Week of November 21, 2011
Up Front
NEW The Thanksgiving Myth
Nicolaas Vergunst
NEW BLOG Walid Phares on the Middle East
HNN PollHot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- Did Van Gogh Really Cut Off His Own Ear?
- Who Invented the Martini?
- Did Hyperinflation Doom the Weimar Republic?
Blogs
- Sheldon Richman: Regarding that IAEA Report on Iran’s Alleged Nuclear Weapons Program (L&P)
- Lester Hunt: Anti-Government or Pro-Goverment? Make Up Your Mind! (L&P)
- Chris Bray: Boston College (Cont.): Paging the Energizer Bunny (Clio)
News at Home
Why Didn't Mike McQueary Stop Jerry Sandusky? Why Didn't Anyone Help Kitty Genovese?
Joseph De May
How Long Will Mothers Have to Wait for Decent Prenatal Care?
Janet Golden and Howard Markel
News Abroad
The European Debt Crisis is a Problem of Political Will
Iwan Morgan
Is Rising Isolationism in America Dangerous?
Christopher McKnight Nichols
Friendless in the Middle East
Daniel Pipes
Historians & History
Studying Crowds is out of Fashion for Historians—Here's Why We Should
Peter N. Stearns
Can History Be Used in Risk Analysis?
Yoav J. Tenembaum
Lincoln's Wartime Thanksgiving
Thomas Fleming
This Thanksgiving Feed a Silent Guest and Build World Peace
William Lambers
Culture Watch
NEW White Christmas Makes Turn from 1954 Movie to 2011 Musical with Lots of Holiday Cheer
Bruce Chadwick
The Cotton Club Roars Back to Life
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Richard White's Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Ron Briley
Review of Frank Dikötter's Mao’s Great Famine
Aaron Leonard