Week of June 11, 2012

Book of the Month

Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian -- by Bernard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill

Blogs

Editor's Desk: History, as Painted by Video Games

What’s the Deal With the Squabble in the South China Sea? Eric G. Prileson

News at Home

Our Latest Mormon Moment Matthew Bowman

The Two Elections that Dealt Unions the Biggest Blows Last Tuesday Didn't Happen in Wisconsin Kevin Boyle

Will We Be Able to Preserve Yellowstone, America's Living Cathedral? George Black

News Abroad

Vietnam is Back in Town Jerry Lembcke

Coca-Cola Profits Off Egyptian Jew's Seized Property Edwin Black

Historians & History

The Forgotten American Pandemic: Historian Nancy K. Bristow on the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 Robin Lindley

Education

Does Common Core Encourage War? Alan Singer

Culture Watch

A Play about a Civil War Prisoner Debuts in a Real Civil War Prison Bruce Chadwick

Alcatraz Assailed Again, this Time in Drama about a 1941 Murder Bruce Chadwick

England is Drenched in Blood in the Fifteenth-Century Wars of Henry IV Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Paul Dickson's Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick Ron Briley

Review of Steven Biel's Bonnie Parker Writes a Poem: How Two Bungling Psychopaths Became Bonnie and Clyde Jim Cullen