracking
Daniel Pipes: Give Gaza to Egypt
Tony Judt: The 'Problem of Evil' in Postwar Europe
Niall Ferguson: Has the democratic wave broken?
Confronting the state secrets privilege
Ian Buruma: Legislating history (Re: Spain's new anti-Franco law)
Poland and Germany plan joint history book
Poland and Germany plan joint history book
David Levering Lewis: Historian sees Christian conquest of Spain as lesson
LDS President Hinckley worked to remind and reconcile Mormons with their past
Juan Cole: One last Argument with Bush
Is the Rio Grande Valley really a valley?
Reenactment takes students back to 1939 and days of Ida Tarbell
Sean Wilentz: Obama's misuse of history
Lou Cannon and Carl M. Cannon: Reagan's Heir ... Reaching for a Place in History
David Rattray: One year after he was killed ... still remembered
Report Details Smithsonian Business Unit's Problems
A Nod to Big Ideas of the Past, but Domestic Issues Are Now the Focus
Oxford pensioner's paintings worth millions
Archivist: I stole papers to pay bills (NY)
Germany Confronts Holocaust Legacy Anew
Question for libertarians over at Daily Kos
What's under Revere's house? With radar, scientists take peek
NY Worker Accused of Stealing Artifacts
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Named Editor of WaPo Online Magazine for Blacks
Diary Revisits American Tragedy Dreiser Wrote About
Lincoln cottage to be revealed
Lincoln's relatives planning to gather at museum opening
Richard W. Garnett: When Catholicism was the target
The East Berlin Tunnel: Whose Ruse?
David Oshinsky: Disses the new book on Joe McCarthy
Formal award for WWII Land Girls (UK)
The shame of the attack on Robert Frost's house
Gordon B. Hinckley, Mormon Leader, Is Dead at 97
Bush's Final Speech Recalls Presidents Past
Survivors detail Suharto-era massacres
Southern racists adopt "Canadian" as a euphemism for "black"
Grabbing a musket for 'unsung hero' of Revolution
The Radiance that Streams Immortally from the Door of the Law
The transition to a new economy is over. Do our candidates know it?
E. Kaestner, 107, Last German WW I Veteran, Is Dead
Saddam's FBI Interrogator Says Iraqi Dictator Did Not Expect a US Invasion
Britain Seeks Its Essence, and Finds Punch Lines
US News: Features articles on US campaign history
Joseph Lane: Race and the Risky Game of Claiming Icons
Historians signing a petition to stop US from building a base in the Czech Republic
Alice Kessler-Harris: Why I'm not necessarily for Hillary
Timothy Daniels: Suharto’s Legacy
The Pollyanna Spirit [audio 12min]
Eric Foner: Debating who is more oppressed, blacks or women, is a fool's game
Can Washington DC Legally Stop Residents from Owning a Handgun? (Supreme Court Brief) by Jack N. Rakove, Saul Cornell, David T. Konig, William J. Novak, Lois G. Schwoerer, Fred Anderson, Carol Berkin, Paul Finkelman, R. Don Higginbotham, Stanley N. Katz, Pauline R. Maier, Peter S. Onuf, Robert E. Shalhope, John Shy, and Alan Taylor
Obamarama: The Absurd Arguments Being Used Against Him by James Livingston
South Korea's Leader Tries to Turn His Back on History by Alexis Dudden
The Surprisingly Democratic Roots of Evangelicalism by Thomas S. Kidd
The Two Albu[r]querques by David Holtby and Tobías Durán
Who Owns the Noose? by Jim Downs
Week of January 21, 2008
Election Prediction: Obama v. Romney, No Strong Third Party Challenge
Are the Democrats Ready to Stop Being Clinton Enablers?
“IT took a president to get it done.”
The Capa Cache of long-lost photos
Why Hillary may have to take Obama as veep
Garry Wills: Two Presidents Are Worse Than One
Memo: Giuliani administration overrode objections to putting command center at WTC
H. Bradford Westerfield: Influential Yale Professor, Is Dead at 79
Richard G. Darman, 64, Aide for 5 Presidents, Dies
George Habash, Palestinian Terrorism Tactician, Dies at 82
Suharto, Former Indonesian Dictator, Dies at 86
John McCain: War Hero or War Criminal?
Philip Carl Salzman: Why did the Muslim Middle East become so violent?
Stephanie Coontz: The Future of Marriage
Susan Brownell: Expert on Chinese sports is interviewed about the Olympics
Susan Brownell: Beijing Olympics FAQ #1: Politics and the Olympics
Museum Workers Are Called Complicit
FOR REPUBLICAN NEW MEDIA IT IS ALL ABOUT PERSONAL POWER
On Immigration: A Reply to Hoppe
Honour sought for Voytek, the 'Soldier Bear' [video 2min]
Luther Spoehr: Review of Jon Kukla's Mr. Jefferson's Women (Knopf, 2007).
Painting Bush reveres is of a horse thief
The Sistine Chapel was created 500 years ago by Michelangelo... or was it?
William Chafe: A critic from Duke case assails him again
William Kristol: You fight an election with the politicians you have
Honor sought for 'Soldier Bear'
Heonik Kwon: The Ghosts of the American War in Vietnam
Bernard Lewis: Singled out by Slate's Jacob Weisberg as the Big Thinker behind the Iraq War
Jacob Weisberg: The Bush Tragedy
Cultures of Apocalypse [audio 13min @03:30]
Pressure grows to limit state secrets privilege
A new documentary tells the story of Jews in America (PBS)
Heinrich August Winkler: Says Germans have drawn lessons from Hitler
Melvin E. Lee: Grievance-Based Terrorism
Matthew Pinsker: Historian explores the cottage where Lincoln spent his summers during the Civil War
Belated AHA Blogging: Passion, Process, and Public History
Farewell, Udach' Kuqax*a'a'ch, the last native speaker of Eyak (Alaska)
Raids new blow to American museums
21m pound grant buys new home for Henry VIII's flagship
Cyprus divers to dig out ancient ship
Joel Beinin: The People in Gaza Challenge Sham Peace Process
Some question Clinton's role as ex-president who's involved in politics
Linked by race, but there's a big difference between Jesse's run and Barack's
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
Nick Turse: America's Forgotten Vietnamese Victims
Jonathan Zimmerman: A Super Bowl lesson from Ghana
Chalmers Johnson: Why the Debt Crisis Is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic
Harvey Kaye: Interviewed by Bill Moyers about Tom Paine
Anastasia's remains 'found in Russia'
Authorities raid California museums
Relic thefts 'huge crime problem' in U.S. parks
Boston MFA sues to bolster claim to disputed 1913 painting
"Can Marriage Survive?" at Cato Unbound
Anne Frank's Tree Saved From Ax
It's No Dud: Bomb Squad Disposes of Live Rocket on Display in Veterans' Museum
German railway displays its Holocaust shame
China hails "greatest discovery since Peking Man"
3D radar-computer 'digs' for Lost Colony
Jan Gross: Poland fuming over American historian's book
John Nef: Honored by U. of Chicago
Lisa Jardine: Historian chosen to head fertility watchdog (UK)
Miles Lerman: A Leading Force Behind Holocaust Museum, Dies at 88
In Orphans' Twilight, Memories of a Doomed Utopia During the Holocaust
Computers piece together millions of shredded Stasi documents
Ancient Cemetery Unearthed in Syria
Tariq Ramadan: Muslim scholar appeals US visa refusal
Tom Blanton: Featured in new documentary, "Secrecy"
Why Dick Morris is worth listening to
Dick Morris: There's a method to crafty Bill's madness
Rick Perlstein: How he reached the conclusion that conservatives can't govern (Profile)
David Levering Lewis: Ouch! Bad review in the LAT
Pueblo: 40 years ago, capture dragged crew's families through nearly a year of unbearable agony
Mass grave of possible Nazi victims uncovered at German construction site
Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police
Auschwitz collection enriched by works of Jan Komski
The Study of Modern Warfare by Military Historian Victor Davis Hanson [video 34min]
Donation for Slavery Atonement Is Given to U. of Missouri
Rescuing ancient citadel offers hope for Iraq
Disputed Iraqi Archives Find a Home at the Hoover Institution
Rights, Racism, and Responsibility
German filmmakers take control of their nation's Nazi past
Argentine Friar's Heart Stolen From Monastery Where it was Kept as Religious Relic
Tracy Dove: Egypt's Troubled History With Gaza
OAH rooms renting like hot cakes at NYC Hilton ... get them while they last
Federal aid to ease a recession? History suggests it's always too late
Afghan Journalist Sentenced to Death for Internet Printout
Free Trade Between Palestine and Egypt
Sen. Sessions Places a Hold on Presidential Records Bill
Historians celebrate release of Iranian filmmaker who had uncovered mass grave of regime opponents
Joseph Ellis: 'The better angels' side with Obama
Ancient Maya scarified boys not virgin girls: study
Study: False statements preceded war
A Nazi Past Casts a Pall on Name of a Disease
Robert Faggen: Editing of Frost Notebooks in Dispute
Oliver Stone To Make 'Fair' Movie About George Bush
Museum of American Finance reopens after major renovation
Michael K. Honey: King's politics of Hope
What should South Carolina do with its statue of Pitchfork Ben Tillman?
Brantly Womack: The United States and Sino-Vietnamese Relations
In Matters Big and Small, Crossing Giuliani Had Price
Daniel Pipes: The Middle East's Tribal Affliction
Lasers unearth historical sites
The Gary Johnson/Ron Paul Revolution
Martin Kramer: Memo from Gulfistan
Stan Katz: Calls on AHA to resume investigating plagiarism
Bruce THompson: Modern civil rights movement began in Maryland, historian says
Iraq: 'Ancient civilization . . . broken to pieces'
Treasure hunters find Bronze Age axes (UK)
Ancient Peruvians cultivated crops 10,000 years ago
Archaeologists' groundbreaking find at Cambridge University
Utah State Capitol Building: Strength Renewed, a Grand Old Building Is Back
Will Keith Halderman Back Up His Charge?
Daniel Galvin: History as a Guide to the Presidential Primaries? Nah…
1948 and the Birth of Rock and Roll Music
NIE FALLOUT: STRONGER RUSSIAN-CHINESE-IRANIAN AXIS
Guardian: UK was as clueless as US on eve of Iraq War
Donald Ritchie: Women in the News
A Good Time to Remember Standing Bear
What Does Logic Have To Do With It?
EDITOR GETS 3 YEARS FOR REPRINTING MUHAMMED CARTOONS
The Effects of Mass Deportation
SAUDIS PROMISE TO LET WOMEN DRIVE
INDIAN ISRAELI SPACE COOPERATION COTINUES DESPITE IRAN
Kevin Gover: Undaunted Director at Indian Museum
Gordon Taylor: Turkey's nationalist thugs
Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi Continue to Honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Day
Divers discover U-boat wreckage
Deadly chemicals hidden in war cache (Australia)
The war children born to Nazi fathers in a sinister eugenics scheme speak out
Pledge to reclaim Scottish history for our children
Guido Knopp: German historian likens Cruise speech to Goebbels
Boston Globe Editorial: The Multifaceted King (MLK)
Clandestine Operation of Argentine Military Intelligence in Mexico
Covering Iraq is much more dangerous than was Vietnam
Darius Rejali: Why have modern democracies been such important innovators of torture?
Petition to Abolish the Government of the USA
Nakazawa Keiji: The Hiroshima Legacy
Historians Fear MLK's Legacy Being Lost
INGRATE OBAMA SHOULD HAVE GIVEN SPEECH IN KENYA
Barbara Ehrenreich: Of Race and Progress (LBJ and MLK controversy)
Elie Wiesel: How did "Night" become a bestseller after rejections from publishers?
Why does Johnny come marching homeless?
Save your history, museum urges blacks
Posthumous honors for black WWII vet
Ben Tillman statue under fire (South Carolina)
Lincoln's legacy in Kentucky ... search on for his log cabin footprint
Ritual Mask From Lost Village Returned to Eskimos
Paul Krugman: Debunking the Reagan Myth
Is the Government Doing Enough to Help Paranoid Schizophrenics?
"One of the Worst Negative Ads . . ."
Juan Cole: MLK Taught Us War Cannot Achieve Even a Negative Good
Mary L. Dudziak: Thurgood Marshall and MLK
Obama Echoes King's Call For Unity at Atlanta Church
Did 'Filipino Monkey' trigger latest US-Iran quarrel? [audio 7min]
The hunt for Japanese American disloyalty in World War II [video 81min]
'The Throne of St. James' [29min]
What are historians doing when they explain things?
A Lesson from Recent U.S. History: We Need a Program for Good Jobs by Frank Stricker
Can Today's Candidates Revive Martin Luther King's "Shattered Dreams"? by Thomas F. Jackson
Putin’s New Man at Brussels by Andreas Umland
Remembering Roy Rosenzweig by Gary Gerstle
We Could Take Humanitarian Lessons from Herbert Hoover by William Lambers
Week of January 14, 2008
Streets Bearing Civil Rights Leader's Name Face Stigma Of Poverty
"WE HAVE HEADS, WE HAVE LEGS . . ."
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: African American National Biography published after 10 years work
Juan Cole: Iraq is Still a Bad Bargain
Clarence B. Jones: A former MLK speechwriter weighs in on the Obama/Clinton dispute
David Crist: Pentagon historian says Iran’s small boats are a big problem
A Recession's Impact Is All in the Timing
On Deathbed, Suharto Avoids Answering for Crimes
Evolution by Natural Selection Defended
Mystery man's annual visit to Poe grave
Are All Libertarians Mentally Ill?
Ancient Vase Comes Home to Italy to a Hero's Welcome
Joseph Lane: Romney’s Big Government
Bill Moyers: Does it take a president to get things done?
Frederick Kagan: Says new law allowing Baathists back into government is promising
A Critique of Beltway Libertarians
SARKOZY TRIES TO REGAIN HIS MACHISMO
In Defending War Vote, Clintons Contradict Record
In Complex Times, Turkey Seeks a Reassuring Face
Daniel Larison: Historian, attacked in Commentary for nostalgia for Confederacy, responds
Noose Cover Gets Editor Replaced
Time publishes unseen pics of MLK
Peter H. Wood: Recalls teaching his last class
Tom Engelhardt: The "Success" Mantra in Iraq
Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, Juan Cole: Critic claims they are ignoring progress in Iraq
Who owns the Declaration of Independence?
Franck Salameh: Says we need "true diversity in Middle East studies"
Rebecca Solnit: Encounters with the Zapatistas
Giovanni Arrighi: The Five-Hundred Years’ Peace
Mark Selden: Compulsory Mass Suicide, the Battle of Okinawa, and Japan's Textbook Controversy
Mary L. Dudziak: What a Constitutional Crisis Looks Like (Re: Kenya)
Timothy Noah: Happy Birthday, Monicagate! An affair to forget.
White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone
Seattle Times Editorial: USG should back research on corpses like Kennewick Man
Russia revives military boast of Soviet days
Huckabee sympathizes with people who want to fly the Confederate flag
Jan Gross: Princeton Historian Could Face Criminal Charges Over Book in Poland
San Quentin Makes Way for Future, but Preserves Past
Holding Job Search Committees More Accountable
Humans Crave Violence Just Like Sex
Collector Returns Art Italy Says Was Looted
Largest Reward Offered for Return of Stolen Medals (NZ)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: NIMBY Comes to China
Ronald Radosh: Is the new biography of Joe McCarthy trustworthy?
Strobe Talbott on 'The Great Experiment' [audio 51min]
Reidar Visser: Ashura, 1429/2008
Quebec's 400th birthday turning into disappointment
Holocaust Museum helping survivors and families navigate Nazi archive
The Dems are so 20th Century, and the Republicans, so 19th Century
Obama's Reagan Comparison Sparks Debate
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: His published journal entries barely mention Israel or the Holocaust
10 Years Ago Today, Matt Drudge Broke the News
Pope Cancels University Visit in Wake of Protests Over Old Galileo Lecture
Everybody says Hillary's the first serious female candidate for president, but is she?
Bruce Bartlett: The racist history the Democratic Party wants you to forget (Interview)
Britain offers settlements with nerve gas vets from 50's and 60's
Obituary praises party boss for 'stability' during Tiananmen crackdown
2,500-year-old sword excavated from tomb
Michelangelo's David set for move
Researchers Find Old Mexico Time Capsule
New D.C. museums offer variety for a price
Nazi hunters frustrated with Germany and Austria's indifference
Photos of crowd at Lincoln inauguration recently discovered
Eric Hobsbawm: Remembers life under Weimar
McCain Parries a Reprise of 2000 Smear Tactics
China's reality check on Long March
6-8 MILLION SAUDI RESIDENTS CANNOT WORSHIP
Historians linking up with sociologists to examine the family
Eric Zorn: History gives honest look at fairy tale
Library of Congress Settles Scottish Spat
Official: Bush aware of Jewish refugees' plight
Milton Wolff, 92, Dies; Anti-Franco Leader
Andre Vltchek: The Suharto Legacy – As He Lay Dying
Daniel Pipes: Bush's Middle East Hopes
Ronald Radosh: America's 'Fascist Moment'
Michael Ledeen: Fascism's liberal roots
Important Article on ......You Know What
Who lost the Battle of Trafalgar? [audio 30min]
The Fisher King: The wound that does not heal [audio 45min]
Outraged? Then Please Read This
The Universal Declaration of Rights
The Ron Paul Newsletters: A Little Light, and Some Questions
A New Outlet for Aboriginal Cinema
Police Manhandle and Beat Up Protesters
REPUBLICANS TIRED OF GOVERNING
Stanley Kutler: Huckabee and the Constitution
Tracy Dove: On Sovereign Wealth Funds, the 1980's and Austria's Kreditanstalt Bank, 1931
A more critical view of the Iranian TV series on the Holocaust: Not so much to cheer about
White House reused e-mail tapes
The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945
President Lincoln's summer retreat will open to public
Are "PC Libertarians" Really Statists in Disguise?
Fire Jesse Benton, Get Some New Ads
Atonement: Wartime drama wins award
A Nuclear-Free World? Policymaking Elites and the Public Agree by Lawrence S. Wittner
The Smurfs Are Off to Conquer the World — Again
Walter Lacqueur: The fate of fanaticism
England's 'Jurassic Coast' Yields Subversive Dinosaur Fossils
Eric Muller: A Troubling Partial Rehabilitation of Korematsu v. United States
David Zarembka: Kenya's Violence ... Britain's Legacy
Timothy Noah: The Politics of Weeping
Barry Rubin: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush (Middle East)
Daniel Pipes: Bush Promotes a Palestinian "Right of Return"
Jean Pfaelzer: Author says U.S. should learn immigration lessons of a century ago
Earl Nation: 97; urologist, medical historian
Studs Terkel: At 91, he has a right to ramble a bit
Jill Lepore on King Philip’s War [video 42min]
Maha Nassar: Montana wants to hire her, but along with her husband, too? Some complain.
Campaign Issues May Fade, but Souvenirs Endure
Finalists Named: National Book Critics Circle Awards
Ed Blum: God in the White House
Caroline Elkins: What's Tearing Kenya Apart? History, for One Thing.
Historians file brief in SCOTUS in support of DC gun law
Missing for a half century, a cache of photos spurs sensitive research on Islam's holy text
Guatemala to open park at ancient Maya ruins
Education overhaul shakes up German universities
Wind damages historic Buffalo tavern
Tourists by the thousands play archaeologist for a day in Israel
New historical evidence supports Pope Pius XII
Identity of Mona Lisa revealed, researchers say
Caroline K. Keck: Art Conservator, Dies at 99
U.S. prez declares Religious Freedom Day
Saul Cornell: The Second Amendment Goes to Court
Roy Rosenzweig Prize in History and New Media Established in Professor's Memory
French car-maker apologizes for scowling Mao ad
Congressman introduces religion bill blasted by critics for "fake history"
Oedipus Bush? Slate's Jacob Weisberg Puts President on Couch
Dutch families receive effects of relatives who were Nazi victims
Plague a growing but overlooked threat: study
David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours
Juan Cole: McCain owns the Iraq war -- for better or worse
Columbus Carried Syphilis From New World to Europe, Study Suggests
Clayborne Carson: Interviewed about the MLK Papers project
AHA criticized for ignoring needs of job applicants
Southern publishers exploiting myths to attract readers
Jan Gross: Poland May Sue Author of Book on Treatment of Jews
Medieval artifact rescued by amateur historian
Underwater city could be revealed--Britain's "Atlantis"
German experts crack Mona Lisa smile
UC Berkeley's bones of contention
January 15-17, 1950: The National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington, DC
Storm over house plan for ancient monument (UK)
Tongan site dated oldest in Polynesia
Miami Circle is historic, but visitors can't see $27.6 million attraction (Florida)
British dad still grieving over soldier son's death in Falkland war
Damian Thompson: Lies, damn lies and 'counterknowledge'
A Long-Dry California River Gets, and Gives, New Life
CIA reveals: We said in 1974 that Israel had nuclear weapons
Edward J. Renehan: Announces on his blog that he is bi-polar
James Loewen: Wants to pressure Sundown Towns to change
Does History Favor Obama or Clinton?
Clinton's King Comment 'Ill-Advised,' Obama Says
Joseph Ellis: A promise of unpredictability
German experts crack Mona Lisa smile
Limited free access to online journals
Thai Jones: Recalls when her parents were on the run 60's activists
Cady vs. Douglass all over again?
Race and Gender Are Issues in Tense Day for Democrats
Footprints of Holocaust in a Battle for Lost Art
In Spain, a Monumental Silence
Alongside the History of the Nation, the Story of Jewish Immigrants
An American Historian Visits China by Melvin Small
Obamarama: Why Some Liberal Academics and Journalists Are Suspicious of Obama by James Livingston
Taylorized Academic Labor by Jacob Kramer
The Lesson America Can Learn from Its Own History by Johann N. Neem
Week of January 7, 2008
Ira Chernus: Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?
Obama and Edwards are Libeling HRC on MLK -- and Distorting History
Edwin Black: Writes editorial demands leaders of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum resign
David Greenberg: Why Obamamania? Because He Runs as The Great White Hope.
Obama Makes Some Expensive Promises
Charge of the Light Brigade [audio 45min]
The ghosts of Berlin [audio 30min]
What's new in Lincoln books? [video 12min]
Student sparked battle over school prayer [video 87min]
The politics of audacity [audio 53min]
Was it the Bradley Effect? [audio 9min]
End of slave trade meant new normal for America [audio 11min]
Long history of broken campaign promises [audio 17min]
HILLARY lEARNED NOTHING FROM PAST MISTAKES
Objectionable Comments in the Ron Paul Newsletters: How Long Did It Go On?
Ron Paul: The Lost Opportunity?
Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Review of Charlie Wilson's War (Weekly Standard)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Accused of sugarcoating FDR's views on Jews
Paul Kennedy: A historian's education in the ways of empire
Germany Overturns Conviction in Nazi Era Reichstag Fire Verdict
Samuel Huntington: A prominent critic of his "clash of civilization" thesis recants
Tom Sugrue: Detroit native 'blows up many stereotypes and misconceptions' on city's past
Jeff Greenfield: How to recover from a big loss in the early primaries
Holocaust foundation: Bush is right--U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz
John Swails: Historian who sued Oral Roberts over firing gets his job back (others do not)
Eric Foner: The shadow of Iraq falls on Civil War studies
Eric Alterman, George Zornick: Iraq Isn’t Vietnam, but America Is Still America
German Jews Protest Star of David Pro-Smoking T-Shirt
Aqueduct's World Heritage entry
NYC cloning historical trees for future
Clue to missing portrait of a young Queen Mother
An outing for Hadrian at the British Museum
Bush Says U.S. Should Have Bombed WWII Death Camp
Study Says Glaciers Formed During a Very Warm Period
Sir Edmund Hillary, Everest conqueror, dies
Suffering for beauty has ancient roots
Deborah Lipstadt: Accuses Ghandi's grandson of anti-Semitism
Tracy Dove: Disinformation in the Persian Gulf Discredits US Navy 44 Years After Gulf of Tonkin
Ari Kelman: Hillary's top-down view of the civil rights movement
Sam Stein: New Hampshire Polling Fiasco Not Unique In History
Ellis Cose: An Obama-Carter Reality Check
Fred Siegel: The Globalization Election
'Republic of Suffering' author Drew Gilpin Faust [audio 30min]
Now neglected, rich history could be boon for Baltimore
Drew Gilpin Faust: With New Book Out, Faust Shows Historical Side
U.S. '60s Vietnam intelligence flawed on Tonkin Gulf and Tet
John A. Garraty: The Scholar Who Popularized History
Tom Engelhardt: The Bush Legacy (Take Two)
Chalmers Johnson: Second Thoughts on Charlie Wilson's War
The Paul Newsletters and the Problem of the Paleos
Paul Buhle: Collaborates on a comic-book history of SDS
Devilish debate on end for Church of England
Church of England 'accepts end of blasphemy law'
A life of luxury for Spain's sacred pigs: and then the chop
Historians file anti-discrimination brief at Supreme Court citing history of Reconstruction
Daniel Walker Howe on 'What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815' [video 49min]
Juan Cole: 250,000 Civilians Dead in Bush's War?
Joseph Lane ... More Fuzzy Math: Why the Primaries Mean Whatever We Want Them to Mean
Sacha Baron Cohen Signs to Play Abbie Hoffman for Spielberg
Library admits it damaged diary (UK)
PBS history of Jewish Americans
Egad! It's the Times Higher Education Supplement
FDR Watch: Health and Final Illness
FINALLY, WOMEN PUT GENDER AHEAD OF RACE/update
Artifacts: When does it help to cry in New Hampshire?
NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY SPECIAL: Historians Comment
Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee dead in Cuba
Python member Terry Jones tries to balance the continent's story
The History Boys ... why has it remained popular for so long?
Rene Wildangel: Not All Palestinians Were Pro-Nazi, Says German Historian
Nigeria's answer to Stonehenge: the Ikom Monoliths
The latest tactic in Iraq: anthropology
Liverpool unveils Anne Frank exhibit
Michael Oren: Bush's Mideast Muddle
Larry Diamond: What's happening to the democracy movement worldwide?
Fight to save 'Alice in Wonderland' home
A new face at the place where Vicksburg's struggle began
Record numbers visit Auschwitz ex-Nazi death camp
Ulster Troubles 'could be redefined as a war'
A Cathedral Resists the Label 'Property of Russia'
Missouri senator wants to require using B.C. and A.D.
From alleys to aldermen, Chicago's fortunes tied to charts and graphs
Advisory board urges declassification reforms
PBS Roundtable: Beschloss, Smith & Fitzpatrick on history behind the NH primary
Holocaust Memorial Group Angry Over Rail Company Charges
Making Elections Real Events not Pseudo Events
MCCAIN - THE AMERICAN CHURCHILL
Report reveals Vietnam War hoaxes, faked attacks
Sean Wilentz: After taking on Obama supporters, they pound back
Exhibition cancelled after ‘conspiracy’
Britain honoring James Bond on stamps
New musical tells story of Anne Frank
White House Must Answer Questions About Missing White House E-mails, Magistrate Judge Rules
Daniel Pipes: Fascism's Legacy ... Liberalism
Fouad Ajami: This U.S. president is the most consequential the Middle East has ever seen
Georgia artifacts may point to de Soto's trail, archeologist says
New Jersey Becomes First Northern State to Apologize for Role in Slavery
War Crimes Trial Resumes for Former Leader of Liberia
David Neiwert: Jonah Goldberg's Bizarro History
New Republic says Ron Paul's newsletters over the years frequently made outrageous statements
Peter Fineman: Look to the past to see future of today's immigrants
C. W. Hayford: Zhou Enlai and The Chinese Omelette
Chavez building his agenda around Bolivar
Newsweek says cabarets are making a come back
Newsweek says cabarets are making a come back
Edward Lazarus: Two Important Supreme Court Anniversaries for 2008
Jim Sleeper: Arthur Sulzberger's Cracked Kristol Ball
Albert Shanker's national fight for teachers [audio 6min]
Supreme Court in capital punishment case is relying on testimony by a Holocaust Denier
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The Biggest China Story of 2007
International Symposium on Baghdad's role in Islamic civilization planned
Michael Novak: Is it ok to make an issue of Romney's Mormon religion?
Fred Siegel: On Liberalism's alleged fascist roots
Philip Ranlet: Icebergs, Scientists, and Global Warming
Garrett Jones: Understanding Kenya
Edward J. Renehan: Changing his mind, he now says he favors keeping the TR Association
Anneli Rufus: Blame It All on the '70s?
Ray McGovern: Creeping Fascism ... From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 America
Germany's Cinematic Legacy Fills Federal Archives
What Does New Hampshire Tell Us?
New research challenges association of Palestinians with pro-Nazi sympathies
Celebrities jumped into politics decades ago
History course proposal upsets Canadian Turks
Gloria Steinem's History Lesson
Ron Paul on the Tonight Show (Part II)
Ron Paul on the Tonight Show (Part I)
Did Anyone Care that George Romney Was Mormon? by Mark Neels
Alexander the Great: Place his army invaded reduced to ashes
Joseph Palermo: So political assassination in 2008 is an impossibility?
Johnny Depp to Play Stalin in a Documentary
Carl Byker: The first 'imperial president': Jackson
Miriam R. Silverberg: Former Students, Colleagues Honor Historian
Martin E. Marty: The "Roman" in Roman Catholic
Drew Gilpin Faust: Interviewed about her new book
Historians consider why new doctoral students get disconnected from what drew them to the field
History journal editors explain the challenges of dealing with plagiarism
Did a Tsunami Wipe Out a Cradle of Western Civilization?
Plan to exhume Italian saint draws protest
Thousands follow soldier's fate in WW1 "blog"
Time Magazine lauds new documentary about Nanking
NSA releases secret history of signals intelligence in Vietnam
QE2 sets sail on last world cruise
Steuben House in NJ is in deplorable condition
Happy ending for wartime mystery
U.S. judgment on forced sales during Nazi era could help in recovery of works
Is 103 year old one of the last WW I vets?
A million German WWII soldiers are being reburied in Europe
France finds its own Anne Frank as young Jewish woman's war diary hits the shelves
The new SDS trying to avoid mistakes of the past
Max Rodenbeck: How Muslims redrew the map of ancient civilization
Noah Feldman: What is it about Mormonism?
'The Great Debaters': Why Wasn’t History Good Enough?
Kerry Howley: It Takes a Family (to Break a Glass Ceiling)
Proposal to Better Unite City Leaves Dresden Divided
2 describe massacre at Fujimori trial
Amateur historian unearths Nazi battery
William Dalrymple: Bhutto’s Deadly Legacy
Max Boot: The Mideast is no aberration. Just ask the Scots.
Joseph Lane: The Iowa Caucus: Chicanery or Democracy?
George McGovern calls for impeachment of Bush and Cheney
Daniel Pipes: Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam
Democracy by Force, or by Example? by Joyce Appleby
Is Bush Inventing Another Constitutional Power? by Robert J. Spitzer
Is Condoleezza Rice Right to Say the Founders Believed Blacks Were Only 3/5ths of a Person? by Eric Zencey
The Return of the Imperial Presidency: An Interview with Charlie Savage by Robin Lindley
Why Do We Always Forget How to Wage Wars We Successfully Fought in the Past? by Raymond Callahan
Week of December 31, 2007
AHA 2008: Leslie J. Lindenauer
DO PRESIDENTS "REALLY" NEED TO KNOW FOREIGN POLICY?
Ron Paul Will on be on Jay Leno's Show on Monday
AHA 2008: Kevin Rozario (part 1)
AHA 2008: Kevin Rozario (part 2)
Someone Who Has Earned His Wisdom
The Advocate Looks at Ron Paul
Is Russell Means Headed for Jail?
AHA 2008: Marilyn Young (part 1)
AHA 2008: Marilyn Young (part 2)
The Day After Iowa and A Sense of Perspective
DOUBLE DISHONOR MURDER IN TEXAS
AHA 2008: Making Sense of a Changing China
Iowa: the snap of a starter's pistol not the roar of a rocket launcher
President Huckabee? President Obama? What does Iowa tell us?
AHA 2008: Bruce Lawrence on Islam
Grisly discovery of headless bodies gives insight into justice Saxon style
Roman camp is found at Glencorse (UK)
Donald Ritchie: Follow the [Ad] Money
Iron mask wager 'was a fib' (UK)
Once reviled, doctor who warned against smoking in 19th century gets recognition
Once reviled, doctor who warned against smoking in 19th century gets recognition
Hiroshima road sign found at valuation day (UK)
Hiroshima road sign found at valuation day (UK)
Hiroshima road sign found at valuation day (UK)
Historians move to include more black heritage on national register
Rare colour photograph of Hitler's birthday
Scrambled Spitfire gets closer to take-off
Former Nazi Munich Headquarters to Become Center of Learning
Lawrence B. Lindsey: What We Want in a President
Peter Wallenstein: New book argues for 2nd look at civil rights movement at universities (interview)
Healthy but Mismatched History Job Market
Louis Wolfson, Central to the Fall of a Justice, Is Dead at 95
The Illegal-Immigration Issue in a Nutshell
To Paul Or Not To Paul, Part 3
To Paul Or Not To Paul, Part 2
George MacDonald Fraser, 1925-2008
Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Wash. DC) by Rick Shenkman
The Killing of John Lennon (2006) (movie-semi-documentary)
Gary Leupp: Calls for Intervention in Pakistan
Tom Engelhardt: How Bush Took Us to the Dark Side
The media are misreporting the significance of the new FOIA amendment
Two Leftists Write in Support of Ron Paul
An Update on the Lakota Freedom Movement
MUST READ: US 2008 = OTTOMANS 1870?
Barnett Rubin: Pakistan's Power Puzzle
AHA Asks for Oral History Exclusion
Robert Dallek: Says Condi Rice's reputation tied to Iraq failures
Low Murder Rate Brings New York Back to 1963
History of Science ... Selected by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Dumb history quiz sponsored in connection with release of National Treasure movie
Josiah Bunting III: College students unlearn U.S. history as they are in school longer
James MacGregor Burns: Political historian takes new direction at age 89
David Starkey: Criticises the Queen
Amartya Sen: India, Britain, and the wrong lessons
N.J. may become first northern state to apologize for slavery
Hampton Mansion awaits rediscovery (Maryland)
Real Scrooge 'was Dutch gravedigger'
First ice skates made in 3000 BC
Bob Herbert: We're still reeling from 1968
A Family Album Is One for the History Books
Deborah Lipstadt: Ron Paul on Isolationism
Daniel Pipes: Palestinians Who Prefer Israel
January 4, 1896: Utah is admitted as the 45th State of the Union
A Question for Critics of Ron Paul's Critics, Part 2
A Question for the Reverend Huckabee
The Slippery Slope of Intellectual "Property" Law
Fred Thompson's Disinterest May Reflect Sanity not Laziness
Japanese PM urges proper treatment of history
Zheng Zu'an: Chinese researcher identifies 3 major blunders during urban renewal in Shanghai
Moscow loses sweet slice of history
Museum gives fraud its sordid place in history
Amity Shlaes: The candidates keep touting Depression-style public works programs. Why?
Marty Kaplan: Political predictions about the Iowa caucuses are bull
MLA refuses to pass resolutions favored by radicals
Woman who tried to kill Ford freed
China identifies 900 more WWII aviation heroes from several nations that helped drive out Japanese
Thousands leave homes in German city as WWII bomb defused
Robert Frost home vandalized in Vermont
The Alabama town rescued by ex-Nazi scientists
Old GOP coalition is dead, claims Ed Rollins
Lewis Lapham's new history and current events magazine getting very mixed reviews
Madeleine Stern: Memorialized in NYT Mag. as celebrated Alcott researcher
David Halberstam: Remembered by Neil Sheehan in end-of-year profile in NYT
Rick Perlstein: Harry Dent ... The Southern Strategist
Photographing the Life That Rockwell Depicted
Should There be a History Debate for Presidential Candidates?
John Anthony McGuckin: Does Santa still care about the poor?
Will Smith Says He Was Misunderstood (Re: Hitler)
New one-dollar coins feature ...
Jared Diamond: A Question of Blame When Societies Fall
Professor Cites Bible in Faulting Tax Policies
Garry Wills: Romney and JFK: The Difference
Barry Rubin: The Profession of Death (Re: Bhutto)
Why do we drop a ball on New Year's Eve?
James E. Campbell: Electability ... Why Fred Thompson’s the Man for Republicans
Gordon Taylor: Separatist Paranoia in Turkey
Juan Cole: Top 10 Challenges Facing the US in the Middle East, 2008
Shahid Mahmood: The Dream that was Benazir Bhutto
Who Charlie Wilson's War appeals to
Alexandria -- Birthplace of the Wheel!
Charlie Wilson’s War, the Culture of Imperialism and the Distortion of History by Jeremy Kuzmarov
Is the Theory of Evolution Really a Matter of Faith? by Leonard Steinhorn and Charles Steinhorn
Ron Paul Is Correct About Pakistan by David T. Beito and Scott Horton
The Bulldozer: One of the Overlooked Wonders of Technology by Ralph Harrington
The Turks Go After Kurdish Rebels ... And Kill 200 Sheep? by Gordon Taylor
Why I Wrote a Novel About the Day the KKK Welcomed Nazi Invaders by Stephen R. Pastore
Week of December 24, 2007
KC Johnson: Target of a new website
Joseph Ellis: What Would George Washington Do? (Re: Iraq)
William Strauss: Historian dies after long struggle with cancer
Kenneth Jackson: The Flushing Remonstrance
John A. Garraty: Historian and Trailblazing Biographer, Dies at 87
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: More Than Historical Stupidity in Ron Paul's Slavery Crack
Eric Foner: Why we should be celebrating the abolition of the slave trade in the US
New website helps Russians trace war dead
Albert Speer's Son, Urban Planner
Ancient church awaits restoration in Iraq desert
Book argues that Bell stole phone idea
Two Notes to the New York Times
Jim Castagnera: In This Election Year, Some Thoughts on Leadership
Tim Giago: The Lakota will Never Forget Wounded Knee 1890
Mark Naison: Owning Up to Our Racial Fears ... Thoughts on the Trial and Conviction of John White
Steve Chapman: Can Anyone Win This Thing? History suggests all the candidates are fatally flawed!
Victor Davis Hanson: A Long War in a Nutshell
Martin Kramer: Pat Buchanan is against fascist analogies and for them
Juan Cole: Huckabee Obsesses about 660 Pakistani Aliens; Clinton's 5 Point Plan
Which University Presses Sell the Most History Books?
Thomas Sugrue: Reflections on Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative
WORLD WATCHING AMERICAN ELECTION
Cemil Aydin: Imperial Japan’s Islamic Policies and Anti-Westernism (interview)
Egypt, Antiquities and Copyright
William Marina: Ron Paul is simply misinformed about the Civil War
Ron Paul and Immigration, a Response
Juan Cole: Benazir Assassinated
Walter Russell Mead: Why We're in the Gulf
Report: Holocaust-denial activity increased worldwide in 2007
Ancient pyramid found in central Mexico City
Barnett Rubin: The Musharraf Problem
W. Richard West Jr.: Indian Museum Director Spent Lavishly on Travel
Richard Bulliet: Benazir Bhutto, Star Pupil
Daniel Pipes: The Palestinian Economy in Shambles
J. . William Leonard: National Archives' ISOO director is stepping down (interview)
Max Boot: On academics who refuse to work with the military
Max Boot loves Charlie Wilson's War
Museum where past masses huddled (Germany)
CIA still keeping Cold War budgets secret, bemoan anti-secrecy activist scholars
Delaware River current halts crossing
Juan Cole: Top 10 myths about Iraq 2007
Group opposes Roosevelt museum's Oyster Bay site
Walter Laqueur: Anarchism and Al Qaeda
Najum Mushta: Islam and Pakistan
David, Would This be Mutual Aid?
Deborah Lipstadt: Ron Paul and his neo-Nazi supporters
"RACIST" ISRAELI SOLDIERS FAIL TO RAPE PALESTINIANS
SMILE: P. J. O'ROURKE ON SCHLESINGER
TRIUMPH OF STATE CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA
Notes from Before and After North Atlantic Empire
Why the U.S. Is Unlikely to Attack Iran Soon
Ron Paul on Bhutto's Assassination
Do Tragic Assassinations Ever Yield Unexpectedly Positive Results?
Fugitive Politician Facing Corruption Charges in Several Countries Meets Her End
John A. Garraty: A Great Life in Brief
More on Ron Paul and "Meet the Press"
US mags celebrating years from the past
Let Us Hope They Will Not Be Bombed
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (10)
The Broken Lands and The Terror: Two Novels about the Franklin Expedition
DO SOMETHING BUSH; NOT DO NOTHING CONGRESS
Daniel Pipes: Was Obama a Muslim?
“All I Want For Christmas” – The Candidates’ Wish List
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (9)
Week of December 17, 2007
Alexander Cockburn on Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul
The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies
Sickened, and Fighting Another Cold War
Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950
This Is the Kind of Soldier I Support!
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (8)
Mitt Vows to Drain the "Cesspool of Filth."
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (7)
Randians Gone Wild -- Ron Paul Edition
NYT writer memorializes the Cloisters in NYC
Michael Schudson: Lippmann and the News
New hold placed on presidential records act in Senate
Rumiko Nishino: The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace: Its Role in Public Education
Havana Historian Presented with Award by Queen Sofia of Spain
Operation Condor Documents Revealed from the Paraguayan 'ARCHIVE OF TERROR'
After Looting, Burning, Iraqi Archive Makes Comeback
NYT profiles Bill Richardson's diplomatic career
Alan W. Dowd: The Left's hissy fit over Bush's presidential signing statements
John Steele Gordon: The Elizabethans partied hard. The Puritans banned it. Now comes the ACLU.
Jason Riley: The Mormons still haven't settled their race problem
Deborah Lipstadt: Bemoans ruling in libel tourism case
David Irving: Spanish police study speech
Denzel Washington's new movie giving hope to black college revival
Tariq Ramadan: Scholar's Visa Denial Upheld
Romney Learns That "Facts Are Stubborn Things"
China raises 800-year-old sunken ship
A Centennial Face-Lift for a Beaux-Arts Gem: NYPL
Columbia's Historic Atom Smasher Is Now Destined for the Junk Heap
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (6)
Captain Scott's Antarctic penguin sketches
One of the Last World War I Veterans Dies at 109
NYT Editorial: Slavery's Place in the Capitol
Ancient villas, baths restored in Rome
Jamestown archaeologists uncover a complex and significant lead to the fort's history
Stanley Kutler: The Real Romney
The fiction sold in Charlie's War gives the CIA a free pass
Winfield Myers: Campus Watch singles out political scientist for criticism
Ian J. Bickerton and Kenneth J. Hagan: Clausewitz was wrong
Short thoughts before Christmas
Hillary Clinton Better Bank on Governing Ability or Electability not Likability
Righteous Indignation and the Mitchell Report: A Tempest in a Teapot? by Ron Briley
Catherine Allgor: UC Riverside Historian Featured on PBS Documentary on Andrew Jackson
'The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend'
Russia halts London art display
Carter's Grove sold for $15.3 million
Remaining Jews in Russia and Ukraine are 'proud to be Jewish'
Quietly, the Polish-German border dissolves
Vandals trash memorial to victims of Nazi regime in southern Austria
A survivor's tale of fear and starvation in Ukrainian famine of 1930s
Princess Diana Letter Claimed Charles Wanted Her Murdered
Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago
Surprise Finds at Egypt Temple "Change Everything"
New dating methods amongst the Top 10 Scientific discoveries of the Year
Excavation season ends at Historic Jamestowne
Scholars: Drought no license to pilfer relics
Jamie Leigh Jones, Libertarians, and Power
Karl Rove: Why we need longer primaries--but a shorter process
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (5)
Nathan Richter: Iraq ... Is It All the Indians' Fault?
"Foreign Relations of the U.S." Not Published in 2007
Christopher Clark: Cambridge Historian Says Prussia Gets a Bad Rap
Julian Zelizer: Three Traditions on Display in Iowa and New Hampshire
Sean Wilentz: The Delusional Style in American Punditry
Alice Walker Placing Lit Papers at Emory
Norman Mailer Papers Open To Researchers, Students and Public on Jan. 3
Paul W. Lovinger: Hillary as Hawk
Andreas Umland: The Two Towers of Future Russia
Tracy Dove: South Africa and the Growing Pains of Post-Apartheid Politics
Raymond J. Lawrence: Let's Take Christ Out of Christmas
Susan Dunn: How Virginia fell from first among the states ... lessons for our times
Jay Janson: Should Hillary Clinton welcome the endorsement of Bob Kerrey?
Preserving history, frame by frame: At Harvard Film Archive, focus is on saving the past
Painting by Caravaggio on display in Italy after historian figured out it WAS a Caravaggio
W.T. Block: Southeast Texas loses a 'dedicated' historian
Chavez demands Bolivar bone test
Isle of Man in spin over self-proclaimed 'king'
Putin named Time's Man of the Year with title: "A Tsar Is Born"
Bernard Lewis: Taken to task for saying Islam is not inherently authoritarian
Neil J. Young: Southern Baptists vs. the Mormons ... an old story
Giving Short Shrift to MLK Day?
Ron Paul Calls 9-11 Truth Theory "Preposterous" in Glenn Beck Interview
Each Party has Its Own Baggage to Shed
Adam Freedman: The comma and the 2nd Amendment
Network of Concerned Historians calls for action to protect 2 human rights activists in Haiti
Daniel Pipes: Fund the Palestinians? Bad Idea
PUTIN, ANTI-AMERICAN ENOUGH FOR "TIME"
Israeli Cabinet okays renewing controversial Temple Mount Mugrabi excavation
Emily Wilson: The Renaissance of Latin
LIMITING GROWTH MEANS GREAT ASIAN WAR
Juan Cole: Was Rice's trip to Iraqi Kurdistan Deliberately Sabotaged?
"Sweet Dreams: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline" (Academic conference)
Magna Carta sells for $21.3M in New York
Mike Whitney at Counterpunch quotes Mises and slams Greenspan
Victor Davis Hanson on War and History (series of podcasts)
Michael Gerson: The Heart of Conservatism
Paul Raffaele: Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant. Do they?
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt: They're the subject of an H-Diplo Roundtable
House ups funding for history-related spending
Eric Alterman: Blasts Ralph Nader
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (4)
Workshop encourages teachers to "think like a historian"
Presidential campaign TV ads reveal history
Foiled Again: The Defeat of the Latest Bush Administration Plan for New Nuclear Weapons by Lawrence S. Wittner
Savoy puts history under the hammer
In Canada they're teaching African-centric history to school kids
David Starkey: My life in media (Interview)
Californians arguing about high school history teacher accused of bias against Jesus
Pieces of Hollywood history go on sale
Conrad Black: How he signed books when he was stuck in Chicago (by court order)
Signs of TB in Ancient Skull Support Theory on Vitamin D
Secret War in the Skies Over Korea (PBS/TV Documentary)
Secret War in the Skies Over Korea (PBS/TV Documentary)
A Big Gift for the Met: The Arbus Archives
A Lawsuit Will Determine the Fate of 2 Picassos
Keeper of an Unlikely Trove, Gutenberg to Warhol
Experts uncover Prague's oldest ramparts
17th century fort discovered in Canada
Ancient trees found using 200 year old maps
Dateline 1914: Letter that tells the grim truth about Christmas in the trenches
Dateline 1914: Letter that tells the grim truth about Christmas in the trenches
Park Service seeks to preserve World War II internment camps
Hess plane wing part to be sold
Medieval diets 'far more healthy'
After legal odyssey, homecoming show for looted antiquities
After legal odyssey, homecoming show for looted antiquities
James Carroll: America's politics of religion
Romney's Course Was Set Long Ago (NYT profile)
Romney's Course Was Set Long Ago (NYT profile)
St.Clair Bourne, Filmmaker, Dies at 64
Congress Passes First FOIA Reform Bill in More Than a Decade
Swiss, eBay stop sale of Iraqi treasure
Iraqi National Museum receives 1,000 antiquities unearthed at sites south of Baghdad
Why hasn't media covered story about Hillary and the Black Panthers? Because it's not true.
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Lays out how the next president can transform America (Interview)
Bret Stephens: Why TR Claimed the Seas
Michael Kazin: Says he's ambivalent about his status as son of a literary celebrity
Arianna Huffington: Huckabee ... The GOP's Cynical Use of Religion Has Come Home to Roost
Arianna Huffington: Huckabee ... The GOP's Cynical Use of Religion Has Come Home to Roost
What's Good for Il Duce... or Can We Get a Little Empathy Now?
Ron Paul Blimp Buzzes Columbia, South Carolina
Even Tom Hanks isn't sure his movie about Charlie Wilson will draw crowds
Jonathan Zimmerman: Steroid scandal challenges American sports myths
James E. Campbell: Democrats could still lose in 2008
NARA seeking new ways to speed processing of presidential records
Former ambassador says CIA "retreating into greater secrecy"
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (3)
Rising with Inflation?: History Faculty Salaries Over the Last Twenty Years
Judge: White House Logs Are Public
Marty Peretz: Andy Young, Barack Obama and the Black Vote
Edmund Wilson: Profiled in the New Republic
Jason Maoz: Did the Baby Boomers really end the Vietnam War?
Philip Jenkins: Historian warns that global warming will increase religious strife
Philip Jenkins: How global warming will increase religious strife
Christopher Phelps: Historian admits a student's questioning was humbling
Economist claims in study that plagiarism goes unpunished
Syrian cleric recycles false claim that Ben Franklin wanted to expel Jews
Auschwitz Slave Recalls Loading Corpses in Ovens, Murdered Baby
Douglas Kmiec: Might Hillary appoint Bill to the supreme court?
Diane Wood Middlebrook: Biographer, Dies at 68
Queen soon to be Britain's oldest monarch
Guinness origins begin to settle
The great Kenilworth booze-up: how to party like it's 1575
Al Camarillo: Stanford historian's son an NFL hero
Dirt flies as diggers search for remains of the man Andrew Jackson shot in 1806
Did Unity Mitford have Adolf Hitler's love child?
German museum to screen Nazi hate movie
Treasure hunters held for Banahaw desecration (Philippines)
Scientist Tells How He Buried Hitler's Bomb
Former British WWII pilot fights to save Kurfuerstendamm church in Berlin as reminder of WW II
State still has Civil War medals for 200 in black Union companies
Search for Seminole War cannon haunts expert
Maori artifacts dating back 500-600 years found near Canterbury
Chief Rabbi: Britain is losing its identity
Ladies of the French Resistance
Papers of the Founding Fathers go unpublished
Connecticut to restore Fort Griswold, scene of sad Am Rev battle
For Republicans, Falling in Love Is Hard to Do
Baghdad museum's slow recovery
Surprising New Looks at the Great Emancipator
Allan Bérubé: NYT runs his obituary
Soldiers in Laos who fought in the CIA's secret war are still in hiding
Reporting about Rumors is Tricky but Legit
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (2)
Back in the USSR? by Andreas Umland
Do Consumers Make Bad Voters? by Rick Shenkman (Channeling John Dewey)
Historians Should Embrace Politics by Jon Lauck
Is the U.S. an Empire? by Charles S. Maier
The "Wall of Separation" Has Preserved Religion -- Including Mormonism by Steven Conn
The Founding Fathers: Their Achievement and Failures by Joseph Ellis
The Heirs of Puritanism: That's Us! by George McKenna
The Victory for Freedom the Bush Administration Should Be Celebrating but Won't by William Loren Katz
What Does Mormonism Mean to Mitt? by Matthew Bowman
Week of December 10, 2007
Mark Naison: Barry Bonds, The Mitchell Report and the Spectre of Big Brother
Ken Shear: Op Ed Rediscovered from 1692
Countdown to Christmas Quiz (1)
Juan Cole: Bush and Obama on drugs: The difference between them.
