Week of December 31, 2012
Blogs
"The Other Civil War" Howard Zinn, Abraham Lincoln, Lerone Bennett, Stephen Spielberg, and Me |
Why are High-Capacity Magazines Still Legal? There's no valid non-military reason to own one. |
News at Home
What About All the Thousands of Other Kids Killed with Guns? Why does it take a "massacre of the innocents" in order to effect change? |
Gun Control and Arms Control Using the UN to solve both. |
News Abroad
Were U.S. Marines Used as Guinea Pigs on Okinawa? New evidence that American soldiers were knowingly exposed to nerve gas. |
Historians & History
Improvising Digital History in the Deep South Digital Desert How to make digital history beyond the coasts. |
The Grand Emancipation Jubilee How did the public celebrate the proclamation 150 years ago, in 1863? |
Where Are the Pseudohistory Wars? Immanuel Velikovsky's pseudoscientific theories also had an historical component, so why isn't he labeled a pseudohistorian? |
Picturing the History of Sexuality in America What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think of the word “sex”? |
Books
Review of The United States and the Second World War, edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash It's ... pretty good. |
Review of William Thomas Allison's My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War It's ... also pretty good. |