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Week of January 4, 2009
Roundup
Murder, mayhem and museums (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Dark memories of Cambodia's killing spree (Breaking News)
Ken Burns wins new honor (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: UN SCHOOL - TERRORIST HIDEOUT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
WWII Mexican guest workers rush to meet deadline (Breaking News)
Looted Troops' Remains to be Reburied (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: A Horrible, Little-Known Legacy of the Great Depression (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Hemingway archive opens in Cuba (Breaking News)
Man kidnapped by SS discovers true identity (Breaking News)
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso admits family used British POWs as slave labour (Breaking News)
Samuel Huntington and the Positivity of Power Thinking (Historians in the News)
Remembering Samuel P. Huntington (and the Threat Posed in Gaza) (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JONATHAN J. BEAN: "The New Deal Worked": Why Do So Many People Accept that as "Fact?" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: And the Real Winner of the Iraq War Is...... (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes Medieval and Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
CSI Hunley: Historic Sub's Fate a Cold Case File (Breaking News)
Secret army of ‘scallywags’ to sabotage German occupation (Breaking News)
It's official: AHA will make an issue of gay marriage at its San Diego meeting (Historians in the News)
Karl Marx staging a comeback in Europe (Breaking News)
The Depressed History Job Market (Historians in the News)
Laura Bush agrees to publish memoir with Scribner (Breaking News)
Divers trawl for relics where attack launched by U-boat (UK) (Breaking News)
114-year-old U.S. woman, daughter of slaves, to be world's oldest (Breaking News)
Elder Bush says he'd like to see Jeb in the White House (Breaking News)
Fareed Zakaria hails Sam Huntington as greatest political scientist of his time (Historians in the News)
'Good old days' under Bokassa? (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: This Guy Could Do Standup! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Burris and the Vare Precedent (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Conservative watchdog group sees signs Middle East Studies "may" be on the "mend" (Historians in the News)
Afghanistan battle like First World War (Breaking News)
Blogs
CLAIRE B. POTTER: Hello, American Historical Association: My Name Is The Tenured Radical And I Am Here To Recruit You (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Diaries of swashbuckling hero who rescued Robinson Crusoe unearthed (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL DOCTORS SAVE GAZA BABY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
AMY H. STURGIS: 2009 LFS Hall of Fame Finalists (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue' (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
AHA takes a big hit in the collapsing stock market (Historians in the News)
AHA Members Back Move to Embarrass but Not Boycott Anti-Gay Hotel Owner at Next Convention (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: But Don't They Know Israel Has a Right to Exist? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: UGLINESS GALORE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: REDA MANSOUR - HASBARA STAR IS BORN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: READING OBAMA TEA LEAVES ON GAZA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Branford Marsalis on the Death of Merit (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
AHA's Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award goes to Adam Hochschild (Historians in the News)
Second World War veteran reunited with crash landing plane (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: Keynes the Jokester? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Africa Past & Present Podcasts (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Frank Rich: A President Forgotten but Not Gone (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen Kenney: Immigration through the ages (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul Krugman: Keynes was right and Friedman wrong about the Great Depression, then and now (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ron Chernow: Where Is Our Ferdinand Pecora? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sarah Wildman: Paper Love ... Inside the Holocaust Archives-Letters From a Lost Love (Roundup: Talking About History)
Media Matters: Stimulus plans worked in both the New Deal and Japan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ellen Schrecker: The Bush-Cheney Administration (HNN Videos)
Barbara Weinstein: The Bush-Cheney Administration (HNN Videos)
Neve Gordon: Israel's New War Ethic (Roundup: Historians' Take)
MBE that John Lennon returned in protest is found (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gallery saves important Victorian portrait (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Van Gosse and Margaret Power: The Bush-Cheney Administration (HNN Videos)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Obama should agree to a pay cut (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Anthony DePalma: History Lessons on Cuba for a New President (Roundup: Media's Take)
Vijay Prashad : The Bush-Cheney Administration (HNN Videos)
Ryan L. Cole: Keeping Cool with Coolidge (Roundup: Media's Take)
Griffin Bell, Carter's Attorney General, 90 (Obituaries)
Retrial for Shakespeare's Shylock (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Paul Jenkins: Along Came Caroline. And Andrew. And Beau. (Roundup: Media's Take)
The last survivor of Operation Valkyrie on his plot to kill Hitler (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Lincoln Mitchell: Frozen Ice Balls and the Bush Legacy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Engelhardt: The Ponzi Scheme Presidency (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stanley Kutler: Blagojevich vs. the Senate (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: Have Bush and the Neocons Ruined it for the Israelis? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Uri Avnery: Another March of Folly in the Middle East (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lawrence Davidson: Whose Interest Defines National Interests? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Humbert Fontova: Isn't Castro a dictator? (Roundup: Media's Take)
J.R. Dunn: Candy-coating the Holocaust (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kevin Peraino: How We Got to This Point (Re: Middle East) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Oscar Wilde's blue plaque turns Worthing's gentlefolk red (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
WWII Fighter Pilot Shared Haunting Story With the World and Ken Burns (Obituaries)
Real 'Defiance' family is from Brooklyn (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Titian saved 'thanks to £17.5m Scottish Executive pledge' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
New generation of von Trapps embrace Sound of Music legacy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Don't pay the first lady (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martin Kramer: Israel's Gaza strategy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tony Karon: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Gaza 2008 ... Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Owner of Hitler prop in Tom Cruise 'Valkyrie' protests use (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Cole: What to Do About the Torturers? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Burris Flap Tosses Glare on Virtual Lily White Senate (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Rees-Mogg: For Britain in 1847, read America in 2009 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Titian saved 'thanks to £17.5m Scottish Executive pledge' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Thatcher finds a permanent home at No 10: First look at the £100,000 portrait Brown ordered as a lasting tribute (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Search Expanded for Art Stolen from Berlin Gallery (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
BBC Four series on medieval Islamic scientists (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Shane Hamilton, 32 (Top Young Historians)
Week of December 28, 2008
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: More on the Depression (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Analysis: Bush's personality shapes his legacy (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK A. LEVINE: STATEMENT ON GAZA FROM CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM (Mark A. LeVine)
Roundup
Sir Michael Levey, 81, Art Historian, Is Dead (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BARRY RUBIN: ON THE GROUND IN GAZA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Flawed Holocaust memoir finds new publisher (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: My Open Letter to Daniel Gross of Newsweek (Historians and the Great Depression) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Serious prediction by Russian: U.S. will break into six pieces... (Breaking News)
