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Week of December 25, 2006
Why Republicans Feel Guilty About Gerald Ford John Robert Greene
Jerry Ford Was No Accidental President Max Holland
Why Did Gerald Ford Criticize His Former Colleagues and the Iraq War? Yanek Mieczkowski
Week of December 18, 2006
"The Banality of Evil": Hussein and Eichmann on Trial Dagmar Barnouw
Did Arabs Help the Nazis Kill Jews? Robert Satloff
Gilder Lehrman Summer Series: The Era of George Washington Paul S. Rykken
Ignorance May Be Bliss, but It Makes for Bad Policy: Analysis of the Iraq Study Group Report Timothy R. Furnish
In Bethlehem, Persisting Hope Jonathan Goldstein
In Historical Truths, the Road to an Open Society Derek Catsam
Let Iraq Break Up? Let Kosovo Leave Serbia? The Perils of Separatism Jeff Mankoff
On Jimmy Carter's False Apartheid Analogy Gil Troy
The American Historical Association and Free Speech Ralph Luker
Whatever the Findings at Iran’s Holocaust Conference, It Works Politically for Ahmadinejad Richard L. Cravatts
Week of December 11, 2006
About Those Tests Indicating Students Have Low History IQ's Jonathan Rees
Did Early Americans Have a Sexual Identity? Thomas A. Foster
Do Arabs Speak the Same Language? Diana Muir
Gilder Lehrman Summer Series: North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective Richard Singer
Is George Bush “The Manchurian Candidate?” Robert Buzzanco
Is Iraq Vietnam? David Kaiser
Measuring the American Mood: The Relevancy of Richard Hofstadter David S. Brown
Occupation Blues: Let’s Not Forget the Mexican War Ron Briley
Staticide, Not Civil War in Iraq Sarah Shields
Where Neo-Conservatism Was Born Nathan Abrams
Week of December 4, 2006
An End to Interventionism in Venezuela Nikolas Kozloff
Interview with Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters Rick Shenkman
Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam John Paul Rossi
Is the Fifth Time a Charm? The Election of Daniel Ortega and the Frente Sandinista Jeffrey L. Gould
Kentucky Fried Globalization Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Reflections on War and Its Consequences Lawrence S. Wittner
Remembrance of Wars Past Robert S. McElvaine
The U.S. Has a History of Using Torture Alfred W. McCoy
What Should We Make of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad’s “Letter to the Noble Americans” Timothy R. Furnish
Why We Should Remember Our Role in Forcing Open Japan When We Commemorate Pearl Harbor George Feifer
Week of November 27, 2006
Democrats -- the Party of Disorder, and Achievement Steven Conn
Did the CIA Kill Bobby Kennedy? The BBC's Blunder Mel Ayton
Gilder Lehrman Summer Series: The American Revolution Mark Wilensky
Interview with Damon Linker: Secular America Under Siege Rick Shenkman
Interview with Rebecca J. Scott: On Latin America Joseph D. Leach
On the Trail of the Real John Henry John Garst
Why It's Time to Dump the UN Dino E. Buenviaje
Why the U.S. Loses ‘Small Wars’ Larry Kahaner
Will Women Join the Ranks of Esteemed Veterans? Laura Browder
Week of November 20, 2006
Buchanan's Unwarranted Conclusions Alexander DeConde
Déja vu All Over Again? 1968 and 2006 Robert Buzzanco and James Carter
Hitler's Plan to Attack America Gerhard Weinberg
How the Telegraph Helped Lincoln Win the Civil War Tom Wheeler
In the Battle Between Pat Buchanan and Winston Churchill, Churchill Wins Anthony D'Agostino
Is It Too Much to Hope that Congress Will Now Finally Stop Issuing Blank Checks for War? Gerald Astor
Lessons from America’s Oldest President Yanek Mieczkowski
Lessons from Iran, 1977-78 Henry Pelifian
