Roundup Top 10!

February 18, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of February 18, 2013

Michael Kazin: Who Are You Calling a Liberal? Timothy Stanley: Why Benedict XVI Will Be Remembered for GenerationsConrad Black: Two Cheers for Obama Jonathan Zimmerman: A History Lesson on Assassinations Keith Harris: Can Social Media Bridge the Gulf Between Academic Historians and the Public? Lucinda Matthews-Jones: Facebooking the Past Charles Moore: Harold Wilson Night: The PM Who Lived and Died by TelevisionVictor Davis Hanson: Gilded Class WarriorsJuan Cole: Tunisian Democracy Challenged as Prime Minister Resigns  Richard Parker: The GOP's Lone Star Blues

February 11, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of February 11, 2013

Garry Wills: New Pope? I’ve Given Up Hope Richard White: Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches Richard R. John: How the Post Office Made America Ted Widmer: From Obama, a Proudly Liberal Message Amity Shlaes: The Small Presidency Sean Wilentz: Cherry-Picking Our History Julian Zelizer: Obama, Think Big for State of the Union Sarah Carr: In Southern Towns, 'Segregation Academies' Are Still Going Strong John Blaxland and Rikki Kersten: East Asia in 2013 Resembles Europe in 1913 Alex Seitz-Wald: Would Lincoln Use Drones?

February 8, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of February 4, 2013

Jonathan Zimmerman: The Silly Debate over Ed Koch's SexualityMichael Lind: The White South’s Last DefeatDiane Ravitch: Holding Education HostageJohn Watkins: What Richard III Can Teach Us Today Lisa Levenstein: NC Governor McCrory’s Education Decree is Misguided Victor Davis Hanson: The Bipartisan Agreement on America’s Role in the World is Coming to a Close Ruth Rosen: What Will It Take to End Violence Against Women? Jon Wiener: Joe Kennedy, Cold War Critic Corey Robin: The Question of Palestine at Brooklyn College, Then and Now Max Fisher: The Cannibals of North Korea

January 28, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of January 28, 2013

James Grossman and Elaine Carey: An Undisciplined Report on the Teaching of History Richard Pells: The Obsession With Social History Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg: No Red States, No Blue States Mae M. Ngai: Reforming Immigration for Good Evan Thomas: Looking To Ike As Obama's Second Term Begins Nancy F. Koehn: Lincoln’s School of Management Amy L. Fairchild, David Merritt Johns, and Kavita Sivaramakrishnan: A Brief History of Panic Grace Elizabeth Hale: When Jim Crow Drank Coke Robert Whiting: Saying UnSorry ... Japan's New PM and His Country's Apology for World War II Bernard Porter: Mali Intervention ... When Former Imperial Powers Step In

January 25, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of January 21, 2013

Alexis Coe: Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only If They're Male Paul Finkelman: 2nd Amendment Passed to Protect Slavery? No! Robert O. Self: Have We Reached a Political Realignment Yet? Linda Gordon: Why Abortion Is a Labor Issue Ira Chernus: Gun Ownership as Sin Reza Marashi: Time for Obama's Nixon Moment on Iran Nate Silver: Contemplating Obama’s Place in History, Statistically Garry Wills: Thoughts on the South Michael McGough: Can Conservatives Celebrate Dr. King's Holiday? Houshang Asadi: The Day the Shah Left

January 17, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of January 14, 2013

Thomas J. Sugrue: A House Divided Julian Zelizer: America Lives Under the Shadow of George W. Bush Blain Roberts: The Ugly Side of the Southern Belle Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Is China’s Communist Party Choking? Michael Lind: More Market Means More Welfare State Conrad Black: The Real Henry Wallace ... Oliver Stone is Wrong About Him Robert Zaretsky: A More Sacred Union ... How Two Words Help Explain France's Military Intervention in Mali Charles Walton: The Missing Half of Les Mis Fouad Ajami: U.S. Leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban Howard W. French: Reevaluating Paul Kagame's Legacy

January 11, 2013

On Other Websites: Week of January 7, 2013

Benjamin Schwarz: Everything You Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis is Wrong Eric Foner: The Emancipation of Abe Lincoln Sean Wilentz: Lincoln in Hollywood, from Griffith to Spielberg Ron Radosh: The Real Henry A. Wallace: The Truth About Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s “Unsung Hero” Saul Cornell: Time for the Second Amendment to Meet the First Robert E. Wright: The NYSE’s Long History of Mergers and Rivalries Jonathan Aitken: Richard Nixon’s Dark Side Has Obscured His Greatness Peter Foster: The Lure of Lincoln Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: Learning From the Soviets ... How to Withdraw From Afghanistan Robert W. Merry: Spengler's Ominous Prophecy

