Week of August 5, 2013
Up Front
 Where's That Simon & Schuster Edition of The Jefferson Lies David Barton's Been Promising?Chris Rodda Ever since Thomas Nelson pulled the book a year ago, Barton's claimed that Simon & Schuster will publish it. So where's the beef? Tags: David Barton, Jefferson Lies, Simon & Schuster, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Nelson |
 Revolutionary Disillusionment, from 1789 to 2013Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Like the French abbot Henri Grégoire, Arab intellectuals are becoming disenchanted with their revolutions. Tags: Arab Spring, disillusionment, French Revolution, Henri Grégoire |
 “Them Bad Russians” Still Haunt AmericaIra Chernus's MythicAmerica Obama's canceling of his summit with Putin draws upon a history of scary Russian caricatures. Tags: Barack Obama, Russia, United States, Vladimir Putin |
 Why the Arab Spring is Likely to Disappoint Those Who Are Making it HappenT. Mills Kelly Bärbel Bohley, a democratic leader in East Germany, saw her movement quickly co-opted at its moment of greatest success. Tags: East Germany, Bärbel Bohley, 1989, Arab Spring |
 Revolutions: Three Different KindsRex Wade Let's not just classify revolutions by their success rate; it also matters if the original revolutionaries survive to the end. Tags: American Revolution, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Turkish Revolution |
 Don't Overestimate the Cohesion of the Military during Revolutionary MomentsRex Wade Both the officer corps and the rank-and-file in the Russian Army in 1917 united against the tsar ... but then had a bit of an *ahem* falling out... Tags: Imperial Russian Army, Russian Revolution, World War I, communism |
 Serendip-o-matic Seeks to Replicate Thrill of Archival Discovery OnlineMichelle Moravec The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media's new digital humanities tool allows users to do what historians do in the archives ... only on a bigger scale. Tags: Center for History and New Media, digital humanities, George Mason University, research |
News at Home
 George Zimmerman, Harmony Stair, and the Elephant in the RoomJim Loewen Racial profiling advocates claim young black men are more likely to be criminals, but ignores the 98 percent of young black men who aren't. Tags: George Zimmerman, Harmony Stair, race, criminal justice |
 Richard A. Baker: If You Think the Senate is Dysfunctional Now, Wait Until After the Nuclear Option (INTERVIEW)David Austin Walsh The author of The American Senate shares his thoughts on the state of the institution. Tags: Richard A. Baker, U.S. Senate, |
 Why the Business Community and the GOP Base are Parting Ways on ImmigrationElizabeth Tandy Shermer The business and the party base did the same thing over segregation. Tags: Atlanta, immigration reform, Republican Party, segregation |
News Abroad
 Bradley Manning Meets Woodrow WilsonIra Chernus's MythicAmerica The secret of the 1917 Espionage Act revealed. Tags: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, Woodrow Wilson, Espionage Act |
 Obama's Lost War on DrugsJeremy Kuzmarov From "Fast and Furious" to Plan Merida. Tags: Barack Obama, Latin America, Mexico, war on drugs |
 Consistency?Josh Brown's Life During Wartime Tags: Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Pentagon Papers, Edward Snowden |
Historians & History
 Jennifer Polk: "Recent PhDs Need to Have Their Confidence Boosted" (INTERVIEW)David Austin Walsh "Grad school is very good at grinding people down and making them think they suck, and that's just not true." Tags: Jennifer Polk, From PhD to Life, interviews |
 Rescue Behind the Lines in World War II Albania (INTERVIEW)Robin Lindley Cate Lineberry's new book The Secret Rescue demonstrates yet again why interviewing our remaining WWII vets is so important. Tags: World War II, Albania, special operations, interviews |
Culture Watch
 Slave Revolt Rides on Broken Down RailroadBruce Chadwick Tellin' Man ain't tellin' much. Tags: play reviews, theater, New York, slavery, Tellin' Man |
 Fighting to Save a Sleazy Motel in Boston in the 1940sBruce Chadwick Motel Rasdell is a pleasant enough stay. Tags: Motel Rasdell, New York, play reviews, theater |
Books
 Review of Christopher Clark's The SleepwalkersJim Cullen How Europe went to war in 1914, despite men of good will and intelligence working to prevent it. Tags: Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, World War I, book reviews |
 Review of Ruth Barton's Hedy LamarrRon Briley The strange saga of one of Hollywood's first foreign starlets. Tags: biography, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Ruth Barton |