A Marxist Who Defends Capitalism
Episcopal Minister: Let's Take Christ out of Christmas
Muslim Saves Jews from "Christian" Thugs
TERRORISTS, LIKE RABID DOGS, CANNOT BE FREED
Congrats to the LockeSmith Blog!
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, R.I.P.
Is Obama our Grover Cleveland?
Kosovan Independence—Real or Imaginary?
Global Warming the Math Does Not Add Up
Simon Lazarus: The Roberts Court repeals the 20th century
Gary Younge: Obama ... Does he reperesent a new generation of black leaders?
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: While liberalism burned, he partied, says blogger
Brooklyn Historical Society exhibit: "In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans"
KC Johnson: Complains about lack of ideological diversity in University of Iowa's History Department
AHA Election results announced
Historians Get Rare Opportunity to Comment on Federal Policy on Oral History Projects
Roy Rosenzweig: Tribute planned in the form of an AHR Forum on History in the Digital Age
National Archives Announces Successful Test of Electronic Archives System
National Coalition for History: Urges candidates to support presidential records act
Thomas J. Sugrue: Acclaimed author to be scholar at Wayne State's law school
The myth of our uniquely negative campaigns: Video tells all (or does it?)
David Park: Did "Moral Values" and the Gay Marriage Backlash Play a Key Role in Bush's 2004 Victory?
Jan Shipps: What made Romney's speech so Mormon
For Romney, It's Not His Father's Campaign
China Threatens to Sue over Fake Terracotta Warriors
Rick Perlstein: Thirty-five years later, what the 1972 campaign can—and can’t—teach liberals today
INDIAN MAOISTS/ NAXALITE SCROOGE WORSENS
Aziz Huq: It's time to recalibrate the checks and balances between Congress and the president
Peter J. Wallace: Review of Mark A. Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Yorkshire: Family on the wrong side of history
China reiterates "taking history as a mirror" as it mourns Nanjing victims
Papers detailing Black Sox scandal sold to history museum for $100,000
Greek historian convicted over book denying the Holocaust
Allan Bérubé: Gay papers remember him
BHUTTO: FATAL BOMB RIGGED TO BABY
Judge Orders Executive Office of the President to Preserve E-mail Backup Tape
Peggy Noonan: Would Reagan survive in today's GOP?
Learning From the Grateful Dead
Jean-Marie Le Pen on trial over Nazi denials
Record price for sailor's medals (UK)
WW II hero pigeon that carried news of D-Day is remembered (UK)
The thriving Roman town in Britain that slipped into oblivion
Ron Paul's Answer to Bernanke's Money Helicopter
Juan Cole: Republicans ... They Like this War
Huckabee Is Not Alone in Ignorance on Mormonism
Wherein We Have Completely Failed
Michael McCormick: Using DNA To Unlock History's Secrets
UK Telegraph runs series on the history of the Union
Australia forgives Lawrence of Arabia's history
California high school teacher sued for allegedly disparaging Christianity
Voice of America profiles young historian who got tenure
Allan Metzer: Fed Historian Meltzer Says Greenspan Is "Too Easy on Himself"
Fight in Annapolis pits preservationists against sailors
Gordon Brown: Why I support British history museum
Professor uses virtual-reality system to teach students history
Media Matters: Rove touted Russert question on Clinton library docs based on falsehood
British Library Acquires Pinter Papers
Leftwing magazine charges Huckabee refuses to open his archive of sermons
Fake Photos Alter Real Memories of Historic Events
Chicago museum admits star attraction is a forgery
Washington medal sells in NYC for $5.3M ... will go back to France
Scotland coal mine is most treasured historic place
Thomas P. Whitney, Solzhenitsyn Translator, Dies at 90
HIJAB IS NOT A CHOICE IN SAUDI ARABIA
BEST TO IGNORE US INTELLIGENCE
Mike Nichols takes on Charlie Wilson's War (Re: Afghanistan)
Statue of Dred Scott Justice Taney to remain
A Japanese attack before Pearl Harbor [audio 7min]
James McPherson: Guides customize Civil War battlefield tours
Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson: Viet Not
Juan Cole: Ayatollah Huckabee's Fatwa
Zeph Stewart: Taught lessons of classics, humanity at Harvard
The Helicopters Start to Drop Money
Jeffrey Lord: Mitt Romney has a passion for data. A great president needs a passion for principle.
Sam Tanenhaus: Now he'll run Week in Review AND NYT Book Review
6 of Salon's best books of the year involve history
China marks 70 years since Rape of Nanking
Daniel Pipes: That NIE Makes War against Iran More Likely
Unrepentant Nazi, 84, calls Auschwitz a 'ten star hotel' and tells Dachau victim 'you survived well'
CIA loses JFK records case on appeal
Move to put Congressional Research Service reports online
Archivist Allen Weinstein asked to decide if it was legal for CIA to destroy tapes
The “Margarine” Republicans of 2008
Rare Look Inside Baghdad Museum
Explosive Growth of Academics for Ron Paul
GENERAL PAYS FOR US DEAL WITH SYRIA
What if we had acted more like a colonial power in Iraq?
Women historians are now blogging in great numbers
White House press secretary admits she didn't know what Cuban Missile Crisis was
Huckabee on the cover of Newsweek
Conrad Black: Before he was a businessman he was a writer
James Simpson: Says First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists
Historian from UB wins vindication for activist charged in 1921 race riot
Damon, Vedder to teach Howard Zinn's "People's History"
COWARDICE IN FACE OF DISHONORABLE MURDERS
Silvio A. Bedini: Historian Emeritus for Smithsonian, dead at 90
Richard Hogg: Historian of the English language, dies suddenly
Clement Price: Rutgers historian heads committee to find new head of schools for Newark
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: Presidents and other VIPs people Schlesinger's papers
Richard Melzer: UNM-VC historian knows where the bodies are buried
Iris Chang: She never was able to find her pause button.
Spartans did not throw deformed babies away: researchers
History Channel premieres '1968 With Tom Brokaw'
Sally Bedell Smith: Two Presidents in the White House?
Andrew Ferguson: Interviewed about his book on Lincoln and other subjects
Records show Gorbachev was willing to go much further than the Americans expected in '87 INF talks
Secret DIA Intelligence Cable Ties Fujimori to Summary Executions
No Longer the City of "Bonfire" in Flames
How Dictionaries Define Publicity: The Word of the Year
Herodotus: New book with new translation changes perceptions of the great historian
David Irving v Deborah Lipstadt, Part 2
Garry Wills: New book on religion gets mixed review in the NYT
Howard Zinn: His "History" Comes to TV
Tom Brokaw: Discusses his new book about Booomers
A Tug of War Over a Declaration of Independence
Conrad Black: Given Prison Term Over Fraud
Facelift for ancient Roman frescoes
Udo Voigt, neo-Nazi, questions Auschwitz toll
British love Britain, but Union's future is uncertain
Lord Baker: It's time for a museum of British history
Paul Joseph Watson: America's Fascist Coup Owes to Bush's Nazi Grandfather
Roman barge under Cologne to reveal shipping history
Fight is on to save Revolutionary War fort described as first federal land purchase
Activists lose fight to protect Indian burial ground in Illinois
Greg Grandin: Death Squads, Disappearances, and Torture -- from Latin America to Iraq
American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis
Scott Horton: The President-Tyrant
Allan Berube: Gay historian and gay history scholar, dies at age 61
Karin Chenoweth: Teaching students to read means teaching them facts
Steve Fraser: War, Depression, and Turning-Point Elections
Justice Department: Vice President's Office is Not an Agency
"LIGHT UP THE WORLD" - DAVID BROZA
Lawrence S. Wittner: Portents of an anti-nuclear upsurge
Stanley Kutler: Romney's religious vision for all?
CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture
Max Holland: When newspapers get history wrong (Case in point: Nixon archives)
Juan Cole: Giuliani flunks history (Re: Iran hostage crisis)
Juan Cole: The GOP's Iran option is off the table
December 17, 1862: Grant Issues General Order No. 11 Against the Jews
Things that really matter can't be stolen
DO WE REALLY OWE THE PALESTINIANS BIG TIME?
Mike Huckabee as a Modern Buzz Windrip.
David Katz: Jewish professor moves to Turkey to teach Muslims about Christianity
Fujimori outburst as trial begins
FBI backing plan for Vegas mob museum
Ex-military officers take argument to presidential hopefuls
Report: Poland's new premier proposes World War II museum in Gdansk
'Unworthy' France pursues Napoleon III
The '60s as the Good Old Days, according to advertisers
On West Village Streets, Tears for a Gay Activist
New York museums fight to keep 2 Picassos, sold as Nazis came to power
A difficult question for Kosovars: Who are we?
Leonardo Da Vinci may have been an Arab
'Twas a Christmas Poem Whodunit
Revealed: scientist who sparked racism row has black genes
Rare John Brown photo sells for $97,750
Ancient wheat suggests early China, Middle East trade
Archaeologists discover 3,000-years-old wood and ropes in Romania
Wales from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages (Exhibit/Wales)
Wales from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages (Exhibit/Wales)
Ancient metallurgy relics unearthed in central Vietnam
Stonehenge tunnel "too expensive to build" ... UN may list site as endangered
Stonehenge tunnel "too expensive to build" ... UN may list site as endangered
They're paving over Revolutionary War landmarks in Fishkill, NY
Hitler star of Palestinian radio show
Lady Thatcher pays tribute to Falklands fallen
Roman ruins cast new light on a trip to doctor
David Greenberg: What their books tell us about the presidential candidates
Thankfully it Wasn't a "Gun-Free" Zone
Ron Paul and Libertarianism One Last Time: Replies to Gordon and Kinsella
Khalil G. Muhammad: White May Be Might, But It's Not Always Right
Compulsory Television by Lawrence S. Wittner
Japan's Sorry Failure to Own Up to Its History by Ron Wulkan
Our Hessians by John Donoghue
Putin's Message: The Liberals, “Unfortunately, Still Live” in Russia by Andreas Umland
The Return of Antisemitism by Steve Hochstadt
The Scary Echo of the Intolerance of the French Revolution in America Today by Carol Hamilton
Why Al - And Many Others - Choose Not to Run by Jeremy Cameron Young
Week of December 3, 2007
Mitt Romney is Following in Al Smith's Footsteps, not just JFK's
Fungus Once Again Threatens French Cave Paintings
John Strugnell: Scholar Undone by His Slur, Dies at 77
Mark Twain play finally gets produced
Growing Up Rodham (WaPo profile)
ISRAEL DOES NOT HAVE "A PARTY OF GOD"
Tom Brokaw documentary on 1968 receives tepid review from NYT
Gun Culture or Gun-Control Culture?
Of Cell Phones and Area Studies
Glue used by the Romans has stuck around for 2,000 years
Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues
David McNeill: Look Back in Anger. Filming the Nanjing Massacre
Dilip Hiro: Bush in a Humiliating Zero-Sum Iranian Game of His Own Making
Katherine Ashenburg: Interviewed about her new book on the history of cleanliness
Festival of Maps exhibit (Chicago)
New Exhibit: Library of Congress - "Exploring the Early Americas"
Smithsonian Plans LED-Spangled Banner
Juan Cole: Can a secular person even win the Republican nomination?
Ralph Harrington: China's future is not Europe's past
Israelis Uncover Mansion Linked to Queen
Michael Gannon: Pearl Harbor has lessons
Dennis Showalter: Says Israel-Palestinian conflict can't be resolved
New visitors center rising at Monroe's birthplace
Facing Fascism': 3 Documentary Projects on the Spanish Civil War
Jon Wiener: Arguing About Gitmo
James Hansen: With 2nd volume, historian thinks he's finished his history of CSU
Peter Riddell: When you are in a hole, history can show the exit
Ron Paul takes on McCain over WW II history
Coen Brothers Win Dull Historian-Voted Award
Garth Brooks Donates Cowboy Hat to Smithsonian
Indiana History Center may soon look like Epcot Center
Andrew Ladis: Art historian, professor dies after battling cancer
An attic at the Willard Psychiatric Center in Romulus, N.Y., held the histories of former patients.
Henry Hyde, 1924-2007 (Weekly Standard)
Some Follow-ups and Clarifications for my Critics
Fordham Opens Its Gift: An Antiquities Museum
Recalling Iranian Hostage Crisis, Giuliani Invokes Reagan as a Model
Romney, Eye on Evangelicals, Defends His Faith
Mitt Romney's Address on Faith: How it compares with JFK's
Marvin Meyer: Disputes charges he and others mangled translation of the Gospel of Judas
NYT Editorial: Dissing Romney's Religion Speech
Bush Loses Ground With Military Families
Slang is Ireland's gift to the world
Pilots Missing From The Vietnam War Are Identified
Marine Missing From Korean War is Identified
Pearl Harbor survivors honor comrades
Did Da Vinci hide God's face in painting?
Mad King Ludwig was murdered, says historian
Germany to explain reasons for sheltering Nazi
Gennifer Flowers May Vote for Clinton
Peggy Noonan: How Mitt Romney came to give The Speech--and how he did.
David Brooks: Faith vs. the Faithless
LERNER & HITCHENS ARE WRONG ABOUT HANUKKAH
Early copy of Magna Carta on sale in NYC
Historians as a Group Should Not Endorse Candidates
CHINESE-RUSSIAN RIVALRY IN CENTRAL ASIA
C.I.A. Says It Destroyed Tapes of Harsh Interrogations
Civilians suffered after Pearl Harbor
Magna Cartas on show for first time in 800 years
Remembering South Africa's revolution
Old Havana Gets a Lift, but Cubans Don’t Benefit
Mesopotamian sculpture sells for record 57 million dollars
Philip Dray: Noose ... The true history of a resurgent symbol of hate
William Hogeland: Critics are misreading Hamilton's legacy to suit their own purposes
Charge: CIA bungles declassification of secret histories
Are Obama and Hillary too Ambitious?
What Does He Know That We Don't Know?
Eric Foner: Responds to criticism made by Alan Dershowitz
Eric Foner: Reading Lincoln in Pakistan
New "View" Co-Host Sherri Shepherd: Christianity Older Than Ancient Greece
110,900 pounds for a single page of Mozart genius
Tariq Ramadan: Bemoans the "West's [Self-] Interest in Islamic Studies"
Stan Katz: Bemoans lower pay of historians
Precursor of the Constitution Goes on Display in Queens
Kenneth L. Woodward: Mitt Romney Is No Jack Kennedy
Jonathan Schell: Nuclear proliferation and the Bomb (Interview)
SAUDI LAWYER ON DOCK FOR EXPOSING COURT TRAVESTIES
Kenneth S. Baer: Romney better pray he can be Jimmy Carter
Gregory Rodriguez: The Puritanical roots of our fatalism and anxiety over American exceptionalism.
Gregory Rodriguez: The Puritanical roots of our fatalism and anxiety over American exceptionalism.
Barry Rubin: Annapolis: One Cheer, One Yawn, One Cynical Shrug
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: What’s China Reading?
John Fea: Are Christian Conservatives “Christian” or “Conservative?”
Daniel Pipes: Turkey, Still a Western Ally?
Oliver Stone wins approval to do a movie about Ahmadinejad -- with conditions
CIA declassifies secret histories of clandestine activities
Jacques Barzun: Happy Birthday!
Boomer course closes generation gap
Stop The New Hampshire/Iowa Monopoly
Peter Lipton: Cambridge historian dies
John Jameson: Kent State history department chair ousted
War-opoly: How History's Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend The Free World
New details about the murders of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi
Sixty years ago, he and Bayard Rustin led the first freedom ride in the South
Muslim Council ends Holocaust memorial day boycott
Trial of publisher revives row over Turkish 'insult' law
New Hall of Famer Stirs Both Sides in Brooklyn
Academics for Ron Paul Has Been Launched
Polish town touts ties to WWI ace Red Baron
Are Native Americans buried by Berkeley's Memorial Stadium?
Indian burial ground found underneath school (New Mexico)
Tom Engelhardt: Iraq as a Pentagon Construction Site
Mark Schmitt: Baby Boomers are suddenly mad for the fifties
Joseph J. Ellis: Deserves redemption, says Chicago Trib cultural critic
Mugabe blames country's problems on colonialism -- and gets cheers
Hungary: High officials attend memorial to historian at Academy of Sciences
Maurice Whitehead: Swansea historian discovers long-lost Catholic manuscript
Pope names art historian as new director of Vatican Museums
Costas Plevris: Greek far-right historian on trial over allegedly anti-Jewish book
Jon Lauck: The challenge of writing a history of a Senate race in which he participated
ISRAEL SAYS NIE DIFFERS FROM ITS ASSESSMENT
Giving John Ford the Major American Artist Treatment
About TV: A Farm Boy (Farnsworth) and a Mogul (Sarnoff), and How They Changed the World
Did impressionists just have bad eyesight?
A throne for a brave man found in Herculaneum
Government Declines to Appeal Ruling Opening Up Presidential Records
Nixon Library Releases New Trove of Documents
Dublin: 1911 Census goes online, opening a window on the city, from well-to-do suburbs to tenements
Elizabeth Hardwick, Writer, Dies at 91 (helped found NY Review of Books)
Ancient Mayan Marketplace Discovered
Rare ancient wooden throne found in Herculaneum
Oldest surviving Rolls-Royce sets two new records
Marie Antoinette's pearls to hit auction block
Nazi rocket scientist's top-secret papers go on sale
Ron Neumunz: Self-discovery in the mysteries of the past
A Question for Critics of Ron Paul's Critics
In Algeria, Sarkozy Denounces Colonialism
Richard Nolte, Three-Week Ambassador During Six-Day War, Dies at 86
Walter Cronkite and David Krieger: Our Troops Must Leave Iraq
Eric Foner: Alan Dershowitz says Foner and others are phony free speech advocates
The Atrocity Files: Deciphering the Archives of Guatemala's Dirty War
Writer given access to secret location where the Navy stores parts of the USS Arizona
David Fiderer: Chris Matthews Rewrites History about the Clintons and the Origins of the Iraq War
Houghton Mifflin getting out of the college textbook market
Mitchell Bard: The Palestinians ... Sixty Years of Missed Chances
Gregory McNamee: Christmas, Cash, and Commodities
Bill Murphy, professor who was the target of segregationists
Henry J. Hyde, a Power in the House of Representatives, Dies at 83
Lester Ziffren, 101, First to Report Start of Spanish Civil War, Dies
Network of Concerned Historians calls for action to protect journalist arrested by Iran
Juan Cole: Why Bush's troop surge won't save Iraq
Map that named America is a puzzle for researchers
CELEBRATE HANUKKAH - DON'T LET THE LIGHT GO OUT
WILL BUSH SUCCUMB TO DISCREDITED INTELLIGENCE
Unearthing War's Horrors Years Later in South Korea
Daniel Pipes: Returns to UC Irvine
Anthony Landis: Historian discusses black resistance in Springfield riot
Schlesinger & Halberstam: Make Boston Globe's best nonfiction of 2007
Theo Lippmann: Political mudslinging has a long and successful history
New Labor Education Minister in Australia says the country was settled not invaded
How top Nazis were brought to a secret Scottish prison camp for brainwashing
British National anthem 'could be anti-Scots'
Max Hastings: Australian war veterans demand apology
Jewish group presents candelabra to Catholic cardinal in interfaith gesture
Harry Mount: It's too bad our pols didn't take Latin (as most of our presidents have)
The Nazi relative that the Royals disowned
'Imperialist' Kipling gets Indian rehabilitation
Rock Art In Egypt Under Threat
Oregon city, tribes trying to save 2,500-year-old village site
Sick Rams Used as Ancient Bioweapons
Scholars hustle as flood threatens ancient town (Russia)
Remains of ancient city discovered in east China
Finding 2,500-year-old bones in Ohio
Anthony Lewis: What's happened to the Supreme Court?
Never Mind Grendel. Can Beowulf Conquer the 21st-Century Guilt Trip?
Alice Kessler-Harris: Worries that gender studies are eclipsing women's history
Anthropologists vote to restore strict anti-secrecy rule
Richard L. McCormick: Rutgers chief wins praise at 5 years
Stanley Kutler: The Religion of Mike Huckabee
Edward Renehan: Strange Bedfellows: Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Woodhull/Claflins
Robert McHenry: Dear Workers: Thanks for the Cash (Re: Social Security)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Scrutinize candidates evenly
IRAN 2007 = CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1977 ?
The nanobot will always get through
A Historian Against Obama by Jeremy Cameron Young
AHA 2008: Which Sessions Concern Events in the News? by Lori M. Barrett
Asahel Grant: The First American to Fail in Iraq by Gordon Taylor
Caught on Tape: The White House Reaction to the Shooting of Alabama Governor and Democratic Presidential Candidate George Wallace by Luke A. Nichter
Conservative Revisionists and Hiroshima by Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan
History Repeats Itself: France in Algeria, the US in Iraq by Marnia Lazreg
It's Time to Acknowledge that Hiroshima Followed Imperial Japan’s Decision to Launch a Terrible War on Its Neighbors by Werner Gruhl
US Policy Toward Cuba: Still Stuck in a Time Warp by Don Bohning
Week of November 26, 2007
WILL GEOPOLITICS TRUMP INDIAN & AMERICAN LOBBIES?
Transatlantic comparisons: Libraries
Isabella Ginor & Gideon Remez: Why Getting to the Bottom of the Story About the 6-Day War Isn't Easy
Max Hastings: Aussie Diggers 'refused to attack' Japanese, he claims
Gambling had role in religious history
Richard Kagan: American historian pens book about Lee Teng-hui
Dallas Historical Society missing invaluable pieces of history
Daniel Walker Howe: Interviewed about his new Oxford history of US
Scholar disputes Reuter's report that Americans made off with Iraqi manuscripts
Gorbachev: He brought democracy to Russia. So why is he backing Putin, the man undoing his legacy?
Napoleon manuscript page takes $35,400
Library of Congress set to debut the map that gave America its name
Why was America named after Vespucci? Did he lie about his discovery?
How the Filibuster Became the Rule
Italy: Progress Seen in Talks on Antiquities
Army Pays $725 in Set-Aside World War II Case
I.Q. Debate Adds a Chapter Online
Richard Leigh: 64, Writer Who Challenged "Da Vinci Code," Is Dead
April D. DeConic: Charges that National Geographic turned Judas into a hero based on bad translation
Michael B. Oren: Did Annapolis amount to anything?
Power struggle to control ancient bones of Kennewick Man
Israeli says elusive biblical wall found
Pope criticizes atheism, modern Christianity, in encyclical on hope
Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom: Are historically black colleges good for blacks?
CARTOGRAPHIA OF US ACADEMIC MIND
Legal Atavism in the 21st Century
This Has been Bush's Plan All Along
Dr Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive, wins award
New report says PhD's fresh out of school need more help getting jobs
Questions, Anger and Dissent on Ethics Study by Anthropologists
Presidential Daily Brief is secret except when it isn't
CIA to declassify fewer documents
UAE HELPS IRAN BYPASS SANCTIONS
How the Littlest Nazi Turned Out to Be a Jew
WWII army bag is found in desert
Comfort women used to prevent military revolt during war: historian
Royal Seal Indicates Biblical Queen Jezebel's Power
Israeli Institute to Get Medieval Bible Fragment
Denmark retaliates on failure to extradite Nazi
A Follow Up on the Left and Central Banking
Samuel W. Rushay, Jr.: An Archivist's Reflections on His Work with the White House Tapes
Da Vinci author Dan Brown to unveil Washington's Masonic past
Orange Order creates superhero (UK)
Kipling birthplace to be transformed
Film of the Year: Hungary 1956 Our Revolution
Japanese historian says most "comfort women" were Korean
Paul Johnson: Out with a new book, this time about heroes from 3,000 years of history
Glenn Reynolds and Ron Paul as an Empty Libertarian "Vessel"
Study: White children more positive toward blacks after studying the history of racism
Martin Kramer: Says he's been whacked by a hack
Romney, Thompson criticize Confederate flag
Scholars use art to study climate change
Cannon explodes during salute, killing two (India)
Movie to be made about U-boat discovery
Former SS officer sheltering in Germany
Vietnam War-era artillery shell explodes killing 6 children
Early Catholic leaders failed Aborigines
School Cancels Production of 'Ten Little Indians' Over Concerns of Racial Slur
Polka: A rural dance tradition in twilight
Deep Throat a fixture in Nixon files
Eusebio Leal: Film on Cuban Historian in Mexico
Daniel Pipes: Accept Israel as the Jewish State?
Doris Kearns Goodwin interviewed about Lincoln [audio 53min]
NYT's Rosenthal says "Enough!" to columnists' Reagan feud
Michael Byers: What's Canada for? (Interview)
Daniel Pipes: Attacked by CAIR
William Schweiker: Baptism by Torture (The roots of waterboarding)
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's annual mock trial pokes fun at political power grabs then and now
Panel of anthropologists rejects idea of trying to bar scholars
Dick Morris: Mike Huckabee is a fiscal conservative
Juan Cole: McCain blames Rise of Hitler on Ron Paul
Haunting WW I Cemeteries Send Powerful Message (Europe)
Massive Holocaust Archive Opens to the Public
Leon Aron: 20 Years after Glasnost
David P. Redlawsk: The Iowa Caucuses Aren't THAT Complicated
Stalin back in vogue in Putin endorsed textbook
Canada presses Japanese to apologize for 'comfort women'
Nazi archive opens, ending 60 years of secrecy
Should we be alarmed by the new immigration stats?
Immigration at Record Level, Analysis Finds
FEARFUL AHMADINEJAD TURNS TO IMPURE DOGS
Sean Wilentz: Says he favors Hillary Clinton for president
FRENCH POLICE: "RIOTERS WANT TO KILL US"/update
Historians are taking an active role in the campaign of 2008
Opening millions of years of history (UK mines)
Media Matters: Bill Clinton opposed the Iraq War from the start
Historians in NH, Iowa & elsewhere building courses around the 2008 campaign
Nixon Papers Recall Concerns on Israel's Weapons
Dick Morris: Hillary will go negative now
Lafayette's descendant to auction his famous medal from George Washington
Thief steals 300-year-old historic bible from Berlin church
1917 Collins letter fetches 260k Euros
100 Years Ago: Dec. 1907 was most disastrous month in U.S. coal history
Missing 17th century cabinet found in pizza restaurant
Spanish king's 'shut up' reflects complex colonial history
Ex-curator at Getty acquitted in case of Greek relic
'Nazi hunt' launched in S America
Photographs reveal ship's history (UK)
Progressive Libertarianism and the Problems with Ron Paul
AMERICAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS SLAMS SUDAN OVER TEDDY BEAR CASE/update
Scott Horton and David T. Beito: Why Ron Paul Is Right About Terrorism ... A Letter to the GOP Base
Will the Critics of Ron Paul at Liberty and Power Please Feel Free to Stand Up?
German plans move ahead for rebuilding Berlin's Stadtschloss
A Song That Helped Define the Depression, and Can Still Be Sung Today
Michael E. DeBakey & Denton A. Cooley end their 40 year old feud
State Quarters Near End of Popular Run
Eric Alterman: Responds to attack by blogger
Florida neighborhood on alert over WW II bombs
Growing Up Giuliani (Newsweek cover story)
C-SPAN’s Q & A with historians
'Facebook' bound in priest's skin for sale
Uncovering the Secrets of Ireland's Ancient Breweries
Archaeologists explore wreck off Fla.
Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz: How the World Helped Pakistan Build Its Bomb
Paul Rogat: Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Disappointment
Cass Sunstein: An Historical Analysis Of The Second Amendment
Hirofumi Hayashi: Military forced Okinawa civilians to commit suicide, historian says
Fresno historian discovers black pioneer cattle rancher's grave
Christopher Dawson: His thoughts on history analyzed in a new book
Archaeologists excavate site along Ga. 372 before widening can begin
John Sotos: Abraham Lincoln ... Did he have a rare disease (MEN 2B)?
Welsh dragon call for Union flag
Katherine Ashenburg: We used to be more concerned with hand-washing than body-washing
Backlash to claim that tunnels have been found beneath SF Chinatown
Kennedy Memoirs Said to Fetch $8 Million
Historians Team Up to Back Obama
"True Grit" -- the great, unsung novel of the American frontier -- celebrates its 40th anniversary
Gene study suggests Native Americans came from Siberia
Robert Wistrich: Interviewed about anti-Semitism
The U.S.S.R. Is Back (on Clothing Racks)
USE ANNAPOLIS TO SAVE SAUDI RAPE VICTIM
Liberty and Power Member Interviews Liberty and Power Member
Historians and the Obama Campaign
Have Academic Radicals Lost Their Minds? by David Horowitz
Response to David Horowitz by Robert Shaffer
SAVIOR BY DAY; SQUADRON GUNNER BY NIGHT
In hit Iranian TV drama, Holocaust no 'myth'
Historian calls on Canada to honor explorer of the North who helped establish claims to Arctic
Great Famine Anniversary in Ukraine
Daniel Pipes: Is Bush Mr. Palestine?
Revolutionary War remnant pulled from Delaware River
"Lost" Great War Tank Unearthed in time for ceremony
Doubts about Romulus and Remus cave discovery
Historian solves Civil War mystery
Is Lincoln Earliest Recorded Case of Rare Disease?
Holocaust hero's gravestone moved to Israel
US government's fight to deport alleged Nazi guard Demjanjuk spans three decades
Controversial legacy of Mad Mitch laid out in documentary
When I played chess with Rudolf Hess
Keeping Munich's ugly past alive
New PM Kevin Rudd to apologise to Aborigines
David Irving: Protesters break into Oxford Union debate
Stephanie Coontz: Taking Marriage Private
Congressman Ike Skelton: Mind the Gap: Post-Iraq Civil Military Relations in America
Vincent Rossmeier: The Republicans who would've impeached Bush?
Anthony Grafton: Historian takes time off from Renaissance studies to denounce torture
Viktor Yushchenko: What Stalin did to Ukranians 75 years ago was genocide
Bernard Lewis: Have the Arabs finally decided to accept the existence of Israel?
Shelby Steele: Obama Is Right on Iran
Anthropologists debate cooperating with US military
James R. Russell: Ideology over Integrity in Academe
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: NY library acquires Schlesinger papers
Oxford in lockdown ahead of Irving debate protests
How Many American Troops Have Died in War?
Robert McHenry: Political Labels ... Are You a Right-Wing &#!@% or a Left-Wing &#!@%?
Mark Matthews: The troubled search for peace in the Middle East
What's wrong with political coverage by NYT ...case in point
Hillary v. Paul on Medical Marijuana
Hero or Victim? The 25th Anniversary of Barney Clark's Artificial Heart by Barron H. Lerner
Iranian Muslim Bloggers by Hamid Tehrani
It's Time for a New Look at Isolationism by Christopher McKnight Nichols
The Annapolis Conference: A Chance to Right an Historical Wrong? by Gil Troy
The Palpable Fallacy of Supreme Court Originalists by Woody Holton
What Mr. Putin Could Learn from George Washington by Judith Apter Klinghoffer and Rick Shenkman
Whig History Is Back by Michael Knox Beran
World War I: When the Unthinkable Became Thinkable by Alan Kramer
Week of November 19, 2007
Geronimo's rifle, Wyatt Earp's shotgun auctioned
Matt Carr: The parallels between Anarchism and al-Qaeda today
Gary Leupp: Killing the Buddha in Pakistan's Swat Valley
STAND BY TASLIMA NASRIN/update
Black Sox archive suddenly surfaces
Reopening of looted museum signals a calmer Baghdad
Murray Polner: War Against Iran?
Günter Grass: Nobel Laureate Sues Publisher
Benjamin J. Kaplan: A Revisionist Historian Looks at Religious Toleration
Mark Halperin: How "What It Takes" Took Me Off Course
Nooses: NYT posts map of where they've shown up
Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department
Most Experience or Enough Experience?
Amateurs Unravel Russia's Last Royal Mystery
Henry Louis Gates: Teams up with DNA firm to provide genetic testing for African-Americans
A Lost World--the Journals of Arthur Schlesinger
BEFORE ACTING ON JERUSALMEM; REMEMBER GAZA
California Embraces Glenn Singleton's Cultural Revolution
David Irving: He WILL speak at the Oxford Union
James Piereson: The Culture of Conspiracy
WSJ Editorial: Is the Second Amendment an individual, or collective, right?
Replay of JFK Assassination News Coverage (on now)
ISLAMISTS BLOW UP INDIAN COURTS
BEHEADED FOR WEARING WRONG TROUSERS
PUTIN REBELS AGAINST PLAYING WASHINGTON
Williamson Murray: War and the West
Andrew Santella: The war on Christmas spreads to Thanksgiving
Sukhdev Sandhu: Black Britain ... A Photographic History
Martin van Creveld: War and Technology (Teaching Military History)
Conservative author tries to rehabilitate reputation of Joe McCarthy
Detroit’s Latest Model: A Retooled Museum
Greg Grandin: Kissinger and Bush Neocons ... two peas in a pod
Mary Beard: Should we believe the story about the discovery of the Romulus and Remus cave?
Dan Cohen: Named new director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason
Robert Lipsyte: Why Bowl Games Are the Real Final Exams
Peter Siskind: Paradoxes Upon Complexities ... Mailer's Urban Vision
C-SPAN running series on presidential libraries
John Brown: The Bush Administration Conquers Washington
Eric Alterman: Blogger accuses him of bias
Man cleared of causing suicide of prof who wrote of 'Jewish conspiracy'
Tony Blair: "I wanted war ... it was the right thing to do"
History comes to life in students' wax museum (Utah)
Steve Benen: Rove puts on his revisionist-historian hat
Early Elizabeth I portrait fetches $5.3 million
De Beers sells S. African Cullinan Diamond Mine
Undersea bells from WW I wrecks recovered (UK)
Italy's former royals demand reparations for being sent into exile after WWII
Removal of WWII Relics in Solomons
Ex Chinese "comfort woman" takes fight to Canada
Original Hitler paintings found on Internet auction
Stamp celebrates hymn writer, Charles Wesley
Historic Michael Collins letter to fetch 50,000 Euros
A 19th-century cookbook gives new twist to "soul food"
War through the eyes of a PoW in Japan (Exhibit)
Spanish Civil War, This Time Fought in Pixels
Peggy Noonan: We're making too much of politicians' religious faith
Mike Cox: Second Amendment Showdown
Metal detector pair find Roman Briton skeleton
Scientific Proof, Political Realities, and Misplaced Faith
Daniel Smail: Challenges the idea that history began when civilization appeared
U.S. nuclear war plan from 1960 was condemned by scientists
American Anthropological Association Opposes U.S. Military's Human Terrain System Project
John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt: US storm over book on Israel lobby
Unique mosaic floor uncovered in excavations of ancient synagogue in Galilee
Americans mark Thanksgiving the way their forebears didn't
Oxford don's wife 'sent war hero to his death'
'Dramatic' ancient cemetery found
Closing of Norwegian consulate upsets Minnesotans
Turkey Pardons, The Stuffing of Historic Legend
Jim Castagnera: The Ancient Order of Hibernians: From the Molly Maguires to Malachy McAllister
For Edwards, a Relationship That Never Quite Fit
Thanksgiving Movies, Light and Dark
Max Holland: Says Zapruder film only missed the first shot fired by Oswald
Wharton Letter Reopens a Mystery
Daniel Pipes: Lee Harvey Oswald's Malign Legacy
More on David Bernstein and Ron Paul
Plymouth: If Not First in Time, First in the Country's Heart
Found: Early photos by Diane Arbus of sideshow performers
Time to Invoke the 25th Amendment?
Some Things For Which I'm Thankful ...
REMEMBERING "OPERATION GRATITUDE" ON THANKSGIVING
Memories of World War II, Still Fresh in Collectibles
Rare collectibles now going for highest prices ever
A MAP DESIGNED TO SEND A CHILL DOWN YOUR BACK
Catholic Judges on the Supreme Court
North Dakota State University divided over award to one of their own
Andrew Trees: Case of terminated Horace Mann teacher still causing waves
Isabella Thomas: Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present by Joanna Bourke
Richard Lyman Bushman: To start at Claremont
Worst Forest Disaster in U.S. History (Katrina)
Royal burial ground unearthed (England)
Go unto a place called eBay and there shalt thou find a rare Bible
Rachel Maines: Historian who wrote a book about vibrators says it was hard to get published
Coin Dealers Sue State Dept. for Details on Import Bans
Storied Rembrandt to Be Shown at the Getty
Journalists Killed by Indonesian Army in 1975, Inquiry Finds
Lewis Lapham: New history journal criticized
Nureyev: Pop star AND classical dancer
Bernard Lewis: Lumped in with Cheney by critic
Core Subjects in Danger of Being Axed From National Assessment
Lou Cannon: Reagan’s Southern Stumble
Joan Walsh: Stop the New York Times Op-Ed food fight! (Re: Reagan and racism)
Joyce Appleby: Awarding Electors by district is a good idea IF applied in every state
Supreme Court to Hear Second Amendment Case
Mint hedges bets with 'First Spouse' coins
Found: Sanctuary of Rome's 'founder' Romulus, weaned by wolves
Fiona Watson: TV historian endorses test on Scottish history
Quebec wants relics of Rhyl ship
Film to be shot in Gdansk about Irish patriot, Connolly
Smithsonian Is Planning a Big Fund-Raising Push
Elvis is Alive Museum isn't dead
1800s artifacts arise from ashes of Jocko Lakes fire (Montana)
'Rosie the Riveter' model going strong at 85
Ex-Khmer Rouge head of state charged
Mountain named after troops killed in war service
Alabama Capitol's Confederate statues defaced with paint
Family of Tawana Brawley wants to reopen rape case
Irish famine inspires fight against poverty, says Bono
Paul Krugman: Republicans and Race
Max Boot: Waterboarding ... the other side of the story
Max Boot: The Seventh-Best World War II Novel (Re: Norman Mailer)
Peter Mansoor and H.R. McMaster: Complaints that the Army has passed over both for promotion
John J. Pitney, Jr.: Ghosts of 1992
Will Fitzhugh: The NEA's indifference to the muse of history
Meeting in Canada, Middle East Scholars' Group Worries About Academic Freedom
David Noble: Outspoken academic wins fight with York
History journals: Few Policies on Plagiarism
Henry Kissinger: Discusses diplomacy in the post-9/11 era
Sidney Blumenthal: The Republican will to power remains ferocious
Allan Lichtman: Conservative Big Government ... Whither American Conservatism (Part 2)
Thomas Fleming: So the French President Likes Us ... It's Not Really a Surprise
Scott Horton: On Inappropriate Comparisons (GW & GWB)
Michael Barone: Iraq, like Korea, may turn out ok
Jonathan Zimmerman: America's addiction to sports
Heather Gray: Another Look at W.E.B. DuBois
Gary Leupp: Tobacco and the State ... A Brief History
Frederick Kagan & Michael O'Hanlon: Pakistan’s Collapse, Our Problem
David Irving: Oxford Union faces boycott over invite to Holocaust denier
Deborah Lipstadt: Rwanda: A new form of genocide denial
Bush celebrates Thanksgiving and steps into a squabble over the first to hold the event
Noah's flood turned tide of agriculture
Smithsonian Home Products Hit Stores
Excavations reveal ancient civilization with a sense of style (Serbia)
High tides unearth burial mystery of bronze age child (UK)
Vietnam: Dig reveals 2,500 year old artifacts
Eco-ruin 'felled early society' (Europe)
Eco-ruin 'felled early society' (Europe)
First Bronze Age settlement found at sewage works (UK)
Baltic yields 'perfect' shipwreck
The Bonds story in perspective
In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses
Scott Horton: The Two-Front Battle Over Torture
How the Discovery Channel Duped the American Public About the RFK Assassination Acoustics Debate by Mel Ayton
Ron Paul: The Only Presidential Candidate to Challenge the American Empire by David T. Beito and Scott Horton
The Bill Both Birchers and Leftwingers Oppose: For Good Reason by Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson
Why New Laws Are Needed to Stop the Bullying of the National Archives by Maarja Krusten
Week of November 12, 2007
Rosenbergs' sons say new spy revelation clears their parents
David Corn: Nixon on Tape: Reagan Was "Shallow" and of "Limited Mental Capacity"
David Greenberg: Is Barack Obama just another high-toned liberal doomed to failure?
Harold J. Berman: 89, Who Altered Beliefs About Origins of Western Law, Dies
Ron Paul Finally Gets (Some) Respect From ABC Pundits
Best Served With Freedom Fries
Ceremony at Fort Meade will honor German POWs buried there
Historic Gettysburg Photo May Contain Lincoln's Image
Juan Cole: Outside pressure groups are making work dangerous for scholars, says U.S. historian
"Before We End Up Like South Africa"?
Individualism, Collectivism, and Other Murky Labels
Margaret Atwood revisits Brave New World
RED CROSS JETS TERRORISTS TO GENEVA TO TRAIN IN INTER. LAW
Donald M. Seekins: Burma’s Military Regime ... Understanding SPDC Tyranny
Edward Gibbon: Houghton exhibit features "luminous" historian
Jonathan Schell: Historian of the Nuclear Conundrum
Studs Terkel: Oral historian ... but he hates the label
Blogger: If It Was Torture in Mississippi, Then It's Definitely Torture, Right?
Senate Panel Clears Bill Creating Database For Civil War-Era African-American Records
Presidential dynasties can add layer of secrecy
Dwight T. Pitcaithley: The National Park Service Begins Explaining the Causes of Our Wars
Undergraduate History Degrees Continue to Grow in Number
Left Behind? Historians Lag in the 2006, 2007 Salary Report
VILLAIN OF THE WEEK - AL BARADAI
Critics see no future in history bill
Michael Foret: U Wisconsin historian pleads guilty to porn possession
Balibo inquest 'may rewrite history'
Eric Alterman: Liberals and Veterans ... Welcome Back
Daniel Henninger: Barack Obama has said the '60s are over--Is he right?
Manumission papers of a slave discovered in Pittsburgh
Hokum That Stands the Test of Time (Exhibition/LA)
Looted art returned to Iran from Italy
Romney, Searching and Earnest, Set His Path in '60s
Tim Weiner: Wins National Book Award for History of CIA
Vietnam War Novel Wins National Book Award
Chicago Man Fights Deportation Over Government Claims That He Helped Nazis Kill Jews
Iraqi historian's life at risk ... help needed
Walid Phares: No longer does he feel like his is a voice in the wilderness
Campus Watch Critiques, UC Santa Cruz Paper Cries "Censorship!"
Victor Davis Hanson and Richard Pipes: Humanities Medals Awarded by President Bush
The 'Myth' of the Would-Be Hitler Assassin, subject of the new Tom Cruise movie
GOP issuing 'Clinton library cards'
MESA Turns Down Campus Watch Ad
A CFP of interest to L&P people
A newly discovered document explains the Jewish exile from Muslim lands
Korean-German exhibit highlights WWII sex slavery
Russian sailor admits he killed WW British frogman, clearing up Cold War mystery
Ceremony marks Luther King visit (UK)
Historic Whiskey May Be Poured Down the Drain for Being Sold Without a License
Women Resume 30-Year-Old Agenda in Time for 2008
Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Nets $1.35 Million at Auction
From home front to battlefield, new exhibit tells story of World War II (PA)
Survivor of wartime massacre, saved by strange twist of fate, searches for his past
Poland declares remembrance day for officers killed at Katyn in 1940
Austrian Cabinet backs plan to house the archives of Simon Wiesenthal
Germany opening new office to help identify and research art stolen by Nazis
Protesters fight plan to fell 'Anne Frank's Tree' in Amsterdam
Bletchley Park Colossus cracks codes once more
My Tudor terrace is a dream come true
Memory of slaves honored at Capitol with renaming of a hall
Sold: Hitler's globe fetches £50,000 at auction - five times its estimate
Signed Hitler book, Nazi bravery award in Brisbane charity auction (Australia)
Forgotten WWII-Era American Fighter Plane Found on Beach in Wales
Life’s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists’ Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925 (N-Y Historical Society/Exhibit)
Tom Engelhardt: A Question No One Wants to Raise About Drought
W. Thomas Smith Jr.: The invaluable narratives of our veterans should not be lost
Mark Weisbrot: BAT BOY Lives - As Do Myths About Social Security
Daniel Pipes: Washington Protects the Terror Masters
Isabel Paterson and Talbot Mundy?
Gerald D. Feldman: Historian of the Nazis and Finances, Dies at 70
Aristotle's ancient wrestling school, a victim of official apathy
Ruins of late-Roman-era fortress found in Bulgaria
Tree in Anne Frank's diary to be cut down
Church fighting Civil War-era Virginia law
Area sculptor crafts work for National Slavery Museum
Royalty: Backward tradition or Britain's unity?
Germany open to reopening Holocaust reparations if Israel wants
Czech film archive receives unique shots from 1945
New visitor centre opens at former concentration camp Ravensbrueck
Accused Nazi Dog Trainer Leaves U.S.
Baptist advice to Romney: follow JFK's lead
Sloughing off legacy of the Troubles
David McCullough: Next book will be about Americans in Paris
Kimberly Kagan: Executing the winning strategy in Iraq
Peter Berkowitz: The Insanity of Bush Hatred
More studies find that historians and other profs tilt left
Enrollments in Foreign-Language Classes Continue to Rise, MLA Survey Finds
Islamists Destroy Buddhist Statue
An exhibition of pictures by Pyotr Otsup features defining shots of Lenin and Stalin
Jonathan Zimmerman: Why gender still matters in American politics
David P. Redlawsk: The Iowa Caucuses are Like the Electoral College
Democrats say $1.8 trillion spent on Iraq, Afghan wars
DIASPORA MUSLIMS SHOULD FOLLOW NASER KHADER
Letter by Oswald Is Found With Late Senator's Papers
SOME AL DURA RUSHES SCREEN IN FRENCH COURT
Mark Steyn's Arthur Godfrey Moment
Bush: 'History is going to have to judge'
Clinton's old archenemy is now his friend
Athletes taking pills? An old story.
Earmark for museum honoring first ladies draws controversy
Newsweek cover story: 1968 ... The year that changed everything
Mary Beard: The dangerous don (says Guardian)
Patty Limerick: Interviewed by the NYT Magazine
Vases fixed after visitor toppled them (UK)
Chris Collins: Historian works to show Thatcher's flaws, feats
Philip Deloria: To speak at event honoring Colorado's Native American Awareness month
Discovery might rewrite history of Spaniards in Georgia
Roy Medvedev: Let History Judge Russia's Revolutions
White House employee writes history of presidential entertaining
Not interested in English history?
Algis Ratnikas: The man behind the website, Timelines of History
Tim Cook: Historian gives Canada its first readable history of WW I
Enthusiast finds history in antique records (78 rpm et al.)
Edna Greene Medford: Historian warns of return to overt racism
Fritz Stern: Berlin Jewish museum to honor him & Kohl
Wolfe sparks battle in the art world
Frizzy hair and hats... a Victorian fashion guide
Oldest synagogue in Americas draws tourists to Brazil
Experts find jawbone of pre-human great ape in Kenya
It's a century late, but Einstein's still right on time
Church row evolves over fossil boy
Peru temple, mural hints at complexity
China Olympics construction unearths cultural relics
Illegal abroad, hate Web sites thrive here
David Blight: Historian helps bring slave narratives to light
William J. Bennett: Do you know our heroes?
Irish-Americans growing 'distant' from Ireland
Adam Cohen: Public Works: When "Big Government" Plays Its Role
Couple Who Helped Lead Khmer Rouge Are Arrested
Vatican beatifies son of Argentine Indian chief
Desert Fox photos aided war mural
Earliest chocolate drink found
World War Two Filipino Veterans Waiting for Equity
Matt Bai: Why no one has produced a great campaign book since Richard Ben Cramer's
A new book celebrates the 25 cent book
Historians writing about WW II find all the questions are about Iraq
Arthur Bremer, Wallace shooter, leaves prison
War of words on NYT op ed page over Reagan's 1980 visit to Philadelphia, Mississippi
China restoring ancient holidays
Judge Orders Executive Office of the President to Preserve E-mail Backup Tape
Steven F. Hayward: Reagan and the Historians
Rashid Khalidi: In The Mideast, America Casts An Imperial Shadow
John H. Summers: Scholar exposes the misrepresentations of C. Wright Mills self-appointed protector
John H. Summers: The Academic Who Claimed to Honor C. Wright Mills Betrayed Him
Oliver Kamm: The rationale for keeping the bomb has changed over the decades
Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru
Juan Cole: The US Drawdown Begins
Allen Esterson: Einstein’s Wife ... PBS continues to fail the test of integrity
Scott Horton: What Does Putin Want?
Daniel McCarthy: Goldwater has many claimants to his legacy, but most lack his rebellious spirit
Differences in the Parents of Male and Female History Faculty
The Myth That the Poor are Getting Poorer
Juan Cole: Gloomy Veterans Day Post
Myron Magnet: What Jefferson’s fabled home reveals about the Founding Father’s mind and heart
Justin Logan: It's Past Time to Bury the Hitler Analogy
Europeans still commemorating WW I
Gabriel Piterberg: Middle East studies professor taken to task by Campus Watch
American Assassin, the first in-depth documentary about Oswald's years in Minsk
Oswald’s Ghost, a new documentary by filmmaker Robert Stone, debuts on American Experience
Thomas Fleming: Receives lifetime achievement award
Lewis Lapham: Former Harper's editor starts history magazine
David Blight: How He Came to Write ... A Slave No More
Musharraf cites Lincoln to justify emergency
Tom Brokaw: Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Doughboy's letters home rediscovered
The forgotten battle of Passchendaele
The forgotten battle of Passchendaele (Movie)
Auctioning the Old West to Help a City in the East
Tomb of the Unknowns: Fix or Replace?
There's just 1 American left who served in France during WW I
RECIPROCITY, NOT DIVERSITY, SHOULD BE THE STRATEGY
Restored Torah returned to synagogue (Germany)
Putin honors US-born mole who was top spy in WW II
Leonardo painting has coded 'soundtrack'
Did David Brooks Tell the Full Story About Reagan's Neshoba County Fair Visit? by Joseph Crespino
Is Country Music Inherently Conservative? by Peter La Chapelle
Jena Is More than Jena and a Noose Is More than a Nuisance by James West Davidson
Long Before There Was Stephen Colbert There Was Pat Paulson by Raney McKool
Making a Picture Book: How TIME Does It by Kelly Knauer
Two Misunderstandings About Immigration by Daniel Kanstroom
Was Nadia Abu El Haj Treated Fairly? by Ralph Harrington
Why Do Democrats Have an Identity Crisis? It Goes Back to the McGovern Landslide Loss by Bruce Miroff
Week of November 5, 2007
Simon Kuper: The strange world of 'Eurabia'
Can Berlin Handle Any More Memorials?
When did Americans become deodorant-crazy?
Gary Sick: Pakistan's Plan B deficiency
Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With a Matching Ego, Dies at 84
At Billy Graham Library, Man and Message Are One and the Same
Voltairine de Cleyre, Anarcho-Capitalist?
