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On Other Websites: Week of February 11, 2013

  • Garry Wills: New Pope? I’ve Given Up Hope
  • Richard White: Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches
  • Richard R. John: How the Post Office Made America
  • Ted Widmer: From Obama, a Proudly Liberal Message
  • Amity Shlaes: The Small Presidency
  • Sean Wilentz: Cherry-Picking Our History
  • Julian Zelizer: Obama, Think Big for State of the Union
  • Sarah Carr: In Southern Towns, 'Segregation Academies' Are Still Going Strong
  • John Blaxland and Rikki Kersten: East Asia in 2013 Resembles Europe in 1913
  • Alex Seitz-Wald: Would Lincoln Use Drones?