Pat Buchanan Got His Facts Wrong Norm Goda
What a Freshly Discovered Einstein Letter Says About Turkey Today Arnold Reisman
Why Many First Year Female Students Will Dread Going Home Thanksgiving Margaret Lowe
Week of November 13, 2006
Will Turkey Seize Northern Iraq? Hakan Ozoglu
About Those Now Haggard Evangelicals Randall Balmer
God's Terrorists Charles Allen
Indoctrination Parading as History at Andover High Richard L. Cravatts
Interview with William R. Polk: Out of Iraq Now Rick Shenkman
Is It Wrong to Ask Students to Write Term Papers? Will Fitzhugh
Return of the Freemasons? Chris Beneke
What Did the FBI Know About the Execution of Anna Mae Aquash? Steve Hendricks
What Exactly Are We Celebrating on Constitution Day? John Whitmer
Who Will Pay for Iraq and When? Jonathan Coopersmith
Week of November 6, 2006
Democracy's Vital Ingredient -- Food William Lambers
Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars: The Age of Lincoln Patrick A. McGravey
Moves toward War with Iran: How to Prevent War ... Part 4 William R. Polk
Muslim Propaganda at the University of Chicago Diana Muir
Reflections on the Anti-War Documentary, Sir! No Sir! Jerry Lembcke
Restoring Russian Support for the War on Terror Jeffrey Mankoff
The First War Crimes Trial of a Head of State Geoffrey Robertson
What happened when Democrats in Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War? Lauren Zanolli
Week of October 30, 2006
Allen Dulles: “I’d have felt much better…if there had been…ten thousand people killed” David M. Barrett
Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars: Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Susan Bevington
I Don’t Want Candy: The Uses and Abuses of Marie Antoinette Caroline Weber
Moves toward War with Iran: In the Event of War ... Part 3 William R. Polk
The Myth that Low Taxes and Liberty Go Hand in Hand Robin L. Einhorn
Week of October 23, 2006
Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars: Abraham Lincoln John McPherson
Moves toward War with Iran: Part 2 William R. Polk
Should Democrats Pay Attention to All the Advice They've Been Getting? Robert Brent Toplin
The Caliph-Strophic Debate Walid Phares
Week of October 16, 2006
Moves Toward War with Iran: Part 1 William R. Polk
Debating 9/11: Democrats Break Their Silence Robert Brent Toplin
Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars: The Colonial Era Barbara Markham
Global Warming: It’s 1970 All Over Again Frank Uekoetter
Global Warming: Life as We’ll Know It Matt Chew
Global Warming: How History Is Being Manipulated to Undermine Calls for Action Spencer Weart
HNN Forum: Global Warming in Historical Perspective Rodney Huff
When Lawyers Go Wrong, Historians Set the Record Straight Ralph Luker
Week of October 9, 2006
Dissenting Against War Is as American as Apple Pie Ron Briley
For Iraq, a Lesson from Africa Derek Catsam and Tom Bruscino
Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars: America Between the Wars Jennifer Hellman
Interview with David Cannadine: His New Biography of Andrew Mellon Rick Shenkman
The Black Panthers: Their Dangerous Bermudian Legacy Mel Ayton
Was the Dred Scott Decision Morally Wrong but Still Legally Correct? Mark A. Graber
Were Nazis Tortured in World War II? Caleb Miller
Why We Should Leave Iraq Now John Weiss
Week of October 2, 2006
Shhh! Don’t Talk about Herbert Aptheker Jesse Lemisch
Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading but Not for the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind Jon Wiener
About the Herbert Aptheker Sexual Revelations Jesse Lemisch
HNN Poll: Should Hastert Be Forced to Resign?