December 20, 2012

On Other Websites: Weeks of December 17 and 24, 2012

Timothy Egan: In Ignorance We Trust Rachel N. Schnepper: Yuletide’s Outlaws Justin Peters: Remembering the Deadliest School Massacre in U.S. History Beverly Gage: History Suggests Gun Change is Possible Juan Cole: Israel’s Apartheid Deepens, Along With Its Global Isolation Thomas J. Sugrue: Workers’ Paradise Lost Thomas Sowell: In its Search for Economic Equality, the Left Ignores History Max Felker-Kantor: Obama Should Treat Gun Control like LBJ Did Civil Rights Timothy Garton Ash: A Referendum on Europe? Bring It On... Toshio Nishi: The New Japanese Nationalism

November 16, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of November 12, 2012

Steven Hahn: Political Racism in the Age of Obama Thomas K. McCraw: Mr. Hamilton’s Growth Strategy Kate Masur: In Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln,’ Passive Black Characters Michael Trimble: The Evolutionary and Social History of Crying Con Coughlin: Petraeus Affair ... All the Presidential Men Willy Lam: Why China's Reforms Have Hit a Brick Wall Julian Zelizer: How Progress is Possible in Obama's Second Term Dominic Sandbrook: Echoes of the 30s Across Europe Chauncey DeVega: Dear Angry White Conservatives: Chill Out Christian Caryl: Is Bashar al-Assad Syria’s Abraham Lincoln?

November 9, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of November 2, 2012

David M. Kennedy: Obama’s Second Chance to Be Historic Michael Lind: The Final Defeat of Backlash Politics Ron Radosh: Why Obama Won — and What Conservatives Must Do James Grossman: Obama and His Historians: A Suggestion Jon Wiener: Romney Won the White Vote Almost Everywhere Tim Stanley: Nate Silver was Right About 2012  Vincent J. Cannato: Two Visions of the Electorate Victor Davis Hanson: Groundhog Day in America Jeffrey Wasserstrom: U.S. Election Day in China Alan R.M. Jones: Not a Patch on Reagan's Epoch-making Re-election

November 2, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of October 29, 2012

Walter Russell Mead: Nature and Nature’s God Jonathan Zimmerman: The Aftermath of Superstorm Sandy and the Land of Opportunity Robert S. McElvaine: Obama vs. Hoover Sean Wilentz: Romney is Captive to the Far RightRobert Sullivan: After Sandy, a New Panic: Rats!Colin Shindler: The European Left and Its Trouble With JewsErwin Chemerinsky: What Nov. 6 Means for the Supreme Court Andrew Romano: What Obama and George H.W. Bush Have in CommonNabeel Shaath: Britain Must Atone for its Sins in PalestineCésar Chelala: Will the Russian Empire Be Reborn?

October 29, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of October 22, 2012

Rick Perlstein: George McGovern, 1922-2012: Is Decency in Politics Always Doomed? Linda K. Kerber: The 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: A Teachable Moment Janet Golden: The U.S. Children’s Bureau: Time for a Revival? David A. Bell: François Hollande’s Apology Tour—and What Americans Should Learn From It Stanley Kutler: Ignore McGovern’s Message at Your Peril Larry Wolff: Free to Be a Sexual Predator? Joseph M. Adelman: The “Wisdom” of the Founders and Our Political Pundits Michael Kazin: If Obama Proves a Failure, Liberals Have No One to Blame But Themselves Michael Barone: Will Obama Be Another Woodrow Wilson? Bret Stephens: Iran's Unrequited War

October 28, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of October 15, 2012

Benjamin Schwarz: A Tragic Sense of Life: Remembering Two Great Historians Fouad Ajami: Echoes of Spanish Civil War in Syria Niall Ferguson: Europe’s New Fascists Svetlana Savranskaya: Cuba Almost Became a Nuclear Power in 1962 Yoni Appelbaum: How Columbus Day Fell Victim to Its Own Success Fred Kaplan: What the Cuban Missile Crisis Should Teach Us Jonathan Zimmerman: You Can't Say That at School Kevin Baker: How the G.O.P. Became the Anti-Urban Party Clinton Yates: 'Columbusing' Black Washington Armin Rosen: What the Future of Africa Looked Like in 1959

October 12, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of October 8, 2012