Historians protest Wal-Mart near Civil War battlefield (Breaking News)
German Soldier Clad Student Fatally Shot By Police (Breaking News)
More press for historians' campaign against new Wal-Mart in historic area (Historians in the News)
Anger at plans for 'official' European history (Breaking News)
Adolf Hitler at the centre of Austria's City of Culture campaign (Breaking News)
UK: Savers facing accounts with no interest (Breaking News)
Two British historians honoured (Historians in the News)
AHA Preliminary Report: A good year on the job market but troubles loom (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Simon Schama at the Ashmolean (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Nato making same mistakes as Soviet army, says Zamir Kabulov (Breaking News)
Diamonds offer 'final proof' that a comet wiped out the mammoth (Breaking News)
Germans Disappointed by Reunification, New Poll Shows (Breaking News)
Berlin Refugee Camp Closes After 55 Years (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Reason Foundation VP Advocates Higher Gas Taxes (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: A Profile in Privilege (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Descartes skull to be moved to his school (Breaking News)
For inauguration zeal, LBJ '65 may be the precedent for Obama (Breaking News)
Raul Castro says Cuba revolution faces years of struggle (Breaking News)
Iolaire disaster recalled on isle (Breaking News)
Vatican divorces from Italian law (Breaking News)
Franco heirs ordered to open his summer retreat to public (Breaking News)
Cuba unveils Hemingway papers, including notes on WWII sub hunt (Breaking News)
New Administration Inspires Hope for Full Access to Statue of Liberty (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Obamas checking in to hotel steeped in D.C. history (Breaking News)
Sons’ love for missing dad plumbs the ocean’s depths (Breaking News)
Bolten and Hadley Reflect on 8 Years with Bush, Decry 'Mythologies' About Cheney (Breaking News)
AHA ... Welcome To Historians TV (Historians in the News)
'Still too early' to tell fate of Punic tombs (Malta) (Breaking News)
China and Vietnam settle border dispute (Breaking News)
Fifty years later, Cubans still are fleeing the revolution (Breaking News)
At 50, Cuba's revolution showing its age (Breaking News)
Britain learned of South African nuclear programme from USSR (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: More Economists Worry About Interest Earning Reserves (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Wall Street's Final '08 Toll: $6.9 Trillion Wiped Out (Breaking News)
Time Mag.: The Top 10 Everything of 2008 (Breaking News)
Satellites unearthing ancient Egyptian ruins (Breaking News)
Nazi E-boat saved by military enthusiast (Breaking News)
Britain learned of South African nuclear programme from USSR (Breaking News)
Paul Hofmann, author and foe of Nazis, dies at 96 (Breaking News)
Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid leader, dies at 91 (Breaking News)
Rebuilding Berlin Palace May Become a Grand Blunder (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: Gort of the interplanetary police force (Revise and Dissent)
RALPH E. LUKER: The Cliopatria Awards, 2008 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: A Very English Departure (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: This Sounds Like a Fun Six Months! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
David Cannadine honored in New Year list (Historians in the News)
Senate Rejections Are Rare (Breaking News)
Dems hope to block Blago Senate appointment (Breaking News)
Dinosaur fossils found in China are world's largest collection (Breaking News)
India moustaches 'face the chop' (Breaking News)
Farewell to India temple priests (Breaking News)
103 year old who worked on Wall Street in 1929 is still there (Breaking News)
Iraqi-Canadian 'spied for Saddam' (Breaking News)
Despite Lincoln links, Obama faces fundamentally different challenges (Breaking News)
Obamas will lodge in historic Hay-Adams Hotel (Breaking News)
AHA annual convention starts Friday (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: OFA 2.0 (Just How Stupid Are We?)
DAVID T. BEITO: Another Victim of "Single-Payer Health Care" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Lawsuit seeks to take 'so help me God' out of inaugural (Breaking News)
Cuba celebrates the Revolution's 50th anniversary under a shadow (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAPPY 2009 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: Al-Jarallah: "HAMAS KNOWS NOTHING OF DEMANDS OF LIVING"/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Illinois Drama From Obama's Past (Breaking News)
National Archives: How Britain covered up Argentine occupation of Falklands (Breaking News)
18th-century Spanish ship found buried in Argentina (Breaking News)
US judge orders North Korea to pay $65 million to sailors of ship captured in '68 (Breaking News)
Gonzales defends role in antiterror policies, will publish memoir (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: JibJab's Year in Review, 2008 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Biographer: Robert Burns was democratic, sympathized with French Revolution (Breaking News)
Q&A: The history behind Israel's Gaza strike (Breaking News)
The Global Credit Crisis as History: One historian's view (Historians in the News)
Bush knocks Franklin Pierce out of last place (Breaking News)
DNA tracks ancient Alaskan's descendants as far as Chile (Breaking News)
Karl Rove claims Bush is one of the presidency's great readers (Breaking News)
NASA faults equipment in Columbia shuttle disaster (Breaking News)
Call for 'Pilgrim Way' footpath (Scotland) (Breaking News)
Cardinal praises Pope Pius XII's efforts on Jews' behalf (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Martha S. Putney, black historian and author, dies at 92 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORST PREDICTIONS FOR 2008 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Review Finds No Evidence F.B.I. Leaked Eagleton Data (Breaking News)
Union Soldier's Remains Found at Antietam (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HUMANITARIAN PAUSE? BALL IN HAMAS COURT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Michigan wants to drop shipwreck case (Breaking News)
Ancient burial ground uncovered (UK) (Breaking News)
Macedonia archeologists uncover 4,000 year old writing (Breaking News)
One-fifth of Ming Dynasty Great Wall in Inner Mongolia gone (Breaking News)
Burma's Stilwell Road: A backbreaking WWII project is revived (Breaking News)
Post-tsunami, a rebuilt life (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NEW YORK CITY, DECEMBER 2008 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT HIGGS: The Best Stimulus Right Now? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: James Gwartney on the Fed and Greenspan (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Historian: UK government has "wiped out" history teaching (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Eyes on Ghana (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Do the Uninsured Drive Up Premiums? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAEL IS URGED TO GO FOR VICTORY ON HAMAS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Samuel Huntington, author of The Clash of Civilizations, dies aged 81 (Breaking News)
Reported killed 1940, obituary printed today: Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wilson (Breaking News)
Labour tried to stifle Thatcher's role in women's suffrage celebration (Breaking News)
1960s: Cold War cabinet seeks headquarters to withstand nuclear war (UK) (Breaking News)
Saddam-era officials go on trial in Iraq (Breaking News)
US Cold War Resettlement Program Used for Propaganda, Spying (Breaking News)
Pinochet-era 'disappeared' found (Breaking News)
1970s UK 'defenceless against Soviets' (Breaking News)
Historians: Soviets Stole H-Bomb Secret From U.S. (Breaking News)
Beacon of Japan’s Future, Sparkling With Nostalgia (Breaking News)
British envoy in 1978: The Shah? He's as safe as houses (Breaking News)
Dan Rather's $70m lawsuit likely to deal Bush legacy a new blow (Breaking News)
DNA from Neanderthals reveals: fair skin, red hair, freckles (Breaking News)
Reported KIA in 1940, VC winner's obituary printed today (Breaking News)
2009 stamps to honor Lincoln, Poe, civil rights pioneers--and early TV (Breaking News)
Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: An Interesting Case Study in Intellectual Property Law Is About to Unfold (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: What Should Be Done? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Bill Brands and Doug Brinkley discuss all things Roosevelt (Historians in the News)
At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle (Breaking News)
National Federation of the Blind Celebrates the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Louis Braille (Breaking News)
US-Japanese study finds genes for 1918 'Spanish flu' pandemic (Breaking News)
Veterans of '90s U.S. bank bailout see opportunity in current one (Breaking News)
