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Week of November 14, 2011

Up Front

Blogs


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