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Blogs Cliopatria July 9, 2007

Jul 9, 2007

July 9, 2007

by Cliopatria

Up Front

History Buzz Bonnie Goodman

News at Home

Is Your Older Brother Smarter than You Are? Stephen Murdoch

Should We Be Cheering the Democrats God-Talk? John Fea

Even the Founding Fathers Had to Worry About Gay-Baiting Thomas A. Foster

News Abroad

The Dangers of Dim Sum History Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Dark Ages Redux? Judith Apter Klinghoffer

Why Live Earth Will Fail Mark A. LeVine

Historians & History

HNN's Top Young Historian: This Week ... Judith Surkis Bonnie Goodman

We Are Not Free of History Bernard Bailyn

How Much Confidence Should We Have in the Doctor's Account of FDR's Death? Barron H. Lerner

Whatever Happened to the Investigation of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's Arrest for Jaywalking by the Atlanta police? HNN Staff

Culture Watch

Sicko: Michael Moore and Freedom from Fear and Want Ron Briley

Books

Review of J. H. Elliott's Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 K. David Milobar

Review of Jack Beatty's Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 Robert Parmet

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