A Norman Mailer Prelude to a Betty Smith Party
A Serious Problem Within the Military
Giving Up the Memorabilia, but Not the Belief: Elvis Lives
Evan Wallach: Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime
Slave Labor Task Force Issues Report to House Panel
Congress Passes Funding for Teaching American History Grants and IMLS
Controversy Shifts To Release of Clinton Health Care Task Force Records
Gary Leupp: General Musharaff's "State of Emergency"
Gary Leupp: The History and Politics of Sainthood
Fujiwara Akira: The Nanking Atrocity ... An Interpretive Overview
Peggy Noonan: Mrs. Clinton is no Iron Lady
U. of Kentucky Afflicted by Spurious E-Mail Chain Letter About the Holocaust
Dan Hurley: The dark side of America's frontier history
BOLTON PUTS STATE DEPARTMENT ON THE HOT SEAT
Heinz History Center, Westinghouse Museum merge
Canadians don't know their history, study shows
There's only one Titanic survivor now
Red Cross files reveal WWI cost
Michael Knox Beran: The folly of Congress’s Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Allan Lichtman: Crisis and Change in the Christian Right Movement (Part 1)
Reagan library suffers from shoddy collections accounting
Paul's Hayekian Call for Competitive Money on "The Kudlow Report"
David Brooks: Reagan victim of leftwing calumny
Sinclair Thomson: Interviewed about Bolivia's political changes
History student guarded top Nazis
Kremlin uses its version of the past to forge a new ideology for the present
Colorful spice trade history described as forerunner of today's globalization
Nazi hunters seeking death head doctor
Irish role in slavery is marked
Putin's Next Role: 'Father of Nation'
Reagan library can't fully account for 80,000 artifacts
Anne Applebaum: Why actors and models love to hang out with Hugo Chávez
Arthur Herman: Churchill understood that the Jews are the bedrock of Western tradition
Burke's Semi-serious Anarchism, Part 2
William Astore: If We Lose Iraq, You're to Blame
The Further Adventures of Ben Franklin's Ghost
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China Gets Beijing and Shanghai Ready for the 2008 Olympics and 2010 Expo
David Haven Blake: The movie that tells us how politics really works in our democracy
Susan Faludi: They Always Play the Gender Card
Edward Said: Mural of him raises hackles of his critics
Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World’s Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
Akiva Eldar: The Jewish Lobby Israel Needs
James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn: How to win elections, FDR style
SARKOZY REPLACES BLAIR AS THE BUSH HATERS' "BETE NOIRE"/update
Avicenna -- Wine, Women & Philosophy [audio 45min]
Woodstock May Have Saved Sen. McCain’s Life
Bush Finally Tops Nixon -- In Unpopularity -- As Call for Iraq Pullout Hits New Peak
Army begins Washington dig for World War I-era munitions
Berlin orchestra admits its Nazi past
Fate of University of North Dakota 'Fighting Sioux' Logo Threatens Hockey Arena
Paul Kengor: God and Hillary Clinton (Interview)
Craig Unger: Battle of the Bushes (Bush I vs. Bush II)
William Voegeli: Why even Reagan couldn't stop spending from skyrocketing--and what to do about it.
Group set up to defend academic freedom is itself coming under fire
The End of the History of Science?
Putting the "Act" in the Military Commissions
CAN IRANIANS TRUST WESTERN SUPPORT?
Martin Kramer: Hillary ... Triangulation on Israel?
George Will: Congress's Unused War Powers
Robert Sutton: NPS Director Welcomes New Chief Historian
The Feds and IRBs: Your Opportunity to Weigh in
Group Spotlights Jews Who Left Arab Lands
Prisoners or slaves? New row over wreck's bones (UK)
Great War memorial arch appeal (UK)
90 years on, a special first-class stamp will honour the heroes of Passchendaele
Noel Coward was recruited as pre-war undercover agent, letters reveal
Package brings back WWII memories to this vet
Junius Rodriguez: Historian sifts facts on Underground Railroad
City historian to earn $120,000 a year (Virginia)
Michael Beschloss: Bush will be judged harshly if he used a pretext to attack Iraq
Anthony Grafton: What the Renaissance teaches us about torture
Daniel Pipes: Saddam's Damn Dam
Daniel Pipes: Conservative pundit argues for 'victory' over Palestinians
Brendan Simms: John Bolton's new memoir shows that he's no neocon
Bret Stephens: Did the Allies in World War II "lower themselves to the level of their enemies"?
Juan Cole: Bush and Musharraf's grand illusion
Bernard Weiner: Back to the 1960s
French Journalist Describes His Torture Being Waterboarded by French Forces During Algerian War
Said That vs. Meant This, a Hot Matchup for '08
MUSHARRAF FOLLOWS MUBARAK'S AND NIXON'S FOOTSTEPS
Gerald Feldman: Berkeley historian dies at age 70
U.S. Water Boarding, 1899 Style by William Loren Katz
Creation Museum surpasses ticket sales expectations
Stonehenge's huge support settlement
The Scariest Thing about Neanderthals
Archaeologists Unearth Rare State Seals from 1st Bulgarian Empire
Earlier World Trade Center threatened (NYC)
Archaeologists have Discovered the World's Oldest Inscription in Jiroft (Iran)
Poster relates Che's dark side
Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood
'Children, learn to value Stalin,' Russian pupils told
Cornelius Ryan : War author's huge archive goes on show
War brides' children may not be citizens (Canada)
U.S. "Flying Tigers" to have memorial park in SW China
Irish firm pays €246,000 for iconic Grace Kelly dresses
Alan Kramer: His new book is about the birth of a killing culture (WW I)
2,000-year-old Christian community in Iraq gains a spiritual first in Baghdad
Historical wounds underlie outrage at plight of Chadian 'orphans'
Guy Fawkes Is Spared, and England Is Restive
Historic Pool Transformed Into a Conference Room
Bernard Lewis: Accused of chutzpah for starting new "apolitical" group
Juan Cole: What Musharraf is up to (It's not cracking down on terrorists)
Abu El-Haj: Barnard Tenures Scholar Opposed by Massive Campaign
10,000 Hillary documents to be released early in 2008
Roya Hakakian: Holocaust Denial and Tehran
PALESTINIANS, NOT ISRAEL, NEED A "PEACE DIVIDEND"
Jamaica's Maroons remember the fight against slavery
Allegations of plagiarism leveled against Army's Counterinsurgency Manual
Group wants to honor Kansas girl who convinced Lincoln to grow whiskers
Files reveal the silly, scary spies' eye-view of Aboriginal history
Australian academic is trying to preserve the story of Thailand's gay community
Coal's Other Victim: China's History
Waterboarding: A Tortured History
Robin Hood's Hideout in Trouble
King Tut's Mummy Returns to Egypt
Iranian Protesters Celebrate 28th Anniversary Takeover of U.S. Embassy
David Kennedy: Sean Wilentz and others complain about his negative review of Paul Krugman's book
NYT editorial: Let's not forget the upcoming 400th anniversary of Hudson's river voyage
Coca-Cola Aids Restoration of Hellenic Olympic Site in Ancient Olympia
Are We Living the Nightmare Outlined in Federalist #8? by Carol V. Hamilton
How Museums and Libraries Lose Stuff by Samuel J. Redman
If You Could Ask the Author of One of Those Big Oxford Histories What He Learned He'd Say ... by Daniel Walker Howe
Is Paul Krugman a Good Historian? by Michael Kazin
Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima by Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan
Why We Should Be Lucky Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Don't Take After Cornelius Vanderbilt by Edward Renehan
What Did LBJ Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis? And When Did He Know It? by Max Holland and Tara Marie Egan
Week of October 29, 2007
Tarzan lawyers battle to trademark cry
Wilfred Owen: The soldiers' poet
Obama Stumps on Civil Rights at Historic South Carolina Courthouse
Faulty Intel Source "Curve Ball" Revealed
Frederick Kagan: The Iraqi parliament behaves like a bunch of politicians
Kremlin wives brought to life in new Moscow exhibition
Gil Troy's Thoughts on David Herbert Donald
Clinton Rebuts Accusations of Secrecy
NETANYAHU ON JERUSALEM &ANNAPOLIS
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE GETS MORE REALISTIC
SARKOZY WANTS TO MAKE FRANCE A MARITIME POWER
School woos students, parents with Taisho-era sailor suits
Jonathan Spence: Writes history of a historian
A comeback for the 'Great Man' theory? What does Marx's illness tell us?
From a Trash Bin, Singing Cossacks and a Bitter Dispute
Germany’s Black Years Seen From the Inside (Art Exhibit/Paris)
A Perceptive Take on the Duke Lacrosse Scandal
Indoctrination Kaput at the University of Delaware
Ernest May on surprise attacks through history
Jim Sleeper: Hawking War Guilt
Gary Younge: Thieves of Black History (Memphis)
Juan Cole: Combating Muslim Extremism
A Decorative Piece of Subway History Is Unearthed in a Busy Station (NYC)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE STUPID
The Uncomplicated Past and the Troubled Present
Can't Tell Your Vanderbilts Without a Number
Adam Holland: Oregon "Peace" Group to Mark Kristallnacht with Holocaust Denial Conference
Protests target Holocaust denier's appearance at University of Oregon
Victor Davis Hanson: His work dissected (ongoing series)
Was the U.S. wrong to enter World War I? Peter Beinart vs. Jonah Goldberg
John B. Judis: The childhood roots of Giuliani's strange views of liberty
Mike Davis: Does Pete Wilson deserve a statue?
IRANIAN MINA AHADI WINS "SECULARIST OF THE YEAR"
Eric Rauchway: Democrats should welcome the chance to blast Republicans for attacking FDR
Daniel A. Rezneck : Teddy Roosevelt was right: Waterboarding wrong
Oliver Kamm: Paul Tibbets and Enola Gay ... About those Obits
Joseph Tainter: Utah State Historian Discusses Changes to U.S. Energy Future
Raymond A. Callahan: Guerrilla warfare tactics predate civilization, says historian
Albums cataloging Nazi-looted art presented to National Archives
Ex-Saudi ambassador: Kingdom could have helped U.S. prevent 9/11
Librarians Say Surveillance Bills Lack Adequate Oversight
Preserving Black History in the Military, at the "Colored Officers Club"
Bad Arolsen Nazi-Era Documents Posted Online
Work on Gestapo victims memorial to begin in Berlin
Gerhard Weinberg: Scholar who discovered sequel to Main Kampf to give lecture
War plane recovery: the pilot has got a name, he was an ace of the Luftwaffe
Kissinger Conspired with Soviet Ambassador to Keep Secretary of State in the Dark
Paul Tibbets, pilot who bombed Hiroshima, dies at 92
Abu El-Haj: Reportedly Granted Tenure
Bernard Lewis, Victor Davis Hanson, et al.: Scholars form new Middle East Studies group
Building of Iraqi police barracks threatens world heritage site
Juan Cole: Needed ... A Left-leaning "Team B" for Intelligence
Secrecy threatens historical record, State Department warned
Michael Tanner of Cato Misses the Point
SAUDIS SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED . . .
"BANGLADESH IS MY COUNTRY. LET THE RADICALS LEAVE"
Franco Cardini: Condemns new film about Elizabeth, saying it maligns Spain's Catholic king
Spanish Parliament Condemns Franco
Court lets Taylor keep Van Gogh
Symbols of Nazi gay hate up for auction
Top secret blunder reveals Wilson's war fears
Troops issued deck of cards with ace of artifacts
Papers show Churchill's Cabinet battles
Daniel Pipes: Mosul and Iraq's Next War
U. of Virginia Plans a Renovation for Jefferson's Rotunda
Michael Schwartz: Iraq Policy Floating on a Sea of Oil
Tom Engelhardt: Thoughts on Getting to the March
Murray Polner: We Aren’t One: American Jewish Voices for Peace
Frederick Kagan: American Defense Policy at a Crossroads
M. Reza Pirbhai: The Wahhabis are Coming, the Wahhabis are Coming!
Iran Hides Western Masterworks
Hillary Clinton refuses to demand National Archives release documents
Did lead in gasoline cause crime?
Larry DeWitt: Review of Lew Daly's God and the Welfare State (MIT Press, 2006)
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INDOCRINATE U/ update - victory
S. Korean spies admit kidnapping ex-president
Spain tries to strike Franco from history
Polynesian mariners travelled by the stars`
Diary reveals feisty side of Katharine Hepburn
Graffiti sprayed over historic Indian markings (CA)
AMY CHUA: HYPERPOWERS ARE CREATED BY OPEN MINDS
Ancient skeleton was 'even older'
Furor After Ceremonial Flag-Folding Readings Pulled From Military Funerals
Putin Mourns Victims at Stalin-Era Killing Field
CHINESE SWF HUNT FOREIGN DEAL - NOTHING TO WORRY?
Ancient sea travellers had heads in the clouds - Telegraph
Margaret Thatcher's prospects looked dim to US leaders in the 70s
Churchill painting given to Truman up for sale
Library of Congress and Xerox to Team Up on Digital Formats
Films no longer wait for history
My Friend, Joe Herzenberg (1941-2007)
David Greenberg: Rudy a Lefty? Yeah, Right.
Victor Davis Hanson: Calls criticism on a leftwing blog "childish slander"
Frederick Kagan: Says America needs to be heartened by our success in Iraq, and seize a victory
John Hope Franklin: Shares his story, and America's
Simon Schama: Historian examines effects of the slave trade
John Hope Franklin: Warns of bias in history
Rice Looks to History for Peace Effort
Dana Frank: Historian looks sideways at local landmarks
Studs Terkel: Reflects on his own life
Recovered Torahs reveal history of Czech Jews
Paul Elie: Suddenly everybody's getting right by Niebuhr
Fareed Zakaria: Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad?
What Hillary can learn from the movie about Elizabeth
Memories of Obama in New York Differ
The Theatrical Katharine Hepburn, in Journals and Letters
Only known recording of Andrew Carnegie gives voice to history
Eric Alterman: Says Alan Dershowitz lied to him
Walter Russell Mead: His new book celebrates Britain's influence on the US
90 years ago Aussie troops defeated the Turks, changing history
Stephen M. Walt & John J. Mearsheimer: 'Waltheimer' on the Hot Seat
Hillary's ahead, but what's history say about frontrunners?
KING ABDULLAH ON THE BRITISH HOT SEAT
"Islamofascism": More Sloppyspeak
$50,000 for a mule museum in California?
Cheney hunting trip under fire for Confederate flag
National Trust releases top 10 haunted hotspots (UK)
Why they called it the Manhattan Project
Andrew Cumming: Historian says Battle of Britain pilots 'could not shoot straight'
German village to honour Scottish soldier
Japanese veteran haunted by WWII surgical killings in Mindanao
Crumbling French churches spark unholy row
Margaret Creighton: Historian Teaches "Red Sox Nation"
The people who decide the history that appears on US coins
Purge Victims Remembered in Moscow Rite
Anniversary: Soviet mutt was first earthling in space
Mob moll says Mafiosi helped FBI solve 1964 disappearance of three civil rights volunteers
Headless Skeletons Yield Polynesian Secrets
Study: Media narrows field of candidates
Farmer beheaded by Nazis beatified in Austria
Senior US Democratic lawmaker offends Dutch counterparts with historical remarks
New exhibition center opens in concentration camp where Anne Frank died
National Intelligence Budget disclosed ... $44 billion
Texas Ranger statue plans reopen old wounds over troubled past with some Hispanics
Spain takes steps to depoliticize Franco's massive mausoleum
Putin honors Stalin victims 70 years after terror
Good News for Red Wine Tipplers
European libraries face problems in digitalizing
First Farmers Wanted Clothes, Not Food
List of Stalin terror victims published
Ukraine reburies Stalin's victims
Jailer charged with desecrating Civil War grave (North Carolina)
Black Confederate says he is marching for heritage
New Ideas About Human Migration From Asia To Americas
Archive seeks to discover true extent of missing e-mails at White House
Former Holocaust denier and now Islam-basher invited to speak at university campus
Is Paul Krugman right that our politics are shaped by glaring inequalities?
Yad Vashem to showcase Muslims who saved Jews from Nazis
Gerald Ford's Secrets Revealed in New Book
The Politics of History: How “Exceptional” is America?
Robert McHenry: Dinesh D’Souza's illogical statements about religion and science
Alexander Keyssar: How Not to Choose a President
Greenberg's Reply to Johnson on Giuliani
How Giuliani tried to control his NYC legacy
Sidney Blumenthal: Journalism and its Discontents
Americans are Tourists of History by Marita Sturken
Is the History of the U.S. Supreme Court Essential? by Peter Hoffer
San Diego's Natural Disaster Wasn't Entirely Natural by Colin Fisher
So Mukasey Doesn't Know If Waterboarding Is Torture? Please. by Joyce Appleby
What Happened When We Stayed the Course in Cuba by Joseph J. Gonzalez
Week of October 22, 2007
Whatever Happened to Guy Fawkes Night?
Vacant Manhattan Building Linked to Infamous Gilded Age Murder Case Collapses
Paul Krugman: The reinvention of Vietnam (interview)
NYT raves about Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum (Rome)
Bill in Spanish Parliament Aims to End "Amnesia" About Civil War Victims
Spies Do a Huge Volume of Work in Invisible Ink
Why are they publishing so many of the rough drafts of great writers' works?
Lots of attorneys are running for president ... who would you hire?
Ron Paul's New Hampshire TV Ad
François Furstenberg: Bush’s Dangerous Liaisons
The Job Market for Japanese Historians This Year
John B. Judis: Bush's Neo-Imperialist War
Major Archaeological Find in Puerto Rico
Cardoso & The Death of Dependency
MEAD: THEY LOOK, WALK AND QUACK LIKE ANTISEMITES, BUT THEY ARE NOT!
Princeton to Return Disputed Art to Italy
Returning Stolen Art: No Easy Answers
1944 Conviction of Black G.I.'s Is Ruled Flawed
Ford's Theatre Plans New Complex
World War I Veterans Face Sweet and Fitting Lie (Play/NYC)
The Terrible State of Our Economy?
19th century newspapers now online (UK)
American Heritage bailout by millionaire
U.S. and Turkey Thwart Armenian Genocide Bill
Blair’s Advance for Memoir Said to Be About $9 Million
Daniel Pipes: Attracts notice as a Giuliani advisor
Dye in the Trevi: Some Romans See Red, but Others Cry ‘Art!’
Saving a Folk Artist’s Paradise, Lost to Weeds and Ruin, Is a Tangled Affair (GEORGIA)
Laurence Fishburne as Thurgood Marshall (PLAY/NYC)
Ellis Island’s Forgotten Hospital (Documentary)
Correlli Barnett: Public school 'indoctrination' has led UK to war, says historian
30 episode series on King Farouk
Deborah Lipstadt: Historian challenges Holocaust deniers
Pinter leads row over Lloyd George statue
Arno Mayer: His job during WW II was to befriend the enemy
Mass beatification revives memories of Spain's War
Vatican has a hit with $8500 book on Knights Templar
Witness to Khmer Rouge brutality to testify at trial
Political smears of yesteryear caught on tape
Lone Bidder Buys Strands of Che's Hair at U.S. Auction
French Debate: Is Maori Head Body Part or Art?
Heresy Revisited 40 years after Trial (New Zealand)
Bruce Cumings: Kim Jong Il confronts Bush — and wins
Thomas J. Sugrue: Let's Not Hold Up Albert Shanker as a Model
Nick Turse: Targeting Iraqis as "Big Game"
Michael Knox Beran: How Lincoln Saved the World
Raymond Ibrahim: The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf
Stephanie Coontz: Family life in America has changed drastically in the last 30 years
Outside Group Stifles Horowitz Speech at Emory
Ruth Malhotra and Orit Sklar: Leftist Brown Shirts Shut Down Horowitz Speech at Emory
Peggy Noonan: The New Republic's editors seem to have mistaken Vietnam movies for real life
Learn from the Past: US Director of National Intelligence orders agencies to keep historical records
Raymond Arsenault: Interviewed about his new book on Freedom Rides
Juan Cole: Interviewed about Iran, Turkey & the US
Italian history debunks claim that saint showed signs of stigmata
History book in India may spark legal row
Che Guevara hair lock to be auctioned
Another replica of the first sub--The Turtle--makes a big splash
Largest mass lynching in American history to be remembered
Czech Communist intelligence used ex-Nazi officials
British war graves in France defaced with Nazi symbols
Engineers called in to save Europe's largest prehistoric man-made construction
Locked gates to cenotaph will open (Londonderry)
Spain undergoes wrenching awakening from 'amnesia'
Riverboat Could Be Cruising to the End of the Line
Merkel backs Berlin memorial for Germans expelled in World War II
Trillion-dollar war: Afghanistan and Iraq set to cost more than Vietnam and Korea
Nationalist riots mar anniversary of Hungarian uprising
Francis Fukuyama: A self-defeating hegemony
Scientist Retracts 1955 Errors Now Cited as Evidence by Creationists
Brezhnev Tried to Lift Nixon's Spirits
Da Vinci Code fans can pay £4,000 to show innocence of the Knights Templar
Ron Paul is Leading Fred Thompson in New Hampshire
PUTIN: THE US ACTS LIKE A MADMAN WITH A RAZOR BLADE
IRANIAN MEDICAL STUDENT "COMMITS SUICIDE"
Obama's advantage over Hillary
Michael Parenti: Mother Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints
Approval for U-boat to resurface
Christopher Hitchens: Defending the Term "Islamofascism"
Robert F. Turner: The president is bound by the Constitution, not the whims of Congress
EU may move into historic Tory HQ
Evita echoes in Argentine election
Armenian protesters demand Israel recognize Armenian genocide by
Ex-POWs struggle with debate over U.S. treatment of detainees
Nazi vase surrendered to authorities after public plea
Romania's president apologizes for state's role in deportation of Roma (Gypsies) during WWII
Juan Cole: The collapse of Bush's foreign policy
Library map thief gives himself up (Spain)
New project to publish stories of Irish 1641 uprising
Paisley and Ahern to discuss shared World War memorial
Burke's Semi-serious Anarchism
Library of Congress Mystery: 13% of collections gone missing
Mark Naison: Culture is Politics in the Bronx and Berlin
Juan Cole: US troop deaths are up this year ... but Iraq is fading as an issue?
Arthur Herman: We’re Already at War with Iran
Nadia Abu El Haj: The argument over her use of the words "pure political fabrication"
FACING THE TRUTH ON ISLAMOPHOBIA
"IMMODEST" LAURA IN SAUDI ARABIA
How Art Made The World - Revisited
A Third Party for Conservative Christians
Christopher Leslie Brown: Wins another prize
Victor Davis Hanson: Leftwing blogger launches series critical of his work
Federal Funding for National History Day?
Terri Garner: Historian chosen to head Clinton library
Archives Announces Initial Release of Military Personnel Files
National Archives Reaches Deal With FamilySearch to Digitize Civil War Records
Tariq Ramadan: Visa denial coming up in court Thursday
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
A Dead Spy, a Daughter's Questions and the C.I.A.
Chalmers Johnson: Intellectual Fallacies of the War on Terror
Gary Leupp: Response to an Angry Marine
'The darkest night in Israel's history' (Peres on Rabin's death)
History of mass extinction is a grim lesson on climate change
Keith Wailoo: Elected to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
David Starkey: Tells Queen ... You're history
NYC hall up for landmark status for colorful history
Army Marks 50 Years Since First Vietnam Casualty
US returns military installation dating to 19th century to Germany
Archaeologist uncovers 11,000-year-old artifacts in Syria
Most famous British hangman's grim orders discovered
Camera 'reveals' Mona Lisa's missing eyebrows
Re-enactor dies in Time Team jousting accident
Nazi photos of pre-war Britain put up for sale
Joachim Fest: No English publisher found his stunning account of German complicity
Did Nazis Commit Mass Murder as Party Entertainment?
Jillian Sim: Was Thomas Jefferson a Misogynist?
Guy Walters: Historian tracks down evil Erna the Nazi killer - a 'harmless' granny in Vienna
Haven't You Got Anything Smaller?
Jules Crittenden: The Armenian Genocide Bill ... The Right Move At The Wrong Time
Juan Cole: Why don't the media talk about "Zionofascism," he asks
Stephen Greenblatt: Helps Harvard Humanities Students Discover the 17th Century Online
István Deák: The World War II Deciders
Walter Russell Mead: Relax, America will survive George W. Bush
Academics call for defense of academic freedom
Jeremy Adelman: Princeton historian a leader in movement to defend academic freedom
Jonathan Zimmerman: Have you noticed that dorms now look like hotels?
Fox News, Text Polls, Mother Teresa, and Hitler
What are historians good for? Part II
Plan to save cliff hits stumbling block (Israel)
David Irving: Says he's not going to accept Oxford invitation
Doris Lessing says Sept. 11 attacks not so bad
Roger Pulvers: Bush couldn't get elected mayor in Japan
Daniel Walker Howe: The Second Coming of Christ in 1844
Stanley I. Kutler: The New American Imperium
Daniel Choi: Why Scholars Misread Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Ivan Eland: U.S. Should Condemn All of Government Atrocities
Condoleezza Rice opens history conference on Soviet-American relations (1969-1976)
In Salem, history haunts Halloween
New history A-level will focus on concepts (UK)
Sarah Goldhagen: Architectural historian has a plan to save nation's aging infrastructure
The Relief of Belsen (UK Documentary Review)
New school textbooks show future of South Africa history
Historian Thomas Sugrue says racial equality in our cities is an unfinished struggle [5:29]
Jacques Barzun: Subject of a New Yorker profile
Philadelphia celebrates famous links to African-American history
David Irving: What came out at the trial
Tariq Ramadan: Fight over his work divides liberal community
Study: NYT failing to investigate the antiquities scandals
South Carolina gets second chance to commemorate the Civil War
D.A. Davis: Holocausts... Christians need to acknowledge them all
Tutankhamun's true face to be revealed
Sarkozy Plan to Honor Communist Resistance Hero Creates a Stir
Namibia tribe offered apology for 1904 German massacre
Herbert Aptheker: His daughter's partner confirms molestation charge
Heroic Lafayette: French Founding Father at NY Historical Society (Exhibit)
National Intelligence Budget to be Revealed
World War II mass graves open a wound in Slovenia
Medical Fascism and Marital Freedom
"LET'S BE POOR TOGETHER," YEAH, YEAH, YEAH/update
Don't Believe "Peace Is at Hand" by Ken Hughes
Genocide Deniers by Scott Jaschik
How Historians Can Help Frame the Next Social Security Debate by Larry DeWitt
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis by Jonathan Cohn
The Beginning of the End of the Facade of Russian Democracy by Andreas Umland
The Willed Amnesia of the Residents of Eastern Galicia by Omer Bartov
Vietnam and Iraq: The Benefits of Getting Out by Hal Brands
Week of October 15, 2007
More Skepticism on Anthropogenic Global Warming
Magistrate urges courts to force White House to preserve messages
New documentary about Jimmy Carter
A Court Decision in NY Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights
Calling Historians of South Asia and Other Interested Parties
The Myth of Rudy Giuliani's "Social Liberalism"
GOOD NEWS: ISRAELI SURGEONS CIRCUMCIZE TO PREVENT AIDS
DOES THE UNIVERSE HAVE A PURPOSE?
BENAZIR BHUTTO DESERVES TO DIE
Peru's Fujimori to be tried for murder
NYT Raves About ... King-Size Stories, Woven for the Ages (NY/Exhibit)
Neanderthals Had Important Speech Gene, DNA Evidence Shows
Armenian Issue Presents a Dilemma for U.S. Jews
Mark Moyar: Complains he was discriminated against for his political views
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: His journals reviewed in NY Review of Books
Repair or replace Tomb of the Unknowns
Under parking lot a Williamsburg surprise
Tom Engelhardt: Do We Already Have Our Pentagon Papers?
Mary E. Stuckey: The “L” Word in American Electoral Politics
Chuck Hansen: Researcher's records on history of nukes published
Resolution to honor the WW II interrogators (they didn't use torture)
25 Secrets of Mona Lisa Revealed
Ruth Rosen: The man who predicted Iraq is now writing about the agenda to make war with Iran
Arvarh Strickland: Missouri U. honors its first black professor, a historian
GOOD NEWS FROM THE IRAQI FRONT
Keith Wailoo: Historian Elected To US Institute Of Medicine
Paul V. Dutton: Historian compares health care
Donald Tusk: Historian vies for victory in Polish election
Michalis Firillas: Turkey needs to show courage in facing its history
Japan's history divide comes home in textbook row
Vatican to beatify Austrian conscientious objector
Artifacts linked to Hitler recovered in US storage unit
Robert Weir: Teaching history through the prism of the Grateful Dead
Restoration of Germany's famed Anna Amalia library complete, 3 years after devastating fire
Japan Wrings Its Hands Over Sumo's Latest Woes
Story of early Florida black settlement emerging
Aswan Obelisk Quarry more than meets the eye
Afghan city takes action to save ancient minarets
George J. Sanchez: Says the history profession is in crisis owing to dearth of minorities
Art Gomez: National Park Service: Rising sun or setting sun?
National Park Service is preparing for its 100th anniversary
The Problem with Stopped Clocks
A New Spring to Our Step: "Libertarians Rising" and A Question for the Paul Skeptics
FIRST ISRAEL & COLOMBIA; NOW SRI LANKA &PAKISTAN
John Hope Franklin: Freedom Award winner speaks out
Annual Arizona Culturekeeper Award created
David Edgerton: Says elites need to understand science better
Soli Ozel: Politicians, Stay Out of Our History
Cheney and Obama are cousins, but how close?
Nobel researcher slammed for racist comments
Revolutionary War battle flags to be displayed in Williamsburg
Deneuve's father accused of collaborating with Nazis
Poll finds quarter of Germans believe there were some positive aspects to Nazi rule
Eating of shellfish linked to survival of early man
Dive Team Discovers 1800s-Era Steamboat At Bottom Of Lake
Notorious Dr Crippen wrongly hanged, scientists say (UK)
Madison's Trash Heap Yields Stuff of History
Talks honor key Boston role in black history
CHRISTIANS IN THE MUSLIM MIDDLE EAST
EUROPE, ISRAEL (JEWS) AND ISLAM
House Speaker Now Unsure if Armenian Genocide Motion Will Reach a Vote
Joseph Massad: The Columbia Professor Who Also Doesn't Think Gay People Exist in the Middle East
Salon posts reviews of the--Get this--16 books published by 2007's presidential candidates
Raúl Zibechi: Fujmori's Trial ... An Opportunity for Peru
Mark Danner: Bush's Faith Run Over by History
Lawrence S. Wittner: Protest against the reliable replacement warhead
James Taranto: Wannabe Historians (Re: Armenian Resolution)
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: Books For The Beijing Bound
A history of the American snapshot
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: His journals reviewed by Sid Blumenthal
Brian Flanagan: Review of Daniel Farber's Lincoln's Constitution
Dizzy Gillespie: Happy Birthday
Samantha Power: Turkey needs to get honest about the Armenian holocaust
Ready or Not, France Opens Museum on Immigration
New Dreyfus Affair exhibit (NY)
2 ex-congressmen lead lobbying for Turkey against Armenian resolution
Steven Aftergood: When faced with a bad order by Grant, Lincoln rescinded it (Re: Jews)
Nick Coleman: The man who helped Minnesota face up to its Indian past
Dick Morris: Al Gore could beat Hillary and win the White House
Dr. Earl Tilford: Leave Iraq ... We Can't
Rhodes Cook: Changing the way we elect presidents would have altered the outcome many times
Judy Crichton: Producer of American Experience, Dies at 77
Juan Cole: Oil peak or peak oil?
John J. Pitney, Jr.: Electoral College Reform ... Lessons From California
Copyright and the Digital Historian
A new book tries to make sense of the gripping, grating psychodrama that is the Clintons' marriage.
Face masks put on Chinese Warrior sculptures to protest pollution
Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote
A Rich and Royal Ruin in the Heart of Hanoi
KC Johnson: Responds to criticism about his Duke Lacrosse book
Green Resort Is Planned in Libya to Preserve Ruins and Coastal Waters
David J. Garrow: You know whom Justice Clarence Thomas really chastises in his new book? Himself.
Philip Mead: Walking the Freedom Trail with Iraq War Vets
Tim Roberts: Comparing American and Turkish history
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: How Betsy Ross Became Famous
Ownership fight erupts over Maya ruins
Barbara Weinstein & Waskar Ari: The risks to academic freedom in a 9-11 world
Gabriel Kolko: Bush & Cheney are out of control (Interview)
Gary Leupp: David Horowitz's misguided campaign against so-called "Islamo-Fascism"
Charles W. Hayford: Don't toy with China
Barbara Schieb: German historian speaks about Holocaust rescuers
History Teacher: Cleveland School Shooter Upset About Failing His Class
Mark Lewis: The history of the future
Australian teachers say 10,000 more will be needed to implement new history requirements
AHA to reopen discussion of changes tio the constitution
Spanish Police Seize Treasure Ship
Historic green reopens with Washington, Lafayette statues
Former Ukrainian partisans meet with protests as they hold first official celebration
Polish-American group fights for stamp honoring WWII hero Matt Urban
Irish role in Spanish war marked
NC Officials plan to raise presumed Blackbeard cannon
Chicago's buried treasures and the pigeons who lived among them
History of Religion in 90 Seconds (Gfx.)
Eric Alterman: Ann Coulter lowers public debate (again and again and again)
Don Feder: America is a Christian nation
Daniel Pipes: Giuliani's Fresh Start
Richard Cohen: Turkey cannot write the history of what happened in 1915 by itself
Steven Malanga: The Rise of the Religious Left
Guenter Lewy: Revisiting the Armenian Genocide
Many historians aren't welcoming Turkey's call for a debate about the Armenian holocaust
More thoughts on Laissez-Faire Books
Naomi Klein: Free-Market Ally?
The Politically Incorrect James Watson
Allan Lichtman: And the Republican Presidential Nominee is … General Petraeus?
Robert McHenry: Norway Decides the U.S. Presidency?
Jonathan Zimmerman: The Cleveland Indians' mascot must go
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: His friendship with Justice Jackson explored by Jackson biographer
Amateur historian pens book about links between Mormons and the White House
History and horticulture: Cloned trees from presidential estates form unique tribute
Kenneth Jackson: NYC's history explains its immigrant tradition, historian says
Australian paper says Howard's history plan doesn't add up
Stephen Scheinberg: Jews Face the Armenian Genocide
Saul Friedlander: Nazism historian wins Frankfurt Book Fair's top award
NYT critic derides Smithsonian's African-American history website
Mises As Radical: Retrospective on Rothbard's Thesis
WHY ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATIONS NOW?
Lloyd Billingsley: Review of David Halberstam's: The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Drew Gilpin Faust: Inaugural address as president of Harvard
Liberals at the American Studies convention say they need to get more involved in public debates
Martin Marty: Atlas Shrugged at Fifty
Citation Patterns in the Journal of American History
Maurice Isserman: The march on the Pentagon, 40 years later
Archbishop opens medieval church (UK)
Soldier's war medal, up for sale on Internet, goes 'home'
Mechanical cranes moving Acropolis sculptures
World War II Bunkers Turn Into Wildlife Haven
Book: Missing Nazi was killed by Jewish death squad in 1982
Oscar Wilde voted greatest British wit
Judi McLeod: Muslims discovered America
Lincoln Slept (and Wrote) Here: A Hideaway Restored
Letters reveal Rupert Brooke's doomed love
Idith Zerta: Co-authors book on Israeli settlements
Nancy Marie Brown: Uses history and archaeology to shed light on a character from Icelandic sagas
Stacy Schiff: Founding Chauvinist Pig?
Montclair (NJ): It's Hidden History (Re: Freed Slave)
The Wonders of Nationalized Health Care
Police Chief Calls for the Legalization of All Drugs
A Law Enforcement Officer Speaks
Does the Presidential Candidate with the Most Money Usually Become the Party Nominee? by Rick Shenkman
In Memory of Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007) by Bonnie Goodman
The Armenian Resolution: Pure Grandstanding by Timothy R. Furnish
The Most Important Moment in American History by Thomas Fleming
Weimar America? by Eric D. Weitz
Why GM's New Health Care Deal Just Might Work by John E. Murray
Why It's Facile to Say the Way to Stop Discrimination Is to Stop Discriminating by Frederick A. O. Schwarz and Aziz Z. Huq
Week of October 8, 2007
WaPo Editorial: Presidential Papers belong to history
Daniel Pipes: The myth of the Knights Templar
Roger Pulvers: Why elections in Japan are so different from the US variety
Gift Creates Allard K. Lowenstein Memorial Civil Rights Scholarship
Antiquaries in Britain 1707–2007 (Exhibit/Royal Academy of Art UK)
Several historians have rallied to the defense of Norman Finkelstein
Jim Castagnera: Bush, Gore and Oil
Gil Troy: Why Al Gore Shouldn't Think of Running for President Even Now
Frederick Kagan: Spend whatever it takes on the war on terror
Greece hoists Parthenon sculptures to new home
Michael Barone suggests a debate where both Dems and Repubs are included
SUHA HUGGING HILLARY HAS NOT CHANGED HER STRIPES
Author reports on the war in the Clinton White House between Al Gore and Hillary
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Journal excerpts published by Vanity Fair
Robert Dallek: As Camelot Began ... The Unseen Portraits of the Kennedys by Richard Avedon
Vanity Fair features never before seen pics of the Kennedys
LEE KUAN YEW ON THE JEWISH LOBBY
WHY DEMOCRACY? BLOODY CARTOONS
NYT calls new Elizabeth movie kitschy
On the Trail of Brooklyn's Underground Railroad
Drew Gilpin Faust: Installed as president of Harvard
Levittown: Hard to find one of those original boxes now
Eyewitness Report: Jefferson County Republican Party Straw Poll
Rachel Kaprielian and Alan Dershowitz: The painful truth about the Armenian Genocide
House of Representatives: Committee Debate About the Armenian Resolution
Hugo Schwyzer: His column denouncing educrats is itself denounced
Roy Rosenzweig: Digital Historian, dies at 57 (WaPo)
Andrew Ferguson: Alan Shrugged ... And Washington fell to its knees
Weekly Standard Scrapbook: Dodd's Father ... The Real Story
Hatem Bazian: "No Pictures Taken & None Allowed at the Hatem Bazian Lecture"
Newsweek Erratum: Posts wrong photos of historians
Jacques Barzun: Online celebration of his 100th birthday
For first time the Nile to be subjected to archeological excavation
Timothy Garton Ash: 'A Clear European Voice is Missing in the World' (Interview)
Robert O. Collins: Libraries are refusing to pulp his book despite please from Cambridge press
Nick Turse: The Pentagon Plans for a New Hundred Years' War
Researchers display shipwreck artifacts (Florida)
Scott Horton: "We Do Not Torture"
Lot's Museum to open (yes, that Lot)
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: Getting Real About China
Sam Tanenhaus: Accused of indulging conservatives
Aspen community TV station refuses to run film denying the Holocaust
Drew Gilpin Faust: A Historian Making History
Jeremi Suri: Smithsonian names historian a top "innovator"
Miguel de Leon Portilla: Historian Defends Indigenous Legacy
Damien Murphy: Attempting to decide what our past is (Australia)
Brooks Boliek: Ken Burns's 'War' docu blurs lines of history, today's news
Robert Fisk: A reign of terror (Armenian Genocide)
Roy Rosenzweig: Succumbs to lung cancer
Assistant Professor in Antebellum U.S. History -- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Garrett Epps: Let's abolish the Electoral College
David Irving: Invited to Oxford Union to debate Freedom of Speech
Andrew Ross: Says professors should move beyond criticism of the "corporate university"
Huffington Post: An All-Star Panel of Pundits Weighs in on America's Most Comical Presidents
Spain to remove all symbols of Franco
Revealed: Nazi scheme to kidnap 'Aryan' children from occupied countries
Historic WWII photos of Saipan unearthed
Remains of doomed WWII aircrew found
2.7m pounds plan for Glyndwr heritage (UK)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Movie Review)
Hashemi Rafsanjani: Hitler Wanted to Rid World of Jews Because 'They Were a Pain in the Neck'
Australian Leader Proposes "New Reconciliation" With Aborigines
Inside the Turkish Psyche: Traumatic Issues Trouble a Nation's Sense of Its Identity
Vatican publishes Templar trial papers
Proposed Change in AHA Constitution Would Hamper Activists
SARKOZY HAPPENS TO MERKEL - AHMADINEJAD BENEFITS
Faust to be formally inaugurated as first woman to lead Harvard
Turkey recalls envoy over genocide charge
Australian PM's 'white' history under fire
Orwell and (Ron Paul) on "Fascism"
Waiting for Change in Academia
Dmitry Shlapentokh: The Russian remodeling of Genghis Khan
Ernst Breisach: Symposium and dinner to honor longtime WMU historian
Eric Alterman: Burns's War ... What Is It Good For?
Chalmers Johnson: His end-of-days gloom
Australian PM rewrites history curriculum
Daniel Pipes: Zionism's Bleak Present
Michael Medved: Six inconvenient truths about the U.S. and slavery
Elizabeth Blasius: Should a historic church be turned into condos to "save" it?
Jeffrey Rosen: Justice John Paul Stevens, profiled in the NYT Magazine
Robert J. Samuelson: Lessons From the 1987 Crash
What the most powerful women of the past can teach us
World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria
U.K.’s Lessing wins Nobel Prize in literature
Woody Holton: Wins National Book Award
John Swails: Historian sues Oral Roberts over firing
Jimmy Carter the Book Tour (Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture)
Walter Kempowski: German Author and Diarist, Dies at 78
For Soviet-Era Architecture, a White Russian Knight Emerges
Deborah Lipstadt: Says congress needs to protect writers from libel suits filed in foreign countries
For class of S.F. high school juniors, WWII details are elusive
State paying $737,000 to repair Confederate White House
Haitians in U.S. Revolution get monument
Remnants of major naval defeat found (Penobscot Expedition of 1779)
Excavation reveals ancient tomb of young lovers
Ancient murals found near Euphrates
Catapults Invented Before Theory Explained Them
Archaeologists in Portugal net haul of Roman coins
Ancient Roman graveyard found in suburban Copenhagen
Max Boot: Another reason not to trust Wikipedia
Max Boot: The debate over Armenian genocide
Turkey Angry Over House Armenian Genocide Vote
This Morning: Halderman Radio Interview on the War on Drugs and Foreign Policy
Stephen Kinzer: “Blowback” and Responsibility: What the US Owes Iran
Lee Harris: Review of Barry Rubin's The Truth about Syria
Barry Rubin: Why Real Democracies Succeed
Historians find Jewish life perserved in Soviet Union's 'last Jewish city'
Reider Visser: The US Senate Votes to Partition Iraq. Softly.
Oliver Kamm: Famine? What famine?
Roger Pulvers: Japan's Democracy--Different from the US, but Still a Democracy
Rory Stewart: Gertrude Bell ... The Queen of the Quagmire
NYT: The Justice Looks Back and Settles Old Scores
House Panel Approves Resolution Recognizing WWI-Era Armenian Killings as 'Genocide'
Samuel Kassow: Discusses Jewish History
Heikki Ylikangas: Challenges Finnish national mythology
University buys Phyllis Wheatley first edition
Mitt Romney a Compassionate Guy
Daniel Pipes: Reform Islam historian says
Global Warming Linked to Worst Mass Extinctions in Earth History
Barbican's new exhibition which traces the history of sex in art (UK)
History of political cartoons published
How Jean-Luc Godard made history when French intellectuals ruled the world
Henry Mark Holzer: Clarence Thomas ... An American Hero
Harvey Green: Finds wood, and woodworking, viscerally relevant to his discipline
Priest guilty in 'Dirty War' trial
National Book Award Nominations
Liberty and Repression in Italy
May We All Agree This Is Theft?
Nixon on Tape: Thompson 'Dumb as Hell'
FBI recover priceless map stolen from Spain's National Library
Lower Elwha settle lawsuits over graving yard and Tse-whit-zen village
Social Issues in American Film 1900-1934 (DVD)
Gallery Vandals Destroy Photos
Eric Hobsbawm: Says soccer explains the world of global capitalism
4 young historians singled out by Smithsonian Magazine
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Who Made Hillary Queen?
Bernard Lewis: Prescient? Not. (Re: Iraq)
Law professor accused of plagiarism
Jim Castagnera: Local Body Snatchers Are Part of a Long Tradition
Saul Friedlander: Interviewed about the Holocaust by Spiegel
Marcus Rediker: Historian uncovers satirical petition against slave trade
E.J. Hobsbawm: History and nationalism
New Republic says Jesse James movie is best of the year so far
Eric Alterman: Why Bush vetoed the bill helping children get health care
John Yoo: Clarence Thomas's fidelity to the Constitution often leads to results liberals like
In a Tumultuous Era, Hillary Clinton Emerged as a Voice of Her Generation
Turkey warns U.S. not to pass Armenian genocide bill
Pioneering 17th century British scientist's notes now online
40 years after Che's death, his image is a battleground
New book reveals secret letters of Hitler to German citizens
Divers Explore America's Oldest Shipwreck in Alaska
U.S. Foresaw Radiological Weapon to Kill Leaders in Cold War
Joyce Appleby: David Brooks is wrong about the origins of conservativism
Is the United States a Christian Country?
Lee & Grant: The Opera (Review/NYT)
Biography of "Peanuts" Creator Stirs Family
Deborah Lipstadt: On using [and preferably not] the term "Jappy"
Germany's film industry making a comeback
Howard Zinn: Caught in mistake by Campus Watch
A Flawed Critique of Ron Paul's Foreign Policy From Doug Mataconis
British university forced to return 'looted' Iraq treasure
John Aravosis: How did the T get in LGBT?
Jacques Barzun: Celebrated on approach of his 100th birthday
Eric Rauchway: The poor history of state universities
Haleh Esfandiari and Robert S. Litwak: 'Soft' Power in Iran Is Counterproductive
Hugo Schwyzer: The Educrats’ Attack on Teaching
New Furor Over Race and Cartoons at Kentucky University
Study: Liberals dominate academic faculties in humanities
Jonathan Zimmerman: Says liberal professors have become alienated from the public
Frankenstein's monster and his evolution over two centuries into a cultural icon
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Journals reviewed by Douglas Brinkley
GOOD NEWS: LIBERAL - LEFTIST CLEAVAGE REAPEARS
‘Sex and the Silver Screen’ traces history of racy films
Patriots are searching for the worst 'traitor' in Quebec history
Dan Hurley: How to do oral history
NYT Editorial: Queasy feeling over WBAI's decision not to broadcast Ginsburg poem
Upstate town seeks recognition for Revolutionary War hero (NY)
Berlin's Nazi-era church for sale
Pre-Islamic Relic Under Threat in Iran
Francois Furet: What troubles democratic capitalism today
Jonathan Spence: Writes biography of 17th century Chinese historian
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Journals reviewed in the NYT by Maureen Dowd
Seeking Columbus's Origins, With a Swab
The Writings of F. William Engdahl
Is There an Echo of the Old McCarthy Era Blacklists? by David Everitt
Should the IAEA Stay Out of Politics? Can It? by Gabrielle Hecht
The Kids These Days: A Bright Future for Economic Literacy? by Bryan Caplan
The Scary Consequences of Our Mindless Indifference to the History of the Constitution by Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes
Week of October 1, 2007
Craig Venter is making history
David Kaiser: William Kristol on Iraq, 2003-7
Getting Negative About Positive Economics
Tony Judt: Liberal Hawks should get off their high horse
Mario Cuomo: How Congress Forgot Its Own Strength
Okinawans Protest Japan's Plan to Revise Bitter Chapter of World War II
Do Justice Powell's notes prove he backed shield for journalists?
Ah, the heartache of the presidential adviser
Edmund Wilson: A Shaper of the Canon Gets His Place in It
Jon Meacham: A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation
Living in Exile Isn't What It Used to Be
Your blogosphere needs you ...
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sputnik [audio 51min]
Iraq War may lead to disappearance of descendants of Gnostics
A Priest Methodically Reveals Ukrainian Jews' Fate
Thom Sokoloski’s artwork reminds us of the victims of smallpox
Fort Hunt's Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII
BBC celebrates raising of 'Mary Rose' from seabed 25 years ago [audio last 20min]
Lawrence Rees recounts horrors of WWII [audio 1st 14min]
Alison Weir publishes Katherine Swynford biography [audio 8min]
America's newest monument (African-Americans honored in NYC)
Archbishop Attacks Neocons Over Threat to Bomb Iran
KC Johnson: An HBO movie in his future
CNN columnist identifies 7 presidents "nobody remembers"
"For the Bible Tells Me So"--Bible lesson in gay rights (Documentary)
"For the Bible Tells Me So"--Bible lesson in gay rights (Documentary)
Atlanta to commemorate King's assassination anniversary with art
From Now On, It's Just Plain Daimler
Eric Alterman: The Coming 'Stab in the Back' Campaign
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: A Schmoozer Shares All
What is there about Queen Elizabeth (the first one) that fascinates Hollywood so muc
Rick Atkinson: The campaign to free Italy foreshadowed battles to come, from Berlin to Fallujah
John Hope Franklin: The American Idea
Atlantic Monthly celebrates 150 years
Bruce Cumings: South Korea comes to terms with history
Allan Lichtman: The 13 Keys to the White House ... Why the Democrats will take back the White House
William J. Astore: Why Medals and Metrics Mislead ... Saving the Military from Itself
Over Century After Civil War, New Secession Movement
No street to be named after Saul Bellow in Chicago
The Historic Significance of Atlas Shrugged
Michael Burke: My brother died in 9-11 ... his memory is ill-served by the planned memorial
Director breaks French taboo with film tackling Algerian war
James Wood: Japan could have won
Foreign Policy Cover: "Legalize It"
J. Frederick Fausz: Historian to receive 2007 Governor's Humanities Award in Community Heritage
Historian donates Millard Fillmore collection
Filmmaker-Historian Susan Stryker to discuss her documentary about incident 3 years before Stonewall
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Was mum about his journals for years
It's only rock'n'roll, not a history lesson, says Mick Jagger
Indians in Kansas town want Columbus Day name changed
Bodies of Czech heroes who killed Nazi found
Vatican paper set to clear Knights Templar
U.S. Army enlists anthropology in war zones
Chilean Court Orders Arrests of Pinochet's Kin and Close Allies
Plymouth? Jamestown? Where was America born? Jury decides (or not)
Ancient world treasure unearthed in Italy
Why did print reportters end their stories with -30- ?
Did White House Lie about Loss of 5 Million E-mails?
Claim: It was Mary Shelley's husband who wrote Frankenstein
Limbaugh website featured image of Stalin with Media Matters logo on his chest
Daniel Pipes: Campus Watch defends itself from charge it is denying free speech
Ron Paul Interviewed by Wolf Blitzer
Arizona personalized plates covertly promote Hitler
Portland, Oregon: Historians say the story of the city's infamous Shanghai tunnels likely is a myth
Ward Churchill: Fired professor back at Colorado
OPPOSING THE WAR AND SUPPORTING THE TROOPS
Dmitry Shlapentokh: Remaking History in a Kiev Museum
Tom Engelhardt: We Count, They Don't
Gregory McNamee: We're still banning books?
Paul Kengor: Reagan is not to blame for the Taliban
WSJ Editorial: Reviving an LBJ golden oldie
M. Cooper Harriss: Race, Myth, and Ritual in Jena
Gregory McNamee: Sputnik ... A Somber Anniversary
Greenspan lets the cat out of the bag
President Clinton Complains Of Delays in Opening His Records
US troops in Iraq to be inspired to protect historic sites
Problems, Questions, and Discussions
David Brooks uses reaction to Kerouac through the years to take the pulse of US society
Diane Ravitch: Get Congress Out of the Classroom
Appeals Court Extends Time for Suit on Holocaust Insurance Payments
Vintage Lighthouse Heads for Solid Ground (Mass.)
