Roundup Top 10!

August 23, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of August 20, 2012

Lien-Hang Nguyen: Exploding the Myths About Vietnam Julian Zelizer: In Republican and Democratic National Conventions, Speeches Make History Vanessa Heggie: 'Legitimate Rape' – A Medieval Medical Concept Nicholas B. Dirks: Scholars, Spies, and Global Studies David Pilling: Japan, China and Their ‘History Problem’ Pierre Manent: How the West Created Modernity Michael Kazin: Fight the System, but Know How to Make It Work Thomas A. Foster: Rep. Todd Akin's Ideas About Rape Hark Back to the Colonial Era Richard Rothstein and Mark Santow: The Cost of Living Apart Ray Takeyh: The Origins of Iran's Bellicosity

August 21, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of August 13, 2012

Jennifer Burns: Atlas Spurned Charles K. Armstrong: The View From Pyongyang Julian Zelizer: How Ryan Could Help Romney Walter Russell Mead: 2012 ... Suddenly, A Historic Election? Joseph Loconte: With Olympics, We Yearn To Be Like Gods Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey: How (George) Romney Championed Civil Rights and Challenged His Church Victor Davis Hanson: There Is No California Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Pay No Attention to the Party Behind the Curtain David Rothkopf: The Drums of August ... Israel is Not Bluffing Joseph Rago: The Forgotten History of Ryan's Medicare Reform

August 10, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of August 6, 2012

Jared Diamond: Romney Hasn’t Done His Homework Jonathan Zimmerman: Voting 'Reform' Across the Ages Niall Ferguson: Blackout Just the Beginning in India Derek Thompson: The Chart That 'Proves' Obama Will Be Crushed in the Election Robert Krulwich: Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb [VIDEO] Michael Seeley: What Are Wars Good For Anymore? Not for Plunder, At Least. Colin Read: History of Algorithmic Trading Shows Promise and Perils Erin Aubry Kaplan: Obama's Slave Link Mary Kenny: The End of Catholic Ireland Andrew Roberts: It's August ... Prepare for Cataclysm

July 11, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of June 25, 2012

Laurence Tribe: Chief Justice John Roberts’s Ruling Restores Faith in the Court’s Neutrality Stephanie Coontz: Why is 'Having It All' Just a Women's Issue? Timothy Stanley: Why Should the Press Be Polite to Presidents? Fouad Ajami: What to Expect From the Muslim Brotherhood John O’Sullivan: Forgive IRA Terror? Aaron David Miller: America Hasn’t Had a Great Leader Since 1968 Sean Wilentz: Why Lyndon Johnson Should Matter, Not Least to Barack Obama. Gil Troy: A Short History of Presidential Politicking Gerard N. Magliocca: Chief Justice Roberts and the Rule of Law Peter Reddaway and Stephen F. Cohen: Dishonoring Stalin's Victims and Russian History

July 11, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of July 2, 2012

James Grossman and Allen Mikaelian: Politifact and Historical Thinking Eliga Gould: How Did the British Press Cover the American Revolution? Steven Erlanger: What’s a Socialist? Nicolaus Mills: Rethinking the Eisenhower Memorial Alex Massie: The War of 1812 ... The Whitewashed War Bruce Riedel: JFK's Overshadowed Crisis Thomas Fleming: What Life Was Like in 1776 Nabila Ramdani: Fifty Years After Algeria's Independence, France is Still in Denial Grover G. Norquist: Tea, Taxes, and the Revolution ... The Founding Fathers Would Revolt If They Saw America’s Tax Burden Today Ronald Radosh: Mitt Romney’s Big Problem — and Hence Ours

June 22, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of June 18, 2012

 E.J. Dionne Jr.: Why History Matters to Liberalism E.O. Wilson: Why Nations Fight Niall Ferguson: China Should Intervene in Syria, Not America Victor Davis Hanson: Greece Alone and Broke — Again Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Rodney King Blasted Myth of Post-Racial U.S. Mark N. Katz: Why Putin Can't Be Forced to Deal Edward Mortimer: Setting the Record Straight on Kofi Annan’s Legacy Steven A. Cook: The Pharaoh's Legacy James Holmes: China’s Monroe Doctrine Robert D. Kaplan: What's Wrong with Pakistan? Geography.

