Week of November 28, 2011
Up Front
NEW 2011 Advent Calendar of America's Fighting Men
NEW "Brian’s Song": What Really Happened
Barron H. Lerner
NEW A Modest Proposal for Occupy Wall Street: Take Our Children, Please!
Steve Fraser
Occupy the American Historical Association: Demand a WPA Federal Writers' Project
Jesse Lemisch
Book of the Month: Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
HNN Poll: Do You Support Historian Newt Gingrich's Candidacy for the GOP Presidential Nomination?
Questions People are Googling
Blogs
- Josh Brown: The Inexorable Forward March...
- Robert Higgs: The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making Them Dependent on Government Benefits (L&P)
- Chris Bray: The Whites of Their Eyes (Clio)
- Sheldon Richman: Bachmann Endangers the World with Her Lies (L&P)
- Ralph Luker: The History of English in 10 Minutes (Clio)
News at Home
The Militarization of American Police Has Long Historical Roots
Jeremy Kuzmarov
The Growing Gap Between Civilians and the Military Could Have Serious Consequences
Mary L. Dudziak
News Abroad
Anti-Liberal Netanyahu Slams Arab Spring as Anti-Liberal
Juan Cole
We Don't Need a "Pacific" President—We Need an American One
Kenneth Weisbrode
Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?
Lawrence S. Wittner
Historians & History
Arabist Snobs
Daniel Pipes
Culture Watch
U.S. Theater Takes a New Look at Russian History
Bruce Chadwick
Blood and Gifts and Blood and Blood in the History of the U.S. in Afghanistan
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think About Claims of Conspiracy
Mel Ayton
Review of Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial, edited by Thomas J. Brown
Jim Cullen