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4-18-14
Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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October 2001
When Did the Catholic Church Decide Priests Should Be Celibate?
Helen L. Owen
A celibate priesthood predates Christianity.
Google Questions
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4-7-14
The 2014 OAH Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything
Rick Shenkman
Find out what American historians are thinking.
Historians/History
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4-15-14
The 7 Most Popular HNN Videos from the 2014 OAH
HNN Editor
Limerick, Kerber, Zelizer and more!
Historians in the News
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4-13-14
The Folly of War: Europe 1914, Ukraine 2014
Walter G. Moss
Are wars ever worth all the sufferings that flow from them like blood from dying soldiers?
News Abroad
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4-13-14
Putin, Man of Mystery? Hardly.
Mark D. Steinberg
Putin often speaks quite openly of his motives and values—and opinion polls suggest he is strongly in sync with widespread popular sentiments.
News Abroad
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4-13-14
Why Germans are More Ambivalent About What's Happening in Ukraine than Anybody Else
Juliane Fuerst
There is no other country in which the Ukrainian crisis triggered such a divisive and self-searching debate as in Germany.
News Abroad
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4-13-14
America’s (No) Tax Tradition
Romain Huret
Since the end of the nineteenth century, this tradition of tax resistance has been defended by the most affluent and most advantaged groups in American society.
News at Home
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4-14-14
Sharecropper’s Troubadour
Robin Lindley
University of Washington historian Michael Honey on John Handcox, African American singer and labor activist in the Jim Crow South.
Historians/History
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4-13-14
The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with Annie Jacobsen About Her Stunning Account
Aaron Leonard
The chilling details of the U.S. military's plan to use the very scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.
Historians/History
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4-13-14
Your Doctors Are Worried
Lawrence S. Wittner
No, they’re not necessarily your own personal physicians, but, rather, medical doctors around the world, represented by groups like International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
News Abroad
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4-14-14
How a Medieval Knight Solved One of History's Great Crimes
Eric Jager
“Never was there a more treacherous murder!”
Historians/History
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4-13-14
Speakeasy Dollhouse
Bruce Chadwick
Drinking with the Booth Brothers at the Start of Prohibition: Why did John Wilkes Really Shoot Abraham Lincoln?
Culture Watch
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4-13-14
Fishing for Wives
Bruce Chadwick
The Puzzled Japanese ‘Picture Brides’ of Hawaii in 1913
Culture Watch
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4-13-14
Why It's Time to Stop Complaining about Politicians Spinning Us (Interview)
David Greenberg
We complain about spin when the other side's doing a good job.
News at Home
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4-13-14
Why Every Teacher Should Require Students to Memorize the Opening Lines of the 14th Amendment (Interview)
Linda Kerber
If students forget everything, let them at least remember the 14th Amendment.
Historians/History
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4-12-14
The New President of the OAH Explains Why Next Year's Convention Is About Taboos (Interview)
Patricia Limerick
Her work has been in areas previously considered taboo, so she thought, why not let the OAH share in the fun.
Historians in the News
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4-12-14
I Think Hillary's Going to Run (Interview)
William H. Chafe
The author of Bill and Hillary predicts she'll run but isn't sure she'll win.
News at Home
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4-12-14
Remembering Edmund Morgan (Interview)
Rosemarie Zagarri
One of Edmund Morgan's last students accounts for his tremendous legacy.
Historians/History
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4-12-14
What's New in Postwar US Political History (Interview)
Matthew Lassiter
What the latest research shows.
Historians/History
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4-11-14
1964 at 50: Remembering the Mississippi Summer Project
Hear from the activists who helped change America 50 years ago. Don't miss it!
Historians/History
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4-12-14
Can You Really Design an OAH Meeting that Makes Everybody Happy? (Interview)
Rosemarie Zagarri
It was easier in the old days.
Historians in the News
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4-12-14
What Happens When You Expose Military Atrocities? People Get Upset (Interview)
Nick Turse
Nick Turse recounts reaction to his book, Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
Historians/History
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4-10-14
Day 1: Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians
Rick Shenkman
What happened on the first full day of the OAH in Atlanta.
Historians in the News
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4-11-14
Historians Against Slavery? (Interview)
Randall Miller
Historians have joined the effort to help put the struggle against modern slavery in context.
