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Week of April 11, 2011

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News at Home

The Devil is in the "Debt" by Ira Chernus

News Abroad

The Man Who Continues to Speak about Experiencing the H-Bomb -- Exposed Clearly: the Deception that is Deterrence
Oe Kenzaburo

Historians & History

Fort Sumter Sesquicentennial: Charleston Changes Her Tune
Ethan J. Kytle

In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten
John Gripentrog

The Third Reich in History: An Inte rview with Richard Evans
Aaron Leonard

The Bay of Pigs Fiasco After Fifty Years
Yoav J. Tenembaum

Henry Johnson and an Honor Long Overdue
Chad Williams

Culture Watch

One of History’s Great Con Men Is Back, and with Panache
Bruce Chadwick

From Bengal Tigers to Baghdad Tanks, the Stage Finally Catches Up with the Wars in the Middle East
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Del Quentin Wilber's Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Jim Cullen

Review of Tim Bird and Alex Marshall's Afghanistan: How th West Lost Its Way
Jeremy Kuzmarov