Week of November 21, 2011

Up Front

NEW The Thanksgiving Myth
Nicolaas Vergunst

NEW BLOG Walid Phares on the Middle East

Hot Topics

• Thanksgiving
• Occupy Wall Street

Questions People are Googling

• Did Van Gogh Really Cut Off His Own Ear?
• Who Invented the Martini?
• Did Hyperinflation Doom the Weimar Republic?

More Questions

Blogs

• Sheldon Richman: Regarding that IAEA Report on Iran’s Alleged Nuclear Weapons Program (L&P)
• Lester Hunt: Anti-Government or Pro-Goverment? Make Up Your Mind! (L&P)
• Chris Bray: Boston College (Cont.): Paging the Energizer Bunny (Clio)

News at Home

Why Didn't Mike McQueary Stop Jerry Sandusky? Why Didn't Anyone Help Kitty Genovese?
Joseph De May

How Long Will Mothers Have to Wait for Decent Prenatal Care?
Janet Golden and Howard Markel

News Abroad

The European Debt Crisis is a Problem of Political Will
Iwan Morgan

Is Rising Isolationism in America Dangerous?
Christopher McKnight Nichols

Friendless in the Middle East
Daniel Pipes

Historians & History

Studying Crowds is out of Fashion for Historians—Here's Why We Should
Peter N. Stearns

Can History Be Used in Risk Analysis?
Yoav J. Tenembaum

Lincoln's Wartime Thanksgiving
Thomas Fleming

This Thanksgiving Feed a Silent Guest and Build World Peace
William Lambers

Culture Watch

NEW White Christmas Makes Turn from 1954 Movie to 2011 Musical with Lots of Holiday Cheer
Bruce Chadwick

The Cotton Club Roars Back to Life
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Richard White's Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Ron Briley

Review of Frank Dikötter's Mao’s Great Famine
Aaron Leonard