Week of March 5, 2012
Up Front
Blogs
- Editor's Desk: Abe Lincoln is a Filthy Traitor!
- Lester Hunt: Top Five Reasons Not to Write a Nasty Obit (L & P)
Polls
Has your opinion of JFK changed?
Hot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- Why Do Mormons Baptize Holocaust Victims?
- How Much Does Character Count in a President?
- Why Did President Ford Ban Assassinations?
- The Surprising Origins and Meaning of the “Pursuit of Happiness”
News at Home
Is Rick Santorum's Fundamentalist Catholicism at Odds with Protestant Christianity?
Steven Conn
Pat Buchanan was Breitbart Before Breitbart
Timothy Stanley
"Obamacare": A History of the Most Effective Scareword in Politics
Robert Brent Toplin
What is True Political Wisdom? A Primer for the 2012 Election
Walter G. Moss
News Abroad
Legal Case Against Attacking Iran
Bruce Ackerman
Project Censored At Home And Abroad
Jim Loewen
Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb
Juan Cole
Historians & History
IBM’s Role in the Holocaust? New Documents Confirm the Worst
Edwin Black
Does Mimi Alford's New Memoir Finally Mean the Death Knell for the Camelot Myth of JFK?
Vaughn Davis Bornet
The Expansion and Transformation of NATO ... The Real Clinton Doctrine
Lee Ruddin
An Interview with Ambassador David Scheffer, the Architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunals
Robin Lindley
Should We Really Still Like Ike? Interview with Stephen Schlesinger
David A. Walsh
Culture Watch
An Iliad for the Ages Takes History Lovers Back to the Trojan Wars
Bruce Chadwick
Albee’s 1980s Lady from Dubuque Gains Ground as a History Play in 2012
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Steven J. Ross's Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Andrew Feffer
Review of S. Brian Willson's Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson: A Psychohistorical Memoir
Jeremy Kuzmarov