June 15, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of June 11, 2012

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was Far Worse than We Thought David Greenberg: The Watergate Wars Just Ended R.M. Douglas: The European Atrocity You Never Heard About Peter Oborne: Remembering Enoch Powell A Century After His Birth Max Holland: What Director Alan Pakula’s Papers Reveal About Watergate Niall Ferguson and Nouriel Roubini: Berlin is Ignoring the Lessons of the 1930s Charles S. Maier: Europe Needs a German Marshall Plan Jacob Heilbrunn: Should A Second Term Obama Imitate Reagan? Ted Widmer: Reagan at the Wall Conrad Black: The War on Nixon

June 13, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of June 4, 2012

J. Spencer Fluhman: Why We Fear Mormons Julian Zelizer: Obama's Attacks on Romney's Business Record Aren't Working Timothy Stanley: Will History Be Kind to Bush? Steven Mintz: Moving In With your Parents? Smart Career Move Harold James: Europe is Mired in an Existential Crisis Susan Hattis Rolef: The Importance of History in Israel Gerald M. Steinberg: The Myths of 1967 and Today’s Realities Akiva Eldar: The End of Israeli Impunity Jill Lepore: Death, Sex and Vampires John P. Rossi: Midway Set Stage for U.S. Win in World War II

May 31, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of May 28, 2012

David Grann: The Yankee Comandante -- A Story of Love, Revolution, and Betrayal Simon Schama: Celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee Julian Zelizer: How Political Ads Can Elect a President Conrad Black: The "End of History" was a Sobering Farce John Nagl: Does Military Service Still Matter for the Presidency? Asher Kaufman: Only Russia, China Can Stop Carnage in Syria Richard J. Evans: The Death of Celebrity Historians is Much ExaggeratedJuan Cole: For Egypt in 2012, Read the United States in ’60s?Nancy Gibbs: President, to President, to President ... POTUS' Best Confidant May Be His PredecessorsJeffrey Lord: JFK and the Death of Liberalism

May 24, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of May 14, 2012

Scott Lemieux: LBJ and the Bully Pulpit Walter Russell Mead: OWS RIP John T. Kuehn: Professional Military Education Isn't Bad -- But It Isn't Valued by Policymakers Victor Davis Hanson: Let Sleeping Germans Lie Michael Oren: What Happened to Israel's Reputation? Garry Wills: Review of Robert Caro's The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonKatherine Stewart: Texas's War on History Michael Barone: Presidential Scenarios ... Will 2012 Be Like 2000, 1988, Or 1964? Michael Lind: Why Do Conservatives Hate Freedom? Duchess Harris: If Being Fat was Ever an Act of Black Resistance, It's Not Any Longer

May 24, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of May 21, 2012

Trygve Throntveit: Obama and the New Freedom Victor Davis Hanson: The Power of Cool Roderick MacFarquhar: In China, Fear at the Top Andrew Roberts: Europe’s Hubristic Imperial Overstretch Jonathan Zimmerman: Warren’s Choice on Race Frank Bruni: Second Acts for First Ladies David Makovsky and Olivia Holt-Ivry: Why Are Israeli Generals So Often Overruled? Clare Morgana Gillis: The End of History in the New Libya Clive Crook: The Seeds of the EU’s Crisis Were Sown 60 Years Ago Lee Ruddin: The Anglo-American (Intelligence-Sharing) Relationship in the War Against Islamist Terrorism

May 14, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of May 7, 2012

Timothy Stanley: Is Same-Sex Marriage Too Radical for America? Thomas Meaney and Stephen Wertheim: Grand Flattery: The Yale Grand Strategy Seminar Robert W. Merry: Lugar and the Senate's Fallen Giants Robert Zaretsky: Hollande Faces Challenge of Winning Over Jews Peter Berkowitz: Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers Steve Chapman: Every President is a War President ... Politics Protects the Garrison State Kara Dixon Vuic: Prostitution and the U.S. Military Ronald Radosh: Another Central American Tyrant Passes from the Scene: Farewell to Tomás Borge Victor Davis Hanson: Presidential Narcissism Richard Cohen: Obama Should Embrace LBJ's Lessons

May 7, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of April 30, 2012

Gil Troy: Culture Warriors Don’t Win Niall Ferguson: How Africa Is Primed for Economic Take Off Max Holland: New Questions About Deep Throat Adam Arenson: Stonewall Jackson's Arm Lies Here Thai Jones: The First of May Todd Gitlin: How Occupy's Year of Transformation Compares t o the Revolutions of 1848 and 1968 William Shawcross: Murdoch Has Been the Bravest Media Owner in Britain in the Last 40 Years Christoph Gunkel: The Good Göring ... How a Top Nazi's Brother Saved Lives Jose A. Rodriguez: The Path to bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Start with Obama Donald Sassoon: To Understand This Crisis We Can Look to the Long Depression Too

