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Week of April 23, 2012

Up Front



NCPH Award Winners Announced


North Carolina's Pursuit of a Master Race
Edwin Black


Svetlana Savranskaya: Soviet Perspectives on the Caribbean Crisis [VIDEO]
OAH/NCPH 2012

OAH/NCPH 2012



Highlights from the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee

David A. Walsh

Index


News


Videos


On Other Websites


Blogs


News at Home



The True Story Behind the "War on Moms"

Mary C. Brennan

News Abroad



The Shame of Nations: A New Record is Set for Spending on War

Lawrence S. Wittner

Historians & History



Tim Weiner's Enemies: The Final Say

Susan Rosenfeld (with endnote by Tim Weiner)


The Forgotten History of Milwaukee's Civil Rights Struggle

Patrick D. Jones

Culture Watch



Sports History Gets Another Look with Magic/Bird Basketball Drama

Bruce Chadwick

Books



Review of Tim Wendel's Summer of '68: The Season that Changed Baseball -- and America -- Forever

Murray Polner



Review of Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Jim Cullen