Week of March 26, 2012
Up Front
Editor's Desk: Is History Bunk? |
Polls
Questions People are Googling
- Do Mormons Practice Polygamy?
- Who Invented the Martini?
- Why Do We Hear About the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions? Where Are the Other 99?
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 |