Ken Burns: Series inspires kids to collect local oral histories
Mumbai teacher uses comic books to make history come alive
David Watkins: Wins award for teaching African-Canadian history
David Irving: British leaders critical of his comeback
Allen Guelzo discusses Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
Gorman Beauchamp: The impulse to apologize for past crimes of history has gotten out of hand
Marixa Lasso: Case Western Reserve University professor stuck in Panama gets visa
Owners of BMW say Nazi forced-labour charges 'not new'
Arab advertiser uses Hitler image to gain attention
Spanish King Juan Carlos defends monarchy
'George Mallory conquered Everest decades before Sir Edmund Hillary'
Tenn. 5th Grade History Lesson Uses N-word as Crossword Puzzle Answer
Rousing the Ghosts Of Appalachia
Advertisement for American Studies Position 2007
Obama says he'd reverse policy of secrecy
Robert O. Collins: NYT profiles his fight with Saudi billionaire
George Mason University Receives $7.5 Million to Create a National History Education Clearinghouse
On the Shoulder's of Burma's Monks, the Fate of the War on Terror Might Well Lie
PALESTINIANS DESTROYING JEWISH ARTIFACTS UNDER TEMPLE MOUNT
American Faces/ Iranian Audiences
WINDS OF CHANGE - FROM BURMA TO VIETNAM
Sen. Lieberman Tells Colleagues to Stop Blocking Presidential Records Bill
Rick Perlstein: The best wars of their lives
Ken Burns: His approach says critic in NYT is too generic--It tells us about war, but not WW II
International effort in Cambodia to protect heritage sites
Nazi deputy's jail term caused conflict
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820
John T. Kuehn: Abolish the office of Secretary of Defense
Daniel Pipes: To Preempt Terrorists, or Not to Preempt Terrorists?
Anita Hill disputes Thomas's story, saying it's a rehash of untruths
Nameless Are Memorialized at Old African Burial Site (NYC)
Documentary commemorates the service of Puerto Ricans in the Korean War
U.S. SUPPORTS ISRAEL BECAUSE OF AMERICANS, NOT LOBBY
Second Annual Gay History Project To Publish In More than 30 Papers
Memorial unveiled for Falklands
UK town wins right to keep coal tip in name of history
War memories after city twinning (UK & Germany)
A new wave of support for Anne Frank's ailing tree
Court Reverses Bush on Archive Secrecy
WSJ Editorial: Congress should not pass a resolution condemning Turkey for the deaths of Armenians
Jonathan Zimmerman: The murder of five Amish schoolgirls taught us no one is safe
Former NJ Gov. McGreevey archives don't quite stack up
New revelations in attack on American spy ship (USS Liberty)
Thomas Laqueur: The Allure of the Whip
Baltimore area man seeks a home for black history
James Carroll: History and the drumbeat of war
Kurt Campbell and Vikram Singh: History lessons from Eisenhower and Nixon on quitting a war
Niall Ferguson: The hedge fund historian
2 local historians in northern NJ won't talk to each other
Walt Crowley: Editorial remembers his contribution to Seattle
Incas fattened up their children before sacrifice on the volcano
Smuggling fuels worldwide trade in Chinese antiquities
Rising tides threaten archaeological sites
First hard evidence of two-way travel in ancient times between Hawaii and Tahiti
GAO: Smithsonian Facilities in Decline
Grambling State University Investigates Pictures of Noose Lesson
Suspected Nazi War Criminal Found In Metro Atlanta
Report: Ex-Nazi spies of dubious benefit for U.S.
In Vermont, man establishes museum for black World War II effort
Hitler planned to halt invasion of UK at Northampton
Indian Jews Outraged Over 'The Nazi Collection' Line of Bedspreads
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: NYT raves about his journals
Yuki Tanaka: The roots of Oda Makoto's antiwar activism were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Barry Rubin: In Search of Ahmadinejad
Gordon Franz: Tabloid Archaeology
Sky didn't fall when Nazi records were declassified
Marcus Rediker: Explains how captains recruited sailors on slave ships where conditions were awful
Senior Pentagon Official: "I Hate All Iranians"
Dylan: The Making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville.
Secrets of 1957 Sputnik launch revealed
Neanderthals reached China's doorstep
Gabriele Marranci: The Invisible Suffering of Burma
Declassifying the "Fact of" Satellite Reconnaissance
Michael Ledeen: The Iranian threat
Peter D. Zimmerman: We were lucky the Soviets beat us into space
Alexandra M. Lord: Historian says it's time historians start handling artifacts
Marty Kaplan: Mr. Justice Whoop-dee-damn-doo
At Reborn Plaza Hotel, a Party to Mark 100 Years
World History Association Podcasts
Protests mark Turkish-Armenian editor's murder trial
Germany's FBI examines its Nazi roots
MUST READ: AL QAEDA ON THE ROPES
Divorce Statistics and Changes in Marriage
The Vagaries of Electoral Systems
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by David Weaver-Zercher
An Anniversary to Celebrate If You Oppose War by Lawrence S. Wittner
Discrediting the Politicization of History by Keith Windschuttle
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide, Except for Me and the Mahdi: Ahmadinezhad Escapes from New York by Timothy R. Furnish
Ike's Wise Restrained Response to Sputnik by Yanek Mieczkowski
Is America a Christian Nation? What Both Left and Right Get Wrong by John Fea
It's Time for an Independent Investigation of America's Intelligence Strategy: The Church Committee Shows How. by Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., and Aziz Huq
Should We Even Be Using Mercenaries in Iraq? by Paul Finkelman
The First Mother Who Fought the Military to Find Out How Her Son Died by Robin R. Cutler
Week of September 24, 2007
Norman Cohen: Featured in special remembrance by the Independent
Michael Beschloss: Regales audience with American tidbits
Nina Rowe: Fordham Art Historian Studies Medieval Depictions
Jim Castagnera: If Santa Claus doesn't own the North Pole, who does? Who should?
Nadia Abu El-Haj: Reservations about her approach to history
100,000 in Japan protest proposed textbook changes
Iraqi sacred site to be rebuilt
John Tamny: Didn't the Rich Help Make America Great, Too?
Jerry Bowyer & Glen Meakem: FDR was a market meddler
Sidney Blumenthal: Dan Rather stands by his story
Phillip Bebb: Ohio U professor slain by his own son
TOM FRIEDMAN WAVES THE WHITE FLAG
David Halberstam: His talent and generosity
African Americans find their roots in Brazil
General Lee's Civil War-era letters fetch $61,000 at auction
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: NYT publishes a chapter from her new book
A small Christian college in Idaho, but it's not political
Van Gogh’s Art, in His Own Words (Exhibit/NYC)
Between Free Speech and a Hard Place
McCain says Constitution established US as a Christian country
Rick Atkinson: Compares WW II & Iraq
In New Book, Justice Thomas Weighs In on Former Accuser
For the Brits and Anglophiles Who Read This Blog
Ken Burns: Interviewed by Jon Stewart on Comedy Central (video)
Andrew J. Bacevich: General Petraeus wins a battle in Washington—if not in Baghdad
Research team says extraterrestrial impact to blame for Ice Age extinctions
Florida: State may buy burial ground
Archaeological find rewrites Tasmania's history
Iran: Seimareh Dam reservoir conceals archaeological goldmine
China: Scientists find evidence of mass rice cultivation 7,700 years ago
Levittown: Pioneer Baby Boom Community Turns 60
Civil War bands play blue and gray
Joseph V. Noble: Expert in Antiquities, Dies at 87
A Painting Comes Home (or at Least a Facsimile)
10,000 East Germans Spied for the West
Alabama City Reopening Fallout Shelters
Douglas Brinkley: Gives back advance for Kerouac book
Time to Start Talking About Legalization
Scorsese documentrary about Beatle George Harrison
NYT feature on the house that inspired Hawthorne's House of the 7 Gables
"Gerda Taro" and "This Is War! Robert Capa at Work" (Exhibit/NYC)
Andrew J. Weaver: Why SMU shouldn't host the Bush library
Stasi Documents: Piecing history together
Smithsonian TV Channel Make Its Debut
Historians organizing to stop Princeton Battlefield development
Statue to honor Tom Paine--Only 4th in US
Historians dubious about charge that British used germ warfare against American colonists
Charles Rappleye: Wins prize for best book about Revolutionary Era
Activist warns congress is stalling on bill to repeal Bush order on presidential records
Artie Traum's Halifax commemorates the expulsion of Acadians from Canada
Niall Ferguson: Hired as consultant by hedge fund
Kristin E. Stapleton: Historian focuses on modern China
Garry Wills: Historian Speaks on Gettysburg
Paul S. Boyer: Famed historian lectures on Revelation, Apocalypse
Guided Civil War battlefield tours offer more
Cornélio Caley: Angolan experts should rewrite history
Edward Larson: Fascinating account of dirty politics among our Founding Fathers
Remains may be Romanov children
Donegal men believed to have been the first High Kings of Ireland
Michael Charney: The history behind the protests in Burma
National Museum of African American History and Culture opens ... virtually
Angola: Premier Exhorts Scholars to Review Country's Pre-Colonial History
Gorbachev Warns of History Whitewash
Jason K. Phillips: Historian Loves a Good (Civil War) Rumor
Alan M. Dershowitz: Ahmadinejad's Holocaust Myths
John Dean Finds Ron Paul "not quite as frightening."
Frederick Kagan: Why We're Winning Now in Iraq
UK BOYCOTT OF ISRAELI ACADEMICS RULED ILLEGAL
Peggy Noonan: Americans should not fear talking--and listening--to those whose views we loathe
Roger Owen: Iraq is doomed to warlord rivalry in the near term
Reider Visser: The US Senate Votes to Partition Iraq. Softly.
Watch Out Whom You Invite to Speak ...
New Test Asks: What Does "American" Mean?
Saddam Hussein 'wanted $1bn exile deal'
Juan Cole: The Transcript that Reveals Impeachable Offenses by President Bush
Archaeologists Probe Secret Tunnels in California
Ben Macintyre: Elephants ... the way to beat looters of Iraqi treasures
Jordan allocates $1.5m to rebuild Temple Mount
Victor Davis Hanson: The University Madhouse
Jonathan Zimmerman: Hateful speech isn't hateful action
Juan Cole: Transcript Reveals Impeachable Offenses by Bush
New Euro Design Shortchanges Turkey
Paul Ortiz: The Jena Six and US History
STOP DUBAI FROM GAINING INFLUENCE OVER NASDAQ
MacArthur "genius" recipient--a psychiatrist--uses Homer to help treat U.S. veterans
Greek officials criticized for revoking textbook
Russia hands over copy of secret Wallenberg archives to chief rabbi
Arrests after Indian Mutiny graves smashed
New website features images of every significant historic place in UK
Castle unveils medieval tapestry (UK)
Haiti's 'Baby Doc' seeks forgiveness
Archaeological project is finding Indiana's past
Polish atomic physicists study Egyptian frescoes
Mines to be cleaned up in the ruins of Karkam?s (Turkey)
Susan Faludi: Cowboy myths shaped our response to 9-11 (interview)
GOP members to protest Democratic event named after racist governor
In a 9-11 Survival Tale, the Pieces Just Don't Fit
The Little Rock Friendship: The fairy tale story that had a bad ending
Navy to Modify Barracks Complex That Resembles a Swastika From Air
Educrats, assessment, and farming: a polemic
Walid Phares: How the Iranian media reported Ahmedinijad's visit to Columbia
Italy and Getty Sign Pact on Artifacts
Banished (Documentary about Jim Crow)
Heirs Make Huge Claim Over Dutch Works of Art
Richard Lyman Bushman: Explains the challenge a Mormon faces in writing about Mormon history
Ken Hughes: Slate plays off his HNN article and Miller Center transcripts about Nixon's antisemitism
Dilip Hiro: Greenspan's Oil Claim in Context
Daniel Pipes: Islamic Economics: What Does It Mean?
Gregory Starrett: What Bollinger should have said
Richard Thompson Ford: Why the Jena 6 protests have gone awry
Dick and J. Edgar Diss Kay Graham
AHMADINEJAD AT THE UN? - THE LEAST OF ITS PROBLEMS
WWII meant opportunity for many women, oppression for others
Juan Cole: Ignites a controversy with attack on Israel's foreign minister
P. David Hornik: Notes on an Outrage (Ahmadinejad at Columbia)
Zotero given high marks by Inside Higher Ed
Eyal Zisser: Bashar Al-Assad – Calling for Peace, Preparing for War
ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY THEORY COMES TO CHINA
Greenspan lets the cat out of the bag
John Klier: Professor of Modern Jewish History, dies
Possible Mastodon Carving Found on Rock in Lake Michigan
The end of the conference committee?
EMAIL OF THE DAY: INDIAN JUDICIAL CORRUPTION
History Professors as Children of the Elite
Sally Field to play Lincoln's wife
John Hope Franklin: Weekly Standard takes notice (again)
NYT devotes section to Sputnik 50th anniversary
Columbia Still Reeling Over Visit
As Ex-President Faces Trial, a Reckoning for Peru
Jane Jacobs, Foe of Plans and Friend of City Life (Exhibit/NYC)
Penny to celebrate Lincoln's 200th, but how?
John Coatsworth: Gets the Drudge treatment
Neighbor in retirement home was SS guard
Smithsonian Channel To Make Its Debut, But Only on DirecTV
Michael Currie Schaffer: Wait a Minute, Crocker: Iraq Today is America from 1776-1965?
Vicente Navarro: How the U.S. Schemed Against Spain's Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy
Steven Lagerfeld: Today we lionize the wealthy
Fred Kaplan: Bush Isn't Truman and the next president won't be Ike
David Halberstam: Slate says he succumbs to the great man theory of history in his book about Korea
World War II enemies confer after 65 years
Ellen Landau: Art historian takes sides in Pollock paintings dispute
Steven Lee Carson: Depression Might Have Derailed Lincoln's Recovery, Historian Says
N.C. exhibit showcases 400 years of state history, art
Gideon Rachman: The wrong lessons from Munich
Robert Sutton: WSU grad to become park service chief historian
Postage stamp to honor LAT Latino reporter
Giant swastika cut into corn field in NJ
'Rewrite British history to reflect other cultures'
CASTING CALL-HOST For “Experiential History” TV Show
Alan Dowd: Ahmadinejad's Propaganda Coup
video games, culture, and addiction
Alan Taylor: A fresh look at the founding fathers
HEZBOLLAH LOST THE LEBANESE WAR
Shelby Steele: The Legacy of Little Rock
Bret Stephens: Exactly what would it have accomplished to "engage in a debate" with Hitler?
INDIAN LEFT TORN BETWEEN POWER AND IDEOLOGY
They're religious, but these historians say they've never felt the sting of discrimination
Jay Rubenstein: Wins MacArthur "genius" grant
Marixa Lasso: Another historian blocked from the US
Humberto Fontova: The History Channel Shills For Che Guevara
Juan Cole: Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1
United Methodist Opponents of Bush Institute Vow to Continue Fight
Salon gives Ken Burns's series a big thumbs up
HUMANE SOCIETY DEMANDS AMNESTY FOR IRANIAN DOGS
Bring battle painting 'into view'
Scotland trying to educate students about Holocaust--at last
Letters show Picasso was no collaborator
The predecessor of the McMansion (17th c. Maryland)
Report: Herod's Temple quarry found
New discovery in Tutankhamun's tomb
"Baldo" Strip Includes What "The War" Series Mostly Omits
The remarkable death of Dixie America
BBC reveals Britain's most unusual epitaphs
Magna Carta Is Going on the Auction Block
New Scholarship on the 2nd Amendment
Still searching for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Iran's president questions Holocaust
Fouad Ajami: Claims that he's shifted position on Iraq
Mark Lilla: Urges the West to remember the religious fanaticism in its past
Joel Mowbray: French court explores if infamous murder of Palestinian boy was staged
Iraq to celebrate addition of Samarra to World Heritage List
Invite even Hitler to campus? Columbia official says yes.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Geoffrey C. Ward: The Making of The War (Interview)
Rafael Medoff: Visit Iran? It’s Been Tried Before--with Nazi Germany
Should Columbia Have Invited Ahmadinejad to Speak?
Lee C. Bollinger: On President Ahmadinejad
M. Shahid Alam: Violence is endemic to Zionism
Gina-Marie Cheeseman: How the Military-Industrial Complex Continues to Exploit America’s Poor
Frederick Kagan: Touts successes of the surge
Frederick Kagan: Obama's "New Plan" ... for failure
Deborah Lipstadt: Inviting Ahmadinejad to Columbia University was a mistake
Columbia invitation to Ahmadinejad may cost it state funds
Paul Krugman: Why Jena's no surprise
Roger Cohen: What those pictures of guards at Auschwitz tell us
Dodd's Other Campaign: Fixing Dad's Reputation
Adame Ba Konare: Wife of head of African Union challenges Sarkozy for saying Africa has no history
Politics dogs the MLK memorial in DC
Sarkozy challenged on view of African history
AHMADINEJAD PROVES THE POWER OF THE JEWISH LOBBY/update
Hindu patriots protest Britons on Raj mutiny trail
Jon Wiener: Chemerinsky and Irvine ... What Happened?
Steve Coll: Petraeus is not Bush's lackey, but ...
If Grant Had Been Singing at Appomattox
A Chip Off Old Big Brother's Block
Ken Burns: New Yorker pans WW II series as dull
Is Our Problem Disaccumulation? Dis-a-what? Read on. by James Livingston
Nixon vs. the Imaginary “Jewish Cabal” by Kenneth J. Hughes, Jr.
The Long Road From Little Rock: 50 Years Later by Jason Sokol
Was Dick Cheney's Self-Serving Claim to be Part of Congress Really Laughable? by Edward J. Larson
What Would William Appleman Williams Say Now? by Thomas McCormick
Week of September 17, 2007
Adam Hart-Davis: Tells the history of the world in 600 pages
Guy Rocha: Historian and self-described activist
The Day Louis Armstrong Made Noise
Falling German Birthrate Dispels Baby Miracle Myth
John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt: NYT publishes first chapter of their book
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: His Journals are being published
Rising Seas Likely to Flood U.S. History
Little Rock School Integration Anniversary
You've Seen a Few Hours of Ken Burns's WW II Series: What Do You Think?
Attorney general nominee knows his history
A Clear Day and a Gridlocked War
Is This the Right Way to Counter a "Bad" Book?
"The Majority Are Not Bad People"
Honor Flights bring WWII vets to memorial
Fort Monroe eyed to house artifacts of Museum of Confederacy
Gail Collins: The Women Behind the Men in the Civil Rights Movement
Latino WWII Veterans Needed Another Kind of Courage at Home
Tara activists take campaign to US
Jennifer Burns' Godless Capitalism: Ayn Rand and the Conservative Movement
Walt Crowley: Seattle city historian dies at 60
What ever happened to the filibuster?
Gerda Taro: A Wartime Photographer in Her Own Light (Robert Capa's partner) (Exhibit/NYC)
State of the military historioblogosphere, September 2007
Free Market Hall of Fame Survey
Study Says Bones Found in Far East Are of a Distinct Species
In 9/11 Chaos, Giuliani Forged a Lasting Image
Lasting effects of the Slave Trade
Columnist bemoans state of history on British television ... The golden age is over!
The KGB's long war against Rudolf Nureyev
Early Efforts to Market Shakespeare Were Hardly Classic (Exhibit/Wash.DC)
Library of Congress denies "fraud" charges in oral histories collected by Vets project
Amy Kaleita and Gregory R. Forbes: Environmental Alarmism in Context
NYT review of Ken Burns's WW II series says it's parochial
Czechs get chance to view rare medieval manuscript
Venezuelan children to be taught new history lessons shaped by Marx
History rewritten on Cherokee demise
Replace Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
William Fitzhugh: History Vacations (Re: Teachers who get TAH grants)
Peggy Noonan: Now Greenspan tells us!
La. Protests Hark Back to '50s, '60s
The politics of guidebooks (Re: China)
Pols to try to seize Dracula's castle
Polish bishops to conclude collaboration probe by November
Workers in Nazi Era Ghettos to Be Paid
Former President of Mexico Recalls Underestimating Bush
Sidney Blumenthal: Bush has gone from ignoring history to hoping it will save him
Peter Balakian and Deborah Lipstadt: Turkey Must Acknowledge its Past
Detective Work Leads Smithsonian Team to Give Unearthed Body a Name
Conference Board Review: Atlas at 50
Saul Cornell: The Antifederalists ... The Other Founders of the American Constitutional Tradition?
Day of Remembering James Baldwin and Scholars Who Carry On His Legacy
Tim Harford: Ending the black market in stolen antiquities
Germans and Egyptians in tug of war over Nefertiti
Should there be a time-limit on acquittals?
Ira Chernus: Glued to Our Seats in the Theater of War
Tom Engelhardt: The American Audience in the Theater of War
Kirk Bane: Review of Miles Marshall Lewis's There's a Riot Goin' On (Continuum, 2006)
Eric Rauchway: Chemerinsky, Summers, and Academic Freedom
Ken Burns's history of WW II occasionally nostalgic, but usually insightful
A Light on Slaves' Lives at Mount Vernon
Wine labels with Hitler's image seized in Italy
Oldest Identifiable Footprints Found (non-human)
Car park dig for medieval castle (UK)
London Mayor wants to see Gandhi statue
Effort to protect the view from the Edward Hopper house
Barry Rubin: Mythmakers about the Middle East
Andrew O'Hehir: Long before Mitt Romney and "Big Love," Mormons were demonized
Iran keeps Picassos in basement
Jonathan Zimmerman: Academic freedom is for all
Robert Gates: The future of democracy
David Brooks: The Education of Robert Gates
Scott Solomon: Do We Need the Original Lucy Fossil?
Daniel Pipes: 5 years of Campus Watch
Rafael Medoff: Columbia “Invites Hitler to Campus” --As it Did in 1933
In Olympics Success, Romney Found New Edge
Copy of Book of Mormon Is Auctioned for $105,000
Belgian historian testifies for the defense in Rwanda trial
Former Australian treasurer claims Greenspan's a bad historian
Traces found of the first hominids to leave Africa
Buried underneath old UK fort lies trash and 18th century history
Found? Ship that carried escaped slaves and was sunk by slavers
60 Years Old Today, Air Force Is Nation's "Sword and Shield" Gates Says
SYRIA CONTINUES TO MURDER LEBANESE OPPONENTS WITH IMPUNITY
Medical Marijuana Yet Another Use
Lasting Effects of the Slave Trade
Chris Heard: Religion professor complains when a Christian documentary maker distorts his interview
Niall Ferguson: The risk of President Giuliani
Is Congress Hopeless on the War? Maybe Not
"JANE'S" REPORTS: CHEMICAL ACCIDENT KILLED SYRIANS
Andrew Meyer: What happened to the Iraq Tet Offensive?
Jim Sleeper: Time For a Review of the Times Book Review?
Dick Cheney: Alan Greenspan discounts our fiscal success story
Douglas Kmiec: What Judge Mukasey -- and Congress -- can learn from previous occupants of the post
Raymond Ibrahim: The Two Faces of Al Qaeda
Blackwater, the Surge, and Imperialism
Plan Approved to Retire Yugoslav Internet Domain
Hong Kong rediscovers Sun Yat-sen
Khmer Rouge ideologue arrested for abuses, 3 decades later
Remains from Cambodia may be those of US soldier
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: What "Special Relationship"?
Royal London Hospital marks 250th birthday
WWII veterans reunited with bomber (UK)
Deborah Lipstadt: Iranian TV shows acccurate series on the Holocaust ... Go figure.
Iran Holocaust TV Show Sympathetic to Jews
Languages Die, but Not Their Last Words
In the Shadow of Horror, SS Guardians Frolic
Gerard Baker: A quick history lesson ... America is no Rome
Dick Scott: Honored with $43,000 (US) award by New Zealand prime minister
Dave Barry: Historian for a new millennium
David Oliver: Museum director heading to Afghanistan in troop deployment
NYT to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
The Rape of Europa--now a movie
What's the Beatles backlash all about?
Hispanic Heritage Week: It took awhile
First memorial to black victims of Nazi genocide
Libya Honors National Hero, Calls For Italian Compensation
Montenegro unearths WWII troops
Cartographer: Hitler's globe is missing
British film crew arrested in Nuremberg for shooting scene with actor in SS uniform
Bronze Age building uncovered near Gaza
College students struggle on history test
Ken Burns: Latinos plan protests of "The War"
Jack Rakove: Historian Tells How to "Live with Founders"
Bernard Weiner: Looking to the 2008 Election ... Confusion, Anger, Hope
Museum to revive images of Chicago Seven
Nadia Abu El-Haj: Colleague disputes her claims
Smithsonian Returns Sitting Bull Relics
From Staten Island Haven, Liberians Reveal War's Scars
Lost in a Million-Year Gap, Solid Clues to Human Origins
Lew Rockwell: None Dare Call It Genocide
A Plea for Freedom of Movement for All
DISCOVERING THE AMERICAN CENTER
50 years ago, the Dodgers left Ebbets Field for Los Angeles. Isn’t it time their ghosts left, too?
Thelma Mothershed Wair speaks out about the Litte Rock 9
BANGLADESH DETAINS CARTOONIST/update
Timothy R. Furnish: On whitewashing radical Islam
Gabor Steingart: With a Congress like this, America could never have fixed Germany
Waskar T. Ari Chachaki: Bolivian historian talks about his long fight to gain admitance to US
Donald Lazere: ‘The Closing of the American Mind,’ 20 Years Later
Victor Davis Hanson: The world again turns on Jews, making them scapegoats
Tourism alarms Russian Orthodox Christian monks in Solovetsky Islands
S.J. Redman: Yale Chooses to Return Peruvian Artifacts (Everybody Likes a Happy Ending)
Toots Shor: A Pal to Stars, Mobsters and Other Crumb Bums (Documentary)
Greenspan says history has never seen low inflation like the last few years
Bush & Clinton both worry about their legacies
Ken Burns: Subtext of WW II series, says Newsweek, is the Iraq War
Shakira : Pop queen pursuing history lessons
Ken Burns: $10 million spent to promote his WW II series
Joyce's Ulysses cinema gets a reel good makeover
Saatchi & Saatchi: The agency that made Tory history
History Channel crew filming outside the Old State House for "Save Our History" series
Sifting the Dustbin of Literary History
'Titanic' rescue ship yields up its treasures
Team in U-boat recovery dive (UK)
Medals given to World War II veterans
Girl takes grenade to school, kids flee (France)
Indictment filed against Israeli neo-Nazi cell
Israelis trade in Nazi memorabilia
Study: Teens blank on Constitution Day
Stamps show history of Army battledress
Eric Alterman: Hillary rolls along
Republicans Salute President Johnson as They Put His Name on Education Dept.
Robert Fisk: It is the death of history (re: Iraq's historic places)
Humberto Fontova: Fidel Castro: Reagan's Savior?
Norman Finkelstein: Claims that he was fired for his scholarly views are derided by conservative
Michael Barone: Don't look for either party to have a brokered convention next year
Mark Edmundson: Why he decided to write about Freud
The CIA's Last Man in Vietnam Looks at the Endgame in Iraq
Campus Watch fights accusations it tries to blacklist scholars
The Real Scandal Behind the Chemerinsky Affair
A Question of Possible Interest
Alabama Plan Brings Out Cry of Resegregation
Argentine Church Faces "Dirty War" Past
Paul Krugman: Sad Alan Greenspan's lament over the Bush tax cuts
Would you like to sponsor a terrorist for $1000 and get a free cunieform tablet? (While stocks last)
I Love Reading Economists When They Write Like Journalists by James Livingston
What is Wrong with Quotas? Equality, Democracy, Bias, and Balance in American Society by Jules R. Benjamin
When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right by Joyce Appleby
When's a Palace an Emblem of Democratic Aspirations? by Ron Briley
Why Iranians Are Still Railing Against Britain--And Why that Matters by Christopher N. B. Ross
“What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-O?” An Appreciation of John Sack’s M, Forty Years On by Kirk Bane
Week of September 10, 2007
Rachel Donadio: 20 years after Harold Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind
Tony Judt: Notes the downside to multicultural studies
Breakthrough as DNA identifies WW1 soldier
Tree blows over and ancient cave-life discovered (Canada)
Like Egyptians, Ancient Scots Mummified Their Dead
Sydney Settlers' history rewritten: go back 30,000 years
Bronze age settlement found at US Embassy site
Now it's China that's going after relics in foreign hands
Reider Visser: US Policy in Iraq at a Crossroads
A Holocaust Mystery Finds Some Answers
Greenspan memoir links Iraq war to US thirst for oil
Brad Pitt plays Jesse James in Andrew Dominik’s new movie
Why did Britney flub her lines? One reason ...
Unveiling Health Care 2.0, Again
Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt: Jane Fonda's role in global warming
McCain calls for Removing MoveOn.org Protestors from the U.S.
Brutal, Unprofessional Fox Attack Interview of Ron Paul by John Gibson
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: Vilified by colleagues
Explorer who found lost Peru cities dies
Yale to return Machu Picchu artifacts
John Crook: Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge University (Obit.)
Armenian archeologists have discovered the second pagan temple
Again: Rain uncovers Viking treasure trove
At last: Arctic ice melt opens Northwest Passage (at last?)
Ancient records help test climate change
German Cardinal calls some art "degenerate," raising eyebrows
Kiron K. Skinner, Serhiy Kudelia, Condoleezza Rice: Politics Starts at the Water’s Edge
Cruise Movie Gets OK to Film at Key Site
Known for Famous Photos, Not All of Them His
Need Cash? Just Auction Off a Meteorite
James L. Kugel: Exploring Irreconcilable Differences in Bible's Interpretations
Ayn Rand's Literature of Capitalism
Fed's Ex-Chief Attacks Bush on Fiscal Role
Donald Kagan: Dems protest his selection as 9/11 speaker at Yale
Viking ship in pub car-park (UK)
Kevin Gover: Named new head of Smithsonian American Indian Museum
Charlie Savage: Reaganites are criticial of Bush's policy on signing statements
Paul Johnson: He has a new big book out--on Art
James Belich: Acclaimed New Zealand historian to join new faculty
Hitler's Buried Bombs Threaten Cleanup of London Olympics Site
Holocaust Survivors Reunite With Vet
Historic court where Dickens sat reopens -- for a day
'Lost' Noel Coward play uncovered
Britain's prehistoric recipes uncovered
Providing Comfort on 9/11, With an Eloquence Entirely Borrowed
Frederick Kagan: Interviewed about Petraeus's testimony
Frederick Kagan: Webb's dangerous amendment on troop deployments
In Germany the Old West is an obsession--thanks to Karl May
Secrets of the ancient masterchefs: How to roast a hedgehog (& other ancient recipes)
Jeffrey Rosen reviews Until Proven Innocent for the New York Times
No Dictatorship as Long as This Can Occur
Switzerland's oldest building will never be seen by tourists
Life-size Glyndwr statue unveiled
X-rays to be used to reveal secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls
More geography, history may be taught in Japan's schools
Yitzhak Arad: Lithuania wants to grill top Israeli historian over war crimes
Havana Historian Receives UN-Habitat Award
Exhibition on archaeological heritage in the Red Zone of Baghdad
Victor Davis Hanson: Decries the decline of military history classes
Haleh Esfandiari: Her incarceration highlights the dilemmas facing researchers
Gabriel Kolko: Cold War revisionist says US will lose the Iraq War no matter what it does
Iain Boal: Says "we are living in a Malthusian world"
Juan Cole: Can Gen. Petraeus and Ryan Crocker Save the Next Democratic President?
Ian Buruma: Norman Podhoretz's Toughness Problem—and Ours
Norman Davies: As an outsider he reshapes our understanding of Europe
Cuba says it saved Reagan's life
Ryan Lizza: What Hillary makes of the Clinton legacy
Deal to Bar Large Dairies Near Town Blacks Built
Steven Hahn: Rebels Robert E. Lee and Toussaint Louverture
Andrew Jakabovics: FDR Solves the Mortgage Crisis
Jonathan Chait: How economic crackpots devoured American politics
Tom Engelhardt: The Petraeus Moment
Herbert London: Accepting The Lies Of Post-Zionist Revisionists
Voyagers 1 and 2: the 30th anniversary
Nadia Abu El-Haj: Whatever her opinions her methods are not shoddy, as alleged, says scholar
China's terracotta army invades Britain
The North American Union, In Historical Perspective
You Buy a Pump Because You Expect a Flood
Data From the Climate Criminals at NASA
David A. Nichols: Ike Liked Civil Rights
Frederick Kagan: He's everywhere defending the surge
Norman Solomon: Here’s the Smell of the Blood Still
Raymond Whitaker: Biko - the forgotten martyr
Norman Solomon: Six Years of 9/11 as a License to Kill
Tim Weiner: His CIA book has been overpraised says scholar
Germans fight to save hidden Nazi bunkers
A new theory of ancient cities
Jay Winik: Putin's Inspiration Is Much Older Than the Cold War
Traces of 2,400-year-old Greek wreck off southern Albania
Holocaust Survivor Will Recall Treblinka Escape
'Catholic Church isn't hiding apocalypse secret'
David Forsmark: Review of Andrew Ferguson's Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
Norman Podhoretz: World War IV (Interview)
40 years later, Tearoom Trade book still relevant
Michigan Resumes Distribution of Anti-Israel Book
Attack on giant Pakistan Buddha
Ron Paul Up to 5 percent in New Hampshire Poll
Simon Schama: His book about slaves turned into a play
Stacy Perman: A growing number of young German Muslims lash out against Holocaust studies
David Petraeus: His warning about counterterrorism comes back to haunt him
"The End of H-Net?" asks a historian
Over 100 tunnels were dug by POW's at infamous Stalag Luft III
Women in the Middle Ages were more liberated than usually thought
Barbara Weinstein: AHA president says the age of the Schlesinger-style historian is over
Documentary Lets Dalton Trumbo Speak (Through Surrogates)
Krzysztof Ruchniewicz: The memory of World War II in Poland
Daniel Pipes: America's Crash Course On Islam
The Legacy of Luciano Pavarotti
Australian teachers: We're 'shut out' of school history debate
Defying history and stereotype, the South's schools rise
Munching through New York's immigrant history
Anthony Giacchino: Rookie filmmaker revisits forgotten chapter in anti-war history
Tony Taylor: Changes are needed if history is to live up to the billing of a core subject
Interesting Poll of Iraqi Opinion
Alastair Sweeny: Historian wants 'romantic' Cartier replaced with 'stocky' sea captain
Duane Zemper: PBS to feature Michigan historian's World War II photography
Ed Cashin, noted Augusta historian, dies
Robert Fisk: An urge to smash history into tiny pieces
Neagu Djuvara: 91 year old historian says nomads from the east played a key role in Romanian history
Lost for 90 years, diggers identified by DNA
Elderly Ukrainians Testify on Holocaust
Lincoln's Bloodstained Clothes Packed Up for Storage During Ford's Theatre Renovation
Auction of Rare George Washington Relic
Frederick Kagan: Blasts plans of "triangulators" who want to withdraw some troops but not all
Robert Draper: Interviewed about his biography of Bush
Bret Stephens: How does Germany's Red Army Faction differ from radical Islam?
Producer of conservative 9-11 ABC docudrama says the network won't release DVD
Norman Podhoretz: Six years after 9/11 it's notable how little the politics of the left have changed
French National Archives moving substantial collections to suburbs
U. of Michigan Press halts distribution of book that says Israel was a mistake
Sept. 11 Photo Brings Out the Conspiracy Theorists
The ageless tale a potsherd from Bhirrana
Bill O'Reilly: We Don't Need No Stinkin' History Lesson
Burton Hersh: His new book on RFK & Hoover gets scathing NYT review
Knopf rejection slips went out to many accomplished historians, among others
Building in Dayton where Nazi military codes were broken to be demolished
Cuesta Benberry: 83, Historian of Quilting, Dies
Artifacts escape library flooding (Scotland)
Haleh Esfandiari: Discipline Aided Scholar in Iran Prison
UN Votes On Indigenous Peoples Declaration
Many scientists unhappy about Lucy tour
Jews' Roman "escape route" found
WTC Remembrance, Annual Series
Haleh Esfandiari: On NBC News she says she may never return to Iran
Former US ambassador to Panama blames Justice Department for failure to stop Noriega
And for My Second Act, I’ll Make Some Money
Maps now have to be redrawn to take account of shifting topography
Nadia Abu El-Haj: NYT Notes Fracas Erupts Over Book on Mideast by a Barnard Professor Seeking Tenure
Mummy of girl sacrificed by Incans prompts gasps at museum
Confederate battle flag losing its place in VA capitol
Shouldn't the statue of Captain Newport show his hook?
Viking queen exhumed to solve mystery
1991 Controversy over Algerian Nuclear Reactor Led Washington to Seek Chinese Assistance
William G. Palmer: History departments went thru a dramatic phase of modernization
Confucius' family tree being compiled
Australian teachers 'shut out' of school history debate
Canada to return Australia's oldest printed English document
Viking queen exhumed to solve mystery
Jews fled Romans through recently discovered tunnel
Economists versus Smoot Hawley
2007: The HIV/AIDS Crisis by Seth Abrahams
Is Fear Going to Work for Bush Again? by Ira Chernus
Islamic Unity: Bin Ladin’s Version v. Khameini’s by Timothy R. Furnish
It Is the Partition of Iraq that Would Be Truly "Artificial" by Reidar Visser
Let's Do Something Constitutional on Constitution Day by Joyce Appleby
Reflections on 9-11 by Gil Troy
The Saudi Billionaire vs. Cambridge University Press by Robert O. Collins
Was Grant a Drunk? by Edward G. Longacre
Week of September 3, 2007
Petraeus testimony compared to Westmoreland's 1967 address to Congress
Don't know much about history but they love history museums
History’s Real Stuff (Sorry, Miss Grundy)
A Streetwise Veteran Schooled a Young Obama
Are Young American Jews Turning Their Backs on Israel?
Juan Cole: Accused of indirectly apologizing for Muslim beheadings
Sonia Ryang: The 1923 Tokyo Earthquake and the Massacre of Koreans
At the Home of F.D.R.'s Secret Friend
Captivating Cliopatria in Utne Reader
Why Don’t the Terrorists Attack Us More?
Mike Milhouse Huckabee's "Peace With Honor" Snake-Oil
Book says Souter almost left court
Archaeologists find remains of sky-disc people in Germany
"The Unknown Soldier": Disturbing the Guilty Archives of the Wehrmacht (Documentary)
Anonymous Hold Placed on Senate Presidential Records Bill
Tom Engelhardt: Empire of Stupidity
Ruth Rosen: What Ever Happened to Freedom of Information?
Jonathan Zimmerman: Purging Larry Craig
Juan Cole: So who really dissolved the Iraqi army? We know.
Roger Owen: Review of Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
Stuart Taylor & KC Johnson: Guilty in the Duke Case
Should Corporations Have Rights?
C-SPAN Libraries series opens door to presidential history
Stuart Butler: Cited by David Brooks in NYT column on health care
My Lai movie to be reminder of war atrocities: Oliver Stone
Film 'solves Rembrandt masterpiece mysteries'
Doubts Raised About Davy Crockett Letter
Susan Faludi: America’s Guardian Myths
Michael Currie Schaffer: The Difference Between Democratic and Republican Sex Scandals
Eric Rauchway: Why John Edwards is the man to lead us out of the mortgage crisis
Bettina Aptheker: Target of an attack by David Horowitz
Daniel Pipes: "CAIR's Dirty Tricks against Me"
Fred Siegel: Stalled at Ground Zero
For Thompson, goal is to don the Reagan mantle
John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt: MESA protests cancellation of their talk
Charlie Savage: Has presidential power reached its zenith under Bush? Don’t bet on it.
Eamon Duffy: His genius at recovering worlds we have lost
Preparing the Ground for the Bombing of Iran?
David Greenberg: Reagan in 100 Pages
World War II-era bombs litter Germany
Swiss party wants to revive Nazi policy
Confederate Museum Could be Headed to Appomattox
Andrew Cockburn: What happened in Halabja
Clinging to Memories of a Ghost Who Haunts Chile (Movie Review/Salvador Allende)
On Display, the Agonized Objects and Photos of 9/11 (Exhibit/N-Y Historical Society)
Death Sentence Upheld for Hussein Henchman, Chemical Ali
Strands of GW's hair put up for auction on eBay
Philip Terzian: Bush understands Graham Greene better than his critics
Matthew Continetti: Liberals Complain ... Hands Off My Analogy
Frederick Kagan: What the Jones Report really says
2 CIA Officers: Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Mackubin Thomas Owens: U.S. military doctrine in Iraq is returning to some tried and true ideas
Abigail Thernstrom: A stunning new book shows how elite culture made the Duke rape hoax possible
Davy Crockett's last letter in Texas' hands
Documentary lifts curtain on pocket books called Stalags that featured Nazi pornography for Israelis
Archaeologists find remains of sky-disc people in Germany - Science
More on the Paul vs. Huckabee Slug-Fest
Pro-War GOP Top Tier Continues to Split, A Good Night for Ron Paul
The Princess and Her Pea-Sized Legacy
Gary Leupp: Filipino Revolutionary, Cleared of EU “Terrorist” Charge, Arrested in Holland
Editorial: Sports stars should study history of their own sports
Howard Zinn: Book turned into theater event
Court Permits CIA to Withhold Historic President's Daily Briefs
Archive Sues to Recover 5 Million Missing White House E-mails
Norman Finkelstein: Resigns at DePaul U., After Deal Forestalls Threats to Defy University
NYT Oops: Famous JFK photo credited to wrong photographer
R.W. Johnson: South Africa is going through an orgy of name-changing
Todd Gitlin: The New Liberal Agenda
Richard D. Kahlenberg: A surprise that his book on Albert Shanker was published by Columbia U Press
Academic freedom and Middle East Tensions Flare Again in U.S.
Visits to Beijing cultural relics restricted during Olympics
Franco family in legal row over dictator's castle
Owner's bid to save crumbling remains of King John's Palace
Ross Fitzgerald: Dispute after academic paid $900,000to write history of Queensland
Mary Kegley: Historian questions Wilderness Road brochure
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Beehives in Israel
Reunion of Germans who fought the Nazis
Hezekiah Inscription to return to Israel
Film Takes Us Back 38 Years, to That First Walk (on the Moon)
Daniel Pipes: Teach Arabic or Recruit Extremists?
Voyager probes celebrate 30 years
In Turmoil of '68, Clinton Found a New Voice
Alfred W. McCoy: A scholar asserts that key figures in the discipline had ties to torture
Lou Collins: Halifax historian Collins dead at 85
Italy, a Land of Earthquakes, Works to Protect the Priceless
Intellectuals and the "War on Terror"
KC Johnson: Guest on ABC's morning show to discuss
Peter Brears: One of Britain's leading food historians
South Korean leader presses Japan to get history right
A.C. Grayling: Philosopher writes history book questioning WW II bombing of civilians
Ken Burns: Profiled in the LAT
Bristol's black history preserved
John O'Sullivan: The history of empire can reunite the nation
Walid Phares: His new book explores the rise of the academic jihad
Frederick Kagan: Al Qaeda In Iraq
John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt: Their book as controversial as their original article on Israel
Kimberly Kagan: The tide is turning in Iraq
Grad student who purchased war medals in Russia spared prison time
It's not just historians accused of plagiarism: The University president on the hot seat
Contra Bruce Ramsey on Secession
Syrian youths killed 6,000 years ago
Cost of saving stones 'ludicrous' (UK)
Randy Roberts: 9-11 now history
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Helping revolutionize women's history
Megan Marshall: The Women's History Boom
Da Vinci's Ad Lib Painting Style Revealed
Scientists study European pig history
Edwin C. Bearss: Nationally recognized historian visits Plattsburgh
Edwin C. Bearss: Historian knows forest and trees of Civil War
'Big Brother' was watching George Orwell
Florence Nightingale: Just a publicity-seeker?
Diary brings WW1 horror back to life
Juan Cole: How safe is al-Anbar?
The Armenian massacre that inspired Hitler: New photos
Liberty, Power, and the Duke Lacrosse Hoax
No, It's the Dog that Wags the Tail
Bremer told Bush in advance he was disbanding Iraq's army
Beefeater woman Tower of London first
Iranian-U.S. Scholar Esfandiari Leaves Iran
Transformed By Her Bond With Bush
Book Tells Of Dissent In Bush's Inner Circle
Mississippi segregated pool reopened ... at last
Dan Gardner: The next big war museum controversy (Canada)
New Zealand pizza chain scraps Hitler ads
Modern shrine to Nazis found in Hitler's Berchtesgaden mountain lair
British scientists tested mustard gas on Indian soldiers: Report
Ruins of Oradour sur Glane a stark reminder of wartime France
Last of Mitford sisters talks about Hitler & other subjects
Archaeologists digging up dirt (literally) on John Paul Jones
Where are the stonemasons when you need one? (UK)
Harvey J. Kaye: Democrats should recall what made Roosevelt truly great.
100th anniversary of papal encyclical against modernism
Aaron Belkin: A Sting He Didn't Deserve (Re: Larry Craig)
What This Country Needs is Another Doctoral Program in History
Does Psychology Explain Why Some Voters Continue to Back Bush? by Robert Brent Toplin
How Race Relations Touched Me During a Long Lifetime by Vaughn Davis Bornet
The 600 Year Tradition Behind Same-Sex Unions by Allan Tulchin
The Hard Years at the Harvard History Department by Morton Keller and Phyllis Keller
The Manhattan Project: A Great Work of Human Collaboration by Richard Rhodes
Was the Marshall Plan as Good an Example of Bipartisanship as People Say? by Greg Behrman
What Does Weird Weather Really Tell Us? by Philip Ranlet
Week of August 27, 2007
Seth Randal & Alan Virta: Idaho’s Original Same-Sex Scandal
Singing the Lament of a Fugitive Slave
As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough?
In Book, Bush Peeks Ahead to His Legacy
Keeping pharaohs out of the fire since the 1880s
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA By Tim Weiner
KEPEL: NO MUSLIM ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE
Straw Poll Dirty Tricks in Texas?
South Korean art historian with fake credentials spurs national scandal
Asterix 'not historically accurate' claims archaeologist
As Her Star Wanes, Rice Tries to Reshape Legacy
Ronald Radosh: Satisfied Pete Seeger has denounced Stalin, but it wasn't the first time
Ronald Radosh: Seeger Speaks — and Sings — Against Stalin
Two Marble Sculptures to Return to Sicily
Jeffrey Lord: Nixon's warning ... no more Vietnams
25th anniversary of the first computer virus--and it was a prank
GW's slaves? Mount Vernon confronts the issue now
Stanley I. Kutler: Civics for Cheney
Rosie the Riveters Get to Ride in Plane They Built 65 Years Ago
Cemetery for US "Flying Tigers" found in China
What History Tells Us about "The Verdict of History"
Alexander Burns: Larry Craig’s Antecedents
Victor Davis Hanson: Interviewed about military history
US Confederate Flag in Pakistan
The secretary who saved the BBC's sound archives
Randall Hansen: Historian decries change to war museum exhibit
Columnist compares "self-loathing" Jewish historian to Larry Craig, but doesn't name him
Doug Brinkley: Interviewed about Katrina
Prague: Institute reveals posters salvaged by mystery collector in 1968
Tom Cruise: 'I Bear a Great Responsibility to Stauffenberg'
Man honored for saving JFK 64 years later
Documents: FBI Spied On Coretta Scott King
Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice "Quarantine" Island
Coin find hints at visit to Australia before 1597
Joe Conason: Is everybody gay? The GOP's crowded closet.
New Republic Editorial: Donors to presidential libraries should be disclosed
Virginia governor 'pardons' slave who led 'Gabriel's Rebellion'
Researchers rewrite origins of the urban sprawl
Possible Civil War vessel found in Miss. river
Decades After War Trials, Japan Still Honors a Dissenting Judge
A Polarizing Bush Despite a New Cast
A New Stage for Arthur Miller’s Most Private Drama of Fathers and Sons
Nothing Down, $0 a Month, Hammer Required
After 10 Years, Fascination With Diana Hardly Fades
Aaron William Moore: Soldiers’ Diaries in the Asia Pacific War
Gary Leupp: Sen. Larry Craig in the Toilet
Robert D. Kaplan: Why vets and soldiers see things differently than civilians
Robert K. Sutton: Appointed to fill long-vacant post as Chief Historian, National Park Service
Contested Civil War Letters Released For Auction
Petraeus's dissertation on Vietnam posted online
Jean-Yves Mollier: Says Online Libraries Serve the Wealthy
Kids can be taught civic engagement, study finds
Ethics in Alabama, Anarchy in Baltimore
A cure for baldness: apply chicken dung
Education committee staff back plan to include history in No Child Left Behind
Long Dead, a Revered Small-Town Priest Is Disgraced
Iran trying to use birthday of Imam Mahdi to rally support
Secret papers reveal post-war UK campaign to loot German military and commercial assets
Pathologist: Doctor killed Beethoven
China's Great Wall Eroded by Sandstorms
Iceman Died From Head Trauma, Not Arrow
Two votes could cost me a hundred grand.
Hurricane unearthed 18th-century cannons in Mexico
Architect Chosen for Bush Presidential Library
The LockeSmith Institute - new blog
Former Security Guard Jewell Dies
Key that could have saved the Titanic
Jamie Glazov: Interviews Robert Spencer about Islam and Jihad
Mark D. Tooley: The Killing Fields of Honest History (Cambodia)
David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey: There Is Only One Executive
Peniel E. Joseph: Interviewed about Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual"
Robert Collins: At center of censorship storm over book on terrorism
Robert Collins: A busy, controversial summer, for emeritus historian
Israeli anger over holy site work
Juan Cole: The war against Iraq's prime minister
Jonathan Zimmerman: Why is it a more serious crime to kill a dog than hit a woman?
Juan Cole: Tells audience Bernard Lewis thinks "Middle Easterners are like play-doh"
Stanley I. Kutler: Trashing history ... Bush and Vietnam
John Lutz: Works on solving old crimes to interest students in history
McClatchy News: Bush Will Rank at Bottom in Presidential History
Spain arrests right-wing publisher wanted in Austria for Holocaust denial
A Dazzling Triumph for Agricultural Intervention
Poland may demand $20 billion for Nazi destruction of art treasures
Spoils of War: How T-Force Abducted Germany's Best Brains for Britain
Cliopatria Welcomes Rachel Leow
David Michael Green: What's Bush's dad really think?
Brian Concannon Jr.: Whitewashing the History of Abolition
Philip Jenkins: PBS and historical objectivity
It will cost you more to use the copying machine at National Archives
As Counsel, Fred Thompson Walked Capital's Fine Line
Tourist in Russia Stumbles Into a Legal Predicament
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: Taken to task by David Remnick in the New Yorker
Juan Cole: Churchill on When to Throw in the Towel on Iraq
Tim Weston: The media's response to China's coal mine disaster--and ours
EyeontheUN.org: Notorious UN Committee Lies about its “Zionism is Racism" Origins
PBS affiliate's website now features historical videos
James Bowman: It's a question of honor (Bush, Vietnam analogy)
Edward J. Renehan: Larry Craig and Sumner Welles
David Brooks: Bring back the wise men
David Halberstam: Friends to go on book tour in his stead
Digital History Hacks: Some Varieties of Time Machine Worth Having
History Detectives: Is This Letter From Lincoln the Real Thing?
Brooklyn man wants home preserved for history
Wolde Tinsae Prescod: Barbados ... Why is African history not taught here?
