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2-27-15
News AbroadUkraine: The Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse
William R. Polk
How the process of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and what we face today over the Ukraine compare. It's not reassuring. But there's a way out.
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2-27-15
News at HomeSelma Is Now? No, Not Really.
James B. LaGrand
2014 ≠ 1965 or 1955 or the 1890s
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3-2-15
Historians in the NewsNYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week?
Erik Moshe
Can a book that includes possibly plagiarized sections be saved? That’s our question of the week about a book under review.
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HNN Hot Topics: Women's History Month
The best web commentary about Women's History Month.
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3-1-15
News AbroadObama’s ISIS War Request Is an “Extraordinary Opportunity” for Congress
Andrew Bacevich
Pretend that it’s the spring of 1970. President Richard Nixon has just sent US troops into Cambodia, expanding the war. Angry? Then why aren't you angry now?
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3-1-15
News AbroadWhat Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress Will Mean for Israel and US Politics
James Stocker
On March 3 Bibi Netanyahu ties Winston Churchill for the title of the foreign leader who has given the most speeches to the Congress. Is his address of long-lasting significance?
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3-1-15
News AbroadYou Can Blame Juan Peron for Argentina’s Inflation
Eduardo Singerman
It was the result of out and out fraud.
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3-1-15
Historians/HistoryWar Babies: The Generation that Changed America
Richard Pells
They’re the generation that never got due attention.
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2-27-15
Historians/HistoryDo You Remember Dag Hammarskjöld? You Should. An Interview with Biographer Roger Lipsey
Robin Lindley
Dr. Lipsey’s biography of Hammarskjöld, based on extensive research including previously unpublished correspondence and documents, deliberately strikes a balance between Hammarskjöld’s engagement in world affairs and his spiritual journey, and how the two were intimately related, mutually supportive.
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3-1-15
News AbroadThis Is When Muslims in the Middle East Turned to Extremism
Richard Drake
It started with a treaty few in the West even remember: The Treaty of Sèvres (1920)
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3-1-15
Historians/History5 Ways Pirate Ships Functioned as a True Democracy
Rachel Rolnick
This is something you don’t learn in school. Pirates pioneered many of the features we associate with democracy.
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2-20-15
BooksReview of Colman McCarthy’s “Teaching Peace: Students Exchange Letters with Their Teacher”
Murray Polner
“Teaching Peace: Students Exchange Letters with Their Teacher,” is riveting and a real gem, filled with insights gleaned from the thousands of letters he’s received from former students.
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3-2-15
Culture WatchFashions for Men Is a Well-Dressed 1917 Delight
Bruce Chadwick
Fashions for Men is a gem, a lost treasure of the theater.
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2-27-15
RoundupRoundup 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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2-26-15
News at HomeWhy Hollywood’s Diversity Problem Can’t Just Be Solved with Fancy Award Ceremonies and Gold Statues
Cara Caddoo
For most of its history, Hollywood has worked hard to identify—and undermine—the work of black actors and filmmakers.
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2-23-15
News AbroadSeven Reasons Why We Should Not Send Weapons to Ukraine
Walter G. Moss
The hawks who urge us to arm Ukraine say we need to remember 1938. But Putin’s not Hitler.
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2-24-15
Historians/HistoryWhat Would Happen If Humanity Was Suddenly Rebooted?
Roland Hughes
“The entire point of this op ed is to get you, the learned few in the hallowed halls, to focus on gathering all of the basic knowledge in a form which will survive flood, fire, and nuclear winter.”
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2-22-15
News Abroad3 Lessons from the French Revolution European Policymakers Should Keep in Mind
Rebecca L. Spang
The moment has come to diversify our analogy portfolio to include the French Revolution if we are to understand the Euro crisis.
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2-22-15
Historians/HistoryThe Myth of the Rational Actor
Susan J. Matt
Why we need a social history of selfishness.
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2-20-15
News at HomeWhat’s the Matter with Kansas? Nothing
Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban
Working class whites mostly vote their interests, but they define their interests more broadly than many liberals want them to.
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2-22-15
News AbroadAmerica Is More than the 82nd Airborne. We Need to Let the Muslim World Know that.
Greg Barnhisel
Using culture to define us is one of the lessons of the Cold War we need to relearn.
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2-20-15
Historians/HistoryWhy Is a French Library Refusing to Carry a History of Stalin’s Russia?
Michael Dwyer
The book, by Geoffrey Roberts, was published by Yale University Press. Is this a case of censorship?
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2-22-15
Historians/HistoryThe Missing Chapter in the History of America’s Sixties Radicals
Aaron Leonard
Fresh research shows that the FBI had a secret war on Maoists.
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2-22-15
Historians/HistoryWhy History Matters
Charles Spencer
History comes alive when we connect with characters.
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2-22-15
News at HomeWhen a City Turns White, What Happens to Its Black History?
David S. Rotenstein
Case Study: Decatur, Georgia
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2-22-15
Historians/History90 Years Later: Is It Time to Revise Our Understanding of the Underrated and Misunderstood Locarno Conference?
Dr. Yoav J. Tenembaum
As a result of the Locarno Conference, Germany was admitted in 1926 into the League of Nations. Isn’t that worth remembering?
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2-2-15
BooksReview of “The 40’s: The Story Of A Decade: The New Yorker,” Edited by Henry Finder and Giles Harvey
Mark Weisenmiller
Readers and writers should relish this “story of a decade” for it’s education and entertainment.
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2-23-15
Culture WatchWinston Churchill: Back and as Feisty as Ever
Bruce Chadwick
Ronald Keaton is a delight as Britain’s wartime leader in Churchill, written by Keaton and nicely directed by Kurt Johns. Keaton brings the English leader back to life in an admirable show that is extraordinarily informative.
News
- Biographer of a Progressive reformer says it's odd reading stories about inequality in the news every day
- Dutch sociologist says that what is new about mass killing is that we’re embarrassed by it
- NYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week?
- Convicted felon Conrad Black has a new book out
- German Historian: Rich Greeks Evade Taxes Since 1830