Lessons for other smokers in Obama's efforts to quit (Breaking News)
More than 100,000 massacred by allies during Korean War (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GAZA PROVES TERRITORY MATTERS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Early American Echoes in South Africa? (Breaking News)
Reliving Cuba's revolution (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK A. LEVINE: To Succeed Where Clinton Failed, Obama Needs a History Lesson (Mark A. LeVine)
Roundup
Sec. of State Rice meets with historians to discuss FRUS series problems (Historians in the News)
Blogs
TROY KICKLER: ENTREPRENEURIAL CREATIVITY DURING ECONOMIC DEPRESSION (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: The President's Analyst: This Little Card Can Justify Murder? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Shocking study reveals people still willing to torture (Breaking News)
Blogs
RACHEL LEOW: Drunk History (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Polish WWII vet celebrates a victorious life (Breaking News)
French comedian gives award to Holocaust denier (Breaking News)
Exiles get Spain passport chance (Breaking News)
Rap music originated in medieval Scottish pubs, claims American professor (Historians in the News)
23 days and counting until George W Bush leaves the White House (Breaking News)
What else happened in 1909? (Breaking News)
Secty. Rice: People will soon thank Bush for what he's done (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: A Mt. Rushmore of the Mind (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Undoubtedly a Good Thing (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Two Perspectives (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Stalin voted third most popular Russian (Breaking News)
Blogs
PAUL MORENO: "Change to Win" or "Pay to Play"? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Publication of disputed Holocaust memoir canceled (Breaking News)
Roundup
Aaron Zelinsky: Obama's Forgotten Inspiration: Theodore Parker (Roundup: Talking About History)
Anne Hendershott: How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Larry Diamond: Bush gave democracy promotion a bad name. The next administration has to get it right. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fareed Zakaria: Writing the Rules for a New World (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rob Riemen: An Open Letter to President-Elect Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ira Chernus: The Paradox of Israel ... Regional Super Power and the Largest Jewish Ghetto Ever Created (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Yassin Musharbash: Is Israel Repeating Mistakes of the Past? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The world reacts (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Britain’s Galápagos offers insight into evolutionary ideas (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Kubrick Holocaust film to be told in installation (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Anger at plans for 'official' European history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Cutty Sark 'Not Ready To Reopen' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Mike Thomson: 'Good old days' under Bokassa? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Spain's Roman heritage on show [video 1 min 46 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Matisse sketch stolen in Berlin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Claiborne Pell, Ex-Senator, Dies at 90 (Obituaries)
Uncovering layers of rage in 'Defiance' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Cuba unveils Hemingway papers, including notes on WWII sub hunt (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Copyright Expires on Gandhi Works (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ukraine asks Barack Obama to help save its White House (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Soderbergh takes on 'tough,' controversial 'Che' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Stokes: The Barack Ballad of Abraham, Franklin, and John (Roundup: Media's Take)
Humberto Fontova: Cuban Stalinism at 50--and the Media Lies Continue (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Petruno : If this isn't 1929-'32 again, history sees a market rebound (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman dies (Obituaries)
Paul Hofmann, Author and Foe of Nazis, Dies at 96 (Obituaries)
Deborah Lipstadt: A Danger Greater Than Denial (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: Top Ten Good News Stories in the Muslim World, 2008 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rory Carroll and Andres Schipani: As hard times bite, Cubans show little appetite for celebration (Roundup: Talking About History)
Chris Hallam: The long shadow of 1979 (Roundup: Talking About History)
Che - review (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Museum diplomacy: Directors of rival museums in China and Taiwan to trade visits (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
As Europe's Cultural Capital 2009, Linz Faces Nazi Past (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Iron Mountain: Where the US stores records for the ages [video 2 mins 51 sec.] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Akhil Reed Amar and Josh Chafetz: How the Senate Can Stop Blagojevich (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alan Brinkley: Learning from FDR's mistakes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
As Another Memoir Is Faked, Trust Suffers (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
"Grant & Lee: In War and Peace" (Exhibit/N-Y Historical Society) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Still Paging Mr. Salinger (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jeff Stein: Jimmy Carter's Frosty Meeting With Spy Chief Bush (Roundup: Talking About History)
SHUR: The Israeli myths debunked by the New Historians (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: What a Just Settlement of the Palestinian/Israel Conflict Would Look Like (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nir Rosen: Gaza ... the logic of colonial power (Roundup: Media's Take)
Neve Gordon and Jeff Halper: Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Apples Over the Fence: The fake Holocaust memoir (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Biographer: Robert Burns was democratic, sympathized with French Revolution (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Poland split over whether Daniel Craig is film hero or villain (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A new BBC adaptation portrays Anne Frank in an unfamiliar light (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Dinosaur fossils found in China are world's largest collection (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robert Burns 'was a republican who sympathised with the French revolution' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Holocaust movie based on phony memoir will go forward (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Phil Mason: The course of history often hinges on small accidents of chance (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Davis Hanson: Life at New Animal Farm Won't Be All That Bad (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: Time for Democrats to stress ethics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
What a new German movie can teach America about confronting its history with domestic radicals (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Iraq to replace martial monuments with peace art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ronald J. Pestritto: Theodore Roosevelt Was No Conservative (Roundup: Talking About History)
Cities battle to claim Poe (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gay school's students get a history lesson with 'Milk' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Anne Applebaum: Words That Matter (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Cohen: Reading Into Bush's Book List (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Oren and Klein Halevi: Palestinians Need Israel to Win ... If Hamas gets away with terror once again, the peace process will be over (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Four Finalists Vie to Design Eisenhower Memorial (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Daniel Pipes: Israel's War on Hamas ... A Dozen Thoughts (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Leor Halevi: Excommunicating Dead Terrorists (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Coal Ash Cleanup Is 24-7 In Tenn. Neighborhood [audio 3 min 56 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Moments In 2008 That Kept Us Talking [15 min 42 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies [audio 4 min 29 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Peru Sues Yale Over Artifacts [video 1 min 47 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Freddie Hubbard Leaves Permanent Mark On Jazz [audio 2 min 2 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Czar Wars: How did a term for Russian royalty work its way into American government? (Did You Know?)
