Week of December 5, 2011
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Up Front
Newt Gingrich the Galactic Historian
Ray Smock
The Day of Infamy—How Japan’s Hollow Victory Spelt the End for Hitler
Rupert Colley
Pearl Harbor Roundtable
Pearl Harbor: Seventy Years Later
Hiroshi Kitamura
Remembering Pearl Harbor with Japanese and American Teachers
Yujin Yaguchi
The Road to War between the U.S. and Japan was Paved by Irreconcilable Worldviews
John Gripentrog
Another Sort of Pearl Harbor Infamy for Japanese Americans
Greg Robinson
Remember 9/11, Forget Pearl Harbor?
Emily S. Rosenberg
Questions People are Googling
- Who Was Pocahontas?
- Did Benjamin Franklin Fake the Kite Experiment?
- Did Hitler have Jewish Soldiers?
- Was William T. Sherman the Most Reckless Civil War General of Them All?
- Did Truman Really Oppose the Soviet Union's Decision to Enter the War Against Japan?
Blogs
- Iwan Morgan: The UK's Deficit Dogma: The Lesson for the U.S.
- David Silbey: The Facts of Yesterday (Clio)
- Chris Bray: Boston College (Cont.): The Inextinguishable Rule of Law* (Clio)
- Lester Hunt: What I Learned from Climategate(L&)
- Walid Phares: Questions About Middle East Studies' Unreadiness for the Arab Spring
News at Home
Why Does the 99 Percent Let Athletes, Executives, and Movie Stars Get Away with Huge Salaries?
Walter G. Moss
Will The Occupy Movement Fade Now That Most of the Occupations Have Been Cleared?
Mark Naison
Penn State and Violence Against Men
Jim Loewen
Save and Preserve Our American System
Vaughn Davis Bornet
News Abroad
Revisiting a Massacre in Lebanon's Civil War—Were Lebanese Christians Responsible?
Franck Salameh
Historians & History
Fairy Tale History at New York’s (un)Historical Society
Alan Singer
A 1978 Critique of Gaddis on Kennan
Michael H. Hunt
The Sad Lives and Demise of Stalin's Sons
Rupert Colley
Culture Watch
Merry Christmas to All: the American Theater Recycles Films of the Past for Historic Holiday Cheer this Season
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Thomas A. Kohut's A German Generation: An Experential History of the Twentieth Century
Murray Polner