News Abroad
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4-11-14
The Tea Party's Weird Ideas About the Original Tea Party (Interview)
Ron Formisano
The differences between the original Tea Party and the current Tea Party that borrows its name.
News at Home
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4-11-14
The State of Pop Culture History (Interview)
Jefferson Cowie
What does Mad Men tell us about American life today?
Historians/History
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4-11-14
Immigration and Ethnic History: State of the Field (Interview)
Vicki Ruiz
What's happening in Chicano studies.
Historians/History
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4-10-14
How Come HNN's Not Videotaping a Lot of Sessions This Year?
Rick Shenkman
New rules hamper our ability to cover the convention.
Historians in the News
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4-10-14
Americans Turned Against Taxes Because Taxes Were Unfair (Interview)
Joshua Mound
How Woody Allen helped ignite the revolt against taxes.
News at Home
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4-10-14
Why Obama's Not Accomplishing as Much as LBJ (Interview)
Julian Zelizer
LBJ didn't succeed in passing legislation through Congress just because he knew how to get things done.
News at Home
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4-11-14
The Nixon Administration's Better Approach to Drug Rehabilitation (Interview)
Claire Clark
Under Nixon we spent a lot more federal resources on drug rehab than we do now.
News at Home
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4-10-14
Goldwater and LBJ Weren't as Different as You Think (Interview)
Lily Geismer
Both of them paid homage to the free enterprise system.
News at Home
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4-10-14
Our One-Sided Arguments About Taxes (Interview)
Nancy MacLean
Liberals used to dominate the tax debate. Then they caved.
News at Home
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4-10-14
Why We Stopped Believing in Big Corporations (Interview)
Louis Hyman
Once upon a time we loved corporations. Then the sixties happened.
News at Home
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4-10-14
The Overlooked Issue of 1964? Gender! (Interview)
Robert Self
1964 was when the women's movement came of age.
News at Home
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OAH 2014: Get Ready!
Rick Shenkman
The annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians begins Wednesday.
Historians in the News
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4-7-14
If You’re Surprised by Putin’s Move in Crimea You’ve Not Been Paying Attention
Dr. David Stefancic
What Putin is doing is simply falling in step with a long line of Great Russian leaders.
News Abroad
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4-7-14
1,892 Veterans Have Committed Suicide THIS Year?
Murray Polner
Why are so many coming home from our wars broken?
News Abroad
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4-7-14
Are We Giving Cesar Chavez too Much Credit?
Frank P. Barajas
"I am culpable of this rather imperious criticism."
Historians/History
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4-7-14
Will There Be a Happy Ending to Ohio's Close Brush with a Rightwing Fantasy?
John T. McNay
Senate Bill 5, derived mainly from the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), was designed to crush public unions across the state.
News at Home
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When Was The Internet Invented?
Daniel Mallia
Al Gore didn't invent it.
Google Questions
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4-7-14
Lifting the Liberal Veil on US Support for Israel
Paul Croce
Support for Israeli political and military actions have been doing the work of American conservative ideologies, but in liberal disguise.
News Abroad
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Daniel Pipes Blog
4-3-14
Chris Christie and the "Occupied Territories" Incident
Daniel Pipes
"I took a helicopter ride from the occupied territories across, … and just felt, personally, how extraordinary that was, to understand the military risk that Israel faces every day."
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4-7-14
What Should Obama Do If the Peace Talks Between Israel and Palestine Fail?
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
News Abroad
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4-7-14
Would You Want to Be Elected President of Afghanistan?
Ali A. Olomi
If history is any indication, then the election in Afghanistan is a true crossroads in its history; either the country learns from its own past or it tragically repeats it.
News Abroad
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4-7-14
Reasons to Worry About What Japan Just Did
Tom Clifford
Tokyo overturned a 50-year ban on selling military hardware overseas.
News Abroad
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Review of Phillip Deery's "Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York"
Andrew Feffer
This is an extremely well documented, lucidly written study, using personal correspondence, Party records and other archival sources amplified by newly declassified FBI files.
Books
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4-7-14
Hello Louie: Satchmo and His Horn Ride High Again
Bruce Chadwick
In this scintillating new one man show, Armstrong, in his dressing room between Waldorf concerts, reminisces about his life and career over the tumult of racial history, rekindling sometimes bitter and sometimes sweet memories.
Culture Watch
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4-7-14
Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
Roundup
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