Week of October 31, 2011

Up Front

News

National Library of Medicine Celebrates 175th Anniversary
Jeffrey S. Reznick

Questions People are Googling

• What's Behind the History of Halloween?
• Who Was "Jim Crow"?
• Who Killed Malcolm X? And Why?
• What Caused the Civil War?

News at Home

Occupy Wall Street's Valley Forge Moment
Tom Engelhardt

What, the NRA Didn't Always Oppose Gun Control?
Adam Winkler

Obama Shouldn't be Above Criticism by Progressives
Jacob Kramer

Ron Paul: Interviews with Historian David Beito and Political Scientist Matthew Wilson
Alexander Heffner

News Abroad

Obama's Misplaced Mideast Optimism
Daniel Pipes

Let's Make Sure to Ask the Right Questions About the Gilad Shalit Deal
Donna Robinson Divine

Christianity is in Danger in the Middle East
Robert G. Rabil

Life after Gaddafi Isn't Going to be Easy
Deepak Tripathi

Historians & History

Victimized by Folklore
Jim Loewen

Books

Review of Dorothee Kocks's The Glass Harmonica
Jim Cullen

Review of Zoe Burkholder's Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race
Jim Cullen