Week of June 11, 2012
Book of the Month
 Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian -- by Bernard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill |
Blogs
 Editor's Desk: History, as Painted by Video Games |
 What’s the Deal With the Squabble in the South China Sea? Eric G. Prileson |
News at Home
 Our Latest Mormon Moment Matthew Bowman |
 The Two Elections that Dealt Unions the Biggest Blows Last Tuesday Didn't Happen in Wisconsin Kevin Boyle |
 Will We Be Able to Preserve Yellowstone, America's Living Cathedral? George Black |
News Abroad
 Vietnam is Back in Town Jerry Lembcke |
 Coca-Cola Profits Off Egyptian Jew's Seized Property Edwin Black |
Historians & History
 The Forgotten American Pandemic: Historian Nancy K. Bristow on the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 Robin Lindley |
Education
 Does Common Core Encourage War? Alan Singer |
Culture Watch
 A Play about a Civil War Prisoner Debuts in a Real Civil War Prison Bruce Chadwick |
 Alcatraz Assailed Again, this Time in Drama about a 1941 Murder Bruce Chadwick |
 England is Drenched in Blood in the Fifteenth-Century Wars of Henry IV Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Paul Dickson's Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick Ron Briley |
 Review of Steven Biel's Bonnie Parker Writes a Poem: How Two Bungling Psychopaths Became Bonnie and Clyde Jim Cullen |