Houston's history: Look closely or you'll miss it
Policing history: Philadelphia may license tour guides
Kiril Tomov: Gara Garayev is not Armenian composer, Russian historian confesses
Raul Hilberg: The Holocaust scholar who was hard on the Jews
Richard Evans: David Irving's nemesis publishes book based on trial
Joseph A. Palermo: History Through a Bush
Robert Bruner and Sean Carr: Their history of 1907 crash perfectly timed
Jarod Roll: 2006 Best Ph.D. Dissertation Prize in labor history
Richard Pells: Leaving art out of history is a mistake
Yet more historians comment on Bush's Vietnam analogy
Robert Buzzanco: Bush is wrong on history
Andrew Bacevich: Vietnam's real lessons
David Starkey: Makes history with art treasures
For family of crew on submarine lost in WWII, some closure
KC Johnson: His book on the Duke lacrosse case getting lots of buzz
Agents provocateurs ... there's a long history
Arch Puddington: Albert Shanker stood for good old-fashioned liberal ideals
Decades-long restoration of Vatican Raphael frescoes almost completed
Peggy Samuels: Biographer and Art Historian, Dies at 84
Troubles murder probe funding row
Contradictory histories plague Vietnam
First World War tunnels to yield their secrets
JOHN PILGER – PREDICTABLY WRONG ON LATIN AMERICA
German federal state wins battle to get Hitler book banned
Charges filed for suggesting a Nobel prize go to Hess
Drought reveals sunken Confederate ship
Demjanjuk's deportation case hits 30-year mark
New book claims Merlin had Scottish roots
TV news anchor cries for family Nazi deaths (UK)
Hillel Halkin: Moral of the Armenian Genocide
Policing history: Philadelphia may license tour guides
French president's speech on Africa at center of controversy
King Tut exhibit prompts debate on his skin color
At Gettysburg, a new battle: urban sprawl
Johann N. Neem: When it comes to manufacturing, it's still a "Jungle" out there
Winston Churchill Warned of Iraq Quagmire
The Craig Scandal in Retrospect
Zalmay Khalilzad: Bush's big mistake was turning Bremer into MacArthur
Ancient Roman city's temple discovered in Romania
Bulgarian Archaeologists Discover Christian Necropolis
Prehistoric Greek water works found
Evan R. Goldstein: The ADL's hypocrisy (Re: Armenian Genocide)
Robert Rabil & Walid Phares: The Lebanese Government and the US ... Allies Behind Doors?
Isabella Ginor & Gideon Remez: Their research hailed as "sensational"
David Forsmark: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan
Norman Cohn: Historian, Dies at 92 (NYT obit.)
Ancient Olympia Escapes Fire Damage
Richard Kluger: Reacts with sarcasm to Brookhiser's criticism of his writing style
Jack Kirby, a Comic Book Genius, Is Finally Remembered
The attack on FDR and the New Deal
H.R. McMaster: Historian passed over for promotion in the army
Douglas Brinkley: The Reckless Abandonment of New Orleans
Some Varieties of Time Machine Worth Having
Douglas Brinkley: Angry over lack of progress after Katrina
John Pilger: The Friends of Pol Pot
Back to School Link Collection
In Which I Reaquaint Myself With My Desk
Gay unions sanctioned in Medieval Europe
$100 Bill to Get High Tech Face Lift
The Nureyev Nobody Knows, Young and Wild (Documentary)
Latest Flash from the NSA News Wire by Jules R. Benjamin
Review of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" by Mary Ann Fay
The Myth of Rachel Corrie by Ronald Radosh
Was CNN's "God's Warriors" Fair? by Timothy R. Furnish
Whatever Happened to August First? by J. R. Kerr-Ritchie
Why All of Us Have to Keep Spending Like Crazy--Or Else! by James Livingston
Why Bush Never Should Have Been Considered Wilson's Successor by Erez Manela
Week of August 20, 2007
Juan Cole: Bonaparte and Bush on Deck
Bessie Louise Pierce: Remarkable author's 'A History of Chicago'
Artists who camped together in USSR old days reunited
When the NYT archives online recirculate misinformation
This War Is Not Like the Others ... or Is It?
They Stand By Their Men, Loudly (Michelle, Ann, Elizabeth ...)
Paul Otlet, A Forerunner for Us All
Kucinich Supporter Criticizes Ron Paul for Rejecting Looney 9-11 Conspiracy Theories
Cliopatria Welcomes William J. Turkel
My views are not for sale; and I can get them published in the NYT and the Washington Post
Concentration Camp Card Deck from Dachau, 1945
Silk Road oasis of Samarkand ages fast
Roman Soldier's Footprint Reveals Clues to Ancient
Norman Cohn: Historian who explored archaic millenarian fantasies
In N.Y., Take a Free Boat Ride to History, Art and Gardens
Gdansk shipyard: Headed for the scrapheap of history?
Slave Trade History Can Help Nigeria's Economy
A play on Polish-Russian history policy
Jay Winik: Lists 5 top books about the founding fathers
'Neo-Nazis infiltrate WWII re-enactment group'
Egyptian tomb raider dies from 'curse'
Hitler's Honeycomb: The Berghof revisited
Castle dig unearths lost tower (Scotland)
Afghan empire's last symbols under threat
Seawall repaired in Miami area by 2,000 year old area peopled by the Tequesta
Tara ruins must be preserved - report (Ireland)
Blackbeard's (?) Pirate ship finally to be excavated
Wreckage of World War II Submarine Found Off Aleutian Islands
3 Life Terms Handed Down in '64 KKK Killings
Historic dolls--now celebrating the 1970s
Madeleine B. Stern: Bookseller and Sleuth, Dies at 95
The Murder Rate Among Blacks Can be Reduced
EU & TURKEY = US & PHILLIPINES/update
Mavis Staples: Interviewed by Brian Williams on NBC
Mark Lilla: The Politics of God
Stephen Mihm: America’s reliance on dubious credit goes all the way back to the country’s founding
Remains of Heir to Last Czar May Have Been Found
The Diana Effect: 10 years later
Jim Hoagland: Bush's Vietnam Blunder
Victor Davis Hanson: Called a "Fabulist" by Andrew Sullivan
Celebrating unsung medical heroes
New AHA Policies for Adding and Deleting Membership Categories
Juan Cole: Hillary develops Foot in Mouth Disease on Dumping al-Maliki
Manan Ahmed: Pakistan's supreme court decision is a good start
Ned Blackhawk: wins prize for best nonfiction book on the Southwest
NY State Historian? There is none
John Dower: Bush use of quote 'perverse'
Delicious Historical Irony: Take 72
Michael Hirsh: Why America's Pullout From Vietnam Worked
More historians dismiss Bush's Vietnam analogy
History Lessons about slavery (Review/Dance Performance)
History San Jose running out of money
British kids in WW 2 had propaganda games too
Mother Teresa's '40-year faith crisis'
Japanese Leader Hails Indians Who Backed Tokyo in 1940s
'Spruce up' for Culloden exhibits (UK)
Irish railroad grave mystery solved in PA
Missing John Constable sketch is found
Austrian Interns at Holocaust Museums Run Into U.S. Visa Problems
At Gettysburg, a new battle: urban sprawl
Matthew Rothschild: Bush Rewrites History of Vietnam War
Max Boot: President Bush's analogy to Iraq is not inaccurate, just incomplete
Jonathan Dresner: Historian complains the AHA is neglecting Asia
Russia confirms Soviet sorties over Dimona in 1967
Middlebury College Acquires Archival Materials of Ernest Hemingway
CIA: Finally doing what it's supposed to
His Dissertation Warned Against Failed Occupations ... So What Happened?
Israel & The Armenian Genocide
Ronald Radosh: Complains about slanted NYT coverage
Wallace shooter Arthur Bremer to be released from prison this year
Philip Masters: True Amateur of History, Dies at 70
Historians Question Bush's Reading of Lessons of Vietnam War for Iraq
Estonia Accuses Ex-Official of Genocide
Italy remembers Sacco and Vanzetti
Robert Dunning: Historian quits halfway through writing book after 38 years research
Yusuf Halacoglu: Turk Historian Refuses to Resign
Walter Shapiro: Fred Thompson's revealing back story
Information Illiteracy Overblown?
Haleh Esfandiari: Tehran Will Put Iranian-American Scholar on Trial, Her Lawyer Says
Stephen Schlesinger: Giuliani's Foreign Policy Would Be Worse Than Bush's
Bush accused of twisting history with Vietnam comparison
Is the Lesson of Vietnam that We Should Stay in Iraq?
White House guidebook on protesters
What President Bush Didn't Mention: The Misery Our Staying in Vietnam Caused by William Schroder
"Chemical Ali" and Others Begin Trial for 1991 Attack
Citing Vietnam, Bush Warns of Carnage if U.S. Leaves Iraq
Richard B. Frank: Review of Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, ed. Robert James Maddox
Christopher Clark: His book is sparking a pro-Prussia movement in Germany
Germans warm to vilified Prussia
Michael H. Ebner: How comparable are Iowa and Staten Island?
Hezbollah's new museum is ghoulish
Haleh Esfandiari: Legal Questions Remain for Freed Scholar in Iran
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Slate features his work
Oliver Kamm: Hiroshima and ethics
William Lambers: Surge of Humanitarian Aid Needed In Iraq
Ben Cosgrove: How whales changed America into a world power
Raul Hilberg: As memorialized by Norman Finkelstein
Chicago History Museum going suburban
Norman Solomon: The Warfare State Is Part of Us
Mark D. Tooley: Apologizing to the Missionaries
Sidney Blumenthal: Washington's Fantasy Island
White House Seeks to Keep Emails Secret
Support for Iraqi libraries, not so good
New spas look to history for inspiration
Council overrides Henry VIII on market
Lord's Claim: Michael Collins was a peace icon
Bounty mutineers' language preserved by UN
Terracotta warriors tear down British Museum
CIA releases damning report on 9-11
Free Markets v. Bus Segregation in Montgomery
The Invisible Manuscript of Ralph Ellison
Read All About It ... Washington DC's history of scandal
James Rodger Fleming: A Historical Perspectives on Climate Change
Haleh Esfandiari: US-Iranian scholar out on bail
What's the Berlin Wall? Incoming freshmen grew up after the Cold War
2 guns that changed Philippine history rusting away
Another historian in Turkey threatened with prosecution
Ginger Doyel: Historian uncovers midwife's diaries from a century ago
The secret history of the Nazi mascot
Anthony Badger: How Liberal Southern Politicians Lost the South
Where you fall in poll of U.S. reading habits
Museum about history of slavery to open in English city that once profited from it
Elvis Presley's gun found near portable toilets
2nd Frozen Airman's Body Found On Sierra Glacier
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Study War
Bruce Cole: Announces new NEH initiative ... Picturing America
Nell Irvin Painter: Says OAH deficits require change
Missing body parts of famous people
Carolyn Curiel: Hey, I Wrote That! But the President Said It — Out Loud!
Plans to put Nazi sub in maritime museum (Ireland)
Watts riot hospital named after MLK closing
Nazi board games under the hammer
Ken Burns: Activists not assuaged by his changes in WW II documentary
John Leo: Blame the '60s for America's perpetual adolescence? Nah, blame the '20s.
Tuscan Hills Are Alive With Amateur Archaeologists
Dilip Hiro: The Sole Superpower in Decline
Juan Cole: The poisonous rhetorical legacy of Karl Rove
The Untold Story of Sacco and Vanzetti (Documentary)
Iowa museum mummies to undergo CT scans
Volcano preserved early Mayan manioc field
Bernard Weiner: Bush Bunker Crew's Legacy ... "Dangerous Losers"
Nadia Abu El-Haj: The petition campaign to deny her tenure is said to be "scurrilous"
Daniel Pipes: Uniting to Exclude Saudi Arabian Airlines
Adam Cohen: The Founders Had an Idea for Handling Alberto Gonzales
Haleh Esfandiari: Tehran to release US-Iranian scholar on bail
Split up Iraq on the Bosnia model?
Seth Frantzman: Ethnic cleansing in Palestine?
Harvey Wasserman: "Nuke Nuggets" Glow for the Senate's Radioactive Rip-off
Why Your Vote Will Never Matter
Jim Sleeper: Review of David Gelernter's Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion (Doubleday)
Saul Landau: The FBI in peace and war--still the same
Diana Muir: Risks in a Muslim Reformation
Barry Rubin: Nationalists Versus Islamists ... The Middle East’s Titanic Battle
Ten Years On: Why Diana Mattered
Jim Castagnera: The joys of time travel
Miners Given Up for Dead in 1968 Say Miracle Is Still Possible in Utah
Music, Silence, and Candidates
Rethinking That Conference Paper
A Farewell to Alms: Gregory Clark Responds
Woodward And Bernstein Waxed -- at Madame Tussaud's
SMU's long campaign to get the Bush library began in 2001
Michael Ledeen: Why talking to Iran is pointless
Egypt discovers what may be oldest human footprint
Napoleon's Paris death mask 'fake'
Sandip Roy: The magic glue that holds India's democracy together
For South Korea's Peace Dam, a history of conflict
Museums battling indifference to history
Ted Steinberg: Interviewed about the history of the lawn mower
Impersonator makes Lewis and Clark experience real
Is this the man who mysteriously leaves flowers on Poe's grave?
Maine considering plan to save emails for history
Mystery game used to helps kids learn about Quebec City's history
London's Baltic Exchange building moving--to Estonia!
Unravelling a grand old mystery of Egyptian history (TV Documentary)
Taner Akcam: A writer whose view of the past has put his life at risk
Subtle Songs of Protest Hit a High Note
It May Not Be Easy to Say "I Do" at the White House
Rove Quotes Napoleon To Justify Iraq Situation
Frederick Douglass Reenactor Says He Was Born to Play the Part
Holocaust story inspires pride, doubt
Blaze Brings Back Thoughts of 9/11
Michael Deaver, 69, Dies; Shaped Reagan's Image
Getting Out of Iraq: The Return of Tricky Dick? by William Marina
Iraqi Insurgents, ‘Werewolves’ and the Uses of History by Perry Biddiscombe
The Housing Crisis: Caused by Lax Regulation by Robert Brent Toplin
The Housing Crisis: Caused by the Bush Tax Cuts by James Livingston
The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti: Eighty Years After by Ron Briley
Why Vincent Bugliosi Is So Sure Oswald Alone Killed JFK (Interview) by Robin Lindley
Week of August 13, 2007
Open Government as a Mixed Blessing
Results Being Read of Paul's Win in Alabama Straw Poll
Ron Paul on Separation of Church and State
Clinton's first-lady records locked up
Ron Paul's Landslide Victory in Today's Alabama Straw Poll
Are elections about the past or the future?
Pakistan marks 60th anniversary
Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits'
Red Army Faction bomber released from jail
Victor Davis Hanson: The Burdens of General Petraeus
Red Army medical treatment may now be used by West
Oliver Stone Seeks To Make Film On Ahmadinejad
James Billington: Librarian of Congress interviewed about his media habits
Construction Under Way for Encasement of Waldeemüller Map, "Birth Certificate of America"
Charles Patricoff: History and Morality Demand We Stay in Iraq, says Historian
Remembering Why Gandhi Starved Himself
Rick Perlstein vs. David Horowitz: Who the enemy is
Cheney interview from 1994 a YouTube sensation
Thomas Mayer: The Lessons of the '87 crash
WSJ Editorial: Shoot to Kill (Re: East Germany)
Evan R. Goldstein: Professors on the Battlefield
Arthur Miller's Missing Act (The son with Down syndrome he never talked about)
Michael T. Klare: The New Energy Pessimism
Donald Ritchie: The Rise and Fall of the First Internet
Max Roach, Master of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83
Remembering Elvis: Long Live the King
STARFOR ANALYSIS OF SUBPRIME CRISIS
Michael Gunter: He blurbed a book ... Should he then have reviewed it?
Jerry Bower: It's time for President Bush to step in to calm the credit markets
Opinion Polls and the Public Malaise
Whatever Happened to the Anti-War Movement?
Terence Kealey on the New Science of Neuroeconomics
Bush's daughter, Jenna, to be married
Knesset to reenact fateful United Nations vote that led to Israel's creation
History of 1837 repeats itself
John Nichols: The Worst House Speaker in American History
Museum pursues Georgia's vanishing Jewish history
Historians seek to preserve artifacts from Minnesota bridge collapse
History TV to screen documentary on Partition today
The history of survivors' pensions in Israel
Asa Grant Hilliard, III: Pan-Africanist, Educator, Historian and Psychologist
Cannibal tribe apologises for eating Methodists
Mohsin Hamid: After 60 Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn?
Eric Alterman: FISA and the Founders
Study: Newspapers correct fewer than 2 percent of errors
Steve Plaut: The "Naqba" Offensive
Peter Hannaford: Republican losers vs. the Electoral College
Nadia Abu El-Haj: Alumni Group Seeks to Deny Tenure to Middle Eastern Scholar at Barnard College
Christopher Wolfe: Inspired by Aquinas, aims to found new university
A University Press Stands Up — and Wins
Andrew Leonard: Who invented calculus
New book on Sacco, Vanzetti says they were innocent but questions remain
Still Vital, ‘On the Road’ Turns 50
Stephen Walt & John Mearsheimer: Backlash Over Book on Policy for Israel
Thomas who? New dollar coin might help
Would Another 9/11 Be Good for America?
Medieval crucifix found in Austrian rubbish skip
Luther Spoehr: Review of Nigel Hamilton's Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency (Public Affairs)
Mormon movie controversy involving "September Dawn" (Video)
Max Boot: How Not to Get Out of Iraq
Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin: Summer of love beats cynicism of today
Kimie HARA: Micronesia .. “An American Lake”
Tom Engelhardt: What "Progress" in Iraq Really Means
Raul Hilberg: "A Mind of a Different Order"
Daniel Pipes: Stop the NYC Madrassa
David Bedein: Genesis of an Anti-Semitic State
Eric Rauchway: Karl Rove and the common people
NYT's First Home Is Being Torn Down
Sociologists more worried today about academic freedom than in McCarthy era
Judge OKs Mo. school's ban on clothes with Confederate flag
Chloe Arnold: Seventy Years Later, Stalin's Image Softening
Rally to mark anniversary of Hitler's deputy Hess banned (Germany)
Second World War has become the hottest thing in publishing
Sidney Blumenthal: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove
Mike Boyer: Blame the Humvee for U.S. failures in Iraq?
Thomas Gaehtgens: German art historian to head Getty library
National History Center Collects Surveys to Study the History Major and Liberal Education
Homeland Security: Historian Wanted
German cities removing post-war construction to restore pre-war architecture
Defendant Apologizes to Wiesel
Is this a real Jackson Pollock? A mysterious trove of pictures rocks the art world
Photographer Joe O’Donnell, 85, Dies--Was involved in Enola Gay controversy
Richard Kluger: Reviewer can't stand his prose
New Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Hamid Dabashi: Targeted by conservative website for alleged bigotry
Jim Castagnera: Wondering Where My Next Neon Is Coming from
Peter C. Rollins: Another Tet Offensive in the Summer of 2007?
A new look at history as India turns 60
Yale project to save South Asian Independence history
Geoffrey Ward: To be interviewed by Allen Weinstein at National Archives event
Gino Segre: Scientist writes pop histories of science
Ambition and History Meet in China's Hollywood
Book reveals history of New Zealand's spies
Meteorites reveal secrets of Earth's history
Want history? Go to St. Augustine
A-level Latin and Greek to become ancient history (UK)
Utah mining country has long history of tragedy
Raul Hilberg: What could make a dedicated Holocaust scholar, cry?
Hired guides can customize Civil War battlefield visit
David Novak: The Origins of Jewish-Christian Animosity
Comptroller General worries US is new Rome
Documents Detail Years of Pakistani Support for Taliban, Extremists
Gregory Davis: What the West Needs to Know about Islam (Interview)
Carlin Romano: The chilling context for developments in the Russia of Vladimir Putin
Breakthrough reported in Yale, Peru talks over artifacts
Are archaeologists and historians loath to take on the Bible?
Angkor was a city ahead of its time (Cambodia)
Statue of first Catholic Supreme Court justice may go
With Capitalists Like Jim Cramer, Who Needs Socialists?
HMAS 'Sydney' claim raises treasure hunt fears
60-year mystery of VJ-day kiss at an end
Phyllis Chesler: The Legal Jihad Is Already Underway
Joshua Green: Karl Rove ... A ‘Great Society’ Conservative
Gary Leupp: Bush Warns Puppets Not to Praise Iran
Lincoln may have had facial defect
Haleh Esfandiari: Fate of jailed scholar may be settled shortly
Steve Hayes: Interviewed about his biography of Dick Cheney
Donny George: The archaeologist talks about the loss of artifacts and why he fled his homeland
How many have died in US wars?
Ken Burns: His decision to do another war documentary came reulctantly
How did Louisa May Alcott die? New clues.
Graham Stewart: A harsh fate awaits all collaborators
'Casablanca' to be remade by Bollywood
Gettysburg cyclorama resurrected
Black and white tastes in TV converging
Tara group vows legal action over controversial burial site dig
Lost city of Apollo found? (UK)
Ice age artifact discovered in Alexandria, VA
How Bronze Age man enjoyed his pint
Ancient forest found in Hungary
German farmer demands cash for lost bodies
Intact 2,000-year old Etruscan tomb discovered
How Did Elvis Get Turned Into a Racist?
Candidates see themselves in Teddy Roosevelt
Religion, culture behind Texas execution tally
Holocaust Museum spurned offer to put records online quickly
Dick Cheney (1994) Praises Bush Sr. for Not Invading Iraq
Class, Education, and Terrorism
Did We Miss the Lesson of Nagasaki? by William D. Hartung
How Paranoid Was Nixon? by Kenneth J. Hughes, Jr.
It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade by Sheldon M. Stern
Origins of a Misnomer: The “Expulsion” of the Soviet “Advisers” from Egypt, 1972 by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Why You Should Watch "No End in Sight" (And What You Don't Learn from It) by Rick Shenkman
Week of August 6, 2007
E German 'licence to kill' found
Reconsidering Bonnie and Clyde 40 years later
Israel Museum: A Museum to Get Lost In, and How Israel Is Fixing It
Man Pleads Guilty in Attack on Portrait of Samuel Johnson
Susan Meiselas ... Well-Traveled Photographer, Recording and Then Returning
A Beloved Woodstock Nation Site Goes on Sale, for $8 Million
Did Karl Rove Doom Bush's Presidency?
Conrad Black: His apologia for Richard Nixon in new bio
In the Current Foreclosure Crisis, Echoes of the Past
Mecca's Hallowed Skyline Transformed
Bush on track to become the vacation president
Barry Rubin: Don't count on Abbas to bring peace
Dolma Kyab: Historians rally to defense of imprisoned Tibetan writer
New JASDF Stealth Fighter Jet to be "Made In Japan"
Stalin: Yes, he was a tyrant, but people like him
Beijing '08: Let the Politics Begin
In Venice, City of Ancient Bridges, Dissent Over a New One
Jane Eyre, Hannibal Lecter, and the Welfare State?
Night Ride Across the Caucasus
The Scary Origins of the Dissent in the School Race Decision
Ignore the Last Few Weeks. It's Been a Heck of a 25 Years.
Something useful on PBS -- but who's watching?
For Decades Presidents Have Turned to Billy Graham for Guidance and a Supportive Ear
Drawing the Wrong Lessons from the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
The Rebirth of Danish Imperialism?
Gavan McCormack: Japan as a Nuclear State
Max Boot: We are all neocons now
Arnaud De Borchgrave: Israel's Embarrassing history
CIA Has Lost Records on CBS Reporter Murdered in Greece in 1948
Victor Davis Hanson: Why they hate, and like, us.
Technology could help assure Wiki reliability
Discovery of Middle Asia Cities Recasts Ancient History
Stone Age Settlement Found Under English Channel
Environmentalists vs. NPS over plan to cut trees near Civil War battlefield
Norman Cohn: Unearthed the roots of European barbarism (obit.)
Arkansas governor won't intervene to delay standards criticized by historians
Senate Passes Freedom of Information Act Reform Bill
Joshua Green: The Rove Presidency
Smithsonian Official Resigns After Destroying Key Records
Crossing the Line (2006) A Defector’s Second Life, Embracing North Korea
Florentine sculptor Desiderio da Settignano rediscovered (Exhibit/Wash.DC)
London's Big Ben to Fall Silent Until September for Repairs
What Billy Graham learned in his 50-year ministry to every U.S. President since Truman
Ward Connerly: The "Fairness Doctrine" And Academia
Looting fear as Iraqi state library seized
David Landes & Jared Diamond: Both Cited by Mitt Romney in interviews
Religious Contradance: Everybody swing to the right?
Ancient Byzantine Church Discovered In Tiberias
Looting fears grow as Iraqi national library seized by troops
Monster Munch--and It May Be Because of Global Warming!
William O. Beeman: Says US Is Hyping Iran Threat in Times of Diplomacy
Nadia Abu El Haj: Barnard grad starts petition to block permanent appointment of Nadia Abu El Haj
Phillip S. Paludan: Lincoln scholar, was 69
New movie--Best Wishes for Tomorrow--looks for honor amid the recriminations of war (Japan)
What We Can Learn From The Biggest Extinction In The History Of Earth
A brief history of time travel
Bush Says History Should Be Judge of Bonds's Home-Run Record
Bill Oliver: Noted historian donates Te Kooti paintings
Sir Oliver Millar: Woodland named after former historian
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Criticized on conservative website for liberal bias
David McCullough: Historian advises lawmakers on schools
What century is this? Slavery banned!
High school reading lists get a modern makeover
Ban Koran like Mein Kampf, says Dutch MP
Church Remembers Stalin’s Victims, While Kremlin Looks Away
Descendant of French gen. to vist scene of infamous 'massacre'
Digital Mapping System Unearths Hidden Fort in Virginia
Battle over Okinawa history rages on
Book: Japan's war memories often misrepresented
Eric Rauchway: Liberals Love Barry Goldwater!? That's Not Right.
Andrew Bacevich: The Overhyping of David Petraeus
Isabella Ginor & Gideon Remez: Fresh evidence confirms their thesis, they say
Mark D. Tooley: The Methodist Church mythologizes Nagasaki and Hiroshima
A Lens Into the Belgian Congo (Photography Exhibit/Brussels)
One man's play about the Medal of Honor transcends politics
University presidents condemn boycott of Israel
The Return Of The Students Of History
A farewell to jargon: a note on the growth in mass-market feminist publishing
More impressive than Barry Bonds? Maybe.
Fossils in Kenya Challenge Linear Evolution
Jamala Rodgers: Tuskegee ... The Experiment That Haunts Black Health
First Father: Tough Times on Sidelines
Halleck and the Problem of Motive - Pt 1
Jim Sleeper: Gip, Gip, Hooray! A new appreciation of Ronald Reagan protests too much
Allen Esterson: Einstein’s Wife ... PBS Fails the Test of Integrity
The Case to Impeach the President
John Elrick: The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project (Website Review)
Chester Finn & Diane Ravitch: The liberal arts make us competitive in the ways that matter most
Ancient Nomads Offer Insights to Modern Crises
Plight Deepens for Baghdad's Last Jews
High school students better at economics than history
WW1 heroes' tales go on the internet
N-Y Historical Society Exhibition on 9/11
McGovern denies making comment about Katherine Graham's anatomy
How Does 40/1 for Ron Paul Sound?
Longtime spy unmasks for retirement
Huge cross marks Stalin purges outside Moscow
New Material at Wreck Site of Pirate Ship
China's Terracotta Army on the move
Hiroshima, 62 years ago the atomic bomb
Kerouac: The novel that launched the Beats, the hippies and designer jeans turns 50
Stint in Israeli jail inspires Palestinian educator to change history lessons
How did America get its name? New book explains.
King's civil rights group 'here to stay'
Quintard Taylor: Debuts website devoted to African-American history
121 year old pier to be the new gateway to Statue of Liberty
Michael Ignatieff: Explains why he was mistaken about Iraq War
Gregory Clark: NYT highlights his theory that accounts for human progress
In King's Footsteps, Others Try to Dream
David Greenberg: George Bush's kooky sense of his place in history
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Starbucks gets the boot, but don't blame it on Mao
Bruce Bartlett: “Starve the Beast” ... where the metaphor comes from
Andrew Delbanco talks about "The Real American Dream"
Should AP Add African-American History?
New Mexico History Museum receives $1 million gift
UK: History is at 'risk of disappearing' as students take softer options
Starbucks' third book: StoryCorps oral history collection
Glyn Harper: Elite honour for Massey war historian
Joseph Ellis interviewed about qualities of leadership
John Lewis Gaddis: Literary Bomb Gets Readers' Attention
Comet theory collides with Clovis research, may explain disappearance of ancient people
UK town acting to save Bronze Age discovery
3500 year old frescos discovered (Algeria)
Ancient rock art discovered in Scotland
M3 protesters stage Hill of Tara vigil
Vandals destroy 8,000-year-old artwork (Spain)
Millions of Women Still Fail to Cast Ballots
Glenn C. Loury: Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? Race and the transformation of criminal justice
Court: Man can't name filly 'Sally Hemings'
Should US government help immigrants assimilate?
Russian composers were music to Hitler's ears
David Brooks: How we name our kids reflects who we are
Timbuktu Hopes Ancient Texts Spark a Revival
Rare Collection of Suffragist Papers Donated to Swarthmore College
Man with a Plan: Herbert Spencer's Theory of Everything
Robert Miller: Russia uses the Doctrine of Discovery to claim the Arctic floor
Honda's having trouble hiring diverse work force in former Sundown Towns
WATCH C4 DOCUMENTARY: "BRITAIN UNDER ATTACK"
James Loewen: Interviewed about historic sites and history
Norman Solomon: Let Us Now Praise an Infamous Woman -- and Our Own Possibilities
Historians crack 17th-century diary code
Study points to larger role of Asian ancestors in evolution
Mario Rizzo on the Republican Debate
Economist blames Europe for decimation of American Bison
A genetic explanation for the Industrial Revolution?
Hitler's music collection turns up in Russian attic
Looking for Somewhere to Live?
Story behind the story of the artist and the Turtle
Oliver Kamm: Hiroshima ... Terrible, but not a crime
Roger Pulvers: Tojo and Bush ... Trumpeting delusion on their way to defeat
Sidney Blumenthal: The three stooges ... Gonzales, Cheney, and Rove
U.S. Coast Guard Marks a Million Lives Saved
Juan Cole: Pakistani Protests against Obama
Gabriele Marranci : The day I met Kafeel Ahmed
What Exactly Is Going On in Iran?
David Aaronovitch: The lessons of history? That’s a lot of bunk
Sal Cilella: Atlanta Historical Society hires him to run museum
Henri Amouroux: Historian accused of being an apologist for Vichy, dies at 87
Norman Stone: Britain's a terrible bore, that's why I left
Toronto needs a museum, claims columnist
Elizabeth Jacoway: Historian's look at 1957 LR integration opens family secrets
"CSI: NY" is history after Canada ruling that it shouldn't run on History Television channel
Operation Shoebox aims to preserve WWII history
Henri Pirenne: The Belgian historian who got Islam all wrong
Nicolas Cage unlocks Civil War 'Secrets' in 'Treasure'
Ronald Takaki: The Lessons of Hiroshima
Holocaust survivors protest Israeli treatment
In Rome, a New Ritual on an Old Bridge
Monitor's secrets chipped away
Holocaust Archive Not Ready for Digital Age
Frank Rich: Patriots Who Love the Troops to Death
Saul Friedlander: History as Moral Obligation (Interview)
Stairs to Remain Intact in Ground Zero Plan
Dean Baker: Economy Goes From Bad to Worse
John Kerry: The Vietnam War was worse than what followed
Gadi Taub: Liberalism, Democracy, and the Jewish State
"White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima" (HBO/Documentary)
Why are we so obsessed with Jane Austen's love life?
Michael Schwartz: So things are improving in Iraq? A response to O’Hanlon and Pollack
Jonathan Cook: Israel's Jewish problem in Tehran
Intelligence budget will (will not) be disclosed
Candidates line up to visit Jon Stewart
Battle over Okinawa history rages in Japan
St. Augustine celebrates 442nd birthday
Raul Hilberg: Holocaust scholar, was 81
150 Years After the Civil War Can We Finally Remember It the Way We Should? by Robert Cook
The Miracle of Jewish History by Benjamin Blech
The Scary Origins of Chief Justice Roberts's Decision Opposing the Use of Race to Promote Integration by Nancy MacLean
What Murdoch Won't Want to Change at the Wall Street Journal by Robert Brent Toplin
What's Fair and Not Fair in the Middle East Debates? by David Slavin
Why Hiroshima Day Events Matter by Lawrence S. Wittner
Will We Ever Get National Health Insurance? by Jill Quadagno
Week of July 30, 2007
115 Years of Black History Goes Digi
La. Town Fells 'White Tree,' but Tension Runs Deep
Hitler's champagne up for auction
Aztec leader's tomb found--a first
Archbishop's Sainthood Politically Sensitive for Vatican
Decoded Roger Morrice diary reveals dark days
Last stand to save grave of Sitting Bull
Archive to Expand Access to Files on the Holocaust
Atomic Bomb Survivors Speak Out (HBO/Documentary)
Man finds 19th-century periodicals
Back to the Future in a 98-Year-Old Electric Car
Artist Mows Purple Heart in N.Y. Field
Winning the War Against Air Pollution
Olmert Will Rework Aid Plan for Survivors of the Holocaust
Spacecraft to carry library to Mars
Venturing into Chicago's hidden tunnel system
No, it wasn't the famous Turtle, but at least it floated
Abuse of Power: Civil Rights Initiative in Missouri
SUCCUMBING TO ISLAMIST BLACKMAIL
FDI IN ISRAEL = UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF 9/11?
How to Celebrate 'The World's Worst Poet'? (Re: Robert Burns)
Too Many Rooms, Too Many Elephants
Historians are joining Wikipedia instead of fighting it
Robert Townsend: The End of Cultural History?
Jan Whitaker: America's history of tainted consumer goods
Let the history wars bloom (China, of course)
Senate Panel Clears Presidential Library Disclosure Bill
Finding the 'Un-American' in Elvis
Eli Broad Gives $1 Million to American Jewish History Museum
Greece amends school history book after complaints from church, academics
StoryCorps: Oral history project under way in Logan, Utah
PBS to broadcast a series on the history of television
Baghdad Museum reopens to staff
Peggy Noonan: Advice for the ladies who seek to become first lady
Academic Coalition Loses Court Challenge to U.S. Government's Near-Ban on Academic Travel to Cuba
Queen's grandson could lose birthright to throne
Bulgarian accused of plotting to kill late Pope dies
Ghandi film opens to controversy in India
PoW dies 67 years after torture by Nazis
Hawaii Five-0: It's place in the firmament of red-state politics
Judge Backs C.I.A. in Suit on Memoir
MUST DISASTER PRECEDE ACTION ON SWF, TOO?
The man who set the style of the NYC subway system--inspired by Ibsen
William Ranney: Art Exhibit Review (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
At Hussein Grave, Legend Lives as Fury Simmers
Will Fitzhugh: If we cared as much about history as basketball
Rami G. Khouri: A new history lesson in Israel
The Worldwide Market for British Newspapers
So Black Runners Are Naturally Faster? Wrong
Mario Rizzo on Libertarians and War
Michael Radu: Al Qaeda Confusion ... How to Think about Jihad
Fred Thompson Invokes Salem Witch Trials in Defense of Bush Judge Appointee
Daniel Pipes: Ban the Burqa - and the Niqab Too
William R. Polk: On Insurgency & American History
Rick Perlstein: "I didn't like Nixon until Watergate"
Dwight T. Pitcaithley: Former chief historian of the NPS calls for major changes
Dwight T. Pitcaithley: On the Brink of Greatness ... National Parks and the Next Century
Norman Solomon: Media Blitz for War: The Big Guns of August
Pernicious reasoning by Victor David Hanson
History museum needs Mexican memorabilia ... asks citizens to contribute
Mini-series by Ridley Scott on the CIA's history
Google knows all with Web History
Saluting a century of very good Scouts (UK)
Ownership of WWI general's recordings disputed
On the trail of a wartime hero (UK)
Operation Paperclip brought possible criminals to U.S.
Brian Bethune: Did Hitler try to kidnap the pope?
Russia condemns Estonian SS legion reunion
Silver Star awarded posthumously to WWI nurse
WWII pilot exhumation called off (UK)
Senate May End an Era of Cloakroom Anonymity
Language mavens now deciphering where languages began
Soul music at Stax Records studio in Memphis (TV Documentary)
Colin Tatz: Featured in a news story about his migration from apartheid South Africa to Australia
Gerald R. Gill: Historian of Boston's Civil Rights movement, was 58
Howard Zinn: Accused of distorting history
Ethan Carr: U.Va. School of Architecture Appoints Noted Landscape Architecture Historian
Final Chapter: Getty agrees to return disputed works to Italy
Chief justice provides little info on health problem
Call by U.S. House for Sex Slavery Apology Angers Japan's Leader
Gary Leupp: Why Iraq's Best-Loved Athlete Can't Go Home
Ami Gluska: Says the Arabs haven't denied Israel's victory in 1967, but they don't want to admit it
Joseph Puder: Neglecting Holocaust Survivors in Israel
John Noonan: West Point needs to emphasize humanities not math
Chicago's South Side: "Most studied place in the world"
Victor Davis Hanson: Back to the Future in the Middle East
Maryland town recalls racial unrest in 1967
Poland marks anniversary of Warsaw Uprising
India to acquire and protect Gandhi manuscripts
TEACHING CHILDREN SHAHADA=MASS MURDER
Iwo Jima Sculpture, Model for Marine War Memorial, Is Losing Its Home on Floating Museum
Norma Gabler, Leader of Crusade on Textbooks, Dies at 84
Ron Paul Making Waves at National Review
Gordon Brown: Says President Bush has great sense of history
French town rebuilds frigate of U.S. revolutionary war hero
First Khmer Rouge leader charged
German terror trial tapes found
Henry Kissinger: Subject of another new bio
Mysterious Indian battle is "holy grail" of Alabama digs
Archives Reaches Deal With Amazon to Sell Film Holdings On-Line
Take a trip through the archives to celebrate 60 years of Australian filmmaking
ICC asked to investigate Namibia's founding president over the disappearance of thousands
Report: Poverty around the world is decreasing
Plan to end winner-take-all in CA could alter outcome of the national '08 election
Peter Quinn: The hidden impact of the Irish on English
Neve Gordon: Anarchists under fire
Gary Leupp: Beating Back the Latest Neocon Attack Scheme
Robert McHenry: Doomsday Theory ... Watch Out!
Why do we eat candy at the movies?
One Day in History: September 11, 2001, ed. by Rodney P. Carlisle
Walter McDougall: Will “Europe” Survive the 21st Century?
Steven Pinker: Our weird obsession with genealogy
Mitchell Bard: Will Israel Survive? (Interview)
Jacob Laksin: The Times vs. Rudy
Stanley Kubrick--Intellectual showman
Contested Campus in SF Chinatown over new 16 story building
Niall Ferguson: Criticized for insisting Malthus was right
BANI SADR, IRANIAN KERENSKY, ON IRANIAN NUKES
Harriet Washington: Why Africa Fears Western Medicine
Nicholas Thompson: What Kennan could teach us about fighting terrorism
U.S. Holocaust Museum Agrees to Recognize Bergson Activists
Trudeau tops history magazine's 'worst Canadian' list
Eric Alterman: We've become more unequal and that matters
Japan rejects U.S. call for WWII sex slave apology
Taner Akçam sues to overturn law on 'Denigrating Turkishness'
Not for the Faint-hearted or Prudish!
Wren monument closes for restoration work in London
Richard Brookhiser: Where Science and Politics Intersect
Jonathan Zimmerman: A truce in the sex ed wars?
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Olympic Dreams--and Nightmares
A salutary reminder of the empire's pernicious legacy (UK/Exhibit)
Brown drops 'war on terror,' redefining the fight
"No Child" Leaves the Social Studies Behind
Academics oppose Israel boycott
Robert Higgs: Explains why real libertarians oppose the Iraq War
Taner Akcam: The Turk Who Insists Turkey Acknowledge the Armenian Massacre Ordered to Make Payment
Richard Rhodes: A-bomb ushered in peace
Hayk Demoyan: The Armenian Genocide Resolution would pass if put up to a vote
'Native' Themed Camps Continue to Offend
Effort to publicize worst home disaster of WWII that shed light on segregation of armed forces
Jean Edward Smith: NYT letter writers criticize his court packing plan
Richard Pells: History Descending a Staircase ... American Historians and American Culture
Kevin R. C. Gutzman: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution (Interview)
Gary Witherspoon: The Churchill Firing ... Research misconduct is in the eye of the beholder
In Illinois, Obama Proved Pragmatic and Shrewd
Cheney Pens Letter While Acting as POTUS
Chelsea Clinton Is Primed for Another Parent’s White House Run
Archive of rich musical history in Cuba
History Education as Second Life
Henry Kissinger’s Lessons for George W. Bush by Jeremi Suri
Remember the Agricultural Exchanges Between the US and USSR? What We Can Learn from Them Today by Lee Winningham
What Academic Values Does the British Boycott Protect? by Richard L. Cravatts
Why We Need a Cool Assessment of Terrorism by Gérard Chaliand
Week of July 23, 2007
Veteran, 109, revisits WWI trench
Niall Ferguson: Worry about bread, not oil
1934: The Plot Against America (BBC Documentary)
Kevin Boyle: 40 Years Later, the Urban Crisis Still Smolders
PBS trying to make high tech history interesting to kids
Textbooks rewrite history to fit Putin's vision
Ypsilantians offer brief history lesson (Michigan)
Virgil A. Lewis: Home of first state historian in disrepair, but should it be relocated? (W VA)
Athenians go to war over two views of history
80 feet of history (Tacoma, WA)
Publish and debunk this relic of history (Mein Kampf)
Presidents who spoke foreign languages
Happy Birthday, George Bradshaw!
"Plus c'est la meme chose, plus ça change"
Robert Dallek: Appears on Comedy Central's Daily Show
In the 1960s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out in Letters
Re-enactors giving speeches from the 60s now
Richard Lyman Bushman: Scholar Becomes Chief Explainer in a 'Mormon Moment'
Religious Liberty and the Bush Administration
New farm bill includes millions to settle decades of discrimination against black farmers
Bush a lame duck but still powerful
Harvey J Kaye: Should the French Stop Thinking?
California Professor is Font of Anti-Semitism, says Southern Poverty Law Center
Standing Silent Nation - a recommendation
HARRY POTTER - "A ZIONIST PROJECT"
REPORTS: IRANIAN STUDENTS SEXUALLY TORTURED
Conference aims to counter attacks on LDS doctrine, history
Greg Lockhart: Strong reaction to his charge that Vietnam minefield cost lives of Allies
LA Times chides Israelis for telling the truth in only Arab textbook
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Cycling: Another Tour, another scandal to become part of shameful history
National Coalition for History backs FOIA reform
Eric Alterman: Of Filibusters and “Stunts,” Then and Now
FrontPageMag.com Symposium: Should Holocaust Denial Be Criminalized?
Kimberly Strassel: The U.S. attorneys controversy is about politics, not the law
The Must-Have Iraq Book of 1943 ... and 2007 ?
An honest Japanese effort to own up to history, says Chinese paper
"Talk to Me" filters the turbulent past through a man and his microphone
Jerusalem Post features old frontpages
Filmmakers to spotlight Czech Legions' history
Tom Engelhardt: The Withdrawal Follies
Chalmers Johnson: Review of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)
Former sailors shake hands with Japan kamikaze
Humberto Fontova: Sicko Propaganda
9/11 bill requires disclosure of intelligence budgets
Giant prehistoric tusks found in Greece
Egyptian fake toe may be earliest prosthesis, researchers say
Gorbachev: US makes strategic mistakes
"No End in Sight": In the Beginning ... Focusing on the Iraq War Enablers (Documentary)
"Camden 28": A Draft-Board Break-In That Put Activism on Trial (Documentary)
James Banner: Review of Nancy Isenberg's Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (Viking)
Harry Potter and the Libertarian Love
Great War veteran dies aged 107
Pope's aide warns of 'threat by Islam'
Jean Edward Smith: FDR biographer recommends Dems consider court packing plan after 2008
Crawford Young: Lectures on the African Colonial State at LC
Juan Cole: US-Iran Alliance Against Sunni Guerrillas?
Juan Cole: Bush's incompetence gives al-Qaida new life
Highland's 'forgotten' slave past (UK)
Unique brooch bound for Belfast
Holocaust Center Receives Archives of Jew Honored, Vilified for Negotiating With Nazis
Fidel Castro's Absence Felt on Revolution Day
James Maher: 90, Historian of Popular Song
Duong Trung Quoc: Vietnamese historian and pol sets up blog
George Kramer; Oregon historian wins 2007 Heritage Award
Gephardt, on Turkey's payroll, sabotages Armenian resolution
Michael Crowley: K Street Cashes in on the 1915 Armenian Genocide
Amity Shlaes: FDR Wasn't So Great (Interview)
Gay Archive Started by College Student Ignites Controversy
Placement of ad in Historically Speaking questioned
David Noble: University, academic reach settlement after six years
Clarity needed in executive privilege fight
Another hypothesis about war-supporting libertarians
Stephen Biddle: Says the surge can work
Edward J. Renehan, Jr.: Makes Page Six in the NY Post
FRACTIOUS MEDIA - LEBANON TODAY - USA TOMORROW?
SUICIDE REVERSAL? Polling in the Arab World
Gearing Up For the Civil War Sesquicentennial in the Classroom
Oral history of pioneer black journalists published
Stalin's Purge 1937 Remembered in Russia
For Public Library, a Trove of New York Times Records
David Forsmark: A New History of the Great Depression
Robert Kagan: End of Dreams, Return of History
David Hogberg: Congressmen push a cigar tax, proving they've learned nothing from history
Treasure trove 'found by octopus'
Gary Leupp: Christian Rightist Bush Speechwriter Calls for Attack on Syria
Max Boot: Is it better to tell children the truth about history or not?
US judge orders Sudan to pay 7.9 million for attack on USS Cole
Clergyman to Stand Trial for "Dirty War" Crimes in Argentina
Robert Higgs: His collected essays praised
GOOD NEWS: PENSION FUNDS AGAINST IRAN
BRITAIN WORRIES ABOUT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS
Libertarians and Freedom - Two Kinds?
Putin: Hiroshima and Nagasaki worse than Stalin's Great Purge
Report: Focus on 2 R's Cuts Time for history and other subjects
A TV Contest Sets Off a Furor Over Portugal's Ex-Dictator
Trail of Tears to be Recreated in Arkansas
Enlightened Medicine Found in Dark Ages
Richard Long: Keeper of the black book of history
Joshua Zeitz: Why Did America Explode in Riots in 1967?
Film gives kamikazes chance to remember
First lady focuses on Mark Twain in Connecticut visit
The hand of history in Blair's new role
Michigan schools skimp on teaching about riot
A biographer gains rare access to Vice President Cheney but little insight into his psyche
SARKOZY PROVES PRECONDITIONS TO MEETINGS WORK
Michael Kazin: Surging for Obama
Tariq Ramadan: The Islamic Optimist
French plan to lure more French visitors to museums raising hackles
Exploring America by Studying Its Nature (Exhibit/N-Y Historical Society)
Daniel Pipes: Salvaging the Iraq War
Michael Levy: Stalin Good, Putin Better? Politics, Education, and Indoctrination
Andrew Meyer: A Tale of Two Occupations
Nicholas Leman: Bush's legacy ... a conservative supreme court
Michael B. Katz: Why Aren't U.S. Cities Burning?
Peter Dreier: Riot and Reunion ... Forty Years Later
Donald Sassoon: Historian talks about how Mona Lisa became a pop icon
Hungary's Socialists set up top secret file archive group
John Hope Franklin: Wins 2007 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award
Jerry Green: The baseball player who tried to stop the Detroit riots
BARRY RUBIN: Turkey: No One Knows What Will Happen
Baylor U.'s Hopes for Bush Library Become Entangled in Lawsuit Against SMU
Glenn Greenwald: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"
Dean Barnett: The 9/11 Generation (Better than the Boomers)
Even Democrats say Bush can shield Harriet Miers from contempt charges
Frank Askin: Congress's Power To Compel
Findings may rewrite history of horticulture in Americas
Senate scrap involving Salazar purged from record
Finishing school for Nazis to become museum
Capitalist Vietnam, Corporate China
Bomb by Bomb, Japan Sheds Military Restraints
How history judges Russia's leaders
In Peaceful Switzerland, Trouble at a Historic Meadow
Blake Hounshell: 10 things President Bush has done right
John Yoo: The Democrats' attack on executive privilege shows blatant disregard for the Constitution
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.: American Foreign Policy After Iraq
130th Anniversary of the 1877 Shamokin Uprising and the Great Railroad Strike
Timothy Moy: UNM History Professor Drowns in Honolulu
CampusWatch: Says California's Middle East scholars are still tilting against Israel
New data on PhD completion rates: Is History behind?
Ira Chernus: The Democrats' Iraqi Dilemma
Max Boot: Iraq isn't Vietnam, Henry
Gary Leupp: Hillary's Inquiry "Reinforces Enemy Propaganda"
Benny Morris: Blasts Tom Segev, Gives Ginor & Remez benefit of the doubt
Jon Wiener: Interview with Carl Bernstein About Hillary Clinton
James Castagnera: Is It Déjà vu All Over Again, Where Our Food Is Concerned?
110 Scholars & Jewish Leaders Urge Holocaust Museum to Change Exhibit
Clarence Page: How riots changed us
Victor Davis Hanson: Dark predictions for a post-withdrawal world
Jacob Heilbrunn: Ronald Reagan ... A Uniter, Not a Decider
Adam Cohen: Just What the Founders Feared ... An Imperial President Goes to War
Mark J. Rozell: A battling president and Congress should remember why we compromise
Taiwan eyes editing China from textbooks
New Israeli government textbook: creation of Israel was a Palestinian tragedy
Exhibition dedicated to "forgotten" concentration camp opens
Enlightened medicine found in Dark Ages
Report may unveil Australia's most calamitous day
Symbol in NYC building becomes history mystery
FT: "SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS" ARE DANGEROUS!
Long-lost church records shed life on colonial life (MA)
War plane recovered at Pawlett - after 65 years
Could a wartime photo help locate looted Nazi gold?
Highlands discoveries may be three millennia old (Vietnam)
Stonehenge world heritage status at risk
Mystery of Great War's lost army uncovered
Chasing the Elusive Ghost of RFK in 2008 by Leonard C. Robinson
Did Fred Thompson Marry a Trophy Wife? by Rick Shenkman
It Ain’t No Social Crisis: Barry Bonds in Historical Perspective by Ron Briley
The Art Collector Who Wanted to Stage a Fascist Coup Against FDR by Nicholas Fox Weber
Was the Culture War Ever as Important to Republican Victories as Democrats Think? by Mark A. Smith
Why We Should Expect Insurgents to Use Petraeus's September Report to Launch a 'Tet Offensive' by D. M. Giangreco
Week of July 16, 2007
US Government Wars & the Like: Some General Thoughts
FDR's Witch-hunt Against Foreign Policy Critics
The Duke (John Wayne) rides high into history museum's exhibit
Hugh Brogan: Receives honorary degree
Exhibit to focus on Iraq looting
Bill would make site of WWII explosion into a national park (CA)
Secret Recordings: Hitler's generals knew about Holocaust
Fresco fragment revives Papal scandal
Ancient Mariner Tools Found in Cyprus
Fresh bid to save historic ship (Carrick)
Bayreuth is the epicentre of Wagner worship
Review of Robert Dallek's Nixon and Kissinger (2007)
C. Douglas Lummis: Ruth Benedict's Obituary for Japanese Culture
John Perazzo: Hillary Rodham Clinton ... Her Career and Agendas
Peggy Noonan: Washington DC, half a century ago
Novak claims in memoir that Evans misled him about RFK relationship
Robert Dallek: How he handles Nixon in Nixon and Kissinger book
Michael Nelson: Nixon's Final Campaign
Sarah E. Taylor: Instructor to Resume Post at Community College After Winning Reverse-Bias Lawsuit
Jane Douglas Summers Brown: Historian of Catawba Indians, was 104
Joseph Martin Hernon: Historian of Congress, was 70
History should start at the beginning and continue in an orderly fashion
Too much history lesson, not enough Goya in "Ghosts"
TERRORISM - ITS IDEOLOGY, NOT ECONOMICS
The Kalashnikov turns 60 this year
Bangladesh Gives Holy Relic to Sri Lanka
Archaeologists: Mega-Eruption Didn't Change Human History
Archaeologists Try to Safeguard Ancient City of Petra (Jordan)
Rejection slips go to authors of classics like Pride & Prejudice
How the Windsors became the Windsors (They had to drop their German-sounding names)
WWII mass graves of Japanese soldiers confirmed in Alaska
Lonely Black Neo-Confederate Furls His Flag
History lessons 'becoming a thing of the past' (UK)
Viking find could net pair 500,000 pounds
Medieval city gate uncovered (Holland)
Indian relics may be in path of highway (Arizona)
7 people arrested during protests over Tara Hill road
Riot or rebellion? Detroiters don't agree
Is Bush the Republicans' albatross?
