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12-2-13

Slim Majority of History PhDs Hold Tenure-Track Jobs

David Austin Walsh

But nearly a quarter of recent PhDs are in non-tenure track/contingent positions.

Historians/History

12-2-13

Corporations Can Speak... But Can They Also Be Religious?

Emma Long

The Supreme Court will consider religious exemption challenges to Obamacare in the upcoming term.

News at Home

12-2-13

How the New Deal Defines the Debate Over Obamacare

David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd

Lessons from Messrs. Roosevelt and Hoover.

News at Home

12-2-13

The Battle for Ohio's Middle Class

John T. McNay

Labor's 2011 victory in Ohio offers a blueprint for the future.

News at Home

12-2-13

Andrew Jackson: Symbol of a Southern Age

Mark R. Cheathem

From the Revolution through to the Civil War, the South dominated American political life.

Historians/History

12-2-13

Does the Road to Mideast Peace Run through Tehran?

Juan Cole

The diplomatic breakthrough at Geneva is still only a down payment on a much bigger deal.

News Abroad

12-2-13

The American Way of Manners

Tom Engelhardt

Col. Manners answers your questions on the etiquette of war, nuclear threats, and surveillance.

News Abroad

12-2-13

Channelling George Washington: Should Obama Have Gone to Gettysburg?

Thomas Fleming

Our first black president is proof that we've finally had a new birth of freedom in America. But it's complicated.

News at Home

Imperial & Global Forum
11-20-13

In Defense of Global History

Marc-William Palen

David Bell was too harsh on Emily Rosenberg's "A World Connecting: 1870-1945."

Roundup: Talking About History

Imperial & Global Forum
11-26-13

Diminishing Returns of the Global Turn

David A. Bell

Global history has met the law of diminishing returns in its insights.

Roundup: Historians' Take

12-2-13

The Nazis, the Haganah and a Feisty Dr. Ruth

Bruce Chadwick

Did you know that Dr. Ruth, America's favorite sex therapist, is a Holocaust survivor?

Culture Watch

June 2006

Where Did The Term “The West” Originate?

Nathan Calverley

What is the geopolitical entity known as “The West”?

Google Questions

12-2-13

Review of Gary J. Bass's "The Blood Telegram"

Ron Briley

Contemplating America's complicity in the genocide of Bengali Hindus.

Books

12-2-13

Review of Gershon Baskin's "The Negotiator"

Murray Polner

How Israel built bridges with its worst enemies.

Books

November 2001

Top 10 Myths About Thanksgiving

Rick Shenkman

The Pilgrims didn't even hold the first Thanksgiving.

Fact & Fiction

November 2008

Why Is Our Thanksgiving Bird Called a Turkey?

Larry E. Tise

Answer: Because the Turks were the first Old Worlders to domesticate the bird.

History Q & A

11-25-13

Why are Thanksgiving and Hanukah on the Same Day This Year?

Joshua B. Dermer

Thanks to the Jewish lunar-solar calendar, we won't see Thanksgivingukah again for 77,000 years.

Google Questions

HNN Hot Topics: Thanksgiving

The best web commentary on the Thanksgiving holiday.

Hot Topics

11-25-13

Documenting Historians' Revolutionary Demographic Change

Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber

In 1962, the president of the American Historical Association warned about young historians of "lower middle-class or foreign origins." How times have (thankfully) changed.

Historians/History

11-25-13

I Don't Care Who Killed JFK

Peter Dreier

It really doesn't matter who killed the thirty-fifth president.

Historians/History

11-25-13

The Nazis' Gun Ban Facilitated Kristallnact

Stephen Halbrook

Jewish-owned guns were registered and were easily confiscated in the weeks before the onslaught.

Historians/History

11-25-13

The Problem with "Extraterritoriality"

Alan McPherson

U.S. soldiers accused of crimes in Afghanistan are tried in U.S. courts. That's been a problem before during the occupation of the Dominican Republic.

News Abroad

11-25-13

What Happens When a Country's Culture is Replaced by Immigrants?

Diana Muir Appelbaum

It happened before in Mexican Texas.