Bomb them Back to the Stone Age: An Etymology Nick Cullather
Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars: Interpreting the Constitution John McGoldrick
Is Bush a Revolutionary? Lee P. Ruddin
It's Not North Korean Nukes that's the Chief Korean Problem Mark Selden
What the Believers in American Power Have Overlooked Joyce Appleby
Why the Founding Fathers Count Joseph Ellis
Week of September 25, 2006
An Obama Presidency for Lincoln’s Two-Hundredth Birthday Robert S. McElvaine
Disarmament is a Two-Way Street Lawrence S. Wittner
Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars: New York in the Gilded Age Steve Laise
Islamofascism ... Bush Is on to Something Daniel Mandel
It's Time Mississippi Established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Howard Ball
The Most Dramatic Moment in Major League Baseball History George Beres
The Unintended Lessons Mitt Romney (and the Rest of Us) Could Learn from George Romney Christopher Bonastia
What is Ramadan? Sana Shahid
Week of September 18, 2006
Interview with Joshua Brown: The Historian as Illustrator (Or Illustrator as Historian) Kensington Hatcher
Donald Rumsfeld's Moral Confusion Robert J. McMahon
How a Professor Trained as an Engineer Came to Write a History of Holocaust Survivors Who Found Refuge in Turkey Arnold Reisman
Inviting Ahmadinejad to the Holocaust Museum would be a smart move for Bush Edward Olshaker
Must We Put Up with Munich Analogies Yet Again? Ron Briley
Sectarian Rage in the New SDS Jesse Lemisch
To Extremists, Books Are Trojan Horses Rebecca Knuth
Was the Pope Wrong? Timothy R. Furnish
Week of September 11, 2006
Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars: The Cold War Matt Boesen
Another September 11th: Stimson, the Bomb, Bush and Iran William Marina
Are Democrats Crazy to Follow Their Conscience and Oppose the War? Nancy C. Unger
Interview with Timothy R. Furnish: Doing Islamic History Rick Shenkman
Oliver Stone, 9/11, and the Big Lie Ruth Rosen
Sorting the War Dead into Winners and Losers Scott A. Sandage
The Empire State Building's New Meaning Since 9/11 Mark Kingwell
The True Story of the SS-Mann Grass ... Dagmar Barnouw
Thoughts on the Impossibility of Being both Deeply Religious and Cosmopolitan Margaret C. Jacob
We'd Be Better Off If Our Foreign Policy Was Less Woodrow Wilson and More Colonel House Godfrey Hodgson
What Would the Founders Do About Terrorism? Richard Brookhiser
Week of August 21, 2006
Calling Al-Qaeda Fascist Doesn't Make It So Jeff Mankoff
Can “Peace” Be a Winning Issue in Presidential Campaigns? Lawrence S. Wittner
Have Our Presidents Made Good Warriors? Stephen Graubard
Katrina Dreams and Fears Günter Bischof
Mired in New Orleans: One Year After Katrina Craig E. Colten
The Christian Conservative Who Opposed the Vietnam War David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito
The Strange Afterlife of the Vietnam War Gordon Arnold
Week of August 14, 2006
"Islamic Fascism": Well, It’s Half Right Timothy R. Furnish
Is Dick Cheney Right that Our Enemies Gain Comfort from Lieberman's Loss? Michael H. Ebner
Israel's Air War in Lebanon and the German Press Dagmar Barnouw
The Truth About Capital Punishment: It's Inherently Cruel Daniel Gordon
The World's Longest War David Carlin
Too Much Lewis & Clark History? David Mould
Why the British Don't Remember Their Civil War and Americans Do Remember Theirs Diane Purkiss
Why We Shouldn't Be Shocked--Shocked!--by the Iraq War Scandals Nicholas B. Dirks
Week of August 7, 2006
A Series of Inconvenient Truths Ron Briley
Castro May Be Dying, Castroism Isn't Alan McPherson
Not Many Senators Have Found Themselves in Joe Lieberman's Predicament Robert KC Johnson
Radical Anti-Semitism: Phase 2 Jeffrey Herf
The Strange Origins of Thomas Sowell's Theory of Gangsta Rap Culture Marc Wiseman
Week of July 31, 2006