Dina Vierny, Model And Muse For Art's Masters [audio 7 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Benny Morris: Why Israel Feels Threatened (Roundup: Historians' Take)
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce: Australia's cannibal convict (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Archie Bland: The Big Question ... How important was Charles Darwin, and what is his legacy today? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Fran Yeoman and Kaya Burgess: Looks familiar ... how Labour Prime Minister put off election just before real crisis set in (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Parfitt: Medieval warrior overcomes Stalin in poll to name greatest Russian (Roundup: Talking About History)
Spiegel Online: 'Eroding One of Turkey's Biggest Taboos' (interview) (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Fisk: Leaders lie, civilians die, and lessons of history are ignored (Middle East crisis) (Roundup: Media's Take)
History attractions prepare for inaugural in DC (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A nation in turmoil looks to a new leader for help — but it’s FDR (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anne Applebaum: The sinister resurrection of Stalin (Roundup: Talking About History)
Matt Miller: Nixon’s the One — to Imitate on Education (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tyler Cowan: Bailout of Long-Term Capital ... A Bad Precedent? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Martin Kramer: Hamas and the Bushes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Neve Gordon: Israel seems more concerned with electoral politics and restoring its military reputation than stopping the Qassam rockets (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert McHenry: The Junior Senator from New York (Caroline Kennedy?) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: What's Israel's game plan? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
The Good Germans (Re: Valkyrie) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Eileen Boris, Lisa Levenstein and Sonya Michel: A New New Deal Must Be For All (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Cullen Murphy and Todd Purdum: An Oral History of the Bush White House (Roundup: Talking About History)
Che Guevara: First he took Havana, now he's conquered Hollywood (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ashley Wayne Cruseturner: How Bill Clinton Inadvertently Saved George W. Bush's Presidency (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: Caroline Kennedy’s Moment—A Sad Reflection of Our Times (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Roger Pulvers: The Death of a Russian Poet 70 Years Ago ... and Why He Deserves to be Remembered (Roundup: Talking About History)
Week of December 21, 2008
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Harold Pinter RIP (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Eartha Kitt RIP (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: The Fed versus the Banks: Who Will Blink First? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Yes, History Has Much to Say About This Market (Breaking News)
It's impossible to ignore Niall Ferguson (Historians in the News)
"Champlain's Dream" by David Hackett Fischer (Historians in the News)
FDR vs. Reagan: May The Best President Win (Breaking News)
Bush Data Threatens to Overload Archives (Breaking News)
UN hopes for inquiry into assassination of Benazir Bhutto (Breaking News)
Disputed Oprah-Endorsed Holocaust Memoir Contradicted By More Witnesses (Breaking News)
Nation's heritage 'left to decay' after budget cuts (UK) (Breaking News)
Samuel P. Huntington of Harvard Dies at 81 (Historians in the News)
No Longer in Power, Free To Talk, Neocons Seek To Rewrite History (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: Honest Harry the Haberdasher (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
German Plans for a Unity Monument Taking Shape (Breaking News)
Stalin's new status in Russia (Breaking News)
Pakistani mourners honour Bhutto (Breaking News)
1,000 years on, perils of fake Viking swords are revealed (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: QUOTE OF THE DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Has a president ever revoked a pardon? (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: C'est Si Bon (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Poll: 75 percent glad Bush is done (Breaking News)
Chinese Savings Helped Inflate American Bubble (Breaking News)
Poll: Obama is man Americans admire most (Breaking News)
An epic year? Historians debate 2008's legacy (Historians in the News)
The New Deal helped build The City (San Francisco) (Breaking News)
Germany looks to Russia for clues on WWII massacre (Breaking News)
Vendee French call for revolution massacre to be termed 'genocide' (Breaking News)
Mystery naval explosion may have stinky solution (UK) (Breaking News)
Victims of 2004 tsunami remembered (Breaking News)
Philippines communists mark 40th (Breaking News)
Obama upholds tradition, testifying for federal prosecutors (Breaking News)
More than 1,000 American Historians Call for Equity in the Stimulus Package in an Open Letter to Obama (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DEMOCRATIZE JEWISH CHARITIES? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
NYT Columnist: Best books about the Great Depression (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Americans not sure where Bethlehem is, survey shows (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Author, publisher defend disputed Holocaust memoir (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: Catching Up with Keith (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Fair Weather Friends of the Market (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: Before We Forget about Christmas (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Mass grave plundered at site of Taleban prisoners' massacre (Breaking News)
China sends unemployed graduates to teach countryside peasants in 'Mao policy' (Breaking News)
Stalin's favourite ballerina dies, aged 92 (Breaking News)
Remembering Apollo 8, Man's First Trip to the Moon (Breaking News)
Bush, Obama hail our history (Breaking News)
Brooklyn man's pardon revoked (Breaking News)
Germany Arrests Rwandan Genocide Suspect (Breaking News)
Germany Sues Italy to Block World War II Compensation Claims (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Earliest Sound Recording (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Are You Up for It? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Was Jesus a common name at the beginning of the first century? (Breaking News)
Paraguayan Secret Police Covered Up Forced Disappearance of Four Young People in 1976 (Breaking News)
Man accused of smuggling mummies (Breaking News)
Blogs
RODERICK T. LONG: Anarchy in Philadelphia (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
More Than 200 Tuskegee Airmen Accept Inauguration Invite (Breaking News)
How History Shapes Barack Obama's Inauguration (Breaking News)
History will vindicate Bush administration, Rice says (Breaking News)
Oil miracle birthed Festival of Lights (Breaking News)
Contrasting views of Cheney (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: What do we know about our government? (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Looking back, Bush and Cheney reveal different views (Breaking News)
Wiesel Foundation loses nearly everything in Madoff scheme (Breaking News)
Cheney’s admissions to the CIA leak prosecutor and FBI (Breaking News)
The sad exodus of Christians from the birthplace of Jesus (Breaking News)
Star of wonder? (Breaking News)
Tourist Uncovers Hidden Treasure in Holy Land (Breaking News)
Who was Ponzi -- what the heck was his scheme? (Breaking News)
Japanese who say they are the descendants of Jesus (Breaking News)
James McPherson sees lessons, Lincoln parallels for Obama (Historians in the News)
Army to honor soldiers enslaved by Nazis (Breaking News)
Hunt is on for phony POWs (Breaking News)
World War II American observation post found in Arunachal Pradesh (Breaking News)
Males dominated 'out-of-Africa' migration 60,000 years ago (Breaking News)
Petition over detained Chinese writer goes international (Breaking News)
Lebanese are Phoenicians After All (Breaking News)
Palin's biggest campaign regret: Not enough media interviews (Breaking News)
Kissinger: "We can bomb the bejesus out of them all over North Vietnam." (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Neocons in Liberal Drag (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AHMADINEJAD GOSPEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
OSCAR CHAMBERLAIN: A thought for the day (POTUS)
Roundup
Indexed Trove of Kissinger Phone Transcripts Is Completed (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MERRY AUSTRALIAN CHRISTMAS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
PAUL MORENO: "A Tax on Stupidity" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HANUKKAH HOLY TO WOMEN, NOT MEN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Bush pardons man who helped Israel in 1948 war (Breaking News)
Good heavens: Vatican rehabilitating Galileo (Breaking News)
Obama to Be Sworn in With Lincoln Bible (Breaking News)
British tourist unearths treasure (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MIRACLE - A FATHER AWAKENS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
A War Still Seen Through Stained Glass (Germany/WW II) (Breaking News)
Pope praises work of archaeologists' institute (Breaking News)
Cheney Mocks Biden, Defends Rumsfeld in 'FOX News Sunday' Interview (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Growing Case for Inflation (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Labour MPs back separation of state and Church of England (Breaking News)
Jane Haining, Scotland's Schindler (Breaking News)
Poet at historical moment (Historians in the News)
In Desperate Times, the Rise to Take the Reins and Take On Fear Itself (Breaking News)
Southerners are the missing group in Obama's Cabinet (Breaking News)
