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3-10-14
Why Women's History Month?
Ruth Rosen
Unfortunately, it is still necessary to have a token month every year devoted to women's lives.
Historians/History
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3-10-14
Can Academics Bridge the Gap Between the Academy and the Mainstream Reading Public?
Jim Downs
The problem lies not with academics' prose, but rather with access to mainstream publications.
Education
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3-10-14
Five Things You Need to Know to be a Better Digital Preservationist
Victoria Torres
Handy tips for the aspiring archivist/digital preservationist. (Increasingly, they're becoming one and the same!)
Historians in the News
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3-10-14
Why the U.S. Has So Many Bases on Okinawa
John W. Dower
The establishment of a U.S. military fiefdom on Okinawa was part of the Cold War practice of dividing nations.
News Abroad
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3-10-14
Will "Noah" Help Egypt Separate Church and State?
Juan Cole
The new Russell Crowe vehicle faces bans across the Middle East and North Africa. Here's why it's an important litmus test for religious freedom in the region.
News Abroad
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3-10-14
How the Strict Traditional Laws of Islam Affect the Lives of Modern Muslims
Daniel Pipes
The religion's formal requirements are the narrow base for a far wider structure of patterns that extend the formal rules of Islam.
News Abroad
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3-10-14
How Obama Became a Publicist for His Presidency (Rather Than the President)
David Bromwich
The truth is that Obama’s convictions were never strong, and they were untested until he became the president.
News at Home
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3-10-14
Maximilian Schell Changed the Way We Think About the Holocaust. Really.
Jennifer Frost
1960's "Judgment at Nuremberg," Schell's starmaking role, avoided the redemption so typical of Holocaust movies of that era.
Culture Watch
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3-10-14
The Secret Life of Teaching: Romantics
Horace Dewey
In which a walk in the woods leads to a fishing expedition.
Education
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3-10-14
Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi
Bruce Chadwick
A new play by the famed Australian playwright Thomas Keneally explores the Irish side of Australian history.
Culture Watch
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3-10-14
Review of Seth Lipsky’s “The Rise of Abraham Cahan”
Robert Parmet
Abraham Cahan's story is the quintessential American success story.
Books
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3-3-14
The Truth About the Ukraine Crisis is That History Really Doesn't Matter That Much
David Austin Walsh
Pre-1991 history, anyway. Padraic Kenney, an Eastern European historian at Indiana University, explains.
News Abroad
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3-5-14
Ukraine's Toxic History of Fascism and Ethnic Cleansing
Robert Thurston
Far too many Ukrainians today have fond memories of Nazi-collaborating nationalists in World War II.
News Abroad
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3-5-14
Forget 1991 or World War II: The Real Historical Parallel to the Ukraine Crisis is Poland's 1863 Revolt Against the Tsar
Walter G. Moss
In 1863 as well as as in 2014, the most important question facing the West is whether anything can deter use of Russian military force.
News Abroad
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3-3-14
Nina Simone: The Antidote to the "We Shall Overcome" Myth of the Civil Rights Movement
Ruth Feldstein
In Concert celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this month. That'll learn ya.
Historians/History
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3-3-14
What's Missing from Obama's Presidency
Kenneth Weisbrode
If Obama the president is supposed to embody a "stable pluralism," how can he inspire the rest of us to transcend it?
News at Home
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HNN Hot Topics: Women's History Month
The best web commentary about Women's History Month.
Hot Topics
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2-27-14
What You Need to Know About Crimea: An Interview with Charles E. King
David Austin Walsh
Georgetown University professor and Ukrainian specialist Charles King explains the history behind the crisis in Crimea.
News Abroad
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3-3-14
The Treaty that Ended World War II Still Haunts Asia Today
John W. Dower
The San Francisco Treaty system, which has dominated East Asian politics since World War II, is fraying. Here's how we got here.
News Abroad
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3-3-14
Getting Grand Strategy Right
Hal Brands
Barack Obama dismisses the need for a U.S. grand strategy. This is why he's wrong.
