HNN Blog and Roundup Archive
The HNN Article Archives are also available.
Week of June 28, 2009
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : WITH THE WORLD IN TURMOIL, WE PRAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : 1776: FROM PENAL COLONY TO GOLDEN LAND (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Resolution on Stalin riles Russia (Breaking News)
AU halts war crimes co-operation (Breaking News)
Three new species of dinosaur found in Australia (Breaking News)
Historian 'posed as a war hero' (Breaking News)
Newly Released Documents Detail Guantanamo Facility's Chaotic Early Years (Breaking News)
Statue of Liberty's Crown Opens July 4 for First Time Since Sept. 11 Attacks (Breaking News)
Documents Show Iraqi Dictator's Fears (Breaking News)
Americans Still Embrace Ideals from Declaration of Independence (Breaking News)
Peggy Noonan calls David McCullough our greatest living historian (Historians in the News)
Wisconsin hires military historian (Historians in the News)
GW's House in Philadelphia ... Use of minority labor on restoration project demanded (Breaking News)
Niall Ferguson cited by NYT's David Brooks in column about China (Historians in the News)
Grand Jury Inquiry on Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes (Breaking News)
Blogs
OSCAR CHAMBERLAIN: Recessional (POTUS)
Roundup
Iran views hostage-taking as solution to any crisis (Breaking News)
Prosecutors: Demjanjuk fit for trial (Breaking News)
Hunt widens for Iraq's looted treasure (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Mark Twain Lashes Out at the "Moral Statisticians" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: American Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : AMNESTY CHARGES; ISRAEL RESPONDS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
A nation of joiners: An interview with Johann N. Neem (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : BOUNDLESS AUDACITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
What is the Group of Eight? (Breaking News)
Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Thomas Jefferson Code (Breaking News)
Exhumation of 1812 war hero stirs controversy (Breaking News)
Job for Indian royal descendant (Breaking News)
Marie Curie voted greatest female scientist (Breaking News)
Rare copy of the US Declaration of Independence found (Breaking News)
Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRAD BIRZER: Larry Reed on patriotism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Another error found in work by Stephen Ambrose (Historians in the News)
Alice L. Cochran, historian and professor at Webster University, dies (Historians in the News)
What newly released papers reveal about Einstein (Breaking News)
FBI says Saddam's weapons bluff aimed at Iran (Breaking News)
Napoleon died of kidney failure: Danish doctor (Breaking News)
UN begins Bhutto killing inquiry (Breaking News)
Michelangelo signed fresco with self-portrait (Breaking News)
FBI Interviews: Hussein Lied About WMD Out of Fear of Iran (Breaking News)
University students 'ignorant' of most basic history facts, study shows (Breaking News)
Families of 8,000 British troops killed since WWII to be given new Elizabeth Cross medal (Breaking News)
ElBaradei's legacy tied to war in Iraq (Breaking News)
Secrets of Sexual Forced Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps (Breaking News)
Amnesty details Gaza 'war crimes' (Breaking News)
UN begins Bhutto killing inquiry (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: For a Mystic Chimera, It Sure Gets Around (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
School Built on Cemetery Provides Lesson in History (Spain) (Breaking News)
Building starts on Warsaw's Jewish history museum (Breaking News)
Key Hearing Set On Wal-Mart Near Va Battlefield (Breaking News)
Khmer Rouge survivor's paintings saved his life (Breaking News)
FBI special agents carried out 20 formal interviews and at least 5 "casual conversations" with Saddam Hussein (Breaking News)
Staffer at SEC Had Warned Of Madoff (Breaking News)
Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution (Breaking News)
"Glorious" Ancient Chamber Found in Israel (Breaking News)
Opportunity knocks, again, in the Andes (Breaking News)
Oldest canoe finds its way home (Breaking News)
Bill of treason from Upper Canada Rebellion found at McMaster University (Breaking News)
Russia Abruptly Refuses to Recognize International Law or U.S. Courts in Chabad Papers Suit (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Was Turin Shroud faked by Leonardo da Vinci? (Breaking News)
From FDR to Obama, a Fight for Health Care (Breaking News)
How German History Shapes Obama-Merkel Rift (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFF SHEAR: Part Three: The Conference and the Conspirators (Jeff Shear's History of "Cynthia," the World War II Spy)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Climate Change Rip Off (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
BRETT HOLMAN: The best things in life were free (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
AHA Membership Grows Modestly, as History of Religion Surpasses Culture (Historians in the News)
Supremes change race ruling in key case before the Court (Breaking News)
Amateur Historian Is on a Quest to Locate Lost Events (Breaking News)
State Department Historical Advisory Committee Meets (Historians in the News)
Holocaust assets conference pledges action on returning Nazi loot (Breaking News)
Mesopotamian vase sheds light on Germany's artefacts trade (Breaking News)
Military works with Antiquity Authority to save ruins (Israel) (Breaking News)
New challenge to theory that Clovis were first people in North America (Breaking News)
Missing Moon-Landing Videotapes May Have Been Found (Breaking News)
Madrid strips Franco of honorary titles (Breaking News)
UK economy shrank at fastest rate in 50 years (Breaking News)
Pagans, partygoers greet solstice at Stonehenge (Breaking News)
W. Va. Has Unfinished Civil War Business (Breaking News)
Northern grove for Jurassic tree ( Australia) (Breaking News)
Oldest human settlement in Aegean unearthed (Breaking News)
Vatican to open Apostle Paul's tomb after surprise discovery (Breaking News)
Angela Merkel's party backs 'homeland' for Germans expelled by Poland (Breaking News)
Immortalizing New York’s Forgotten Sites (Breaking News)
Second Khmer Rouge victim talks (Breaking News)
Antiques Roadshow finds $1 million Chinese jade (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICANS SAVING; GOVENMENT SPENDING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Bus Rider Finds 19th Century Checks, Tools (Breaking News)
Aide: John Edwards begged him to claim baby (Breaking News)
Nazi Stealth Jet Could Have Won War for Hitler (Breaking News)
In a Coup in Honduras, Ghosts of Past U.S. Policies (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Ain't His Money (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 29 - July 5, 2009 (This Week in History)
ROBERT HIGGS: Regime Uncertainty in the 1930s: A New Deal Insider’s Account (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century American History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
GUS DIZEREGA: Thank You! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : AMERICANS WARY OF IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ukraine wary of KGB terror files (Breaking News)
Americans seek their African roots (Breaking News)
Skeleton reveals violent life and death of medieval knight (Breaking News)
Ancient settlement could be bulldozed (Breaking News)
Franco dined like a king as Spain starved (Breaking News)
Ahead of Withdrawal Deadline, Cheney Says He Hopes U.S. Sacrifice Does Not Go to 'Waste' (Breaking News)
Chilling echo of 1979 seizure (Breaking News)
Lynndie England Still Haunted by Abu Ghraib Scandal (Breaking News)
Supreme Court Won't Hear Sept. 11 Claims Against Saudi Arabia (Breaking News)
Pope: Basilica bones belong to apostle St. Paul (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : IRANIAN WAR OF ATTRITION CONTINUES? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RICK SHENKMAN: CNN Political Ticker (Just How Stupid Are We?)
HNN : ERIC SCHMIDT ESCHEWS RESPONSIBILITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
NYT transcribes some of the new Nixon tapes (Breaking News)
Repression 101--when does it work? (Breaking News)
Space Shuttle and Strange Clouds Key to Mysterious 1908 Explosion (Breaking News)
German court upholds ban on words with Nazi link (Breaking News)
Ex-POWs battle memory of labor camp (Breaking News)
End of the culture wars? (Breaking News)
The forgotten evolutionist (Breaking News)
41 Years Later in Chicago, Police and Demonstrators Still Clash, but With Words (Breaking News)
A new high tech edge to Poland's Jewish heritage (Breaking News)
Ancient Philippine boat re-created for odyssey (Breaking News)
Russia won't participate in Jewish documents suit (Breaking News)
Study finds widening generation gap in US (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Ex Post WHA (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Trabant parade remembers the first crack in Berlin Wall (Breaking News)
Britain 'knows little about Bible' (Breaking News)
Westminster Abbey to get its crowning glory, at last (Breaking News)
Iraqis to mark US street exit with holiday (Breaking News)
SAS parachuted in to Baghdad (Breaking News)
Is this the earliest image of St Paul? 'Sensational' 1,600-year-old icon of saint found in a Roman tomb (Breaking News)
Visitors to World War Two-themed weekend banned from wearing Hitler costumes (UK) (Breaking News)
Americans seek their African roots (Breaking News)
Khmer Rouge survivor testifies (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: Buy America (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Climate Change Bill May Be Election Issue (Breaking News)
Marriage Stands Up for Itself (Breaking News)
Scots fought 'in bright yellow war shirts not Braveheart kilts' (Breaking News)
Howard Hughes and the atomic bomb (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: THE NEW YORKER on Countrywide (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: 2081: When Everyone Will Finally Be Equal. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Rome catacomb reveals "oldest" image of St Paul (Breaking News)
Historians’ Advice for Dick Cheney on Writing His Memoirs (Historians in the News)
Inside France's 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave, hand stencils surround the famed "Spotted Horses" mural. (Breaking News)
Hitler fanatics forced orphans to build new Fatherland in Amazon (Breaking News)
40 Years After Stonewall Riots, a rebel remembers (Breaking News)
Snubbed millionaire's backyard course stumped legends, then disappeared (Chicago) (Breaking News)
Sean Wilentz takes on the new Lincoln establishment (Historians in the News)
Evidence of the oldest settlements found in Maryland? (Breaking News)
Models of Earliest (Camel-Pulled) Vehicles Found (Breaking News)
National Park Service Announces Battlefield Preservation Project Grants for 2009 (Breaking News)
We’ll soon find Cleopatra, Dominican archaeologist says (Breaking News)
Family Buries Man Killed Decades Ago In Korean War (Breaking News)
My Secret Life: Simon Schama, historian, 64 (Historians in the News)
Meet Britain's young new historians (Historians in the News)
Turkish Parliament bestows historian with award (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : REPRESSION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: A Black (Republican) Maverick Meets Ike (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : KLINGHOFFER MURDERER FREED; SENT TO SYRIA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : KEEPING UP THE FIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IRANIANS: HELP! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
BRETT HOLMAN: Slap the Jap and make the Hun pay (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
The Messrs. Craft [podcast 5 min 59 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
In Defense Of The Flag (Sewn For History Class) [podcast 2 min 52 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Eugene Volokh: The Founding Fathers agreed that the First Amendment protected 'symbolic expression.' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peggy Noonan: In appreciation of our country's founders (Roundup: Talking About History)
Greg Grandin: Democracy Derailed in Honduras (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Novelist Hans Fallada resented the constraints of the Nazi era but did not desist in his craft (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
L. Brent Bozell: Oliver Stone, Lousy Historian (Roundup: Talking About History)
Eduardo Porter: Tales of Republicans, Bonobos and Adultery (Roundup: Media's Take)
Adam Freedman: Independence, British-Style (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kathleen DuVal: Life, Liberty and Benign Monarchy? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Paul Krugman: The 30's Show (Roundup: Media's Take)
Johann Hari: The Other 9/11 Has Returned to Stalk Latin America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rare Photos of Colonial East Africa Online (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Mountaintop or the legacy of Martin Luther King play in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rick Salutin: Repression in Tehran is a sign of hope (Roundup: Media's Take)
Woody Holton: On Money, a Founding Mother Knows Best (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Carl M. Cannon: Frederick Douglass' July 4 Challenge Answered by Obama's Election (Roundup: Talking About History)
Peggy Noonan: The Making of American History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Duncan Currie: Whose Reagan Is It, Anyway? (Roundup: Talking About History)
A. Serwer: Obama, Lincoln, and Gay Rights (Roundup: Media's Take)
U.S. Troops Withdraw From Iraqi Cities [podcast 3 min 38 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Max Boot: How Piracy Was Defeated in the Past and Can Be Again (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: The volunteer military is at odds with a democratic country (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dilip Hiro: The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Jackson ... Why He's More Adored than Shakespeare (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Justin Raimondo: History Haunts Honduras (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chalmers Johnson: How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases (Roundup: Historians' Take)
George F. Will: Will It Be 1972 Forever? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rhodes Cook: Is the GOP poised for another quick comeback? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mara Lazda: Fascism Past and Present, West and East (Roundup: Talking About History)
J.D. Salinger wins copyright case on 'The Catcher in the Rye sequel' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Zbigniew Brzezinski: Russia must re-focus with post-imperial eyes (Roundup: Media's Take)
Monica Crowley: Obama and American Exceptionalism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yoko Ono wins rights to intimate footage of John Lennon (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Banned East German Comedy Premieres 40 Years Late (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ivan Eland: Is Barack Obama’s Realism Better than George W. Bush’s Idealism? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Lod mosaic to be re-exposed (Israel) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michelangelo signed fresco with self-portrait (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Priya Satia: Iraqis are too shrewd to fall for an ‘invisible’ occupation (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Doug Ireland: Queer studies matter (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andreas Umland: Averting a Post-Orange Disaster: Constitutional Reforms and Political Stability in Ukraine (Roundup: Historians' Take)
40 Years Later, Stonewall Riots Remembered [podcast 4 min 44 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
David Silbey: The First Rough Draft of History [Boxers, June 30, 1900] (Roundup: Talking About History)
Abbas Milani: An intellectual history of the Green Wave (Re: Iran) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
A Cultural Autopsy of Michael Jackson (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David A Andelman: Versailles, 1919-2009: a new world order’s legacy (Roundup: Talking About History)
Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Snyder: Holocaust ... The Ignored Reality (Roundup: Talking About History)
John McMillian: Today's Reverberations From the 60s (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christina Hoff Sommers: Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship (Roundup: Media's Take)
Adam Holland: The NY Times, John Birch Society and Father Feeney (Roundup: Media's Take)
Identity of Beethoven's Für Elise revealed by music expert (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bill Kauffman: The 'little red schoolhouse' of legend, whatever its flaws, made more sense than the warehouse-schools of today (Roundup: Talking About History)
Eboo Patel: When Muslims Saved Jews (Roundup: Talking About History)
Lawrence S. Wittner: Nuclear Disarmament Activism in Asia and the Pacific, 1971-1996 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rare petroglyphs discovered in Cuban caves (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Con Coughlan: Why Iran hates Britain so much (Roundup: Media's Take)
Caroline Glick: Obama, Like Carter, is No 'Realist' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fareed Zakaria: Historical parallels don't work in Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christian Caryl: 1979 ... The Great Backlash (Roundup: Talking About History)
St Paul's Cathedral sketches show how Sir Christopher Wren changed architecture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rembrandt: a portrait of the artist as a young lad (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Cambridge bids to acquire wartime Sassoon archive (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sean Wilentz: Lincoln, Obama and the myths liberals have fallen for (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Sean Wilentz: Abe Lincoln, Politician (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Ballard: Deep in Mississippi’s piney woods, Confederate deserters fought a different sort of war (Roundup: Talking About History)
Rupert Cornwell: Left and right turn on 'Bush-like' Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of June 21, 2009
Roundup
Red Cross marks battle anniversary (Breaking News)
Bosnia echoes to alarming rhetoric (Breaking News)
Chinese urge activist's release (Breaking News)
Lewis and Clark in murder mystery 200 years after their final expedition (Breaking News)
English Heritage reveals most haunted sites (Breaking News)
Laura Bush speaks out on Burma (Breaking News)
Blogs
AEON J. SKOBLE: The Silence of the Regulated (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
STEVEN HORWITZ: Some Advice Needed (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : LATEST ON IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Nazi SS officers sentenced to life for Second World War massacre in Italy (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: The Role of Pearl Harbor (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Game Changer in Retailing, Bar Code Is 35 (Breaking News)
Historian Will Lead a Community College in the Bronx (Historians in the News)
Economic historian Niall Ferguson partnering on sequel to best selling strategy game ‘Making History’ (Historians in the News)
Civil War re-enactor pleads guilty, must take gun course (Breaking News)
Communists turn to Stalin to fight crisis (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ed Ayers teaching high school teachers about the South (Historians in the News)
Treaty of Versailles: 90 years old this weekend (Breaking News)
RI embarrassed by its slavery-connected name (Breaking News)
Rothschild and Freshfields founders had links to slavery, papers reveal (Breaking News)
Summit addresses Nazi-looted art (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : IRAN TO MICHAEL JACKSON BEAT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : SAUDIS TO HELP IRANIAN OPPOSITION? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IT'S OVER? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Obama condemned for acting like Bush (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: The Misrepresentation of Healthcare Reform (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Doris survey of English Channel seabed finds traces of ancient river (Breaking News)
Britain considered chemical attack on Tokyo in 1944 (Breaking News)
UK braced for mustard gas attacks in 1943 (Breaking News)
WWII poison darts secret emerges (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: Did The Chinese Invent Just About Everything? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
John Birch Society still around after all these years (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
AHA protests Russian attempt to suppress history (Historians in the News)
Fifty Years After Stonewall, Queer Studies Matures (Historians in the News)
Rep. Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment (Breaking News)
NCH: "Ask Congress to Increase Funding for the Office of Museum Services" (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : "DON'T LEAVE US ALONE" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
For Jackie Kennedy/Bobby Kennedy affair rumors, third time not the charm (Breaking News)
Archaeological dig finds unveiled (Breaking News)
Campaign for soldiers shot at dawn (Breaking News)
Blogs
GIL TROY: Michael Jackson: The King of Pop Made His Mark (Gil Troy)
Roundup
Khmer Rouge judge sees failures (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS . . . (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Cross-stitch recreation of Sistine Chapel ceiling (Breaking News)
Woman's Skeleton Found at Bottom of Prehistoric Well (Breaking News)
Hundreds in Salem for World History Conference (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : WHERE IS EVERYONE? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
World's oldest instrument dates to 35,000 years ago (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : LATEST FROM IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : CHINA SUPPORTS "STABILITY" IN IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IN IRAN, IT'S THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, STUPID (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RICK SHENKMAN: Jon Stewart's my hero (Just How Stupid Are We?)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: The US Unemployment Rate Revisited (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Nelson Lichtenstein: New Book by UCSB History Scholar Examines Wal-Mart as a Business Model (Historians in the News)
Recalling Frederick Douglass in the Age of Obama (Breaking News)
Facedown Burials Widely Used to Humiliate the Dead (Breaking News)
Archeologists mum about find (Vancouver, BC) (Breaking News)
USC, Argonne National Lab collaborate on study of ancient artefacts (Breaking News)
Sewage work uncovers ancient site (UK) (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : IT STARTED PEACEFULLY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Nazi Loot Recovery Is Slow, Arbitrary, Claimants’ Groups Say (Breaking News)
Britain 'failed' in Iraq by switching to Afghanistan, say Gen Sir Richard Dannatt (Breaking News)
Pissarro painting looted by Nazis withdrawn from auction (Breaking News)
First Europeans were cannibals with taste for children (Breaking News)
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo formally arrested (Breaking News)
Mexico Vows to Continue Search for Mysterious 'Lost' Island (Breaking News)
9-11 Sculpture Embroiled in Alleged Fraud Scheme (Breaking News)
Michigan Man, 88, Investigated by Poland for Alleged Nazi War Crimes (Breaking News)
Cheney Inks Memoir Deal (Breaking News)
88 years old--and confronted with allegation of WW II crimes (Breaking News)
Egyptian mummy was a man, not woman (Breaking News)
Hiroshima memorabilia to be auctioned (Breaking News)
Vietnam returns remains of US soldiers (Breaking News)
Blogs
STEVEN HORWITZ: An Austrian Take on the "Great Recession" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : QUOTE OF THE DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : CHANTS AND BULLETS - JUNE 24TH (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IRAN REVEALED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS TURNING? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : MOUSAVI ADJUSTS TACTICS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ex-detainees allege Bagram abuse (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : OBAMA'S CONDEMNATION FREES MSM REPORTING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Historian Gerhard Weinberg to Receive 2009 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement (Historians in the News)
NYT: New Rumsfeld bio is balanced (Breaking News)
Intact ancient tomb uncovered in Bethlehem (Breaking News)
Study: Food storage began well before farming (Breaking News)
Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Intact Thracian Settlement (Breaking News)
Call for Irish history official to resign (Breaking News)
Carvings From Cherokee Script’s Dawn (Breaking News)
Mexico signs agreement with Google to publicize archeology, historical sites (Breaking News)
Love of tennis killed Scots king (Breaking News)
Vatican sells facsimiles of Henry VIII letter that led to schism with Rome (Breaking News)
DNA experts to trace First World War dead (Breaking News)
Nixon tapes released: Include shocking comments about abortion, anti-Semitism, and Thieu (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Akron, Ohio to commemorate city's link to 1800s abolitionist (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : JUNE 23rd - THEY KEEP PROTESTING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : US FALLS BEHIND FINLAND, YES, FINLAND!/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Memos, Tapes Show Aides Hatched 'Game Plan' to Save Nixon (Breaking News)
More Nixon tapes to be made public (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NOT JUST TEHRAN, (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Polish town to cut down 'Adolf Hitler's tree' (Breaking News)
DNA experts to trace First World War dead (Breaking News)
Britain failed to stabilise Iraq, says General Sir Richard Dannatt (Breaking News)
Revealed: The chilling secrets of Britain's War Book which rehearsed the end of the world (Breaking News)
Kenyan veterans in UK court bid (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : CRIES OF THE DEFIANCE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
War children's search U.S. dads gets urgent (Breaking News)
'Pristine' WWII aircraft lifted from Lake Michigan (Breaking News)
Saga of Dresden's UNESCO World Heritage title draws to a close (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern American Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : NEDA - "VOICE OF IRAN" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : OBAMA REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE NEW REALITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IN SOLIDARITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Road cleaned by neo-Nazis may be named after Rabbi who marched with Martin Luther King (Breaking News)
Poland honours WWII victims in cyber space (Breaking News)
Support for bid to clear pirate (Scotland) (Breaking News)
Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bomb (Breaking News)
Supreme Court Ends Plame Case Against Cheney, Libby, Bush Officials (Breaking News)
Polish Town Devastated by Nazis to Decide Fate of Hitler's Tree (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Unstated (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : MARXIST SUPPORT GENERAL STRIKE JUNE 23 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : THEY KEEP MARCHING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : STAYING IN CARS SAFER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Jo Van Fleet Shrugs (Anti-Government Speech in Wild River) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : WHAT A LADY; IF ONLY WE HAD A MAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : COMMUNICATION WAR ESCALATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : THIS HOME IN INVADED IN ESFAHAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : HOW TO IDENTIFY A BASIJ? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Rwandan minister sentenced to 30 years for genocide (Breaking News)
Uncovered: 350-year-old picture of dodo before it was extinct (Breaking News)
Napoleon enthusiasts re-enact Battle of Waterloo (Breaking News)
Iranian Foreign Minister: 'The sun has set on the British Empire, so stop interfering' (Breaking News)
New Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation looks for support (Breaking News)
Blair 'Urges PM To Hold Secret Iraq Inquiry' (Breaking News)
Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bomb (Breaking News)
US seeks to stop Geronimo lawsuit (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 22-28, 2009 (This Week in History)
Roundup
Rumsfeld unapologetic about Iraq (Breaking News)
Ralf Dahrendorf, Sociologist, Dies at 80 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Priest's comments on wartime pope draw Vatican fire (Breaking News)
Ancient Holy Land quarry uncovered, team says (Breaking News)
Wagner's great-granddaughter to probe composer's family links with Hitler and the Nazis (Breaking News)
Phoenix Museum of History closing June 30 (Historians in the News)
Normandy D-Day veterans hold last ever service in memory of those who fell on beaches 65 years ago (Breaking News)
Office of the Historian Announces New Website: www.history.state.gov (Historians in the News)
Va. official backs off ending 3rd-grade history test (Breaking News)
LDS Church breaks ground for history library (Breaking News)
Evidence indicates manioc was a major Maya crop (Breaking News)
Elements of 1960 CIA Report Hold True Today (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Lying In Bed With Larry Flynt (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NETANYAHU ON IRAN AND OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DEMONSTRATION CONTINUES 6/21/2009 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Iran election: sinister parallels between Tehran protests and the 1979 revolution (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : “DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY” AMERICA 1776, IRAN 2009 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Lunch with Bob Woodward (Last president he voted for? Nixon) (Breaking News)
One billion suffer from world hunger (Breaking News)
WA State to give tribes ancient remains found in June (Breaking News)
Jornada Mogollon artifacts found at White Sands (Breaking News)
Witney on English Heritage at risk register (UK) (Breaking News)
Barack Obama praises Senate slavery apology (Breaking News)
Atlanta Is Making Way for New Public Housing (Breaking News)
40th anniversary of fire on Cuyahoga River (Breaking News)
Legal Strategy Fails to Hide Torturer’s Pride (Cambodia) (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: The Try a Neanderthal for Lunch Bunch? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Utah Town Unsettled by Doctor's Suicide and an Inquiry on Indian Artifact Looting (Breaking News)
Why the Gay Rights Movement Has No National Leader (Breaking News)
Klaus Fuchs: Spy leaked secrets 'like sieve' (Breaking News)
Greenland takes step toward independence from Denmark (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN UNIONS JOIN PROTEST?/UPDATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : THE KNOCK AT THE DOOR AT NIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
WILLIAM MARINA: Iran on Father’s Day, 2009 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Laura Bush: Do Not Forget Burma (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jack Cohen: Will the "peace process" end in 2 states? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peggy Noonan: By trying to do too much, Obama risks not doing enough (Roundup: Media's Take)
Original manuscript of Auld Lang Syne could fetch £50,000 at auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A century before Michael Jackson there was Bert Williams (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Juan Cole on Michael Jackson (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
New Mary Rose Museum gets final go-ahead (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
9/11 Memorial Exhibition - 'A Space Within' - Opens at New York's Center for Architecture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Doug Ireland: A Truly Queer History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Fred Sargeant: It was the second night at Stonewall that pointed the way to gay liberation (Roundup: Talking About History)
Lucian K. Truscott IV: The Real Mob at Stonewall (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Bolton: The Post-American Presidency (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Jenkins: Obama must call off this folly before Afghanistan becomes his Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Jackson: secret library of 100 songs could be released (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Edwin Black: North Korea Missile Threat Against Hawaii and Alaska Has Been Expected for Ten Years—Iran Regime a Full Partner (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard Overy: We should be afraid of a British Berlusconi (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bill Moyers Show: Tom Paine, American hero (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Nasaw: A search for American identity after the Civil War led to a surge of machismo and bloodlust (Roundup: Talking About History)
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History -- By Margaret MacMillan (Books About History & Historians)
David Loyn: 5 Afghan History Lessons for Obama's New General (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bill Clinton: The Legacy of F.D.R.: Getting It Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Martin Davis: Resetting the American Faith Dialogue (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Chait: The Obama Method (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne: Politics very much influence Supreme Court decisions--and to pretend otherwise is dangerous (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steven R. Ward: What previous protests and revolutions in Iran can teach us about the current crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bernard Avishai : Why US presidents have failed to make Israel accept a plan for regional peace (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nathan Gonzalez: Learning from Iran's Past Revolutions (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Friedman: The Green Revolution(s) (Roundup: Media's Take)
An Astronaut Goes From Walking on the Moon to Painting It (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Mark Naison: America’s Crumbling Infrastructure and Forgotten Neigborhoods (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ira Chernus: Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Gross: A Recession in Dog Years (Roundup: Media's Take)
Greg Grandin: The Collapse of America's Imperial Car Industry (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Heirs race to find Nazi-looted art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jim Cullen, Review of Stone's Fall: A Novel by Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau, 2009) (Books)
Daniel Pipes: A Call for American Boldness in Iran (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jack the Ripper documentaries on UK TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Recent Themes on Historians and the Public -- Edited by Donald A. Yerxa (Books About History & Historians)
Steven R. Ward: A History of Violence in Iran (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ali Ansari: Why Iran is obsessed with the British (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gregory Scoblete: The War on Obama's Realism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Marble Head of Emperor Titus Found (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ann Gibbons: Ötzi Finders Hit Pay Dirt, and Scientists Fret (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tim Rutten: The fascinating story of Henry Ford's venture to build an American utopia in the Brazilian rain forest (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: Washington and the Iran Protests ... Would they be Allowed in the US? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard Landes: Revisiting ‘Al Durah’ in Time of Iranian Media Control (Roundup: Historians' Take)
NYT art critic loves the new Greek museum (from the inside!) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Pissarro painting looted by Nazis withdrawn from auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Edward Luttwak: Iran's Regime Will Never Be the Same (Roundup: Media's Take)
Frank Ching: China would benefit from Zhao's beliefs (Roundup: Media's Take)
Elliott J. Gorn: The Meanings of Depression-Era Culture (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Cohen: President Cool Plays It Right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Guardianship Council Rules out Annulment of Election Results (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Is Iran's Crackdown The End Of The Revolution? [podcast 5 min 52 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Godfrey Hodgson: Remembering Nixon [video 12 min 56 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Ted Sorensen on JFK, Obama, and a Life in Politics [video 43 min 32 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Christopher Hitchens: Persian Paranoia and the Anglo-Saxon blame game (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tony Judt: Israel's Fictions on the Ground (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin: 'A New Deal for Veterans' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Where have all the state capitol reporters gone? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Another suicide in American Indian artifacts looting case (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A rare musical instrument of Goguryeo Kingdom found (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Wada Haruki: Japan-North Korea Relations—A Dangerous Stalemate (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Steven A. Leibo: On indifference to global warming (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Joshua Muravchik: The Abandonment of Democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alexei Bayer: Russia, Captives of History (Roundup: Talking About History)
'Maus' Creator & Historian Team Up for Wash. Post Cartoon About 1939 Refugees (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Thomas Childers: A Father’s Day meditation on the invisible costs of war - and their family legacy (Roundup: Talking About History)
A new exhibit on the African American experience in post-colonial Philadelphia offers a largely untold perspective on the city's rich history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Nabil Al-Hadithy: A Muslim Lectures Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
B. C. Knowlton: Review of Two Books on Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski and Justin Marozzi (Books)
David R. Stokes: The Amazing Colossal Presidency (Roundup: Media's Take)
The New Nixon Blog: John Dean's Appearance at the Nixon Library (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christina Romer: The lessons of 1937 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lessons in Renaissance Cool in Urbino, Italy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Martin Kramer: Obama's Middle East map in shreds (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jon Meacham: Theocracies Are Doomed. Thank God. (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Maurice Isserman: Michael Harrington, Warrior on Poverty (Roundup: Talking About History)
Reuel Marc Gerecht: The Koran and the Ballot Box (Roundup: Media's Take)
Photo Of Einstein Nets $74K At Auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robin Wright: The evolution of Iran's revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of June 14, 2009
Roundup
Ayatollah Taps Into Distrust Rooted in History (Breaking News)
For Puerto Rican veterans, an honor years in the making (Breaking News)
Why the Gay Rights Movement Has No National Leader (Breaking News)
Founder of bardic druids honoured (Wales) (Breaking News)
Stonehenge set for record crowd (Breaking News)