April 27, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of April 23, 2012

Christopher Layne: The Global Power Shift from West to East Conrad Black: Obama’s No FDR ... FDR’s Policies Revitalized America Geraldo L. Cadava: Arizona Shows What Not to Do Alice Kessler-Harris: Lillian Hellman's Convictions Michael Kazin: Obama, a European Socialist? I Wish! George Monbiot: Deny the British Empire's Crimes? No, We Ignore Them Julian Zelizer: Campaign Rhetoric May Tie Next President's Hands Barbara Zollner: An Islamic State in Egypt? The Muslim Brotherhood and the Presidential ElectionsSteve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman: Prison Labor as the Past -- and Future -- of American “Free-Market” Capitalism Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's Undiplomacy

April 13, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of April 9, 2012

Anthony Grafton: My Stomach Hurts When I Think About Upcoming Changes at the New York Public Library Paul Moreno: The Unhappy History of Running Against the Supreme Court Jeffrey Herf: The Odious Musings of Gunter Grass Gregory Mann: The Mess In Mali Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Playing the Violence Card Aaron David Miller: The Second-Term Illusion Timothy Garton Ash: Turkey’s Neo-Ottoman Game Plan Carlos Eire: What Pope Benedict Got Wrong in Cuba Bret Stephens: Why the Falklands Matter

March 30, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of March 26, 2012

Alexandra M. Lord: Our Secret Nonacademic HistoriesNell Irvin Painter: When Poverty Was White Stanley N. Katz: Beware Big Donors Beverly Gage: Meet the Man Who Invented the GOP’s Defense of the Wealthy—in 1883. Samuel Gregg: The Left Resumes Its War on HistoryAndrei Lankov: What South Koreans Learn About the North Ben Alpers: The Academy in Peril Damien Ma: Children of the Revolution: The History China's New Leaders Won't ConfrontMehdi Hasan: Bomb Iran and it Will Surely Decide to Pursue Nuclear ArmsIan Milligan: Illusionary Order: Cautionary Notes for Online Newspapers

March 9, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of March 5, 2012

James C. Cobb: Taking an Ideological Ax to U.S. HistoryMichael Kazin: Why ‘Crony Capitalism’ is as American as Apple PieWalter Russell Mead: America is Stuck with the Mideast. William Cronon: Why We Should Avoid an Overly-Narrow Definition of "Professional History"Jonathan Zimmerman: Rush Limbaugh 'Slut' Comment Reveals a Double Standard on SexLouis Galambos: Dwight Eisenhower, Quiet RadicalRobert Fisk: Is Homs An Echo of What Happened in Srebrenica?Geoffrey Kabaservice: Why Mitt Romney’s Whole Career Is Making His Father Roll Over in His GraveJames Poulos: Why Europe Needs Another NapoleonWilliam McGurn: Reagan Was A Sure Loser Too

March 5, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of February 27, 2012

Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin: Co­lo­ni­al­ism in Africa Helped Launch the HIV Epidemic a Century Ago Jon Gertner: True Innovation at Bell Labs Rick Perlstein: Reagan's Attacks On Carter's Embrace of "Big Government" Were B.S. Victor Davis Hanson: History Never Quite Ends ... Whatever Else Changes, Human Nature Does Not Jeffrey Herf: Why Won’t Obama Speak Frankly About Iran? Ross Douthat: The Greatness of Ike Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: The End in Afghanistan Simon Jenkins: We Are Fighting Islamism From Ignorance, As We Did the Cold War James Romm: Greeks Today Might Ask ... What Would Pericles Do? Jonathan Zimmerman: Murder in a Time of Bigotry

February 24, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of February 20, 2012

Willard Sterne Randall: Our Founding Fathers Were Broke Julian Zelizer: Many Wild Cards Could Swing the 2012 Presidential Race Tom Switzer: Not Only Nixon Could Go to China Andrew Roberts: The Greek Crisis ... Europe's 'Proud Empire' is Entering a Cul de Sac of History Andrew J. Bacevich: The American Century Is Over— Good Riddance Victor Davis Hanson: Why States Like Iran Can't Have Nukes Geoffrey Kabaservice: How the GOP’s Looming Election Disaster Is, And Isn’t, Like 1964 Jeremy Diamond and Davida Aronovitch: The War of 1812 ... Stupid but Important Sarah Mousa: How Nasser Shaped the Arab Spring Lewis L. Gould: Teddy, Teddy, Enough Already

February 17, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of February 13, 2012

    Mary L. Dudziak: This War Is Not Over Yet         Niall Ferguson: We're All State Capitalists Now         Beverly Gage: The Government Had a Better Idea for Fixing Income Inquality 100 Years Ago         Tim Stanley: God Save the Queen ... Why the British Monarchy May Not Outlive Elizabeth         Jeremy Paxman: British Empire was an Amazing Thing         Thomas Bender: What's Been Lost in History         Thomas Sowell: The ‘Progressive’ Legacy ... In the Footsteps of TR and Wilson         Benny Morris: On Iran, Israel Faces a Stark Choice