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Week of December 12, 2011
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Up Front
Newt Gingrich the Galactic Historian
Ray Smock
Occupy: You Can’t Evict an Idea
Ruth Rosen
Questions People are Googling
- Only 1/3rd of Americans Supported the American Revolution?
- Did Everybody in the Greatest Generation Fight ?
- Did the Founding Fathers Really Get Many of Their Ideas of Liberty from the Iroquois?
- Why was Caesar Really Killed?
- Did States Restrict the Voting Rights of Felons on Account of Racism?
Blogs
- Robert Higgs: Why Do So Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism? (L & P)
- Brett Holman: Remembering the Pacific War at Monash (Clio)
- Chris Bray: George Lakoff Isn't a Historian, but that Excuse Only Goes So Far (Clio)
News at Home
Theodore and Barack in Osawatomie
Walter Nugent
Occupy Should Remember: The Public Blamed the Protesters for the Kent State Shootings
Christine Lamberson
Miss USA and Mr. FAA: Our Latest Drunk Drivers
Barron H. Lerner
News Abroad
The Remoteness of 1 Percent Wars
William J. Astore
Historians & History
The Gift of Anguish: An Interview with Psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi on Leadership and Mental Illness
Robin Lindley
How Do Staid Museums Navigate a User-Generated World?
Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski
Culture Watch
J. Edgar Fails to Deliver the Historical Goods
Aaron J. Stockham
Bonnie & Clyde Shoot Up America in the Great Depression
Bruce Chadwick
A Cold Christmas for this "Christmas Carol"
Bruce Chadwick
For Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway, It’s Love on the East Side
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Anna Reid’s Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Murray Polner