Photo Of Einstein Nets $74K At Auction (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MOUSAVI MESSAGE: WE ARE THE REAL HEIRS OF THE REVOLUTION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: More on Militia Scares and Red Scares (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MOMENTUM SHIFTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA PUTS OUT A STATEMENT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA, DO YOU SEE? DO YOU HEAR? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : KHAMENEI LED CHANTS INCLUDE "CRIME IS DICTATED BY AMERICA" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : DUBAI BANS IRANIAN PROTEST (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
500th birthday of 'Great Reformer' John Calvin nears (Breaking News)
Greece to unveil Acropolis museum (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : TREAT ME RIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
U.N. to investigate Bhutto's assassination (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : CRACK DOWN HAS BEGUN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New Acropolis Museum the perfect home for Elgin Marbles, say Greeks (Breaking News)
Submarine hunts for Tsarist gold 'worth billions' in Lake Baikal (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Ancient/Medieval Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Cherry-picking of intelligence an old story, archives show (Breaking News)
Stan Katz remembers Phil Curtain (Historians in the News)
Japan's PM snubs son of British POW (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : BRITAIN PROTESTS KHAMENEI (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : FRANCE STANDS UP TO KHAMENEI (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
FBI was eager to investigate Deep Throat (the movie) (Breaking News)
Lincoln had run-in with a fly too (Breaking News)
Warwick Castle's dungeon attraction make 15 people faint (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : BASIJI REVENGE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
In East Germany, a Decline as Stark as a Wall (Breaking News)
Allan Brandt talks about the decline of big tobacco (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : PETITIONS TO SIGN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IRANIAN DIASPORA JOINS THE FIGHT III (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : "DEATH TO UK, ISRAEL AND THE US" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Japan's PM snubs son of British POW (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
A history lesson found in London's streets names (Breaking News)
Thailand again opposoing plan to list Vreah Vihear temple as a Cambodian World Heritage site (Breaking News)
Serbian archaelogists find Neolithic grave (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: KHAMENEI LEADS "DEATH TO AMERICA" CHANTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IRANIANS PLEAD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Diego Garcia: The US Island of Shame (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
IRA graves daubed with fascist graffiti (Breaking News)
UK war veteran becomes oldest man in the world at 113 (Breaking News)
British history may escape Kashgar's wrecking ball (Breaking News)
Iran's distrust of 'evil Britain' rooted in history of imperial meddling (Breaking News)
Has historian finally discovered real reason for Hitler's obsessive hatred of Jews? (Breaking News)
Couple's Capital Ties Said to Veil Spying for Cuba (Breaking News)
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr respond to their critics (Historians in the News)
Khalidi's impact on Obama (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Deborah Lipstadt was at Holocaust Museum when shooting took place (Historians in the News)
Air Force Audit Finds Agency Lacks Basic Systems to Comply with the Freedom of Information Act (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: One Man’s Hero Is Another Man’s Goat (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE DIVIDED ON IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Historian Claims West Backed Post-Coup Mass Killings in ’65 (Historians in the News)
UC Davis historian catalogs US secrets, lies and conspiracies (Historians in the News)
Sudan's 'Coordinated' Genocide in Darfur Is Over, U.S. Envoy Says (Breaking News)
Obama's Resolve on Mideast Facing a History of Blunt Reality (Breaking News)
Launch of Holocaust Testimony Archive (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: William Shatner's Philosophy of Gun Control (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
British Library publishes archives of 19th-century newspapers online (Breaking News)
Digging into Maryland's Colonial past (Breaking News)
Ancient tomb found in Machu Picchu archaeological park (Breaking News)
Maya Intensively Cultivated Manioc 1,400 Years Ago (Breaking News)
Excavation reveals ancient aqueduct in Jerusalem (Breaking News)
Prehistoric gold source traced to Mourne mountains (Ireland) (Breaking News)
Feds Face Criticism Over Arrests in Artifacts Case (Breaking News)
Meriwether Lewis: suicide or murder? (Breaking News)
Obama Seeks Counsel From Ex-Presidents (Breaking News)
Seacole sculpture design revealed (Breaking News)
Richard II porpoise recipe online (Breaking News)
Bush takes aim at Obama policies (Breaking News)
Senate approves resolution apologizing for slavery (Breaking News)
Blogs
SAGE ROSS: The history of the future of journalism? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : TEXT OF MOUSAVI'S LATEST COMMENTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Garry Wills has nice things to say about Bill Buckley (Historians in the News)
Pew Poll: Obama's Ratings Still High Despite Policy Concerns (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : IRANIANS' MESSAGE TO OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Time Mag. Bio: Ayatullah Ali Khamenei ... Iran's Supreme Leader (Breaking News)
Timothy Naftali taken to the woodshed by Nixon supporters for inviting John Dean to library event (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : TODAY IT'S SOUTH TEHRAN: TOMORROW KHAMENEI &BASIJ (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Red Scares, Brown Scares, and Now Militia Scares (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern Western Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Newly declassified report says Ashcroft gave inaccurate testimony about 9-11 wall between law enforcement and intelligence agencies (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : MICHAEL LEWIS: OBAMA CREATING FALSE ECONOMIC CONFIDENCE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
I sank the Bismarck, says wartime pilot (Breaking News)
208 year old Vt. schoolhouse closes (Breaking News)
More proof that Hitler planned to kill or kidnap the pope (Breaking News)
Fresh evidence that Pope Pius XII helped the Jews during WW II (Breaking News)
History Shows Supreme Court Confirmation Process Often Unpredictable (Breaking News)
Darwin did in the werewolf (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Longtime critic of John Dean says Dean admitted he didn't reread his Watergate testimony when writing his autobiography (Breaking News)
Smithsonian unearths Buffalo Soldier's story (Breaking News)
Prehistoric gold source traced to Mourne mountains (Breaking News)
Calvin '09: Great Reformer's 500th birthday (Breaking News)
Graveside promise to Scots pilot (Breaking News)
New dinosaur gives bird wing clue (Breaking News)
Mammoths survived late in Britain (Breaking News)
Parrot-like dinosaur found in Mongolia (Breaking News)
Falcon nest in Greenland is 2,500-years-old (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : IRANIAN DIASPORA JOINS THE FIGHT II (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
CHRIS BRAY: Sudden Whackjob Syndrome (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : OBAMA IRANIAN DIALOGUE HAS BEGUN/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
GUS DIZEREGA: Seeking Input and Comments (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : ELECTION FRAUD IN KERMAN? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Iran in 2009--Redux of 1968, 1979, or 1989? (Mark A. LeVine)
HNN : THE BATTLE FOR IRAN CONTINUES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : MOUSAVI (of Moses) is a Jew/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Canadian classrooms get failing grade for history (Breaking News)
What a pain in the derrière: how Louis XV shot his horse (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Ralph Milliband Must Be Turning in His Grave (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: In the Service of the State (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: What's with Iran? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : SARKOZY STANDS BY IRANIANS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
9/11 Mastermind: I Lied (Breaking News)
Auschwitz survivor donates inmates' jewelry (Breaking News)
Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via "Crop Circles" (Breaking News)
Customs conclude biggest artefact smuggling case (Sri Lanka) (Breaking News)
Unsung World War II heroes finally get their due (Breaking News)
Judge Dismisses Software-Licensing Case Against George Mason U. (Historians in the News)
Foreign dealers, collectors return Angkorian antiquities (Breaking News)
Federal raids on antiquities hunters and collectors in the Southwest unearth ordinary citizens. (Breaking News)
Study theorizes voyagers left French Polynesia during ciguatera outbreak (Breaking News)
Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil (Breaking News)
Layman-turned-relics hunter rescues China's antiquities (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : OBAMA'S EMPATHETIC LEADER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Soldier buried with his boots on (Tennessee) (Breaking News)
Discovery of possible cemetery reopens a chapter of Miami's history (Breaking News)
I-95 dig offers a peek into 18th-century life (Breaking News)
Egypt to 'prove' Germany stole Nefertiti bust (Breaking News)
Greek fury at Elgin marbles 'loan deal' (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE IN ME ARE WATCHING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Scott of Antarctic hotel 'saved' (Breaking News)
Funeral for last Titanic survivor (Breaking News)
Carter 'distressed' by Gaza visit (Breaking News)
Rev. Jeremiah Wright says "Jews" are keeping him from President Obama (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: WHY THERE IS NO HOPE (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Family of Meriwether Lewis Willing to Accept Suicide or Murder Conclusion (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BATTLE OF WILLS CONTINUES NOT JUST IN TEHRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam (Breaking News)
Are Stocks Still Good for the Long Run? (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: UNLIKE HUNGARIANS, IRANIANS ARE MASTERS OF THEIR FATE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Haunted by the Dean of Watergate (Breaking News)
Inspector General report on State Dept. Office of Historian made public (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Africa Past and Present Podcast: Ethnicity, Slavery, and Trade in Sudan (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Researchers looking for distillery at slave trader site in Rhode Island (Breaking News)
New online Victims of Communism website memorial launched (Breaking News)
60,000-year-old Neanderthal skull fragment trawled up in North Sea (Breaking News)
Blair to be quizzed in Iraq war inquiry (but it'll be in secret and won't report until after UK election) (Breaking News)
War crimes spokeswoman on trial over Milosevic secrets (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 15-21, 2009 (This Week in History)
MARK BRADY: Sounds Good to Me (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : OBAMA TURNS DOWN IRANIANS REQUEST TO WITHHOLD RECOGNITION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
David Beito says bias has excluded civil rights leader T.R.M. Howard from pantheon (Historians in the News)
Bill Clinton says John Hope Franklin was an 'angry, happy man' (Historians in the News)
Hundreds turn out at Duke to honor John Hope Franklin (Historians in the News)
Him Mark Lai dies at 83; scholar was called dean of Chinese American studies (Historians in the News)
NPS commemorating John Brown's raid (Breaking News)
NYT: Are Traditional History Courses Vanishing? (Historians in the News)
Leading military historian Antony Beevor tackles the Western front (Historians in the News)
Philip Curtin: Longtime Johns Hopkins University professor reshaped the history of the African slave trade (Obit.) (Historians in the News)
Jackson Lears draws a line between TR and W (Historians in the News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Transfer of Wealth (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
How much poorer are Americans now? (Breaking News)
Army Corps returns artifact to Government of Iraq (Breaking News)
A College for History Only (Historians in the News)
Amos Elon (1926–2009) remembered by Tony Judt (Historians in the News)
Archaeologists battle mites to save 1,400-year-old city wall (China) (Breaking News)
Aboard Air Force One: Obama's Air Force One flight to Chicago and back Monday to cost $236,000 (Breaking News)
Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil (Breaking News)
Naked Mona Lisa goes on show (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Interdisciplinary conversations in several directions (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Cemetery Discovered at Florida Building Site (Breaking News)
NYT to make historians go crazy with inconsistent dating of articles (Breaking News)
CIA chief Leon Penetta says he favored commission inquiry (Breaking News)
Obama in Dresden: The Non-Controversy Controversy (Breaking News)
Thomas Sugrue responds to criticism of his book, citing the myth of the white backlash (Historians in the News)
University of Virginia's Governing America in a Global Era (GAGE) Program Will Fund Its 90th Fellow (Historians in the News)
Juan Cole believes Iran's reformer -- Mousavi -- won the election (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : IRANIAN DIASPORA JOINS THE FIGHT (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : GREGORY ASKS: OBAMA DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM ISRAEL? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : FRIEDMAN CREDITS BUSH ALONG WITH OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : THE ARRESTS HAVE BEGUN; OBAMA SILENCE HAS NOT ENDED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Indiana soldier to auction rare piece of history (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: A Palestinian State .... If (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Report on the Government’s Financial Reforms (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : ISRAEL RESPONDS TO OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : THE FIST REMAINS CLENCHED (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : "DEATH TO THE DICTATOR" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Lincoln Stamp: Stolen, Found and Sold for $431,000 (Breaking News)
MIA Korean War Veteran's Body Returned After 50 Years (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: And Now a Word from Biden the Stimulus Czar (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : TROUBLE SPREADS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
In Athens, Museum Is an Olympian Feat (NYT) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Women Warriors: From Joan of Arc to GI Jane [podcast 28 min 26 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Juan Cole: Crunch Time in Tehran (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Masha Lipman: Russia, Again Evading History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Gerson: Obama Is Just Like Bush, the First (Roundup: Media's Take)
Amir Taheri: The end of the Khomeinist regime? (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Anthony Hay: Conservatism's got a real history (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Palaima: What ignorance has cost us (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Lyons: Khamenei's Past Power Play against the Clerics May Be Haunting Him (Roundup: Media's Take)
Independence Daze: A History of July Fourth [podcast 53 min] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Six Questions for Austin Ratner about the photographer Philippe Halsman (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Richard Seaford: What the ancient Greek anxiety about money has to tell us about our own economic predicaments (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Edwin Black: Are Jews Arabs? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stephen Wertheim: Humanitarian Intervention is Politics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alfred W. McCoy: America's Political Paralysis Over Torture (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Inside Hemingway's Havana House (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
FDL Book Salon: Idiot America with Charles Pierce [video 5 min 36 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Sotomayor Shaped By Her 'Nuyorican' Roots [podcast 5 min 39 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
A Yankee Rebellion? The Regulators, New England, and the New Nation [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
From Mashantucket to Appomattox: The Native American Veterans of Connecticut's Volunteer Regiments and the Union Navy [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Scott Saul: Off Camera ... Civil Rights in the North (Roundup: Talking About History)
Martin Kramer: Obama and the Muslims (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harold Hyman: TIANANMEN, TWENTY YEARS HENCE: WHAT FRANCE HAS FORGOTTEN (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Illuminating and Misleading Takes on China 20 Years Since Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Edwin Black: Obama and the Israel Question—Many Now Queasy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul Rogat Loeb: Gutting the Health Care Plan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Omer M. Mozaffar: In the Shade of Napoleon and Malcolm X ... Making Sense of Obama’s “New Beginning” in Cairo (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Victor Davis Hanson: The Age of Middle East Atonement (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jared Farmer: Extralocal History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victor Davis Hanson: Our Historically Challenged President (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Judge Sotomayor, a mythic 'Hispanic' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Fred Kaplan: 1959 I swear, it really is the year everything changed. (Roundup: Talking About History)
Gary Sick: Is this another Iranian revolution? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Che's image (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stanley B. Greenberg: Why health care reform could fail again (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joe Nocera: Obama's no FDR (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert W. Cherny: Graft and Oil ... How Teapot Dome Became the Greatest Political Scandal of its Time (Roundup: Talking About History)
Mary Beth Norton: The Years of Magical Thinking: Explaining the Salem Witchcraft Crisis (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jon Clarke: Nazi Gold Train bound for Gibraltar (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kevin Baker: Barack Hoover Obama ... The best and the brightest blow it again (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nick Turse: Ex-Bush Loyalists Cash In (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Stealing the Iranian election (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Max Boot: General McChrystal's New Way of War (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Silbey: The “traditional forms of history are dying” meme (Roundup: Talking About History)
Hooman Majd: Iran is Betraying its Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Vaclav Havel: Ghosts of Appeasement Haunt Europe (Roundup: Talking About History)
Saved from Lady Chatterley’s Lover (The 50th Anniversary of the Ban) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Parthenon was once covered in colourful paint (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Danielle Pletka and Ali Alfoneh: Iran’s Hidden Revolution (Roundup: Media's Take)
Holden Caulfield, a Ripe 76, Heads to Court Again (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Martin Kramer: Iranian turmoil (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ben Simpfendorfer: Ben Simpfendorfer on China and the Arab World (Roundup: Media's Take)
Adam Holland: Holocaust Museum shooter's letters to Marine Corps General show longstanding ties to racist right (Roundup: Media's Take)
Conversation: Historian Simon Schama [video 9 min 44 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Remembering Anne Frank [video 22 min 47 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Do you still use index cards when taking notes? (HNN Polls)
Laura Rozen: Obama's Jimmy Carter problem? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dominic Sandbrook: 30 years on from the Islamic revolution, can diplomacy win out? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kenneth Waltzer: Obama, Buchenwald, and the Children (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Gwynne Dyer: Rewriting history in Russia (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Paul Kuhn: Will Tiananmen Be Obama's Roadmap? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Pankaj Mishra: Obama's bulldozer risks turning the Taliban into Pakistan's Khmer Rouge (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: The Middle Eastern Cold War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Naked Mona Lisa goes on show (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Machu Picchu Is Mini Re-creation of a Mythic Landscape? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
UK: Coastal castles could be moved inland (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Titlenomics, or Creating Best Sellers (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian E Zeizler and Melissa Lerner: Obama can succeed in Mideast (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Burns relics discovered in attic (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Greek fury at Elgin marbles 'loan deal' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Egypt to 'prove' Germany stole Nefertiti bust (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Daniel Pipes: Assessing Binyamin Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Editorial in the Times: No Cause for Iraq Inquiry (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harlan K. Ullman: Wars of necessity and of choice (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert D. Kaplan: Iran, Iraq, North Korea ... What Now? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Battle lines: 30 years of unseen 'Troubles' art in Northern Ireland (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
"Mincemeat": a play which names the man who fooled the Nazis opens in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Naked Mona Lisa goes on show in Italy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
"Forward to Freedom" celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the Museum of London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Assistant Curator position with the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation (Jobs)
Fred Kaplan: Disengagement With Iran (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph Lane: Advice and Consent ... The U.S. Senate and the Supreme Court (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Eugene R. Fidell: The Trouble With Tribunals (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: Stealing the Iranian election (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Emily Badger: Get a Life? Not If You Want to Be One of the Nine (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul M. Barrett: J.P. Morgan's bankers invented dangerous ways of dispersing risk (Roundup: Media's Take)
Debra J. Saunders: The media are showing their bias in reports on "right-wing" extremists (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Krugman: Stay the Course (Roundup: Media's Take)
French Official: Stolen Picasso Notebook Will Be Hard to Sell (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Matthew Dallek: Not Ready for Mt. Rushmore: Reconciling the Myth of Ronald Reagan with the Reality (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ron Maxwell: On the Occasion of President Obama’s Wreath for the Confederate Memorial (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andrew Meyer: The Iran that Could Have Been (and Might Yet Be) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Howard Fineman: What Pittsburgh (Don't Laugh) Can Teach Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stephen C. Rose: President Obama's FDR Problem (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Charisma and the Imperial Presidency (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Controversy Over Vote Continues In Iran [podcast 1 min 42 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Editorial in the Independent: The 'axis of evil' revisited (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mira Kamdar: Time to Bring Mahatma Gandhi Back (Roundup: Media's Take)
Oliver North: Obama Appeases North Korean Outlaws (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of June 7, 2009
Blogs
HNN : IRANIANS ASKING FOR MORAL SUPPORT/waiting for Obama (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Official Puts Career at Risk With Diatribe on Kremlin (Breaking News)
Bosnia: Serbian Commander Found Guilty of War Crimes (Breaking News)
Trail to commemorate 'Long Walk' divides tribes (Breaking News)
Spanish Civil War bodies exhumed (Breaking News)
Rare footage of Queen as a teenager and young woman released by BBC archives (Breaking News)
Palestinians Honor Fmr President Jimmy Carter (Breaking News)
Palin unsure about re-election bid in Alaska (Breaking News)
Seven Civil War stories your teacher never told you (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : SAVVY MULLAHS SURPRISE "EXPERTS" INFURIATE OPPONENTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : SHABBAT SHALOM (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
John Brown's fearsome pikes still hold fascination (Breaking News)
Roll of honour for Irish WWII dead (Breaking News)
Greece 'would refuse Marble loan' (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : ALL ABOUT TZARS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : WHENCE NETANYAHU? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : ON HISTORY AND MEMORY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ratko Mladic video shows him 'living freely in Serbia' (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: The Bay of Pigs (Howard Jones and Scott Horton) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Lawyer Whose Father is Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar Accused of Stealing Identities of Dad's Rivals (Breaking News)
Are Traditional History Courses Vanishing? (Breaking News)
Alarm in Baltic as Kremlin seizes control of Soviet past (Breaking News)
Dozens of decapitated bodies found in mass Roman war grave unearthed in UK (Breaking News)
Soviets Had Help during Checkpoint Charlie Standoff (Breaking News)
Spanish passport for British members of the International Brigades (Breaking News)
Bosnian TV airs images of war crimes fugitive Mladic (Breaking News)
Researchers uncover thousands more Nazi camps than previously thought (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Harper's Magazine on Black Maverick (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Bush State Department Historian Dumped (Historians in the News)
Holocaust Museum Gunman a Longtime Foe of Government (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
UK to cut official document release to 20 years (Breaking News)
Looted treasures return to Afghanistan (Breaking News)
France to pay nuclear test compensation (Breaking News)
Iran's war veterans turn against Ahmadinejad (Breaking News)
Bells of Malvern Priory could fall silent after 650 years (UK) (Breaking News)
FEMA Offers Katrina Survivors Federal Trailers for $1 (Breaking News)
Secrets of the Aztec's glorious civilisation (Breaking News)
French Official: Stolen Picasso Notebook Will Be Hard to Sell (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : LEBANESE CREDIT BUSH; FRIEDMAN CREDITS OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Iran's Ahmadinejad Accuses Rivals of Using Hitler Tactics (Breaking News)
Ted Kaczynski Fights to Block Diaries From Being Auctioned (Breaking News)
Shooting at Holocaust Museum injures guard, suspect (Breaking News)
Soviet Wreck Found on the Baltic Sea Floor (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : THE EXODUS OBAMA FAILED TO MENTION (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Amnesty blasts poor human rights record 10 years after Kosovo war (Breaking News)
Hunt begins for leader of Terracotta army (Breaking News)
How MI6 link of traitor George Blake was covered-up by Government (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Longest Great War memoir to be published (Breaking News)
Hawaii archives holds mystery Lincoln document (Breaking News)
6,000-year-old tombs found next to Stonehenge (Breaking News)
Archeological Evidence Of Human Activity Found Beneath Lake Huron (Breaking News)
Handwritten book by Mussolini among stolen Italian artefacts found in Illinois home (Breaking News)
Coin hoard exceeds sale estimate (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : MERKEL PROVEN RIGHT: GERMAN UNEMPLOYMENT DROPPED TO 8.2% (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Paris theft of $11m Picasso works (Breaking News)
The spy who started the Cold War (Breaking News)
Baltic Sea Divers Discover Wreck of Soviet Submarine (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Justice May Be Blind, But She’s Got A Taser (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: KHAMENEI STANDS BY AHMADINEFAD'S FOREIGN POLICY/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: National Review on Our Book, Black Maverick (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CLAIRE B. POTTER: The Work That Euphemism Does: A Few Thoughts on the Recent History of Abortion (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Who are the Real Pushers? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT HIGGS: Military-Contracting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse—Just What the Government Wants (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Centuries-old slate discovered at Jamestown dig (Breaking News)
Bone find suggests humans on Treasure Coast 13,000 years ago (South Florida) (Breaking News)
Human skull found in possible Indian burial site near Oakland estuary (Breaking News)
Archaeologists find Civil War cannons in Pee Dee River (Breaking News)
History Under Lock and Key (Breaking News)
Who was Thomas Paine? (Breaking News)
Spanish Civil War Grave Uncovers Victims of Dictator (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : IRANIAN CAMPAIGN A SAFETY VALVE? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : COMPARATIVE LITERACY IN 1866 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JONATHAN JARRETT: Labcoats and tweed jackets (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
World Economy is Tracking or Worse than Great Depression say economists (Breaking News)
Coin marks Henry VIII anniversary (Breaking News)
Laura Bush: I understand why Cheney's speaking out (Breaking News)
Slave soldiers honored, called 'national treasures' (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 8-14, 2009 (This Week in History)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
D-Day Vet Who 'Misrepresented Service' to Be Honored by French (Breaking News)
Hillary Clinton: I said no, at first, to secretary of state job (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : HILLARY CLINTON WEAKENS COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT HIGGS: Two Views of the Labor Market in the Deepening Recession (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Biography (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Inside the Supreme Court [a series of videos] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Parks and Politics: Saving the American Environment - Patricia Limerick [podcast 51 min 41 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life - Walter Isaacson [podcast 31 min 14 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Obama in France to Honor D-Day Fallen [podcast 3 min 10 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Segments 1 and 3: "John Hope Franklin on Writing Black History." (1969) [two podcasts 28 min 28 sec and 19 min 13 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders [Video 59 min 50 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
At Buchenwald, Obama Blasts Holocaust Deniers [podcast 4 min 4 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Living History in Colonial Williamsburg [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
If no for D-Day, It Would Have Been Doomsday [podcast 3 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
"Cinema and the Spanish Civil War" film season opens in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Previously Unseen Photographs of Hitler Online (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Simon Heffer: Russia wheels out the evil weapon of history (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Ibbitson: Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan - yet (Roundup: Media's Take)
Frank Ching: China must face up to Tiananmen (Roundup: Media's Take)
Douglas Davis: Gordon Brown ... Britain's Nixon (Roundup: Media's Take)
Patrick Buchanan: Obama, The Anti-Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Vladimir Ryzhkov: Russian History Under Lock and Key (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael C. Moynihan: Baader-Meinhof myth exploded (Roundup: Talking About History)
Review: Matthew Boulton exhibition at Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Barone: Obama needs to brush up on Middle East history (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mikhail Gorbachev: We Had Our Perestroika. It's High Time for Yours (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Kagan: Woodrow Wilson's Heir (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of May 31, 2009
Roundup
African-American D-Day veterans celebrate Barack Obama's trip to Normandy (Breaking News)
A picture of Holocaust victim Anne Frank, aged 80 (Breaking News)
UK's oldest man Allingham is 113 (Breaking News)
Watergate burglar dies in Florida (Breaking News)
Inquiry over 'Michelangelo' work (Breaking News)
Brown slips on 'Obama Beach' (Breaking News)
40 years after Manson murders, a bid for parole (Breaking News)
Obama joins WWII vets for D-Day tributes (Breaking News)
Last of its kind, deadly Nazi E-boat rises again (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Great Moments in Prognostication (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Prince Charles and Gordon Brown mark 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings (Breaking News)
Britain's 1950s nuclear test servicemen win right to sue MoD for compensation (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: We've Been Here Before (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: World War II and All That (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Obama, the "Student of History," Needs to Go to Summer School (Mark A. LeVine)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Cambridge University puts Europe's oldest printed books online (Breaking News)
'World's oldest woman' dies (Breaking News)
Pilot of plane that dropped nuclear bomb on Nagasaki dies (Breaking News)
French militants threaten to disrupt D-Day commemorations (Breaking News)
Unseen Adolf Hitler photographs published (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: UNEMPOYMENT REACHES 9.4% (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Clinton calls on China to release Tiananmen prisoners (Breaking News)
World War II's D-Day to Be Commemorated This Weekend (Breaking News)
U.S. Gov't Backs Off Plan To Seize Flight 93 Memorial Land (Breaking News)
Visiting Buchenwald, Obama speaks of the lessons of evil (Breaking News)
WWII slave soldiers reunite after 64 years, prepare for honors (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : OBAMA WRONG ON IRANIAN COUP (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : OBAMA WRONG ON BUCHENWALD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Daily newspapers are constant sources of geographical errors (Breaking News)
History "not everybody's cup of tea": UK high school drops history, geography in favour of integrated humanities GCSE (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: I'll Be on Book TV (Black Maverick) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: The National Debt versus the Deficit (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Medievalist Jo Ann K. McNamara remembered fondly as pioneer in women's studies (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Spontaneous Orders? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes Ancient & Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11: ‘He Missed It’ (Breaking News)
D-Day mystery unravelled and other NBC News accounts of Normandy Invasion (Breaking News)
Obama twisted history a bit in Cairo speech, says Max Boot (Breaking News)
Descendants of Meriwether Lewis Launch ‘Solve the Mystery’ Web Site (Breaking News)
Niall Ferguson-Paul Krugman Fight Goes into Extra Rounds (Historians in the News)
Bill Clinton to speak at Duke University event honoring late historian John Hope Franklin (Historians in the News)
The New Bob Woodward Book That's Making The White House Tremble (Breaking News)
Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton (Historians in the News)
Ernest May: Former College Dean Dies at 80 (Historians in the News)
Royal D-Day row reveals divide over WWII roles (Breaking News)
D-Day bus tour veterans stranded (Breaking News)
Labor History and Culture in Chicago: LAWCHA 2009 (Historians in the News)
Poles remember historic 1989 vote (Breaking News)
Neil Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon (Breaking News)
Iran marks Ayatollah Khomeini anniversary (Breaking News)
Barack Obama arrives in Dresden to meet Angela Merkel (Breaking News)
D-Day veterans fear being sidelined amid politicians' 'jamboree' (Breaking News)
Firsthand account by Westerner says Tianenmen Square on anniversary is crowded (with officials) (Breaking News)
Enormous crowds in Hong Kong for Tiananmen Square vigil (Breaking News)
State senate's cuts might freeze historical markers in Ohio (Breaking News)
With bigger budget Gettysburg filling slots and revving up (Breaking News)
D-Day veterans fear being sidelined amid politicians' 'jamboree' (Breaking News)
Tiananmen Square 'ringleader' detained in Macau (Breaking News)
U.S. Deep-Sea Explorers Could Loose Shipwreck Treasure to Spain (Breaking News)
U.S. urges China to come to terms with Tiananmen Square (Breaking News)
President Obama Names Former GOP Congressman Jim Leach to NEH Chair (Historians in the News)
Israelis Say Bush Agreed to West Bank Growth (Breaking News)
1962 ban on Cuba in the OAS lifted (Breaking News)
Treasure hunters ordered to return 250m pounds of loot to Spain (Breaking News)
A 17th century "witch bottle" used to rid the sick of evil spells has been found intact, containing finger nail clippings, hair and pins. (UK) (Breaking News)
What does the Chinese government say happened on June 4, 1989? (Breaking News)
Connecticut 2nd northern state to apologize for slavery (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: West Still Miscasts 1989 Protestors (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: Tiananmen square 1989 (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Campus Watch (again) takes Stanford's Joel Beinin to task (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : QUOTE OF THE DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : ILAN HALIMI'S MURDERER: "I AM PROUD" (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Russia blaming Poland for starting WWII? (Breaking News)
A new "missing link" find that could prove to be more credible (Breaking News)
Blogs
AEON J. SKOBLE: 20 years ago? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: You Must Do What We Will Not (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
DC Preservation League Lists 'Endangered Places' (Breaking News)
Harvard to endow professorship in gay studies (Historians in the News)
Gay d'oh: White House inadvertently forgot history maker Roberta Achtenberg (Breaking News)
