Week of January 27, 2014
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Pete Seeger's All-American Communism The folksinger's romance with Stalinism remains disturbing, but it can't be separated from the rest of his work—nor from U.S. history. THE ATLANTIC |
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#2 Training Historians and the Dual Degree The dual-degree program offers a potential solution to the history PhD problem. CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION |
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Abe’s NSA? The Japanese Government Embraces Secrecy It's not just the United States which is obsessed with secrecy. DISSENT MAGAZINE |
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#4 Totalitarian Troubadour We shouldn’t forget that Pete Seeger was Communism’s pied piper. NATIONAL REVIEW |
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In Defense of Pete Seeger, American Communist Like his party associates, Seeger was consistently on the right side of history. AL JAZEERA AMERICA |
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#6 The Real Scandal Behind the Yale Course Website Should Yale have shut down a Web site allowing users to compare student evaluations of the university’s courses? Of course not. WASHINGTON POST |
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#7 Can Imperial History Ride to Heritage’s Rescue? Imagine a Britain without Stonehenge or Hadrian’s Wall. That very well could have been a reality if it hadn't been for the 1913 Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendment Act. IMPERIAL & GLOBAL FORUM |
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#8 The Pacific Pivot Why America’s strategic rebalance is really just retreat. TOMDISPATCH |
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#9 Loot No Longer French authorities continue to struggle to return looted art. NEW YORK TIMES |
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No Evidence of Aliens Helping Ancient Cultures So why do three out of four Americans believe otherwise? COLUMBUS DISPATCH |