Week of April 25, 2011
Up Front
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News at Home
A Modest Proposal to Rescind Child Labor Laws
Janet Golden
News Abroad
Washington on the Rocks
Alfred W. McCoy and Brett Reilly
Judging What’s Vital—The Problems of Measuring Progress in Unconventional Wars
Gregory A. Daddis
Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark
Tom Engelhardt
A Right Royal Wedding
Charles Carlton
The History of Families New and Long Lost: An American Compares Coat of Arms with Kate Middleton’s
Pearl Duncan
Historians & History
A 50-Year Perspective—JFK, Richard Bissell, and the Bay of Pigs
Howard Jones
A Forgotten Site in Florida Where the Bay of Pigs Invaders Trained
Don Bohning
Sam Houston, San Jacinto, and the Coming Civil War
John Willingham
Culture Watch
Drama about Triangle Shirt Waist Factory 1911 Blaze Does Not Catch Fire
Bruce Chadwick
A Boy, a Horse, World War One and a Searing Story
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Christopher McKnight Nichols's Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
Jim Cullen