A History Lesson On Supreme Court Appointments (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Temple timbers trace collapse of Mayan culture (Breaking News)
New Hominid 12 Million Years Old Found In Spain, With 'Modern' Facial Features (Breaking News)
St. Louis opens Civil War era court documents (Breaking News)
Civil War memorabilia up for auction (Breaking News)
Mumbai's Watson's Hotel to shut 140 years after being shipped from England (Breaking News)
Historian Simon Rawidowicz is the subject of a book about Israel (Historians in the News)
Emotional Nancy Reagan unveils statue of late president (Breaking News)
Project launched to investigate Britain's debt to slavery (Breaking News)
First Orthodox rabbis ordained in Germany in 70 years (Breaking News)
Holocaust survivors win pensions claims in landmark ruling (Breaking News)
Blogs
OSCAR CHAMBERLAIN: Many Questions, Few Answers (POTUS)
Roundup
India's parliament elects first woman speaker (Breaking News)
High security on Tiananmen Square (Breaking News)
US invites Iran to 4 July events (Breaking News)
Dinosaur skulls sold at auction (Breaking News)
US man returns ancient Jerusalem stone (Breaking News)
Prince of Wales to attend 65th D-Day anniversary (Breaking News)
China begins internet 'blackout' ahead of Tiananmen anniversary (Breaking News)
Rare footage of Aborigines meeting white men for the first time (Breaking News)
Former U.S. commander in Iraq calls for truth commission (Breaking News)
How '10-toes Takaki' changed U.S. history (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
$50,000 award offered by Archives for recovery of missing Clinton hard drive (Breaking News)
National D-Day Memorial in financial peril (Virginia) (Breaking News)
Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: Today In History, June 2, 455 A.D. (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Thomas C. Reeves posts a challenge to historians to clear up Obama records questions raised by conservatives (Historians in the News)
KC Johnson one of the first to actually read Sotomayor's Princeton thesis. His grade .... ? (Historians in the News)
DNA test to discover Tutankhamun's parentage (Breaking News)
Historic lime kilns at risk in S. Indiana (Breaking News)
Rare Darwin book to be auctioned (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: The Sotomayor Senior Thesis (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Historian discovers stolen Andrew Jackson letter (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA, THE SALESMAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Guilt-ridden New Yorker returns stolen rock to Israel (Breaking News)
China clampdown as Tiananmen anniversary approaches (Breaking News)
Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act Signed June 2, 2009 (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Cheney finally admits no connection between Saddam and 9-11 (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11 (Breaking News)
AP: "A brief history of General Motors Corp." (Breaking News)
Last Hiroshima POW family found with help from newspaper, historian (Breaking News)
'Oldest pottery' found in China (Breaking News)
20 Die as Ancient Pagoda Mysteriously Collapses (Burma) (Breaking News)
Air France crash: mystery of plane disappearances (Breaking News)
Interview with Olivia Remie Constable, Director of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute (Historians in the News)
CIA names fallen officer 6 years after death (Breaking News)
Blogs
PAUL MORENO: When "Empathy" Goes Awry (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : NETANYAHU MUST CONTINUE TO SAY NO! (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : SRI LANKA VICTORY PARADE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Prince Charles to attend D-Day 65th anniversary (Breaking News)
Murderer Dr. Crippen May Be Exhumed Amid Innocence Claims (Breaking News)
Ronald Reagan 'appears to Nancy' (Breaking News)
Obama wants Queen at D-Day event (Breaking News)
Guantanamo files 'must be public' (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : OBAMA, THE GREAT EXPLOITER, GOES TO BUCHENWALD (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT HIGGS: Security Theater in Three Airports: Istanbul, Paris, and Atlanta (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Cost of keeping federal secrets secret? $10 billion (Breaking News)
One California family's global surfing Odyssey (Breaking News)
GM: After Many Stumbles, the Fall of a Giant (Breaking News)
New details emerging about collapse of the Iron Curtain in Hungary (Breaking News)
You can forget last week's story about the secret Pentagon photos (Breaking News)
Virginia: State criticizes Wal-Mart report (Breaking News)
220 California parks to close in worst case scenario (Breaking News)
Japan Apologizes (again) for Bataan Death March (Breaking News)
Tomb of legendary Japanese Queen Himiko found (Breaking News)
NYT video: The decline of GM (Breaking News)
Finland charges Rwandan suspect (Breaking News)
Vandals daub paint on Rome museum (Breaking News)
D-Day veterans to sound last post on Normandy beaches (Breaking News)
'Dig For Victory' couple recreate 1940s vegetable plot (Breaking News)
Remains of 200m year-old Loch Ness-style creature found (Breaking News)
Japan Ambassador Apologizes for Bataan Death March (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: History Carnival 77 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... June 1-7, 2009 (This Week in History)
Roundup
Searching for Holocaust massacre victims (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Blue plaque for war hero Bader (Breaking News)
Hague to try Seselj for contempt (Breaking News)
Sotomayor's Record on Race (Breaking News)
Rupert Hall: Pioneering historian of science and editor of Isaac Newton's letters (Obit) (Historians in the News)
Patricia Crawford: Pioneering feminist historian who focused on women's lives in 17th-century England (Obit) (Historians in the News)
Up and Out of New York’s Projects like Sotomayor (Breaking News)
Texas Civil War park restored just in time for another hurricane season (Breaking News)
Sotomayor: A Long Record on Campaign Finance, Often in Support of Regulations (Breaking News)
The Waves Minority Judges Always Make (Breaking News)
Claim: "Islamic Speakers Bureau Backed By Radical Profs" (Historians in the News)
Survey says history students at Oxford enjoy the most vibrant sex lives (Historians in the News)
Hong Kong protest over Tiananmen (Breaking News)
Would Shakespeare be proud of sex shop? (Breaking News)
Queen 'welcome at D-Day service' (Breaking News)
Last Titanic survivor dies at 97 (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Drug Cartel Intimidation (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : QUOTE VADIS US JOB MARKET? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Anniversary of HMS Thetis disaster (UK) (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Hugely important new archæological technique not quite so important once actually published (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Andrew Bast: Obama's Wilsonian Ideals (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey T. Kuhner: Another Korean war? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Freedland: Obama's Triumph in Cairo (Roundup: Media's Take)
New photos from Tiananmen Square published by NYT (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Karl E. Johnson: The Curious Case of Galileo Galilei (in which he does not go to jail) (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Scheer: Reagan Didn't Do It (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Steele Gordon: The Inflation Temptation (Roundup: Historians' Take)
BBC tried to take George Orwell off air because of 'unattractive' voice (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Debates, Give or Take (Paris/Exhibit) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ronald Spector: What Students Need to Know About the Vietnam War (Roundup: Talking About History)
20 years on, Beijing painter creates works based on photos of crackdown (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
William Leuchtenburg: The Wrong Man at the Wrong Time (Re: Herbert Hoover) (Roundup: Talking About History)
Thomas Docherty: Being a humble servant to business in academia will be a disaster for everyone (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Lauren Hilgers: Forgetting June 4th (Roundup: Talking About History)
Roger Cohen: Baker’s Ghost in Cairo (Roundup: Media's Take)
Timothy Garton Ash: 4 June 1989 ... A Fork in the Road (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Herbert London: On D-Day, the U.S. saved Europe from itself (Roundup: Talking About History)
Sherrilyn A. Ifil: Why Race Won't Go Away for Sotomayor (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Melinda Liu: When We Talk About Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Steve Benen: 11 years ago Republicans didn't object to Sotomayor's statement, so why now? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan M. Hansen: Don't close Gitmo (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Dale Scott: America’s Afghanistan ... The National Security and a Heroin-Ravaged State (Roundup: Historians' Take)
LCRM Common Room (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Andrew Mar on BBC's Radio 4 "Start of the Week" [podcast 45 min] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
7/7 memorial in Hyde Park, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Lübeck: The town that said no to Hitler (Roundup: Talking About History)
Anouar Majid: Why we should remember the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of Spain's entire Muslim population (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: Obama, Muslim-world rock star (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Top 10 Movies About Academic Life (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Todd Crowell: The Hidden Truth About Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Asli Aydintasbas: A New Ottoman Empire? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yevgeny Kiselyov: When Interpreting History Becomes a Crime (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Engelhardt: Graduating the Rest of Us, ‘09 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas Sowell: So Sotomayor was quoted out of context? (Roundup: Media's Take)
ICE Seizes a Cultural Artifact Reported Stolen in Italy Almost 12 Years Ago (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Lind: Now that you and I own GM, perhaps it's time to relaunch a very old concept -- a special kind of public corporation (Roundup: Media's Take)
Salinger Suing Copycat (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A Romeo and Juliet wedding? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Mark Burnett’s “Expedition Africa” a home run for History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Continuing Controversy over 'Michelangelo' Sculpture (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Juan Cole: Obama and Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Niall Ferguson: The trillion dollar question: China or America? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jacqueline Kennedy's drawings of JFK for sale (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Kursk play opens at the Young Vic, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Edvard Munch exhibition opens at the Hunterian gallery, Glasgow (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Klaus Wiegrefe: Who Ordered the Construction of the Berlin Wall? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Drew Westen: Why President Obama Should Welcome a Discussion of Social Issues, and Why He Needs to Lead One Now (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lt. Gen. Pacepa: I was Romania's car czar (Roundup: Media's Take)
Martin E. Marty: Supreme Court Catholics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Blight: Why the 150th anniversary of the Civil War looks more promising than the 100th (Roundup: Talking About History)
Documentary made about one of life's sui generis: A co-founder of DHL who ended up in Vietnam (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Vandals daub paint on Rome museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Paul Krugman: Reagan Did It (Roundup: Media's Take)
Arthur Herman: The Gitmo Myth and the Torture Canard (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Tomasky: Will Cairo Launch the Obama Doctrine? (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Burchell: The uprising China would have us forget (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul Krugman: Reaganomics is to blame (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tiananmen: Shouts That Turned To Silence [podcast 5 min 27 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
The Unabomber's Brother Tells His Story [podcast 7 min 27 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Kansas Abortion Doctor Shot And Killed In Church [podcast 2 min 55 sec) (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
What East Germany Was Really Like (Photo display) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jim Sleeper: If You Join the Sotomayor 'Race' Debate.... (Roundup: Historians' Take)
HBO Series: Churchill at War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Poets, Academia: A Couplet in Conflict (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Todd Gitlin: I.F. Stone, Journalist -- and Spy? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Mark Naison: Sonia Sotomayor's Appointment Highlights a Time When Public Housing Was a Place of Hope and Possibility for Working Class Families in the Bronx (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Week of May 24, 2009
Roundup
SC Legislative manual uses terms 'Negro' and 'scalawag' for some former officeholders (Breaking News)
Tiananmen remembered 20 years on (Breaking News)
History students are most promiscuous (Breaking News)
Poignant letters from sister of Russia's last Tsar for sale (Breaking News)
An emotional fight over land for Flight 93 memorial (Breaking News)
Clinton and Bush Share Stage — and Mutual Admiration (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Our Major Surprise in Asia Minor (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Franklin Littell, Scholar of Holocaust, Dies at 91 (Historians in the News)
Va. Ponders Eliminating Third-Grade History Exam (Breaking News)
FBI solves 50-year-old cold case of missing Dodge City history (Breaking News)
Ireland set to go bust, claims Niall Ferguson (Historians in the News)
Him Mark Lai, Chinese American historian, dies (Historians in the News)
Do we need economics historians? (Historians in the News)
Are you an architectural historian? DC needs you. (Historians in the News)
Historian Ronald Takaki, Asian American legend, has died (Historians in the News)
Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12 percent more red ink in 2008 -- Before Obama! (Breaking News)
Julie Coryell, Jazz-Rock Historian, Dies at 61 (Historians in the News)
Once Again, Ruling Class Stirs a Revolt (Breaking News)
Europe: Graves Disturbed, Jewish Group Says (Breaking News)
AP: "Pennsylvania Newspaper Runs Ad Calling for Obama Assassination" (Breaking News)
An emotional fight over land for Flight 93 memorial (Breaking News)
19th century black Medal of Honor winner finally gets burial in Arlington (Breaking News)
Barack Obama's great uncle criticises him over Buchenwald visit (Breaking News)
Southwest's earliest known irrigation system unearthed in Arizona (Breaking News)
Chinese volcano 260 million years ago led to mass extinction (Breaking News)
Time Magazine: "Queen Elizabeth Snubbed: Britain Declares War on France" (Breaking News)
Ric Burns interviewed about new PBS Indian history documentary (Historians in the News)
George Washington Urged American Governors to Imitate Christ, says Michael Novak (Historians in the News)
Barack Obama pledges support for Palestinian statehood (Breaking News)
Unhappy Memories For US War Vets In Korea (Breaking News)
Identity of Tank Man of Tiananmen Square remains a mystery (Breaking News)
Barack Obama's great uncle criticises him over Buchenwald visit (Breaking News)
Four royals declined D-Day invitation (Breaking News)
German government rejects petition for systematic Stasi check (Breaking News)
Harry lays wreath at Ground Zero (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Fascinating electronic archive of primary source documents about the Rosenberg case now online (Historians in the News)
Add Washington Book Prize to the 'Hemingses' Haul (Historians in the News)
$50,000 George Washington Book Prize Awarded to Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello (Historians in the News)
'Hidden history' uncovered on tour (Breaking News)
German corpse 'may be Luxemburg' (Breaking News)
George W Bush 'missing Air Force One and US troops' (Breaking News)
Russian aristocrat's heir reclaims Van Gogh painting 'looted' by Lenin (Breaking News)
Matthew Boulton and James Watt new faces of 50 pound note (Breaking News)
Iraqi Teen Solves 300-Year-Old Math Puzzle in Four Months (Breaking News)
Bush defends interrogation program in Michigan speech (Breaking News)
Bush: White House pressure made marriage stronger (Breaking News)
Historians Support Inquiry into the Death of James Forrestal (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: RUTH, JEW BY CHOICE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JAMES OTTESON: "Men in Power" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : AMERICAN MEDIA LOSING READERS' TRUST? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Historians report Hemingway had contacts with the KGB over several years (Historians in the News)
Why Are We In Puerto Rico? (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Stealing Property in Montgomery, Alabama (Testimony) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Review of Government Secrecy Ordered (Breaking News)
On Sotomayor, Some Abortion Rights Backers Are Uneasy (Breaking News)
Historians and Literary Critics Go to Bat for Louisiana State U. Press (Historians in the News)
Lost Lincoln Letter Donated To National Archives (Breaking News)
Sara Jane Moore, attempted Ford assassin, 'wanted violent revolution' (Breaking News)
China cuts off dissent ahead of Tiananmen anniversary (Breaking News)
Poland forced to move democracy celebrations (Breaking News)
Mystery of missing US helicopter in Vietnam solved (Breaking News)
Pope urges China reconciliation (Breaking News)
US warship becomes Florida reef (Breaking News)
Japan to Give More Victims of Atomic Bomb Free Health Care (Breaking News)
Long-lost Lincoln letter back in federal hands (Breaking News)
NYT: Bill Clinton holding grudge against Ted, Caroline Kennedy (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: What Obama Doesn't Want You to See (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Website publishes now-declassified Reagan NSC transcripts (Breaking News)
To Protect an Ancient City, China Moves to Raze It (Breaking News)
The Sotomayor Pick: Bridging the Black-Latino Divide (Breaking News)
Conservatives now using bill boards to question Obama's birth certificate (Breaking News)
Sotomayor Pick a Product of Lessons From Past Battles (Breaking News)
Study: Who's behind the financial meltdown (Breaking News)
Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape' (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Torture and the American Conscience (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Biographical Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Photos show President Barack Obama as Barry the freshman (Breaking News)
Supreme Court Nominee Was on the Side of Minorities in Key Cases (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Investors fall for accounting change (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Where does W live now? See the pics. (Breaking News)
Images rescued from dump reveal black British 'Tommy' at the Somme (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: World War II Scrutinized Again (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer (and history major at Princeton) (Breaking News)
NYT profiles Bill Clinton in the Age of Obama. He admits deregulation went too far. (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Where Did It All Go Wrong? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Name a school after Obama already? (Breaking News)
Historian says Virgin Mary made into 'normal mum' to widen Christianity's appeal (Historians in the News)
NAACP Branch Readies for Confederate Flag Fight (Breaking News)
A new book by historian Steven Hahn takes up the hidden history of African American politics and the politics of writing history. (Historians in the News)
Bones were prehistoric American Indians' (Indianapolis) (Breaking News)
A bronze cannon, the first of its type discovered in the oceans surrounding Cuba found by fishermen (Breaking News)
New York Times journalists admit: 'We missed Watergate' (Breaking News)
Virgin Mary made into 'normal mum' to widen Christianity's appeal (Breaking News)
New Srebrenica mass grave 'found' (Breaking News)
French Group Slams Sarkozy's New Measure to Make Museums Accessible to Young Europeans (Breaking News)
Russian Officials: Will Destroy All Chemical Weapons by 2012 (Breaking News)
Snubbed? Queen Elizabeth II Not Invited to D-Day Ceremony (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : KARZAI AND ZARDARI HELP AHMADINEJAD'S CAMPAIGN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : US ALLIES, ESPECIALLY INDIA, UNHAPPY WITH OBAMA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
A Skeleton 4,000 Years Old Bears Evidence of Leprosy (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : THE BELOVED NUCLEAR LEADER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Historical Trove, Freed From Storage, Gets a Home (Breaking News)
Spy Fired Shot That Changed West Germany (Breaking News)
Archives of famed black newspaper going to Chicago public library (Breaking News)
Blogs
C.J. MALONEY: WRITING HISTORY, HOW TO (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PUBLIC LIBRARIES A THREAT TO BOOKS AND MAGAZINES? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others (Breaking News)
Sotomayor's Rulings Are Exhaustive but Often Narrow (Breaking News)
Washington and Lee University News Office W&L Mourns Loss of Art Historian Joan O'Mara (Historians in the News)
Nixon Blog dismisses Simon Schama's new book (Historians in the News)
Are We at War With North Korea? (Breaking News)
National Security Archive Publishes Fourth Installment of Former Top Soviet Adviser's Journal (Breaking News)
The Decline and Fall of General Motors' Empire (Breaking News)
Professor discovers little interest in staging a 20th year look at Tiananmen Square (Historians in the News)
The Great Forgetting: 20 Years After Tiananmen Square (Breaking News)
Obama Hails Sotomayor as ‘Inspiring’ (Breaking News)
Was Cardozo First Hispanic On Supreme Court? (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: PERSECUTING TERROR DEFEATERS/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Shipwreck's 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' link (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : REALITY STRIKES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
AMY H. STURGIS: Socialism without the State? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
After long fight, Vietnam vet gets his due on the Wall (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Of Brains, Hands, and the Links Between. (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
D-Day invasion's forgotten black vets (Breaking News)
Energy Plans Often Run Out of Gas (Breaking News)
White House Responds to Historians' Memorial Day Petition Posted on HNN (Breaking News)
Remains are lost in race for relics (Breaking News)
Controversy over 'Michelangelo' sculpture (Breaking News)
Immunity deal 'protects Karadzic' (Breaking News)
A long-awaited book on the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre has received the Best Book Award from the Mormon History Association (Historians in the News)
Israeli historian praises German democracy (Historians in the News)
New York State's hidden treasure- town historians (Historians in the News)
Historian Perez Zagorin Was Expert On English Revolution (Obit) (Historians in the News)
WH places wreaths at Confederate, African-American memorials (Breaking News)
Unsung heroes of World War II finally get their due (Breaking News)
A Fight to Protect Americans From British Libel Law (Breaking News)
Wrestling With Ghosts of Colonialism in Africa (Breaking News)
Benny Morris down on both a one-state and two-state solution in Middle East (Historians in the News)
Civil Wars: The Fights That Do Not Want to End (Breaking News)
"We did not know that child abuse was a crime," says retired Catholic archbishop (Breaking News)
2 Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First (Breaking News)
Doing oral histories in the Middle East (Historians in the News)
Allies bombing on D-Day 'close to war crime', claims historian Antony Beevor (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: Do Historians Have One? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Susan Jacoby taken to task by Whittaker Chambers's grandson for not consulting Harvey Klehr's book on Hiss (Historians in the News)
Allies bombing on D-Day 'close to war crime', claims historian (Breaking News)
Civil war fears as Yemen celebrates unity (Breaking News)
Study unlocks history of the seas (Breaking News)
Powell: 'I am still a Republican' (Breaking News)
David Niven's wife bedded JFK in act of revenge against her husband's philandering (Breaking News)
Money and Politics Meet at the Brooklyn Bridge (Breaking News)
Openness in China About Memoir Proves Short-Lived (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... May 25-31, 2009 (This Week in History)
MARK BRADY: JFK Scores Again (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Craigslist (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
SAGE ROSS: Biology Today, the '70s textbook that would have made me a biologist (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Donald Ritchie: How the New York Times (and Almost Everyone Else) Missed the Watergate Scandal (Roundup: Talking About History)
Louis Warren: Liberal Policies Didn't Lead to California's Collapse (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stanley I. Kutler: The Supreme Court: New Face, Old Arguments (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Fan Designed Magnificent Buildings. Then Mao Came Along (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ari Kelman: What the sixteenth President of the United States of America means to Barack Obama and others (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dick Morris: The incredible shrinking Clintons (Roundup: Media's Take)
The U.S.S. Enterprise, in Strange New World of Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Andrew Cherlin: If the Depression is any guide, in times of economic crisis the divorce rate drops (Roundup: Media's Take)
Big Ben celebrating 150th anniversary (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Shapiro: Why Sotomayor Couldn't Really Save Baseball (Roundup: Media's Take)
Johann Hari: The Ghosts of the Empire Are Returning to Haunt Britain - and the U.S. (Roundup: Talking About History)
Love Makes the Postage Meter Go ‘Round (The New U.S. Love Stamp) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Computer Game Lets People Live the Life of Cave Dwellers (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Hamburg rebrands itself as Beatles City (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Daniel Sneider: Wage a Cold War Against North Korea (Roundup: Media's Take)
Carl Schramm: Schumpeter's Moment (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Lloyd Parry: The pygmy that Dubya turned into a monster (Roundup: Media's Take)
The Brothers Booth [podcast 5 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Andreas Umland: Fascist Tendencies in Russia’s Political Establishment ... The Rise of the International Eurasian Movement (Roundup: Historians' Take)
The Bonus Army Match (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
A Hiroshima Story (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Thurgood Marshall as a Litigator in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 (Segment 2) [video 2 min 48 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
"Thurgood Marshall's African Journey: An Interview With Mary Dudziak" (Segments 1 and 4) [video 33 min 49 sec and 13 min 9 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Tom Paine being celebrated on the 200th anniversary of his death (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Damon Linker: Taking Stock Of The Intellectual Right In The Age Of Obama (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gordon Silverstein: Why it's good for liberals that Sonia Sotomayor is not the standard-bearer that they have been waiting for (Roundup: Media's Take)
U. of Illinois Wonders if Vandals or Racists Damaged Indian Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
1969 "Bed-In for Peace" exhibition opens in Liverpool, UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Lois Ann Lorentzen: Holy Death on the US/Mexico Border (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Tiananmen at Twenty (Roundup: Talking About History)
Anton Espira: Missing Link ... Too much about Ida (Roundup: Talking About History)
William Astore: Educating Ourselves to Oblivion (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Abdul Malik Mujahid: Why Do Afghans Have a Life Expectancy of Only 44 Years? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Sarah Ruden: Beyond the Myth of Mandela (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonathan Mirsky: The Long Shadow of Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Vladimir Ryzhkov: The Kremlin's War on History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Skidelsky: We Can Still Learn from Thatcher (Roundup: Talking About History)
Natan Sharansky: Make Libya Pay for Dissident's Death (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ian Buruma: The ghosts of Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Barron H. Lerner: The secret history of Jewish quotas in medicine (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Save summer school for those who need it (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nicholas Carr: Woodrow Wilson was the First Twitterer (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Stein: Decline and Fall: A View From 2089 (Roundup: Media's Take)
The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom -- By Steven Hahn (Books About History & Historians)
Eugene Robinson: Obama World vs. Cheney World (Roundup: Media's Take)
Cesar Chelala: Nuremberg set a valid precedent for trials of war-crime suspects in Iraq's destruction (Roundup: Media's Take)
Anita Prazmowska: Breaking with Poland's past (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Wooden figure of Jesus Christ is not work of Michelangelo, art historians say (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Calif. High Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban [video 4 min 6 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Obama Picks Sotomayor For High Court [video 6 min 6 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Media Matters: Politico ignores history of conservatives' citing importance of empathy in a judge (Roundup: Media's Take)
Noemie Emery: Reagan in Opposition ... The lessons of 1977 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Niall Ferguson: The Crisis and How to Deal with It (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Garry Wills: Lincoln's Black History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Fouad Ajami: Pakistan's Struggle for Modernity (The country's voters have never endorsed religious extremism) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Brooks McNamara, Theater Historian, Is Dead at 72 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Amos Elon, Israeli Author, Dies at 82 (Obituaries)
Shelomo Alfassa: Sonia Sotomayor NOT the first Hispanic for US Supreme Court (HNN News Archives)
Jack Cashill: Who Wrote [Obama's Book] Dreams and Why It Matters (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Amelia Earhart's soaring spirit (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Peter M. Shane: The Ambivalent Presidency? Executive Power Under the Obama Administration (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Fitzhugh: What If History Students Were Given the Acclaim of Athletes? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Clive Hamilton: Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins" (Roundup: Historians' Take)
In Civil War, Woman Fought Like A Man For Freedom [video 10 min 37 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire (video) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Dear Donna Reed: A Pinup So Swell She Kept G.I. Mail (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Alexi Giannoulias: Like Stephen Douglas, Cheney on the Wrong Side of History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Mystery Jane Austen suitor who sparked rift with sister named (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tom Palaima: Remember the costs of war (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Political Math (blogger): Obama's wracking up debt much faster than any previous president (Roundup: Media's Take)
NYT publishes hand-drawn pictures of WW II by Bataan Death March solder (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Martin Indyk: Israel Must Take Risks for Peace (Roundup: Media's Take)
Walter Berns: Interrogations and Presidential Prerogative (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley I. Kutler: Congressional Duck and Cover (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Fred Siegel: H.G. Wells ... The Godfather of American Liberalism (Roundup: Talking About History)
Oliver Kamm: Liberal over-sensitivity to the beliefs of others is undermining freedom of speech, so giving reactionaries an easy ride (Roundup: Media's Take)
CJ Malone (HNN News Archives)
Week of May 17, 2009
Roundup
A Crumbling Piece of History in Bridgeport, Connecticut (Breaking News)
Recession may force UK museums and galleries to charge visitors entrance fees (Breaking News)
US grandmom offers Depression-era recipes to survive the recession (Breaking News)
Former intern to tell of affair with John F. Kennedy (Breaking News)
4,000-year-old road found in city (UK) (Breaking News)
Scotland's Linlithgow Palace: Partying like it's 1503 (Breaking News)
Mementos adorn 'saddest acre' (Arlinton National Cemetery) (Breaking News)
Former S. Korean President Roh commits suicide (Breaking News)
Annette Gordon-Reed for the US Supreme Court? (Historians in the News)
French Priest Says Holocaust Death Toll Likely to Rise Following Investigation (Breaking News)
Cheney Seeks Book Deal on Bush Years and More (Breaking News)
Vatican discloses Henry VIII's annulment appeal (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weed Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
PEW chart shows growth of the "party" of independents (Breaking News)
At Turkish Border, Armenians Are Wary of a Thaw (Breaking News)
Katrina Victims Face Eviction From Federal Housing (Breaking News)
'Liberating feeling' to be out of office, says Bush (Breaking News)
Italy recovers lost Byzantine frescos from Greece (Breaking News)
Mystery footprints restore warring scene (Breaking News)
75 years later, Bonnie and Clyde are legends that won't die (Breaking News)
'Filth' maps row embroils Google Earth in Japan (Breaking News)
Ronald Reagan to be honoured with a London statue (Breaking News)
Soldiers gather at Monte Cassino to remember 'forgotten battle' (Breaking News)
Rwandan guilty of 1994 atrocities (Breaking News)
Amid Media Circus, Scientists Doubt 'Ida' Is Your Ancestor (Breaking News)
Looted sculpture returns to Albania (Breaking News)
Analysis: Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths (Breaking News)
Nick Draper is changing our view of British abolitionism (Historians in the News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Mancow Learns that Waterboarding is Torture (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
First Black Mayor in City Known for Klan Killings (Breaking News)
Tiananmen Now Seems Distant to China's Students (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: No Liberty at Liberty (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : SALUTE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : NORTH KOREAN GULAG BACK IN THE NEWS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
SHELDON RICHMAN: Progressive Talk-Show Hosts Split on Obama Plan (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Iron Lady to meet the Pope in a private audience at the Vatican (Breaking News)
A far cry from Colditz: Games, gardening and strolling to church... the life of a German PoW in Britain (Breaking News)
Polish outrage at Spiegel cover story (Breaking News)
Stasi spy shot West German protester in inflammatory 1967 killing (Breaking News)
Obama takes aim at Bush-era security (Breaking News)
The Afterlife of George W. Bush (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Kluge Prizewinner Romila Thapar Discusses Perceptions of India’s Past (Historians in the News)
Oklahoma History Center to close two days of week (Historians in the News)
Renewed fight over history in Russia (Breaking News)
National Security Archive Testifies to House Oversight Committee About Challenges Facing National Archives (Historians in the News)
U. of Colorado Makes It Official: Ward Churchill Is Not Welcome Back (Breaking News)
Souter Decries Lack of Civics Knowledge, Plans to Do Something About it (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Now David Souter's sounding the civics alarm (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Ex-inmate recalls days of abuse at Abu Ghraib (Breaking News)
Iraq war has caused bitterness and resentment, says British foreign secretary (Breaking News)
Rome to open gladiators training ground to public (Breaking News)
Forged art legacy of Vietnam war (Breaking News)
Patriot Act Likely Helped Thwart NYC Terror Plot, Security Experts Say (Breaking News)
PEW: Independents Take Center Stage in Obama Era (Breaking News)
Former Soviet Leader Gorbachev Slams Russian Political Leaders (Breaking News)
ACLU says school censored student's Harvey Milk report (Breaking News)
National Archives loses hard drive with Clinton era records (Breaking News)
Report Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories (Breaking News)
Why the Civilian Toll After D-Day Is Different From That in Afghanistan (Breaking News)
Obama Announces Review of Classification Policies (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: "Abolish the Monarchy!" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Checkpoint Charlies: Irreverent tributes to Berlin's brutal past spark outrage (Breaking News)
Obama seeks support for Guantanamo closure after Senate rebuke (Breaking News)
Italy's Berlusconi compares refugee conditions to Nazi death camps (Breaking News)
Learn from your history, Biden warns leaders during Balkan tour (Breaking News)
East German Stasi tried to recruit Merkel as a spy (Breaking News)
Algerian Veterans Rewarded? (Breaking News)
Guantanamo inmate gets US trial (Breaking News)
Gurkhas win right to settle in UK (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Windsor Castle antique furniture to be sold at auction (Breaking News)
MLK movie in limbo as King siblings squabble (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Doing Well by Doing Good (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Trawlers are destroying historic wrecks, say explorers (Breaking News)
Ancient handle with Hebrew text found in Jerusalem (Breaking News)
1940 massacre of Poles remains potent issue (Breaking News)
'Don't lie about Russia's war history' (Breaking News)
Chinese revolutionary choir kicks off national tour (Breaking News)
Steven Spielberg to direct Martin Luther King film (Breaking News)
Louis XVI's final testament discovered (Breaking News)
Coroner: Human Bones Found in Indiana Barbershop Are Prehistoric (Breaking News)
Cost of Lord Nelson's 'menage-a-trois' shown in household accounts (Breaking News)
NAACP, Homestead in dispute over Confederate flag (Breaking News)
Kremlin Demands New History Lessons (Breaking News)
Sale of movie rights to Spielberg sparks new battle among King siblings (Breaking News)
MPs' expenses: last time Speaker was ejected from Commons was 16 (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: What happens when the people gain direct control of the government (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Investigation Into Huge Loss of Computerized Clinton Data (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Are Americans Still Stupid? (Just How Stupid Are We?)
