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Week of July 29, 2013

#1  Sam Wineburg: Mitch, Here's Where We Split Ways on Howard Zinn

#2  Paul Kramer: A Useful Corner of the World: Guantánamo

#3  Rebecca Sharpless: The "Soul Sisters" in the Kitchen

#4  Karima Bennoune: Killing the Arab Spring in Its Cradle

#5  Daniel Pipes: What to Want in Egypt

#6  Ray Smock: Memories of Congresswoman Lindy Boggs

#7  Matthew Kirschenbaum: How Can We Preserve Software for Future Historians?

#8  Meredith Hindley: The Rise of the Humanities Machines

#9  Gabriel Schoenfeld: Mitch Daniels is on Solid Ground about Howard Zinn

#10  Henry Louis Gates Jr.: What Was the Colfax Massacre?