Pew study: New Congress is religiously diverse (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: When Numbers Make Bad History (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
After 143 years, last orders at London's Café Royal (Breaking News)
Japan 'sought US nuclear help' (Breaking News)
YouTube video leads to graverobber's arrest (Calif.) (Breaking News)
Earliest human home found in S. Africa (Breaking News)
Apollo 8 astronauts remember historic voyage (Breaking News)
Bush v. Gore still influencing court decisions (Breaking News)
4,300-year-old tombs discovered near Cairo (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE SURPRISING HIT - "HALLELUJAH" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Yes, it's the same Edwin Black who did the book on IBM and the Holocaust (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BUSH: "ISRAEL LIGHT UNTO NATIONS' (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: LBJ on the South and the 1968 Election (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
AMY H. STURGIS: The End of Politics? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Sir Bernard Crick: Political theorist and Orwell biographer, dies aged 79 (Breaking News)
The past is so last year: new archaeologists dig the present in the UK (Breaking News)
Revealed: the recipes that fuelled Charles Darwin (Breaking News)
Brazil remembers slain activist (Breaking News)
Japan 'sought US nuclear help' (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Recession? What Recession? (Third in an Occasional Series) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Largest Ponzi schemes in history (Breaking News)
Ponzi schemes ... how do they think it will end? (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Tax Changes and the Housing Boom (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Galileo's astronomy (Breaking News)
Archbishop of Canterbury warns recession Britain must learn lessons from Nazi Germany (Breaking News)
Serb veterans from Kosovo war clash with police (Breaking News)
Lockerbie marks 20th anniversary (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: Christmas: A Reflection (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
London's iconic open-backed buses to return (Breaking News)
Pope marks Galileo anniversary, praises astronomy (Breaking News)
First Lady's memoirs may not be hot copy (Breaking News)
US, UK unite to remember 1988 Lockerbie bombing (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: THE MACCABEES DARED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Cheney Defends His Tenure, Adminstration's Actions (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RELYING ON IRAQ TO STOP IRAN? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
MARK BRADY: Russian Riot Police Crush Free Trade Rally! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOA BEACH PARTIES CANCELED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Data Show Steady Drop in Americans on Move (Breaking News)
The Young Know Caroline's a Kennedy, but Which One? (Breaking News)
White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire (Breaking News)
Much has changed along presidential train route (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Perceptive Remark (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Newsweek's Jon Meacham talks about Andrew Jackson, the subject of his latest book (Historians in the News)
Singer known as 'a favourite of Hitler' has libel case thrown out (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Antikythera rebuilt and rebooted (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Angels uncovered in 350-year-old painting (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Editorial in the Independent: Benazir Bhutto's divisive legacy to Pakistan (Roundup: Talking About History)
Rare Holbein work bought for a few thousand could fetch millions (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
English kings and St John the Evangelist (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Nile Gardiner: George W Bush ... winning the war on terror (Roundup: Media's Take)
Beatles legend John Lennon makes charity television commercial 28 years after death (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Angels uncovered in 350-year-old painting (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
US Critic Slams New Cruise Film as Soft on Nazism (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Technology Helps Humans Work Miracles on a Renaissance Treasure (Wash DC) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rebecca Solnit: The Homicides You Didn't Hear About in Hurricane Katrina (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Lewis: Obama should be the new Eisenhower (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Joe Conason: What Nixon Admitted (and Cheney Won't) (Roundup: Media's Take)
NYT derides Valkyrie movie (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Sirota: Fox News claims "Historians Pretty Much Agree" FDR Hurt the Economy (Roundup: Media's Take)
John B. Judis: The best books to help you make sense of Marx, Keynes, the Great Depression, and how we got where we are now (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne: The Jesus Of Christmas And The Holiday's True Meaning (Roundup: Talking About History)
Scott McLeod: Obama Mideast Watch ... Why Dennis Ross? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Holman Jenkins Jr.: Get Ready for a Lost Decade (Roundup: Media's Take)
'Frost/Nixon' tries to rewrite history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Descendant of Louis XIV fails to stop 'disrespectful' exhibition in (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Study to reveal heads mysteries (Scotland) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Al Capone's house to go on the market (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
“Christmas Bells” (The Real Verses by Longfellow) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Marian Salzman: Baby boomers out, 'cuspers' in (Roundup: Media's Take)
Von Trapps are reunited, without the singing (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Great Gatsby to get the Moulin Rouge treatment (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael D Griffin: I fear that we would not be allowed a mission like Apollo 8 today (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Mulligan: Film and television director best known for 'To Kill a Mockingbird', dies aged 83 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
George Bridges: We must refight the battles of the 1970s (Roundup: Media's Take)
Russia spies return to Kremlin-funded nationalist film output (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The photo of earth from space that changed our view of ourselves (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Harold Pinter dies at 78 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Joshua Neuman: What Happened to Kwanzaa? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Is the author of a new Oprah-touted love story the next James Frey? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
John O'Sullivan: Conservative Snobs Are Wrong About Palin (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mackubin Thomas Owens: Lincoln, Obama, and Bush (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: Insight into Obama's Middle East Policy? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew B. Wilson: Thatcher Wouldn't Have Gone Wobbly on Detroit (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Lambers: School Lunches for Peace in Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
James L. Bevel, 72, an Adviser to Dr. King, Is Dead (Obituaries)
Pictures That Were Worth a Thousand Calling Cards (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Washington Museum Presents One Life: Mask Of Lincoln (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Andreas Umland: Ukraine's Window of Opportunity (Roundup: Historians' Take)
NYC museum avoids glib parallel between Obama, FDR (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tony Blankley: The shocking religious bias of textbooks in favor of Muslims (Roundup: Media's Take)
Olivia Judson: Why the calendar is the way it is (Roundup: Talking About History)
Froma Harrop: Welcome to 'Nepotism Nation' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kazuhiko Togo: Japan’s Historical Memory ... Reconciliation with Asia (Roundup: Talking About History)
Thanks to Hollywood, Robert Louis Stevenson is reduced to three works - (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Clive Aslet: Remember Zimbabwe's pensioners (Roundup: Media's Take)
Book from 1801 outlines Christmas family games such as Hot Cockles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
‘Valkyrie’ lacks the Reich stuff (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Why do we love movie Nazis? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Mark Naison: Will The Recession End in June 2009 ? Who Are Economists Kidding!! (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jon Talton: Democracy Wounded as Newspapers Cut Washington Bureaus (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lynching: The Disciples of Hatred, in Their Own Words and Images (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Conservative Icon Paul Weyrich Dies [audio 2 min 56 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Woodward: Deep Throat A Man Of Courage [audio 5 min 18 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire [video 2 min 22 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Looted ancient treasures recovered in Basra 'sting' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
NYT Editorial: The World According to Cheney (Roundup: Media's Take)
Branded a Pariah, the National Academy Is Struggling to Survive (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Looted ancient treasures recovered in Basra 'sting' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tehran museum hosting Barlach, Kollwitz exhibit (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Iran, Syria to produce joint film on 33-Day War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Time to start saving Stonehenge (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The masterpiece that may never be seen again (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