AMY H. STURGIS: 10 Greatest Libertarian Science Fiction Stories (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Welcome to the Future: Obama's Youth Corps Commercial (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Scientist: Cannibal Humans Ate Neanderthals Into Extinction (Breaking News)
Ken Burns tells BC grads to revisit history (Historians in the News)
Claim: CIA cannot be trusted (Breaking News)
Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists (Breaking News)
Drop in Tourism Adds to Egypt's Economic Woes (Breaking News)
11 years old and already keenly interested in Roman Britain (Breaking News)
Mercury Pollution's Oldest Traces Found in Peru (Breaking News)
Torture Practices of the Ancient World (Breaking News)
US Navy commemorates forgotten WW II disaster (West Loch) (Breaking News)
China frees Tiananmen Square 'hooligan' (Breaking News)
Scientists piece together human ancestry (Breaking News)
Parallels abound in killing of journalists three decades apart (Breaking News)
Treaty on antiquities hinders access for museums, says past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (Historians in the News)
Court Says White House Can Keep Memos on Bush E-mails Private (Breaking News)
Just don't mention Hitler: Young Germans learn to fall in love with their country again (Breaking News)
Scholars Ask Obama Not to Send a Wreath to Confederate Memorial (Historians in the News)
Old Belize mill is first site that is not a Maya ruin to be declared an archaeological site (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
GIL TROY: In Memory of David Herbert Donald (1920-2009) (Gil Troy)
Roundup
In a new book, Eugene D. Genovese describes a devoted and intellectually stimulating partnership with his late wife, also a historian of note (Historians in the News)
New book asks historians how they became historians (Historians in the News)
From Serving in Iraq to Welcoming White House Guests (Breaking News)
On Fiery Birth of Israel, Memories of 2 Sides Speak (Breaking News)
Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker? (Breaking News)
French priest interviews Hitler's willing executioners in Ukraine (Breaking News)
David Herbert Donald has died (Historians in the News)
Fossil find may be monkey, human ancestor (Breaking News)
Legend of Geronimo's bones one of many about the Apache chief (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Lindsey Graham Rants Against Ron Paul, Libertarians (and for the Iraq War) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Greece spars with Macedonia over giant Alexander statue (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : BATCH OF GOOD NEWS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Colorado Man Facing Federal Looting Charges (Breaking News)
Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts (Breaking News)
Supreme Court rules on 9/11 case (Breaking News)
Holocaust Denial Widespread Among Israel's Arabs (Breaking News)
Statue of Former President Beheaded in Ohio (Breaking News)
The long history of asceticism of armies (Breaking News)
Blair awarded $1m prize for international relations work (Breaking News)
Discovery of 'genocide' priest taints Vatican (Breaking News)
Rangoon locked down ahead of Aung San Suu Kyi trial (Breaking News)
Vietnam veteran is oldest US soldier to die in Iraq (Breaking News)
MI5 to escape criticism over 7/7 bombings (Breaking News)
Ex-Beatle Asks Obama To Back Mideast Peace (Breaking News)
Darfur rebel to appear before ICC (Breaking News)
RAF ending 19-year Iraq mission (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... May 18-24, 2009 (This Week in History)
Roundup
Dental studies suggest free black Africans may have sailed with Columbus (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RODERICK T. LONG: Anarchy in Vegas (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Queensboro Bridge gets birthday bash with tributes and big blast (Breaking News)
Spanish dictator Franco 'only had one testicle' (Breaking News)
British POW's son fights for apology from Japanese PM (Breaking News)
Innocents killed on sunken liner (Breaking News)
Centre sheds light on sea kingdom (Breaking News)
Eminent scientist set for honour (Breaking News)
Designer of POW MIA Flag, Newt Heisley, Dead at 88 (Breaking News)
Scientists study how Navajo used smoke signals (Breaking News)
German Fossil Found to Be Early Primate (Breaking News)
Survivors Shed Light on Dark Days of Khmer Rouge (Breaking News)
Modest Successes and Missed Chances in Pope's Trip (Breaking News)
Rusty Eisenberg defends Mark Rudd (Historians in the News)
Citing Auschwitz, Pope Assails Hatred (Breaking News)
Revelations about Rumsfeld in new GQ (Breaking News)
Historians examine links between Lincoln and Mormonism (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Alexander Cockburn Slams Morris Dees (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Japanese-American Woman Gets Honorary Degree 60 Years After Internment Halted Studies (Breaking News)
More than half of Americans now pro-life (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: David Niven Bursts His Own Balloon (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
UK Justice Minister Straw reveals father was WWII C.O. (Breaking News)
Roundup
Dick Morris: Obama's credit card reform is a fraud (Roundup: Media's Take)
"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
‘Made in U.S.A.’ Shines After Makeover (Met Exhibit/NYC) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Animatronic Obama Going to Disney World With High-Tech Style (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Memorial Day Miracle At 'The Wall' [video 3 min 17 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Betty Ford - The Real Deal [video 56 min 29 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Gordon Wood: The Real Treason of Aaron Burr (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Ted Widmer: Redeeming Martin Van Buren [podcast 42 min 49 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Peggy Noonan: A tribute to America's war heroes, past and present. (Roundup: Media's Take)
James Marson: Russia and Ukraine Battle Over Their Shared History (Roundup: Talking About History)
'Sherlock Holmes' violin created (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Calling the Queen's Authenticity into Question (Nefertiti) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robert Gellately: Is Another Hitler Possible? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Pessimism: In our Age as in Seneca’s the worst is always possible (Roundup: Media's Take)
Panic!: A History of Financial Crisis [podcast 53 min 00 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
(The Intervention of) Traditional Family Values [podcast 53 min 00 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Drew Gilpin Faust: Death and the American Civil War (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Brooks: Cheney Lost to Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Drew Gilpin Faust Interviewed About the History of Death and Mourning [Podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
'The Producers' is not a musical about Nazism but about the boundaries of taste (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Charles Krauthammer: Obama's Deeds Vindicate Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael C. Desch: Apocalypse Not ... Stalin's bomb wasn't the end of the world. Ahmadinejad's won't be either (Roundup: Media's Take)
Calling Queen Nefertiti's Authenticity into Question (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Timothy Burke: What’s Distinctive About Africanist Historiography? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Norman Solomon: The March of Folly, Continued (Roundup: Media's Take)
Louis Warren: How We Got Here ... Thoughts on the State of California (Roundup: Historians' Take)
"The Pictures Generation 1974-1984" (Exhibit/NYC) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The timeless beauty of La Renaissance à Prato (Exhibit/Paris) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Susan Blum: Should China Copy the West on Academic Integrity? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael D. Lemonick: Ida: Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! (Not Really) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Six Ways the Af-Pak War Is Expanding (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Voice of Mickey Mouse Dies (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rick Atkinson: Ten Things Every American Student Should Know About Our Army in World War II (Roundup: Talking About History)
Abraham Verghese: Was Lincoln Dying Before He Was Shot? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Daniel Pipes: A History of Muslim Terrorism against Jews in the United States (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bridge to Somewhere: Lessons from the New Deal [podcast] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
'Kryptos' and Dan Brown: Inside the CIA's code of secrecy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Glimpse of a WWII POW camp [video 2 min 13 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Priya Satia: The shadow of history passes over Pakistan (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nader Mousavizadeh: Bringing Iran In From the Cold (Roundup: Media's Take)
Douglas J. Feith: How to Win the 'Long, Hard Slog' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Was "Little Orphan Annie" a brief for conservatism? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian E. Zelizer: Democrats play defense on security (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Larry Kramer: Homo Sex in Colonial America (Roundup: Talking About History)
John Steele Gordon: Why Government Can't Run a Business (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Fritz Lang, Trailing Nazis (now on DVD) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Cathy Young: Lessons of WW II (Roundup: Talking About History)
Editorial in Spiegel Online: Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers (Roundup: Talking About History)
M K Bhadrakumar: A neo-con Yankee in Karzai's court (Roundup: Media's Take)
Christopher Beam: The great American tradition of sending your political rivals overseas. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Schama: America’s phobia of banks (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Greece recovers stolen antiquities from Germany, Belgium, Britain (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Frescoes among recovered treasures (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Memorial to slaves established at Jackson's The Hermitage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Führer Returns to Berlin, This Time Saluted Only by Laughs (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Edwin Black: The Hostmen—The World’s First Fuel Cartel (Roundup: Talking About History)
Noam Chomsky: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia (Roundup: Media's Take)
Armchair traveling through the WWW (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
John Kearney: Netanyahu's gift of Mark Twain book to Obama is loaded (Roundup: Media's Take)
Exhibit examines myth that Germany fended off Roman intrusions in historic battle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Hisahiko Okazaki: The Perry Approach to Pyongyang (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jack Goldsmith: The Cheney Fallacy ... Why Obama is waging a more effective war on terror than Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jay Parini: A survivor of the Armenian massacre turns trauma to testament (Roundup: Talking About History)
Dahr Jamail: How Some Anthropologists Have Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Army (Roundup: Talking About History)
Victoria Toensing: Critics Still Haven't Read the 'Torture' Memos (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Posner: Is the Conservative Movement Losing Steam? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Vandals make off with Garfield's head (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Obama Revives Guantanamo Tribunals [video 3 min 58 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Obama Calls For 'Open Minds' Amid Abortion Debate [video 4 min 28 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
McGovern Warns Obama of LBJ Legacy [video 3 min 40 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Anne-Marie O'Connor: Payments and Apologies for Victims of Guatemala's Civil War (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tamil Tiger Leader Killed; Sri Lanka Claims Victory in 25-Year Civil War [video 26 min 00 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Juan Cole Speech: Forging a New Relationship with the Muslim World [video 62 min 14 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Interview with Conservative Historian – Warns against Obama’s action in Afghanistan [video 42 min 41 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Alan S. Blinder: Let's hope 2010 is not 1936 (Roundup: Media's Take)
U.S. Holocaust Museum Opens Exhibit on Genocide (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jared Genser and Meghan Barron: The Burmese Junta Still Fears Suu Kyi (Roundup: Media's Take)
Frank Rich: Obama Can't Turn the Page on Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch, British Library, London (review) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
'The Producers' Receives Standing Ovation in Berlin (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Majidi to return with TV series on Prophet Muhammad (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
"Painting A Wall" opens at the Finborough Theatre, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Richard M. Langworth: Obama, Churchill and Torture (Roundup: Talking About History)
Scorsese Will Distribute Restored Films via Internet (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Martin van Creveld: Obama should follow Carter's example on Middle East (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: Obama and Netanyahu Meet ... What's Next? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Our tattoos, ourselves (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jonathan Alter: Now is not the time to compromise on health care (Roundup: Media's Take)
Groundbreaking exhibit on historic German-Roman battle opens (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Centre sheds light on sea kingdom (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Documentary about a secret basketball game played between black and white teams (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of May 10, 2009
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Israel Wipes Palestine off the Map! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Scotland's First family history centre opens (Breaking News)
War sea dog statue shipped abroad (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: Your nominations will bring us a History Carnival (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Amazing Graphics on Economic Growth (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MUBARAK'S EGYPT& THE ISLAMISTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MODERN TIMES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: The ticking bomb that is Pakistan (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Stanford Historians Revive an Agrarian Tradition: Walking the Farm (Historians in the News)
Is the Google book search deal good for historians? (Historians in the News)
Armenian genocide controversy lands Ohio congressional candidate in hearing before Elections Commission (Breaking News)
Interior Secretary Salazar Urged to Stop Museum Plan for Valley Forge National Historical Park (Breaking News)
Sardinians unlock 'sardonic grin' (Breaking News)
Pyramids face danger ... from tourists' body heat (Breaking News)
Sir Edmund Hillary's family in court battle with museum (Breaking News)
Italy allows vigilantes for first time since Mussolini's Blackshirts (Breaking News)
Frank Partnoy describes Ivar Kreuger as the man responsible for one of the top five financial schemes of all time (Historians in the News)
World War II bomb dug up by pigs (Breaking News)
Powell aide says torture helped build Iraq war case (Breaking News)
Kuwaitis mourn the missing in Iraq (Breaking News)
A symbol of suburban life is losing its cache (Breaking News)
Thomas Becket paintings unveiled in Spain (Breaking News)
University of North Dakota Dropping 'Fighting Sioux' Nickname, Logo (Breaking News)
Investigators: Graves at reform school site hold fire, flu victims (Breaking News)
Pelosi Acknowledges She Was Told of Waterboarding in 2003 (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: GERMAN POPE DENIES RESPONSIBILITY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
American who swam to see Aung San Suu Kyi is Vietnam veteran (Breaking News)
Obama to relaunch military courts for Guantanamo suspects (Breaking News)
The Village and the Nazi Labor Camp (Breaking News)
Vietnam photographer Van Es dies; took Saigon rooftop evacuation photo (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: The 81% Tax Increase (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Nascar's Roots May Go Back to Medieval Tournaments (Breaking News)
Blogs
SAGE ROSS: The Two Cultures, 50 years later (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Michael Oren, new Israeli ambassador to US, outlines 7 threats to Israel's existence (Historians in the News)
US returns Ur to Iraq (Breaking News)
Civil War Soldier Found By Work Crews (TN) (Breaking News)
Harvey Milk Day ? Soon. (Breaking News)
"America's Racial Trend: White" (The Daily Beast headline) (Breaking News)
Vatican Reveals Letter That Split England From Roman Church (Breaking News)
House OKs money for WWII mariners (Breaking News)
Ancient Elite Island With Pyramid Found in Mexico (Breaking News)
Michelangelo's 'first painting' bought (Breaking News)
Secret Tiananmen memoirs revealed (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Camp NAMA and Task Force 121 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
The PhD students who are giving history a lift (Historians in the News)
Quebec historian gives high school history class a failing grade (Historians in the News)
James Carville says Democrats will dominate for 40 years (Breaking News)
Philip Zelikow testifies that US adopted torture as a practice under Bush (Historians in the News)
'Old South' fraternity parading in Confederate uniforms. Again. (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: 2010's Worst Congressional Candidate (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
STEVEN HORWITZ: You Can't Pick and Choose with the Rule of Law and the Constitution (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
In Boots Likely Worn on Fateful Night, Expert Finds Clues to Lincoln's Persona (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Stonehenge to undergo major revamp (Breaking News)
Tiananmen Ghosts: The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader (Breaking News)
Court fines man for beheading wax Hitler (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: NEW YORKER on Bankruptcy and Debtors' Prison (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Florida touts its history online (Breaking News)
Texas gets new state historian (Historians in the News)
Millennial Generation Will End Culture Wars, Researchers Say (Breaking News)
Mother Jones: Zelikow torture memo has been located and will be declassified (Historians in the News)
Threats made against director of Iraq Museum (Breaking News)
Top Ph.D. Programs, Shrinking--including history (Historians in the News)
Report Warns of Insolvency for Social Security, Medicare (Breaking News)
Hesitation at White House On Releasing Abuse Photos (Breaking News)
Historian Donald Cole reflects on his life, career, and experiences as a member of the Grant Study (Historians in the News)
David Duke: Former KKK grand wizard living in Austria (Breaking News)
'D Day dodgers' prepare for attention (Breaking News)
Elderly Nazi Suspects Continue to Evade Justice (Breaking News)
Pope John Paul II Gunman Would Like to Convert to Christianity (Breaking News)
Holocaust denier faces jail in Australia for contempt (Breaking News)
Fishermen catch human skulls off coast of Thailand (Breaking News)
Letters from Queen Mary to friend to be sold at auction (Breaking News)
Polish Family Seeks Return Of Old Royal Palace (Breaking News)
Boy on milk carton still missing after 30 years (Breaking News)
Ancient Figurine of Voluptuous Woman Is Found (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: Quotations Galore (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : GOOD NEWS: CHINESE CONSUME MORE; AMERICANS LESS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Tiananmen Square leader arrested, family says (Breaking News)
David Kilcullen's Iraq invasion lesson for the US: don't do it again (Breaking News)
Jailed US journalist Roxana Saberi 'had secret document on war in Iraq' (Breaking News)
Civil servant Arthur Wynn revealed as recruiter of Oxford spies (Breaking News)
David Miliband: Barack Obama Middle East plan best since Camp David (Breaking News)
Britain and Argentina lodge rival claims to seabed around Falklands (Breaking News)
Pope Benedict XVI backs creation of Palestinian homeland alongside Israel (Breaking News)
Unites States 'helped win Battle of Britain through American super-fuel' (Breaking News)
CIA Outsourced Development of Interrogation Plan (Breaking News)
Sobibor survivor: Demjanjuk trial will go down in history (Breaking News)
Hitler waxwork attack man fined (Breaking News)
Czechs planned 'Adriatic tunnel' (Breaking News)
Demjanjuk 'fit to stay in jail' (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Where Has the Spirit of Watergate Gone? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Facebook Boots Some Holocaust Denial Groups (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
LSU Graduate School dean ousted (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Riggenbach on Revisionism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
History 101: Trust Busting (Breaking News)
Taking Sides on Sociology Professor's E-Mail Comparing Israel and Nazis (Historians in the News)
Alumni Try to Rewrite History on College-Newspaper Web Sites (Breaking News)
On the Bench and Off, the Eminently Quotable Justice Scalia (Breaking News)
Berliners regret near-total destruction of wall (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Poll: Repubs now even with Dems on handling economy ... Dissecting the results (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Sarah Palin book due out next spring (Breaking News)
Pope's WWII-era activities stir up controversy on Holy Land visit (Breaking News)
Aboriginal remains found in Britain to be handed back (Breaking News)
King's grave in Turkey found by accident (Breaking News)
Stone Age Superglue Found -- Hints at Unknown Smarts? (Breaking News)
Race To Preserve The World’s Oldest Submerged Town, Pavlopetri, Greece (Breaking News)
Pope was or was not a member of Hitler Youth? (Breaking News)
Think your life is bad? Archaeologists show us worse. (Breaking News)
Mesolithic tool unearthed by 9-year-old schoolboy (Breaking News)
Blogs
TROY KICKLER: REAGAN MYTHS ON THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Defining Academic Freedom Down (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Judge Napolitano: Bush is a Felon (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Jefferson's retirement retreat restored (Breaking News)
Cave Painting Depicts Extinct Marsupial Lion (Breaking News)
'Viking ship' discovered in Sweden's largest lake (Breaking News)
Ancient tenon heads discovered in Ancash, Peru (Breaking News)
Hidden in O.C.'s foothills, a gnarled reminder of California's past (Breaking News)
Hand-beast prints found on isle (Scotland) (Breaking News)
Movie stars help Titanic survivor (Breaking News)
Security aim for Bronze Age show (Breaking News)
Pope visits Jerusalem holy sites (Breaking News)
Lennon's bloody clothes displayed (Breaking News)
The Pope pays his respects at Western Wall amid disappointment over his Holocaust remarks (Breaking News)
Neo-Nazis attack concentration camp survivors during memorial service (Breaking News)
Demjanjuk Lands in Munich (Breaking News)
Bitter-sweet memories of Berlin Airlift (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
For Chicago Tourism, A One-Man Stimulus Package (Breaking News)
Berlin Wall as a Piece of History: Too-Good Riddance? (Breaking News)
Death camp guard Demjanjuk deported one more time (Breaking News)
60 Minutes Expose: Was The Perfect Spy A Double Agent? (Breaking News)
Pope Lands in Israel -- denounces Holocaust (Breaking News)
Pope visit boosts Jordanian site of Jesus baptism (Breaking News)
Oldest Human Hairs Found in Hyena Dung (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Latest Poll: "Congress Pushes Cap and Trade, But Just 24% Know What It Is" (Just How Stupid Are We?)
CLAIRE B. POTTER: It's a Girl! A Recent And Partial History of the Nomination of Women To The Supreme Court (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RICK SHENKMAN: Paperback now available (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Evidence of prehistoric humans in India (Breaking News)
Critic scores outside CIA history panel for secretiveness (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : DOLLARS SEEM RISKIER THAN STOCKS?/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
CIA terror suspects 'kept awake for 11 days' (Breaking News)
New spy book names Engelbert Broda as KGB atomic spy in Britain (Breaking News)
Last surviving MP to serve during World War II, dies aged 93 (Breaking News)
The pope who was once a member of the Hitler Youth arrives in the Holy Land and condemns anti-Semitism (Breaking News)
Russia celebrates victory day ahead of army reforms (Breaking News)
Iraqis tried for UK troop deaths (Breaking News)
Hague prosecutor to visit Serbia (Breaking News)
Kenyan Mau Mau veterans to sue UK (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... May 11-17, 2009 (This Week in History)
Roundup
In Britain, Guys With Metal Detectors Find Respect Along With History (Breaking News)
Remember the Symbionese Liberation Army? Last member's out of jail. (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Officials Are Urged to Heed Lessons of 1976 Flu Outbreak (Breaking News)
LDS Church backs move to turn Mountain Meadows massacre site into National Historic Landmark (Breaking News)
Senior citizens launch oral history project on blacks in Broward County (Breaking News)
Language of Jesus keeps memories alive in Israel (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : Then there is Russian stupidity (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Russia Moves to Ban Criticism of WWII Win (Breaking News)
Journal from Darwin's ship HMS Beagle sells for nearly 100,000 pounds (Breaking News)
New threat to Iraq's antiquities - tourism (Breaking News)
Prehistoric man's cave found in southwest China (Breaking News)
Parks Fortify Israel’s Claim to Jerusalem (Breaking News)
NYT gives favorable review to Juan Cole's new book, with one "but" (Historians in the News)
Fear of a Swine Flu Epidemic in 1976 Offers Some Lessons, and Concerns, Today (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: Commerce Clause Question (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Scouring Obama's Past for Clues on Judiciary (Breaking News)
Shoot to kill, Britain's answer to massacre at Munich (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Stanley I. Kutler: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bao pu: What Really Happened at Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Warren Kozak: Curtis LeMay and the Tragedy of War (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Thomas Becket paintings unveiled in Spain (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Hitler: A History of Infamy, Sold Off in Little Pieces (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Vietnam photographer Van Es dies (Obituaries)
Arnold Holle: Let Them Talk (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph S. Nye: Democracy Promotion Reconsidered (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bao Pu: What Really Happened at Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Clifford Coonan: Revealed ... the inside story of the Tiananmen massacre (Roundup: Talking About History)
Groundbreaking exhibit on historic German-Roman battle opens (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Thomas Becket paintings unveiled in Spain (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
History channel announces new original programming (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Andrew Roberts: How Torture Helped Win WWII (Roundup: Historians' Take)
How Avedon Blurred His Own Image (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Spencer Dew: Pigs, Plagues, Politics, and Religion (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tony Platt: The bones of Geronimo and Yale's Skull and Bones (Roundup: Talking About History)
Thomas S. Mullaney: The Chinese Typewriter (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jeff Wasserstrom: World Expos have been a snooze in the West for decades. But China's first one ever next year will be a wake-up call (Roundup: Historians' Take)
James Carroll: Why the Catholic Fight Over Obama Matters (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Obama Reversal on Torture Photos ... Is He Afraid they would Destabilize Iraq? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Manan Ahmed: Pakistan as a failed state ... an old meme (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Don Williams: Shout it from the rooftops--Al-Libi--keep his torture story alive (Roundup: Media's Take)
Cathy Young: Lessons From World War II (Roundup: Talking About History)
Gershom Gorenberg: There are multiple accounts of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Making peace is not a matter of choosing one side's story over the other's (Roundup: Media's Take)
The President And The Pirate (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Forget Tom Cruise--Read The True Story Of The Nazi Plot To Assassinate Hitler (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
HNN Poll: What's the impact of the recession on your school's history department (and students)? (HNN Polls)
Is it a Michelangelo? Done when he was a teen? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Joshua Wolf Shenk: What Makes Us Happy? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Muston Kimit: The beauty pageant in the 21st century (Roundup: Media's Take)
Humberto Fontova: Britain Welcomes Che Guevara's Daughter -- But Bans Michael Savage (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Yonatan Touval: A Recognition Israel Doesn’t Need (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: The hidden hand of Dick Cheney (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nick Danforth: Moving Beyond Black and White on the Armenian Genocide (Roundup: Talking About History)
Mark Naison: For Most Americans, The Worst Consequences of The Economic Crisis Are Yet To Come (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Adam Cohen: The Supreme Court’s Hostility to the Voting Rights Act (Roundup: Media's Take)
Maureen Dowd: So Republicans think it's ok NOW for a former veep to criticize the incumbent POTUS? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Looking for Dynamic Male Expert Host for Development Pilot project on the Discovery Science Channel (Jobs)
Ronald and Allis Radosh: Why Truman recognized Israel (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonathan Freedland: Progress is doomed if Obama is merely a cleverer version of Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ben Hur: The blockbuster no one will understand (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ruth Rosen: How to return Mother's Day to its original meaning (Roundup: Historians' Take)
AHR Forum: “Simon Schama’s A History of Britain” (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
AHA focuses on digital history (Roundup: Talking About History)
High Noon, Godfather II, Grand Illusion, and 22 other indispensable movies for understanding war and diplomacy. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jon Stewart to Make History Special (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jack Shafer: Learning from the 1962-63 New York newspaper strike (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry T. King Jr., Prosecutor at Nuremberg, Dies at 89 (Obituaries)
Brian Hanrahan: Hungary's role in the 1989 revolutions (Roundup: Talking About History)
CBS feature on Walker Evans's postcards--now on exhibit at the Met (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Eiffel Tower wasn't always a beloved icon (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jeff Biggers: Dear Mr. President ... Declare August 3rd as Armistice Day in the Appalachian Coalfields (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nick Bravo & Jana Remy: What’s Not New About Swine Flu (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing -- By David S. Brown (Books About History & Historians)
Jeff Wasserstrom: Should historians ignore blogs? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Steven Plaut: Spain's War Against Terror and Double Standards (Roundup: Media's Take)
Iran: Preservation Techniques for “Salt Men” to Be Upgraded (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Biocides inducing resistance in Lascaux cave’s microbes (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio help pay nursing home fees for last Titanic survivor (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Controversy over cleaning of ancient art in Utah (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tearful Yoko Ono defends John Lennon murder clothes exhibit (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Liverpool Museums will give Aboriginal remains back to Australia (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
William McGurn: Obama and the Clinton Legacy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bill Frezza: Ominous Parallels ... Is Obama the Next Bush? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chinese mark quake anniversary [video 1 min 02 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Berlin airlift anniversary marked [video 3 min 18 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Don McNay: We Need Business Leaders Who Know About History (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonathan Cohn: Why industry is joining Obama at White House to discuss healthcare reform (Roundup: Media's Take)
NYT Critic: Post-9/11 Realities Warp a Soaring Memorial Design (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stephen M. Walt: Richard or Jimmy or Bill? (Oh my!) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Does literary tourism enhance or cheapen the experience of reading? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A documentary tracks a 21st-century Thor Heyerdahl's disastrous voyage across the North Atlantic. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Dominic Tierney: How Somali Pirates Could Take Obama Hostage (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Gerson: Religion and Our Civic Behavior (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel A. Bell: The Confucian Party (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Neiwert: Famed WWII historian Bill O'Reilly smears yet another Allied hero (Roundup: Media's Take)
Obit. of the author of Empire of the Sun (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Manisha Sinha: The Grand Old Party of Secession (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Max Hastings: The allies fight the 'wrong' war in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Greek government unveils new home for Elgin Marbles (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Chinese massacre film stirs debate (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Frank Rich: The American Press on Suicide Watch (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sorry: North Carolinian returns Roman artifact 25 years later (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sculpture commemorates Cold War's Checkpoint Alpha (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
James Surowiecki: How banks got big (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dorothy Samuels: The Deadly Myth of Gun Control in Electoral Politics (Roundup: Media's Take)
The Two Sides of ‘Star Trek’ (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stephen L. Carter: Let the Nominee Stay Home (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lincoln Center: Mixed Reviews (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Editorial in the Washington Times: Obama's Vietnam? ... The ghost of Diem lurks in Pakistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Haass: The Return of American Realism (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hitler 'self-portrait' might be fake (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of May 3, 2009
Roundup
Mystery of message in a bottle found at Auschwitz solved (Breaking News)
Israel demands Pope Benedict XVI condemn Holocaust deniers (Breaking News)
Hitler 'self-portrait' might be fake (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Convicted, Condemned, Commanding (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Is History Repeating Itself? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Russia still searching for WWII dead (Breaking News)
Secret list of British prisoners of war found buried in Auschwitz bunker (Breaking News)
Dmitry Medvedev at Moscow missile parade: 'Russia will teach aggressors a lesson' (Breaking News)
Son Says U.S. Has Ordered Accused Nazi Guard Demjanjuk to Surrender (Breaking News)
Korean War Ace Fighter Pilot Harold Fischer, Famously Held Captive by Chinese, Dies (Breaking News)
NYC Mayor Calls for Meeting to Resolve Power Struggle at Ground Zero (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
2010 Obama budget for history projects is ... (Historians in the News)
Souter's Exit Opens Door for a More Influential Justice (Breaking News)
Battle of Britain hero statue will stand in Trafalgar Square (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : MOTHER'S DAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Ancient forests which gave us the apple are in danger of extinction (Breaking News)
Pope on 'high-wire act' tour of Middle East (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Little Orphan Annie as Anti-New Deal Hero (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : ISRAEL - LOOKING GOOD and SOUNDING HIP (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : DIPLOMACY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
RICK SHENKMAN: The Dijon Mustard Scandal (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
So you want Albert Einstein's Berlin phone number? (Breaking News)
Blogger: Georgia legislature cribbing from Jefferson (Re: Georgia resolution on nullification) (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Obama proposes a new civics program (Just How Stupid Are We?)