The Inquisition in Spain: Expected and Even Hailed (movie review)
Cameras Roll On Tom Cruise Film
Norman Mailer, Unbound and on Film: Revisiting His Bigger-Than-Life Selves
Film about Hitler assassination plot draws German government scrutiny
Viking treasure hoard uncovered
Isabella Ginor & Gideon Remez: Sadat didn't expel Soviet "advisors"
Lawrence Wright: Lady Bird’s Lost Legacy
Bush to cede power to VP during colonoscopy
Archaeologists dig up Roman bath complex
POLITICAL WONDERS OF THE ARAB WORLD
Edwards invoked RFK as he ends poverty tour
New $20 coin unintentionally evokes dark moment in Canadian history
Lake Okeechobee's treasures and toxic muck
Blair's road map to redemption?
Japanese Canadians object to war museum's portrayal
Thomas Sowell: Military Victory, Political Failure
Ted Sorensen: Is Barack Obama the next JFK?
Robert Scheer: King George W. ... James Madison's Nightmare
Andrew G. Bostom: Remembering the Mass Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands
US hearing on Jews forced out of Arab lands
Regents to Vote July 24 on Ward Churchill
Sixteen Years of Israeli-Palestinian Summits
David Greenberg: Under attack from long-time director of the Nixon Foundation
Tom Segev: Six-Day War, in Revisionist History, Was Provoked by Israelis
Neville Kidd: Memorial a betrayal of Anzacs, says historian
Horst Möller: German Historian Wants New Publication of Hitler's Banned Book
Mark Helprin: Maybe a deal IS possible in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: New Essay Collection Takes a Nuanced Look at Modern China
Mysteries of the Universe, Part One
Harvey Wasserman: The earthquake that screamed "NO NUKES!!!"
Skulls confirm we're all out of Africa
Norman Solomon: From the Grave, a Senator Exposes Bloody Hands on Capitol Hill
William Marina: Who Speaks for the American Military on Iraq?
A Partisan Office of National Drug Control Policy
Geoffrey C. Ward: Father dies ... came up with MacArthur genius grants
Ahistorical "Libertarian" Warmongers
Yet more booty turns up at pirate wreck (MASS.)
Auction house finds 'old master'
Historic Appomattox letter from Grant to Lee to be sold
Rommel's sunken gold 'found' by British expert
130-year-old outhouses yield treasures
Franco's Ghost Haunts Spain as Families Open Civil War Graves
Tintin books moved from children's section over racism charges
U.S. Imposes Restrictions on Importing Cypriot Coins
Megaflood Created Great Divide Between Britain and France
BICAMERAL HEARING ON JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB LANDS
In refuge in US Iraq museum chief dreams of peace
Ed West: Profile of Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch
Hershel Shanks: Israeli and Palestinian authorities are failing to protect the Temple Mount
CRS Report: Congress can restrict conduct of the war
Report: 2 Cold War codebreakers who defected to Russia weren't gay as alleged
THE MAKING OF A (CHILD) "MARTYR/HERO"
Applications Welcome; Specialists in X Preferred
18,000 votes later, Byrd is still master of the Senate
Ken Burns: This time he doesn't rely on historians to tell his story
Arkansas historians criticize Governor's endorsement of social studies
Gordon Brown: His redesign of the history curriculum under attack
US takes company histories more seriously than UK
Sean Gonsalves: A Cruel Distortion of History (Upturning Brown)
Lin Biao regains his place in army history
Peter W. Galbraith: The Way to Go in Iraq
Guess Who's Giving Money to Sam Brownback?
Catherine Allgor: The Power of the Pedestal Lady Bird Stood on
Gary Leupp: Cheney Urges Bush to Strike Iran
Jonathan Zimmerman: The Myth of America's rags-to-riches presidents
Haleh Esfandiari: Footage Shows Detained Iranian - American
Murray Polner: Has the Press Failed Us? Reviews of Two Books
David Brooks: Heroes and History
ESFANDIARI & TAJBAKHSH CONFESS PRIOR TO RELEASE?
Daniel Pipes: Red Mosque in Rebellion
Stanley Kutler: The Surgeon General's Commissars
Max Holland: Protests "unbecoming behavior" of columnist
Students find ancient tool-making camp
History in Making--Democratic Candidates Vie for Female Vote
Outrage as historic dolmen is turned into 'baked potato'
Czech Jewish cemetery desecrated
Acadians get their own history book
Martin Kramer: Joins Giuliani Campaign
Should Germany republish 'Mein Kampf'?
Holocaust archives inaccessible no longer
Hemings' descendants meet at Monticello
Proposal to remove bust of Taney, author of Dred Scott decision
WW II Gurkha hero now wants his Victoria Cross back
In Confederacy's former capital, museums offer 2 Civil War views
S.C. flag still stirs up debate
Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress
Pagans to use 'rain magic' on Homer Simpson
Vietnam, China to make another film on Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam eyes world heritage status for mythical kings' temple
Gold mask from Thracian period found in Bulgaria
Paul Krause: In letter to NYT decries new Gilded Age
First Atomic Bomb Test Exposed U.S. Civilians to Radiation
A Response to Randy Barnett on the Iraq War.
Big Government and the Stalwart Yeoman
Which Side Are We On in the Struggle for Women's Rights by Steven Conn
G.O.P. Deserts McCain, and a 40-Year Habit
Lady Bird: "Suddenly Onstage for a Part I Never Rehearsed"
Why Christopher Columbus is history (and why many would-be teachers know nothing about him)
Robert Fisk: TE Lawrence had it right about Iraq
Edwards retraces historic RFK tour to highlight poverty
Wealth gap in UK 'widest in 40 years'
Apartheid-era officials charged
William Kristol: Bush will be seen as a successful president
Elderly Germans discover Hitler made them Nazi party members
Put Mein Kampf back in bookshops with refutations
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi: India's Marxist historian to be feted
Hillary Clinton: Bush presidency "most radical" in history
History is scary in Milos Forman's 'Goya's Ghosts'
History Channel's biggest hit: A series about truckers
Alistair Horne: My history lesson in the Oval Office
Iryna Kashtalyan: Claims her dissertation was rejected in Belarus because she gave USSR low marks
Betty Kemp: Inspiring teacher dies at 90
Saul Friedlander: Holocaust historian seeks the whole story
McGovern gives his response to the Nixon tapes
Timothy Noah: A short history of health care
Rich history of Negro Leagues unfolds
Ken Burns: Labor of love doing WW II documentary
Fears of a Tet Offensive in Iraq
Iraq's Antiquities Department to renovate synagogue holding Nahum’s tomb
Robert Spencer: Keith Ellison and the "Reichstag"
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr: His "vital center" was neither vital nor a center, says conservative
The first computer virus to spread in the wild has turned 25
Bill Moyers, Bruce Fein, John Nichols: Impeach President Bush?
Ian Kershaw: Names riveting works that depict major decisions of World War II
Brendan Miniter: The first lady never expected to be spending so much time on foreign affairs
Michael Tomasky: Is it possible to know Hillary?
Summer of Sam Revisited: The 1977 Blackout
MULTICULTURALISM, A BRAND OF COLONIALISM?
Eagleton Labeled '72 Dem Nominee McGovern as Candidate of 'Amnesty, Abortion and Acid'
CALL FOR PAPERS: Lysander Spooner Bicentenary
Hear Robert A. Taft's Ron Paul Moment
Do the New Nixon Tapes Tell Us Anything New? by Richard A. Moss and Luke Nichter
Lady Bird Johnson: First Lady Innovator by Lewis Gould
Should the Children of Undocumented Immigrants Pay More to Go to College? by Joseph Yannielli
What Barack Obama (and the Democratic Party) Can Learn About Religion from W. E. B. Du Bois by Edward J. Blum
What's Scary About the Anti-Immigration Debate by Jean Pfaelzer
Why Did Rome Fall? It's Time for New Answers by Peter Heather
Will Hispanic Immigrants Vote for the Democrats or Republicans? by Andrea Althoff
Week of July 9, 2007
Veterans of McGovern's campaign gather and draw parallels to old antiwar movement
Tom Segev: Why 1967 no longer stirs the Israeli soul as it once did
Timothy Naftali: NYT editorial praises his leadership Nixon Library
Ted Widmer: JFK's prescient call for freedom in the Middle East
Austria Renews Hunt for Nazi Fugitives
Japanese say war sex slaves were just camp followers
German city of Weimar vows to fight far-right extremists, honor Buchenwald Nazi victims
Mary Custis Lee's Two Trunks Full Of Memorabilia Tell Much About A Famous Father
Classic image of Queen honoured
Laurence Olivier, secret agent
Taner Akcam: Takes Turkey to EU court over Armenian charges
North Korea Deactivates a Reactor
Russia Suspends Arms Treaty (Video)
Vienna Jewish Archive Tells Tale of Nazi Annexation
Brown acquires major history of mathematics collection
Union sergeant's Civil War letters to family surface
Queen attends WWI battle memorial
40 years later, riot wounds remain in NJ city
Only 2 living Americans in top 30 of richest Americans of all time
Prince in historic mansion visit
100 Years: Anniversary of Boy Scouts celebrated
Starbucks exits the Forbidden City
Hamburg museum collects artifacts that document the migration to Americas
The Superhero as Society’s Mirror, From World War II to Ira
Race to Solve the Mystery of Subterranean Chambers (NY)
NYC's Unforgettable '77 Summer
Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive
Former First Families Pay Respects to Lady Bird Johnson
Winston Churchill painting sells for 1 million pounds
Is this Earhart's final landing site?
Stanley Fish: History is at center of the court's ruling in the school race cases
Dewey? At This Library With a Very Different Outlook, They Don’t
Archaeologist: All Egyptian royal mummies are suspect
Barnett R. Rubin: Will Bin Laden Win?
Funding for an Orthodox Objectivist Faculty Member Rejected by Texas State
Even at Height of Cold War, U.S. Officials Regularly Argued Internally for More Transparency
David A. Bell: Nicolas Sarkozy declares an end to French repentance
Sen. Lierberman says historians will rank Bush higher than voters do today
'Texas White House' will be turned over to public
James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn: The 'Kitchen Cabinet' of one ... Dick Cheney
Jerusalem Mayor Wants Ancient Tablet Back
Secrets of Assassins' fort unearthed in Syria
Ancient Massacre Discovered in New Mexico -- Was It Genocide?
John McGlynn: North Korean Criminality Examined
MERKEL: STATE CAPITALISM IS A NAT. SEC. THREAT
Mexico Ex-President May Avoid Massacre Trial
Tim Weiner: Beschloss says NYT reporter has written solid history of CIA
Amy Sullivan: The Origins of the God Gap
Peter Mancall: Interviewed about Richard Hakluyt and the English in America
Johann N. Neem: The Jeffersonian tradition and American philanthropy
Saul Cornell: Steers a middle course on gun control debate
Jacki Thompson Rand: Why I Can't Visit the National Museum of the American Indian
Alan Wolfe: Russell Kirk's shallow defenders
Nixon Aide Wanted GOP to Court Kerry
Conrad Black: Found Guilty on Some Charges
Raymond Arroyo: Why the pope brought back the Latin mass
Peggy Noonan: We can't fire the president right now, so we're waiting it out
Sterling Fluharty: Anonymous historian blogger outs himself
In Timbuktu the race is on to preserve papers that document a west African golden age
Russia declassifies files on victims of Stalinist purges
Libertarianism Being Discussed at atrios.blogspot.com
Ken Burns: Focus is again on ordinary people in WW II documentary
Nigel Hamilton: The resurrection of Bill Clinton in his first term
New documents reveal extent of Nazi persecution of gays
Copy of Hitler HQ built for Cruise film near Berlin
Senate Panel Provides $10M for NHPRC
Education Department Announces Teaching American History Grants
War at sea over sunken treasure claimed by Spain
A Hindu Prayer in the Senate Meets Protest
Sarah Wildman: Lady Bird Johnson walked the first-lady tightrope perfectly
Sidney Blumenthal: A Southern, and liberal, Lady
How Hard Is the Job of Nixon Archivists? You Decide. by Maarja Krusten
Ken Burns: Latinos Included in War Documentary
Andreas Daum: Historian reflects on European love affair with JFK
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: Wins support from reader in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus
FDR's yacht offers the chance to see presidential decor up close
Eighth-graders help restore old cemetery (Boston area)
Richard Bulliet: Recommends establishment of commission to rewrite history of Muslims in Europe
Richard Bulliet: The history of Muslims in Europe needs to be rewritten
Historians among those receving $50,000 Fletcher awards for civil rights work
Larry Berman: Interviewed about the double life of Vietnam spy journalist
Robert Samuelson: Why aren't we happier?
Fred Siegel: American liberals took leave of reason after JFK's murder
UK computer history gets new home
Never before seen color photographs of the bloody battle of Passchendaele
Imagine if Lincoln were president
Germany Sheds Its Past: Former Bunkers Now Up for Grabs
Ancient coins discovered on beach (UK)
Egypt's Oldest Known Art Identified, Is 15,000 Years Old
Maryland: Historical society to shut 2 city museums
Iris Chang: Japanese Film Paints her as Chinese Spy
National Archives Release 11 Hours of Nixon Tapes (NYT)
In Poland a Jewish Revival Thrives -- Minus Jews
Dylan Thomas home sold at auction
Race against clock to save site compared with Stonehenge
Lawrence of Belgravia fights to save old Kabul
Jim Morrison 'died in nightclub lavatory'
Daniel Day-Lewis, American historian
Autopsy cited in Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights-era slaying
Warriors once occupied Dead Sea Scrolls site
PAKISTANI ARMY AGAINST AL QAEDA NOT TALIBAN
Nazi art dealer's will disperses Dutch masters, expressionists
Bodies Found in Mexico City May Be Victims of 1968 Massacre
Georgia Helps Students Earn Degrees
Ron Paul Will Not Go Quietly Into the Night
Nixon wanted to be seen as 'nicey-nice'
Excerpts: House Hearings on the Commutation of Scooter Libby's Prison Sentence by Lee Winningham
HAS THE US ARMY FALLEN INTO A JIHADIST TRAP
Lady Bird Johnson, Former First Lady, Dies at 94
Contempt of Congress: What Is It?
Virgin queen and love triangle with Sir Walter (Movie)
Frances Richardson Keller: Feminist historian, was 92
Abel Gance's 'Napoléon' to be shown in LA for Bastille Day
Timothy Naftali: Expat Canadian takes reins of Nixon Library
Unearthing history at 'prehistoric Glastonbury'
New documentary narrated by Sean Penn compares Bush with LBJ and Nixon war talk
Allen Weinstein: Speaks at opening of the new Nixon Library
Nixon Library: Now part of National Archives
IRAQI SUNNIS FIGHTING A JIHAD NOT A WAR OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
Peter Wallison: Today's world would be far worse if Saddam were still in power
Victor Davis Hanson: Blissfully Uneducated
Victor Davis Hanson: Higher education as therapy
Vietnam using the war as a strange tourist draw
Veteran Groups Battle Over Vietnam Memorial Replicas
Skulls: Eerie Souvenirs From the Vietnam War
World War II aviator donates aircraft to Pearson Air Museum
Ottawa man fined $4,000 for Canadian Nazi Party website
Don Bohning: Review of David Talbot's Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
Czech veterans snipe at growing number of impostors
World's oldest running car for sale
Larry Berman: Suit to win access to LBJ's Presidential Daily Briefs seems to sway some judges
Federal Court Skeptical of CIA Bid for Secrecy
Henry Kissinger: Object of Maureen Dowd's sarcasm
Pope, Restating 2000 Document, Cites "Defects" of Other Faiths
Sarkozy says France should recognize colonial history, not repent
Paul Moon: Historian Wades Into Auckland Treaty Claim Controversy
Tom Oestreicher: Civil War historian touring libraries this month
Thieves damage Roman villa site
Boy finds extinct reptile's bones
Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament
Cradle of Rock? Two Towns Stake Their Claims (NJ)
Why it's American to read newspapers
Tom Engelhardt: The Time Has Come for an Honest Discussion of Air Power
History blogger closes site, afraid his identity would be disclosed
Senate Panel Boosts Archives & NHPRC Funding
Howard N. Meyer: Justice Denied
William Kristol: Why Americans should be happy
Gary Leupp: The Napping President
MSM STANDS WITH ISLAMIST TERRORISTS/update
John Agresto: Mugged by reality in Iraq
New film, Strike, tells the story of the strike that led to the victory of Solidarity
Revival of Morning Star, a play about an immigrant family on the Lower East Side (NYC)
Oliver Pollak: Collaborates on history of the University of Nebraska
Mike Davis: What Our Grandparents Can Teach Us About Saving the World
In N. Virginia they don't name schools after presidents any more
Instead of Making Films About the Civil Rights Era, Hollywood Has Made Excuses
Team to prove Stone Age man crossed Atlantic against the winds
New software lights up archaeology
Cabins prove slaves were Alabama's early iron workers
Dick Cheney: As unpopular as Dan Quayle
Gleaning History From a Blair Aide’s Diary
Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, edited by Robert James Maddox
Manan Ahmed: The significance of Musharraf's crackdown on the Mosque
Mary Kupiec Cayton: The Commodification of Wisdom
Competing to Catch Plagiarizers
Eric Alterman: CUNY Board Names Alterman Distinguished Prof at Brooklyn College
Ubiquitous Information and History
Daniel Pipes: Unleash the Iranian Opposition
CHANNEL FOUR: "THE WAR AGAINST BRITAIN'S JEWS"
Eric Rauchway: Was the New Deal un-American?
Shlomo Avineri: Post-Zionism doesn't exist
Niall Ferguson: A PM offering to reduce his powers?
Ian Kershaw: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Newark, NJ: Five days that changed a city (1967)
NAACP delegates 'bury' the N-word
James Loewen: Textbooks are still repeating lies
Clarence L. Ver Steeg: 1922 - 2007
David Aaronovitch: Anti-Zionists should grow up
Tim Weiner: NYT reporter pens history of CIA
Long history of the doctors of doom
A Do-Over for Russian History?
Argentina tries ex-chaplain on "dirty war" crimes
Russia hands over 60,000 documents on Nazi crimes to U.S.
Bush Denies Congress Access to Aides
Joseph Epstein: How the JFK myth helped wreck the Democratic Party
New 7 wonders of the world named
Illicit traffic on internet. Appeal from ICOM, UNESCO and Interpol
Sean Wilentz: 20 years ago Cheney revealed his views on presidential power
Personal Insults in Online Discussions
BBC highlights Albania's long-lost Roman city
I tried to warn Bush against Iraq war: Powell
UNESCO slams seven 'new' wonders of the world list
Key West Commission Moves to Protect Ernest Hemingway's Famed 6-Toed Cats
WESTERN ACADEMIA PRODUCES TERRORISTS?
History@Play: Madness and Civilization III
JUDAH PEARL: MIGHTY HEART MORAL RELATIVISTIC
Leonardo Da Vinci drawings to go online
The Great Wall is a wonder - but China isn't watching
Gormley to review heritage protection (UK)
Bronze age Ribbon to be tarmacked (UK)
Pyramid Chamber Found in Ancient Chinese Tomb
Japan's right looks to kamikaze pilots as models for youth
German state court rules former Nazi, 86, not required to serve out life sentence
Yes, I'm related to that Himmler
With 40-Year Prism, Newark Surveys Deadly Riot
Fleeing Hitler and Meeting a Reluctant Miss Liberty
For Libby, Bush Seemed to Alter His Texas Policy
Dark Ages Redux? by Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Even the Founding Fathers Had to Worry About Gay-Baiting by Thomas A. Foster
How Much Confidence Should We Have in the Doctor's Account of FDR's Death? by Barron H. Lerner
Is Your Older Brother Smarter than You Are? by Stephen Murdoch
Should We Be Cheering the Democrats God-Talk? by John Fea
Sicko: Michael Moore and Freedom from Fear and Want by Ron Briley
We Are Not Free of History by Bernard Bailyn
Week of July 2, 2007
UK selling off historic properties to pay for Iraq and Afghanistan
Timothy Naftali: Lauded for redesigning the Nixon Library
Nixon library's changes start with Watergate
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: The Dangers of Dim Sum History
Schools obsessed with Hitler, says Church of England
Are American Muslims Patriotic?
The burial of a British soldier 90 years after his death
Enduring mystery of 'crown jewel' theft
Soviet sub sunk during Second World War found
Wagner popularity went through the ring cycle in Nazi era
IHS Live-blogging at Agoraphilia
Happy 100th Birthday, Robert Heinlein!
Art Dealer Sells Raphael for 100,000 Times the Price He Paid
Niall Ferguson vs. William Dalrymple: Ferguson is (is not) a neocon
New mood in Tokyo to sanitise one of war's darkest episodes
Aboriginal violence was "sanitised"
Alister Hayes: Calls for Darwin statue
Eric Hobsbawm: Pessimistic view of the world's future in Globalization, Democracy and Terrorism
Germans to Subsidize Cruise Film
Mark Moyar: H-Diplo hosts roundtable on his controversial history of Vietnam
Colombia army leader implicated in terrorism
Sally Marks: Whither Iraq? A Commentary for Americans
Francis Fukuyama: Interviewed about today's challenges to freedom
Randall Ballmer: Says Baptists have been seduced by religious right
Brian Cisco: Civil War historian to hold 'War Crimes' signing
Juan Cole: Interviewed by CHE about his new group blog
Jacob Laksin: Jimmy Carter’s War Against the Jews
POW past key to McCain's future
Old Glory must be made in the US, says Minnesota
Peggy Noonan: 2 national languages?
Michael Eric Dyson: Moves to Georgetown from Penn
What should citizens of the United States be called?
Paul Has More Cash On Hand than McCain (ABC News)
80 Years of Robots in Hollywood
Cokie Roberts: Dinner-Party Diplomacy
Daniel Pipes: When Conservatives Argue about Islam
MEDVEDEV: STATE CAPITALISM = COMETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Site near Tara, seat of Irish kings, approved for demolition
Two German novelists revealed as former teen Nazis
Morocco lifts lid on past human rights abuses
Horrors of Holocaust in Ukraine uncovered
Eric Foner: Delivers 4th of July oration
Some fear new curriculum has state history taking a back seat
Mary L. Dudziak: Which side Brown is on
Meron Rapoport: History Erased
Virginia spotlights Indian history with new heritage trail
Plain as Dirt: History Without Gimmickry
Monique Doyle Spencer: Crash course in US history
Douglas Brinkley: Historian on steroids
On the uneasy relationship between medievalists and the people who love medieval games
John D. Lewis: A Scholar's Affinity for the Philosophy of Ayn Rand Cost Him His Job
Antiwar speakers on campus are lecturers, not students, this time
Michael Rose: How a Revolution Saved an Empire
Germans Split Over a Mosque and the Role of Islam
David Halberstam: Bush, the Historian
Louis Menand: Are the wrong people voting?
Triumph of Symbolism Over Substance
Keith Windschuttle: Why historians were so quick to denounce him
John Fabian Witt: Bush should re-read the Declaration of Independence
Not all would put a heroic sheen on Thompson's Watergate role
U.S. Capitalism Formed in Early 1800s says historian
Jim Castagnera: Women Warriors in the War on Terror
Ilan Pappe: Towards a Geography of Peace ... Whither Gaza?
James McPherson interviewed about Iraq, Civil War
Norman Solomon: A Bloody Media Mirror
Barry Rubin: Why you shouldn't be shocked to learn about doctors who blow things up
Keith Windschuttle: Postmodernism and the Fabrication of Aboriginal History
Bush compares Iraq War to American Revolution
Michael Gerson: Why We Keep This Creed (July 4th)
David McCullough: Criticized for "founder chic"
Ray Raphael: American Mythbuster ...a July 4 Interview
Andrew Ferguson: How To Design a Lincoln Museum
IT IS SAFE AND PROFITABLE TO BLOW UP BRITAIN
Have Ayn Rand, Will Not Travel
Freedom Fabric: A History of the Stars and Stripes
Is the Declaration's Preamble Irrelevant?
NJ Plan to Laud Declaration Signers Fizzles
In a Tug of War, Ancient Statue Is Symbol of Patrimony
Andro Linklater: The geographical center of the US keeps changing
Anti-War historians to hold April conference
GW's home unearthed in Philly (NYT account)
Joshua Brown: The Cover-up (Illustration)
Memorial to the Victims of Communism
Eric Hobsbawm: Lots of political opinions, still
Seeking answers, yet a president at peace
'China’s Mona Lisa' Makes a Rare Appearance in Hong Kong
Elizabeth Drew says Frost/Nixon falsifies history
David Corn: Where's the CIA's Missing Jewel?
Peter Dreier and Dick Flats: Patriotism's Secret History
New biography of Condi Rice focuses on her discipline
High prices for Fred Thompson's old Watergate book
Maya Jasanoff: We should also remember the Loyalists this July 4th
James Bowman: What does it say about us that Halberstam was given hero status?
E Pluribus Unum "Out of Many, One" America Tribute July 4th
"Queen of Sheba" temple site near Marib, Yemen, bombed
Joyce Malcolm: Our Founders were talented men -- and lucky ones too
Brendan Miniter: Even Gen. Washington didn't win every battle
Kevin Mattson: It's worthwhile teaching film history
Drew Gilpin Faust: Harvard president tackles first day at work
Andrew Leonard: Japanese history lessons
Jack Beatty: Sisyphean History of Campaign Finance Reform
Maurice Isserman: Ascends Kala Patar in Nepal following 14 day trek
Showgirls Return to the Spotlight for History’s Sake (Exhibit/Reno)
Trial in Editor's Killing over Armenian Massacre
Germany Reasserts Ban on Tom Cruise Film Location
Defense Chief Kyuma resigns over A-bomb gaffe
Daniel Pipes: Shoeless George Bush
Michael Kazin: Rove fails where his hero succeeded
Mark Naison: George Bush, Hurricane Katrina and the Unmasking of American Conservatism
Pardons rare for felons who haven't served time
Kenneth C. Davis: The Founding Immigrants
Independence Day Eve Link Collection
Juan Cole: Libby was the Small Fish ... Bush really Commuted the Sentences of Rove and Cheney
Carter Center observes 25th anniversary
David Horowitz: Why We Went to War in Iraq (and why Al Gore's wrong)
Speaking of Libertarians in Counterpunch
Bush turns to history, weighs his place in it
Japan PM tells A-bomb defender to keep it shut
Japanese WW2 massacre film premieres in Beijing
Chinese study identifies 'Comfort Women'
Philip Nobile: New report claims he made unfounded charges
Juan Cole: Starts a group blog
David Shreve: Historians plans to run for congress in Va.
Hiram Bingham III: Yale historian who found lost city the inspiration perhaps for Indiana Jones
Sex and butchery: how Rome made history fun (UK TV)
New NYC cruises on history, architecture
They've long been history; now drive-ins are historical (Australia)
Former Liberal leader breaks down as he discusses father's criticism of UK crackdown on Mau Mau
Bridging the 'history gap' between Tokyo, Seoul
Historic, yes, but the oldest?
Darwin's defense of missionaries
Frank Taylor: Founding Director Of American History Museum, Dies at 104
Some newer history books shun simplicity
John Ibbitson and Michael Valp: Debate ... Should we can Canadian history?
Russell Kirk: Debating his legacy
Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan: The New Strategy in Iraq
Yale U. Press Strikes Deal With Russian Archive to Open Stalin's Papers to Scholars
Opposition to Israeli academic boycott grows
Mormon tourists travel to key sites of their faith
Toledo physician has mission to repatriate World War II relics
Viking ship sets sail for Dublin
Survey Finds Action on Information Requests Can Take Years
Just where is the Mexican border?
Bosnian Government: Pyramids aren't man-made
Algeria finds more ancient rock etchings
Chinese figurines found: Dated 500 years before the terracotta statues
'Royal' Iron Age roundhouse found
Dig at ruins uncovered by storm (UK)
Ancient island settlement rebuilt (Scotland)
Oswald 'had no time to fire all Kennedy bullets'
Congratulations, Anthony Gregory!
Rick Perlstein: How the chief justice misconstrued history in the school race cases
Bonnie Goldstein: The CIA, Castro, and the Mafia
Max Boot: GOP should stay the surge
Steven Aftergood: The Veep Doesn't Possess the Classification Authority He Claims
From knock-out blow to blitzkrieg
Fascist overtones from oblivious Croation rock 'n roll fans
Civil War Reenactors Live To Fight Old Battles
Rehabilitating Uncle Remus (and His House in Atlanta)
Pope Urges Reconciliation for China's Catholics
Howard Zinn: Complains about bad review in the NYT
'First west Europe tooth' found
Taiwan bids to write Chiang out of history
Hammer and sickle dispute acquires international dimension
Civil War veteran's millions reach groups after nearly 80 years
Rare Photo Of Lincoln, Wife To Be Auctioned
Japanese Defense Chief: Atomic Bombing 'Couldn't Be Helped'
Pope Benedict said to plan examination of St. Paul's Tomb
Cullen Murphy: The Author of 'Are We Rome?' Takes In the Sights And Similarities
15 Stars: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century by Stanley Weintraub
FREEDOM! LIBERTY! -- How Presidents Exploit Words by Kevin Coe
The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers by Elliott Young
Week of June 25, 2007
Alex Haley's son says racism still pervasive in U.S.
Lynne Olson: Why Winston Wouldn't Stand For W
BEARAK : AFGHANISTAN SHOWS NO RESPECT TO SUICIDE BOMBERS
Tim Weiner: The Secret History of America's Spooks
Remembering FDR's Landmark 'New Deal' Speech
Frank Rich claims Cheney used power to declassify documents to nail enemies
J.F.K. Turned to the C.I.A. to Plug a Leak
Michael Klarman: Doubts Court ruling on schools will have much effect--says not even Brown did
Wanted: A Bird Watcher Who Can Schmooze (Smithsonian)
Pop Life ’97: Tunes Were Empty, but the Coffers Were Full
The American fascination with Rome
Smithsonian: An assessment by the NYT
Lawrence Culver: WSJ takes note of his HNN article about tourism
Scott Horton: King of Internet Radio
The Break-In That History Forgot
Ted Widmer: Calls on the US to surrender island of Navassa (Navassa?)
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn: Criticize the Supreme Court's School Decision
Support from the left for Ron Paul on the Fed
Glasgow Airport; Terrorist Attack
PALESTINIAN "LIBERATION" FROM "OCCUPATION"
Howard Zinn: His publisher rides to his defense
Norman Mailer et al. say JFK conspiracy believers aren't all nuts
"THAT FEMALE IS OUR CHILD'S MURDERER"
Fred Thompson's senate papers suggest he's not rightwing
Canadians' self-knowledge dismal, poll shows
How to fight insurgents? Lessons from the French
Dmitry Shlapentokh: Why Putin Needs Solzhenitsyn
Jim Castagnera: Remembering “Brown v. Board of Education”
CIAs Dominican station was world’s 2nd largest, historian says
Bush's Plea For Executive Privilege Has Long History
History museum asks: Is it real?
Norman Mailer defends Gunter Grass's silence
ASSOCIATED PRESS – TRUTH UNFIT TO PRINT
Religion, archaeology meet in blockbuster exhibit (San Diego)
"Die Hard" Donates to National Museum of American History
No way for students to avoid Gallipoli, historians confirm
David Robarge: CIA chief historian says the release of Family Jewels should clear up myths
U.S. movie about 1937 Japanese assault of Nanking to open in China
For preservationists, a victory at Brandywine
Search is on for John Paul Jones's ship
10,000 years ago they were farming in South America
The return of the Viking warship
Brown once again is proving controversial
Archives reveal more of Lady Chatterley
Queen needs 1m pounds for 'Crumblingham Palace'
Sidney Blumenthal: The imperial vice presidency
IRANIAN REPORTS MAY NOT COVER UNREST -
Unesco names World Heritage sites
Ha-Joon Chang: How free trade hurts poor countries
Steven Shapin: How uses, not innovations, drive human technology
Robert Dallek: How he ended up making an appearance at a furniture store
Mary L. Dudziak: Roberts misreads Brown and its history in today's school case
Juan Williams: Don’t Mourn Brown v. Board of Education
Juan Cole: Bush Turns Iraq into Israel/Palestine
Germany considers rehabilitating soldiers executed for 'treason'
PRESSURE COMPANIES IN BUSINESS WITH TERRORIST STATES
Notes on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Smithsonian Is Urged to Find a New Chief Fast
MORE ROBUST RESPONSE TO BOYCOTT NEEDED
Pearl Buck manuscript resurfaces after decades
As Pakistan Chief Looks Ahead, Army Holds the Cards
Lady Bird Johnson Leaves Texas Hospital
Historic documents in Atlanta saved from the trash
Eugen Weber: Charting the story of modern France (obituary)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr: Remembered at British memorial
Timothy R. Furnish: Charges liberal bias on campus affects employment decisions (his own)
John Steele Gordon: What the Scottsboro Boys and the Duke lacrosse players have in common
National Archives to Assume Control of Nixon Library
House Increases FY 2008 Funding for National Archives
Gordon Brown: Historian becomes British Prime Minister
Lawrence Mead: America will prevail
Elizabeth Song: A different sort of July 4th
Auction of Gandhi's letters no big deal: historians
Donald Worster: Fiddling While America Burns
Cash-Strapped Death Camp Memorial Sites Struggle to Survive
Germany to pardon last troops Hitler executed
Gen. Grant's Sword Draws $1.6M Bid
17th-century artifacts, but not many Jamestown Fort-period items
Shallow Okeechobee reveals pool of artifacts
Invoking Brown, SCOTUS strikes down school diversity plans
Eric Rauchway: Dick Cheney v. Aaron Burr
Bsrry Rubin: Blasts Middle East experts who lack expertise
Patricia Cohen: An Unexpected Odd Couple ... Free Markets and Freedom
CIA Documents: Student Dissenters Under Scope
Thomas Powers: What Tenet Knew
Greg Lockhart: The Minefield ... An Australian Tragedy in America’s Vietnam War
Tessa Morris-Suzuki: Who Was Responsible ... From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor
White House Drops Vice President's Dual-Role Argument as Moot
White House Rebuffs Congress in Firings Inquiry
Carlos Eire: When Repression Masquerades as Social Justice ... Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Trudy Kuehner: Teaching About the Military in American History
David Satter: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union
Movie about kidnapping of Daniel Pearl
Gordon Wood: Historians' obession with slavery is a form of presentism
Congress Shall Make No Law . . .Unless It Makes One Anyhow
Jeffrey Kimball: Kissinger Gets It Wrong Again
New documents link Kissinger to two 1970s coups
Dozen bishops tied to Polish secret police
Jonathan Zimmerman: In a Free-Speech Ruling, Justice Thomas Misstates the Purpose of Education
WaPo series exposes Cheney's grip on Bush White House
Juan Cole: Surging toward disaster in Iraq
Teaching history as current events
Claim: U.S. Government took part in Trujillo's execution
We should be taking Monday off, not Wednesday
Justice Stevens Calls On History He Lived
Lucy Fossil Approved for US Tour
Simon Schama: TV historian to pay tribute to anti-slavery pioneer
Photo Tampering an Age-Old Practice
Stanley Kutler: Who's Afraid of History?
FT: SCHOOLS ARE LEGITIMATE TERRORIST TARGETS
Juan Cole: Ahmadinejad: "I am not anti-Semitic"
Book, exhibit celebrate baseball's great era of Dodgers, Giants, Yankees
Patrice Higonnet: Blasted again for Bush-bashing, this time by fellow historian
Priscilla J. McMillan: A Word About Lee Harvey Oswald
Lawrence S. Wittner: A rebirth of the anti-nuclear weapons movement?
Mother Jones Magazine: 30th Anniversary of Mass Arrests at Seabrook, NH, Anti-Nuclear Rally
Andrew Meyer: What's wrong with the analogy with Korea
Town wonders how it got a Confederate flag (and what to do about it)
Daniel Pipes: American Intifada
Rick Perlstein: Fencing with fellow liberals over the necessity of a wall between us and Mexico
Jim Castagnera: Sorting Out the Israeli Situation
Scott Shane: Is the CIA Really More Restrained than the CIA of the Cold War?
Half the World Soon to Be in Cities
Michael Kazin: Bloomberg Might Want to Think Hard About Running as an Independent
Bruce Bartlett: Climate History
Steve Plaut: The Anti-Terror Campaign That Succeeded
School named after eugenics leader is now Rosa Parks Middle School
Tom Engelhardt: Iraq by the numbers
Shaul Bakhash: In NYT op ed he hopes Iran will realize holding his wife hostage is unproductive
Japan Plays for Time in Sex Slavery Standoff
Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally
Human Family Tree Has Become a Bush With Many Branches
Trove of F.B.I. Files on Lawyers Guild Shows Scope of Secret Surveillance
Tooth May Have Solved Mummy Mystery
Mark Noll: Evangelical scholar discusses move to Notre Dame
Baruch Kimmerling: Controversial critic of Israel's origins and its role in the Middle East
Poland Appeals to Label Auschwitz as 'German'
Senate Panel Provides $120M For Teaching American History Grants
Local host of PBS' 'History Detectives' has all the answers
James M. McPherson: Awarded Lincoln medal
Hank Nelson: Australian historian sheds light on forgotten sex slaves
Geoffrey Blainey: Controversial Australian conservative to sit on history panel
Cathy Young: Does the tenure case of Norman Finkelstein bode ill for academic freedom?
Eino Jutikkala: Historian Leaves $29.4-Million to Finnish Academy
Kaleem Omar: Bush’s post-9/11 policies have become enemies of the open society
Okinawa presses Tokyo on history texts
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: No swan song for Hong Kong
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Cited as a scholar on China the public should heed
In First, Hindu Prayer Will Open Senate Session in July
Niall Palmer: British Historian says taking a look at Harding is worth it
Now ancestry.com takes on Native American history
History students may skip Gallipoli
Hiram Bingham III: The historian who made the world aware of Machu Picchu
Should Yale University return its relics of Machu Picchu?
Archaeologists uncover site where slaves, free blacks, immigrants worked together
Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi, 84, Seen as Hero in Vietnam, Dies
Charles Culbertson: Gun might have altered outcome of Civil War
Abe Lincoln letter worth every penny
CIA's "Family Jewels" now on public display
Shawn Brimley, Kurt Campbell: The Endgame in Iraq
Jerome Cohen: An anniversary worth remembering ... Mao's crackdown on intellectuals
Bret Stephens: Who Killed Palestine?
It's official: CIA tried to get Mafia to kill Castro
Rick Perlstein: Will the Progressive Majority Emerge?
Amity Shlaes: Why should we celebrate the New Deal?
Audiobook creators celebrate Bloomsday by recording a 32-hour version of Ulysses
David Halberstam: Driver in His Death to Be Charged With Manslaughter
Germany has barred movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler
Tony Platt, Alexandra Stern: It's time to stop honoring the leaders of the eugenics movement
Kenneth D. Ackerman: Another J. Edgar Hoover?
Richard Labunski: Madison and Mozart ... June 1788
Victor Davis Hanson: The good ole’ days in the Middle East
Merlin Chowkwanyun: How Oprah was taken in by a slavery myth
Conservative Christians stage own Jamestown celebration
House panel calls for Japan sex slave apology
CIA releases papers that set off scandal
Robert Dallek: Attacked for writing about dead presidents
Sidney Blumenthal: Imperial presidency declared null and void
Anthony Dralle: Review of Celluloid Blackboard: Teaching History with Film, ed. Alan S. Marcus
History Blog Carnivals in June
Gary Leupp: An Open Letter to the Regents of the University of Colorado on Ward Churchill
Barry Rubin: What can Olmert and Abbas do now?
Walid Phares: What should we make of the Palestinian civil war?
Joshua Spivak: Bloomberg would be a spoiler
Was Bronze Age disc used as calendar?
Daniel Pipes: Salman Rushdie and British Backbone
Time Magazine cover story: What we can learn from JFK
Man who raised 1st Iwo Jima flag dies
Richard Cohen: How the GOP Could Win
Bernard Weiner: An "interview" with a historian in 2034 about the Bush legacy
Veep's secrecy policy the butt of jokes
I HAVE YOUR HOSTAGES; SUBMIT OR THEY DIE
Robert Dallek: Appears on Comedy Central's Daily Show
Summer Reviews, Carnivals 'n Stuff
US FINDS AL QAEDA EXECUTION DEN IN IRAQ
SOME ARABS MAD AT THE PALESTINIANS
'Nanking' to hit Chinese movie screens
Atlas Shrugged Companion Published
Petition Opposing the Boycott of Israeli Academics
Tony and Cherie’s Ascent in the London Property Market
Museum to show Poland's Jewish history
Escape from Auschwitz: told for first time in English
About Those Predictions If We Leave by James Livingston
An Interview with Carolyn Eisenberg About the War, Activism, and Teaching by John Elrick
Are We Near a Constitutional Turning Point? by Gerard N. Magliocca
Are We There Yet? Historians and the History of Tourism by Lawrence Culver
Did JFK Say It? by Sheldon M. Stern
The American History Curriculum: Why Is It Still Eastern-centric? by Ron Briley
Was Churchill a Friend of the Jews and Zionism? More Questions and Answers by Daniel Mandel
What Were Einstein's Politics? by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann
Week of June 18, 2007
NYT DISCOVERS IRANIAN CRACK DOWN
THIS IS THE ENEMY AND IT IS EVIL
Bodies at Masada were Romans not Zealots
Lost WWII plane finally due in UK
Quest for body of Marine who filmed Iwo Jima flag raising
Amistad ship retraces slave route
Changing Patterns in Social Fabric Test Netherlands' Liberal Identity
Charles Krauthammer: We must support Abbas, but this is his last chance
History project honors vets with 'The Great War'
Hungarian teacher suspended for Nazi uniform stunt
Anne Frank House receives archive
Vietnam era memo: CIA spying on Americans
Vietnamese, Americans Appeal Rulings on Agent Orange
Putin in call to 'rescue' Stalin
South Korea, Japan history talks enter new phase
Voluntary Cooperation or "The Market"?
Okinawa furious at Japan's war suicide revision
Mohegans restore ancient burial ground
Abe: US sex slave resolution won't affect relations
Historians and artists' petition slams new French ministry
Turkish historian challenges Turkey's Article 301
NAIVE ACADEMIC BOYCOTTERS VS. RUTHLESS OPPONENTS
Challenging the Status Quo on Campus
Chester Finn: Why national academic standards are needed
Should US return skulls of Vietnamese?
Agency Is Target in Cheney Fight on Secrecy Data
C.I.A. to Release Documents on Decades-Old Misdeeds
George Washington's Office Unearthed
Slave quarters unearthed in Alabama
An intact tomb brimming with artifacts found in Egypt
Fort Johnson's shore, history erodes
World War II cemetery in France gets visitor center
Canadian artifacts added to UN's Memory of the World Registry
How Lord Nelson kept his wife happy
VLAD SOBELL: MOSCOW GETS "INCREASINGLY INTRANSIGENT"!
George Washington's office unearthed in Philadelphia
TOTALITARIANISM DAMAGES THE BRAIN
Free Health Care for Roaches in Cuba
More Crocodile Tears for Military History
Archaeologist sparks hunt for Holy Grail
"FULL-EMPLOYMENT MOBILIZATION OR BUSINESS AS USUAL"
Glenn Greenwald: How a good vs. evil mentality destroyed the Bush presidency
Anne Applebaum: The infuriating blandness of political speech
First S Leone war crimes verdicts
Vietnam: Emblems of war persist, but enmity is long gone
Divers Find Richest Shipwreck in History
Combat Camera Units Document Military Operations
No regrets from an ex-Algerian rebel immortalized in film
Fujimori Considers Return to Politics, This Time in Japan
Report Blasts Pay of Ex-Chief of Smithsonian
Eastwood Films Prompt Iwo Jima Name Change
Algeria finds 8,000 year-old rock etchings
Ancient Romans Preferred Fast Food
Karen Armstrong: "Terrorists have lost the religious plot"
James Bowman: David Halberstam and the media's ethos of irresponsibility
Mark Davis: Growing Pessimism Seems Justified
Criminalizing the Classroom—Courtesy of Mayor Giuliani
400 Years of US War Records Now Online
Ancient Egyptian City Spotted From Space
Early Europeans Practiced Human Sacrifice
Earliest Gunshot Victim in New World Is Reported
Carnivals, Conversations, & History Blogs
Japanese leaders dispute 'Rape of Nanking' death toll
Museum of the Confederacy shows profit
Japan voices regrets over US move for sex slave apology
Rushdie knighting causes diplomatic row
Roman city wall found by chance
Pentagon issues playing card focusing on Archaeology
BARRY RUBIN: A LESSON TOO LATE FOR LEARNING/update
'Signing Statements' Study: Administration Ignored Laws
Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side
Italians picket ex-Nazi's office
Ancient Kush rivaled Egypt, experts say
Lincoln museum gets collection of items
H.D.S. Greeenway: Radicalization, despair in the Mideast
E.J. Dionne: Dragging down the Democrats
Simon Kennedy and Mark Drajem: Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Protectionism Looms
Froma Harrop: A Bad Breed of Brazen Republicans
Fouad Ajami: Brothers to the Bitter End
Toronto opens memorial to Irish victims of Black '47
Victor Davis Hanson: Hypocrisy That Undermines Civilization
Did Yale's Skull & Bones Society Steal Geronimo's Skull and Bones?
RUSHDIE KNIGHTHOOD CONDEMNED BY PAKISTAN AND IRAN
Congress Seeks New Direction for Nuclear Strategy
Mark A. LeVine: Urges academics to boycott
"YOU HAVE MADE US HATE RELIGION"
'Feel good history': scholars debate Afrocentrism
Counting the Holocaust's defrauded survivors
Geronimo's great-grandson wants bones returned
Cherokee Nation to have first debate in modern history
Cambodia textbook details horrific past
Macbeth written 400 years before Shakespeare's birth?
A forgotten Nazi military school discovered
Possible White House violation of the Presidential Records
TODAY ROYAL/HOLLAND; TOMORROW CLINTON/CLINTON?
CARTER: BANDAR LIVED IN WHITE HOUSE
ABBAS TO OPEN SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS?
The Decline of the Right to Roam
FBI probed Ga. governor in '46 lynching
DNA of modern 'tuscii' descendants show Turkish origin
Week of June 11, 2007
Jefferson Memorial's Shows Signs of Sinking
Japan Rejects China WWII Slavery Suit
57 years later in Cuba a Hemingway founded fishing competition still going strong
Roman road found at gas pipeline
Irish victims of Stalin uncovered
Against Liberal Internationalism
Old barrel symbolizes nazi nuke failure
David McCullough: The famed biographer speaks to a crowd of hundreds and later discusses the library
Christopher Alan Bayly: Investigative historian knighted
Psychologists in the Service of the State, and A Skeptical Look at Peer Review
David Starkey: TV historian gets Queen's honour
Time Capsule Unveiling Reveals Rusty 1957 Plymouth
North Carolina Governor's history gets favorable edit
IRAQIS SHOULD WATCH PALESTINIAN CHOICES
US hands back artefacts to Peru
Remembering French Hero of the American Revolution
Arrest Uncovers Divide in Hmong-Americans
An Unexpected Odd Couple: Free Markets and Freedom
Giuliani Cites Reagan, Not Bush, as Model for Strong Leadership
German women seized during World War II seek recognition
DePaul Boycott Organized to Support Finkelstein
ISRAELI SOLDIER, PALESTINIAN KID & A STONE.
Americans shorter on average than Europeans
WWII MIAs Now Listed In Electronic Database
Navy Pilot Missing From Vietnam War Is Identified
Chinese find shipwreck laden with Ming porcelain
White supremacists from across the country gather for a trip to the Met.
Shingo, Japan: Where Jesus Spent His Old Age
Climb retracing the steps of Mallory successful
Seale convicted in 1964 deaths of black teens
Japanese MPs deny sex slavery in WaPo adverstisement
Azar Gat: Who Needs America? We Do.
Justice Dept. shifts from race to religious discrimination
Steps Jesus walked to trial restored to glory
YETERDAY IRAN, TODAY GAZA, TOMORROW SAUDI ARABIA
Ancient tower unearthed in Vietnamese central province
Treasure hunt strikes gold at Greek ex-royal estate
Archaeologists 1st Century BC pleasure gardens
Anger over day release for Nazi
Six decades later, families still await WWII pay
Timothy Garton Ash: Faced with the tragedy of Iraq, the US must rethink its whole foreign policy
Polly Toynbee: We need a rebellion against a press
Commemorations to mark 25th anniversary Falklands War
Associated Press, in new book, examines its history
Darwin world heritage bid stopped
Kansas High School Student Wins History Channel Award
Records bill clears Senate panel
Saul Friedlaender: Jewish historian gets top German prize
UNRWA RESPONSIBLE FOR CHEAP LIFE IN GAZA
Austria wants Waldheim off US Nazi list
Kurt Waldheim, ex-U.N. chief with dark past, dies
Ron Paul on the Colbert Report (A Home-run for Paul)
"unmixed and unaccountable evil"
Big Brother Wants To Read Your Email
Michael Gerson: Two Parties Fleeing the Center
Melonyce McAfee: How do they choose the holiest sites in Islam?
War and Censorship at Wilton High
Blasts Destroy Remnants of Samarra Shiite Shrine
Thurgood Marshall Showed What `Justice' Means
Pope lauds Eusebius, model of Christian historian
The Six Day War and An Academic Boycott
BBC VIEWSREPORT: "GAZA PROTESTS AGAINST VIOLENCE"
LEBANESE PAYING PRICE FOR HIZBOLLAH APPEASEMENT
Priscilla J. McMillan: A Word About Lee Harvey Oswald
Unlikely Bedfellows: The FBI and Higher Ed
Original Presidential Signed Documents Up for Auction
Map of historic abbey discovered
Lech Walesa publishes the Police files on him on internet
Thatcher: Falklands was a war against tyranny
Anti-Semitism at 'worst level since 1936'
Nouri Al-Maliki: America had its civil war. Why expect freedom to come easy to Iraq?