Adlai Stevenson Had a Peace Proposal ... Shouldn't Democrats Today? Lawrence S. Wittner
Interview with Marjorie Murphy: War News Radio Nathan Calverley
The United States and the Japanese Mengele: Payoffs and Amnesty for Unit 731 Scientists Christopher Reed
Week of July 24, 2006
The Road to a New American Aristocracy Johann N. Neem
Lebanon: How We Got Here Yoav Gelber
So Hezbollah Can't Be Crushed? Diana Muir
The Clash of Civilizations: A Novelist's Perspective Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Truman Parallel Bush Doesn't Want to Think About Ron Briley
Why Israel's Campaign Will Likely Fail Michael Creswell
Why It's Time to Nationalize the US Defense Industry John Stanton
Week of July 17, 2006
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism: The Link Diana Muir
Axis of Hypocrisy—Russia, US, UK, Italy, France Urge Israeli Restraint Edward Olshaker
History 101: Florida's Flawed Lesson Plan J.L. Bell
Irving H. Bartlett (1923-2006) and American Studies Sheldon M. Stern
The War on Women Ruth Rosen
Why We Should Contain, Not Corner, North Korea Michael Creswell
Week of July 10, 2006
25,000 Die from Hunger Every Day William Lambers
Honda's All-American Sundown Town James W. Loewen
If Deterrence Doesn't Work with Terrorists, What then? Harvey Simon
Is a History Lesson What's Dividing the U.S. and Iran ? Dino E. Buenviaje
The Ambiguities of "Cut and Run" Thomas Michael Holmes
Why We Will Win the War on Terror Larry Schweikart
Week of July 3, 2006
How Does My Lai Compare to the Incident at Haditha? Daniel Sauerwein
The "Whatever" Presidency of George W. Bush Philip Rubio
The American Civil War, Reconstruction, and Iraq: A “Teachable Moment” Gary J. Kornblith
The Bracero Program: Was It a Failure? Philip Martin
The Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Democracy Robert KC Johnson
Why the Whiskey Rebellion Is Worth Recalling Now William Hogeland
Week of June 26, 2006
Are Islam and Democracy Incompatible? Some Reflections from Ottoman History Timothy R. Furnish
British And American ‘Imperialisms’ Compared Bernard Porter
NHK’s Finest Hour: Japan’s Official Record of Chinese Forced Labor William Underwood
The Fictitious Suppression of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Christopher Phelps
The Rise of Integral Anti-Americanism in the Russian Mass Media and Intellectual Life Andreas Umland
The Vietnam War and Modern Memory Ron Briley
Week of June 19, 2006
Iraq, History and the Members of the United States Congress Ed Pompeian
Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies Herman Lebovics
Interview with Andrew Bacevich: The Arrogance of American Power Tom Engelhardt
Interview with William R. Polk About His New Book, The Birth of America
Iraqization Now Andrew Meyer
Why Civilizations Decline Peter Montague
Why Miners Are Cynical About the Prospects for Reform Michael Punke
Week of June 12, 2006
"Activist Judges" or "Re-activist" Judges? Stephanie Coontz
A DNA Test to Determine if Nan Britton and Harding Were Lovers? Philllip Payne
Billy Graham: Have Journalists Given Us an Accurate Picture? Steven P. Miller
Is the Truth About Masada Less Romantic? Kim Stubbs
Katrina Journal: New Orleans Now Günter Bischof
The Manchurian Columnist Takes Off His Mask Jim Sleeper
Week of June 5, 2006
What's New About African History? John Edward Philips
Where Did The Term “The West” Originate? Nathan Calverley
Why Haditha Reminds This Historian of an Awful Chapter in British History Keith David Watenpaugh
Week of May 29, 2006
Avoiding History at the National Trust James W. Loewen
CIA Director Michael Hayden: A Student of History Daniel Sauerwein
Stephen Ambrose: Corrected Peter Schrijvers
The Da Vinci Code: A Fun Bunch of Hooey Cathy Schultz
The Iraq War Was a Major Departure in American Foreign Affairs Colin F. Baxter
The Playwright Hitler Plagiarized Steven F. Sage
What the Iranians Are Probably Thinking William R. Polk
