Roundup Top 10!

December 30, 2013

Week of September 9, 2013

#1 Our Other September 11 by Rick Perlstein What the hell were we doing in Chile? THE NATION

December 30, 2013

Week of September 4, 2013

#1 The New Economy of Lettersby Jill Lepore All the noise has silenced the modest, the untenured, and the politically moderate. CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

December 30, 2013

Week of August 19, 2013

#1  Mark Lawrence Schrad: Boycotting Vodka Won’t Help Russia’s Gays #2  Walter Laqueur: The Myth of German Jewish Guilt #3  Ron Radosh: The Nation’s Continuing Denial of Soviet Espionage #4  Zheng Wang: It’s All About Mao #5  Juan Cole: Bradley Manning in a World of Cheneys, Hadithas, and NSA Domestic Surveillance #6  Daniel Pipes: Obama's Foreign Fiasco #7  Angela Y. Davis: Indefinite Solitary Confinement Violates Human Rights #8  Stephen Mihm: How Computers Took Over Trading #9  Claire Potter: The Ten Commandments of Graduate School #10  Andrew Delbanco: Lincoln's Long Game

December 30, 2013

Week of August 12, 2013

#1  Elizabeth Castelli: Reza Aslan—Historian? #2  Paul Kennedy: The Great Powers, Then and Now #3  Christian Donath: Egypt -- Making Sense of the Senseless #4  Stephen Mihm: New York Had a Hyperloop First, Elon Musk #5  Shihoko Goto: Japan's Self-Inflicted Wounds #6  Catherine O’Donnell: History is Useful Tool, Not Answer to Every Problem #7  Lincoln Mullen: How to Make Prudent Choices About Your Digital Tools #8  L. Maren Wood: ‘The Afternoon I Decided to Leave Academe’–and What Happened Next #9  Ronald Radosh: History as Ideology: Further Thoughts on "American Betrayal" #10  David J. Bobb: Howard Zinn and the Art of Anti-Americanism

December 30, 2013

Week of August 5, 2013

#1  Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow: Who's Afraid of Radical History? #2  Warren Throckmorton: A Year Ago Thomas Nelson Lost Confidence in "The Jefferson Lies" #3  Larry Schweikart and Burton Folsom: Obama's False History of Public Investment #4  Rick Perlstein: ALEC's Illegal Past? #5  Julian Zelizer: Crunch Time for Immigration, Budget Fights #6  Stephen Mihm: A Century of International Potash Intrigue #7  Natalie Zemon Davis: How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books #8  James Traub: The Tea Party’s Path to Irrelevance #9  Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Old Stories from the New China #10  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Towards a Radical New Theory of Anglo-American Slavery, and Vindication of Free Markets

December 30, 2013

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?

December 30, 2013

Week of July 22, 2013

#1  H.R. McMaster: The Pipe Dream of Easy War #2  Sidney Blumenthal: Romanticizing the Villains of the Civil War #3  Matthias Strohn: Remember World War I as a Global War #4  Stephen R. Kelly: How French Canadian Immigration Helped Build America #5  Daniel Pipes: Islamism's Likely Doom #6  Cindy Hahamovitch: The Lessons of Belle Glade #7  Jeffrey Wasserstrom: A Reformist Chinese Leader? Stop Fooling Yourself #8  Louis René Beres: What Does It Mean to Kill for a Cause? #9  Jennifer Lind: The Limits on Nationalism in Japan #10   Robert Zaretsky: Why the French Love a Parade

July 19, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of July 15, 2013

Peniel E. Joseph: Trayvon, Race and American Democracy Anthea Butler: The Zimmerman Acquittal -- America’s Racist God Mark LeVine: Flamenco, Car Bombs and a 'Happy' Future for Iraq Peter Wood: Why Mitch Daniels Was Right About Howard Zinn Jonathan Zimmerman: For Obama, Bush, Reagan, No Vacation from Politics Joan Walsh: Rand Paul Completely Mangles Lincoln Stephen F. Cohen: Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, Truth-Teller Who Exposed Stalin’s Crimes Leon Hadar: The Arabs Will Have Their Gettysburgs Marketus Presswood: On Being Black in China  Louis Rene Beres: Israel’s Release of Palestinian Terrorists Would Violate International Law

