Roundup: Talking About History

Marcia Alesan Dawkins: Giving Loving Day Its Due

Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D. is Visiting Scholar at Brown UniversityIf you’re reading this, then you’ve probably been invited to commemorate or at least think about Loving Day this year. And with good reason. In 1958, newlyweds Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving were indicted on charges of violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages and were banished from their home state. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law in 1967.

Alexei Levinson: The Great Terror’s Long Shadow

Alexei Levinson is a sociologist and senior researcher at the Levada Center, Moscow

Leon and Amy Kass: What’s the Point of Flag Day?

Leon and Amy Kass, along with Diana Schaub, are editors of a new anthology, What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song. Their website is www.whatsoproudlywehail.org.

David S. Reynolds: Rescuing the Real Uncle Tom

David S. Reynolds, a professor of American studies and English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of “Mightier Than the Sword: ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the Battle for America.”THE novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, born 200 years ago today, was an unlikely fomenter of wars. Diminutive and dreamy-eyed, she was a harried housewife with six children, who suffered from various obscure illnesses worsened by her persistent hypochondria.

Glenn W. LaFantasie:The Thoroughly American Soul of John Brown

Glenn W. LaFantasie is the Richard Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University. He is working on a book about Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

Felisa Rogers: How the Hot Dog Became the Most American Food

Felisa Rogers studied history and nonfiction writing at the Evergreen State College and went on to teach writing to kids for five years. She lives in Oregon’s coast range, where she works as a freelance writer and editorAs the Coney Island boardwalk gives way to textured cement, and traditional Coney Island haunts such as Ruby's and the Cha Cha celebrate their last summer in the shadow of forced demolition, it seems an opportune time to take a look at the history of Coney Island's most iconic emblem: the hot dog.

James K. Galbraith: Why Not Keynes? Adam Smith’s disciples run America—and that’s the problem

James K. Galbraith is the author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. He teaches Keynes at the University of Texas at Austin. In the high crisis just two years back, the cult of John Maynard Keynes saw a dramatic revival. Deficits were acceptable, stimulus plans became law, books entitled Return of the Master and The Keynes Solution rushed into print.

Joshua Green: The Heroic Story of How Congress First Confronted AIDS

Joshua Green is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe

Alex Beam: On the Goodness of King George

Alex Beam is a columnist for the I.H.T.At the beginning of June, on a date that is not June 4 but is called June 4, Eton College in Windsor, England, celebrates the birthday of King George III. June 4 is indeed the king’s birthday, but the celebration generally takes place after Britain’s end-of-May bank holiday....

Clyde Prestowitz: What if Kissinger was wrong to go to China?

Clyde Prestowitz, founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute, served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. Henry the K was at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace yesterday using the occasion of the publication of his latest book, the portentously titled On China, to t

James M. Lundberg: *Sarcasm* Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns

James M. Lundberg is assistant professor of History at Sacred Heart University.

Michael Oren: Remembering Six Days in 1967

Michael Oren is Israel's ambassador to the United States and author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. "We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants," declared Palestine Liberation Organization leader Ahmad al-Shuqayri.

Jim Lacey: A Great and Terrible Day

Jim Lacey is the professor of strategic studies at the Marine Corps War College. He is the author of Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II.

Paul Kengor: Remembering D-Day With Ike and Reagan

Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College.

Jim Lacey: A Great and Terrible Day

 Jim Lacey is the professor of strategic studies at the Marine Corps War College. He is the author of Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II. “Good Luck!

Henry D. Fetter: The French Open During World War II: A Hidden History

Henry D. Fetter is the author of Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball and has written widely about the business and politics of sports.

Natasha Kandic: The Shame of Serbia

Natasha Kandic is the executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center in Serbia. This article was translated by Vesna Bogojevic from the Serbian.THE arrest of Ratko Mladic on May 26 caught me off guard. I couldn’t believe it. I clenched my fists, trying to grip him tightly in my hands. Finally, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Ted Galen Carpenter: Mladic’s Arrest and Corrosive Bosnian Myths

Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, is the author of eight books on international affairs.

Robert Zaretsky: War and Work are the Forces of Life

Robert Zaretsky is professor of history in the Honors College, University of Houston, and the author, most recently, of Albert Camus: Elements of a Life.

Andrew Leonard: The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory About Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon.At Salon, we try to keep abreast of as many currently percolating conspiracy theories as possible....