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Week of March 26, 2012


Up Front




Editor's Desk: Is History Bunk?

Polls


Questions People are Googling


More Questions

News at Home



The Myth of a Brokered Convention
Leo P. Ribuffo

 


The Perils of a Brokered Convention
R. Craig Sautter


"Americans Elect" May Upend the Presidential Election
Robert Brent Toplin

News Abroad



Japanese Cuisine is Excellent, but Does It Deserve UNESCO Protection?
Jonathan Dresner

 

Historians & History



Five Myths about Aaron Burr

David O. Stewart

Culture Watch




Editor's Desk: The Return of Mad Men


New York, Nuke York

Mick Broderick and Robert Jacobs


To Kill a Mockingbird at Fifty
Thomas Doherty


Was Shakespeare an Anti-Semite?

Glenn Speer


History Resonates through the Lives of Families in The Big Meal

Bruce Chadwick

Lenin, Joyce and the Dadaists in Zurich Together in 1917 in the at Times Brilliant and at Times Very Confusing Travesties
Bruce Chadwick

Books



Review of Peter Beinart's The Crisis of Zionism

Murray Polner


Review of Andrew Nagorski's Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power
Jim Cullen