Benjamin Schwarz: A Tragic Sense of Life: Remembering Two Great HistoriansFouad Ajami: Echoes of Spanish Civil War in SyriaNiall Ferguson: Europe’s New FascistsSvetlana Savranskaya: Cuba Almost Became a Nuclear Power in 1962Yoni Appelbaum: How Columbus Day Fell Victim to Its Own SuccessFred Kaplan: What the Cuban Missile Crisis Should Teach UsJonathan Zimmerman: You Can't Say That at SchoolKevin Baker: How the G.O.P. Became the Anti-Urban PartyClinton Yates: 'Columbusing' Black WashingtonArmin Rosen: What the Future of Africa Looked Like in 1959

October 5, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of October 1, 2012

Stephanie Coontz: The Myth of Male Decline Tom Chaffin: Mitt Romney: The Second Coming of James K. Polk? Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's Rendezvous with History Steven Hahn: From Radical to Right-Wing: The Legacy of Eugene Genovese Jill Lepore: Two Romneys -- George and Mitt Jonathan Zimmerman: Media Shouldn't Dismiss Value of Romney, Obama Presidential Debate Asaf Romirowsky: The Ghost Of Yom Kippur, Israel's Pearl Harbor Jonathan Martin: Mitt Romney's George W. Bush Problem William Astore: Are Drones Keeping Us in a Losing Cause Longer? Liu Xiaoming: Diaoyu Dao ... History Shall Not Be Reversed

September 30, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of September 24, 2012

Douglas E. Schoen: The 10 Best Presidents Thomas V. DiBacco: Presidential Debates ... Shake Hands and Come Out Acting Andrew Sullivan: President Obama: The Democrats' Ronald Reagan Michael Kazin: Which U.S. President Does Romney Most Resemble? (Hint: It’s Not a Republican) Robert Skidelsky: Small Wars Can Down Big Countries, World Affairs Teach Us Wilfred McClay: The Tocquevillean Moment ... and Ours Victor Davis Hanson: Election, 1980-Style Jeffrey Wasserstrom: One Country, Many Voices Allen Guelzo: How Lincoln Saved the 'Central Idea' of America What 100 Years of Voting Looks Like [VIDEO]

September 20, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of September 17, 2012

Eric Foner: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150 Richard R. John: When a Plutocratic Dinner Doomed a Presidential Campaign Niall Ferguson: Obama's Mideast Meltdown Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger: The 1 Percent Court Seth Anziska: A Preventable Massacre James Martin: Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Christ? Jeff M. Smith: A Forgotten War in the Himalayas Evan Thomas: The Brilliant Prudence of Dwight Eisenhower David Davenport: Incumbency Amid A Sagging Economy ... Why Obama Is Hoover, Not Roosevelt John Fund: Re-branding Guevara ... Che the Butcher

September 19, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of September 10, 2012

Kurt Eichenwald: The Deafness Before the Storm Stephanie Coontz: Marriage is Not An Antidote to Poverty Rick Perlstein: Stand Against Rahm! Gil Troy: Iraq and Lebanon Feed Skepticism About Attacking Iran Andrew J. Bacevich: How We Became Israel Jonathan Levy: Risk as We Know It Ty McCormick: Why the Embassy Attacks Aren't 1979 All Over Again Dominique Moisi: Spanish Civil War's Lessons for Syria Andrew Cohen: A September 11th Catastrophe You've Probably Never Heard About Daniel Henninger: The Obama Democrats

September 7, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of September 3, 2012

Michael Kazin: In Praise of Presidents Who Aren't Good Family Men Niall Ferguson: The Fed’s Dirty Easy Money Conrad Black: Obama's Spurious Course Change Michael Ledeen: The Death of the Left Julian Zelizer: Obama Not Carter; Romney Not Reagan Rafael Medoff: The Jewish Vote as a Factor in U.S. Politics Ron Radosh: It’s Not Your Father’s Democratic Party: How the Party has Changed for the Worse since Clinton’s Era Patrick J. Buchanan: What a Failed Presidency Looks Like ... Will 2012 Be 1980 Redux? Owen Jones: William Hague Is Wrong... Britons Must Own Up To Their Brutal Colonial Past Preeti Nalwa: World War II Still Haunts Asia

August 31, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of August 27, 2012

Julian Zelizer: What GOP Needs To Do in Tampa Estelle B. Freedman: Women’s Long Battle to Define Rape Arthur Herman: Neil Armstrong’s America Robert S. McElvaine: Has Obama Made the Job Situation Worse? Nicole Gelinas: New Orleans Owes George W. Bush Jennifer Tucker: The Medieval Roots of Todd Akin’s Theories Robert O. Self: The Antisocial Contract Stephen Platt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China's Long History of Defying the Doomsayers Jacob Heilbrunn: Will Romney Discover His Inner Nixon? Stephen Bates: Republican Religious Fundamentalists Would Rewrite American History