Week of October 31, 2011
Up Front
News
National Library of Medicine Celebrates 175th Anniversary
Jeffrey S. Reznick
Questions People are Googling
- What's Behind the History of Halloween?
- Who Was "Jim Crow"?
- Who Killed Malcolm X? And Why?
- What Caused the Civil War?
News at Home
Occupy Wall Street's Valley Forge Moment
Tom Engelhardt
What, the NRA Didn't Always Oppose Gun Control?
Adam Winkler
Obama Shouldn't be Above Criticism by Progressives
Jacob Kramer
Ron Paul: Interviews with Historian David Beito and Political Scientist Matthew Wilson
Alexander Heffner
News Abroad
Obama's Misplaced Mideast Optimism
Daniel Pipes
Let's Make Sure to Ask the Right Questions About the Gilad Shalit Deal
Donna Robinson Divine
Christianity is in Danger in the Middle East
Robert G. Rabil
Life after Gaddafi Isn't Going to be Easy
Deepak Tripathi
Historians & History
Victimized by Folklore
Jim Loewen
Books
Review of Dorothee Kocks's The Glass Harmonica
Jim Cullen
Review of Zoe Burkholder's Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race
Jim Cullen