Week of Nov. 26, 2007

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C-SPAN’s Q & A with historians
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Christopher Dawson: His thoughts on history analyzed in a new book
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Historians Team Up to Back Obama
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Robert Wistrich: Interviewed about anti-Semitism
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David Irving: Protesters break into Oxford Union debate
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Anthony Grafton: Historian takes time off from Renaissance studies to denounce torture
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Nikki Keddie & Joyce Appleby: Historians say academics wanting to take global warming seriously should cut back on travel http://hnn.us/roundup/14.html#44970

Anthropologists debate cooperating with US military
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: NY library acquires Schlesinger papers
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Henry Louis Gates: Teams up with DNA firm to provide genetic testing for African-Americans
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*Backlash to claim that tunnels have been found beneath SF Chinatown
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*Kennedy Memoirs Said to Fetch $8 Million
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*Gene study suggests Native Americans came from Siberia
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*Great Famine Anniversary in Ukraine
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*Doubts about Romulus and Remus cave discovery
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*Is Lincoln Earliest Recorded Case of Rare Disease?
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*US government's fight to deport alleged Nazi guard Demjanjuk spans three decades
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*When I played chess with Rudolf Hess
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*Keeping Munich's ugly past alive
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*Was Shakespeare Catholic?
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