News Abroad
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3-3-14
The 1980 Supreme Court Decision that Denies Union Protection to Faculty at Private Universities
Jean-Christian Vinel
In Yeshiva v. NLRB, academics working at private institutions have been denied the rights that their counterparts at University of Illinois, Chicago recently exercised.
Education
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3-3-14
Even If Arizona Made Its Anti-Gay Bill Law, It Wouldn't Have Mattered -- It Would Have Been Unconstitutional
John A. Kirk
It's *so* unconstitutional it's laughable -- these issues were supposed to be settled fifty years ago.
News at Home
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3-3-14
The Secret Life of Teaching: Gingerly Revising
Horace Dewey
In which a student and a teacher confront their limits.
Education
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3-3-14
"We’re Off to See the Wizard…"
Bruce Chadwick
Stage versions help celebrate seventy-fifth anniversary of 1939 "Oz" movie.
Culture Watch
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3-3-14
Review of Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos's "Rot, Riot, and Rebellion"
Luther Spoehr
Mr. Jefferson's University made "Animal House" look tame.
Books
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2-27-14
With State Funding Drying Up, Museums and Archives Turn to the Private Sector
Victoria Torres
Major corporations have stepped into the gap as federal and state arts and humanities budgets are slashed.
Historians in the News
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2-24-14
How JFK Slammed the Door on Che Guevara's Offer to Improve U.S.-Cuban Relations
Jack Colhoun
Che's backdoor "cigar diplomacy" was returned in kind by the Kennedy brothers with Operation Mongoose, the plan to overthrow Castro.
Historians/History
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6-15-12
LBJ Thought Nixon Committed Treason to Win the 1968 Election
Ken Hughes
The president, in a telephone call to Senate Minority Leader said of Nixon's suspected sabotage of Vietnamese peace talks, "This is treason."
Historians/History
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2-24-14
Remember Way Back When White Men Killed Black Men to "Defend" White Women? (Hint: We're Talking About 2013)
Crystal R. Sanders
The justifications of the killers of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis draw upon the dark, bloody history of the fear of black men and white women.
News at Home
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2-24-14
The Highest-Paid University President Makes 170 Times More than the Average Adjunct
Lawrence S. Wittner
An adjunct teaching a full-time load makes roughly $20,000. Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, makes $3.4 million.
Education
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2-24-14
5 Lessons for Kiev from the Arab Spring
Juan Cole
Political compromise is necessary, and it's a good thing that the military has so far remained neutral.
News Abroad
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2-25-14
Once Upon a Time Governments Paid Slave Reparations ... to Slaveowners
Greg Grandin
And why not? The early modern world knew just how much was built on the backs of slave labor. Would that we were able to acknowledge that today.
Historians/History
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2-24-14
In Defense of the American Studies Association
Alan Wald
The ASA's support of the BDS movement seeks to enhance the academic freedom of Palestinians.
Historians/History
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2-24-14
Inside the Republican War on Women
Ruth Rosen
Mike Huckabee thinks women "need to be liberated from their libidos."
News at Home
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2-24-14
The Unmaking of a President: Rethinking Watergate at Forty [VIDEO]
It has been forty years since the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's resignation from the presidency. To mark the occasion, the AHA Annual Meeting in January hosted a dedicated Watergate panel.
Historians/History
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2-8-13
Who Killed Emmett Till?
Bradley Craig
Emmett Till was one of the 3,446 black men lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, but his story is not just one more statistic. How the death of a boy from Chicago galvanized the civil rights movement and changed the world.
Google Questions
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2-24-14
The Secret Life of Teaching: Progressive Faith
Horace Dewey
In which our narrator considers the curiously broad appeal of his namesake.
Education
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2-24-14
Story about SS St. Louis Flounders at Sea
Bruce Chadwick
"Sotto Voce" is a turgid, rambling, and ultimately dull look at an historic tragedy.
Culture Watch
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2-24-14
Review of Jon K. Lauck's "The Lost Region"
Ron Briley
Towards a revival of Midwestern history.
Books
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