Historians/History

11-25-13

Averted: The War Between Iran and America

Juan Cole

The dream of the neoconservatives during the Bush administration -- an American flag in Tehran -- looks to be just that: a dream.

News Abroad

11-25-13

More Danger at Home than at War

Bruce Chadwick

This off-Broadway play is something of a small miracle.

Culture Watch

11-25-13

Why Did Jack Ruby Kill Lee Harvey Oswald?

Bruce Chadwick

"Witness to the World" asks.

Culture Watch

11-25-13

Review of William G. Hyland Jr.'s "Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson"

Kathryn Moore

A biography fit for the author of the seminal six-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson.

Books

11-25-13

Review of Paul Buhle's "Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith"

Jim Cullen

A provocative approach to religion, pedagogy, and history.

Books

11-22-13

A New Film Life of President John F. Kennedy [INTERVIEW]

Robin Lindley

Director Susan Bellows on the PBS documentary "JFK."

Historians/History

11-22-13

Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union [INTERVIEW]

David Austin Walsh

Journalist Peter Savodnik discusses his new book, "The Interloper."

Historians/History

11-20-13

Why Didn't Obama Say "Under God" in His Recitation of the Gettysburg Address?

John Fea

Simple: Because "under God" isn't in the version Obama was asked to read.

Historians/History

11-20-13

Why Lee Harvey Oswald Pulled the Trigger

Steven M. Gillon

The Warren Commission painted him as a disaffected sociopath. But Oswald actually had a political reason to kill JFK: to impress Castro.

Historians/History

11-20-13

Would We Still Have Had "The Sixties" If Kennedy Had Lived?

James T. Patterson

Remember, the turmoil of the 1960s stemmed from forces unrelated to JFK's assassination.

Historians/History

11/22: The Day "Truth" Died

When JFK died, America's belief in "truth" as absolute certainty began to die too.

Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica

11-18-13

Changing the Teaching of History, One Byte at a Time

Sam Wineburg

History education is preparing students for the pre-Internet world. Here's how to bring the K-12 history classroom into the twenty-first century.

Education

11-18-13

Is the "Yellow Peril" Dead?

Ellen D. Wu

How Asian Americans became the model minority -- and why whites still consider them to be a threat.

News at Home

11-18-13

Will Typhoon Haiyan Cause Meaningful Political Reform in the Philippines?

Richard T. Chu

Natural disasters can often spark political reforms, especially in corrupt and nepotistic countries like the Philippines. But here's why that probably won't happen.

News Abroad

11-18-13

Does PBS's "JFK" Whitewash Kennedy's Flaws?

Sheldon M. Stern

The new PBS documentary fails to rise above the imagery crafted by Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen in the 1960s.

Historians/History

HNN Hot Topics: Gettysburg Address

Web commentary on the sesquicentennial of the most celebrated speech in American history.

Hot Topics

December 2012

How Historically Accurate is "Lincoln"?

Kelsey McKernie

The short answer is: very.

Google Questions

11-18-13

The Kennedys and Martin Luther King

Yohuru Williams

King and the Kennedys remain important symbols of the power of hope and the promise of a just democracy.

Historians/History

11-18-13

The Silver Lining of Obama's Weak America

Daniel Pipes

Obama's weakness is forcing America's allies to step up.

News Abroad

HNN Hot Topics: John F. Kennedy

The best of web commentary on the legacy of the thirty-fifth president.

Hot Topics

11-18-13

Abraham Lincoln Never Believed in Racial Equality

Alan J. Singer

"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races."

Historians/History

7-8-02

What Was Lincoln's Record on Civil Liberties?

David Greenberg

Lincoln *did* suspend habeas corpus, but he did have good reason.

Google Questions

11-18-13

A Vivid Look at Gay Life in Castro’s Cuba

Bruce Chadwick

Gay life was not much fun under communism.

Culture Watch

Review of Richard Moe's "Roosevelt's Second Act"

Bernard von Bothmer

Was the 1940 presidential election the most important in American history?

Books

11-18-13

Review of Linda Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams"

Jim Cullen

A musical memoir with a few too many silent notes.

Books