Week of June 18, 2012

Polls

Further Reading

Robert Caro and the Mythical Cuban Missile Crisis Sheldon M. Stern

News at Home

Channelling George Washington: Us Against Them Thomas Fleming

Racism, Wheeling, and a Small-Town Newspaper, 1968 and 2008 Walter G. Moss

A Hollywood Movie Could Help Either Democrats or Republicans in the Presidential Election Robert Brent Toplin

We Need to Stop Using the Phrase "American Civil Religion" Ira Chernus

News Abroad

The Justice Cascade: Political Scientist Dr. Kathryn Sikkink on Human Rights Prosecutions Robin Lindley

Egypt: An Election within a Coup within a Coup Juan Cole

Stay Out of the Syrian Morass Daniel Pipes

Historians & History

Remembering Watergate Stanley Kutler

Nixon's Biggest Crime Was Far, Far Worse than Watergate Ken Hughes

The Real Reason the Bible Bans Homosexuality Eric Berkowitz

Culture Watch

The True Story of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud Altina L. Waller

Ed Wood: The Original Experimental Filmmaker Bruce Chadwick

The Women War Correspondents of World War II: Guts, Bravery and Stockings Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of James Mann's The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power Murray Polner

Review of Matthew F. Delmont's The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia Luther Spoehr