HNN : MORE DEMOCRATS THAN REPUBCLICANS BLAME JEWS FOR ECONOMY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Sinai fort may hold clues to ancient Egypt defenses (Breaking News)
Napoleon Bonaparte – the romantic novelist (Breaking News)
Earhart supporters vow to keep site (Breaking News)
Russia's massive leaning statue (Breaking News)
Statue of Liberty's crown to re-open July 4 (Breaking News)
Facebook urged to remove Holocaust-denial groups (Breaking News)
45th Annual Mississippi Civil Rights Martyrs Memorial Service and Conference and March for Justice (Breaking News)
Mississippi State panel will allow old records' destruction (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: Guernica, mon amour (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
'Torture memos' unlikely to result in criminal prosecution (Breaking News)
Second World War history is not Barack Obama's strong suit (Breaking News)
Barack Obama to walk in footsteps of uncle who helped free Buchenwald (Breaking News)
Royal Navy flypast marks century of aviation (UK) (Breaking News)
Queen's Trinity Cross honour deemed unlawful by Privy Council (UK) (Breaking News)
Sichuan earthquake anniversary: Parents of victims told not to hold memorials (Breaking News)
Ex-Gurkha Soldiers Denied British Residency (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
McPherson explains why Wal-Mart shouldn't build near the Wilderness battlefield (Historians in the News)
Snags Hit Google Settlement With Authors and Publishers, and Antitrust Worries Rise (Historians in the News)
Louisiana State U. Press Might Get the Ax (Historians in the News)
Ghost of Genghis back to haunt West? (Breaking News)
Actor Robert Duvall joins battle against Walmart (Breaking News)
Abraham Lincoln's deathbed DNA to be tested for possible cancer (video) (Breaking News)
High court denies deportation stay for accused Nazi guard (Breaking News)
Torture devices from 16th century on sale (Breaking News)
Half century old casino in Vegas hit by fire (Moulin Rouge, the first integrated casino) (Breaking News)
Phoenician replica readies for Mediterranean crossing (Breaking News)
History programs largely escape Obama budget cuts (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Ron Paul on the Rachel Maddow Show (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
A rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia could have unintended consequences (Breaking News)
NYT Poll: What Happens to the American Dream in a Recession? (Breaking News)
Eric Foner taken to task in Pat Buchanan's conservative magazine (Historians in the News)
Rutgers conference honors memory of William Appleman Williams (Historians in the News)
Rome’s ‘talking statues’ to get sanitized (Breaking News)
Revealed: the face of the first European (Breaking News)
Indonesian 'hobbit' confirmed to be a new species (Breaking News)
Diary recounts Russian exploits (Breaking News)
'Ancient text' seized in Israel (Breaking News)
Pyramid site yields older relics (Breaking News)
Tourists return chip of Colosseum (Breaking News)
U.S. to Condemn Land for Flight 93 Memorial (Breaking News)
Paul Krugman vs. Niall Ferguson (Historians in the News)
Blogs
STEVEN HORWITZ: Helen Lovejoyism: A Continuing Series (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Libya applies for Lockerbie bomber to be sent home (Breaking News)
Exposed: MI5's secret deals in Camp X-ray (Breaking News)
Obama to Trace Family History in Germany (Breaking News)
UN court extends sentence of Serbian war criminal (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Is Murder by Drone a War Crime? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: Be Wary of the Center for Public Integrity Report (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Ceremony for English speakers who fought fascism (Breaking News)
Indian Business Students Turn to Hitler for Inspiration (Breaking News)
Israeli Police Nab Thieves Who Stole 1,900-Year-Old Document (Breaking News)
Name added to Vietnam Memorial helps family heal old wounds (Breaking News)
Auschwitz 'message in a bottle' given to museum (Breaking News)
Justice Souter Describes Judges' Impact on History as 'Slight' (Breaking News)
Someone in the White House tried to deep-six Philip Zelikow's anti-torture memo. Welcome to the latest Bush-era whodunit. (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: A Different Narrative (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Neanderthals babies didn't do the twist (Breaking News)
Archaeologists planning for Iran's largest rescue excavation (Breaking News)
85,000-year-old villages found in UAE (Breaking News)
Vandal damage to cave paintings in Lybia (Breaking News)
Khmer Rouge Tribunal Sheds Fresh Light on Old Wars (Breaking News)
Blogs
ANTHONY GREGORY: Bill O'Reilly Makes a Good Point (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RICK SHENKMAN: Do Americans believe in capitalism? Do they know what it is? (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Interview with Ronald C. White Jr. about Lincoln's faith (Historians in the News)
History professor writes book on Pete Seeger (Historians in the News)
Highland Park synagogue surprised to get photos of King visit (Breaking News)
Uncovering secrets from beyond the grave (WW I) (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Was Harry Truman a War Criminal? Jon Stewart Says Yes, Then No (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
For Benny Morris the Israeli left isn't where it used to be. (Historians in the News)
NPS to Receive $750 Million Under Economic Stimulus Plan (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Few East Germans interested in revisiting Stasi atrocities (Breaking News)
Taylor's Request for War Crimes Acquittal Rejected (Breaking News)
Accused Nazi guard asks US Supreme Court to stop deportation (Breaking News)
DNA test could shed light on Lincoln's last days, doctor says (Breaking News)
Richard Hovannisian: “A joint historians’ commission is a dangerous trap” (Historians in the News)
Memory of 'Haymarket' affair reminder of anarchism's relevance (Breaking News)
Feds Bailing Out States (Breaking News)
Duke University Press will publish a book by S. Ann Dunham, the mother of President Barack Obama (Breaking News)
California high school history teacher found guilty for saying creationism is "superstitious nonsense" (Historians in the News)
Daniel Pipes explains why he felt comfortable hiring Steven J. Rosen (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : ROBERT KAPLAN WANTS TO CONTAIN EXPANSIONIST IRAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
AARON BADY: Making Sense of Mahmood Mamdani's Saviors and Survivors (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
5,000-Year-Old Bones Found In Florida (Breaking News)
New York, Vermont events mark Champlain's 1609 explorations (Breaking News)
Pa. museum may allow DNA test of Lincoln's blood (Breaking News)
Famed Nefertiti bust 'a fake': expert (Breaking News)
Egypt finds 5,000-year-old tomb near Lahun pyramid (Breaking News)
China to excavate Peking Man site again, in hopes of more findings (Breaking News)
Swiss Guard considers female recruits (Breaking News)
Ned Kelly's family wants to reclaim remains of infamous Australian bushranger (Australia) (Breaking News)
Salamo Arouch, Jewish boxer, dies at 86 (Breaking News)
British and Australian war dead exhumed in France (Breaking News)
60 years after Second World War, Okinawa still rife with bombs (Breaking News)
New Map Collaboration Helps Tell Story of Durham's History (Breaking News)
No 10 denies Lumley 'Gurkha snub' (Breaking News)
39 Years Later Subject and Photographer of Iconic Kent State Image Reunite (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: US WANTS ISRAEL TO PAY FOR "RESET BUTTON" WITH ARABS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): Will it Remain Business as Usual in the Middle East? (Mark A. LeVine)
Roundup
Tiananmen activist Chai Ling sues makers of film about 1989 protest (Breaking News)
Poland sends prisoners to Auschwitz (Breaking News)
Bush Library Raises $100 Million in 100 Days (Breaking News)
Art historians claim Van Gogh's ear 'cut off by Gauguin' (Breaking News)
A Battle to Preserve a Visionary's Bold Failure in Electricity (USA) (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK GRIMSLEY: Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency, and Why It Matters (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Lost Manuscript Unmasks Details Of Original Ponzi (Breaking News)
Scientists reveal face of the first European (Breaking News)
1918 flu survivors share memories as research continues (Breaking News)
Historian Carma Hinton is being sued by Tiananmen Square student activist (Historians in the News)
Obama Has Chance to Select Justice With Varied Resume (Breaking News)
John Paul Jones Death Diagnosis (Breaking News)
60 years after WWII battle, Okinawa's unexploded bombs (Breaking News)
Penn historian Thomas Sugrue "has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country" (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MIDDLE EAST FOLLOWS THIRTIES' EUROPE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
AEON J. SKOBLE: Homeland Security tracking gaming habits? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Guenter Lewy, who denies Armenian genocide, suing Southern Poverty Law Center (Historians in the News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Innocent Until Proven Guilty Already Gone (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JAMES OTTESON: Proving the Negative (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Jesus on Property Rights and Resource Preservation (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
WWI war dead to be recovered from mass graves (Breaking News)
After 30 years, Margaret Thatcher is still the Iron Lady (Breaking News)
Revealed: Face of first European as fragments of 35,000-year-old skull are made flesh (Breaking News)
Is 'Dr Death' Aribert Heim Really Dead? (Breaking News)
Liberia's Taylor acquittal request rejected (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Historian Alfred McCoy: Obama Reluctance on Bush Prosecutions Affirms Culture of Impunity (Historians in the News)
Specter condemned Jim Jeffords' party switch in 2001 (Breaking News)
Muslim shrines bear witness to Iraq's Jew (Breaking News)
Depression Scares Are Hardly New (Breaking News)
As a Professor, Obama Held Pragmatic Views on Court (Breaking News)
NYT Profiles David H. Souter (Breaking News)
Justifying His Fiscal Policies, Obama Borrows From the G.O.P. (Breaking News)
Babylon Ruins Reopen in Iraq, to Controversy (Breaking News)
100 Days in the Footsteps of F.D.R. and L.B.J. (Breaking News)
Museum’s Egyptian Mummies: Visit for CT Scanning (Breaking News)
Relic Hunters Seek History, Find Trouble (Breaking News)
Report: American Indians all descended from single ancestral group (Breaking News)
Writer admits he fingered the wrong man in book about WW I soldier (Historians in the News)
Historian notes that Reagan wanted torturers put on trial (Historians in the News)
Jon Stewart Apologizes For Calling Truman a War Criminal (Breaking News)
The Iron Lady's legacy will not rust easily (Breaking News)
Former MI6 chief says Britain was 'dragged' into Iraq war (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: In Memory of Jack Kemp (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: Harry Truman's Choice (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Israel picks historian Michael Oren as ambassador to U.S. (Historians in the News)
Jack Kemp, Star on Field and in Politics, Dies at 73 (Breaking News)
Blogs
HNN : HISTORIAN OREN - INSPIRED CHOICE FOR ISRAELI ENVOY TO US (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
AEON J. SKOBLE: RIP Jack Kemp (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Stealing Land in Montgomery, Alabama (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: Jack Kemp, Quarterback (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Babylon Ruins Reopen in Iraq, to Controversy (Breaking News)
Secrets of 37,000 year old baby mammoth revealed (Breaking News)
Old Stone Inn may be oldest building in the city (Pittsburgh) (Breaking News)
Israel picks historian Michael Oren as ambassador to U.S. (Breaking News)
Tube survivor meets rescue family (Breaking News)
Ancient tsunami 'hit New York' (Breaking News)
Blogs
CLAIRE B. POTTER: Will Barack's Little Dog Bo Be Next? Annals of Tearoom Journalism (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... May 4-10, 2009 (This Week in History)
Roundup
Controversy over old Japanese maps on Google Earth (Breaking News)
Roundup
Brian Beutler and Eric Kleefeld: Sessions Subordinate: I Thought I'd Be Fired If I Objected To Being Called 'Boy' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joe Klein: Is This Health Care's Moment? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Nikki Gloudeman: 2,000-plus years of Afghanistan conquest, from Alexander the Great to Barack (Roundup: Talking About History)
Russia's massive leaning statue (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Thomas Sowell: A Dying Constitution (Roundup: Media's Take)
George Harrison unpublished lyrics on show at British Library (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Kampf: Not So Fast ... Rethinking America's Decline (Roundup: Media's Take)
Debra Burlingame: Obama and the 9/11 Families (Roundup: Media's Take)
Matthias Schulz: The Bloody Sack of Rome (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonah Goldberg: Obama's remarks on Churchill are history badly misread (Roundup: Media's Take)
Iraqi scientists join forces with Americans to save antiquities (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Johann Hari : The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Everyday is Doomsday in Washington (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Timothy P. O'Neill: Enough Ivy League judges on top court (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stanley I. Kutler: No more judges on the supreme court (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Scott McLemee: The resurrection of a pioneering cultural journalist (Roundup: Talking About History)
Max Boot: What to Read on Pirates (Roundup: Talking About History)
Instant karma: The V&A's Buddhist Gallery, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Nigsy? Trigger? N-word dilemma bounces on for Dam Busters II (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
After 1,000 years, women can see treasures of Mount Athos (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Seumas Milne: Thatcher's legacy is in ruins, but Britain is still in its thrall (Roundup: Talking About History)
Anatole Kaletsky: America will still rule the post-crisis world (Roundup: Media's Take)
The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life, the Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, review (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tate's Turner exhibition will show how he laboured to outdo Old Masters (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
BBC documentary “Iran and the West” reviewed in Tehran (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Deepak Tripathi: On Obama’s Pakistan Test (Roundup: Media's Take)
Richard Toye: Gordon Brown and the credit crunch in historical perspective (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard Toye: David Cameron's history lesson (UK) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
David Hall-Matthews: History could have predicted a global financial crisis (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Slate slide show: Has photography blinded us to the reality of the American West? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian Zelizer: Grateful Dead on health care (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Photographer who shot historic Kent State picture reunites with his subject on campus (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
More Sex, Less Conspicuous Consumption: How D.C.'S National Gallery Got Pompeii Wrong (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Fatima Bhutto: Obama's Murderous Guest (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Harsanyi: Sorry, history just ain't that easy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Alexander Vassiliev: "I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed" (Roundup: Talking About History)
Miss Betsey: A Memoir of Marriage by Eugene Genovese (Books About History & Historians)
Media Matters: Media myths and falsehoods about the Supreme Court (Roundup: Media's Take)
Allan H. Meltzer: Why the Federal Reserve must start to demonstrate the kind of courage and independence it has not recently shown (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Lawrence Rothfield: The Rape of Mesopotamia ... Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Barro & Jose Ursua: History shows the swine flu could take an economic toll (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christopher Hitchens: Why Obama cited Churchill on torture (Roundup: Media's Take)
Famed Nefertiti bust 'a fake': expert (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Peter Bergen: Afghan leader holding strong cards (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Martin Varisco: Our soldiers are bringing bibles to Afghans? Really? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Mackey: Pakistan’s British-Drawn Borders (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kate Phillips: A Post-Script on Churchill, Obama and Torture (Roundup: Media's Take)
Orin Kerr: The Myth of Justice Souter as a Yankee Republican (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Chet Huntley, Newscaster from the West [video 2 min 39] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Aleksander Kwasniewski: No More Berlin Walls (Roundup: Media's Take)
Gideon Rachman: Obama's 'apologies' are a strength (Roundup: Media's Take)
Arthur Herman: How Churchill Dealt with Thugs (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Selling the Marshall Plan on celluloid [video 3 min 54] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
WWI battle grave recovery begins [video 1 min 48 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Stephen T. Asma: Ancient Antidotes for Timeless Troubles (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Shedding light on the Catacombs of Rome (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Geneva row over African cultural heritage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Van Gogh's ear was cut off by friend Gauguin with a sword (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Andreas Umland: Will There Be a Second Crimean War? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
In ‘Kings,’ Television Tackles the Conflicted Saul (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Shribman: Presidents Don't Prosecute Their Predecessors (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Blundell: Margaret Thatcher's revolution (Roundup: Talking About History)
Bruce Anderson: Cometh the hour, cometh the woman ... Thatcher 30 years on (Roundup: Talking About History)
Chinese ceramics at British Museum gallery (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Museum about second Iranian president opens (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
In Berlin, Teaching Germany’s Jewish History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
National Security Archive: A Moment in Cold War History when the Fundamentals of the U.S. Nuclear Posture Were at Stake (Roundup: Talking About History)
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: "New Evidence" on FDR/Holocaust? Not New, Not Evidence (Roundup: Talking About History)
Howard Markel: American Epidemics, a Brief History (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Archaeologists have created the first fully comprehensive three-dimensional image of one of the Catacombs of Rome (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rodger Citron: The Supreme Court Considers a Powerful Challenge to the Voting Rights Act (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jesse Lemisch: Benjamin Franklin WAS a "distant... spouse" (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jack the Ripper 'was several different killers' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Ron Radosh: Israel’s Plight ... 1948 and Today (Roundup: Talking About History)
Week of April 26, 2009
Roundup
Egypt Retrieves 454 Ancient Artifacts From Eton's Myers Museum (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Shovel-Ready Jobs (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Hero Gurkha fights for granddaughter carer to be allowed to stay (Breaking News)
US government dumps children's colouring book that depicts 9/11 (Breaking News)
FDR tried to save Jewish refugees during Second World War, book claims (Breaking News)
Most ancient race (Breaking News)
Brazil clears Indian reservation (Breaking News)
Robert Capa photographs from Spanish Civil War found in 'Mexican Suitcase' (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: Calling a Spade a Spade (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Recreated, the Tudor garden where an ambitious earl wooed the Virgin Queen (Breaking News)
Namibia Bushmen were first people in 'Garden of Eden' (Breaking News)
Families' anger over delay into report on 7/7 security failings (Breaking News)
Calls for Iraq inquiry as troops withdraw (UK) (Breaking News)
Dinosaurs 'survived in a remote 'lost world' for half a million years before extinction' (Breaking News)
US government dumps children's colouring book that depicts 9/11 (Breaking News)
Remembering the 'Dutch Auschwitz' (Breaking News)
Poland seeks promises of funds to preserve Auschwitz (Breaking News)
Beatles Autographs Were Forged By George (Breaking News)
Demjanjuk loses deportation case (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Aren't All Good Historians Revisionists? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman (Breaking News)
Ming Dynasty replica junk sinks near end of epic voyage (Breaking News)
Blogs
ANTHONY GREGORY: An Introduction to Revisionism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
HNN : SMILE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : IRAN PUTS DOWN ROOTS IN LATIN AMERICA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Prof. Robinson's Odd E-Mail (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
HNN : PAKISTANI ARMY EXPLOITING WEAKNESS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
HNN : RUSSIAN MARKET DISINTEGRATES? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Liberal Watchdog Complaint: Media tout Obama polling falsehood (Breaking News)
Rep. Michele Bachmann--wrong again! (Breaking News)
"Dark Age" Temple Found in Turkey (Breaking News)
Make children memorise dates, says TV historian David Starkey (Historians in the News)
Fishkill land confirmed to be Revolutionary War gravesite (NY) (Breaking News)
Roosevelt and the Jews: A Debate Rekindled (Breaking News)
Georgia Governor Perdue signs Confederate History Month bill (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Three sorts of priest, part 3: important men, as long as nobody's looking (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Protectionism and the Great Depression (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
US News & World Report: Ranks history grad schools (Historians in the News)
Bancroft Prize winners celebrate (Historians in the News)
David McCullough warns against 'instant history' of Obama's first 100 days during Drew U. speech (Historians in the News)
David Kaiser falsely accused of making anti-Obama rant (Historians in the News)
Achille Lauro hijacker freed by Italy (Breaking News)
Spanish influenza killed hundreds in Santa Cruz in 1918 (Breaking News)
Six years after Saddam Hussein, Nouri al-Maliki tightens his grip on Iraq (Breaking News)
Make children memorise dates, says TV historian David Starkey (Breaking News)
Scientists dig for lessons from past pandemics (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: "Another Proof of the Expediency of Arming" (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Ayn Rand Quotation (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RICK SHENKMAN: Obama a Muslim? (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
No Race Gap Seen in 2008 Vote Turnout (Breaking News)
Chinese spy museum closed to foreigners (Breaking News)
Rare Penny Black hidden in attic (Breaking News)
Rare Darwin book sold for 35,000 pounds (Breaking News)
Rare Roman glass bowl found 1,700 years after it's buried next to merchant in East London (Breaking News)
The Instant American Revolution (Breaking News)
Current Crisis Shows Uncanny Parallels to Great Depression (Breaking News)
Spanish judge opens new probe into Guantanamo torture (Breaking News)
'Looted' Chinese relic auctioned (Breaking News)
Lebanon releases Hariri suspects (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Obama says Churchill didn't torture even in WW II (with dissenting views) (Breaking News)
Britain considers holding Malaya 'massacre' inquiry (Breaking News)
California Woman: My Father Was the Zodiac Killer (Breaking News)
Soldier's letters give first-hand look at Spanish flu pandemic (Breaking News)
Is FDR-Era Yardstick Still Relevant? (Breaking News)
Rename Portland street after Cesar Chavez? It will cost you. (Oregon) (Breaking News)
Simon Schama is new contributing editor for the Financial Times (Historians in the News)
$2M at Ohio auction for rare coin of Siam (Breaking News)
Pope apologizes for abuse of Indian school children in Canada (Breaking News)
Rep. Bachmann blames FDR for 'Hoot-Smaley' Tariff (Breaking News)
Time Mag's top 10 party switchers of all time (Breaking News)
The 100-Day Benchmark: It All Started with Napoleon (Breaking News)
Shrinking Like It’s 1958 (Breaking News)
Nazi-loving priest? (Breaking News)
Nazi 'hangman' dies after life of liberty in Germany (Breaking News)
Pope asked to find Jews raised Catholic (Breaking News)
Roman glass dish found in grave (Breaking News)
Fishkill land confirmed to be Revolutionary War gravesite: Planned shopping plaza is dropped (Breaking News)
Acropolis museum to open in June: minister (Breaking News)
Expert who stole pages of rare texts has prison term halved (Breaking News)
Cambodian, Thai border talks end with no agreement (Breaking News)
Nazi 'hangman' dies after life of liberty in Germany (Breaking News)
New award for heroes of Holocaust (Breaking News)
Dockers' celebrate their history (Breaking News)
Auschwitz note leads to survivor (Breaking News)
Muslim Hard-Liners Upset by Pope's Upcoming Visit to Nazareth (Breaking News)
Is Freud still relevant? (Breaking News)
Conversation between Civil War scholars James M. McPherson and Craig L. Symonds (Historians in the News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Should We Require . . . (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Men cleared of helping 7/7 bombers to be sentenced (Breaking News)
Holocaust denier jailed for five years in Austria (Breaking News)
Names of dead carved on memorial (UK) (Breaking News)
'Great Escape' gardener, 97, dies (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here & There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
How many contested Senate elections have there been? (Breaking News)
Blogs
RODERICK T. LONG: Who Said This? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Report: Media boost Obama, bash his policies (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS: Cool Documentary on International Students in US (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Oberlin responds to complaints about arch honoring Boxer Rebellion deaths (Breaking News)
Larry Kramer Questions Gay Studies, Prefers History (Historians in the News)
11 sites make new list of 'endangered historic places' (Breaking News)
Accident on Mississippi that killed 1,800 little remembered (Breaking News)
Sojourner Truth finally gets a spot in the Capitol (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: The Vast Majesty of Naval Warfare and Stuff (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
On Voting Rights, Test of History v. Progress (Breaking News)
A look back at the last filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (Breaking News)
How to Deal with Swine Flu: Heeding the Mistakes of 1976 (Breaking News)
Church lot rock actually ancient runestone (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: NRO on Tomorrow's Eminent Domain Meeting in Montgomery: From Rosa Parks to Kelo (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Historians Against the War approve a new mission statement (Historians in the News)
Blogs
HNN : HAPPY 61ST BIRTHDAY (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Queen thanks Yeomen of the Guard on 500th anniversary of Henry VII's death (Breaking News)
China's earliest known carving found in central Henan Province (Breaking News)
Likely remains of Korean War soldiers found (Breaking News)
Old bones found under Irish pub (Breaking News)
Ancient medieval buildings found beneath Cathedral Square (UK) (Breaking News)
4,300 mediaeval coins unearthed at Carevi Kuli (Breaking News)
Fragment Of Hebrew Inscription From Period Of Kings Of Judah Found (Breaking News)
World heritage site left in ruins (South Asia) (Breaking News)
Church lot rock actually ancient runestone (Breaking News)
RI crew to do more digging at slave trader's home (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Three sorts of priest, part 2: the lost mother churches of St Peter (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Gerry Adams springs surprise with a 'Protestant' view of religion (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown on emotional trip to Auschwitz (Breaking News)
New appeal for Lockerbie bomber (Breaking News)
Builders find Auschwitz message (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Modern Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Free John Walker Lindh! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Victor Davis Hanson on "Obama's Foreign Policy Disasters" (Interview) (Historians in the News)
UCLA Professors Use Virtual Reality to Explore Ancient Egypt (Historians in the News)
3 academics have died in 18 months US has embedded social scientists with troops (Breaking News)
Iraq Troops Bust Smuggling Ring, Recover 235 Looted Artifacts (Breaking News)
Fox News: First 100 Days ... Obama Image, Communications Skills Strong, Even as Public Questions Policies (Breaking News)
Sri Lanka: Ethnic violence rooted in history (Breaking News)
David Starkey--TV historian sparks fury of a nation with 'feeble little Scotland' jibe (Historians in the News)
Pope Benedict XVI names five new saints (Breaking News)
Obama Weighs Memo Dump (Breaking News)
Martin Kramer continues his campaign against Joseph Massad getting tenure (Historians in the News)
WaPo Survey: Obama at 100 Days (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Vacant Storefronts (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RICK SHENKMAN: John Paul Jones, Drummer Boy (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Mummies unveiled in Egypt (Breaking News)
Signing Statements? Bill by Sen. Specter tells courts to ignore them. (Breaking News)
Barack Obama effect sees demand for American studies courses in Britain soar (Breaking News)
Chinese sailing boat sinks before completing 17,000-mile voyage (Breaking News)
'King Arthur' evicted from Stonehenge (Breaking News)
Battle of the Nile tree clumps pinpointed for visitors by National Trust (Breaking News)
Famous school steps back in time (UK) (Breaking News)
Workmen in Poland Find Hidden Auschwitz Letter (Breaking News)
Boston Square Honors Edgar Allan Poe (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Senate Contested Elections (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Holder visits torture site--a very historic one (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... April 27-May 3, 2009 (This Week in History)
MARK BRADY: A Spokesman for Managed Money (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: No Honor among Pirates (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: A New Civil Rights Problem in Montgomery (Property Rights Abuse) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Ukraine marks Chernobyl's 23rd anniversary (Breaking News)
New study claims Christian right leaders teach careful moral reasoning and civics (Historians in the News)
Walter Schneir, Who Changed Mind About Rosenbergs, Dies at 81 (Historians in the News)
Fight for Astor Estate Mirrors Battle 50 Years Ago (Breaking News)
Barack Obama to release up to 2,000 photographs of prisoner abuse (Breaking News)
Britain's secret German army (Breaking News)
Czech Police Expel Ex-Leader of Klan (Breaking News)
Obama at 100 Days: How Does He Compare? (Breaking News)
Things to Remember the Boom By (Breaking News)
Lincoln quoted Shakespeare. Obama quotes Lincoln. (Breaking News)
Dick Cheney: The Visible Man (Breaking News)
In his new book Michael Burleigh’s NOT writing about the Third Reich (Historians in the News)
20 Years Ago: The Iron Curtain Starts to Unravel (Breaking News)
Blogs
RODERICK T. LONG: Power Point (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: DANGER OF ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA: EXPOSE OR NOT?/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
George W Bush think tank plan provokes controversy as he begins to raise cash (Breaking News)
Rwanda bans BBC local broadcasts (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: And the Evidence Grows (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Ed Ayers organizes Civil War conference ahead of 150th anniversary (Historians in the News)
New witness casts doubt on Lockerbie bomb conviction (Breaking News)
Tony Blair calls on world to wage war on militant Islam (Breaking News)
Russian commandos break their silence to reveal how they tortured Chechens (Breaking News)
Bush think tank plan provokes controversy as he begins to raise cash (Breaking News)
CIA ignored warnings from soldiers that torture would not work (Breaking News)
Defence minister says fighting in Afghanistan just as tough as the Second World War (UK) (Breaking News)
Vaclav Havel awarded Bonn International Democracy Prize (Breaking News)
WWII bomb found near Chancellor Merkel's Berlin apartment (Breaking News)
US to issue 'prison abuse' photos (Breaking News)
Rice approved CIA waterboarding (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Amy Goodman: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the '70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation (Roundup: Media's Take)
Aristotle taught there (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A look inside Robert Capa’s “Mexican Suitcase,” photography from the Spanish Civil War that was long thought to be lost (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jim Sleeper: Yale lessons in ’69 and ’09 (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nationalism and Anti-Americanism in Japan (as expressed in art) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Farewell, the American Century (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alan Abramowitz: The Obama Generation ... Celebrity Worshippers or Responsible Citizens? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Our Very Own Father Charles Coughlin? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Andrew J. Bacevich: Farewell to the American Century (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nigel Lawson: Mrs Thatcher’s Lasting Legacy (Roundup: Talking About History)
Toby Harnden: Barack Obama aglow after 100-day honeymoon - just like Carter (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chinese spy museum closed to foreigners (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rare Darwin first edition auctioned [video 1 min 20 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Phillip Butehorn: It's Thomas Jefferson's birthday and nobody cares? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Do Adolf Hitler's descendants get a cut of his painting profits? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Smithsonian exhibit captures history of Obama inauguration (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Greenberg: Why Arlen Specter's defection should terrify the GOP (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ken Walsh: LBJ's Hundred Days (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alan Brinkley : 100 Days of Disquietude (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Scott Rasmussen: Barack Obama’s First 100 Days ... Will They Lead to Lasting Change? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Down Memory Lane in a Pontiac (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Freedman: Barack Obama Is No Jimmy Carter. He’s Richard Nixon. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Paul Johnson: Obama Has to Be World Sheriff (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alan Brinkley: 100 Days of Disquietude (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kevin Connolly: Obama's first 100 days in context (Roundup: Media's Take)
Emirates art lovers welcome Orientalism (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Howard Markel: Swine Flu ... Better to Over-Prepare than Under-Prepare (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Patrick Di Justo: The last great swine flu epidemic (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ivan Eland: Obama’s First 100 Days: A Mixed Record (Roundup: Media's Take)
Pontiac, RIP: A Love Affair Gone Sour (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Pete Seeger, America’s Teacher (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Larry Kramer: Yale's Conspiracy of Silence (Roundup: Talking About History)
Adam Holland: Cynthia McKinney and the far-right. The red-brown convergence now includes the Greens. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joseph Lane: Dick Cheney ... The Dark Prince of the Republican Party (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Nate DiMeo: Kick Grant Off The $50 Bill (and replace him with Frederick Douglass) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: Obama's First Hundred Days in the Greater Middle East (Roundup: Historians' Take)
BBC: The Little Ice Age and Scotland (Roundup: Talking About History)
Museum authenticity issue forged in Peru's golden history (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stanley Kutler: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John M. Barry: Where Will the Swine Flu Go Next? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Deroy Murdock: Cracking Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Fisk: Obama falls short on Armenian pledge (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chris Wilson: How Does a Pandemic Ever End? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Godfrey Hodgson: Barack Obama’s hundred days (Roundup: Media's Take)
Hugh Eakin: Who Should Own the World's Antiquities? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Boston Square Honors Edgar Allan Poe (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
George F. Will: Unsilent Barack (Roundup: Media's Take)
Coonsey at TPM: Reagan and Bush Spent Money and Tripled our Debt? Surely Not! (Roundup: Media's Take)
Steve Benen: Should Obama pardon Bush? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Becoming Historians Edited By James Banner and John R. Gillis (Books About History & Historians)
How Would You Assess Obama's First 100 Days? (HNN Polls)
Mark Hulbert: 25 Years to Bounce Back? Try 4 1/2 (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lots of Contradictions in Birthin’ That Movie (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The barber who loved wood carving and barbering (Exhibit) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Juan Cole: Pakistan Crisis and Social Statistics (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Blake 1809, Tate Britain, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Darragh Carville calls for post-Troubles work about the new Northern Ireland (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Channel 4's Endgame tells story of secret apartheid talks in English country house (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of April 19, 2009
