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• 7-25-14
  Roundup

  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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• 7-24-14
  News Abroad

  Putin's Hands May Be Bloody, but this Was No Re-Run of KAL 007

  Mark B. Tauger

  While the claims of denial may be similar, however, the comparison between the events themselves does not hold up.

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• 7-19-14
  News Abroad

  Three Lessons We Need to Heed from the Soviet Downing of KAL 007

  Walter G. Moss

  Gorbachev and Reagan found a way to end the Cold War. Presidents Putin and Obama need to follow their example.

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• Historical Humility

  The great advantage historians have is that we know how the story ends. 

  Mark Byrnes's Facing Backwards

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• 7-18-14
  Historians/History

  Which Historians Have Made Bank in the United States?

  Alexandra M. Webster

  An old joke goes, “Become a historian. Get rich.” But for some historians it’s no joke.

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• 7-18-14
  News at Home

  Why Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money?

  Lawrence S. Wittner

  Whatever the plight of faculty and students, these are boom times for campus administrators.

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• News

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• 7-17-14
  News Abroad

  The Curse of The Occupation

  Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

  To be sure, occupation is a curse that dehumanizes both the occupier and the occupied. It runs contrary to every tenet of humanity.

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• 7-19-14
  Historians/History

  Why Didn't Anyone Kill Hitler?

  Daniel Mandel

  70 years ago this week came the most serious attempt on his life. 

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• 7-20-14
  News at Home

  Shouldn't the People Who Build Cities Be Able to Live in Them?

  Pearl Duncan

  Recently, there has been discussion in New York and other cities about affordable housing for people who are workers.

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• 7-20-14
  News at Home

  That Summer You're Enjoying? What Few Realize.

  Jackson Murphy

  Until the 20th century, Summer (as we know it) was for the rich.

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• 7-20-14
  Historians/History

  Why a Contrarian History of the United States Is Needed Now

  Ilan Stavans

  I’m tired of the hypocritical way immigrants are constantly being described today in public discourse.

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• 7-20-14
  News Abroad

  Is It 1914 All Over Again, Only this Time in Asia?

  Tom Clifford

  No one in Asia is expecting war, but there is whiff of something in the air.

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• 7-20-14
  Historians/History

  The Brutal Reality of the Iraq War: An Interview with Award-Winning Photographer Michael Kamber on the Hidden War Seen by Photojournalists

  Robin Lindley

  In war, the photographer is the silent witness.

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• 7-20-14
  Historians/History

  How a Book Reviewer Got My Book Wrong

  Jonathan Israel

  A response to the book critic who trashed my book, “Revolutionary Ideas,” in the New York Review of Books.

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• 7-7-14
  Books

  Review of Keith Thomson’s "Jefferson’s Shadow: The Story of His Science"

  M. Andrew Holowchak

  While books on Jefferson’s intimate life are superabundant, books on Jefferson’s views of science are infrequent.

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• 7-12-14
  News Abroad

  Israel’s Groundhog Day: Reverse Snowballs and the Horror of Lawn-Mowing

  Juan Cole

  "The Israelis, the Palestinians and the world are doomed to relive these periodic slaughters over and over again, until slowly, inexorably, they further corrupt the Israeli soul and make the Zionist enterprise so unlovely in the eyes of the world that it loses crucial support."

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• 7-11-14
  News Abroad

  Why Does Hamas Want War?

  Daniel Pipes

  "The holy grail of political warfare is to win the sympathy of the global Left by presenting oneself as underdog and victim."

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• 7-14-14
  News at Home

  How Bad Is the Hobby Lobby Ruling?

  Dr. Emma Long

  Some of the nuance of the Court’s opinion has been overlooked.

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• 7-14-14
  Historians/History

  Which Historians Have the Most Followers on Twitter?

  Erik Moshe

  Here are Twitter's top active historians along with some interesting information about what they are tweeting about.

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• 7-14-14
  Historians/History

  Kids Are Learning to be Leftists in Public Schools by Historians with an Ax to Grind?

  Adam Laats

  Few topics get conservatives more riled up than the notion that kids are learning to be leftists in public schools. 

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• 7-14-14
  News Abroad

  Why You Can't Ignore Religion If You Want to Understand Foreign Policy

  Leo P. Ribuffo

  Understanding the connection between religions and foreign relations requires the same sort of reflection and empirical investigation needed to understand other influences.

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• 7-14-14
  News Abroad

  Channeling George Washington: Losing the Initiative

  Thomas Fleming

  "Essentially it’s a rather simple idea: seizing and keeping the initiative is crucial in a war."

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• 7-10-14
  Historians/History

  Have We Really Been Reading the Declaration of Independence Wrong?

  Matthew Dennis

  “a scholar is now saying that the official transcript of the document . . . contains a significant error.”

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• 7-14-14
  News Abroad

  The 10 Questions You Need Answers to About the Caliphate

  Ali A. Olomi

  What is significant about Al-Baghdadi’s caliphate?

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• 7-10-14
  News at Home

  Is the Right to Contraception Services Now in Danger?

  Heather Munro Prescott

  We shall see.

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• Historians/History

  80,000 Prostitutes? The Myth of Victorian London's Love Affair with Vice

  Judith Flanders

  How the myth came about.

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• 7-14-14
  Historians/History

  This Founding Father Wasn't Always Loved

  Thomas A. Foster

  Ben Franklin had a lot of sex.

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• 7-13-14
  Historians/History

  A Life In Cartoons: An Interview with New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff

  Robin Lindley

  "Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing." — Mark Twain

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• 7-14-14
  Historians/History

  When the United States Spoke French

  François Furstenberg

  In Philadelphia in the early 19th century you could hear French spoken on the streets, eat French food, and watch French dramas.

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• 7-14-14
  Historians/History

  Our Winston Churchill Problem

  Lawrence James

  Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's death. So, how do we celebrate Churchill?

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• 7-14-14
  News Abroad

  We’ve Heard from John McCain. We Need to Hear from Someone Like George McGovern.

  Mike McQuillan

  “It does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or Senator to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Vietnam,” McGovern said in the Senate, “because it is not their blood that is being shed.”

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• 7-14-14
  Historians/History

  How Germans Came to View Claus von Stauffenberg as a Hero -- And Thank Goodness!

  Randall Hansen

  That he failed, and tens of millions of people went to their deaths in the last nine months of the war, was an unalloyed tragedy. But he had a positive effect on Germany.