Week of June 20, 2011

Up Front

Senate Intelligence Committee to Investigate Juan Cole-CIA Allegations

HNN Roundtable: Why Don't Students Know Anything About U.S. History?

Wrong "Correct" Answers: The Scourge of the NAEP
Paul Burke

We Need a STEM-Like Initiative for History
Linda K. Salvucci

Can Educators Even Answer These Lame Questions?
Sam Wineburg

How Can We Ever Hope to Govern Ourselves If We Know Nothing of Our Past?
Rick Shenkman

Let He Who Knows Who Won the Korean War Cast the First Stone
James Grossman

Let the Teachers Teach
Jim Cullen

NAEP History Exam Results at a Glance

News at Home

Rick Perry's War on Higher Ed in Texas
John Willingham

The Westboro Baptist Church vs. ... The Ku Klux Klan?
Kelly J. Baker

When It Comes to Community History, Charter Schools Are Missing in Action
Mark Naison

Playing Chicken with the Economy
Robert Brent Toplin

The Diversity of College Diversity
John R. Thelin

News Abroad

"Victory" in Afghanistan Is the Verbal Equivalent of a Yeti
Tom Engelhardt

Historians & History

Retired CIA Official Alleges Bush White House Used Agency to "Get" Me—Congress Needs to Investigate
Juan Cole

Irish Politics is Behind Records Request at Boston College
Chris Bray

Books

Review of Mara Hvistendahl's Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Review of Dan Barry's Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
Luther Spoehr