British art treasures to be shown in Britain for first time (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The 39 Steps: Rupert Penry-Jones (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Revealed: the recipes that fuelled Charles Darwin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Hollywood's Losing Battle: Creating a Nicer Nazi (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Peter Steinfels: New Book Reaffirms Depth of Change Wrought by Vatican II (Roundup: Talking About History)
Leonard Downie Jr.: Could We Uncover Watergate Today? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Germany tracing artwork and its Nazi past (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ancient 'Treasure' Found in Farmer's Bookshelf (Italy) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Joel Achenbach: Just how big is that stimulus package? (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Brown: Thoughts on the So-Called 'War of Ideas' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Oliver Kamm: Was Patton assassinated on government orders? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Thomas Fleming: Obama's from Chicago ... Why that Shouldn't Worry Us (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Farmer Busted With Artifacts [video 1 min 22 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Book Explores History Of The American Rifle [audio 6 min 57 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Female Wedding Registrar Is First In Muslim World [audio 3 min 48 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Germany tracing artwork and its Nazi past (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Fitting that black history exhibit starts here (Philly) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Reality Can Be Escapist, Too (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Louis Uchitelle: A Trap in Obama’s Spending Plan (Roundup: Media's Take)
East German church recovers stained-glass windows from Russia (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
NY exhibit unveils women's lives in ancient Greece (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Stokes: The Spy Who Really Came in From the Cold (Roundup: Talking About History)
Hugh Miles: Lockerbie ... was it Iran? Syria? All I know is, it wasn't the man in prison (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jane Merrick: Jane Haining, Scotland's Schindler (Roundup: Talking About History)
Go for your bows: rivals race to film 1066 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of December 14, 2008
Roundup
Bush E-Mails May Be Secret a Bit Longer (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Words of Wisdom (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship (Breaking News)
New forensic evidence could free Libyan convicted of Lockerbie bombing (Breaking News)
Former East Bloc Countries Sign Accord on Stasi Files (Breaking News)
Lockerbie marks 20th anniversary (Breaking News)
Palestinian government forced to save birthplace of Christ (Breaking News)
Neanderthals could have died out because their bodies overheated (Breaking News)
Most Britons do not believe in the nativity, survey shows (Breaking News)
Network of Concerned Historians joins protest of Russian raid on archives project (Historians in the News)
Slave's daughter who voted for Barack Obama dies aged 110 (Breaking News)
Gladiators to return to Rome (Breaking News)
Germany releases one of the last Red Army Faction members (Breaking News)
Pakistan set to issue Bhutto coin (Breaking News)
On Capitol Hill, a Family Business Thrives (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: The SEC as Watchdog (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Alfred Russel Wallace's Fans Gear Up for a Darwinian Struggle (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Recession? What Recession? (Continued) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Alexander Cockburn on Bernie Madoff (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Mich. law encourages accuracy in African history (Breaking News)
Army historians unearth yesterday, keep history alive for tomorrow (Historians in the News)
Noel Stowe dies (Historians in the News)
Bush says 'no debate' about his keeping US safe (Breaking News)
‘Headed Out of Town,’ Bush Turns Reflective (Breaking News)
Clinton Tax Break May Have Helped Cause Housing Bubble (Breaking News)
What next for the Church of England? (Breaking News)
Conor Cruise O'Brien ... Diplomat, politician, historian and author revered as the leading Irish intellectual of his time (obit.) (Historians in the News)
Argentina suspends Astiz release (Breaking News)
Berlin memorial to Roma WWII dead (Breaking News)
Historian T. Mills Kelly teaches history by having students play a pirate hoax (Historians in the News)
Brooklyn dig turns up 19th century flour mill (Breaking News)
Who’s your daddy? King Tut’s father identified (Breaking News)
Farmer digs up ancient sanctuary in Italy (Breaking News)
Chinese author of book on famine braves risks to inform new generations (Historians in the News)
George W. Bush's last-ditch attempt to burnish his legacy (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: GLobal Cooling (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: LBJ, Fortas, & Israel (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Just How Gullible Does Bush Think We Are? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Unforgettable still, the night death fell from the sky on Scottish town (Breaking News)
Japanese PM Taro Aso's family business used British PoWs (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: A Holiday Greeting from Mexico (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Augusto Pinochet Pinochet stirs controversy from grave as home becomes visitor attraction (Breaking News)
Study: 'Oliver Twist' got more than thin gruel (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: City Life and Civil War (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
'Deep Throat' Mark Felt Dies at 95 (Breaking News)
W. Mark Felt, Deep Throat of Watergate, Dies at 95 (Breaking News)
British Debate: Please, sir, what's history? (Historians in the News)
AHA Letter to Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev Concerning Raid on Human Rights Organization (Historians in the News)
Argentine court releases officers (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Season's Greetings from the President! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
The battle of St. Boniface: Archdiocese wants to raze historic church; preservationists want to save it (Chicago) (Breaking News)
Justice Dept. donates Nazi cold-case files to Holocaust Museum (Breaking News)
Martha Putney, Historian of Blacks, Is Dead at 92 (Historians in the News)
The rise of the late baby boomers (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: More and Better Regulation! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RICK SHENKMAN: Now it's economic illiteracy that's the problem (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Iraqi Shrine City Rises From The Rubble -- Slowly (Breaking News)
Poli sci student and professor track down Nazi (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Footnote on Bank Clearing Systems (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Court rejects Karadzic 'immunity' (Breaking News)
Professor Angeliki Laiou: expert on women in the Byzantine empire (Obit.) (Historians in the News)
Nabbing Pirates: For the first time in 600 years, China's navy is set to sail into action (Breaking News)
Bill expands definition of treason in Russia (Breaking News)
Rwandan Convicted of Genocide (Breaking News)
Condoleezza Rice talks successes, failures of past 8 years (Breaking News)
Neo-Nazi codes on the rise on German number plates (Breaking News)
Suspected Nazi war criminal tracked down by student (Breaking News)
Chinese learn to live with reform (Breaking News)
Last statue of dictator Franco removed from mainland Spain (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS/updates (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Glimmer of Sudan's rich cultural history (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Obama's "Mountain Dew Economics" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Ancient ruins may reveal fate of Moche sex and sacrifice culture (Breaking News)
Planner of Rwandan massacres convicted of genocide (Breaking News)
Rare coloured pictures of the Holy Land unearthed in Yorkshire (Breaking News)
'Time' publishes 28 long-lost Obama college photos (Breaking News)
NASA offers 3 soon-to-be-retired space shuttles to good homes (Breaking News)
Russia rewriting Josef Stalin's legacy (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Immigration to the United States, 1820-2007 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Turkish PM scorns Armenia apology (Breaking News)
Fife and drum extravaganza set for Inauguration Day (Breaking News)
Dems embrace dynasty politics (Breaking News)
Evidence of Historic Slave Jail Revealed in Virginia (Breaking News)
Australian historian knew as a child what he wanted to be (Historians in the News)
Iraqi shoe incident just 1 fling with history (Breaking News)
AHA reminds departments that age discrimination is illegal (Historians in the News)
Bush to host Obama, ex-presidents (Breaking News)
Betty Currie is back! (Breaking News)
Supermarket defends itself over Adolf Hitler cake (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: YOUR CONGRESS AT WORK (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Toward a Libertarian Reconstruction of Neoclassical Welfare Theory (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs (Breaking News)
'Ancient city unearthed' in Peru (Breaking News)
Italian Official: Vatican 'failed to act' for Jews (Breaking News)
Greek protesters unveil banner on Acropolis (Breaking News)