Roundup
Hunger for history as Civil War's 150th approaches (Breaking News)
Obama Takes 100th-Day Hoopla and Runs With It (NYT story) (Breaking News)
Archaeological artifacts found in Iraq (Breaking News)
Wreck artifacts to go on display (UK) (Breaking News)
Germany excavates 'Jewish graves' (Breaking News)
Deborah Lipstadt's "History on Trial" Optioned for a Movie (Historians in the News)
Aussie who found WWI grave banned (Breaking News)
Historians Study Forgotten Tombs Under Boston's Oldest Church (Breaking News)
Well-preserved monumental temple discovered in Turkey (Breaking News)
Quake unearths prehistoric dwellings in Italy (Breaking News)
Prince Charles recalls grandmother's heroism (Breaking News)
Turkey says Obama failed to mention slain Turks (Breaking News)
Forgotten Franklin letters offer glimpse into U.S. history (Breaking News)
Bob Woodward: First 100 Days From JFK to Obama (video) (Breaking News)
Want a friend in DC -- get a dog (Breaking News)
100 Days: Rush To Judgement? (Breaking News)
Blogs
LESTER HUNT: The Ethics of Torture (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
The Oldest Man In America (Breaking News)
In Thrilling Find, Scholar Unearths Long-Lost Letters of Benjamin Franklin (Historians in the News)
Research Subjects Sue Jared Diamond, the Author and Professor, for $10-Million (Historians in the News)
Book Chavez Gave to Obama Is Used as Core Text on Many College Campuse (Breaking News)
Artificial Intelligence Cracks 4,000-Year-Old Mystery (Breaking News)
U.S. to reveal alleged prison abuse photos (Breaking News)
100 days: How Obama changed D.C. (Breaking News)
Daily Mail: Pictures that show accused Nazi war criminal is fit for trial (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Pirates and Private Violence (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Blitz dog’s bravery medal fetches premium price (Breaking News)
Obama marks Armenian 'atrocity' (Breaking News)
Turkey and Armenia Move to Ease Tensions ahead of congressional vote on genocide (Breaking News)
Obama Faces Dilemma on Armenian Killings (Breaking News)
McCain Repeats False Claim That Sept. 11 Hijackers Entered U.S. From Canada (Breaking News)
Thousands of Armenians mourn WWI mass killings (Breaking News)
Hitler's Paintings Draw $143,000 at British Auction (Breaking News)
Unemployed, Unapologetic and Unrestrained: It's Cheney Unbound (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SWAY, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Philip Zelikow warns the CIA's harsh methods were counterproductive (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA'S POLL NUMBERS TRAIL THOSE OF W.; GALLUP COVERS IT UP/update (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
CHRIS BRAY: Surveillance Schooling (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
AP: "Secret tally has 87,215 Iraqis dead" (Breaking News)
Michael Oren: Historian to be Israeli ambassador? (Historians in the News)
Sioux Tribe OKs North Dakota Nickname (Breaking News)
Documents Record First Internal Debate to Lift Ban on Cuba (1963!) (Breaking News)
Tenure for Massad now up to school trustees, critics say (Historians in the News)
Another Japanese PM goes to Yasukuni Shrine, sparking outrage (Breaking News)
100 days: What Obama wants you to read (Breaking News)
One telling poll result on Obama (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a protest song... (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
LESTER HUNT: What is Freedom of Speech? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Iranian says: 'Wiesel, you Zionazi!!' (Breaking News)
Archaeologists discover bomb in beauty spot wall (UK) (Breaking News)
Controversial Hobbit Looks Tiny in Person (Breaking News)
Edward Said disciple ridiculed (Historians in the News)
New photo: Nazis dig up mass grave of U.S. soldiers (Breaking News)
Accused of bureaucratic overreaching, the head of a State Department research team may soon be history himself (Historians in the News)
Every Day Is Earth Day? (Breaking News)
Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MODERATE MUSLIM SCHOLARS SPEAK UP (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Former FBI agent says enhanced interrogation methods weren't needed (Breaking News)
Notre Dame conference on new interpretations of the Koran (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WORTH READING (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
IMF: It's the worst global recession since Depression (Breaking News)
Americans judge a president by how he handles the sudden challenges from far away (Breaking News)
William & Mary students make historical find in Richmond (Breaking News)
Obama official: Torture worked (Breaking News)
VMI honors Yankee who destroyed, and helped rebuild campus (Breaking News)
Indiana: Civil War grenade removed from museum (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: End of This Phase of American History? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
USS Cole families to receive $200K or more (Breaking News)
NYT: Officials failed to realize the Korean War origins of approved brutal interrogation methods (Breaking News)
‘The Elements of Style’ Turns 50 (Breaking News)
Stefan Brecht, Theater Historian, Is Dead at 84 (Historians in the News)
Pulitzer Book calls for re-examination of U.S. race history (Breaking News)
Puzzle over love letters solved (Breaking News)
Portrait of Shakespeare unveiled (Breaking News)
Holocaust Remembrance Day marked (Breaking News)
Ancestor of T rex found in China (Breaking News)
UN puts global treasures online (Breaking News)
Remains of Bristol's Royal Fort finally brought to light (UK) (Breaking News)
Salon.com: Torture planning began in 2001, Senate report reveals (Breaking News)
UTSA archaeologists find 3700 B.C. artifacts (Breaking News)
Skinhead arrests at Hitler birthday bash in Argentina (Breaking News)
Turkey says accord reached with Armenia on roadmap (Breaking News)
Historians worried about disappearing digital archives (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Simon Jenkins on the War on Terror (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
3,000 year old fortified city and four ancient temples discovered in Egypt (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: IRANIAN UGLINESS ESCALATES (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Why Are So Many of Obama's Cabinet Picks Facing Republican "No" Votes? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
CHRIS BRAY: Private Violence Against Pirates: Already Happening (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Israel: Iran trying to do 'what Adolf Hitler did to Jewish people' (Breaking News)
Splash out on Lord Nelson's bucket (Breaking News)
Vatican planned to move to Portugal if Nazis captured wartime Pope (Breaking News)
Holocaust denier on trial after 15 years on the run (Breaking News)
German authorities to excavate suspected WWII mass grave (Breaking News)
Bush policy 'led to Abu Ghraib' (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: The Ivory Tower Disintegrates (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
WILLIAM MARINA: Taking Tickets: Sign Up Now for a Trip to Libra, Gliese 581 d (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Historian Philip Zelikow claims Bush White House destroyed his anti-torture memo (Breaking News)
When NYC Held Pirates in High Regard (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes Ancient & Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Saddam slept here (Breaking News)
New Book: Margaret Macmillan writes about the uses and abuses of history (Historians in the News)
Most diverse Cabinet in history still incomplete (Breaking News)
Reliving history at Battle of Lexington: Reenactors spend lot of time, money to get facts right (Breaking News)
Annual summer history institute at Barnard College (Historians in the News)
Still unreleased: 2007 memo refining CIA interrogation methods (Breaking News)
The Republicans' historian of the New Deal ... Amity Shlaes (Historians in the News)
Measuring Obama by FDR's yardstick (Breaking News)
7,000 Jews march to honor memory of Holocaust victims in Poland (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BREAKING THE JEWISH CODE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: WALL OF PROFESSORIAL SHAME (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Amateur historian discovers unknown Lincoln case that will be subject of radio documentary (Historians in the News)
Blogs
LESTER HUNT: That "Rightwing Extremism" Report (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
GIL TROY: Obama's 100 Days: Partisan, Moderate or Both? (Gil Troy)
Roundup
Love letter from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn on display for first time (Breaking News)
Khmer Rouge defendant says guards taught to hate (Breaking News)
Ahmadinejad dropped Holocaust denial from speech (Breaking News)
Nazi victim: Can people without a soul be punished? (Breaking News)
Vatican denies reports that Pope will give Prince Charles historic divorce document (Breaking News)
Farmer brings 'Nazi' cows back to Britain after 2,000 years (Breaking News)
Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (Breaking News)
UN puts global treasures online (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: Finkelstein: The Coming Breakup of American Zionism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Bitter end for Sri Lanka's rebels? (Breaking News)
Cheney wants CIA to release more memos--showing interrogation success (Breaking News)
Israeli PM pledges no second Holocaust (Breaking News)
Consecutive Auschwitz serial numbers reunite two survivors (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Slippery Slope to Freedom in Iran (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
WILLIAM MARINA: Continuity in American History: The Torture Issue and Punishing Civilians (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
W & M hopes to make amends for slavery through research project (Breaking News)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who died last week at 58, co-founded the influential scholarly field known as queer theory (Historians in the News)
Preservationists fighting a losing battle to save Fishkill, NY sites (Breaking News)
Larry Sabato calls 2008 one of four 'realigning elections' (Breaking News)
Samuel H. Beer, Authority on British Government, Dies at 97 (Historians in the News)
Al Franken could become the first professional comedian to take a seat in the United States Senate (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: MOVE THAN EVER, WE ARE FORCED TO REMEMBER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Abuse of a Grand Jury Subpoena (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
What Was the Civil War Really About? (Breaking News)
History Professor Gingrich Falsely Claims U.S. Presidents Don’t ‘Smile And Greet’ Russian Leaders (Breaking News)
Blogs
ANTHONY GREGORY: Is Obama Dismissive of the Official Narrative of US History? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
And the Pulitzer Prizes go to ... (Historians in the News)
4 corners? Nope. (Breaking News)
Tribes celebrate return of bodies dug up in New Zealand years ago (Breaking News)
Campus Watch says Rashid Khalidi is "paranoid" (Historians in the News)
Ancient remnants found on bank of Saluda River (Breaking News)
Inca Wall Found During Construction of New Peru Hotel (Breaking News)
U.S. Holocaust Museum Days of Remembrance (Breaking News)
Tarawa has become a different sort of battlefield (Breaking News)
DNA test to prove Bronze Age link (Breaking News)
Scrapyard Spitfire fetches 1.58m pounds (Breaking News)
Austria: 14th century castle burning in Salzburg (Breaking News)
Sale fails to bail out last Titanic survivor (Breaking News)
Blogs
BRETT HOLMAN: Total war and total peace (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT HIGGS: Why Do Progressives Love Trains? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Revolt stirs among China's nuclear ghosts (Breaking News)
Former West Bank enemies find route to peace the Ulster way (Breaking News)
Secret Hillsborough disaster files to be made public by the Government (Breaking News)
Indian business students snap up copies of Mein Kampf (Breaking News)
CIA waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times (Breaking News)
New stamp issue to mark House of Tudor anniversary (Breaking News)
Great Wall Of China: Extra Miles Discovered (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History... April 20-26, 2009 (This Week in History)
Roundup
New Looks at the Fields of Death for Jews (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Letters show Mussolini's daughter fell in love with Communist (Breaking News)
Joseph Nye complains too few political scientists joining the Obama administration (Historians in the News)
Ruth Rosen calls for war crimes trials (Historians in the News)
10 years later, Columbine remembers (Breaking News)
Egypt's top archaeologist claims Antony and Cleopatra tomb found (Breaking News)
The forgotten soldiers buried in no man's land (Breaking News)
Tattoos From Auschwitz Horror Reunite Lost Inmates (Breaking News)
Thousands attend opening of Ill. Holocaust museum (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: NYT: OBAMA FAILS TO WALK HIS "NEW FOUNDATION" TALK (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
William Wallace denied day in court (Breaking News)
Berlin Wall: Was the Fall Engineered by the GDR? (Breaking News)
To Preserve or to Pave Over History (Breaking News)
Earliest colour picture of King Edward VII found lying in cupboard (Breaking News)
Survivor's Titanic memento sold (Breaking News)
Tourists get a feel for the Iron Curtain at Brandenburg Gate (Breaking News)
Blogs
AEON J. SKOBLE: Shots heard round the world (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Despite state mythology, Texas can't secede (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Conditions Currently Rendering Me Mute (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Chris Weigant: Obama's First 94 Days (Roundup: Media's Take)
China Beat: Reflecting on Tiananmen, 20 Years Later (Roundup: Talking About History)
Steve Benen: We Already Went Through Our 'Banana Republic' Phase (Roundup: Media's Take)
Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Chris Weigant: First 100 Days Retrospective, Part 2: (HW) Bush, Clinton, (W) Bush (Roundup: Media's Take)
Structural Investigation of Historic Buildings: A Case Study Guide to Preservation Technology for Buildings, Bridges, Towers, and Mills by David C. Fischetti (Books About History & Historians)
The Historian's Paradox by Charles Peter Hoffer (Books About History & Historians)
Last Rites by John Lukacs (Books About History & Historians)
Responsible History by Antoon De Baets (Books About History & Historians)
Martin Shaw: A century of genocide, 1915-2009 (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ray Nance, Last of the Bedford Boys, Dies at 94 (Obituaries)
New China movie about Nanjing Massacre (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Joe Klein: Sizing Up Obama's First 100 Days (Roundup: Media's Take)
Chris Weigant: First 100 Days Retrospective: Ford, Carter, Reagan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Cleveland Museum of Art will return tainted antiquities to Italy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Charles Stanish: How I learned to stop worrying and love eBay (Roundup: Talking About History)
Hitler paintings sell for £95,000 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tom Engelhardt: Killing Civilians (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Rucher Sharma: If It’s in the Ground, It Can Only Go Down (Roundup: Media's Take)
John B. Judis: American capitalism will be fundamentally different after Obama gets through (Roundup: Media's Take)
A Conversation with Laurence Rees and Robert Dallek about the new PBS documentary: The Making of WWII Behind Closed Doors (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gordon Gibson: 'Winning' in Afghanistan sounds a lot like 'winning' in Vietnam (Roundup: Media's Take)
Karl Rove: The President's Apology Tour (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Dallek: Diplomacy isn't what we see (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Henry Kissinger: Obama's Foreign Policy Challenge (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Stueck: Torture and “the one percent doctrine” (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Norman Solomon: Obama ... Beyond Savior or Trickster (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Heffer: Thank Henry VIII for laying those foundations of freedom (Roundup: Talking About History)
Coco Chanel biopic opens in France - but ignores affair with Nazi (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jeff Biggers: 10 Environmental Disasters to Remember (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: What to make of the book that Chavez gave Obama? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julia Lovell: It's Just History ... Patriotic Education in the PRC (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Glenn Melancon: Who would Jesus torture? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: The Limits of Terrorism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Dorothy Rabinowitz: Demonizing Harry Truman may not play well with voters (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Kohut: Will Obama Ride Reagan’s Ratings Roller Coaster? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Stacy Schiff: Who’s Buried in Cleopatra’s Tomb? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Drama behind the headlines: Tricycle theatre's Afghanistan season [video 5 min 11 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Simon Jenkins: Cheney and the apologists of torture distrust democracy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Coco Chanel biopic opens in France - but ignores affair with Nazi (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Austria returns Klimt painting taken during Holocaust (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Simon Heffer: Thank Henry VIII for laying those foundations of freedom (Roundup: Talking About History)
Intact German Cold War bunkers open to the public (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Joe Conason: Reagan Talked to Dictators, Too (Roundup: Media's Take)
Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer (BBC documentary) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Dominic Sandbrook: Why we love history in 10-year chapters (Roundup: Talking About History)
W.P.A. Projects Left Their Stamp on the NY Region (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gilberto López y Rivas: An Open Letter to Obama ... Learn Your History, Sir! (Roundup: Media's Take)
Ken Burns's love story--America's parks (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Alan Abramowitz: Independent Voters and the President ... Myths and Realities (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Lind: Obama is a better foreign-policy president than domestic-policy president. Unfortunately, so was Jimmy Carter. Time to be bold. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Thomas Mann, Norman Ornstein, and Molly Reynolds: Are Democrats making an egregious power grab by sidestepping the filibuster? Hardly. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Laura J. Mitchell: Elections in South Africa (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Feffer: Why Terrorists and Pirates Are Not About to Team Up Any Time Soon (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fred Kaplan: What Obama's grip and grin with Hugo Chávez says about his foreign policy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jeffrey Lord: How to Handle a Bully ... Nixon vs. Khrushchev (Roundup: Media's Take)
New book explains how Che became CHE! (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Harvey Wasserstrom: How Chernobyl could happen here (Roundup: Media's Take)
Kirk Bane: Review of Don Graham's State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies (Books)
Bob Buzzanco: Plaintains and Fried Rice, Dollars and Yuan: Latin America, the PRC, and the United States (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Paul W. Lovinger: Obama and the Torturers (Roundup: Media's Take)
Philip J Cunningham: The Forgotten Meaning of Tiananmen (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ruth Wedgwood: Zionism and Racism, Again ... Durban II (Roundup: Media's Take)
Marc A. Thiessen: The CIA's Questioning Worked (Roundup: Media's Take)
Holocaust Remembrance Day marked [video 2 min 21 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Hasia R. Diner : Postwar American Jews did not ignore the Holocaust (Roundup: Talking About History)
Martin E. Marty: One hundred years of "America," the Catholic publication (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jeffrey A. Lockwood: So should we be surprised by the news that the C.I.A. considered using insects to instill fear in Abu Zubaydah? Yes. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Julian Zelizer: Will Obama, GOP make a deal? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
C. Ikehara: Economic mumbo-jumbo, or, The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fail (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bob Jeffrey: Millennials' New Mantra: Have Less, Imagine More (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert J. Samuelson: Almost all the errors of the 1930s were rooted in the economic orthodoxies of the time. Could the same be true today? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Grunfeld: Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jonathan Zimmerman: Columbine and the folly of overvaluing school sports (Roundup: Historians' Take)
William Fisher: Clinton, Agnew, Nixon Redux (Re: torture memos) (Roundup: Media's Take)
David McCullough: A Masterpiece in Jeopardy (Re: Brooklyn Bridge) (Roundup: Talking About History)
Roger Pulvers: Review of David King's Red Star Over Russia (Books)
A portrait of William Shakespeare? 'Codswallop' says expert (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Berlin Wall given a facelift as freedom painters return (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Shakespeare's sonnets turn 400 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Romans recast as GIs in history lesson for Iraq and Afghanistan (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Actors campaign to save cinema where Alfred Hitchcock saw first films (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Earliest colour picture of King Edward VII found lying in cupboard (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Bohm: The New Kremlin Dreamers (Roundup: Media's Take)
William J. Astore: Mary McCarthy in Vietnam, Barack Obama in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Week of April 12, 2009
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Hummel, Henderson, the Fed, and the Housing Bubble (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Gift to Obama rockets book's sales (Breaking News)
Clinton Scores Points by Admitting Past U.S. Errors (Breaking News)
Egypt's Tomb Raider, Off and (Mostly) on Camera (Breaking News)
Blogs
RODERICK T. LONG: Tea and Sympathy (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Hummel and Henderson in FORBES (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Abruzzo 'miracle' as fresco of Virgin Mary and Jesus appears (Breaking News)
Somali pirates: 17th-century laws revived to punish bane of the high seas (Breaking News)
Officer who organised WWII surrender of Japanese dies (Breaking News)
Will Bagram become Obama's Guantanamo? (Breaking News)
HK students debate Tiananmen legacy (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: If You Are Wealthy Enough to Afford "Conservation!" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Did Lincoln have fatal cancer in 1865? Author wants DNA analyzed (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Notes Ancient & Modern (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Study finds a pattern of severe droughts in Africa (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: Exploring US Taxation (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
MLK family charging DC memorial for use of his words (Breaking News)
Law professors to challenge legality of Iraq War in court (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: A Place to Hangout if John Galt and the Objectivists are Unable to Recapture the Earth (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
A post-mortem examination of the cultural disaster in Iraq: Interview with Lawrence Rothfield (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SMILE, IF YOU CAN (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: SUSAN BOYLE - CRY ME A RIVER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
White House not measuring administration by 100 day yardstick (Breaking News)
NYT publishes 1865 diarist's illustrations marking Lincoln's death (Breaking News)
The year that changed Henry VIII (Breaking News)
Historians organize petition drive to save Blair Mountain (Historians in the News)
David Starkey attacks plan for 'snotty-nosed punk' of a house near Henry VIII's palace (Historians in the News)
Experts: Spot of Mexican surrender in Texas found (Breaking News)
Scientists search for wreckage of Civil War ship (Breaking News)
Mussolini's hometown finally bans fascist souvenirs (Breaking News)
Mussolini’s daughter’s affair with communist revealed in love letters (Breaking News)
Notorious SS unit 'traced' (Breaking News)
U.S. Government Seeks to Deport Accused Nazi Guard and End Delay Tactics (Breaking News)
Raul Castro: Cuba ready 'to discuss everything' with U.S. (Breaking News)
Hope for a Harvest of Tolerance From Anne Frank's Tree (Breaking News)
Answers About the History of Manhattan (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BROOKS UNDERSTANDS ISRAELIS, SORT OF (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Obama still on top (Breaking News)
Brown University Should Consider Name Change Due to Slave Ties, Critics Say (Breaking News)
Torture Memos Declassified (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Time Never Passes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: OBAMA'S BUSH BASHING COVERS UP THE WEAKENING OF AMERICA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
KEITH HALDERMAN: My New Hero (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Congratulations to historians who have won Guggenheim Fellowships for 2009 (Historians in the News)
Franklin Rosemont, 1943-2009: Surrealist poet, labor historian (Historians in the News)
Tulane historian Judith Schafer delves into world of New Orleans' 19th-cent (Historians in the News)
Eager Iraqi readers struggle for access to books (Breaking News)
Lawrence Rothfield discusses his new book on the sacking of the National Museum of Iraq (Historians in the News)
Armitage: I Should Have Resigned (Breaking News)
3,000 year-old bracelet found in Tyrone field (Breaking News)
Archaeologists Discover Temple That Sheds Light On So-called Dark Age (Breaking News)
World War II mines still a threat on Egypt's coast (Breaking News)
Germany Has Sights on Several Alleged Nazi War Criminals (Breaking News)
Dedicated blitz memorial for Belfast (Breaking News)
UK King's proclamation picture found (Breaking News)
Court queries 'Nazi guard' health (Breaking News)
Administration to release Bush-era interrogation memos (Breaking News)
Orchards Being Replanted at Gettsyburg National Military Park to Recreate 1860s Appearance (Breaking News)
Largest Harappan burial site found in India (Breaking News)
Indonesian minister of culture's public apology for destruction of archaeological site (Breaking News)
Glass beads found off Georgia shed light on Spanish empire (Breaking News)
The last Titanic survivor in desperate straits (Breaking News)
Historian recalls what it was like to witness the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square (Historians in the News)
Blogs
CHRIS BRAY: Cash and Carry (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
We Are Not In This Together (Breaking News)
Blogs
MELVIN SMALL: The media and the teabaggers (POTUS)
Roundup
Historians Eric Foner and David Nasaw join fiction writers at a week-long seminar in the Keys (Historians in the News)
Historians Against the War voting on a new mission statement (Historians in the News)
Political scientist lambasts the Hamas Charter for borrowing from the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (Historians in the News)
Blogs
LESTER HUNT: Taxation and Liberty (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Americans take tea to protest about tax (Breaking News)
Saluting Maurice Druon, French Resistance hero and defender of language (Breaking News)
Royal wedding cake from 1871 goes on sale (Breaking News)
Fake Soldiers Turning Brandenburg Gate Into 'Disneyland' (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: The Tax Bill of the “Overseer” of the Empire and His Lady (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
One man's bid to keep China's ancient music alive (Breaking News)
UCA professor discovers ancient rock painting (Breaking News)
Inbreeding: Downfall of a Dynasty (Breaking News)
Historic newspapers to go online (Breaking News)
Cruise to mark Titanic centenary (Breaking News)
China muted on key anniversary (Breaking News)
Dig 'may reveal' Cleopatra's tomb (Breaking News)
North Korea Celebrates Founder's Birthday as Nuke Inspectors Expelled (Breaking News)
Accused Nazi Guard Needs Chemo, Is Unfit for Trial, Lawyer Says (Breaking News)
Nationwide 'tea party' protests blast spending (Breaking News)
Texas governor says state could secede (Breaking News)
Martin Gilbert wins $250,000 Bradley Prize (Historians in the News)
Library gets book back. Nearly 145 years late. (Breaking News)
Time Mag's top 10 tax cheaters of all time (Breaking News)
Blogs
STEVEN HORWITZ: And Now... 20 More Minutes of Horwitz (on the financial mess) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Obama Tilts to keep Bush CIA memos secret (Breaking News)
Blogs
STEVEN HORWITZ: An Hour of Horwitz (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Egypt on the hunt for Cleopatra's tomb (Breaking News)
The real scoop on Air America, thanks to the release of CIA documents (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: "Report: 1 in 15 U.S. students has illegal immigrants for parents" (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
John Summers explains why he considers himself an anarchist (Historians in the News)
Joseph Massad might or might not have tenure (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JAMES OTTESON: Adam Smith's Other Book (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
At Capitol, supporters defend Jefferson on his 266th birthday (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: Finally, an Explanation of Finance Corporatism! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JONATHAN JARRETT: Three sorts of priest, part I: evidence for priests and their books on the tenth-century Spanish March (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Naturalist's Great-Great-Grandson to Retrace the Two-Year Long Voyage through the Americas of the 1850's (Breaking News)
Jefferson papers now online (Historians in the News)
Jesse Lemisch reminds AHA why it really moved its 1968 convention from Chicago (Historians in the News)
Inbreeding seen to bring down Spain's Habsburgs (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: AMERICAN CITIZENS MAY SAVE AMERICA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
DAVID T. BEITO: Thieves and Emperors: "We Belong to the Same Herd" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Bombing Civilians: An American Tradition (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK A. LEVINE (UC IRVINE HISTORY PROFESSOR): 100 Years of Solitude: Tel Aviv's Anniversary (Mark A. LeVine)
Roundup
Court Halts Deportation Of Nazi Suspect (Breaking News)
David McCullough appears in video op ed in NYT opposing Brooklyn Bridge construction (Historians in the News)
Wm. Roger Louis says there's "unfinished business at Foggy Bottom" (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Cliopatria Welcomes William Jelani Cobb (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
U.S. Archaeologists To Excavate In Iraq (Breaking News)
That ship Bainbridge is named after a man who fought pirates! (Breaking News)
The 2009 'tea party' tax revolt (Breaking News)
Life of Harriet Tubman's husband intrigues historians (Breaking News)
Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars (Breaking News)
Authorities say were misled in demolished temple controversy (Breaking News)
Tequesta Indian artifacts unearthed along the banks of Fort Lauderdale's New River (Breaking News)
Nazi women's magazines feature knitting patterns and British blame for WWII (Breaking News)
Castro welcomes US Cuba changes (Breaking News)
Tea Party Protesters Gird for Possible Liberal Backlash (Breaking News)
Nazi war crimes suspect granted emergency stay (Breaking News)
Reagan to join greats in Statuary Hall in Congress (Breaking News)
Blogs
CLAIRE B. POTTER: All About Eve: Eve Sedgwick, May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009 (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Scorpion King's Wines--Egypt's Oldest--Spiked With Meds (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: A Criminally Stupid War on Drugs (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Italian Jews Aid Quake Towns That Gave Shelter During World War II (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Age of Might Is Over (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: ZIM über Alles (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Close 3 room schoolhouse in Nevada? (Breaking News)
Watergate apartment used by Fred LaRue to pay off burglars for sale on eBay (Breaking News)
Airport and Indians reach settlement (Georgia) (Breaking News)
Lincoln's 'Shroud of Turin'--City museum torn on DNA request (Breaking News)
Signs of earliest Scots unearthed (Breaking News)
Bones identified, Korean War MIA buried in Kentucky (Breaking News)
Blogs
AEON J. SKOBLE: Good stuff (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
History sites target Easter trade (Breaking News)
Nazca Lines to be protected from heavy rains (Peru) (Breaking News)
Mummies found in ancient Egypt burial chamber (Breaking News)
China to build subway to terracotta warrior museum (Breaking News)
NY Daily News opposes tenure for Joseph Massad (Historians in the News)
Italian Jews come to aid their World War II saviors (Breaking News)
Quiet Push to Recognize Suffrage Sites (Breaking News)
Colonial Tavern Found During Md. Bridge Work (Breaking News)
Unearthed caskets hold mystery bodies (Breaking News)
1400-year-old idol found in J&K (India) (Breaking News)
Turkish TV Anchor Dons Blackface to Address Obama (Breaking News)
Rémi Brague interviewed about the lessons of the Middle Ages for our time (Historians in the News)
Jack the Ripper 'lived in Australia' (Breaking News)
Barack Obama action may put to rest for now comparison with Jimmy Carter (Breaking News)
Cologne's historical archive faces a long road back (Breaking News)
German bishop: Atheism responsible for Nazis and mass murder (Breaking News)
New studies shed light on lifestyle at Gohar-Tappeh prehistoric site (Iran) (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: Imperial History (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History.... April 13-19, 2009 (This Week in History)
WILLIAM MARINA: The Arrival of Eternal Truth (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Back in Texas, A More Simple Life for Bush (Breaking News)
Art historian David Scott dead at age 92 (Historians in the News)
Rare statue returns after repairs (Breaking News)
Blogs
LESTER HUNT: Piracy: The Free Market Solutions (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars (NYT) (Breaking News)
Joseph Massad's book the subject of renewed criticism by Martin Kramer (Historians in the News)
Deborah Lipstadt's Holocaust Web Site Launches Non-English Versions (Historians in the News)
The first cocktail arose in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago (Breaking News)
Archaeological sites threatened by climate change (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Thought for the Day (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Tea Party Protests Create Online Sales Boom (Breaking News)
'I was a doctor in Rwanda, not a mass killer', says Vincent Bajinya (Breaking News)
New book lays bare French collaboration with the Nazis (Breaking News)
Britain is now a haven for Rwandan genocide suspects (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Two Cheers for the Somali Pirates? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Major Farran's Hat (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Capone's last hit ... a song? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian Zelizer: Obama's raised expectations overseas like Woodrow Wilson. Uh oh. (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Farnaz Calafi, Ali Dadpay, Pouyan Mashayekh: The American Iranians lionize (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jousting accident turned Henry VIII into a tyrant, according to a new documentary (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Editorial in the Times (UK): Bush Bears Blame for Torture (Roundup: Talking About History)
George Jonas: A trip down Jimmy Carter's memory lane (Roundup: Media's Take)
Young Queen pictured in major retrospective of Sir Cecil Beaton's photographs (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Swindle: The Return of the Reparations Monster (Roundup: Media's Take)
Humberto Fontova: Remembering the Bay of Pigs (Roundup: Talking About History)
Andrew Walden: 9/11 Truthers Meet the Birth Certificate Brigade (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dermot Quinn: The Wilhelm Roepke solution to our economic woes (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mark Naison: Republicans Are Doing More to Publicize Socialism in the US Than Anyone Since Karl Marx (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Liz Cohen: How four men and one woman, with very different backgrounds and views, shaped the New Deal (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Meet the female Oskar Schindler (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David R. Stokes: Know your enemy (Roundup: Media's Take)
How a forest fire may have pushed Thoreau to Walden Pond (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Eric Hobsbawm: Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Fred Siegel: Taking Communism away from the Communists ... The Origins of Modern American Liberalism (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mackubin T. Owens: What To Do About Piracy? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Roger Morris: Nixon Goes to Europe (Part II) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
One man's bid to keep China's ancient music alive (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A Stamp of Disapproval (Stamp Collecting’s Fate in the Internet Age) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Cruise to mark Titanic centenary (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Soviet Bunker - the strangest tourist trap in Europe (Lithuania) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Viggo Mortensen in role as professor corrupted by the Nazis in 'Good' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Newly-discovered painting of John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Clark: Ten Years On, Kosovo Still Contentious (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ben Macintyre: Piracy's Roots Go Deep In Somalia's History (Roundup: Media's Take)
