Week of July 18, 2011
Up Front
News at Home
Michelle Bachmann Was Half-Right: New York's Founding Fathers Worked to End Slavery
Alan Singer
Why the Media Got Betty Ford's Breast Cancer Story Right ... But What They Left Out
Barron H. Lerner
Why Teach For America is Not Welcome in My Classroom
Mark Naison
News Abroad
Nixon's "Decent Interval" Vietnam Strategy Should Give Obama Pause on Afghanistan
Ken Hughes
Are Americans Cold-Blooded? Do We Care About Civilian Casualties in Our Wars?
John Tirman
Historians & History
Channelling George Washington: Winston Churchill, Great-Grandson of the American Revolution
Thomas Fleming
The Surprising Story of How Stonewall Jackson Became a Mythical Figure for the Religious Right
Wallace Hettle
Culture Watch
The Baby Boomers Tell Their Story, Warts and All
Bruce Chadwick
Corruption, Greed, Evil Bankers, Swindlers, Underwater Mortgages, Unpaid Debts and a Devastating Recession: Does This Sound Familiar?
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Stanley Corkin's Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s
Andrew Feffer
Review of Clarence Taylor's Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union
Robert D. Parmet