The new Bunker Hill Museum opens
Tudor gatehouse discovered at the Tower of London
Controversial Stasi conference cancelled in Berlin
Canadian Senate says museum should change display that riled vets
BLAIR: "VIEWPAPERS" ARE A "FERAL BEAST"
"And Blair has the gall to call the press cynical"
Heinrichs Strods: Has been denied Russian visa
American Heritage Suspends Print Edition
'86 law looms over immigration fight
Chinese Minister rails: renovation projects damage similar to cultural revolution
US military planned 'gay bomb'
3500 Japanese WWII era bombs found in China
Iran to publish president's speeches
ISLAMISTS TARGET SCHOOLS. WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE? /update
Wartime spies have cover blown by MI5
German Fund Ends Payments to Nazi-Era Forced Laborers
70 year-old nuclear reactor instructions revealed
Tablets tell all: ancient athletes flogged for sins
Researchers seek DNA link to Lost Roanoke Colony
David McCullough: Warns of grave implications for the nation
Politics Keeps Scholars Out of U.S., Critics Say
Bush dedicates memorial to communism's victims
Finkelstein supporter also denied tenure
The U.S. recruited Japanese speaking Nisei before Pearl Harbor
More Clues In the Legend Of Romulus
Norman Finkelstein: DePaul University denies tenure to outspoken Holocaust academic
Christopher J. Fettweis: The war is lost, Americans should begin to deal with what that means
Chris Moseley Named Senior Vice President for History Chanel
Speaking up for Norman Finkelstein
African American Seeks to Prove A Genetic Link to James Madison
Studies show enlightenment has no bearing on torture
DUBAI PORTS WORLD GEOMETRICALLY MULITPLIED
DePaul Rejects Finkelstein Tenure
David Greenberg: How presidential primaries backfired
Former killing grounds become shrine to Stalin's victims
Romney's run makes Mormons proud, and worried
Unique Thracian Symbol of Royalty Discovered in Bulgaria
Ancient Rome comes back to life in virtual model
Ethiopia demands remains of prince
Senate votes to study treatment of Germans in U.S. during WWII
Elizabeth Drew: Nostalgia for Nixon?
Napoleon's battle sword up for auction
Thatcher pubicly admits regrets over Hong Kong
Revealed: Titanic was doomed before it set sail
50,000 Years of Resilience May Not Save Tribe
German WWII sailor dies in Uruguay
Couple retrace John Muir's 1868 route into Yosemite
Mildred Loving reflects on breaking the color barrier
American Corporate Power: Like So Many Other Things, It’s in the Founding by Andrew M. Schocket
Did We Always Care About Voting Rights? by Brian K. Landsberg
In Praise of the Study of Folly by Bryan Caplan
We Should Remember that the Buffalo Still Roam by Michael Punke
Why I Decided to Find a Publisher for My College Students' Papers by Jon Alexander
Why the Great Plains Are Dying by Steven Conn
Why We Can't Let Them Tamper with Habeas Corpus by Staughton Lynd
Why You Shouldn't Pay Attention to the Claims that Israel Attacked the USS Liberty Deliberately by A. Jay Cristol
Week of June 4, 2007
Drew Gilpin Faust: Maybe not the "Safe" Replacement everyone thought
UK COMPANY TO SELL IRAN &SUDAN NUCLEAR MATERIAL
EGYPTIANS IN DENIAL ON WARS WITH ISRAEL
Banning Government Preferences
PNN REPORTS ON THE OMAHA LANDING
SAUDI ARABIA & WE ON THE HOT SEAT
Six Day War: Legality of Settlements Debated
A "Libertarian" Candidate for Congress
Libertarians, Corporate Power, and Antitrust
Israelis Ask, What Have We Gained Since the '67 War?
Afghanistan Exhibition Provokes Questions
New York in All Its Nuts-and-Bolts Glory (Art Review/NYC)
The Virtually Untrammeled Power of Presidential Pardons
Plessy decision cited in major gay marriage case
Barry Rubin: Interviewed about 6-Day War
Patrice Higonnet: Conservative newspaper blasts Harvard scholar for writing a Bush-bashing book
Trevor Plante: Archivist Discovers Long-lost Lincoln Letter
Teaching American History Grants Spared Budget Ax
Gerald R. Ford Prize Awarded for Expose of Bush's signing statements
Lenin's great-grandmother burnt at the stake as a witch
Tom Segev, Mona El-Farra and Norman Finkelstein: On the 6-Day War and Its 40-Year Legacy (debate)
State's first concrete road becomes history (Miss.)
With donation Computer History Museum buys archive of old machines
Tallahassee branch of the NAACP moving to historic black town
Rebecca Stott: English professor pens novel about history and Newton
Publishers get clever with anniversary issues of books on 1857 Mutiny
Reunion to offer DNA, oral history to link slave descendants
2,000+ Young Scholars Compete For The Nation's Top History Awards
Cheryl Spector: Gay History Destroyed In Arlington Apartment Fire
Hawaii History Teacher of the Year
Saving the Spacesuit for History
Encyclopedia to chart KY history from black perspective
Louisiana History Teacher of the Year
Effort to fix birth date on Vallejo's tomb
40 years later, survivors of Liberty spy ship seek answers
Albright-Knox to get $25.5 million from sale of sculpture
Indians shot in back in Utah, remains show
Ken Gewertz: Albert Einstein HIdden Record as a Civil Rights activist
Lee Shepard: The greatest finds in his career as an archivist
Chinese war heroine nursed secret of lost love
Former Killing Ground Becomes Shrine to Stalin’s Victims
Simon Jenkins: In Iraq's four-year looting frenzy, the allies have become the vandals
Akiko Takenaka: How did war criminals come to be enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine?
Drew Gilpin Faust: WSJ criticizes her for not attending ROTC ceremony
The Last Jews of Libya (documentary)
Claim by insider: LBJ covered-up truth about Israel's attack in '67 on USS Liberty
NYT blasts Cherokee for excluding blacks
Robert Kurson: Curators Under the Sea
Fritz Stern: Comes in for harsh commentary in London Review of Books
Acropolis, Chichen Itza lead New 7 Wonders contest
Eric Rauchway: The Great Voter-Fraud Myth
Paul Kengor: 25 years after the Pope and Ronald Reagan met in Rome
P. David Hornik: Boycotting the Jews in Britain
The meaning of the death of Captain America
Robert McFarlane: Iraq looking more and more like Vietnam in 1968
Opposition growing to boycott of Israel
2 models for digitizing collections
Slave Passage Found at Washington House
NICARAGUA’S UNREFORMED DANIEL ORTEGA
Six Day War: The Land Controversy
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF HEBREW U.
SWITZERLAND, IRAN'S NEXT BEST FRIEND?
James Madison's Montpelier slave descendants to reunite
Note by Lincoln Found by National Archives
National Archives uncovers original Lincoln document
The Onion features Interview with GW on Iraq
Michael Oren: A Possible Solution for Jerusalem
Tom Engelhardt: Iraq Has Always Been "South Korea" for the Bush Administration
GAYS, LIKE FEMINISTS, IGNORE THE PLIGHT OF THEIR FOREIGN BRETHREN
Families search Pakistan for lost PoWs
Archaeologists help Andersonville dig up history
Ruins of Ancient Pompeii Yield Secrets of Roman Households
Israel Museum Puts Medieval Hebrew Manuscript on Display
Satellites Spot Lost Egyptian Cities From Space
Auction of war diaries of a member of the King's Scottish Borders
Recalling D-Day, Gates Urges a Stronger Alliance
British and Irish sites join global danger list
Spain traps US ships in row over treasure
Six Day War: Western Jerusalem, United in Theory
Cromwell miniature sells, warts and all
Alfred McCoy: Tried to warn School Board that Laotian was linked to war crimes
Copy of JFK Death Certificate for Sale
Vatican says it tried to save Jews from Nazis
Ad saluting Tiananmen slips into Chinese paper
Frederick Kagan: Misunderstanding the Surge
Michael Oren: Interviewed about the Middle East
Goldman Sachs Endows King Chair
Jim Clark, Sheriff Who Enforced Segregation, Dies at 84
ANTI GLOBALIZATION NEO-BARBARIANS INCLUDE NEO-NAZIS
BIN LADEN'S BODYGUARD IS RIGHT
FINDER'S KEEPERS? SPAIN SAYS NO WAY
Eric Boehlert: Jeff Gerth blames NY Times editors for Whitewater "mistakes"
Peter Worthington: 6 days that changed the world
50 greatest moments in the Puerto Rican Parade (NYC)
Simon Jenkins: This Russian risk could yet dwarf our blunder on Iraq
Images of dying Diana anger her sons
Napoleon plans to conquer seat (Australia)
Ultimate D-Day hero recalls cliffs of Normandy
Victor Davis Hanson: The Global Immigration Problem
Elie Wiesel and other Jewish Leaders to Confront U.S. Jewish Leaders' Holocaust Record
Michael Oren: Newly de-classified documents debunk claim that Israel sought '67 War
Some Publishers Warm to Google Book Search
Judge throws out efforts to keep Chief
Churchill hearse being used by WW II vets
Scott McLemee: C.L.R. James Meets Tony Soprano
Eugene Volokh: Is Anti-Semitism Good for the Jews?
Prehistoric iceman "Otzi" died from arrow wound
St. Augustine historical sites to be taken over by school
Egyptian pilot: We felt humiliated (1967)
Sam Wineburg: Opening Up the Textbook to an Alternative Viewpoint
Barry Rubin: Interviewed about Syria
Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
John Ferling: Interviewed about the Am Rev
Ron Paul's Comments at the Debate
And Now for Something Completely Different.....the BBC and Ron Paul
UK conservative leader says history should celebrate success
The Bad Good Shepherd (what the movie got right and wrong)
Michael Oren: In interview says Arabs indeed threatened war in '67
Vestige of British Rule in Hong Kong About to Vanish
AHA Council Supports Statement Against Detention of Scholars in Iran
Robert Dallek: Dares to criticize book on Hillary by ex-NYT reporters in the NYT
John Tierney: Rachel Carson's bad science
Egypt: No to Ancient Pyramids on Stamp
Telegraph's D-Day dispatches go on show
The Deep South revisited at KKK trial
What happened to Hitler's master race? (video)
Tokyo's 2,001-Foot Tower Will Be Tallest Freestanding Antenna
Tony Platt: Review of Jean Pfaelzer's Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
Paul Street: Do Edwards and Obama Really Believe the Myth of Post WW II Benevolence?
Shaming the Official Antiwar Movement
Intellectual Diversity in Missouri
Vatican tried to enlist Jews as guards during WWII
Fred Notehelfer: Honored for Leadership in Japanese Studies
Bret Stephens: Most of the conventional wisdom about the Six Day War is wrong
David Meir-Levi: Remembering The Six-Day War
Aviva Chomsky: Fallacies of the immigration debate
Warren Goldstein: The Conundrum That Is Barry Bonds
In Camden, Campbell Co. Says It May Go if Sears Building Stays
82,000 year old jewellery found
Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus
WWII Jewish mass grave uncovered
Group says plane is no 'Nazi tribute'
Berlin Will Build Memorial to Gay Victims of Nazi Regime
Norwegian Nazi who served in SS found in Marbella
Tom Segev: What if Israel Had Turned Back?
Romans and Jews once lived in Palestinian neighborhood
Daniel Pipes: Establishes a legal defense fund for experts sued by Islamists
Daniel Pipes: Islamists in the Courtroom
Robert Dreyfuss: The Pentagon's Blank Check
Juan Cole: Libby gets 30 months
East Jerusalem-40 Years Since the 6 Day-War
Horace Mann teacher shouldn't have been fired says historian, but ...
James P. Pinkerton: The Republican insiders’ guide to ethnic manipulation
Defense Officials Tried to Reverse China Policy, Says Powell Aide
Documents indicate Israel wasn't the underdog in '67
Klan suspect faces justice after 43 years
Daniel Pipes: MPAC, CAIR, and Praising Osama bin Laden
Do Historians Need Philosophy?
Aboriginal war heroes whose only reward was discrimination and prejudice
Search fails for Australia's first sub
New book details Hitler plot to kidnap pope, foiled by Nazi general
Germany plans entry fee for concentration camps
Medic's Western Front diaries for sale
Cash for a bit of the old Hollywoodland sign
How one filing cabinet held 500 years of history
Abraham Rabinovich: How the West Bank was accidentally won
Young girl's Holocaust diary emerges
Tom Segev: Offers fresh look at 6-Day War
Michael Beschloss: WaPo pans his book on presidential courage
Samuel Huntington: Academic claims the clash of civilizations is a dangerous myth
Andrew Roberts: In praise of the 'Anglosphere'
In Senate personal histories shape immigration views
Labor union teaching labor history to teachers
PUTIN OVERSTEPS AT HOME AS WELL AS ABROAD
Michael Oren: Remaking the world in six days
New Name and Mission for Museum of Television
NYT says Bernstein book on Hillary has few revelations
Tom Segev: The Six-Day War, 40 Years Later
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek
Chinese Commemorate 18th Anniversary of Tiananmen Crackdown
Anthony Wells-Cole: Solves riddle of ancient carvings on Scottish castle
British historian's mistake led to sale of valuable tapestry
Russians can't get enough English history
A leap back in time shows Czechs ate frogs' legs first
MP's fury over Stonehenge funding
Colombia fights U.S. diver for treasure
What happened to London after Roman rule?
Edward Blum: Being young no bar to teaching history
A Maryland black history museum?
Heiligendamm has seen best, worst of German history
Eric Alterman: He explains why he was arrested in the Spin Room
Eric Alterman: Released after being arrested in Spin Room
Richard Wolin: Says there's been a shift in intellectuals' priorities
Seattle's Pike Place Market is 100 years old
How 1967 defined the Middle East
US - INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL HOSTAGE TO ANTIAMERICANISM
Student visitors to Philly reenact gay protest of 1965
George Packer: Bush's legacy will be ...
Frost/Nixon: What the NYC Play Is All About ... Controlling History
Robert McHenry: Israel’s Pyrrhic Victory - The Six-Day War
Andrew Weaver: More questions about SMU's deal for the Bush library
Long list of prominent historians come to defense of H.S. teacher dismissed for writing a novel
Ron Paul on "The Daily Show" Tonight
THE SIX DAY WAR - AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
SIX DAY WAR - ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE
THE SIX DAY WAR - AMERICAN JEWISH PERSPECTIVE
Heather Rogers: Thomas Edison's still relevant
Ken Adelman: Scuttle diplomacy (Reagan compared with Bush)
Michael Oren: 5 best books about the Middle East are ...
How Ronald Reagan Reinvented Religion by John Patrick Diggins
Legislation Introduced to Investigate the Internment of Japanese Latin Americans by John Elrick
Should We Feel Helpless to Effect Change? by Nancy C. Unger
The Book that Should Be on President Bush's Reading List by Timothy Stewart-Winter
Thomas Jefferson, Still the Democratic Party's Hero? by Susan Dunn
Why Do We Hear About the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions? Where Are the Other 99? by Troy Vettese
Why Guernica Speaks to Us Now More than Ever by Ian Patterson
Week of May 28, 2007
BRITISH ACADEMIC BOYCOTT REDUX
Replace Underground Railroad site with parking lot?
Oregon paper posts online history of Japanese internment
New emphasis on black history in Virginia
History explains why TB case caused alarm
Michael Oren: On Bush's typical American intentions in the Middle East
Dominique Clément: Says the boomers bring peace to Canada
Novel features historian as main character
A Nation's Lost Holocaust History, Now on Display
UK Pub row over which one is the oldest
Peter and Dan Snow tell Andrew Pettie about the eight key battles that shaped the 20th century
Peter Parker: They won history's biggest gamble (India)
High Schools Use Civ III Mod to Teach Canadian History
Gingrich discusses history, future during Maui visit
Juan Cole: Gore on Bush Propaganda
Judith Apter Klinghoffer: The 6-Day War was 40 Years Ago
Horace Mann history teacher's novel raises hackles
Philly wonders what to do with dig at President's House
Karen Armstrong: Says the afterlife is a "red herring" and hating religion is a pathology
Niall Ferguson: Africa has always generated hot air
NYT neglects to mention Nasser's role in expelling the UN from the Sinai
With Korea as Model, Bush Team Ponders Long Support Role in Iraq
Soviet-Style 'Torture' Becomes 'Interrogation'
Iraq's Curse: A Thirst for Final, Crushing Victory
Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Album: No, Not Everyone Enjoyed the Show
Less Notice When Hinckley Leaves Hospital
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION DOES NOT PIT THE WEST AGAINST THE REST
Alexander Cockburn on the Last of the Texas Outsiders
REAGAN DIARY: THATCHER SAID NO
Cliopatria Welcomes Daniel Larison
THE INFORMATION BATTLE OVER IRAN
Alan J. Kuperman: Genocide ... The Cases of Rwanda and Sudan
Herbert Norman: More than a victim of McCarthyism
Forty years later, the myth of Jerusalem is splintering
Bernstein on Hillary Clinton's ambition
Amazing Maps Made by John Smith
Coney Island's past to be preserved
Michael Lind: Give legal residents a chance to become citizens fast
Economist: Israel's wasted victory
Shaul Bakhash: Interviewed on PBS about his wife's ordeal
New Texas Museum Celebrates Hispanic Culture
Victor Davis Hanson: Is the Sky Falling on America?
Neatorama: This Won’t Hurt a Bit: A Painlessly Short (and Incomplete) Evolution of Execution.
Günter Grass: How I Spent the War
Rick Perlstein: Rigging the marketplace of ideas
W. K. Pritchett: Classicist, dead at 98
Juan Cole: On the False Analogy Between Iraq and South Korea
Poll: Over 25% of Israeli Arabs deny Holocaust
Daniel Pipes: MPAC, CAIR, and Praising Osama bin Laden
Peggy Noonan: President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder
Lost documents shed light on Black Death
Pakistan minister defends history textbooks
History Channel pulls in big ratings for show on Star Wars
Rochester still upset with mayor's plan to get rid of city historian
Argentina uncovers Eichmann pass
Chinese protest Japan war crimes
David Dorado Romo: The Nazis learned about Zyklon B from the US treatment of Mexicans
Shaul Bakhash: Md. bank freezes funds of historian over controversy involving his wife
Early humans 'learnt to walk in the trees'
Ex-Presidents at Billy Graham Library Opening
Jonathan Alter: Phony Analogies (Re: Iraq & Vietnam)
A Day in the Life: Sgt. Pepper Turns 40
XM recreates D-Day radio coverage in real-time
U.S. Data Show Rapid Minority Growth in School Rolls
Alabama: Governor Signs Slavery Apology
Spain goes to court in fight over treasure
Low Lake Okeechobee water uncovers ancient site
FEMINIST HILLARY IGNORES PLIGHT OF IRANIAN WOMEN
Medical Marijuana Pioneer Rest in Peace
Wendy Kaminer on Richard Posner on Plagiarism
Australian citizenship test to quiz on history
Henry Kissinger: The Lessons of Vietnam
Fake tribute to Harriet Tubman?
BEIJING – KEY TO ENDING GENOCIDE IN DARFUR?
IRAN: 14,635 ARRESTED IN MORALISATION CAMPAIGN
Aperture Foundation Photograph Exhibits
National Archives to Release Nixon White House Tapes
National History Center to Host History Education Summit
A new movie about WW II Japanese asks where the war-crimes buck stops
Valerie Wilson Sues C.I.A. Over Memoir
Jim Sleeper: David Brooks ... A Columnist Who Doesn't Know Himself or His Country
History Channel to launch in South East Asia on 15 June
History of Modern Britain, BBC2
Thomas Matteo: 4th Staten Island historian
Fallen soliders MySpace profiles serve as everlasting voices
Patrick Stockstill: Academy Awards historian was 57
Mark Danner: Words in a Time of War
Only now are Taiwan's spies on China telling their stories
Where does the term quarantine come from?
Diane Ravitch: First, Get the Knowledge
Bill Fletcher: Anti-Immigrant in Black Face?
What other actors have switched to politics?
Bush Envisions US Presence in Iraq Like South Korea
Push grows for slavery apology in US House
Walter Laqueur: He's still pessimistic about Europe
Japanse court rules against compensation for Korean women
Wendy Kaminer: Plagiarism, according to Judge Richard Posner
Norman Podhoretz: I hope President Bush bombs Iran
Maureen Ogle: The Perils and Pleasures of Going “Popular” (Or My Life as a Loser)
Maureen Ogle: Wins Hustler Mag's book of the month
Alexandra M. Lord: Became a public historian because she couldn't get an academic job? No way.
MESA warns scholars about traveling to Iran
Denver Post: Fire Ward Churchill
AMERICAN MUSLIMS, ISRAEL AND SUICIDE BOMBING
Lynne Duke: The Shackles in the Shadows of History
Max Boot: Fire the incompetents, find the Pattons
Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Latest Boycott Vote Against Israeli Academic Institutions
Al Knight: Decision on Ward Churchill Correct
Michael Beschloss: Finding Faith in the Oval Office
Simon Sebag Montefiore: 'I used to be the most shambolic person...'
Iran’s Giant Shoe Box of Faded Photographs, Full of the Unexpected
In Historic First, World Population Now Majority Urban
Scottish history at risk from erosion by the sea
Archaeologist discovers 1814 breastwork in Sackets Harbor
WW II interrogation methods better than those US uses now?
William Underwood: Proof of POW Forced Labor for Japan’s Foreign Minister
William Underwood: Proof of POW Forced Labor for Japan’s Foreign Minister
Proof of POW Forced Labor for Japan's Foreign Minister
Shiraz Dossa: Professors attack him for attending Iran's Holocaust Conference
Middle East historians criticized by CampusWatch
Donald and Frederick Kagan: Cited by Maureen Dowd in NYT column
Shaul Bakhash: Now Tom Friedman takes up the case of his wife, the imprisoned Iran scholar
Philip Zelikow: Calls CIA "enhanced interrogation" methods immoral
The Value of Electoral Politics as Education: Juan Cole Defends Ron Paul
IRANIAN LABOR LEADER SENTENCED TO 6 YEARS
Should British Academics, or Rock Bands, Boycott Israel?
U.S. history enjoys a renaissance
Niall Ferguson: When did he change his mind about Iraq?
Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen: PhD's who can't write grammatical sentences
Nadia Kizenko: Behind the headlines of Putin's embrace of the Russian Orthodox Church
Lawyer: Cheney visitor logs not recorded
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Would life be different if JFK was alive for his 90th birthday?
Legal Policy for a Twilight War by Philip Zelikow
British Library, You've Got Mail, and It's Not Spam
Jean Edward Smith: Stretching Executive Power in Wartime
James McPherson: Featured at daylong colloquium
Jesus de la Teja: Appointed first official state historian of Texas
Douglas Brinkley: Reagan was a pragmatic conservative, says historian
Largest-ever exhibit of Frida Kahlo work to open in Mexico
Obsolete vehicles, big guns and other relics of war live on at a military history museum
Your chance to own a scrap of Diana's dress
Shiraz Dossa: Professor who attended Holocaust conference blasts critics as Islamophobes
Tim Butcher: How I followed Stanley's path into the dark heart of Africa
MUHAMMAD "PROMISED" ALL JEWS WILL DIE/update
Kei Kumai: Japanese film director who won acclaim for confronting his country's history (obit)
Edward Behr: Journalist and historian dies at 81
Ryszard Kapuscinski: Polish historian outed as communist spy
Demolition of churches faces French resistance
Clea Lutz Bunch: Surviving the Middle East
An Apparent Bias Against Civil War Campaign Studies at the JAH
Mark Naison: The Bronx Comes to Germany- My Visit To Hip Hop Berlin
Who Shall Live And Who Shall Die?--Holocaust documentary now available on DVD
Daniel Pipes: The Soviets' Six-Day War
Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism
Juan Cole: About Those First Formal US-Iran Talks since 1980
A Somewhat Irreverent Interview with Charles Koch
Tom Engelhardt: The Colossus of Baghdad
Niall Ferguson: Putin is heading for a worrying future
Russian space history exhibition in Pakistan
Actor's son to help preserve history of Lake Tahoe
Walter Issacson: New book on Einstein praised
Taylor Branch: Denies telling reporters that the Clintons signed a pact of ambition
Larry Berman: His book on Vietnamese spy criticized by conservative website
Andrew Roberts: Michael Barone explains how the "Glorious" Revolution led to the American one
R&D Link Collection for Tuesday
Lecture cancelled at Harvard after scientist calls Alan Dershowitz a Nazi
UC president recommends Ward Churchill be fired
Qadiriya Shrine Damaged in Blast
World's oldest clipper to be scrapped
Pollution is Turning the Tower of London Yellow
Ex-Klansman faces trial for 1964 murders
Bloody Sunday victims 'innocent' (UK)
Japan Cabinet Minister, Facing Scandal, Hangs Himself
David Brooks: Al Gore's Theory of History
Students of segregation-era schools push for restoration
David McCullough: Overflow crowd expected at Truman Library appearance
Veterans history project aims to collect more war stories
Tom Childers: Historian says many in the Greatest Generation came home broken
James Beck: 77, Art Scholar and Critic of Conservation, Is Dead
One of 3 last living vets of WW I (USA)
27 Years Later, Recipient Finally Gets His Pulitzer
Book of Kells to undergo laser examination
1200 new gravestones for Civil War vets
Lisa Jardine: What's so bad about replicas? (Cutty Sark)
Philly to tour guides: Yo! Get it right
Victorians, Meet the Web: An Academic MST
CNN Sunday Spotlight: Paul Debates Bush (Sort of)
Andrew J. Bacevich: "I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty."
Evacuate Basra Museum, political party told
Ilan Pappe: Tries his hand at fiction to get at the truth about Palestinian history
James O. Hall: Amateur historian, dead at 95, debunked Lincoln conspiracy theories
Hugh Trevor-Roper: A Highly Paradoxical Historian
New Yorker profiles 3 1960s documentaries re-released
Nicholas Lemann: The diaries of Ronald Reagan
David Remnick: Why the 6-Day War is still being fought
Elizabeth Kolbert: Rachel Carson's book changed the world
Adam Cohen: What the History of Memorial Day Teaches About Honoring the War Dead
Post-Weimar Russia? There Are Sad Signs. by Andreas Umland
Should Bush and Cheney Face Impeachment? by Peter Charles Hoffer
The Kennedy Brothers and Civil Rights by Sheldon M. Stern
The Pope Acknowledges Reality by Robert J. Miller
Uncovering Aimee Semple McPherson's Demons in 21st Century Evangelicalism by Matthew Avery Sutton
Why Aren't We Seeing the End of the Communist Party in China? by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Week of May 21, 2007
Viking longship to sail across North Sea
Sidney Blumenthal: Wolfowitz's tomb
Jonathan Freedland: Bush's amazing achievement
Gaby Wood: Getting Jimmy Carter
Paddy Ashdown: When I look to the future in Iraq, I start by studying the past
How the Pentagon Got Its Shape
40th anniversary of the 1967 referendum on indigenous rights (Australia)
Unflattering Hillary Books Cause Hardly a Ripple
WaPo Editorial: DC should spend more on history
20 Years Ago, a Young Pilot Took a Headlong Flight Into Cold War History
Eugen Weber: UCLA Historian, PBS Host
Canadian architect follows in Gavin Menzies's footsteps
Susan Holly: State Dept. historian discusses role of diplomacy in foreign policy
Ken Coates: Students Drawn Into Canadian History With Interactive Virtual Archive He Designed
AZ Teacher says key events missing from new history text
Frederick Williams: Historian, leading scholar, former MSU administrator dies
Elizabeth Kostova's 'The Historian' ... Author tried too hard
145 years later, Alabama gets flag back
Peter Collier: Memorial Day ain't what it used to be
Bell tolls on ancient Italian tradition
Landmark status eludes lost neon glory of Route 66
Rebecca Clarren: Rachel Carson's alarm still echoes
Love affair might have fueled Jane Austen's writings
Douglas Brinkley: Calls Ford almost a great president
John McCain picks his top 5 books about soldiers
Diane Ravitch: Recommends federal government pay for a national test
Lawrence Downes: America the Generous ... A Lost Story of Citizenship
Would a Sing Sing Museum Be in Bad Taste?
Rich Lowry: It is a mistake to think that war history is unimportant
Accounting for 88,000 service members still missing from past wars
NYT Critic: Drama Is Another Casualty of War
Gary Dorrien: Influenced by Niebuhr
An Impasse in Italian Talks Over Return of Artifacts
Dems: Bush Ignored Spy Agency Prewar Warnings of Iraq Perils
Vicente Fox Library: Tribute to Democracy or Ego?
IRANIAN WOMAN ACTIVIST GETS SIX YEARS
FATAH AL-ISLAM: "WE WANT TO DIE"
Alexander Cockburn Replies to His Critics
Richard Dawkins Visits the Galapagos Islands
Juan Cole: What's amazing about the new Iraq War poll numbers
Protest Puts Smithsonian Images on Flickr Site
REAGAN DIARIES: CARTER FAILED TO TELL REAGAN ABOUT OSIRAK
Possible Aztec offerings found in Mexico
New Newt Gingrich novel concerns Pearl Harbor
Starring New York, City of Grit and Glamour (Exhibition)
Eric Alterman: Why we can't talk about Israel
REAGAN DIARIES: AN ASSASSINATION TARGET
Jonathan V. Last: The Memorials We Deserve
Jeffrey Bell: What Falwell Wrought ... Just the biggest voter realignment in modern history
Michael Oren: Reflections on the 6 Day War 40 years later
Prince in the Tower 'died a bricklayer' (UK)
Martin Kramer: The Wilson Center held hostage
NYT reviews the new Creation Museum in Kentucky
Danny Loss: The failings of narrative history
Economist devotes cover story to 40th anniversary 6 Day War
Jules Witcover: Repairing the Damage Done by Bush
Smithsonian Under Fire At FY ‘08 Budget Hearing
US sacrifice of D-Day honoured at new centre
Books Paint Critical Portraits of Clinton
HBO's 'Bury My Heart' exhumes a painful history
Vicki Kaye Heilig: Historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, dies
Richard Whelan: Cultural historian, dead
Mother of Slain Civil Rights Worker Chaney Dies
Disney's Upcoming Blockbuster to Spin a Fairytale of Black History
Titanic achilles heal (Documentary/History Channel)
Karen Armstrong: Accused of ignoring history and mouthing platitudes
Canadians unclear why they got the day off
Saad Eskander: Interview with the Iraq National Library Director
Study: JFK lone-gunman evidence 'not a slam dunk'
Paul Krugman: Why liberals should be concerned about the immigration bill
Paul Muldoon: Paving over history as old as Stonehenge in Ireland
In Africa the Road to Renaming Does Not Run Smooth
Historic cemeteries rebranding themselves
Those Tired, Those Poor: A Journey as Important as Its Destination: Golden Door (Movie review)
Who Said This About Listening to Bin Laden?
War records reveal America's past
Paul Simon concert sponsored by Library of Congress
Dropping history will not be an option (UK)
A wrecking ball for Beijing's history
Shaul Bakhash: Jewish background cited as factor in his wife's arrest by Iran
Monument to Heydrich's assassins to be built in Prague
Judy Creekmore: Louisiana River Parishes slave rebellion was the largest in U.S. history
Whatever happened to rye, anyway ?
Kenneth L. Sokoloff: Economics historian, dies at 54
Dmitry Shlapentok: How Iran is using history to bolster nationalism
WW I Byng Boys veterans club calls it quits
John Edwards Stakes Claim on Pirate Booty
US Ambassador: 'Be Happy We Didn't Execute Pollard'
Kosovo builds statue to 'saviour' Clinton
Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online
Gen. Grant letter turns up in Hazelwood library
Nick Cohen: What's Oxfam up to now?
RAD Link Collection for a Thursday Night
Douglas Brinkley: On Reagan's Incredibly Personal Account
Old shoe - even older (really old)
Effort to put Roman wall in Scotland on heritage list
Researchers attempt deep water recovery of artifacts
Anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration
Andrea Althoff: The Impact of Latino Immigration on Catholicism in the United States
Daniel Henninger: American politics plays with the dangers of permanent opposition
Elaine Pagels: Why we may have to rewrite the history of the Gospel of Judas
Shelton L. Williams: What I learned from the Texas school mass shooting 41 years ago
Turns out historians CAN access Los Alamos archives
NETANYAHU: TIME TO RETURN TO JORDANIAN OPTION
Juan Cole: Where things stand in Iraq now
Phobias—Why We Should Reject This Idiom
Fredrick Kagan: Notes that the strategy in Iraq has changed dramatically
Predictions from Climate Models -- Some Expert Criticisms
Pope Concedes Unjustifiable Crimes in Converting South Americans
"WE PRAY ISRAEL WILL RULE US AGAIN"
Manuscript That Inspired 'Titanic' Character Revealed in Paris
SELF CONSCIOUSNESS MARS MUSLIM AMERICAN POLL?
Museum for Medal of Honor winners
Immigration, Secession, and Taxation
Turkish historian denies Armenian mass grave claims
You're 100, pilgrim: John Wayne celebrated as actor and patriot on anniversary of his birth
Historians Urged to Contribute to Africa's Development
Taylor Branch: King history award from Robert F. Kennedy Memorial
Experts Calculate Billions in Long-term Costs of War
Most important Spaniard? Not Columbus.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony: If Hillary wins the White House, Bill becomes 'First Gentleman'
Burma Suppresses History, Says Rangoon Writer
History catching on, writing not so much
Jonathan Zimmerman: On Darfur, LeBron James drops the ball
New research taints image of Desert Fox Rommel
Robert E. Lee's writings discovered in 2002 provide new insight
Eric Alterman: Why I favor building a wall on the border with Mexico
The NYT Morgue Packs Up and Ships Out
Robert Spencer: Turkish Secularism on the Ropes
Charles Rappleye: Wins $50,000 Washington Prize for Book on Slave Trade
Johann N. Neem: Review of Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights: A History (Norton, 2007)
Baylor Releases Video Pitch for Bush Presidential Library, but Is It Still in Play?
Google to stop running ads for term paper mills
Jim Sleeper: Review of Al Gore's The Assault on Reason
Lisa Jardine: The intellectual ties that bind the West
Andrew Marr: A swansong to 'olde Britain'
VIOLENCE IN LEBANON SHOWS IT IS USELESS TO ENGAGE SYRIA
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
Frank Zarb: How to Win the Energy War
Documentary about Simon Wiesenthal panned by NYT
Furious Street Battles Remind Lebanon of Its Past
Geoffrey Perret: Looking for a Few Stand-Up Men
David Greenberg: Bush Wars ... The Final Frontier
The History Channel Orders up Fourth Season of Digging For The Truth
History Becomes Mandatory Subject in Korean Extrance Exam
Tim Brooks: TV historian Announces Retirement
Layoff of full-time local historian in Rochester, NY called "incomprehensible"
Robert Dallek: Historian Discusses Book on President Nixon, Henry Kissinger
Robert Darnton: Princeton Historian To Head Harvard's Libraries
Former Head of CIA Osama Bin Laden Unit Teams Up With Ron Paul
Should We Really Be Risking More Lives to Look for the Missing in Iraq? by Thomas M. Hawley
Ian Kershaw: The evolution of his thinking
Rival Books on Hillary Clinton Play Leapfrog on Debut Dates
Ex Giuliani aide: former mayor's distorting history
Barry Rubin: How Syria uses violence to achieve its goals
GAZA - ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER
Bernard Weiner: The Veep claims he's got immunity from any lawsuit--whaaaat?
Christopher Hitchens: The latest absurdities to emerge from Jimmy Carter's big, smug mouth
Henry Kissinger: Interviewed by the Atlantic
David Halberstam: He saw in Vietnam (and Iraq?) that the road to hell was ...
Marable Manning: Interviewed about Malcolm X
Daniel Pipes: The Travails of Brooklyn's Arabic Academy
Gil Troy: Review of Michael Wallis's Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride (Norton)
David Blum: CBS Betrays Flaws With Cronkite Slight
Anti-Semitic entertainment is being shown on Arab television
Mark Moyar: 'Worst in History'? Jimmy Carter forgets how the Democrats botched Vietnam
Oxford Pulls Geographical Dictionary After Outcry in India
Agreement near on Derrida papers
Charts shows level of violence in Iraq 2003-2007
Shaul Bakhash: Scholars rallying to defense of his wife, detained by Iran
Frederick W. Kagan: We Can Win
Advocates push mental institutions for release of names
Reagan's diaries reveal love of God, country and Nancy
UN criticizes Japan on sex slaves
Nancy Reagan Misses Husband Now More Than Ever
The Life of a Slave in the U.S.
MSM IGNORES IRAN'S TERRORIZING ITS PEOPLE
When Former Presidents Assail the Chief
Baruch Kimmerling: Sociologist and 'new historian,' dies at age 67
David Irving: Banned from Warsaw Books Fair
Norman Markowitz: The Backlash Against Labor History
DECISION TIME IN THE WAR ON TERROR
Adam Gopnik: Lincoln’s language and its legacy
Iran Has A Drug War! Bomb Them!
Could Modern Medicine Have Saved Lincoln?
U.S. troops storm Antiquities Department
Juan Cole: Interviews former Iraqi government official who's out with a book on the war
37 years later, victim of anti-war bombing honored
BBC: History of failed peace talks in the Middle East
Juan Cole: The origins of the Lebanon crisis
Paul Scham: Palestinians, Israel, and the Arab States ... Their Opportunity
Carter backs off 'worst in history' remarks
NYT praises Bugliosi's 1,600 page book on JFK murder
Frederick W. Kagan: Don't abandon the Iraqis
Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film on epic slave revolt
Niall Ferguson: Why a Famous Counterfactual Historian Loves Making History With Games
TURKISH LIBERALS: "WE REALIZE WE ARE NOT ALONE"
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The National Cultural Values Survey
Fire devastates famous clipper Cutty Sark
Intelligence studies in 2003 foretold situation in Iraq
Hmong still face difficulties because of Vietnam War ties
Archives releases papers on Giuliani's tenure at Justice
Genghis Khan -- ancestor of millions
The day Argentina knew Falklands War was lost
Carter: Bush presidency 'worst in history'
Arguably the Single Best Essay on Global Warming That I Have Read So Far
A Funeral Oration for American Heritage by Bernard A. Weisberger
Empire, Hegemony, and the U.S. Policy Mess by Michael H. Hunt
Memorial Day: A Day for Remembering -- and Accepting Responsibility by Todd DePastino
Rediscovering American Conservatism Again by Leo P. Ribuffo
Was Churchill a Friend of the Jews and Zionism? by Daniel Mandel
Week of May 14, 2007
Douglas Brinkley: Interviewed on Meet the Press about the Reagan diaries
Hazem Saghieh: The six-day war, forty years on
Eugen Weber: Historian and Former Dean of UCLA's College of Letters and Science
Max Holland: Review of Vincent Bugliosi's Reclaiming History
James Castagnera: Falwell v. Flint ... Recalling the Confrontation of Pop Cult Icons
Paul Rogat Loeb: The haircut that won't die
Found off England? Spain 'suspicious' of Odyssey find
Niall Ferguson: The Tragedie of George has three more scenes
Patrick Buchanan: But Who Was Right -- Rudy or Ron?
Files show postwar woes of Nazi victims
Lou Cannon: Falwell didn't elect Reagan
The right -- down, but maybe not out
A rumble is heard in Ataturk's grave
The Difference between 'Above the Horizon' and 'In the Sky'
Rudolph Giuliani, Radical Free-Marketeer?
Comet 13,000 years ago killed Indians, changed climate
Captain John Smith: Historian or Liar? by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Pope Benedict: Ignoring Cultural and Religious Oppression in the New World by Robert J. Miller
ISRAELIS TRUST AMERICANS TO SAVE THEM
MOSQUE BOMBING DESIGNED TO DESTABILIZE INDIA?
Andy Anderson: Wells Fargo official historian helps bank woo rich private clients
Andrew J. Imparato and Anne C. Sommers: Haunting Echoes of Eugenics
Martin Sieff: We have a war czar. He's called the commander in chief.
Bush I friendship with Bill Clinton nearly unprecedented
Karen Hess: 88, Dies; Culinary Historian Who Challenged Standards
SARKOZY, KOUCHNER AND THE JEWISH MOTHER
Claim: Ward Churchill defenders misrepresented sources
Bible as history/lit in classrooms heats up Texas town
Chavez accuses Pope of ignoring the post-Columbus 'Holocaust'
'Amnesty' has volatile history
'People who have everything else want to own a castle at least once in their lives'
Ancient Maya tomb found -- upright skeleton, unusual location
Wyoming to publish Buffalo Bill's papers
7 decades after Earhart's mysterious disappearance, women's aviation museum opens exhibit
Immigrant at ship dedication says, 'Without the Sterett, there wouldn't be me today'
Japan likely to make teaching patriotism compulsory
Bill Maher: "Ron Paul is My New Hero."
Slate: Slide show on the disappeared in Latin America
Violent protest in Taipei as Chiang monument renamed
Man who claimed Iraq war crimes charged with faking military record
Roman Britain burial ground found
Racist artifact found during Philadelphia excavation
Italian university bars speech by Holocaust denier
'Black Swan' is the biggest shipwreck treasure ever -- or is it?
Paul Simon Awaits Library of Congress Distinction, Says 'I Was Meant to Be a Songwriter'
Salon writer uses word processor to uncover secret Iraq info
Chris Kelly: One Hitler Per Customer
Michael Beschloss: Interviewed about his new book on presidential courage
Barry Rubin: The Truth About Syria
Christine Stansell: A lost history of abortion
Sen. Fred Thompson: Why military history needs to be restored to school curriculums
Great Pyramid stone blocks probably cast in limestone
Tom Devine: Drink-drive shame of top Scottish historian
Douglas Brinkley: Katrina Biographer Leaving New Orleans, Going to Rice
Claim: Jordan could have kept Jerusalem
Piles of rock or ancient Indian burial ground?
Court: Liz Taylor can keep Van Gogh that Nazis looted
Dozen bronze statues commemorate South's 1st school desegregation
Rosa Parks Act granting civil rights pardons goes to Tenn. governor
Deep-sea divers find $500m in colonial coins
UK's ancient history A-level exam preserved
Bernard Weiner: The Roots of Disaster ... Impeachment As Remedy
Frost/Nixon: What the NYC Play Gets Wrong (and Right)
David Greenberg: How Bush Stayed True to Conservatism
Jules Witcover: Who’s Worse, Nixon or Bush?
David Nasaw: Honored at Weekend with History
New E. Howard Hunt memoir panned by NYT
Robert Dallek: No revelations but rich portraits of Nixon and Kissinger
Lisa Miller: The Pope Writes a Biography of Jesus
Trauma doctor: Today Lincoln might survive being shot, but . . .
Stuart Taylor Jr.: Congress Should Censure Gonzales
Oxford dictionary errors spark fury in Bangalore
Ancient rock carving suggests Chinese script 8,000 years old
CHAVEZ CAN'T BE LEFT TO RUN AMOK
Chinese exclude Brits from Hong Kong anniversary bash
On Mount Athos, turmoil as Greek police hunt protesting 'Old Calendarist' monks
Rachel Carson at 100: An environmental icon's unseen fortitude
Book casts new eye on Denmark's Iron Age 'bog people'
Google's one-stop search to yield text and images
100,000 Persian Gulf War troops exposed to debilitating gas
Professor Kehowski and Opie and Anthony in the Same Boat
Damon Linker: Farewell to Falwell
Martin A. Davis, Jr.: What the New History Report Card Tells Us
Alfred Chandler: Honored with an obit in the Economist
Economist: The burden of history in the new EU
WaPo Editorial: Making the U.S. citizenship test more 'meaningful'
Czechs' national anti-hero who, for example, missed discovering North Pole by 20 feet...
DOE finally releases history of enriched uranium
Life in the shadow of a death camp
Another revelation in inquiry over bombed 1985 Air India jet
Aussie students resent 'guilt' in history classes
The Demand for College Graduates
Egypt's chief archaeologist skeptical of 'inside ramps' theory on Great Pyramid building
Cussler's divers retain credit for finding Confederate submarine
Studies: Snake cults dominated early Arabia
Fort Pitt, Duquesne remnants to be buried -- for Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary
Hewlett and Packard's garage is now National Historic Landmark
Medical study: Lincoln probably had smallpox at time of Gettysburg Address
Protest over remodeling of 17th-century Minsk monastery into hotel
Leon Fink: Praises anonymous book reviewers who write for journals
Tom Engelhardt: The Graduation Speech I'll Never Give
Sarkozy brings European history of his own to office, confounding French stereotypes
Senators introduce legislation to bolster history testing
Richard Snow: Announces suspension of American Heritage
Forbes suspends publication of American Heritage
Judith Pascoe: Napoleon's Penis
Harlan Ullman: I coined "shock and awe" but didn't support the Iraq War
Rhett, Scarlett and Friends Prepare for Yet Another Encore
Suspension recommended for controversial Colorado prof
Book on 1969 race riots in Malaysia may be banned
Joel Beinin: Campus Watch criticizes him for statement made to police
Warhol painting fetches 71.7 million dollars at New York sale
Trains cross border dividing Koreas
EMPLOYING A TERRORIST IS FINE WITH DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS/update
Taking office, Sarkozy speaks of 'old France' history, values
Lost pleasure garden of Lucullus revealed in Rome
Pair is first to walk 3,000-mile length of Great Wall
German countess, 102, dies; among last survivors of anti-Nazi circle
Scientists cast doubt on Kennedy bullet analysis; multiple shooters possible
Archbishop: 'Multiracial schools need British history'
'08 candidates edit out whole chapters in their histories
Estonia opens synagogue for first time since Nazi era
Smithsonian's businessman leaving too
So Who's Been Watching the Sopranos?
Studs Terkel turns 95, worries U.S. is losing its memory
The usual last-ditch effort to save historical heritage
Tajikistan's Soviet monuments quietly disappearing
John Adams debuts on presidential dollar no. 2
Darwin's correspondence goes online
The Koreas make historic crossing of Cold War line
Split since Russian Revolution, Orthodox churches to reunite
Tom Holland: Scrapping A-level classical history in British schools is lunacy
David Eisenhower: World War II and Its Meaning for Americans
Robert D. Kaplan: Foreign Policy ... Munich Versus Vietnam
Blair Kamin: The competing visions of The City (Jane Jacobs Vs. Mayor Daley)
Tom Engelhardt: The Nearly Two Million Dollar Gap
Chalmers Johnson: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?
Falwell's legacy in the pulpit and politics
Things Caught Outta the Corner of My Eye
1st vestige of French-built 1754 Fort Duquesne found
Great Wall overrun, damaged, Disneyfied
Congressional Research Service director defends restrictions on access
Alan Dershowitz: Democracy Not!
Timothy Noah: Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade
Bernard Lewis: Was Osama Right?
Looters dig 100 holes at Vicksburg battlefield
Walter Issacson: Is America the New Rome?
Ancient, intact Aboriginal burial site discovered
More students know their history, civics
David Garrow: A 42-year rush to justice
Modest Holocaust heroine, 97, becomes celebrity
Demolition begins in Beijing preservation district
George Bisharat: For Palestinians, memory matters
Jim Barksdale and Francine Berman: Saving Our Digital Heritage
Anne Applebaum: Who Is Tony Blair? The riddle of Britain's retiring prime minister
Market Prices and Peer review: Isomorphic Processes
Claim: 'Soviets engineered Six Day War'
Conservatives and Blaming America (Ron Paul on Glenn Beck)
Opie and Anthony Suspended. Do The Terrorists Win?
Villagers find and loot Cambodian killing field
7th-century BC wooden anchor discovered in Turkey
Harvard approves new general education curriculum
Dead anarchist becomes cause celebre in Italy
Tsar's erotic letters to young mistress auctioned
How Monet's cataracts colored his view of the water-lilies
Alcatraz history gets an update in $3.5m renovation
Sometimes it's cloak and dagger for Torah restorer
High-school history text divides Cambodians
Mark Safranski: Historians ought to help policy makers set policy
Studs Terkel: Weekly Standard ridicules celebration of his birthday
Who killed Kennedy? One man's answer
IT IS GETTING HOTTER AND HOTTER
Southern California history, culture haunted by wildfires
Dr Roger Pielke Sr on Climate Models & Predictions -- One Example
House passes half-staff flag authority
Tojo's granddaughter will run for parliament
Beijing bans scary stories to protect young
Arnaud de Borchgrave: The historian president
Timothy Naftali: Making sure the Nixon library is non-partisan
Nixon years revisited as library goes public
Radio shock jock Michael Savage again compares political opponents to Nazis
Peter C. Mancall: What Really Began at Jamestown
Studs Terkel: Still Humming at 95
Idaho history group replaces director who quit in payment flap
Diplomats agree to open Nazi archive
Town's fading memory of George Wallace shooting in '72 campaign
Humberto Fontova: Is Luis Posada Carriles a terrorist?
Taj Mahal has yellowed, needs a two-month facial
Roman Empire continues to crumble
Freed slaves graveyard rededicated
3D technology to help gain realistic views of the past
'Royal temple' discovered in path of Irish motorway
Andrew Bacevich: Anti-war historian's son dies in Iraq
Mathias Dapfner: Europe, Thy Name Is Cowardice
Faisal Devji: Christendom’s Muslim Midwife
Daniel Pipes: A Critical Moment For Turkey
Tony Blair's decade of peace and war
Historic bowler hats making a comeback?
Mystery solved: How Alexander the Great defeated Tyre
UN information officers educated on history of Holocaust
Id quod circumiret, circumveniat* -- Latin makes a comeback in UK
UN: Biofuels threaten indigenous people's lands
The biologist emperor to pay homage to Linnaeus
Bronze thieves strike Civil War battle monument
Bob Collins, 18, and the secret race through wartime Europe in May 1945
BAKHASH DENIES ESFANDIARI IS AN APOSTATE/update
On 80th anniversary of Lindbergh flight, astronomy craft to be dedicated to him
DANISH CARTOONISTS STILL IN HIDING
Reviving a Nazi-era play to make a point (nudge, nudge) about today's politics
St. Augustine chafes from lack of attention
Israel's 40th Jerusalem Day guest list somewhat short
Timothy Garton Ash: The Stasi on Our Minds
Giuliani's role at ground zero now being questioned
Ken Burns: PBS NewsHour Segment About the Complaint by Hispanics (audio)
2,000-year-old gold dental bridge found
Report: Moscow's architecture in crisis
Ken Burns: Latino community wants details
Spent bullets tell a story at Antietam
St. Augustine chafes at Jamestown's celebrity
Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Latinos give PBS a history lesson
Karnow, Moyar, Brigham, Berman, Rose: Vietnam inspires 5 historians on how to end the war in Iraq
Oswald 'was the sole assassin of JFK'
Kirkpatrick Sale: From Jamestown to us
Karen Ordahl Kupperman: America's Founding Fictions (Jamestown vs. Plymouth)
"POLITICS OF ASPIRATION" COMES TO INDIA
Hamilton: Passionate, puzzling founding father
Do Bulgarian students know their own history?
Kurds restoring ancient citadel to showcase culture
Eric Alterman: The crimes of the MSM
WHO GAVE AL DAINI A VISA AND WHY?
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: China's changing views of its past
Juan Cole: Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness
Avi Shlaim: It is not only God that will be Blair's judge over Iraq
Robert Nisbet and "the ecological community": shared roots
Wide access to Nazi archive moves ahead
Shock as owner of 300-year-old diary in BL custody finds it ruined
Bush's speech at Jamestown: Parallels between colony and Middle East
UK's literary memorial to unknown dead
Rome's new metro line threatens Roman remains
Dallas suburb votes for land sale for Bush library at SMU
Hitler's Carmaker: How Will Posterity Remember General Motors' Conduct? (Part 4) by Edwin Black
The Lesson from Cambodia that Policymakers Are Ignoring by Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan
What Does Kanan Makiya Think Now About the Iraq War? by Thomas Padilla
Why Another Book on Hiroshima? by Robert James Maddox
Week of May 7, 2007
Stanley Kutler: While We Slept
THE PERFECT PALESTINIAN MOTHER
Diane Ravitch: History’s Struggle to Survive in the Schools
William Gaines and Max Holland: Deep Throat 3.0
Niall Ferguson: New York - the new Venice?
