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Winning All the Battles but Losing the War, Just Like Hannibal
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Historians & History
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Bonnie K. Goodman
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Brian Hamilton
HNN Special: Confederate History Month
America's Complete History Includes Slaves
Pearl Duncan
How McDonnell's Remarks Could Jeopardize Southern Tourism
Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts
Civility in Modern America Isn't as Bad as Before the Civil War
Williamjames Hull Hoffer
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Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.: Islam’s Luther—or its Don Quixote?
Timothy R. Furnish
What We Choose to Remember: Jerusalem in World History
Judith Mendelsohn Rood
Historians & History
Anonymous Slander on Amazon, Soviet Style
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Barack Obama's Legal Predecessor? Charles Hamilton Houston
Rawn James, Jr.
Learning Nuclear Policy from an Iowa Farmer
Lee Winningham
Culture Watch
Rummaging in “The Hurt Locker” for a Moral Equivalent of War
James Livingston
100 Years of a Presidential Baseball Tradition
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Bonnie K. Goodman
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Bonnie K. Goodman
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Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge
Edwin Black
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Graham Russell Gao Hodges
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Gil Troy
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Lawrence S. Wittner
Haiti's Revolution Fueled the Rise of Big Sugar in Cuba and Louisiana
Elizabeth Abbott
Opium, the CIA and the Karzai Administration
Peter Dale Scott
The Decentralization of Morocco's Monarchy
Yossef Ben-Meir
Historans & History
Staughton Lynd: A Historian with a Place in History
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Bonnie K. Goodman
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Bonnie K. Goodman
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David Lee McMullen
Criticism of Obama Mirrors That of FDR
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
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William G. Shade
The (Very) French Argument against Google Books
Christine S. Haynes
Historians & History
The Texas State Board of Education's Attempt to Christianize the Founders
John Willingham
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Aaron Leonard
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Historians & History
Texas State Board of Education Tries to Dilute History of Women, Minorities
John Willingham
Channelling George Washington: Presidents Criticizing Presidents
Thomas Fleming
The 240th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
Richard Archer
Big Tobacco and the Historians
Jon Wiener
The Forgotten Washington Race War of 1919
Rawn James Jr.
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Jim Cullen
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Mark Selden
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Jonathan Phillips
Historians & History
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John Willingham
A Critique of Peter Kuznick's Interview with HNN
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Robert Brent Toplin
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The Wearing of the Green
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Mexican War Traitor, Hero, and Irishman: The Three Faces of John Riley
Peter F. Stevens
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Jill O'Neill
Immigrant Loyalties During the Great War and Today
David Laskin
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Priya Satia
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Historians & History
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Kristie Miller and Robert H. McGinnis
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Jill O'Neill
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From the Philippines Conquest to Afghanistan, the U.S. Trains Local Police in Brutality
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Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride and the Struggle to End Global Hunger
William Lambers
Historians & History
New York Times Article on Texas History Standards Misses How the Historical"Narrative" Has Changed
Joseph A. Palermo
K.C. Johnson Missed the Point About Naftali
Max Holland
Holland, Naftali, and the Wisdom of Discretion
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Globalization and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Peter Heather
Channelling George Washington: Illusions of Victory
Thomas Fleming
The Theater Has a Power Beyond the Lone Pursuit of History
Howard Zinn
Zinn Lives: Scholars Remember the Person Behind A People’s History
Guy Mount
History as Creative Writing
James Goodman
Marx for a New Century: An Interview with Bertell Ollman
Aaron Leonard
Books
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Jim Cullen
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Walter G. Moss
Loray Mill Strikers Deserve to be Remembered
David Lee McMullen
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Can Anyone Pacify Afghanistan, the World's Number One Narco-State?
Alfred W. McCoy
The Perils of the Philanthropist President in Haiti
Martine Jean
The Road Not Taken by the U.S. in 1950s Iran
John T. McNay
Lying About Nuclear Weapons
Lawrence S. Wittner
Historians & History
The Texas State Board of Education and History Standards: A Teacher’s Perspective
Ron Briley
In Defense of Historians as Expert Witnesses: A Rebuttal to Jon Wiener
John C. Burnham
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Aaron Leonard
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Past AHA & OAH Annual Meetings
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- Angus Burgin: The New Intellectual History of Conservatism
- Jennifer Burns: The New Intellectual History of Conservatism
- Renee Romano: Ronald Reagan's Neshoba County Speech in National Memory
- David Chappell: Ronald Reagan's Neshoba County Speech in National Memory
- Hew Strachan: Clausewitz and the First World War
- Nathan Perl-Rosenthal: From the Bottom Up: Sailors and Democracy
- Jesse Lemisch: From the Bottom Up: Sailors and Democracy
- James Boyden: Explaining the Apocalypse: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina
- Jason Friedman: Rethinking the Carter Administration
- Eduardo Canedo: Rethinking the Carter Administration
- Matthew Sutton: Rival Revivals: Religion, Politics, and Labor in the Great Depression
- Jared Roll: Rival Revivals: Religion, Politics, and Labor in the Great Depression
- Alison Greene: Rival Revivals: Religion, Politics, and Labor in the Great Depression
- Todd Holmes: Political Networks: Coalition Building on the Left in the Late 1960s and 1970s
- Melissa Estes Blair: Political Networks: Coalition Building on the Left in the Late 1960s and 1970s
- Ernest Freeberg: A.P. U.S. History Roundtable: The 2009 Exam, Teaching Social History, and Future Directions.
- William Tinkler: A.P. U.S. History Roundtable: The 2009 Exam, Teaching Social History, and Future Directions
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Stanley Kutler
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Christopher Merrill and Linda K. Kerber
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Jerome C. Wakefield
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Daniel Pipes
Micro-Geography Matters in Jerusalem
Dror Wahrman
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Robin Lindley
Historians & History
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David Walsh
Culture Watch
Baseball Has Lost Some of Its Soul
William Astore
Books
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Murray Polner
Review of Stephen J. Taylor's Acts of Conscience: WWII, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors
Murray Polner
