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Week of January 9, 2012

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Highlights from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago

Index

News

Notes from the AHA Business Meeting
David A. Walsh and Rick Shenkman

AHA Features Panels on the Indifference of Journalists to History
Rick Shenkman

Videos

Past AHA Annual Meetings

Cliopatria Awards 2011

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News at Home

Fed Up with the Iowa Corn Con 
Gil Troy

Can a Mormon Candidate Rise Above the Religious Issue to Win It All Next Year?
Vaughn Davis Bornet

Historians & History

You Want to Understand Occupy Wall Street? Start Reading Havel
James Livingston

Restoring Indian History at Jamestown and Williamsburg: Interview with Historic Anthropologist Buck Woodard
Priscilla Hart

A Video Interview with Juan Cole on Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Tunisia

Culture Watch

NEW Brutal 1973 "Goodbar" Murder Now Subject of Confused Musical
Bruce Chadwick

NEW The Return of Radical Writer Susan Sontag: History Ignored
Bruce Chadwick

The Lost Decade: The 1950s Comes Back with a Roar
Bruce Chadwick

War Horse a Winner Whether on Stage or Screen
Bruce Chadwick

It’s the Holidays and Time for History’s Dark Fairy Tale Champs, Hansel and Gretel
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Greil Marcus's The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
Jim Cullen