Memories fading on Vegas icon Liberace (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Kevin Boyle: Requiem ... Detroit and the Fate of Urban America (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Robert Borosage: The faux tax rebellion (Roundup: Media's Take)
Diane Ravitch: Is Arne Duncan Really Margaret Spellings in Drag? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Architects Chosen for Black History Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
On this Day is an iPhone app for the history buff (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jack Shafer: The Great Newspaper Crackup of 1918 And what to learn from it. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Greg Grandin: What Can Obama Do in Latin America? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
New Film on Secret Meetings of World War II Will Premiere on PBS in May (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Hot Dynasty: The Tudors on Film and TV (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Todd Crowell: Thailand ... Spanish Civil War Redux? (Roundup: Media's Take)
History Channel documentary on Patton panned (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
"Torturing Democracy" Wins RFK Journalism Award (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Eddie Haskell and Howard Beale -- Go Home! Journos Are Alienating Readers With 'Retro' References (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Damon Linker: Is The Christian Right Finally Starting To Realize The Tension Between Religion And Politics? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Alan Wolfe: From Adam Smith To Keynes To Obama--Liberalism Has Always Had The Same Foundations (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael Lind: America is not a Christian nation (Roundup: Media's Take)
WSJ Editorial: Presto ... Another $750 Billion (Roundup: Media's Take)
Annette Gordon-Reed: Thomas Jefferson is still relevant today (Roundup: Talking About History)
William Lambers: Open Skies policy should be used by Koreas (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Humberto Fontova: Cuba's Bailout (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jon Talton: Do Americans Support Capitalism, and Which Capitalism? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Zimmerman: The neighborhood school helps to define who we are. Consolidation threatens that. (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Startling photographs of the Cultural Revolution by Solange Brand (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
HBO orders 2008 election film (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Textile Conservation experts face the sack in a material world (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: America sank these pirates, but the Age of Might is over (Roundup: Media's Take)
Iraq war analysis: Tim Collins [video 3 min 53 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Grover G. Norquist: Did Reagan Win the Cold War? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Cohen: Delving Into Bush's Legacy (Roundup: Talking About History)
Grapes of Wrath, a classic for today? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian Zelizer: Obama's Pirate Coup (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ronald Bailey: The morality of resurrecting our closest evolutionary cousins (Roundup: Media's Take)
A professor takes on Strunk and White (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Drew Westen: Why the Democrats Are Losing Ground As Obama Is Gaining It (Roundup: Media's Take)
E.J. Dionne: Christianity is struggling with itself, and that suggests it's on the path to rediscovering its true calling (Roundup: Media's Take)
A Wild Cossack Rides Into a Cultural Battle (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Barbara Mahany: Gettysburg Address: Four score and one 7-year-old's tears ago (Roundup: Talking About History)
China to build subway to terracotta warrior museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
David Neiwert: Glenn Beck's 'Liberal Fascism Hour' (Roundup: Media's Take)
Juan Cole: The great right-wing freak-out (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Terence Samuel: Polarization We Can Believe In (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jean Edward Smith: How to End a War, Eisenhower’s Way (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ideas America won't entertain: Why a London theatre season on Afghanistan couldn't happen in the US (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The story behind theft of the Mona Lisa (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tristram Hunt: What have the Germans ever done for us..? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Turner and Italy: National Gallery Edinburgh, exhibition review (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
How Handel played the markets (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Eric Zencey: Mr. Soddy’s Ecological Economy (Roundup: Historians' Take)
'Seeing History Through Indians’ Eyes (PBS/Documentary) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Deborah Gray White: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (HNN Videos)
Brenda Stevenson: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (HNN Videos)
Leslie Brown: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (HNN Videos)
NYT Editorial: End of the Clash of Civilizations (Roundup: Media's Take)
New film 'may give IRA dissidents ammunition' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of April 5, 2009
Roundup
MLK Tape Lost For 45 Years And Found Again (Breaking News)
Somali pirates aren't much like those in the history books (Breaking News)
Author of a book? Register it with Google Book Settlement (Breaking News)
With a Reunion Planned, Bush Eases Back Into the Public Eye (Breaking News)
Japan 'rewriting' wartime past in school textbooks (Breaking News)
Barack Obama's ancestor left 12 pence in will (Breaking News)
Photo exhibition shows life in China in 1870s (Breaking News)
California returns 'looted art' (Breaking News)
Reagan, Bush I Records to Be Released (Breaking News)
Saddam Hussein's Chrome AK-47 Being Returned to Iraq (Breaking News)
Campus Still Split After Jury Sides With Professor (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH RAICO: Pirates and Princes (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Challenge: can you crack 17th-century code? (Breaking News)
Apartheid suits involving German companies can proceed (Breaking News)
CIA announces closure of its last secret prisons (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
LESTER HUNT: What Message Do They Send? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Colorado will 'vigorously challenge' Churchill's reinstatement (Breaking News)
Social Security's Surplus Disappearing Fast in Downturn (Breaking News)
Who was Jesus, the man? (Breaking News)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom now agrees that Shanghai IS China's most cosmopolitan city (Historians in the News)
Henry VIII's 500-year-old tapestry gets 21st century makeover (Breaking News)
Pilgrims tracing the last steps of Jesus have been going the WRONG way for 2,000 years, says historian (Breaking News)
14,000-year-old hunting kit found in Scotland (Breaking News)
Signs of earliest Scots unearthed (Breaking News)
Turin Shroud 'could be genuine as carbon-dating was flawed' (Breaking News)
Casino approved for Valley Forge Convention Center (Breaking News)
Demjanjuk denied stay of deportation (Breaking News)
With Tea Parties, Members of Congress Watch From the Sidelines (Breaking News)
Immigration Officials Deny Deportation Request by Ex-Nazi Death Camp Guard (Breaking News)
Archaeologist: Jesus took a different path (Breaking News)
Yet another new attempt to recreate the rebel yell (Breaking News)
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan wars to top $1 trillion (Breaking News)
US Fifth graders on a trip to Germany to study the Holocaust (Breaking News)
Frederick Kagan reports on his recent trip to Iraq (Historians in the News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Tap-dancing Nazis Ready to Take Berlin by Storm (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Free-access World Digital Library set to launch (Breaking News)
Site of Black Troops' Battle 'Endangered' (Breaking News)
South Korea protests Japan history textbook (Breaking News)
Obama is America's first global president, Douglas Brinkley says (Historians in the News)
History lessons stymied in Lebanon (Breaking News)
How a mild-mannered historian forced the Oldest City to grapple with a history it would sooner forget (Historians in the News)
Time Mag: Top 10 Audacious Acts of Piracy (Breaking News)
Modern life's pressures may be hastening human evolution (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Video of Dr. T.R.M. Howard (Civil Rights/Self-Help Champion) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Dig reveals religious settlement (UK) (Breaking News)
An End to Restitution of Nazi Looted Art? (Breaking News)
NYC marks 400th anniversary of Dutch arrival (Breaking News)
Couples convicted for making adult film at French war memorial (Breaking News)
Paris liberation made 'whites only' (Breaking News)
Kosovo civilian abuses revealed (Breaking News)
Shiite rally marks anniversary of fall of Baghdad (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Only 53 Percent of Americans Support Capitalism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Ex-Khmer Rouge prisoner tells genocide trial of execution fears (Breaking News)
Moors want Spain to apologise after 400 years (Breaking News)
Outrage at women who were filmed stripping off on WWI memorial in France (Breaking News)
Five-year-olds taught philosophy of Plato in bid to encourage reading (UK) (Breaking News)
Long Sentences for Atrocities in Sierra Leone (Breaking News)
Was Thatcher a Thatcherite? (Breaking News)
Row threatens Khmer Rouge trials (Breaking News)
Blogs
STERLING FLUHARTY: What Should History Majors Learn? (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Frontline exposes scandal involving billions of dollars in bribes hidden by Tony Blair government (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Dog Sacrifices Found in Medieval Hungarian Village (Breaking News)
Robot brings China's past into the present (Breaking News)
Archaeologists Begin Recovery of Great Mayan City in the Yucatan (Breaking News)
Hundreds of Afghan antiquities repatriated from Britain (Breaking News)
Archaeologists find what they think are remains of Franciscan friars (Breaking News)
China Rights Activist Beaten in Cemetery (Breaking News)
Four men accused of taking part in 1994 Rwandan genocide win battle against extradition (Breaking News)
WW2 nurse honoured after 65 years (Breaking News)
Nationalists mark 75th birthday (Scotland) (Breaking News)
Prophet Muhammad cartoon goes on sale in Denmark (Breaking News)
Ex-Nazi Death Camp Guard's Son: No Word on Deportation Yet (Breaking News)
Wal-Mart winning battle in Virginia (Breaking News)
Despite lack of federal funding programs at Lincoln Log continue (Illinois) (Breaking News)
Bill to block incinerator near Maryland battlefield fails (Breaking News)
Spangler Farm to be restored (Gettysburg) (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Midnight in the Garden of My Hate Mail (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Brown University Kills 'Columbus Day' for 'Fall Weekend' (Breaking News)
Luxembourg grand duke in danger of losing prerogatives (Breaking News)
What Obama's Great Society challenge is, says Great Society historian (Historians in the News)
US Battle Sites Face Many Threats (Breaking News)
Hollywood takes notice of Ray Arsenault's 'Freedom Riders' (Historians in the News)
Obama Takes On “Christian Nation” Fiction, Secular Coalition Cheers (Breaking News)
Windsor Great Park fire sparked by Duke of Edinburgh order (Breaking News)
Blogs
RACHEL LEOW: loanwords as social history (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Scholar beaten at Tiananmen grave (Breaking News)
Bangladesh to announce war probe (Breaking News)
Most famous Vietnam POW, McCain revisits 'Hanoi Hilton' (Breaking News)
40 Years Later, Stonewall Uprising Given Role in Tourism Campaign (Breaking News)
History of Postwar NYC Street Gangs Lives in Musicals, Books and Memories (Breaking News)
US again recognizes failure to act in Rwanda genocide (Breaking News)
Getty to return Roman fresco fragment to Italy (Breaking News)
Chambers in 'bent' pyramid to be opened (Breaking News)
3 Hearst Castle paintings to be returned to heirs of Nazi era owners (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 20th Century Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Archeologist studies 37 tombs under Old North Church. (Breaking News)
Could diggers have unearthed Liverpool Castle remains? (Breaking News)
Archaeological Discovery In Jordan Valley: Enormous 'Foot-shaped' Enclosures (Breaking News)
L'Aquila earthquake damaged ancient baths in Rome (Breaking News)
N.C. site could be old English settlement (Breaking News)
Pain of Khmer Rouge Era Lost on Cambodian Youth (Breaking News)
Secrets of Alhambra revealed (Breaking News)
Salacious claims of Anne Boleyn's incest in Henry VIII documents placed online (Breaking News)
Brass box holds Titanic 'secret' (Breaking News)
Ex-Peruvian President Gets 25 Years for Death Squad Killings (Breaking News)
LBJ and Reagan loyalists clash over Obama agenda (Breaking News)
University of Michigan's Sidney Fine dies at 88 (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: "Public Knows Basic Facts About Financial Crisis"--PEW (Just How Stupid Are We?)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: HAPPY PASSOVER (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
A Century Later, a Polarizing Debate Endures (Breaking News)
Obama's Approval Ratings Top Recent Presidents Bush, Clinton (Breaking News)
Peru's Fujimori Convicted of Human Rights Crimes (Breaking News)
Report Calls CIA Detainee Treatment 'Inhuman' (Breaking News)
Canadian historian J.M.S. Careless dies (Historians in the News)
Italy's history of deadly earthquakes (Breaking News)
Steven Lee Carson, 66, dies. Wrote a play about Lincoln's son. (Historians in the News)
US Congress members in Cuba talks (Breaking News)
Rwanda lambasts 'cowardice' of UN (Breaking News)
Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression (Breaking News)
Anniversary of openness on the Internet (Breaking News)
It's up to Turkey, Armenia to resolve history row, says Obama (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: We Shall Remain (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
The medieval gem reduced to ruins ( L'Aquila) (Breaking News)
Khmer Rouge confessions 'rarely true' admits Duch (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Another Chapter in the "Good War" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Transform Makes the Case for Drug Policy Reform (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
David Levering Lewis on John Hope Franklin's Moral and Intellectual Poise (Historians in the News)
What you never knew about Columbine (Breaking News)
Obama Declines to Call Armenian Deaths in World War I a 'Genocide' (Breaking News)
Defendant says US policies triggered rise of Khmer Rouge (Breaking News)
Rwanda to commemorate genocide 15 years on (Breaking News)
Admiral Perry first to the Pole? Not according to a growing group who give a black man the honor. (Breaking News)
New claim that Raul Castro's position in Cuba might not be assured after his brother's death (Breaking News)
IBM Should be Indicted in New York for Holocaust Genocide and its Nazi Nexus says ex-IBM employee from Poland (Breaking News)
Last Mughal emperor's descendants to be traced (Breaking News)
Obama Declines to Call Armenian Deaths in World War I a 'Genocide' (Breaking News)
Mass Grave of Communist Soldiers Found in Vietnam (Breaking News)
Damage to Historical Monuments 'Significant' (Breaking News)
One more trial for accused Nazi Demjanjuk? (Breaking News)
Significant damage to Italy's historic sites (Breaking News)
Stanley Fish says Ward Churchill was guilty of "standard stuff" of historians (Historians in the News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Betrayal Thy Name is Obama (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Duch - 'US helped Pol Pot's rise to power' (Breaking News)
Was Gerry Adams complicit over hunger strikers? (Breaking News)
Hundreds of Berliners march to protest Neo-Nazi party convention (Breaking News)
Churchill's Dislike of Plane Food (Breaking News)
Reburial for Rwanda genocide dead (Breaking News)
Schindler's List found in Sydney (Breaking News)
Paris liberation made 'whites only' (Breaking News)
Vanderbilt student objections to honoring historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (Historians in the News)
Florist for Six Presidents and Many Guests Is Retiring (Breaking News)
Financial Fate, in Each Country's Hands (Breaking News)
Argentina Mourns an Honest Leader (Breaking News)
Blogs
BONNIE K. GOODMAN: This Week in History.... April 4-12, 2009 (This Week in History)
Roundup
Complaint: David Starkey’s criticism of female historians is wrong (Historians in the News)
Principal tool used to preserve Civil War battlefields gains new life at hands of Congress (Breaking News)
Search on for 'lost' battlefields of England (Breaking News)
Harry Truman, Leader of the Freeway (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
For Egypt, Promise of 1979 Peace Still Unfulfilled (Breaking News)
Nazi camp guard Demjanjuk wins right to stay in US (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Anatole Kaletsky on Austrian Economics (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Javier Solana: History should be analyzed by historians (Re: Armenian Massacre) (Breaking News)
Who’s Most Indebted? Banks, Not Consumers (Breaking News)
A Jewish Holiday, Once Every 28 Years (Breaking News)
First Americans brought anthrax? (Breaking News)
Have U.S. presidents always traded tchotchkes with foreign leaders? (Breaking News)
Blogs
CHARLES W. NUCKOLLS: "He Who Wishes" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Obama could do better at gift-giving (Breaking News)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. pays homage to John Hope Franklin (Historians in the News)
Satire: San Francisco Historians Condemn 1906 Earthquake Deniers (Historians in the News)
One man's ambivalent retreat from his racist past (South Carolina) (Breaking News)
Why is labor rioting in Europe but not in the US? (Breaking News)
Knights Templar hid the Shroud of Turin, says Vatican (Breaking News)
For Egypt, Promise of 1979 Peace Still Unfulfilled (Breaking News)
Ilan Pappe's newest book criticized as anti-Israel (Historians in the News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: Robert Higgs on C-Span (12 Noon) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Obama's Laptop Police? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Dutch museum shows New York's 'birth certificate' (Breaking News)
Roundup
California returns 'looted art' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Photo exhibition shows life in China in 1870s (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jill Lepore: I.O.U. ... How we used to treat debtors (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Where Culture Is Another Casualty (Italy/earthquake) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Photo exhibition shows life in China in 1870s (Beijing) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Greg Sheridan: Obama Continues Bush's Foreign Policy (Roundup: Media's Take)
Editorial in Investor's Business Daily: Reagan's Legacy ... Our 25-Year Boom (Roundup: Talking About History)
California returns 'looted art' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Nasir Khan: Will Obama Vacate Iraq? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Kimit Muston: Response to the AIG vp who thinks he's being swindled out of his bonus (Roundup: Media's Take)
Damon Linker: The Future of Christian America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Simon Schama's new documentary on America is hopeful (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Germany to stage Mel Brooks's Nazi-themed musical for the first time (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Eisa Davis’s play is a rhythmic collage of scenes, songs and reminiscences about the life of Angela Davis, the scholar and activist. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Germany Says Art Restitution Will Continue (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jefferson’s Blind Spots and Ideals, in Brick and Mortar (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Paul Krugman: Making Banking Boring (Roundup: Historians' Take)
John Taylor: Nixon, Too, Might Have Junked "War On Terror" (Roundup: Media's Take)
Humberto Fontova: Congressional Black Caucus Smitten With Castro (Roundup: Media's Take)
Norman Solomon: Getting a Death Grip on Memory (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alan Abramowitz: The Transformation of the American Electorate (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Lewis Schaefer: Naïveté Invites Aggression (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: How a once-untouchable strongman, Fujimori, was brought low (Roundup: Media's Take)
Larry W. Hurtado: Why Was Jesus Crucified? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Thomas J. Sugrue: The Hundred Days War ... Histories of the New Deal (Roundup: Talking About History)
Gordon Taylor: How Obama did in Turkey (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ira Chernus: Requiem for the War on Terror (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Hundreds of Afghan antiquities repatriated from Britain (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Art in Israel (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
An End to Restitution of Nazi Looted Art? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Timothy Garton Ash: Confucius can speak to us still - and not just about China (Roundup: Historians' Take)
'The Producers' debuts in Germany (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Georgia recalls Soviet crackdown [video 2 min 13 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Lisa Keller: When watching the Sun needed a permit (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Clayton M. Christensen: The Past and Future of General Motors (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harry Rubenstein: The 2008 Election as History (OAH) (HNN Videos)
Adam Kirsch: Did the Armenian genocide have its own Primo Levi? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Gil Troy: The 2008 Election as History (OAH) (HNN Videos)
Clayborne Carson: The 2008 Election as History (OAH) (HNN Videos)
Fred L. Israel: The 2008 Election as History (OAH) (HNN Videos)
Blanche Wiesen Cook: The 2008 Election as History (OAH) (HNN Videos)
Alice Kessler-Harris: The 2008 Election as History (OAH 2009) (HNN Videos)
Pete Daniel: OAH Presidential Address (HNN Videos)
'To thee we sing': Historic Marian Anderson concert will be re-created on Independence Mall (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Michael Lukas: A Skeptic's Guide to Passover (Roundup: Talking About History)
Getty to return Roman fresco fragment to Italy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
3 Hearst Castle paintings to be returned to heirs of Nazi era owners (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Chambers in 'bent' pyramid to be opened (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rare Spitfire may fetch £1.5m (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Italy earthquake has caused 'incalculable' damage to cultural heritage (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Rules of engagement: Can you pack the bloody history of Afghanistan into a dozen half-hour plays? (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill - in the Tower of London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The transformation of the Transfiguration in the church of St Catherine (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Beatles’ hits get back to their best (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Forthcoming exhibition: Moctezuma, Aztec Ruler, at the British Museum (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sean Scallon: Carter Conservatism (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stephen Morris: Obama is no Jimmy Carter (Roundup: Media's Take)
Reuel Marc Gerecht: President Obama means well. Iran doesn't. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Tom Engelhardt: Filling the Skies with Assassins (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jeff Biggers: Where's the National Outrage on Blair Mountain? Gov. Joe Manchin and Bilbo Legacy. (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Q. Barrett: How NOT to win an appointment to the Supreme Court (Roundup: Talking About History)
Alex Keyssar: Did we really need to bailout AIG? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Archiving Writers' Work in the Age of E-Mail (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge: God Still Isn't Dead (Roundup: Media's Take)
Dean Baker: Hands off Social Security (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ira Stoll: Anti-Semitism and the Economic Crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Xbox game based on Iraq conflict battle angers veterans (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Smithsonian extends museum hours (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
History of Street Gangs Lives in Musicals, Books and Memories (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Christopher Hitchens: Telling the Truth About the Armenian Genocide (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: Obama ... The US is not, and Never will be, at War with Islam (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Stanislao G. Pugliese: Earthquake at the Door (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Statue of Liberty’s little sister strolls out of the park (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Review: Utagwa Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Royal Academy in London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Gwynne Dyer: NATO at 60 faces growing pains that could threaten its survival (Roundup: Talking About History)
Christian Caryl: Think Again ... Japan's Lost Decade (Roundup: Talking About History)
Michael Slackman: For Egypt, Promise of 1979 Peace Still Unfulfilled (Roundup: Talking About History)
Painter challenges history with Seattle Art Museum exhibit (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian E. Zelizer: A surprising model for Obama's presidency (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Michael Crowley: Will Obama renege on his campaign promise to recognize the Armenian genocide? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith: From Bubble to Depression? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Fund Twain church? Group opposition. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
14th century bucket sells for £1.6m at Sotheby's (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
'Binge-eating and lead poisoning killed Handel' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Adam Kirsch: Europe’s Last Man (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jon Meacham: The End of Christian America (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: Does Turkey Still Belong in NATO? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Sean L. Malloy: Four Days in May ... Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Roundup: Talking About History)
Kimit Muston: The Bridge at Lodi (Roundup: Talking About History)
Reuel Marc Gerecht: The Return of Weakness ... President Obama means well. Iran doesn't (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lost drawing of Henry VIII's great victory uncovered (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tate Modern to restage 1971 show that sent art-lovers into a frenzy (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
German Films Delve into Difficult History (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Robert Fisk: Will Obama honour pledge on genocide of Armenians? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Should We Care What Shakespeare Did in Bed? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Coney Island dead? Naw! (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
The Thrilla Continues to Thrill (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Adam Schiff: Time to Recognize the Armenian Genocide (Roundup: Talking About History)
Susan Hibbert: Secretary at Eisenhower's wartime headquarters (obit.) (Obituaries)
The Last Pullman Porters Are Sought for a Tribute (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Celebrations Mark 90 Years of Bauhaus (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Karen Horn: Why Adam Smith Still Matters (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Feffer: On Trial 60 Years Later (re: Tokyo War Crimes Trial) (Roundup: Talking About History)
Ellis Cose: Rwanda 15 Years After Genocide (Roundup: Talking About History)
Dick Howard: Obama and the World Outside (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Georgie Anne Geyer: Seems like old times in Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bill Moyers Interviews William Black: Crime is at the bottom of the financial meltdown (Roundup: Media's Take)
Linda Kerber: The Historians' Amicus Brief in the Iowa Gay Marriage Case (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Week of March 29, 2009
Roundup
One man's ambivalent retreat from his racist past (Breaking News)
Saddam's bed awaits daring honeymooners (Breaking News)
Commemoration set for Battle of Shiloh (Breaking News)
Ronald Reagan tried to convert Mikhail Gorbachev to Christianity, aide claims (Breaking News)
Council on Foreign Relations conference on the New Deal highlighted by NYT (Breaking News)
'Exciting discovery' reveals Henry VIII as firm believer in Catholicism (Breaking News)
Tracking Shackleton to the pole (Breaking News)
Germany: deporting Nazi suspect not 'torture' (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Mushroom cloud helps heart research (Breaking News)
Ward Churchill's $1 Damage Award Said to Have Been Product of Jury Compromise (Breaking News)
The War of 1812 Revisited at Conference (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Government Guaranteed Pensions (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Barack Obama to mark D-Day in France (Breaking News)
Obama's outdoing other recent presidents in TV and unilateral actions (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: A Historical Anomaly (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RICK SHENKMAN: Why aren't people in the streets of America protesting and raising hell? (POTUS)
Roundup
Germany's stone age cannibalism (Breaking News)
Blogs
AEON J. SKOBLE: No such thing as bad publicity, part 2 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Alleged Nazi guard awaits deportation in Ohio (Breaking News)
Minute Man park expanded (Boston) (Breaking News)
Egyptian customs foil pharaoh smugglers (Breaking News)
Builders stumble on Dark Ages village in Salzburg (Breaking News)
Barack Obama rejects Normandy trip to avoid offending Germany (Breaking News)
UN Hariri court seeks Beirut file (Breaking News)
Saving Native American languages (Breaking News)
New photos of aftermath of MLK killing published (Breaking News)
UMass to put papers of W.E.B. Du Bois online (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Another reason why an uninformed public is a danger to itself (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Alleged Nazi guard awaits deportation in Ohio (Breaking News)
Blogs
JANE S. SHAW: Duke Professors on the Racial Divide (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
WILLIAM MARINA: Is the Relevance of Atlas Shrugged, both as Metephor or History, Worth Making a Film About? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Stimulus worked in the 30s. Nazi Germany proved it. (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Churchill Prevails in Trial (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Did Black Power Birth Obama? (Breaking News)
Ward Churchill Jury: University of Colorado wrongly fired prof (Breaking News)
Civil rights veterans today (Breaking News)
Amid Talk of High Ideals, Arguments Close in Ward Churchill's Lawsuit (Breaking News)
Scholars will share perspectives on amendment ratified in 1865 (Historians in the News)
UCSB Historian Wins Bancroft Book Prize (Historians in the News)
Historian, Army officer hired to teach military history at UW-Madison (Historians in the News)
David McCullough Opposes Tower Near Brooklyn Bridge (Historians in the News)
National Park Paterson, NJ? (Breaking News)
Mass grave found in downtown Montgomery (Breaking News)
Martin J. Klein, Historian of Physics, Dies at 84 (Historians in the News)
Iraq to reopen Ur to public after US pullback (Breaking News)
Prehistoric remains discovered at Sacramento River excavation site (Breaking News)
Corps sides with SugarHouse on site's archaeology (Philadelphia) (Breaking News)
Defence releases names of 191 Aussies dead at Fromelles (Breaking News)
Andrew Bacevich calls for NATO to disband (Historians in the News)
Estonian war figure laid to rest (Breaking News)
Palestinian orchestra leader deported to Israel (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: Another Sign that Our Future is Fascism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Bones of the missing ( Turkey) (Breaking News)
Another 9/11 victim identified (Breaking News)
Professor George Kane, medievalist, dies aged 92 (Historians in the News)
Barack Obama's English heritage (Breaking News)
At Trial, Peru's Fujimori Says He's Innocent (Breaking News)
Inquiry Into Arafat's Death (Breaking News)
China launches martyrs web link (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Asbestos Issue Emerges at American History Museum (Breaking News)
A Split At Justice On D.C. Vote Bill (Breaking News)
Fox News hounds Alan Brinkley (Historians in the News)
Ward Churchill's and David Irving's self-generated problems (Historians in the News)
Failed 1933 London conference a warning for G20 (Breaking News)
GOP's McCain, King seek pardon for boxing champ (Breaking News)
Center recovers Ganesha statue (Breaking News)
Kremlin guru predicts Vladimir Putin will rule new Soviet empire (Breaking News)
Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue (Breaking News)
Wreck of First U.S. Ship Sunk in WWII Found Off Australia (Breaking News)
Blogs
RODERICK T. LONG: Atlas Shrugged Movie Update #96874 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Special Elections in Context (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
SHELDON RICHMAN: I'm on the Glenn Beck Show Today (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
WILLIAM MARINA: The Global Economic Crisis (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
WILLIAM MARINA: Will is the Real Capitalist Nation Please Stand Up? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: BIBI'S AND ISRAEL'S SECOND CHANCE (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
Why are more girls than boys born in the Tropics and what does it mean? (Breaking News)
General Franco's ghosts haunt Spain 70 years after civil war ended (Breaking News)
Argentinians to celebrate unsuccessful invasion of Falklands at party in London (Breaking News)
Police Swoop on Offices in Cologne Archive Collapse Probe (Breaking News)
Post-junta Argentine leader dies (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: A Life in Armor (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Time Mag's Brief history of presidents abroad (Breaking News)
Another old New England house headed for destruction (Breaking News)
Greece: Historian cleared over holocaust denial (Historians in the News)
U.S. fought to protect Iraqi history, Marine says (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Wednesday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
MARK BRADY: Taking Themselves Far Too Seriously (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Confederate holiday provokes a war between the Souths (Breaking News)
Vatican chides Obama for his praise of a medieval heretic (Breaking News)
More instant books now. We mean NOW! (Breaking News)
Paper: Bishops warned of abuse in 1950s (Breaking News)
Guatemala opens National Police archive to civil war victims' families By Jill Replogle (Breaking News)
Celebrating 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson’s Historic Voyage (Breaking News)
Battle Brewing Over Reconciliation, Which Is Anything but That (Breaking News)
Archie Green, 91, Union Activist and Folklorist, Dies (Historians in the News)
NYT editorial takes note of John Hope Franklin's death (Historians in the News)
Spanish court considers trying former US officials (Breaking News)
Katrina vanden Heuvel: William Polk on Afghanistan (Historians in the News)
Blogs
STEVEN HORWITZ: Fascism, Libertarians, and the Blogs (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
4,000-year-old human skelton found (Breaking News)
Blackbeard Pirate Relics, Gold Found (Breaking News)
French dig uncovers 18th-century mass graves (Breaking News)
Kosovo War massacre: sole survivor found by Telegraph ten years on (Breaking News)
Oldest woman celebrates birthday (Breaking News)
Germany bans 'Nazi youth group' (Breaking News)
Argentine Alfonsin 'very fragile' (Breaking News)
Khmer Rouge Chief Pleads for Forgiveness at Trial (Breaking News)
For U.S. and Carmakers, Many Potential Pitfalls (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Fluffy Vikings in the UK newspapers (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
AEON J. SKOBLE: Let's Do the Time Warp (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
BRETT HOLMAN: There were giants in the earth in those days (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
After 650 years, the wisdom of the Alhambra is revealed (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: 3 Series, 2 Personal Appearances, & a Quibble (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JANE S. SHAW: Partial Vision (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Peru vs. Yale: A Battle Rages Over Machu Picchu (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: The Myth of Bubbles (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Rick Perlstein assesses Obama's performance so far (Historians in the News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: SHAFR & Professional Organizations' Blogs (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
John Hope Franklin: 2 surprising stories about a great historian (Historians in the News)
Michelle Obama's Military Mission (Breaking News)
Burmese history teacher released (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: FIRING WAGONER SHOULD REDUCE BAILOUTS (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
History has been 'feminised' says David Starkey as he launches Henry VIII series (Historians in the News)
New Political Study Center? Turn Right at Berkeley (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: TIME TO POINT THE FINGER AT CHINA (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
Roundup
New museum to chart Titanic story (Breaking News)
History has been 'feminised' says David Starkey as he launches Henry VIII series (Breaking News)
Aging Manson 'Family' members long for freedom (Breaking News)
Battle of Britain museum at Bentley Priory under threat amid downturn (Breaking News)
Court hears Khmer Rouge testimony (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: Which Politician Came Up with the Idea that Dying for Your Country Is a Good Thing? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