Week of May 22, 2006
If History Is a Guide, The Immigration Debate Is Going to Get Ugly Very Fast Mark W. Naison
Are the Opponents of Gay Marriage Toying with Our Independent Judiciary? James C. Cobb
Of Course, Historians Can Offer Their Assessment of Bush's Presidency Sean Wilentz
Selling Iraq with the Wrong Pitch Michael R. Adamson
Should Historians Try to Rank President Bush's Presidency? Larry DeWitt
The Polyglot Manifesto Manan Ahmed
Week of May 15, 2006
It's Time for Gun Control Proponents to Reclaim the Constitutional High Ground Saul Cornell
Open Skies For Chinese-American Relations? William Lambers
Stop the Presses: An Old Government Cry Christopher B. Daly
Strangers in the Land: An Old Theme Replayed Dino E. Buenviaje
The Infamous Scribblers of the Founding Father Generation Eric Burns
What Does History Bring to the Study of Jihadism? Fawaz A. Gerges
Week of May 8, 2006
Did Muslims Visit America Before Columbus? Rebecca Fachner
Flight 93 ... No Flight of Fantasy Timothy R. Furnish
Intelligent Design and the Place of Religiously-based Ideas in American Politics Hunter Rawlings III
Letter from Romania Jonathan Rees
Our Roman Predicament Harold James
What Is Microhistory? Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson
Whatever Happened to the Plagiarism Charges Leveled Against Don Heinrich Tolzmann? Daniel Sauerwein
Week of May 1, 2006
We Have Sung It in Many Languages Ralph E. Shaffer and Walter P. Coombs
Ben Franklin, Scientist Joyce E. Chaplin
Has the History Profession Awarded a Prize to Another Flawed Book? Robert P. Newman
Lessons from the Past: Postwar German and European Reconstruction and the Rebuilding of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Günter Bischof
Response to Critics of My Book Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
So Long Dr. Strangelove Kevin Mattson
The Enron Era Scandals—What Happened to the Good Guys? Jerry W. Markham
The Polk Awards: Honoring Slain Journalists Thomas Fleming
US Congressional Resolution Calls on Japan to Accept Responsibility for Wartime Comfort Women Alexis Dudden
Was the Recognition of Israel Contrary to U.S. National Interests? Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Week of April 24, 2006
How Will the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Redesign Public History in America? S.J. Redman
Noncitizens Have the Obligations of Citizens--So Why Not the Right to Vote? Ron Hayduk
The Luck of the Historian Tony Platt
Week of April 17, 2006
Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2006 OAH/NCPH Convention (Wash. D.C. April 19-22) Rick Shenkman
Bush's Latest Nuclear Gambit Lawrence S. Wittner
Do Historians Have a Responsibility to Warn the Public About Misleading Websites? Randall Bytwerk
HNN Survey: What Kind of History Does the History Channel Show? Debbie Kahn
No Borders: Beyond the Nation-State Thomas Bender
San Francisco 1906 and Katrina 2005: The Increasing Costs of Unpreparedness Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson
The Dangers - Then and Now - of a Pre-Emptive Strike Harvey Simon
The Strange Alliance between Ukrainian “Progressive Socialism” and Russian “Neo-Eurasianism” Andreas Umland
The White Ethnic Revival Matthew Frye Jacobson
Week of April 10, 2006
Iraq, Vietnam, and the Bloodbath Theory Scott Laderman
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Motives Mel Ayton
Review of "The Boy in the Bubble" Barron H. Lerner
Should the U.S. Supreme Court Cite Foreign Precedents? William J. Flynn
The Day We Lost the Iraq War Michael Goldfarb
The Myth and Reality of Major League Baseball Ron Briley
What Has Been Our Dominant Tradition in American History: Interventionism Or Isolationism? Colin F. Baxter
Why President Bush Should Be Censured John Dean
Week of April 3, 2006
The Lessons of Mr. Polk's War Jeffrey Mankoff
Basketball's Best Once Were Blackballed from the College Game George Beres
Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal Peter N. Kirstein
Political Correctness Is Alive and Well on College Campuses Alan Levy
The Paranoid View of History Infects Harvard Richard L. Cravatts
The Romance of E-Mail: Ground Rules Michael H. Ebner
Who Pays When the Last Helicopter Leaves? Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Why the Civil War Still Matters Kevin M. Levin
Week of March 27, 2006
About the Historians Who Write History Columns Andrew Bernstein
Horowitz, Genovese, and the Varieties of Culture War: Comments on the Continuing Unpleasantness in Idaho William L. Ramsey
Interview with Chalmers Johnson: Cold Warrior in a Strange Land Tom Engelhardt
Remember When . . . Robert S. McElvaine
The Founders Never Imagined a Bush Administration Joyce Appleby and Gary Hart
Whose Art History is it Anyway? S.J. Redman
Why I Decided to Write a Novel Larry Schweikart
Week of March 20, 2006
The Columnist Who Thinks African-Americans Should Be Grateful Their Ancestors Were Enslaved Andrew Bernstein
7/7 and the War in Iraq J. R. Kerr-Ritchie
Algeria and Iraq: Yes, There Are Parallels Ted Morgan
It's Not Just the Japanese Government that's Turning a Blind Eye to History ... So Are Japanese Corporations William Underwood
The High School History Textbook Debate in China Charles W. Hayford
True Stories : Oprah, Elie Wiesel, and the Holocaust Dagmar Barnouw
Week of March 13, 2006
JFK Assassination Brouhaha Rodney Huff
Adieu Slobodan Norman J.W. Goda
How Bush Confuses Virtue and Viciousness Joan Hoff
I Am a Revisionist Historian Staughton Lynd and Carl Mirra
National Education Standards….They’re Back! Kevin R. Kosar
Reporting from Baghdad: Why Hasn't There Been a Civil War? Richard F. Miller
Wartime Leadership: The First Republican President Versus The Latest Richard Striner
Why Peace Movements Are Important Alan Dawley
Why the War is Sexist (And Why We Can’t Ignore Gender Anymore) Huibin Amee Chew
Week of March 6, 2006
Another Book About the Haymarket Affair? Yes. James Green
Back to the Future: The U.S. in Iraq and the Philippines William Loren Katz
Mr. Bush ... Brought to the Bar of Poetic Justice (Finally) Robert S. McElvaine
The Korea-China Textbook War--What's It All About? Yonson Ahn
The Strange Apologetics of Our Academic Colleagues Kenneth Wagner
Why Condi Rice's Foreign Policy Approach Is Flawed Walter LaFeber
Week of February 27, 2006
Gandhi, Bush, and the Bomb Lawrence S. Wittner
Imperial Schism? The Firing of Bruce Bartlett as a Lesson for Historians William Marina
Interview with Philip Zelikow Eben Miller
Katrina Journal: The International Community and New Orleans Günter Bischof
One More Reason Why Errors in Transcripts of Presidential Tapes Need to be Corrected Online Max Holland
So What Should We Do About Hamas? Barry Rubin
What Are Japanese Fantasy Films Telling Us? Aaron Gerow
When Did Presidents of the United States Begin to Worry about Our Dependence on Foreign Oil Supplies? Daniel Sauerwein
Why Aren't Black Business Tycoons Celebrated During Black History Month? Jeffrey J. Matthews
Week of February 20, 2006
Good-Bye Larry Summers -- Without Regrets Jim Sleeper
The Dubai Ports Issue is Really Wal-Mart and Toyota All Over Again! William Marina
Why Historians Have a Responsibility to Condemn the Jailing of David Irving Jesse Lemisch
Historians Against the War: Highlights from their Weekend Conference Judy Atkins
Setting the Record Straight (Again) on the Presidential Recordings Program Timothy Naftali
The Muslim World’s Own Cartoon Offenses Richard L. Cravatts
Three Years After the Presidential Tapes Conference and Still No Promised Follow-Up? Sheldon M. Stern
Was Eleanor Roosevelt Molested as a Child? Sipra Rathi
Was Gonzales's Historical Defense of Eavesdropping Convincing? Douglas M. Charles
Why the Romans Are Important in the Debate About Gay Marriage Robert Frakes
Week of February 13, 2006
Are Museums Guilty of Stealing? Historians Can Help Decide. S.J. Redman
Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima David McNeill
Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition Laura Browder
How Cardinal Ratzinger Dealt with Germany’s Past Daniel Sauerwein
Is the Proposed Asbestos Settlement Fair? Rachel Maines
Jarhead Nation Jerry Lembcke
Was There Always a Clear Dividing Line Between Fact and Fiction? Andrea Young
Week of February 6, 2006
When Jefferson Dined Alone Jonathan Gross
As If It Weren't Hard Enough Keeping the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds Together Hakan Ozoglu
How Accurate is Munich? Steve Bowden
If We Want to Rein in the Imperial Presidency We Have to Grade Presidents Differently Lara M. Brown
Interview with Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch: The People Behind the New Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States Andrew Bernstein
Katrina Journal: Notes from the Frontlines of a Novice History Chair Günter Bischof
Terence Malick’s The New World: A Creation Myth for a Lost World Ron Briley
The JFK Lawyers' Conspiracy Max Holland
Week of January 30, 2006
"War"-Time Thoughts on War-Anniversaries Dagmar Barnouw
Glory Road: The Mixed Legacy of the 1966 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Ron Briley
Did Truman Really Oppose the Soviet Union's Decision to Enter the War Against Japan? D.M. Giangreco
Historical Truth Vs. Historical Fiction? Thomas Fleming
Teaching History: Why Multiculturalism Is So Important Howard Shorr
What Do You Do with Dead Soldiers? Michael Sledge
Week of January 23, 2006
Brokeback Mountain and the New Western History Ron Briley
Does Rumsfeld Remember His Own Vietnam Lessons for Iraq? James M. Carter
In Iraq: Out on Patrol Richard F. Miller
Interview with MacArthur "Genius" Winner Emily Thompson Jamie Rodriguez
Is Government Propaganda Legal? Well . . . Kevin R. Kosar
Why Real Reforms May Just Follow the Abramoff Scandal Nancy C. Unger
Week of January 16, 2006
Munich: A Descent into Moral Ambiguity Ron Briley
White Ethnics Not Just Innocent Victims in America's Culture Wars Mark Naison
Academic Jarheads? Jim Sleeper
Do Any of the New Books and Documentaries Prove Who Killed JFK? Mel Ayton
Has President Bush Spoken to More Military Audiences than His Predecessors? Melissah J. Pawlikowski
Have Peace Activists Ever Stopped a War? Lawrence S. Wittner
Now It Can Be Told: Why I Pretended to Be a Neo-Nazi Jacques Pluss
The Bush Administration's Dangerous Impulsive Responses to Immediate Challenges Joyce Appleby
The First Act of Terrorism in English America J. Frederick Fausz
You Want to Understand Fanatics? Understand Julius Rosenberg and His Ilk Steven Usdin
Week of January 9, 2006
Historians Against the War: At the AHA Convention, 2006 David Applebaum
Camp Followers, Contractors, and Carpetbaggers in Iraq Richard F. Miller
Happy (Late) Birthday William Lloyd Garrison Allison Nash
How Should Textbooks Treat the Clinton Scandals? Larry Schweikart
The French Riots: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose Aaron Erlich
Was Anything Learned from Vietnam? Carolyn Eisenberg
Week of January 2, 2006
David Horowitz's $10,000 Challenge to the Historians of the AHA Ben Johnson
If this is Such a Conservative Era, Why Is the White House Downplaying Alito's Rightwing Views? Leonard Steinhorn
Post-Tenure Lavender Blues Marc Stein
Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Philadelphia) Rick Shenkman
Is Bush Just Following Lincoln's Example? William C. Kashatus
The Jewish Prostitutes of South America (Series: The Writing Life) Isabel Vincent
The Mirage that Is Derailing the Rebuilding of New Orleans Ari Kelman
The Nightmare Vision: King Kong as Captivity Narrative Ron Briley
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