Ronald Hutton: Wicca and other invented traditions
Why we have to fear both success and failure in Iraq
Free Speech Under Assault at Tufts University
Getting Serious About Illegal Immigration
After admiring Nazi art, Brit pop star dropped as face of clothing line
Struggle to save classic Thai architecture
Dirt tells tale of two presidents
Researchers find roots of medicine in Egypt
Thatcher unveils Falklands memorial
Chinese navy protected marine archaeologists from looters, art smugglers
Japan's WWII 'kamikaze' epic sparks talk of peace
Honorary degrees for 'Mercury 13' -- women pilots who were astronaut candidates
Shadows in the sunshine: Exhuming mass graves from Spanish Civil War
ISRAEL FROM RIGHT, LEFT AND CENTER
Cancer claims of thousands of nuclear arms workers denied or delayed
'Last Confederate' filmmaker finally sees project released
Japan's WWII "Kamikaze" Film Sparks Talk of Peace
Congressman faces foes in Japan as he seeks an apology
Shaul Bakhash: MESA protests Iran's arrest of his wife
Paisley marks visit to Boyne battlefield with warm words and reconciliation
Jamestown kicks off 400th birthday party
Napoleon lived like an emperor even in exile
Aphrodite statue a step closer to Italy
Poland's anti-communist law 'unconstitutional'
India begins rebuilding WWII's Stilwell Road to China
Confederate flag shadows '08 candidates
Top Nebaska H.S. History Teacher Shown the Door After Showing Baghdad ER
NOT ALL FRENCH MUSLIMS HATE SAKOZY BUT ANTISEMITES DO!
David Halberstam: Weekly Standard denounces his brand of war reporting
Putin is said to compare U.S. policies to Third Reich
Sarkozy won't be offering apologies for slavery as Chirac did
David Brooks: What drove Blair?
Dilip Hiro: Head-Scarf Politics in Turkey
Canadian experts 'shocked' at Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam
Confederate fighters get Delaware monument
Museum dedicated to Sarajevo assassination reopens
DNA could solve mystery of Billy the Kid
ADL urges Pope to suspend Pius sainthood
Fight over London museum's Aboriginal remains resolved
Design credit for Golden Gate Bridge reassigned
Deborah Lipstadt: Holocaust historian draws record audience
Daniel Gross: Why bubbles are great for the economy
Fred Barnes: Can Bush Recover?
Bernard Lewis: Credits Bush in war on terrorism
H.R. McMaster: Subject of a New Yorker Profile
Alfred Chandler, Jr.: Harvard Business Historian, dead at 88
That Mercantilist Commerce Clause
Navy suddenly relieves commander of 'Old Ironsides'
Mysterious Briton killed by Nazis 'was a top secret agent', Gabor Adler
Egypt's 'Indiana Jones' insists on loan -- or return -- of Nefertiti, Rosetta Stone
Ex-trooper surrenders in 1965 Civil Rights death
Ailing 'Bodhi tree' arouses Buddhist fears
Michael Beschloss: Appears on Comedy Central Show
Michael Beschloss: Interviewed on Comedy Central (video)
Survivors Outraged at Holocaust Museum over Bad Arolsen by Edwin Black
A Film Rides The Hamilton Revival (American Experience/PBS)
India 'neglects' historic heritage of 1857 rebellion
Ancient site on Hawaii Big Island bulldozed
Historians plan study of 1898 Alaskan shipwreck
Hatem Bazian: Campus Watch goes after him
Ken Burns: Under pressure, decides to integrate Hispanic voices into his WW II film after all
Section of China's Great Wall discovered
James T. Campbell: Wins $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize
Bible thief steals ancient books (UK)
Daniel McCarthy: Was the 40th president (Reagan) a peace-loving moderate?
UCLA marrying technology to history
Martin Wainwright: History is in the telling by ordinary folk
Berlin Exhibition Honors Little-Known Nazi Opponent
Krisztian Ungvary: New book highlights WWII atrocities
Cliopatria Symposium ... Jamestown 2007
GI Bill's buying power shrinks
CUTTING DOWN CHURCHILL TO SIZE
Alfred Chandler, Jr.: Death announced
History Channel wins Preserve America Presidential Award
Japan rules against WWII claims
Historians Put Katrina into Perspective
Sons and daughters of some iconic Republicans (Ike! T.R.!) are contemplating crossing the aisle
BACK TO TEACHING MILITARY HISTORY ?
Anne Applebaum: So, Farewell Then, Jacques Chirac
Manan Ahmed: AHA approves panel after he includes a woman
Juan Cole: Were Mitt Romney's Remarks Anti-Muslim Bigotry?
Walid Phares: The broad implications of Sarkozy’s election
Tony Platt: Northern Ireland's past has a future
Primary Madness an Opportunity?
When should a secret not be a secret?
16th-generation Grand Master of Urasenke says: Sit comfortably for tea ceremony
Indictment in '65 killing that inspired Selma-Montgomery march
WWI poet's discarded medal is found, will be auctioned
Ancient relic from the distant past -- 1984 Dell PC -- donated to Smithsonian
Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim: Speak out in defense of the Holocaust scholarship of Norman Finkelstein
When Images Take on Lives of Their Own (Documentary)
Classic Book About America’s Indians Gains a Few Flourishes as a Film
Dee Brown: HBO movie based on his book distorts history
Shaul Bakhash: Iranians arrest his wife
William Dalrymple: Delhi, 1857 ... A bloody warning to today's imperial occupiers
Supply of Impressionist, Modern art nearing depletion as auction breaks 6 world records
Fears for Barcelona cathedral when trains start to run
Someone else's old family Bible leads to historical odyssey
A 2012 Olympics road will slash 'Hardy Country'
Iron Chancellor's descendant labeled Germany's 'laziest politician'
The Answer Comes From Within Islam
7 years before 'Brown' decision, the case that broke school segregation in California
2,700-year-old fabric found in Greece
Elie Wiesel back in SF amid tight security
Neve Gordon and Yigal Bronner: The Death of Samir Dari
UN appeals court reverses Serb's conviction in Srebrenica massacre
For Estonia's ethnic Russians, ties to Moscow fading
On Taipei hall, the generalissimo makes way for democracy
Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States (Online Exhibit)
Mysterious Mesopotamian trove found by sewage workers, goes on display
Wartime Pope takes step toward sainthood
US judge drops charges against alleged 1976 plane bomber
Smithsonian seeks partner to save Mall landmark
Michel Foucault: Should we have been shocked by "revelations" about his book on madness?
Steven Plaut: The Khazar Myth and the New Anti-Semitism
Kremlin reviewing 'patriotic content' of history texts
Replacement in sight for New Hampshire's crumbled symbol
Harvey Mansfield: Delivers 2007 Jefferson Lecture
Jonathan Zimmerman: Arabic school's critics are the true zealots
Blair: Legacy may be Iraq war or Northern Ireland peace
Bill Richardson's Brilliant Ad Campaign
Selma D.A. to investigate civil rights era shooting death
Excavations unearth window designed by Washington
TENET: CIA MISLED BUSH ON IRAQI WMD
Holding My Breath for the Symposium
Claim of finding Herod's tomb bolsters Israeli settlers, worries Palestinians
Piecing together history -- some 600m shreds of Stasi documents
Unpublished Winnie-the-Pooh drawing may fetch $60,000
400 years after Jamestown, House approves recognition of 6 Virginia tribes
Pearl's murder inspires scholarly search for truth
The new Newseum: A Museum for Artifacts of the News Media’s Hunters and Gatherers
Revisiting, and Revising, a Very Familiar Legend (Pocahontas Documentary/Nova)
David Brooks: Where History Reigns
Michael Beschloss: Newsweek cover story built around his new book
Michael Beschloss: A President's Ultimate Test
Evan Thomas: The Truman Primary
Atlanta's growth imperils Civil War battlefields
North Carolina investors buy massive Gettysburg painting for $10m
Sunken clipper ship appeared on SF beach in '80, also on Monday
Racing ahead, China resurrects its past
How Roman towns were built on star-aligned grids
James McPherson: Says he's not a military historian (interview)
With worst drought in history, weathermen looking at Aborigines' 40,000 years of lore
Ramachandra Guha: Indian historian defends Pakistan claim on Kashmir
Ancient Greek inscription names bureaucrats
Revenge of the dead: Tombstone topples on vandal
Russia raises estimate of WWII military losses
Jean Edward Smith: The Peace Presidents
Book details plot to take Lincoln's body
Humberto Fontova: The Che Guevara Farce
$435m Newseum gathering the sometimes hazardous history of newsgathering
Possible new Indus Valley Civilization finds
Allen Weinstein: Uses position to draw attention to National History Day
Unearthing Jamestown's mysteries
Tasmanians visit Cambridge, ask return of ancestral bones
Picasso work found in Oxfam book
English Civil War finds delay development in Bristol
Estonia makes nice, lays wreath at Soviet memorial
Montgomery McFate: Wants anthropologists to advise the military
Hammer and sickle to return to Russian army flag
Synagogue by Frank Lloyd Wright named historic landmark
'Silent Heroes' museum created for Germans who hid Jews
Daniel Gross: How hating Bush is wrecking the economy
Professor could lose job for sharing GW Thanksgiving message with colleagues
Amy Dockser Marcus: Jerusalem Before Israel
Michael Barone: The Realignment of America
Gary J. Bass: Why people who favor human rights often wantr to spread them around the world by force
Lynn Hunt: Her new book on human rights is praised
Titanic survivor's papers in legal battle
Nicholas Kristof: America's dynastic politics
John C. Kornblum: Reagan’s Brandenburg Concerto ("Tear down this wall ...")
Christopher Hitchens: The Woman who made Iraq
Robert Worth: Review of Georgina Howell's Gertrude Bell Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
Saul Landau: Falwell and Robertson, Incorporated
I am unsympathetic to President Bush, but this is ridiculous
Details of King Herod's tomb revealed
Thomas Fleming: Chosen as new president of the Society of American Historians
Bollywood takes a chance on film on 1991 assassination of PM Rajiv Gandhi
SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS SEEM TO BE ISLAMIST TERRORISTS
Alistair Horne: Bush's favorite historian
Daniel Pipes: A Million Moderate Muslims on the March
Congressman quotes founder of KKK on House floor
In Which the Historianess Becomes a Token
Bollywood takes a chance on film on 1991 assassination of PM Rajiv Gandhi
Guided tours of El Salvador civil war sites by former guerrillas
In Cambodia, a clash over history of Khmer Rouge
DNA suggests Aborigines did migrate out of Africa
On 50th anniversary of Central High integration, Little Rock can't escape race
KLM accused of helping Nazis to flee to South America
480 years later, Tudor play back on its original stage
When history is intentionally murky: Was Air America the CIA?
Lee Kaplan: ISM Brings Fake “Holocaust Survivor” to UC Irvine
Abe sends gift to WWII shrine but doesn't visit
Poland will protect Soviet war memorials
Charles Krauthammer: George Tenet’s War Against History
Okinawa-gate: The unknown scandal
Petrified wood 15 million years old found in WA
Mideast conflict slows Dead Sea rescue
Seth Rockman: Baltimore's history of 'illegal' workers
Teaching recent history from opposite perspectives
Stone Age site yields evidence of advanced culture
Michael Fry: It’s up to the English to save the Union
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: Shanghai’s Latest Global Turn
Purchased by US -- historic Badlands ranch where TR ran cattle
Hebrew University: Herod's tomb and grave found at Herodium
Bob Woodward: About Tenet's Memoir
Nicolas Shump: Time editors practice bad history
William Dalrypmple: Mutiny! The uprising that shook the world
Vicki Haddock: Are we ready for a woman president?
John Brown: Subtlety is one of the paradoxes of propaganda
Strange encounters between new and old worlds
Rwandan president teaches history class
Ancient monastery in middle of Caucasus border dispute
Daniel Cornwall: Army History Center Author Says Domestic Spying Unproductive
Photos, recording cast light on last sad days of Callas
In Goa, Asia's first gunpowder factory being razed
Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer?
Queen Nefertiti is part of whose heritage -- Germany's or Egypt's?
Algerians see hope for their future in glory of the past
India marks uprising anniversary
Estonia erects monument to Gypsy victims of Nazi executions
Salvage of 800-year-old sunken ship may shed light on three Chinese history puzzles
Russia accuses EU, NATO of rewriting history
1882 Exclusion Act impacted Chinese in America for generations
Germany reminded of '70s terrorism as a clemency plea fails
George Prochnik: Would Freud's take on Wilson apply to Bush?
A liberal case for the individual right to own guns
Frederick Kagan: Plan B? Let’s Give Plan A Some Time First
Robert Caro: Sees no reason to revise his view of Robert Moses
Daniel Galvin: Ronald Reagan’s Resilient Regime
Mad Nazi dream of racial purity revealed
New NOVA Documentary: Pocahontas Revealed
The New World (Movie about Jamestown)--A disappointment, says critic
Walter Laquer: So Much for the New European Century
Peer Review, Publication In Top Journals, Scientific Consensus, And So Forth
Professor puts Confucius back in vogue
Why Hitler's moustache wasn't the big Prussian one he liked
Spy coin scare explained; hold the laughter
The old soldier and his great escape: Grim truth behind 1942 POW ship sinking
MI6 must explain continuing secrecy of WWII files
France Views America: Friend, Rival, or Both? by Jeremy Cameron Young
Hitler's Carmaker: From War Profiteering to Undermining Mass Transit (Part 3) by Edwin Black
Jamestown at 400: Caught Between a Rock and a Slippery Slope by Fred Fausz
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Mel Ayton
The Doctor Is In (Yet Again): Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Latest Communiqué by Timothy R. Furnish
The Trouble with Dynasties by Pamela W. Laird
The Two Historians Who Are Playing a Key Role in "The Surge" by John Elrick
Why We Should Be Frightened that the Story of Tamerlane Seems So Relevant by Justin Marozzi
Yale's Hidden, then Disappearing Portrait by Alfred L. Brophy
Week of April 30, 2007
USING MICKY TO TEACH HATE AND VIOLENCE/update
Myths of Globalization and "the Third World"
WILL FRANCE GET ITS LIBERAL REVOLUTION?
Survivors recall Hindenburg disaster 70 years on
Will Maureen Dowd please shut-up
TEAPACK UNDERMINED BY EUROVISION?
Just When You Thought You Were Getting To Know Someon: R.E. Lee's Washington
Ecology and Classical Liberalism
China aghast learning anew of 'sacrifice' of 288 pupils in 1994 fire
Stalin, the sensitive boy, by his mother
What Next, a Committee on Un-Scientific Activities?
Laurel & Hardy bowler hat to go under the hammer
TALIBANIZATION OF PAKISTAN CONTINUES
Ken Burns: PBS Supports Him Against Latino Complaints
TENET: ROSS RESPONSIBLE FOR POLLARD'S CONTINUED IMPRISONMENT
Swastikas daubed on German monument to Nazi victims
Bronze horse -- by Parthenon sculptor? -- goes on display in Rome
Francis X. Clines: When Madams in DC Got a Little Respect
Retired British general says it's time to admit defeat
Terrorism Stats: Hmm, What Could They Possibly Teach Us?
Happy 400th Birthday, America!
Manan Ahmed: Complains that AHA is apparently requiring him to have a woman on his panel
Gordon Brown: A Historian in Office
Niall Ferguson: The Global Empire of Niall Ferguson
New bio of Condi Rice by Newsweek author
Evan Thomas and Andrew Romano: In God They Trust (About Presidents)
George F. Will: Why Howard Dean Wants to Re-regulate the Media
Eileen Boris: Historian backs home-care worker cause
Jack Granatstein: Disputed war museum exhibit contains 'true' facts, historian argues
David McCullough: Presidents need to read history
Robert Tombs: Gaullist Sarkozy is no French Thatcher, says British historian
Alexander Hamilton documentary (PBS)
Mark Hemingway: Romney shouldn't have to answer questions about Mormon history
KKK witness speaks from the grave
Robert Novack on "September Dawn" -- movie about Mountain Meadows Massacre
"From 12/7 to 9/11: Lessons on the Japanese American Internment"
Reagan's wit, humor comes through in detailed diaries
Jill Lepore: The History of Jamestown
Stephen B. Presser: Books on Clarence Thomas more positive now
British Nationalist dresses as Nazi, sports swastika, says he's not a Nazi
Werner Maser: Historian of the Third Reich (obit.)
Brad Pitt's 'Jesse James' comes under fire
Charles Krauthammer: Yeltsin's Mixed Legacy
Queen visits Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond
Alan Dershowitz: Finkelstein's Bigotry
Drew Gilpin Faust: Role model for women's studies majors
Collected works of W.E.B. Du Bois published
Well, it's just a theory, right?
H.R.McMaster: Key figure in General Petraeus's brain trust
Jon Wiener: Norman Finkelstein, the Holocaust, and Alan Dershowitz
Shepherd leads experts to ancient Buddha cave paintings
Peter Novick: Weighs in on the tenure case of Norman Finkelstein
Nadia Abu El-Haj: Columbia U. anthropologist accused of anti-Israeli bias and making up facts
Leon Litwack: Cal Professor retires at height of popularity, still troubled by race relations
The Liberal Media Ignores and (or Misrepresents) Ron Paul's Views on Iraq and Civil Liberties
A shooting before 1965 Selma-Montgomery march gets new look
"INSULTING ISLAM" JUSTIFIES ALL YET AGAIN
Howard Zinn: A power governments cannot suppress
AHA devotes latest issue of Perspectives to digital history
Renato Redentor Constantino: On the Fortuitous Poverty of Memory (Re: Iran)
Robert Townsend: Google Books ... What's not to like?
Artifacts rewrite Jamestown's history
Abraham Shragge: Defends program from charges of bias
Few witnesses left to recall Hindenburg crash 70 years ago
David Greenberg: How Frost/Nixon gets Nixon right
Gore using "same tactic" in fight against global warming as Hitler did against Jews
BROOKS ON "BABES IN LEFTIST WOODS"
Drew Gilpin Faust: Included in Time's 100 most influential people
NYT begins featuring historians in TimesSelect
Robert M. Warner: 79, the National Archivist, Dies (NYT Obit.)
David Greenberg: In Nixon’s Tricks, Rove’s Roots and a Blueprint for Bush
Margaret MacMillan: The Flawed Wilsonian Dream
Waskar Ari: Homeland Security drops opposition to US visa for Bolivian scholar
WWII aircrew escapees get chance to thank rescuers
Rival biographies of Hillary Clinton due in June
Who's the 'worst Canadian' in history, asks magazine
Charles van Onselen: South African historian claims to have identified Jack the Ripper
Explorers excited about ancient caves, paintings in Nepal
Remnants of Washington's house found near Liberty Bell
Using CT scanner, scientists gain new view of 2,000-year-old mummy
Czechs move toward study of crimes in WWII and Communist era
Claim: Hill of Tara 'henge' will be destroyed for Irish highway
New names added to Vietnam Memorial
Nasir Khan: Islam in a Western Mirror
ABC-CLIO Schools -- secondary-level social studies teachers to partner with
Susan Estrich: Obama's Inexperience Apparent at Debate
Los Alamos blocks historians from archives
Standards, Weekly and Otherwise
A Call for Symposium: Jamestown 2007
Grave of Hungary's last Communist ruler desecrated, bones stolen
Behind barbed wire in Japanese internment camps, a free press
DC library damage $15-20m but historical items escaped burn
Many owners of 1530 painting, including Goering, but Pasadena museum says it's ours now
BL to start million-item e-mail archive
More of historic Fort Pitt discovered -- more to be covered over
War crimes tribunal may lift seal on Milosevic documents
In Scotland, 300 years after the Union, pro-independence party seems on verge of victory
In Berlin, art among the ruins
Vatican library to close for 3 years
Row over Estonia's Soviet Soldier statue escalates
Brit WWII hero accused of sex assault on children in '50s
Rebuilt 4 times since 618 AD, Chinese pagoda is now world's tallest
Juan Cole: George Tenet on the staircase with the neocons
Carla Blank: The worst massacre in US history?
History Channel show explores the cultural roots of Star Wars
Gladiators' graveyard discovered in Turkey
New facts on the real 'Mona Lisa'
Jack the Ripper identified, again
'Woodhenge' at Ohio's Fort Ancient raises interest in ritual past
Rare skeleton, jewels found in Bolivia pyramid
'60s anti-war balladeer Baez 'not approved' for Iraq wounded concert
Vicar's search throws light on Obama's Irish heritage
William J. Turkel: Digital history is changing how historians work
Ralph R. Donald: An Appeal to Fear Ain’t Nothin’ New
Indiana U. study compares Bill O'Reilly to '30s radio propagandist Father Coughlin
John S. Hagopian: The Myths of Caldeonia
A [Gendered] Appeal: AHA Panel '08
Jonathan Zimmerman: Sports and the American Ideal
MSM BURIES PROOF OF MEDIA BIAS
Bonedigger has been finding the WWII fallen for 43 years
Danish MP resigns after singing Nazi songs, but says he was drunk
Once secret NSA document rewrites Vietnam War history
Researcher explores prehistoric sex romps
Valuable report on Scottish Highlands life now online
Charles II's mistress in painting identified again
South Korea to seize assets of collaborators in Japanese colonial period
A little closer to Khmer Rouge genocide trials
Letter clears 'blackguard of the Titanic'
Sean Wilentz: Comes in for criticism by the Weekly Standard
Reagan diaries reveal private thoughts of a public leader
HIGH COURT: BBC MAY CONTINUE TO HIDE IT'S ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS
In Moscow in 1996, a doctor's visit changed history
"The Mormons"--Modern-Day Look at History of the Latter-Day Saints (Documentary/PBS)
Edward Rothstein: Remembering the Alamo Is Easier When You Know Its Many-Sided History
Queen, president to recognize Jamestown's 400th
Saudis estimate 100,000 historic sites, only 3,700 registered
The invention of the box that changed the world (no, not THAT box!)
Prince Charles: Global warming fight like battle against Nazis
George F. Kennan: Who Put the 'Cold' in Cold War?
Jason Sokol, Jacquelyn Hall: Historians Interpreting Some Overlooked Stories From the South
Historians elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Davis Bitton: Gentle Mormon historian wasn't full of himself
Janet Bednarek: Aviation historian to appear in television special
John Mack Faragher: Old West was time of lynch mobs and vigilantes
Marc Mappen: Celebrates New Jersey's claims to fame
Fairtrade Coffee: Does It Buck The Market?
Eric Alterman: Reveals that he had evidence Joe Alsop was blackmailed
Daniel Martin Varisco: How Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech plays today
Norman Finkelstein: Distorting Camp David
Lawrence S. Wittner: How the Peace Movement Can Win
Daniel Pipes: Where the Nazi "Big Lie" Endures
James C. Davis: Historian writes poem about 2008 election candidates
Irish motorway work stopped after big find at ancient 'seat of kings'
Though quickly vetoed, Iraq pullout plan was rare wartime rebuke
Georgia schools cautious on Bible-in-history classes
Historians interpreting overlooked stories from Civil Rights era
Kent State tape: 'Right here! Get Set! Point! Fire!'
Fredrick Kagan: We aren't winning, we aren't losing
Germany's oldest Baltic resort transformed for G8 summit
Berlin Philharmonic examining its role under Nazis
Remembering 'Europe on 5 Dollars a Day'
Neanderthal extinction hypothesis offered
Tom Engelhardt: Bush's Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Martha Burk and Eleanor Smeal: U.S. Needs a Women’s Equality Amendment
Oldest commercial district in the Middle East?
Have American scholars been ignoring communist atrocities?
Palace sniffed at Queen souvenirs
Ilan Stavans: PBS and its latest sins of omission
Hollywood tackles Hitler's Leni
David Halberstam: Iraq, and the shadow of Vietnam
California's Postpartisan Agenda
David Rattray: Times of London suggests he wasn't just the victim of a simple robbery
Joshua Muravchik: Our Worst Ex-President (Jimmy Carter)
Huge gulf in Mid-East history narratives
US PAYING FOR ENEMY PROPAGANDA
Queen visited Jamestown in '57, will see a different place this week
WWI tank fight between towns in West Virginia, Indiana
Fires gut historic Washington public market, branch library with rare artifacts
Chance discovery of Roman mosaic of a gladiator
Estonia re-erects Soviet statue at military cemetery
Historians: Commons leader's new vision of British history 'hypocritical'
500-year-old music code cracked; 'Rosslyn Motet' audio link
Genocide exhibit opens after softening Armenian genocide
1507 Waldseemueller map naming 'America' comes to U.S.
Mark Moyar: Historian of Vietnam, Finds Academe Hostile to a Hawk
John Updike: The life of Aimee Semple McPherson
Richard Brookhiser: Inventing America
Helen C. Rountree: Jamestown, from the Powhatan's perspective
Bob Deans: Pocahontas and John Smith ... The first American love story?
Tim McGirk: The end of Israel's oldest kibbutz
Tenet critics: "He could have changed the course of American history. Instead he kept silent"
Juan Cole: Bush didn't want war?
OBAMA DISTANCES (PUBLICALY, NOT PRIVATELY) HIMSELF FROM RACIST ANTI-AMERICAN PREACHER
Montreal museum to display native artifacts collected by French colonizers
TURKS HAVE MUCH TO LOSE/update
Three Bad Things in Decreasing Order of Importance, Followed By a Good Thing
Guenter Bischoff and Michael Mizell-Nelson: German ties should sway steel firm
Tony Grafton: On his days at Cambridge
Virginia Tech launches April 16 archive
Dan Bar-On: Palestinians, Israelis should avow Holocaust, Nakba
Archives release may reveal new Holocaust victims
Iran May Be Turning To Its Own
Libertarian Futurist Society blog
Confused about history in the UK
Researcher: Modern man, Neanderthals interacted, even mated
Sarkozy attacks 'immoral' heritage of 1968
Tenet memoir draws heat from key players
Louisiana museum plans to tell Katrina story
Rare photos show African slaves being freed
A New Empire of the Mahdi? Libyan and Iranian Pan-Islamic Agendas by Timothy R. Furnish
Hitler's Carmaker: As the Nazis Amassed Power, What Did GM Know and When? (Part 2) by Edwin Black
Mental Health is Everyone’s Business: Historical Reflections on the Virginia Tech Shootings by Heather Munro Prescott
Tulsa Still Hasn't Faced the Truth About the Race Riot of 1921 by John Hope Franklin
What's New in the Abortion Debate in the Wake of the Supreme Court Decision by Daniel Gordon
What’s Wrong with the New Conservative History? by Donald T. Critchlow
Who's Distorting History? Me or David Horowitz? You Decide. by James W. Loewen
Week of April 23, 2007
Jail for obsessive collector who stole Sydney museum exhibits
Sail bonny boat, over the sea, to . . . Eilean a' Cheo
Claim: We've cracked 'Da Vinci' chapel's15th-century music code
Montreal museum to display native artifacts collected by French colonizers
Gingerly, schools try 'Bible in history and literature'
Houston has landmarks? For a few minutes.
Frederick Kagan: Two Months in -- The Consequences of the Surge
Forced to wed in 'killing fields,' Cambodian couples take proper vows
Tim Weiner: Walling off your enemies
Las Vegas has a history? You bet.
David Halberstam: Remembered by Bill Kovach
Victor Davis Hanson: The Twenty-Five Hundred Years’ War
Scott McConnell: Algeria ... The Model
Scott McConnell: Algeria ... The Model
Abe apology over comfort women goes only so far
Watergate reporter Bernstein takes apart Hillary Clinton career story
Elizabeth flies into p.c. war over fate of Indians after Jamestown
'One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This'
Does it have tall doors to accommodate the giraffes?
Let us not forget the Vietnam War dogs
Sand Creek Massacre site dedicated
Egypt wants to borrow Rosetta Stone, other artifacts
DIPLOMACY IS ALSO CONTINUATION OF WAR/update
Frank Langella to reprise role as Nixon
Estonia speeds up plans to find new home for Soviet Soldier
Tasmanians to fight UK universities over ancestors' bones
Tuskegee Airmen want $32-million museum to land in Detroit
At Historic Jamestowne, remains of the day
Presidents of Poland, Ukraine honor pained history, discuss cooperation
Archivists work to save 9/11 history
At Least Papal Sales of Indulgences Produced Beautiful Monuments
Louvre deletes 'Arabian Gulf,' restores 'Persian Gulf'
Ghiberti's 'Gates of Paradise' restored, on one-time U.S. tour
Queen Mary may sail out of bankruptcy
Bethlehem Steel will be part casino complex, part industrial history
Egypt finally opens national museum in north Sinai
Bones reveal mass grave from 1755 Lisbon earthquake
Emory unsealing Flannery O'Connor letters
G. Jeffrey MacDonald: Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
Frederick Kagan: Congress and Iraq
James Castagnera: Tuning in to Terrorism
Basic yet oft forgotten function
Fresh clashes in Estonia over Soviet soldier statue
Massachusetts acts to save US's first public high school
Tenet: CIA warned White House of 'anarchy' in Iraq
South Korea, Japan to resume joint history research
Historian: 'Our history is under siege' in Persian Gulf states
Titanic lifejacket may fetch 50,000 pounds or more
Time has passed but UK vet dies of WWII wound
The Medium, the Message, the Drama of TV’s Q & A (New Nixon Play/NYC)
Shakespeare anniversary marked by new books
Emily Sunstein: 82, a Biographer and Scholar, Dies
Nicholas Lemann: The making of broadcast television
Violent protests over historic mosque 'demolition' in Kashmir
Publisher makes lite work of the classics
WWII PT boat rises from ocean off Solomon Islands
Book: Clarence Thomas still bitter about his confirmation hearings
Michael Beschloss ... Jamestown, Virginia: How To Make History Cool
David Halberstam: Newsweek remembers a journalist who changed history
George F. Kennan: Subject of a short biography by John Lukacs
Paul Moon: Treaty roadshow a waste of time (New Zealand)
Opening of mass grave fails to satisfy historian (Turkey)
Lancaster bomber marks 50th anniversary of WWII aircraft collection
Snatched from the Holocaust (BBC documentary)
State quarter coins have historical symbols; Oklahomans want Bible shown
Hit by Katrina, coastal Mississippi historical sites on endangered list
'Little House' novels 75 years old
Japan high court denies sex slaves compensation
House bill seeks redress for victims of 1921 Tulsa race riots
Historians Oppose Destruction of Guantanamo Detainee Records
Robert Warner: Former Archivist of the United States Passes Away
In first since Vietnam, Congress sets terms of Iraq exit
David Halberstam: Replacement found as Brandeis commencement speaker
Stanley Kutler: How to support the troops
Britain's slave trade records go online
Hungarian coalition party calls for spy files to be opened
Labor's "Right to a Free Market"
An invitation for those in/near Nashville, TN
Estonia removes Soviet memorial
Japanese set up sex stations for U.S. troops, too
Tenet: 'Slam dunk' referred to case against Saddam, not WMD
1787 Washington letter found in 1826 girl's scrapbook
Pastoral landscape now covers a grim Cold War site
Japan high court: No compensation for Chinese WWII slave laborers
Catholic and Protestant will meet at Battle of the Boyne site
German school pauses for Virginia Tech, remembers its own bitter tragedy
In Hong Kong, no looking back at Britain
Ancient indigo dye pits barely survive in Nigeria
UK ambassador details the Bush-Blair relationship
Both sides in Kosovo giving UN envoys macabre misery tour
Found: Trojan hero Aeneas' landfall in Italy
Nat Hentoff: J. Edgar Bloomberg ... COINTELPRO in NY
Law provides few protections for Indian mounds (NC)
Studying early China, to learn why civilizations rise and fall
BRITISH JOURNALIST NO LONGER PRETEND TO BE OBJECTIVE
Turkish Academics Dispute 'Genocide' Label
Edward Luttwak: It's time to ignore the Middle East
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: The Return of the Idiot (leftist, populist leaders in Latin America)
Jeffrey Laurenti: Yeltsin and an American Myth
Sasha Abramsky: At last, Philip Zimbardo writes a book about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment
Digging at London Olympics site for history
Iran dam could threaten tomb of Cyrus the Great, activists say
Cold War Museum may soon have a home
Bangladeshi historians complain about masons doing historical restoration
Tribes in SE Asia prohibited from high-tech mapping of their land
A-to-Z of Nazi-looted art makes claims easier
Early defense of gay rights discovered on dusty parchment
Japanese PM says he feels sorry for "comfort women"
The mouldy dish is historical and worth 11,400 pounds
Tourism at Berlin's historic cemeteries
Guernica commemorates 1937 bombing
Clashes as Estonia begins removing Soviet WWII memorial
Netherlands will make secret files available to Srebrenica widow
New-York Historical Society to change facade
More on Stephen Foster (1809-91):
The Bush/Cheney Regime and Martial Law
'Archimedes Palimpsest' reveals a third hidden text
Egyptian Queen Nefertiti not budging from Berlin
Early texts of monotheistic faiths go on show
My Musings on Scott Horton's Radio Show
Fears for Gaudi's Barcelona masterpiece as rail tunnel approved
Electing to Forget History? The Politics of Immigration in the French Presidential Campaign by Mary Dewhurst Lewis
ARAB COLUMNIST: LET'S MAKE A POSSIBLE DEAL WITH ISRAEL/update
In 1945-46 GIs frequented Japan's 'comfort women'
Kinder view of Yeltsin emerges in Russian eulogies
Karnak discovery shows how ancient builders shielded temples from Nile water
Soldier questions memorial tradition: the half-staff flag
A black burial ground joins register of national historic landmarks
Part of 19th century ship washes up on Prince Edward Island
Yeltsin buried far from Red Square but among Russian elite
Argentine court bars amnesty for 2 in 'Dirty War'
Armenians remember Turkish killings 92 years ago
POLL: US UNPOPULAR BUT WINNING WAR ON TERROR
'Oldest wood-frame house in U.S.' -- not quite, say the tree rings
North Sea survey yields a 'lost country,' Doggerland
Andrew Schocket: Corporations part of U.S. 'policy DNA,' says BGSU historian
Historical debate follows Japanese leader to U.S.
Frederick Kagan and Michael O’Hanlon: The Case for Larger Ground Forces
Persistent thieves target homeowner's Confederate banner
Guernica: Masterpiece stirs Spanish tensions 70 years on
David Halberstam: Ridiculed as egoistic by Slate
East and West differ on Yeltsin's legacy
Marking 60th anniversary of Japan's pacifist constitution, Abe calls for revision
Roman paintings of goldfinch, purple grapes found under restaurant in City of London
Famous Beijing duck restaurant to keep its 140-year-old fire burning
Daniel Pipes: A Madrasa Grows In Brooklyn
UVa board speaks of 'regret' over university's use of slaves in 1800s
Jackson Lears: Historian talks anti-imperialism
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Pop quiz for a hurried historian
David Halberstam: Letter to his daughter
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Memorial held in his honor at Cooper Union
Mural of lynching remains in Idaho courthouse
David Halberstam: Reporters remember him in Vietnam
John Arquilla: Reagan Foreign Policy Ideas Still Relevant
Steven Aftergood: Presidential Secrecy and the Law
Daniel A. Farber: The 'Silent' Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don't Know They Have
Conn Hallinan: Is the US trying to exploit differences between Sunnis and Shia?
Todd Crowell: Australian Psycho
Claims that PM Edward Heath was gay
Robert Dallek: Bush compared with Nixon & Kissinger
In Roman Baalbek, World Bank helps restore recent history too
Zygmunt Dzieciolowski: Boris Yeltsin, history man
China's chief censor sacked after row on ban of 8 books on recent history
Spain's national anthem hard to sing -- it hasn't had words since 1975
Archaeologist's specialty: Everyday life in Pompeii
Former Presidents Bush, Clinton representing U.S. at Yeltsin funeral
Ahmadinejad to Europe: Why don't you allow Holocaust research?
Site of 1864 Sand Creek Massacre named national historic landmark
Beijing will bulldoze one of China's oldest opera houses
A Distortion of “Stop Snitching’s” Meaning
Libertarian Theory and Real World Politics
UNVEILED WOMEN TO BE EXILED FOR ENDANGERING SECURITY OF YOUNG MEN/update
Let's write 1915 history together, Turkish PM tells Armenians
"Dangerousness Is Not a Disease"
Jessica Lynch on war heroism: 'The truth is always more heroic than the hype'
Aaron Hanscom: Confronting Worldwide Jew-Hatred
R. Emmett Tyrrell: On What Clinton's Been Doing Since He Left Office
David Satter: Yeltsin's rule was marked by lost opportunities and fearsome political corruption
Warren Goldstein: Why It's OK to Rat On Other Students
Blue Angels Crash Saturday in South Carolina
Japan's fund for former sex slaves never achieved purpose
U.S. command shortens life of 'Long War' as reference
Foreign smugglers target China's sunken treasures
Amateur thought he found foil lid but it was a rich Bronze Age cache
Controversy over English cathedrals' high entrance fees
Fashion designer Lagerfeld was on Red Army Faction's list
Crown Heights: Can architectural landmark designation erase memory of recent history?
In genocide case, Rwandan denies role in murder of PM, peacekeepers -- 'only passing by'
Aging art colors restored with chemists' help
Ex-dictator to stand trial for baby theft during Argentina's 'Dirty War'
Court rules Italy can return 'Venus of Cyrene' to Libya -- it's not Italian
Carl Bernstein writes biography of Hillary Clinton
U.S. had emergency plan for attacking Israel in 1967
Art of war: At WWII California shipyard, what Rosie the Riveter's kids painted
Pentacle of prehistoric Wiccan religion gets U.S. approval for vets' grave markers
David Halberstam: Author and Reporter, Dies at 73
Historian finds document pinpointing first European voyage up Delaware River
Ancient, pre-Islamic religious sect targeted in Iraq
Darrell Laurant: Is it historic, or history?
Caroline Yeldham: Leading Food Historian Encourages Revival of Extinct English Dishes
Mughal historian: Park can endanger Taj Mahal
Benny Morris: Israeli historian sees Iran as dire threat
Leon Litwack: Retires with Golden Apple
Titanic memorabilia's record sale
Lost world warning from North Sea
NCH NEW WEBSITE AND WASHINGTON UPDATE
Historian: 'The Tudors' omits Welsh aspect
DC to rededicate Civil War-era burial site for blacks
Craig Whitlock: Two Hours in a Nazi Death Camp ( Sachsenhausen)
The wave that destroyed Atlantis
Rachel Donadio: The closing of the Russian archives
Exhibit explores Ellis Island's medical history
New gravestones honor Revolutionary War dead in Peabody, Mass.
Bloated Henry VIII transformed into a slim, young ladykiller
Chicago exhibit to feature famous maps
Besieging the Ivory Tower: Blogs in History
Harvey Sicherman: What went wrong in Iraq
How Europeans looked to Indians and vice versa (London/Exhibit)
Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet leader, dies at 76
Niall Ferguson: We can see the causes of Cho's rampage now, so why not before?
Frederick W. Kagan: Says the "surge" may last through 2008
Norman Finkelstein: Controversy featured at frontpagemag.com
The new David Frost/Richard Nixon play (NYT review)
Columbia Announces 2007 Bancroft Awards
Virginia Tech, Artistic Freedom, & Implications for Teaching/Writing Genre Fiction
Germany approves unsealing of Nazi archive
Fort Worth museum pays $5.7 to reacquire painting in WWII restitution case
Old Hitler Youth HQ to become club for rich and famous
Red nostalgia: Russia's new capitalists pay top ruble for Socialist Realism art
Zen Buddhist leads thousands in Hanoi praying for dead on both sides of Vietnam War
Neo-Nazi rally in South Carolina sparks tension
Intact 2nd century BC Thracian chariot unearthed in Bulgaria
Should Picasso's 'Guernica' be displayed in Gernika?
Work under way to restore Texas' San Jacinto battlefield to 1836 topography
Too much like West Bank or Berlin walls? Iraqi PM orders halt to Baghdad barrier
Warsaw uprising's last surviving commander commemorates 64th anniversary
Did Cho Seung-Hui Have the "Herostratos Syndrome"? by William Marina
Hitler's Carmaker: The Inside Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich (Part 1) by Edwin Black
Is the US Going to Attack Iran? by Nasir Khan
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan by Larry Berman
What's the Difference Between Wikipedia and Conservapedia? by Troy Vettese
Week of April 16, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL - THE LIVING
David Greenberg: Playing the Tolerance Card
GOOD NEWS: SAUDI MORAL POLICE UNDER ATTACK
MUST READ: THE CHILDREN WHO RAN FROM KIM
Why Armenia pays high price for 'genocide' campaign
Found: Bonnie and Clyde ballads
Soviet war memorial in Estonia symbolizes region's grudges against Russia
Lawrence Goodwyn: The Coming Party Realignment
Michiko Kakutani: What books by presidential aspirants tell us
Tony Judt: France Looks Ahead, and It Doesn’t Look Good
In Search of the Man Who May Have Created Jazz (Documentaries)
Historians, philosophers have explored the nature of courage
First history of Khmer Rouge genocide written by a Cambodian
2m pounds in the red, British Museum finds money for junkets
Across the gulf of time at Sachsenhausen, bearing witness to evil
Mass shootings more common since 1960s
From beyond the grave, novelist Muriel Spark vetoes revelatory biography
Japan PM in new remark on war brothels: Tokyo feels 'responsible'
Dead may be able to sue for libel
Discovered, rediscovered, etc.: Shakespeare poem?
Walid Phares: Losing the War in Congress, Not in Iraq
Unseen footage from Gallipoli campaign found by war museum
Odyssey in art history: man absolutely convinced he has discovered Ansel Adams glass-plate negatives
The lost 20 years of CIA spies caught in China trap
Group wants to remove dumped debris from 1759 Fort Pitt bastion
Ellis Island ferry building opens as museum
Simon Schama: The lost art of great speechmaking
Guardian rates greatest speeches of 20th century
Progressivism and the fate of Liberalism
Limbo, an ancient place that is neither heaven nor hell, may be abolished
Armenian genocide resolution in Congress far from certain
Archaeologists find 8 ancient Greek tombs near Salonika
S.F. contractor loses claim as Duke of Leinster to gardener
Shakespeare is not to be at most colleges
So How Would a Libertarian Society Handle This?
Virginia Tech hero is buried in Israel
Survivor of 7 Nazi camps helps dedicate slave-labor graves
Americans in Iraq reviving 4,500-year-old idea: build a wall around trouble
Council of Europe gives prize to Geneva's Reformation Museum
Kansas county proposes small incentive for owners of stone fences
Swastikas, slogans painted on WWI graves of French Muslims
Touring display on Romany Holocaust opens in Slovakia
'Lost' Italian masterpieces sell for 1.7m pounds; were found behind a door
Paintings looted by Nazis, returned to heirs, sold in NY
Republicans want abandoned nuclear missile silo made historic site named for Reagan
Mandela statue gets London go-ahead, will stand in Parliament Square
Astronauts recall the view from space before first Earth Day
STEVENS TAUGHT CHO HORROR AND REVENGE/update/update
NCH WASHINGTON UPDATE (Vol. 13, #13; April 20, 2007)
Seeking the Nixon Behind the Caricature (Play/Broadway)
New classical exhibit at the Met wins praise from NYT
Michael Foret: UWSP History Prof Arrested for Having Child Porn (Wisconsin)
Spain ignoring upcoming 70th anniversary of Guernica
Opera Tells How Georgia Racism Backfired
Christopher Hitchens: Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates
Who do new undergraduates think we are?
Allan M. Brandt: How a PR Firm Helped Establish America's Cigarette Century
NEH Funding announced for 54 We the People projects in U.S. history and culture
Bush, in friendly Ohio, suggests history will be kind to him
EU agrees new race-hatred law but doesn't ban Holocaust denial, Nazi symbols outright
Rome to create museum complex around Colosseum and Forums to rival the Louvre
Traversing an art history timeline in Met's new Greco-Roman galleries
Crimean War VC, only second awarded, sold for $312,000
Czar's plan for Bering Strait tunnel on again
Rare WWI bomber found in stable restored to former glory
Bill to protect Allensworth historic site advances
Cuban militant, wanted for '76 air bombing, released on U.S. bond
Britain's oldest man, 110, visits school to share WWI memories
Iran's Sivand dam flooding, will drown archaeological site
Last letter by Irish nationalist hero Pearse saved for museum
ISLAMIST ON THE EURO-JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL
Ken Burns: Library of Congress, PBS, and Ken Burns Team Up to Gather Oral Histories
Ned Blackhawk: UW-Madison historian wins prestigious book award
Media Matters for America: Vegans, transsexuals, and "fake Holocaust survivors," oh my
Brian Wesbury: The Bush boom vs. the Clinton expansion
Ken Burns: Hispanic filmmaker to join his war documentary staff
Newsreels made in Nazi-occupied Norway going online
Bob Herbert: A Volatile Young Man, Humiliation and a Gun
Northern Irish reconciliation includes exchange of visits to rival historic sites
Garrison Keillor: History teaches you humility
Museum's Russian submarine partially sinks in river
Stephen Soldz: Psychology and Coercive Interrogations in Historical Perspective
Portrait said to be of Jane Austen fails to sell at auction
A Kinder, Gentler Mao Zedong (TV Series/China)
Michael Eliot: Britain's Shame--The 15 Captured Marines
Martin Kramer: Geopolitics of the Jews
Humberto Fontova: The Bay of Pigs -- Anniversary of Heroism and Shame
Terrific Essay on Virginia Tech
Jim Lobe: Elliott Abrams' Repeat Performance
Ken Burns: PBS clarifies that Burns won't re-cut 'The War'
Karl Rove is now giving tours of the White House
Michael Berenbaum: Holocaust Denial: Iranian Style
IRANIAN COURT AGREES WITH CHO SEUNG HUI
Wiki Guide to Historical Literature
Carl Sagan as Pot-Smoking "Genius"
An Incomplete History of the Funerary Violin
Heirs of British scholar return ancient artifacts to Greece
Former Israeli chief rabbi blames Reform Jews for Holocaust
Professor's violent death came where he had found peace
Small got $1.1m Smithsonian allowance for house used 4 times for official functions
PBS clarifies that Ken Burns won't re-cut 'The War'
Greeks could be allowed to borrow the Elgin Marbles
Rwanda asks international court to quash French warrants on genocide crimes
Think tank says St. George should be 'rebranded' as black dissenter, ethnic rebel
Jaruzelski charged with decade of 'communist crimes'
EU deal on 'diluted' legislation on Holocaust denial
Senator wants trade with North Korea: USS Pueblo for 1871 battle flag
"LIKE SHEEP TO SLAUGHTER" HITS A NERVE
Argentina refuses to extradite ex-junta leader for 'dirty war' crime
Walter Nugent: The American Habit of Empire, and the Cases of Polk and Bush
Barbara Weinstein: Let the Sunshine In ... Government Records and National Insecurities
Nominations for the 2007 AHA Election
Gettysburg Foundation flooded with greenbacks
Scott Horton: Of Republicans and Banana-Republicans
Princeton History Department copes with faculty departures
Vietnamese soldier has bullet stuck in heart for 40 years
Ken Burns: Agrees To Expand Documentary
German pol distances himself from eulogy for Nazi judge
Egypt vows 'scientific war' if Germany doesn't loan famed bust of Nefertiti
A day Ellis Island became a portal to history
Japanese researchers rebut denials on sex slavery
Theodore Kornweibel: Georgia rented hundreds of slaves
UN screens new documentary on Holocaust, 'Steal a Pencil for Me'
Remodeling Met's classical galleries: Which moment in history gets pride of place?
Mark Kramer Vs. Victor Navasky: Hiss & History
Historian: Georgia rented hundreds of slaves
THE MORAL INCOMPREHENSION OF RICHARD COHEN
Rick Perlstein: E. Coli Conservatism
Dick Allen: 80, a Historian of Jazz, Dies
Tiny Faberge chair sells for $2.28m
San Francisco honors 101st anniversary of quake; only one survivor on hand
Hobbit hominids followed 'island rule'
Rick Perlstein: Joins Campaign for America's Future as a senior fellow
F. S. Naiden: How Iraq became a nation
NY High School history teacher faces $65,000 fine for taking students to Cuba
Jerry Bower: Ismail Ax ... The Shooter Was Another 'Son of Sacrifice'
OXFORD UNION TO DEBATE JEWISH LOBBY'S "UNDUE INFLUENCE"
The Knowledge Is Power Program
Miklos Rozsa: A Centennial Celebration
Email confusion as rumor says Holocaust banned from UK classrooms
Imus and History by Rick Shenkman
Once buried by Nazis, sacred parchment given to Manchester school
In Lancashire, WWII reenactors told not to wear Nazi uniforms
Experts seek out the Revolutionary dead
Robert Hanks: First rule of history ... Verify your references
Julia Keller: Many wars, a singular sorrow: Vonnegut's vision
21 percent of Vietnam land still affected by war-era ordnance
Norman Tutorow: Correct this historian if he's wrong ... which he never is
Library of Congress, PBS collecting oral histories of U.S. war vets
Martin Gilbert: Even he isn't ready to say Pope Pius XII was indifferent to the fate of the Jews
Which Presidential Candidate is Defending Don Imus?
Niall Ferguson: Famed Historian to Create "Smart Games" with Muzzy Lane
John Freeman: Vietnam Legacies
Robert Kuttner: Can someone reclaim American liberalism?
Max Beckmann's Dutch exile shown in Amsterdam exhibit
Daniel Pipes: Bolstering Moderate Muslims
Victor Davis Hanson: I recently had a dream ...
Tom Engelhardt: The Devil's Dictionary of War in Iraq
How (and how not) to battle flu: a tale of 23 cities in 1918-19 epidemic
Robert Dallek: Profiled in the NYT
Neve Gordon: Israel's Strategic Threat
On English coast, mums with guns were ready for the Nazis
Archaeologist finds bones suggesting Toltec child sacrifice
THE ABSURDITY OF BEING A BRITISH JOURNALIST
Engineering prof who was Holocaust survivor saved students' lives
Brooke Allen vs. Michael Novak: Were the Founding Fathers Christian? (Continued)
Virginia Tech Murders: The Debate Begins
Major shootings on American college campuses
Secret history of U.S. Special Operations Command published
Hans Koning: Writer, historian, dead at 85
Hans Koning: Writer, historian dies at 85
Pulitzer Prize winners in history & Biography announced
How another university coped -- and still is
Roberts, Klibanoff win Pulitzer in history
AS SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER YET AGAIN
At Auschwitz, in Israel, they gathered to mourn the dead of the Holocaust
A lion skin for the chief as grandson of Mandela reclaims title taken by colonials
R. Davis Bitton: LDS historian dies
Martin Wainwright: On the sale of the Iranian captives' stories (Churchill did it)
Anthony Grafton: Historians should try collaborating
Ronald Radosh: Another example of bias at NYU
David Irving: Accused of continuing to spread falsehoods about Dresden Bombing
Niall Ferguson: On the Iranians taking British sailors hostage
Maarja Krusten: The Bush Library Controversy
Frederick W. Kagan: Fighting to win
Virginia Tech As a Gun Free Zone
Brit singer apologizes for Nazi remarks -- 'made from an art history perspective'
“Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust" (NYC/Exhibition)
Travelling exhibition planned featuring black contributions to American culture
Paying homage to a workhorse: The Mule
Researcher: rings of Uranus discovered more than 200 years earlier than thought
Holocaust website in Farsi draws thousands of Iranians
Alabama set to open Confederate museum
Town wants its old 'ancient harlot' name
Long-delayed exploration of Roman city in Bulgaria to begin
. . . Yet one more museum: 'Lincoln slept here'
Researchers aim for virtual Newtons or Einsteins
Oldest church in North America -- medieval, in fact -- may lie beneath Newfoundland town
Alan Brinkley: Historian Gets Rock Star Treatment at high school
Andrew Saint: British architectural historian says chill is building across the pond
Matthew Bogdanos: The soldier who fought to save Iraq's treasures
Honoring Jackie Robinson's achievement
Martin E. Marty: Evangelical Adaptations
In UK, turbulent history of quest for the perfect royal consort