Sons of Nazi concentration camp survivor meet for first time (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: UGLY, BAD AND GOOD NEWS FROM ISRAEL/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: LETTER OF THE DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Time Magazine selects Obama as Person of the Year 2008 (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: LBJ, Humphrey, & Vietnam (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Sudan statues show ancient script (Breaking News)
Bush by the Numbers (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: Shameless Self-Promotion (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
AMY H. STURGIS: News from First Americans (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
AMY H. STURGIS: Harry Potter and the Libertarian Message (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
John W. Powell, 89, Dies; Writer in Sedition Case (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Bush and history's rearview mirror (Breaking News)
9 Questions for…’Politically Incorrect’ Historian Thomas E. Woods (Historians in the News)
Is America's political 'nobility' undemocratic? (Breaking News)
Blogs
PAUL MORENO: Obama and the "Second Bill of Rights" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Underappreciated Aspects of the Ratchet Effect (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
The Men Who Spied on Nixon: New Details Reveal Extent of 'Moorer-Radford Affair' (Breaking News)
The bars of central Cairo: Echoes of a bygone era (Breaking News)
Discovery of Roman Battlefield Poses Historical Riddle (Breaking News)
Absolute leader's name dropped from Turkmenistan's anthem (Breaking News)
Scholars: Long-Sought Minoan Calendar Unlocks Secrets of Royalty, Religion and Olympic Games (Historians in the News)
Turkish intellectuals issue apology to Armenians for 'Great Catastrophe' (Breaking News)
Like Lincoln, Obama Will Ride the Rails To D.C. (Breaking News)
AHA asked to boycott California hotel owned by anti-gay marriage Prop 8 supporter (Historians in the News)
John Lawrence, a top Capitol Hill staffer and historian, reflects on his career (Historians in the News)
U.S. costs of Iraq, Afghan wars top $900 billion: report (Breaking News)
Two Fauquier Churches Have Stood the Test of Time (Virginia) (Breaking News)
Obama sets record for top Hispanics (Breaking News)
Cheney was key in clearing CIA interrogation tactics (Breaking News)
One More Round of Voting, as Electors Do Their Duty (Breaking News)
Duke Francis of Bavaria given hope of claiming British throne (Breaking News)
Lost chapel built in wartime Italy re-discovered (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Outstanding Panel Discussion of the New Deal (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Recounts & the Internet (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
In Georgia, Stir Over Plan for Black Colleges (Breaking News)
Threat of litigation stops threat of British academic boycott of Israelis (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DICTATORS WAITING FOR OBAMA DEAL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
OSCAR CHAMBERLAIN: Silences (POTUS)
RICK SHENKMAN: About that Zogby poll (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Archaeologists Discover Roman Battlefield in Northern Germany (Breaking News)
Nazi-era singer loses libel suit (Breaking News)
Historians question Obama-Lincoln parallels (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Lincoln and Obama in 2009 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
The face of Cleopatra: Scientists recreate image of the legendary beauty (Breaking News)
Blogger: State Department Admits No Mechanism Exists for Providing Ongoing Security for Sites or Museums, Defends Its Efforts (Breaking News)
U.S. Grant Papers Are Mississippi-Bound Following Legal Settlement (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DISGRACEFUL GREEK TRADITION/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Holocaust historian says she still doubts apples story, though it's being made into a movie (Historians in the News)
Searchers find remains of Teutonic Knights leaders (Breaking News)
Historic Chinese junk in U.S. is endangered (Breaking News)
Archaeology Magazine’s Top 10 Finds of 2008 (Breaking News)
Palin and Fey top list of year's memorable quotes (Breaking News)
Dig turns up 10,000 years old flint flakes in Texas (Breaking News)
Neolithic settlement unearthed in Iran (Breaking News)
US army searches for downed Second World War pilots who flew the 'hump' to China (Breaking News)
Turkish thinkers' Armenia apology (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GERMANS ARE LUCKY TO HAVE MERKEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: What Tradition of Public Service Does Obama Want to "Reclaim?" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: LBJ, Nixon, & Czechoslovakia (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
In this museum, U.S. is the bad guy in Korean War (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Mostly Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Turnout in Presidential Election Hits 40-Year High (Breaking News)
Many My Lais (Breaking News)
As Obama takes power, Clinton impeachment still splits Washington (Breaking News)
Obama to hear panel on changes to war powers act (Breaking News)
13 years after Dayton accord, ethnic divisions again threaten Bosnia (Breaking News)
Explorers find rare 19th-century schooner in Lake Ontario (Breaking News)
Dictator's Fans Open Pinochet Museum in Chile (Breaking News)
WWII hero dies, but a remarkable story lives on (Breaking News)
Nazi hunters fault Australia, Hungary for inaction (Breaking News)
As draft ends, Polish army faces struggle to modernize (Breaking News)
Jimmy Carter regrets not meeting with Hezbollah (Breaking News)
Obama's true colors: Black, white ... or neither? (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Ron Paul on Nationalization, Bailouts, and Empire (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Spending Money Like a Drunken Terminator (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Signs of dispute on Moscow's Solzhenitsyn Street (Breaking News)
Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes Ancient and Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Court saves Les Mis sequel novels (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stonehenge visitor centre in balance (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Spitfire, Hurricanes and Lancasters losing out to Nazi foes in kit toy sales (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tyler Cowan: Fiscal policy and the burden of proof (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ami Pedazhur: From Munich to Mumbai (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Timothy Noah: Deep Throat was not a good man. It didn't matte (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jelani Cobb: The Barack Problem (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Greg Mitchell: The Other Side of 'Deep Throat': He Bugged My Friends! (Roundup: Talking About History)
Nick Turse: SaladShooters, Adult Diapers, and Tactical Ammo (Roundup: Historians' Take)
TPM: The striking similarities between Richard Whitney and Bernard Madeoff (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Gay: Bush is no Truman (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Dean: Memo to President-Elect Obama ... Change the Nature of the Response to the Blagojevich Scandal (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nasir Khan: The Kashmir issue and the violence in the Indian subcontinent (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Walter E. Williams: Why should the Congress be limited to 435 members? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Carl Orff, the composer who lived a monstrous lie (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Alan Dershowitz: Law for Bigots (Roundup: Media's Take)
Leon Wieseltier: The Repellent Persistence Of The Kennedy Dynasty (Roundup: Media's Take)
Peggy Noonan: A little perspective for the pessimistic "age of the empty suit" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Judith Warner: Getting Beyond Camelot (Roundup: Media's Take)
Myth of 'humane' Nazi Erwin Rommel debunked (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Daniel Willingham: “Study Skills” Ought to Include an Understanding of Memory (Roundup: Talking About History)
Humberto Fontova: Ted Turner's lies about Cuba (Roundup: Media's Take)
3 leading Einstein experts rebut claims that his wife was the true genius (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: Top 10 Reasons Obama Should Resist Military Plans for American Bases in Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul Weyrich, 66, a Conservative Strategist, Dies (Obituaries)
Dick Morris: Obama's spending plan won't create enough stimulus (Roundup: Media's Take)
Pinochet stirs controversy from grave as home becomes visitor attraction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Smuggled ancient sculpture returns to Egypt (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The real Rommel: Enduring myth of the decent Nazi is debunked in Stuttgart exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Lind: The South's attempt to kill the North's auto industry is the latest battle in an ongoing conflict. It's time for a Third Reconstruction to put an end to it. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Madoff scandal seem like a Broadway play you might have caught? It was. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
What Will Change Look Like in White House Décor? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Manisha Sinha: How slavery and race are treated in Daniel Walker Howe's magnum opus (Roundup: Talking About History)
'Three da Vinci sketches' discovered in Louvre (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
NYT Editorial: The Torture Report (Roundup: Media's Take)
Long-unpublished 1905 Twain essay finally printed (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