NYT singles out John Hope Franklin for front-page treatment in Week in Review (Historians in the News)
OAH's Executive Director Lee Formwalt gets standing ovation (Historians in the News)
OAH Awards Go To Joyce Appleby, Susan Armeny, Stan Katz, and Brian Lamb (Historians in the News)
OAH Finances Take a Slide and Convention Attracts Fewer Attendees (Historians in the News)
Brazil Archbishop Accuses Jews of Hiding Holocaust Facts (Breaking News)
Succession law change would have made Kaiser Wilhelm King of England (Breaking News)
Nazi codebreaker recreated by Brits (Breaking News)
Lipreader helps Tommies find their voice (Breaking News)
Palestinian youth orchestra disbanded after playing for Holocaust survivors (Breaking News)
British war hero to be investigated again for murder of Jewish 'terrorist' (Breaking News)
Veteran is UK's oldest ever man (Breaking News)
US man sorry over Gandhi auction (Breaking News)
Bicentenary of Reconquest of Vigo (Breaking News)
Some visit Pol Pot's grave looking for luck (Breaking News)
Former Khmer Rouge leader to go on trial in Cambodia (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Common Sense (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Alan Brinkley: The New Deal, Then and Now (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Susan Ware: Women and the Great Depression (Roundup: Talking About History)
Anthony Badger: The Hundred Days and Beyond ... What did the New Deal Accomplish? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Nick Taylor: The WPA: Antidote to the Great Depression? (Roundup: Talking About History)
David M. Kennedy: The Great Depression: An Overview (Roundup: Talking About History)
David Neiwert: Glenn Beck warns: 'Fascism is on the rise' (Roundup: Media's Take)
George White Jr.: The Congo's tragic story (Roundup: Talking About History)
Robert Mackey: An army is a grand exercise in group loyalty and cooperation. Understanding what holds it together provides lessons beyond the military. (Roundup: Talking About History)
National Association of Scholars: Regrets Ward Churchill Verdict (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harold James: Is China the New America? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bruce Ackerman: We should not look upon presidential lawlessness as if it were an odd aberration of the Bush years. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Actor Sam Waterston and Historian Harold Holzer in Special Performance Edition of BILL MOYERS JOURNAL on PBS (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
CBS Turns Out ‘Guiding Light’ (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A. Tom Grunfeld: The Dalai Lama and the Nobel Prize ... Correcting a Misunderstanding (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tony Blankley: The anti-Catholic origins of a first amendment case (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert McHenry: Encarta, R.I.P. (Roundup: Talking About History)
Juan Cole: Lieberman and Wiping Countries off the face of the Map (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Oliver Marre: Is libel tourism a threat to free speech—or just to neocons? (Roundup: Media's Take)
David Broder: Obama's Muscle Moment (Roundup: Media's Take)
Michael White: London summit ... we've been here before (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jonathan Martin: Obama ... Bush-era diplomacy is over (Roundup: Media's Take)
Handel 'was binge eater and problem drinker' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Artworks by Jewish artist forced to flee Nazi Germany discovered in attic (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
V&A has Baroque answer to world economic crisis (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
14th century bucket sells for £1.6m at Sotheby's (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Madness & Modernity exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Julian E. Zelizer: Big risks if Obama acts boldly on budget (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Yehudit Keshet: Review of Neve Gordon's Israel's Occupation (University of California Press, 2008) (Books)
Noam Scheiber: A new theory of the AIG catastrophe (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bernard Lewis: Israel's Election System Is No Good (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Bartle Bull: No, he can't - Obama and the Carter malaise (Roundup: Media's Take)
Important painting found in Minn. church closet (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A Telescope to the Past as Galileo Visits U.S. (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Oliver Kamm: Wikipedia's nonsense (Roundup: Talking About History)
Jon Talton: What Happens After the Crash? America Faces a Future of Discontinuity. (Roundup: Media's Take)
Harvey Wasserman: Cracking the corporate media's Iron Curtain around death at Three Mile Island (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Dallek: Can Obama Be a Majority of One? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Daniel Pipes: Arabs, Israelis, and Underdogs (Roundup: Historians' Take)
England People Very Nice writer courts fresh controversy with Afghanistan play (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Freedland: Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry VIII: 'Nasa examined his armour when they were designing space suits' [audio 2 min 52 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
Tyson: The documentary (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Sickert in Venice at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Eiffel Tower gets a birthday makeover (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Kate Williams: History's not just for the boys, Dr Starkey (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Exhibition explores dark era of the Spanish Civil War (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
An avant-garde play revives an ancient hatred (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Palestinian discord over Holocaust concert (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Chait: Why the Democrats Can't Govern (Roundup: Media's Take)
Jimi Hendrix childhood home torn down (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
To Fans, Queensboro Bridge Is a Steel Swan, Not an ‘Ugly Duckling’ (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
After 650 years, the wisdom of the Alhambra is revealed (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Henry VIII armour to be exhibited (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Nefertiti 'had two faces' (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jonathan Zimmerman: What John Hope Franklin could teach Ward Churchill (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jon Wiener: Review of Mark Rudd's Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen (Books)
Jason Maoz: Ike and Israel (Roundup: Talking About History)
OAH 2009 Montage (HNN Videos)
NYT: The Day the S.E.C. Changed the Game (Roundup: Media's Take)
Titanic museum to open in Southampton by 2012 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Malte Lehming: Obama ... Just Another Bush - A German Perspective (Roundup: Media's Take)
Henry VIII armour to be exhibited [video 3 min 41 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
The Buoyancy of Depression Entertainment (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Suzannah Lipscomb: The truth behind Henry VIII's reign (Roundup: Talking About History)
Historians: How Obama's Doing (HNN Videos)
Kimberly Phillips-Fein: The state of the field ... conservatism (HNN Videos)
Joseph Crespino: The state of the field ... conservatism (HNN Videos)
Rick Perlstein: The state of the field ... conservatism (HNN Videos)
Angela Dillard: The state of the field ... conservatism (HNN Videos)
Rick Perlstein on Obama (HNN Videos)
Jeff Madrick: Was the New Deal a Bust? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Stanley I. Kutler: We’re Paying Congress for This? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Juan Cole: The president sounds like he's channeling Cheney or McCain (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Tom Engelhardt: The Great Afghan Bailout (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Humberto Fontova: Civil Rights Activist Dying on Hunger Strike Near Guantanamo (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Pipes: America's Desultory Religious Reporting (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Errol Morris: Whose Father Was He? (Part One) (Roundup: Talking About History)
'Dr Zhivago' composer dies aged 84 (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
William Rees-Mogg: Reform the monarchy? Let's wait for a century (Roundup: Media's Take)
Andrew Roberts: Gordon Brown's assault on the traditions of the monarchy is preposterous (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Ellis Weintraub: Israel Can Learn from 'The Troubles' (Roundup: Media's Take)
William Pesek: Reagan's Revolution Is Getting Chinese Makeover (Roundup: Media's Take)
Daniel Wickberg: The Cultural Sensibility of American Liberalism, 1890-1941 (HNN Videos)
Susan Pearson: Sentimental Liberalism in Gilded Age America (HNN Videos)
Jamie Cohen-Cole: Cold War Social Science and the Production of Consensus Liberalism (HNN Videos)
Ann Holder: The Neglected Challenge to Racial Citizenship in Cosmopolitan New Orleans (HNN Videos)
Amy Lesen: Scientists Versus the Local Community (HNN Videos)
Miriam Greenberg: The Question of Urban Exceptionalism (HNN Videos)
Lynell Thomas: Constructions of Blackness in Tourist New Orleans (HNN Videos)
Louis Hyman: The Consumer and the New Deal (HNN Videos)
Jason Scott Smith: A New Deal for Public Works (HNN Videos)
Leslie Harris: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories (HNN Videos)
Mark Auslander: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories (HNN Videos)
Jim Campbell: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories (HNN Videos)
Al Brophy: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories (HNN Videos)
Mary Ryan: Does Women's History Have a Future (OAH 2009) (HNN Videos)
John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009 (History Doyens)
Jonathan Alter: Obama is following Roosevelt's approach of making early down payments on big ideas (Roundup: Media's Take)
Berlin Wall's famous Kiss painting erased in clean-up (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jim Sturgess takes on role as IRA informer in Fifty Dead Men Walking (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
TS Eliot’s snort of rejection for Animal Farm (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Restorers 'wiped away' precious details from rare William Shakespeare portraits (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Will Kinmount: Is David Starkey the reincarnation of Henry VIII? (Roundup: Talking About History)
Re-Collecting George Grosz's Art (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Celebrations Mark 90 Years of Bauhaus (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Paintings Attributed to Hitler to Be Sold in UK (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Artist Angered by Scrapping of Communist Solidarity Snog (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of March 22, 2009
Roundup
Mapping Project Looks At Charleston Harbor As Battlefield (Breaking News)
Ironware piece unearthed from Turkey found to be oldest steel (Breaking News)
Tokyo court rejects teachers' lawsuit over the flag (Breaking News)
China marks 50 years of direct control over Tibet (Breaking News)
Watching the stars with the eye of Galileo (Breaking News)
Hunt for war criminal Ratko Mladic stretches to Kenyan beach (Breaking News)
Ex-Khmer Rouge still dominate regions of Cambodia (Breaking News)
Blogs
JAMES C. COBB: My Heroes Haven't Always Been Cowboys (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Synagogue Restored in Historic Philadelphia Prison (Breaking News)
Joyce Appleby wins OAH award (Historians in the News)
Local Civil War Battlefield Dangers (Breaking News)
Nazi bunker is opened for first time since war (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown tells Argentina Britain will not surrender the Falklands (Breaking News)
Battlefield 'Heroes' Save History (Breaking News)
Italian dig uncovers "oldest" temple in Cyprus (Breaking News)
Legislature honors Reconstruction era lawmakers (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown and Queen in talks about lifting Catholic ban (Breaking News)
Prospectors lured by "cursed" Venezuela gold mine (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Little Noted Fact About AIG (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: William Kristol: "All Hail Obama!" (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Yugoslav war crimes suspect faces identity check (Breaking News)
McCain: People voted 'mostly for Sarah Palin' last year (Breaking News)
Hail, Caesar: Rome marks birth of emperor who built the Colosseum (Breaking News)
British child hostage who refused to sit on Saddam's knee is reunited with his rescuer Jesse Jackson 19 years after ordeal (Breaking News)
U.S. official denies Karadzic account (Breaking News)
PM and Palace 'discussed reform' (Breaking News)
Blogs
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ASIAN ABILITY TO PRODUCE OUTSTRIPS WESTERN ABILITY TO CONSUME (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
JUDITH APTER KLINGHOFFER: ISRAELI "IRON DOME" TEST SUCCESSFUL (Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer)
CHRIS BRAY: Los Angeles: Now with Some Culture-Type Stuff (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
John Hope Franklin remembered by one of his graduate students (Historians in the News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Investing Wisdom (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Obama Jokes About Legalizing Pot and the Stimulus (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Medieval murder mystery at Kilkenny Castle (Breaking News)
Uneven marking of Camp David deal (Breaking News)
Archeological dig in Ridgebury looks for Revolutionary encampment artifacts (Breaking News)
US group re-creates Nazi death camp orchestra (Breaking News)
Jean-Marie Le Pen repeats Holocaust comments in European Parliament (Breaking News)
Barack Obama to mark D-Day in France (Breaking News)
Mysterious Figure in Castle Window Has Photo Experts Stumped (Breaking News)
Thirty years later, Sadat's widow still hopes for peace (Breaking News)
Jewish groups denounce Oliphant Gaza cartoon (Breaking News)
Orange groups back Wal-Mart (Breaking News)
Ancestry records - including the family history of David Beckham - have gone online (Breaking News)
Battlefield incinerator ban rolls ahead (Maryland) (Breaking News)
Gettysburg park might buy country club land or easement (Breaking News)
Effort to preserve two old Plaquemines forts could help the parish (Louisiana) (Breaking News)
Revoke Luther excommunication call (Breaking News)
Blogs
JONATHAN JARRETT: Hayden White, move over (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Thursday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Iraq war inquiry will be held in private (UK) (Breaking News)
Russia keeps quiet as Baltics remember Stalin's deportations (Breaking News)
Jean-Marie Le Pen repeats Holocaust comments in European Parliament (Breaking News)
The Blitz hero with a nose for survivors, Rip the dog's bravery medal could fetch 10,000 pounds (Breaking News)
Munich Court Lifts Ban on Reprints of Nazi-era Newspapers (Breaking News)
Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the history of the former Soviet Union (Breaking News)
Father's Titanic heroics revealed (Breaking News)
Former treasury secretary writing about meltdown (Breaking News)
Israeli archaeologists find Byzantine-era bathhouse (Breaking News)
US historian John Hope Franklin dies at 94 (Breaking News)
97-Year-Old Milk Flask Reveals New Facts About Titanic Tragedy (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: Metropolitan France Is About to Grow (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Early photograph of New York to be auctioned (Breaking News)
Blogs
JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL: Treasury Default and Intrade (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
STERLING FLUHARTY: Let's Automate the Process of Post-Tenure Review (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Obama oops at news conference (Breaking News)
100 Historians Sign On to Support Employee Free Choice Act (Historians in the News)
Historian Backs Karadzic's Immunity Claim (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Bill to Reform Teaching of American History and Civics Introduced in the Senate (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Bill to Reform Teaching of American History and Civics Introduced in the Senate (Breaking News)
National Coalition for History: Urge Your House Member to Support Increased Funding for NEH (Historians in the News)
Ward Churchill defiant on second day of testimony (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Scary headline of the day (Just How Stupid Are We?)
Roundup
Obama as Secretive as Bush? (Breaking News)
D.C. Budget Proposal Would End Emancipation Day (Breaking News)
In Memory of John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) (Historians in the News)
John Hope Franklin, Black Historian, Dies at 94 (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: Government Is Furiously Dancing the Two-Step (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Farewell to John Hope Franklin (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: The Bachmann Counter (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Fate of Titanic, its treasures in US judge's hands (Breaking News)
Historic Indian relic to be sold (Breaking News)
Adolf Hitler's first self-portrait up for auction (Breaking News)
British WW II Code Crackers Never Broke Code of Silence (Breaking News)
Greece returns 13th century murals to Italy (Breaking News)
Blogs
AMY H. STURGIS: Finalists: Prometheus Awards 2009 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Exit Winston Churchill, enter Twitter ... Yes, it's the new primary school curriculum (Breaking News)
Air-Raid Sirens Mark NATO Bombing of Serbia (Breaking News)
Three Baltic States Commemorate Dark Hour of Post-War Deportations (Breaking News)
Columbia Announces 2009 Bancroft Prize Winners (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: More Noted Things (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
UK divers admit theft from wreck (Breaking News)
'Oldest woman in the world' about to turn 130 (Breaking News)
Is the American dream dead? (Breaking News)
US takes steps to deport alleged Nazi to Germany (Breaking News)
Fewer history majors? Blame the ideology of the profs, says ... prof (Historians in the News)
British code crackers reunite, with pride unbroken (Breaking News)
Juan Cole is everywhere promoting his new book (Historians in the News)
Neglected Edwardian inventor 'made 1920s death ray' (Breaking News)
Museums are doing well despite economy (Breaking News)
Ga. shrine to Jimmy Carter faces funding cuts (Breaking News)
Nafta's Promise, Unfulfilled (Breaking News)
Blogs
DAVID T. BEITO: What is Capitalism? (1948) (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Ward Churchill: Fired Colorado Professor Defends 9-11 Remarks (Breaking News)
Challenge to Landmark Law Worries Preservationists (Breaking News)
Baby elephant kept as pet to save her from WW2 blitz (Breaking News)
John F Kennedy fathered my son, woman claims (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT KC JOHNSON: Waters' Wacky World (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Auschwitz museum struggles to preserve site (Breaking News)
Bones may be from US grave of 57 Irish immigrants (Breaking News)
Presidential memoirs not known for self-criticism (Breaking News)
Historians remember the CCC (Breaking News)
History Is On Its Way to Washington (Breaking News)
Serb group seeks grave of WWII guerrilla leader (Breaking News)
British veterans mark Great Escape anniversary (Breaking News)
Bronze Age sauna discovered on site earmarked for park and ride scheme (UK) (Breaking News)
Anniversaries of 2 key British intelligence operations (Breaking News)
Meet 'Lucky' Yamaguchi, the only man to have survived both Hiroshima AND Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts (Breaking News)
Austria sets free deported ex-Nazi guard Josias Kumpf (Breaking News)
Burma: world's longest war nears its end (Breaking News)
Historic Dockyard Chatham: There's life in the old docks yet (Breaking News)
Paris to Compensate Victims of French Nuclear Testing (Breaking News)
Serbs to mark bombing anniversary (Breaking News)
Citing dangerous housing, China bulldozes ancient Uighur culture (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Superheroes rise in tough times (Breaking News)
Spanish government criticised for renewing titles issued under Franco (Breaking News)
UK 'treasure' divers due in court (Breaking News)
China plans a Karl Marx musical (Breaking News)
Rwandan found guilty of murders (Breaking News)
Connecticut Lawmakers Consider State Apology for Slavery (Breaking News)
Berliners to mark Wall's fall by toppling giant 'dominos' (Breaking News)
Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old bronze statue (Breaking News)
Saudi king racing to reform his kingdom (Breaking News)
Jefferson Davis Statue in the Middle of Controversy (Breaking News)
CIA Has 3,000 Documents on Torture Tapes (Breaking News)
Saddam's palace still tells a story (Breaking News)
Drought Reveals Iraqi Archaeological Treasures (Breaking News)
Civil War Preservation Trust Issues 2009 “Most Endangered Battlefields” List (Breaking News)
The hunt for the last Nazis (Breaking News)
John F Kennedy fathered my son, woman claims (Breaking News)
9-foot dinosaur skeleton is no-sale at auction (Breaking News)
Lost, Now Found, a 1929 Time Capsule Proves Transporting (NY State) (Breaking News)
Revealed: How the government probed Britain's greatest UFO mystery (Breaking News)
Internet Archive Upgrades Wayback Machine (Breaking News)
Egypt wants a 3,000-year-old coffin back from US (Breaking News)
2,300 years later, 'Alexander-mania' grips Macedonia (Breaking News)
NYT lauds Beryl Satter's objectivity in writing about her own family's history (Historians in the News)
Historian challenges "politically motivated" 1915 arguments about Armenia (Historians in the News)
David McCullough more excited by Obama than any president since JFK (Historians in the News)
Martin Peretz vs. Juan Cole (Historians in the News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: The election of 2009 (POTUS)
AARON BADY: Thinking the apocalypse (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Revealed: the man who may have sunk the Mary Rose (Breaking News)
Gordon Brown urged not to discuss sovereignty of Falklands in meeting with Argentine leader (Breaking News)
Charles Darwin's personal finances revealed in new find (Breaking News)
Iraqis mark 6th anniversary of occupation (Breaking News)
Dutch to return Ghana king's head (Breaking News)
Iranians mourn Khomeini's widow (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Mostly Modern Things Noted (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
DAVID T. BEITO: Damon W. Root Reviews Black Maverick in Reason (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Underwater excavations of a Turkish prehistoric settlement (Breaking News)
New technology for dating ancient rock paintings (Breaking News)
The Art of Political Distraction (Breaking News)
Ward Churchill: A Combative Trial in Colorado as a Controversial Ex-Professor Seeks to Win Back His Job (Breaking News)
In Obama's Election, a Textbook Case of History in the Making for Students This Fall (Breaking News)
Stocks could take a long long LONG time to recover (Breaking News)
Korean dry cleaners in NYC using plastic bags to address claims against Japan (Breaking News)
Gone for generations, Russians welcomed home (Breaking News)
Unknown no longer: thousands of WW1 dead could at last be identified (Breaking News)
Turkish children drawn into Armenia row (Breaking News)
Former POWs mark 'Great Escape' anniversary (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Sunday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Jonathan Rauch: Is Obama Repeating Bush's Mistakes? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Bob Thompson: Profile of James Mann, author of a new book on Reagan (Roundup: Talking About History)
Daniel Pipes: Palestinians Who Helped Create Israel (Roundup: Talking About History)
Will the real Bill Clinton stand up in Peter Morgan's new film? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Tristram Hunt: Lessons about the war are history (UK) (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jehan Sadat: The Lessons of Camp David ... What Anwar Sadat can teach us about peace (Roundup: Talking About History)
Is this 600-year-old terracotta bust Leonardo Da Vinci's lost masterpiece? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff : Don’t Buy the Chirpy Forecasts (Roundup: Media's Take)
Rick Perlstein: Our American Common Sense (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Richard L. Hasen: Will Bush v. Gore bite Democrats in Coleman v. Franken? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Yale U. Defends Its Ownership of Famous Painting by Van Gogh (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Mark Twain rises again (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Neve Gordon: Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's shame (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Mark Selden: China’s Way Forward? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Hegemony and the World Economy in Crisis (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Simon Jenkins: At last we get it - this war is Vietnam for slow learners (Roundup: Media's Take)
John Keane's Intelligent Design: More Paintings about War and Religion, Flowers Gallery, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
A 25-year-old play about Mary, Queen of Scots is bang up to date (UK) (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Vatican plots battle with Dan Brown over Da Vinci Code sequel (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
'Great Escape' PoWs remember comrades... and boo 'silly' Steve McQueen (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jeffrey Lord: The 1966 Election's Warning to Obama (Roundup: Talking About History)
Top Gun Heroes 'Based On Brit Flying Aces' says Historian (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Mark Twain rises again (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Jessica Pritchard: Women’s History Month (Roundup: Talking About History)
First, Frost/Nixon. Now, Lewinsky/Clinton? (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: Peru’s Legacy of Graft (Roundup: Media's Take)
British Museum's Medieval Europe Gallery: a golden compass to a dark age (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Philip Jenkins: Will the Obama years see another militia scare? (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Superheroes rise in tough times (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Phillip Longman: Think government can’t fix the auto industry? Then how did it manage to fix the railroad industry—twice? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Niall Ferguson: This financial crisis does have a Conservative solution (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Harvey Wasserman: People Died at Three Mile Island (Roundup: Media's Take)
British Museum finds relics of 39 saints after 100 years (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Picasso's 'Guernica' returns to London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Portrait of Harold Pinter playing cricket to be sold at auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Alan Wolfe: Obama vs. Marx (Hint ... One of them's not a socialist) (Roundup: Media's Take)
Orwell's letters up for auction (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stephanie Coontz: The Real Marriage Revolution (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Julian Zelizer: AIG bonuses follow an American tradition (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Q & A with Stolen-Treasure Hunter Matthew Bogdanos (Roundup: Talking About History)
Dan Rather: What Obama Doesn't Know About Afghanistan (Roundup: Media's Take)
Lawrence Kudlow: A Hidden Agenda Behind the 90 Percent Tax? (Roundup: Media's Take)
Robert Samuelson: Rage Could End Up Hurting Us (Roundup: Media's Take)
Joyce Appleby: Obama needs some FDR magic (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Peter Kupfer: The man who made the Wall Street Journal (Roundup: Talking About History)
Richard Reeves: Hail to the Chief — in Public, That Is (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Jean Strouse: When the Economy Really Did ‘Fall Off a Cliff’ (Roundup: Historians' Take)
A 19th-century 'warrior' at the Royal Academy, London (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Stalker who loved Dickens (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
William Shakespeare portrait could be 16th century courtier (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
China plans a Karl Marx musical (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Pupils remember genocide victims [video 2 min 31 sec] (Roundup: Audio/Video History)
David Greenberg: The Folly of the 'Hundred Days' (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Christopher Hitchens : What the author of Das Kapital reveals about the current economic crisis (Roundup: Media's Take)
Susan Jacoby: Alger Hiss -- a case for our time (Roundup: Talking About History)
Tom Engelhardt: Economic Dirty Bomb Goes Off in New York (Roundup: Historians' Take)
Yehudit Keshet: Neve Gordon's contribution to the Middle East debate (Roundup: Talking About History)
Getty Ex-Curator Testifies in Rome Antiquities Trial (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Missing Centuries-Old Statue Found in North Carolina Home (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
New book may solve mystery of Boston museum art heist (Roundup: Pop Culture & the Arts ... Movies, Documentaries and Museum Exhibits)
Week of March 15, 2009
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: William Jess Higgs (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Ex-soldier who expressed regret over Tiananmen is detained (Breaking News)
Indicted Bosnian Serb claims immunity (Breaking News)
Veterans reject D-Day cash offer (Breaking News)
Austria frees 'murder pits guard' (Breaking News)
King's Severed Head to Be Returned to Ghana by Dutch Government (Breaking News)
Missing Centuries-Old Statue Found in North Carolina Home (Breaking News)
Dinosaur Skeleton for Sale on Auction Block in New York City (Breaking News)
Blogs
SHELDON RICHMAN: They Don't Read the Bills (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Weak Endnotes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
The Rise And Fall Of AIG's Financial Products Unit (Breaking News)
Author of ‘Iraq: A Political History’ explains why he wrote his book (Historians in the News)
Obama, rhetoric and reality (Breaking News)
Iraq sees first Western tour group since Saddam fell (Breaking News)
CBO: Obama underestimated deficit by trillions (Breaking News)
Jacobites' march to be recreated (commemorates last great battle on English soil) (Breaking News)
WW I Flying Ace: He overcame crippling nerves to shoot down planes (UK) (Breaking News)
The trembling ace (Breaking News)
World's oldest champagne opened (Breaking News)
'Prophet carpet' goes for $5.5m (Breaking News)
Nazi guard deported from US to Austria over 1943 massacre of 8,000 Jews (Breaking News)
William Shakespeare portrait could be 16th century courtier (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: The Suffering in Gaza (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Ex-Bush Official: Many at Guantanamo Bay Are Innocent (Breaking News)
Analysis: Barack Obama's 'Reagan' moment puts ball in Ahmadinejad's court (Breaking News)
After 69-Year Delay, WWII Veteran Gets High School Diploma (Breaking News)
Charles Manson spends most of his time alone (Breaking News)
Blogs
JAMES OTTESON: A Liberal Education? (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
WILLIAM MARINA: The Drug Dilemma: Informational and Regulatory Failure on a Massive Scale (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
STERLING FLUHARTY: 2008 Digest of Education Statistics (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Friday's Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Revealed: Letters by Nuremberg trials prosecutor (Breaking News)
Brutal ancestor inspires prince to be the next 'iron man' of Afghanistan (Breaking News)
UK whistle-blower urges Iraq War public inquiry (Breaking News)
Mussolini's march into Italy's mainstream (Breaking News)
Return to Clinton FOIA policy: Federal data to be released unless harm foreseen (Breaking News)
The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle (Historians in the News)
William R. Lewis wins teaching award (Historians in the News)
Longest Underground Aqueduct in the World Discovered (Breaking News)
Sixty Years After Division, Korean Language Has Gone in Separate Directions (Breaking News)
D-Day veterans will receive 65th commemoration support, says MoD (UK) (Breaking News)
Memphis' Forrest Park on National Register of Historic Places (Breaking News)
With no fanfare or media attention, President Obama last month added a new decoration to the Oval Office (Breaking News)
New opposition to Wal-Mart plan to build near Wilderness battlefield (Breaking News)
Bill Bryson warns excluding historic landscape from national park would be a 'great tragedy' (UK) (Breaking News)
U.S. Births In 2007 Break Baby-Boom-Era Record (Breaking News)
Famed Mont. fossil hunter to admit dinosaur crimes (Breaking News)
Civil War battlefields in W. Maryland called endangered (Breaking News)
Harpers Ferry arsenal being reconstructed (Breaking News)
Native American Artifacts Found Outside Kirksville Museum (Breaking News)
Archaeologists find statue of ancient Yemeni queen (Breaking News)
Financial historian: Look to 1792 for economic lessons (Historians in the News)
Juan Cole on Stephen Colbert's Comedy Central show (Historians in the News)
Photo of Charles Manson is released by prison officials (Breaking News)
Obama Signs Book Deal For Post-Presidency Book (Breaking News)
Research Group: Documents Show U.S. Knew of Assassinations in Guatemala Civil War (Breaking News)
6 years later, progress and doubts are legacy of Iraq war (Breaking News)
World War II Shell Probable Cause of Blast (Breaking News)
Pakistan Day to be celebrated on March 23 (Breaking News)
'Undercover Putin In KGB Reagan Ruse' (Breaking News)
'Prophet carpet' set for auction (Breaking News)
Blogs
KEITH HALDERMAN: American Opposition to Harm Reduction (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: European History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs (Breaking News)
Bush, Cheney strike different post-White House tones (Breaking News)
Brown University Commission Recommends a Memorial to Acknowledge Slave Trade Ties (Breaking News)
Ghosts of a Faded Gilded Age Haunt a 19th-Century Chinese Banking Hub (Breaking News)
Conrad Black vs. Jim Powell: FDR's legacy (Historians in the News)
Texas college students excavating prehistoric fossils in Arlington (Breaking News)
Senior citizens share Great Depression-era memories with Hudson High School students (Breaking News)
Bush begins writing 'Decision Points'--his memoir (Breaking News)
Blogs
RICK SHENKMAN: Infuriating (Just How Stupid Are We?)
WILLIAM MARINA: Wall Street & Other Bulls: A New Proposal From Old Rome! (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Karen Armstrong interviewed by Bill Moyers about the necessity of compassion (Historians in the News)
Civil War-era cannons to be raised from Pee Dee (Breaking News)
Experts aghast as police disturb Bronze Age tomb (Breaking News)
Rutgers University students discover ancient footprint in Kenya (Breaking News)
Deal to Curb Looting in China Worries Museums (Breaking News)
Bush book to detail "12 toughest decisions" (Breaking News)
Gettysburg Again Among Most Endangered Civil War Sites (Breaking News)
Soldier's story a new look at Tiananmen crackdown (Breaking News)
White House may seek to bypass filibuster rule in Senate (Breaking News)
U.S. urged to lift antiterror ban on foreign scholars (Breaking News)
Bosnian Serb leader sentence cut (Breaking News)
Saddam-Era Mass Grave Found in Iraq (Breaking News)
Darwin gets a late birthday present (Breaking News)
Edmund Hillary's home sold at auction (Breaking News)
Dead Sea Scrolls were work of the Sadducees, claims academic (Breaking News)
The great betrayal: How the Government is treating the 65th anniversary of D-Day with utter disdain (UK) (Breaking News)
Danish museum resists return of disputed artifacts (Breaking News)
Waffen SS Veterans March Through Riga (Breaking News)
Darwin in Turkey (Breaking News)
German Publisher Releases Study of Own Nazi Past (Breaking News)
The Story of Susan Hibbert: Death of the Last British Witness to the Signature of the German WW2 Surrender (Breaking News)
Blogs
RALPH E. LUKER: Modern History Notes (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
Roundup
Historical Archives Lead to Arrest of Police Officers in Guatemalan Disappearance (Breaking News)
Biden: Economy tougher than FDR's (Breaking News)
1,000-year-old fishing trap found on Google Earth (Breaking News)
Park Service continues to hack away at trees at Gettysburg (Breaking News)
Iran urbanized 4,500 years ago (Breaking News)
Ulysses S. Grant is remembered as a champion of civil rights (Breaking News)
Vandalism at Appomattox Courthouse National Historic Park (Breaking News)
1 year anniversary of Obama's race speech (Breaking News)
Obama's plans to adapt FDR's model to address today's economy (Breaking News)
Blogs
ROBERT HIGGS: R. Max Hartwell, 1921-2009 (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Thousands of 6,000-year old cave paintings found in Peru's Amazon region (Breaking News)
30 years later, Afghan leader reburied with honor (Breaking News)
Juan Cole explains why he wrote his new book about Middle East politics (Historians in the News)
CNN poll: Americans fear a new Great Depression (Breaking News)
Blogs
WILLIAM MARINA: Bandow on Isolationism (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
KEITH HALDERMAN: Army to Become DEA (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
RALPH E. LUKER: Things Noted Here and There (CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog)
JAMES OTTESON: Update on Peter Singer (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Battle for the treasure chest that changed the course of the Great War (Breaking News)
U.S. reconsiders its '2-war' readiness strategy (Breaking News)
UK diplomat involved in Falklands War effort dies (Breaking News)
Archaeologists return to historical city of Decius (Breaking News)
The Management of the Viennese Court (Breaking News)
Murdered Afghan leader is buried (Breaking News)
Britain showing signs of heading towards 1930s-style depression, says Bank (Breaking News)
103 famous faces in one painting (Breaking News)
Henry Allingham, Britain's oldest man, awarded French Legion of Honour (Breaking News)
Canadian dig yields tiny dinosaur (Breaking News)
Blogs
MARK BRADY: The Case for Legalizing Brothels (Liberty & Power: Group Blog)
Roundup
Dixie College board drops nickname, mascot (Breaking News)
Obama advised to read Rashid Khalidi’s latest work (Historians in the News)
Railroad Bailout May Offer a Model for Detroit (Breaking News)
Mass. living history museum bucks economic trend (Breaking News)
Blogs
CLAIRE B. POTTER: Teach This Book! Judith Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge o