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On Other Websites: Week of July 2, 2012

  • James Grossman and Allen Mikaelian: Politifact and Historical Thinking
  • Eliga Gould: How Did the British Press Cover the American Revolution?
  • Steven Erlanger: What’s a Socialist?
  • Nicolaus Mills: Rethinking the Eisenhower Memorial
  • Alex Massie: The War of 1812 ... The Whitewashed War
  • Bruce Riedel: JFK's Overshadowed Crisis
  • Thomas Fleming: What Life Was Like in 1776
  • Nabila Ramdani: Fifty Years After Algeria's Independence, France is Still in Denial
  • Grover G. Norquist: Tea, Taxes, and the Revolution ... The Founding Fathers Would Revolt If They Saw America’s Tax Burden Today
  • Ronald Radosh: Mitt Romney’s Big Problem — and Hence Ours