Week of November 14, 2011
Up Front
Blogs
- Iwan Morgan: The European Debt Crisis: A Problem of Political Will?
- Chris Bray: Boston College (Cont.): Pushing Holder (Clio)
- Lester Hunt: Defending the Oxford Comma (L&P)
- Josh Brown: He May Talk Softly, but I'd Watch Out for that Big Stick...
Hot Topics
News at Home
Give Students A Break—An Election Break
Leonard Steinhorn
Occupy Wall Street Should Remember that No One Liked Vietnam Protesters, Either
Simon Hall
Sports Riots are Nothing New—Just Ask the Romans
David Potter
Why Teachers Must Become Community Organizers and Justice Fighters
Mark Naison
Mitt Romney: Interviews with Rogers M. Smith and Lou Cannon
Alexander Heffner
Can America Return to Normalcy? Should We Even Try?
Alan Singer
News Abroad
The Passing of the Postwar Era
Andrew J. Bacevich
Historians & History
Kissinger's "Diplomatic" Review of John Gaddis's Latest Book
Jim Sleeper
Exploring “The Wall in the Head”—Historian Edith Sheffer on How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
Robin Lindley
Culture Watch
Iron Curtain Musical Is a Charming Jab at the Old Soviet Union in 1955
Bruce Chadwick
A Grim Tale of the Destruction of Germany during World Wars I and II
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot
Jim Cullen
Review of John Marsh's Class Dismissed: Why We Can't Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality
Jim Cullen