Week of November 7, 2011
Up Front
History is Worth Fighting For, But Where is the AHA?
Jesse Lemsich
Response to Jesse Lemisch: It's Not Enough to Just Wish for Change
Anthony Grafton and James Grossman
News
Cliopatria Awards Nominations are Now Open!
Hot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- When was the Internet Invented?
- Was Hitler Jewish?
- How Did the Taft-Hartley Act Come About?
- Is It Sacajawea or Sacagawea?
- Who Dreamed Up Our Concept of Time?
News at Home
Why Occupying Detroit Is Harder Than It Seems
Rachel Burstein
Rick Perry: Interviews with Historians Edward F. Countryman and Greg Cantrell
Alexander Heffner
News Abroad
NEW How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism
Juan Cole
NEW This Is What Defeat Looks Like
Tom Engelhardt
Let's Call a Spade a Spade: We're Still at War with Terror
Walid Phares
Neither the Left nor the Right Gets the Iraq Withdrawal
Andrew Meyer
Historians & History
NEW Veterans Day is a Time for Love for One's Country
Vaughn Davis Bornet
NEW Japanese Companies Used American POWs as Slave Labor—Where's Their Apology?
Kinue Tokudome
"In God We Trust" or "E Pluribus Unum"? The Founding Fathers Preferred the Latter Motto
Thomas A. Foster
Did Slavery Expand the Power of the Federal Government?
David F. Ericson
Medal of Honor Upgrades Are Rare—And They Ought to Be
Ed Hooper
This Veterans Day, Let's Reflect on the D.C. War Memorial
Jeffrey S. Reznick
Culture Watch
Hollywood Jumps Into British History: Did William Shakespeare Write His Own Plays?
Bruce Chadwick
The Ghosts of the Vietnam War Haunt Riveting "Other Desert Cities" in New York
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Denis Lacorne's Religion in America: A Political History
Jim Cullen
Review of John J. Miller's The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
Luther Spoehr