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
- Lynn Hunt: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
- John Dichtl: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
- Edward J. Balleisen: Jesse Lemisch: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
- Jesse Lemisch: Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side
- Padraic Kenney Interview on Popular Protest Movements
- Andrew J. Bacevich: The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
- Juan Cole: Interpreting the Arab Spring
- Thomas Bender: Where Did We Go Wrong? The Past and Prospects of the History Profession
- Anthony Grafton: Presidential Address: The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies
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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