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  • Jul 23, 2007

    Things Noted Here and There

    by Cliopatria

    Robert Townsend reports on a new study of time-to-degree for doctoral candidates in the United States. It finds that only a quarter of them in history finish within seven years and fewer than half finish within ten years. Mary Dudziak reads the implications of
  • Jul 22, 2007

    Sunday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Ancient Things: Jonathon Keats,"Romancing the Stone," Washington Post, 22 July, reviews John Ray's The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. James Davidson,"Zeus Be Nice Now," LRB, 19 July, reviews Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum and Robert Parker's Polytheism and Society in Athens.
  • Jul 21, 2007

    Review of Robert Dallek's Nixon and Kissinger (2007)

    by Cliopatria

    [Mr. Kaiser is the Stanley Kaplan Professor of History and Leadership Studies at Williams College, and the author of American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War (2000).]

    Over the past five years, in many conversations with friends about American foreign policy, the name of Richard Nixon has come up, and we have commiserated about how we would like to have him back. Nixon certainly deserved impeachment and removal, but in foreign policy, he appeared in retrospe