Week of October 24, 2011
Up Front
News
Tim Naftali Stepping Down as Nixon Library Director
David A. Walsh
Hot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- What Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1987?
- How Did the Deregulation Movement Get Started?
- What Happened to the Filibuster?
- Who Dreamed Up the Gas Tax?
- Why Was Wall Street Bombed in 1920?
News at Home
Incivility and Dysfunction in Congress is a National Crisis
Ray Smock
Occupy Wall Street has a History Student on Its Press Team—I Sit Down with Him for an Interview
James Livingston
A Final Farewell to the Fairness Doctrine?
Victor Pickard
Jon Huntsman: Interviews with Journalist James Fallows and Historian Andrew Johns
Alexander Heffner
News Abroad
Qaddafi’s People’s Temple
Juan Cole
Historians & History
Welcome Home, General Grant
Charles Bracelen Flood
Time for Another Warren Harding?
Ronald and Allis Radosh
The New-York Historical Society Sinks to a New Low with a Black-Tie Gala for Henry Kissinger
Jesse Lemisch
On Witnessing Atrocity: Prof. Susie Linfield on Photography and Political Violence
Robin Lindley
The King Memorial Fails to Capture the Spirit of the Man and the Movement
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
A Tribute to John M. Blum
Allan M. Winkler
Culture Watch
Child Star Kiki Shoots to Fame in Ravished 1931 Germany and Everybody Cashes In
Bruce Chadwick
Racism Sizzles in a Small, Sleepy Alabama Town in the 1930s: To Kill a Mockingbird Moves From Screen to Stage, Impressively
Bruce Chadwick
It Is 1947, but the War Is Far From Over for Jewish Refugees from Poland
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Gershom Gorenbert's The Unmaking of Israel
Murray Polner
Review of Michael Kazin's American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
Jack Ross