'Three da Vinci sketches' discovered in Louvre (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
U.S. Gives Papers On Nazis To Holocaust Museum [audio 3 min 58 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Making It To America [video 34 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Interview with John H. Summers [audio 1hour 8 min 54 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
German critics slate Tom Cruise's performance in Valkyrie (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Timothy Garton Ash: On an auspicious anniversary, here are four keys to China's peaceful rise (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tania Branigan: 30-year journey from Mao to the market (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christmas carol is really a rebel song in celebration of Bonnie Prince Charlie, claims expert (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Harold Meyerson: Destroying What the UAW Built (Roundup: Media's Take)
Pete Du Pont: 'Progressive' policies would cause economic regression (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert D. Kaplan: A Gentler Hegemony (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bob Fertik and David Swanson: How History Will View Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: Will War Crimes Be Outed? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Heather Pringle: Forensic archaeologists uncover evidence of a secret massacre—and help convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Steele Gordon: Pyramid Schemes Are as American as Apple Pie (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Larry Sabato: That Was The Year That Was (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tate to re-stage William Blake's 'flop' of an exhibition (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tom Engelhardt: On Reading in an Age of Depression (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Skidelsky: Why Keynes is the man of the year (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Why blacks backed Prop 8 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: Bush's legacy in Iraq (Roundup: Historians' Take)
A renovated US history museum retains its boxy essence (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
John R. Bohrer: Lessons from the Senators Kennedy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Kengor: Dissing Palin (Roundup: Media's Take)
Arseny Roginsky: The Embrace of Stalinism (Roundup: Talking About History)
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer: Barry Goldwater's Early Senate Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor (Roundup: Talking About History)
World’s oldest portrait in peril (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Heather Whipps: History Repeats ... How 2008 Reflected the Past (Roundup: Media's Take)
Warren M. Robbins, Collector of African Art, Dies at 85 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The face of Cleopatra: Scientists recreate image of the legendary beauty (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bill McGraw: What happens when a car factory dies (Roundup: Media's Take)
Randall Lane: A bipartisan solution to improve the Electoral College inequities (Roundup: Media's Take)
Saudi Women Reunite To Remember Driving Protest [audio 4 min 15 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
"Cult of Dead" Cave Restored [video 2 min 56 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Reza: Bearing Witness To War And Peace [audio 10 min 7 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Missing A Masterpiece? Call FBI's Art Crime Team [audio 5 min 6 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Simon Tisdall: Is George W Bush the worst ever US president? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Elizabeth Drew: Frost/Nixon: A Dishonorable Distortion of History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Anthony Grafton: Inside Hitler's Library ... What The Books He Read Say About The Man He Was (Roundup: Talking About History)
Paul Ortiz: Senator Obama and the Future of American Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tony Perrottet: The Pervert's Grand Tour (Roundup: Talking About History)
Salon Roundtable: He will inherit the kind of problems that few new presidents have had to face. Where should he start? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Soros: It's Time to Junk the Electoral College (Roundup: Media's Take)
Painting of 'black Florence Nightingale' Mary Seacole bought for £130,000 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ira Chernus: The First Hundred Days or the Last Hundred Days? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
The theft of Scoptland's Stone of Destiny is now a movie (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Simple Job That Morphed Into ‘Valkyrie’ (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Waltz with Bashir (2008) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Che rides again in Hollywood (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sir Paul McCartney has claimed it was he, and not John Lennon, who (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
FDR's New Deal Blueprint For Obama (CBS Sunday Morning) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
'Television and the Presidency': The Bush and Clinton Years (Fox News documentary) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The invisible man rescuing stolen art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Charles W. Hayford: Ashes of the American Raj in China ... John Leighton Stuart, Pearl S. Buck, and Edgar Snow (Roundup: Talking About History)
Taking another pass at Easter Island's story (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Former Teamsters president Carey dies (Obituaries)
Titian's masterpiece Diana and Actaeon is saved (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Empire raises its flag in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sir Paul McCartney: I was the anti-war Beatle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gerhard Richter's JFK trilogy to be shown together for first time (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
J.P. Daughton, 38 (Top Young Historians)
Week of December 7, 2008
Roundup
Gulag files seized during police raid on rights group (Breaking News)
Germany gets go-ahead to prosecute 'Ivan the Terrible' in last Nazi trial (Breaking News)
David Starkey wants the Government to help Queen with Buckingham Palace (Breaking News)
Churchill's secret army lived on (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: Second Amendment Book Bomb (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
William H. Pierson Jr., 97, Art Historian, Dies (Historians in the News)
Bangladesh millionaire builds copy of Taj Mahal--but does India have copyright? (Breaking News)
Chinese city downsizes for Unesco (Breaking News)
Obama aide: How Clinton may have won (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAVE A MELLOW WEEKEND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PA: "UN Did Not Offer Arabs a State in 1947" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Daniel Walker Howe taken to task for slighting gender in his Oxford history (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MUMBAI & OTHER TERRORIST NEWS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
U.S. Intelligence Officer Reveals Secret Story of Saddam Hussein's Spider Hole (Breaking News)
Film on Free Speech: David Irving Gets a Starring Role (Historians in the News)
Bone repatriation poses some problems (Breaking News)
Hard Times Without Studs (Historians in the News)
Jesse Lemisch takes on Bill Ayers (Historians in the News)
U.S. Senate report blames Rumsfeld for detainee abuses (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: US, JAPAN REDUX /update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Evidence of Early Contact with Islam (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: What has gone unsaid in the debate about the auto bailout (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Sir Basil Kelly: Judge who presided over one of the biggest IRA 'supergrass' trials, dies (Breaking News)
Move towards Bangladesh recognizing Ted Kennedy (and a Beatle) (Breaking News)
'Oldest human brain' discovered (Breaking News)
Remains of 'disappeared' victims of the Argentine dictatorship uncovered (Breaking News)
Family frustrations of Albert Einstein revealed in bitter letter to estranged wife (Breaking News)
Martin Luther King papers auction halted over row with singer (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Center for Public Integrity book examines 8 years of broken government (Breaking News)
Bush gives medals to Watergate figure Chuck Colson and others (Breaking News)
Prehistoric bronze hoard found off Greek beach (Breaking News)
Did Noah's Flood start in the Carmel? (Israel) (Breaking News)
Cave's Climate Clues Show Ancient Empires Declined During Dry Spell (Breaking News)
Symbolism has long history at inaugurations (Breaking News)
Germany may seek accused Nazi guard living in US (Breaking News)
Federal share of economy soaring (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Bad News with FRUS (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Are All Libertarians Agreed That Bailing Out the Big Three Would Be a Bad Idea? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
China hails 'progress' but quells protest on human rights anniversary (Breaking News)
State Dept: Crisis in the “Foreign Relations” Series (Historians in the News)
Senate Vacancies Leave a String of Sordid Tales (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
MARK BRADY: Understanding Greek Politics (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: INDIA'S MILITARY OPTIONS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Wal-Mart Request Would Put a Super Center Next to The Wilderness Battlefield (Breaking News)
World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument is Established by (Breaking News)
Prosecutor dispute at Khmer trial (Breaking News)
Turkmen anthem set for makeover (Breaking News)