June 21, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of June 17, 2013

Edhem Eldem: Turkey’s False Nostalgia Julian Zelizer: George W. Bush's Legacy is on the Mend Richard Rashke: Karkoc Among Many Nazis Who Slipped Through U.S. Net Tony Platt: UC and Native Americans -- Unsettled Remains Timothy R. Furnish: Rouhani May Not Go to Extremes, But He's Hardly "Moderate" Amartya Sen: Why India Trails China Jens F. Laurson and George Pieler: Trying To Make History In Berlin, Obama Fed The Germans Platitudes Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Exploring Peter Hessler's China From the Ground UpJonathan Capehart: Snowden not a "Badass" Like Harvard Alum Daniel Ellsberg Jonathan Zimmerman: What Happened to Plain Old Summer Camp?

June 17, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of June 10, 2013

David M. Anderson: Atoning for the Sins of the British Empire Timothy Stanley: The British Must Not Rewrite the History of the Mau Mau Revolt Caroline Elkins: Britain Has Said Sorry to the Mau Mau. The Rest of the Empire is Still Waiting. Brendan Simms: The Ghosts of Europe Past Beverly Gage: Somewhere, J. Edgar Hoover Is Smiling Ben Schmidt: The Exaggerated Crisis in the Humanities Peniel E. Joseph: Kennedy’s Finest Moment Norman Birnbaum: JFK’s Presidential Courage—June 10, 1963 Martha Bergmark: Remembering Medgar Evers Brook Wilensky-Lanford: Discovering “Little Syria”

June 7, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of June 3, 2013

Stephanie Meeks: Preserving the History of the Manhattan Project Michael Kazin: The Forgotten President Niall Ferguson and Pierpaolo Barbieri: The E.U.’s Feeble War on Unemployment Jim Downs: The History of Mrs. Obama's Heckler Jay Winter: Raphael Lemkin, a Prophet Without Honors Jeffrey Wasserstorm: Looking Back at the June 4 Massacre, Twenty-Four Years On Brent Budowsky: JFK Then, Obama Now Conrad Black: A Weak U.S. Jonathan Zimmerman: Protect the Watchdog Press – from Obama Victor Davis Hanson: The Stagnant Mediterranean

May 21, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of May 13, 2013

Jeffrey Rosen: Obama Behaving Like Woodrow Wilson Penny Lewis: Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement Robert Zaretsky: What’s at Stake With Grade Inflation? Robert E. Wright: How Nonprofits Became Tax-Exempt Julian Zelizer: Chris Christie's Weight -- Why It Matters Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Second-Term Embarrassments Conrad Black: No Impeachment on Benghazi Jonathan Zimmerman: The Prom -- An American Relic Amy Reading: How a Texas Paper Brought Down Billie Sol Estes Philip Jenkins: Joe McCarthy Was No Witch Hunter

May 10, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of May 6, 2013

Alan Brinkley: Fighting the Gun WorldChristopher McKnight Nichols: The Limits of American Power Andrew Edwards: How Austerity Pushed American Colonists to Revolt Andrei Lankov: Previewing Park's New North Korea Policy Michael Lind: Is Revolution Coming to the U.S.? Timothy J. Lynch: Is Diplomatic History Dying? James Horn: Consuming Colonists Pankaj Mishra: Sun At Last Setting on Britain's Imperial Myth Manuel Barcia: Niall Ferguson Does a Romney David Milne: Editing an Encyclopedia

April 25, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of April 22, 2013

Julian Zelizer: History's Jury is Still Out on George W. BushStephen F. Knott: George W. Bush is Victim of a Rush to JudgmentJonathan Bernstein: History Will Not Be Kind to George W. BushBill Minutaglio: Texas on Fire, Again and Again Sarah Kendzior: The Wrong Kind of Caucasian Nancy Unger: When Helping Earth was Women's Work Beverly Gage: Unanswered Questions About WatergateDaniel Pipes: Education by Murder in Boston Pankaj Mishra: To Erase Militarist Past, Japan Must Re-Learn ItTim Stanley: Why is There No Such Thing as an 'English-American'?

