Week of January 7, 2013
![]() Richard Nixon at 100: The Man Who Matters Nixon endures as the commanding figure of American political life since the end of World War II. |
Up Front: AHA 2013
![]() Highlights from the 2013 Annual Meeting of the AHA |
![]() AHA Roundup: The Rest of the Web A (reasonably) comprehensive collection of articles and blogs on the 2013 AHA Annual Meeting, plus picks of the best blogs. |
![]() Survival Guide for the 2013 AHA Annual Meeting For those attending, both in the flesh and in spirit. |
AHA Videos
![]() The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers Newspapers aren't dead yet, but they're struggling. What are some of the alternatives to the venerable daily newspaper? |
![]() A Conversation with John Sayles Featuring the acclaimed filmmaker, William Cronon, Peter Galison, and Vanessa R. Schwartz |
![]() Open Societies at War: A Comparative History, 1939-45 George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History |
![]() Storytelling The outgoing president's keynote address. |
![]() Taking a Longer View: The 2012 Election in Historical Context Featuring Jim Grossman, Laura Kalman, Sean Wilentz, William Inboden, and Mary Frances Berry. |
Blogs
![]() Why Some Americans Want Big Guns Paranoia strikes deep. |
![]() The New Age of Austerity Perhaps it's time to revisit some ideas from the Second New Deal. |
![]() Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation as an Exercise in Muscular Moderation His genius lay in his judgment. |
![]() Fiscal Deal: And the Winning Myth Is …. Insecurity. The economic threat is now the new normal. |
News at Home
![]() Disarm the Filibuster It's undemocratic and, more importantly, unconstitutional. |
![]() Has a Tipping Point Finally Been Reached for Gun Control? The NRA sounds as ridiculous today as the AMA did in the 1960s opposing "communist" Medicare. |
News Abroad
![]() “So Many People Died” The American system of suffering, 1965-2014. |
Historians & History
![]() When Assessing Zinn, Listen to the Voices of Teachers and Students Yes, A People's History is provocative, but that's the point: to serve as a contrast to standard textbooks. |
![]() Red Menace The heavy hand of politics and the historical novels of Howard Fast. |
![]() Did George McGovern Misremember His Past as a Bomber Pilot? The senator's famed anecdote from The Wild Blue could not have happened. |
Culture Watch
![]() The Law of Slavery Lies at Heart of Both "Lincoln" and "Django" The "peculiar institution" was deeply embedded in every local, state, and national law right up to the Constitution. |
Books
![]() Review of Joseph McCartin's Collision Course As organized labor fights for its life in the Midwest, it's worth considering why Reagan beat PATCO in 1981. |
![]() Review of Dennis Drabelle's The Great American Railroad War A stimulating appetizer when it comes to railroad history. |
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. |
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