April 19, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of April 15, 2013

William Dalrymple: The Ghosts of Afghanistan’s Past Robert Darnton: Information, Free to All Adam Winkler: Who Killed Gun Control? David Cannadine: How Should We Rank Margaret Thatcher? Ezra Klein: ‘Mad Men’ Should Make You Feel Better about Politics Today Marie Arana: Latin America’s Go-To Hero Derek S. Hoff: The False Alarm Over U.S. Fertility Robert Pondiscio: Let's Set a National Standard for Our Students—a Really Low One Gary Kulik: Double Standards about Vietnam Peter Eisner: Pope Pius XI's Last Crusade

March 29, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of March 25, 2013

David Cole: Deciding Not to Decide Gay Marriage Akinyele Umoja: Black Ambivalence About Gun Control James T. Kloppenberg: The 2012 Election And The Future of The Parties Ron Radosh: Conservatives Should Stop Attacking Obama as an Enemy of Israel Mary L. Dudziak: Obama’s Nixonian Precedent Steven Conn: The Fetish of States' Rights Robert Townsend: Be Skeptical of U.S. News and World Report Rankings Rick Perlstein: Anthony Lewis, 1927–2013 Conrad Black: The Truth about Bob Woodward Edward Berenson: Historians and Collective Memory

March 22, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of March 18, 2013

Jonathan Zimmerman: What’s Not Being Taught About the Iraq War Paul Butler: Gideon's Muted Trumpet Rashid Khalidi: Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? Conrad Black: Pope Francis, Say Yes to the Pill Chauncey DeVega: No, Jesus Wasn't White David Priestland: The Sun Sets on the Modern Merchant Class Laurie Edwards: The Gender Gap in Pain Fouad Ajami: Ten Years Ago, an Honorable War Began With Wide Support John R. Nagl: What America Learned in Iraq Mario Loyola: Lessons of the Anschluss

March 15, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of March 11, 2013

David M. Perry: What the Name 'Francis' Means for the Modern Church Sam Ferguson: When Pope Francis Testified About the Dirty War Pamela S. Karlan: "Gideon" Turns 50 Sheila Miyoshi Jager: Domestic Politics, Pyongyang-Style Claire Potter: Looking for the Women on Wikipedia Conrad Black: A Post-American World Order Jon Wiener: For-Profit Fiasco: California Public Colleges Turn to Web Courses Gil Troy: An Ahistorical Tantrum In The Times Nicole Hemmer: Guarding the Right's Flank Victor Davis Hanson: The New Affirmative Action

March 4, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of March 4, 2013

Greg Grandin: The Legacy of Hugo Chávez Francisco Toro: What Fidel Taught Hugo Adam Winkler: Is the Filibuster Unconstitutional? Ron Radosh: When the New Left Shilled for North Korea Julian Zelizer: Health Care Will Be an Obama Legacy George F. Will: Watergate Reminds Us that D.C. Has Been Worse Paul Finkelman: Francis Lieber and the Law of War Adam Laats: Get In Line, David Barton Adam Rothman: Django Unchained’s Bloody Real History in Mississippi Chuck Thompson: Is Racism Worse in the South?

February 25, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of February 25, 2013

Ruth Rosen: Rape: The Universal Crime Jim Cullen: With Lincoln, A New Frontier for Day-Lewis Peter Dreier: The Progressive Dr. Seuss Victor Davis Hanson: American Recessional Daniel Boorstein: A Brief History of Papal Resignations Matthew C. Whitaker: Change Blossoming in the "Age of Obama" Chase Madar: The School Security America Doesn’t Need David Hayes: Britain and Europe: Living Together, Apart David Perry: Echoes of Past in Pope's Resignation Paul Kennedy: Which Catholic Church?