Week of June 18, 2012
Polls
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Further Reading
 Robert Caro and the Mythical Cuban Missile Crisis Sheldon M. Stern |
News at Home
 Channelling George Washington: Us Against Them Thomas Fleming |
 Racism, Wheeling, and a Small-Town Newspaper, 1968 and 2008 Walter G. Moss |
 A Hollywood Movie Could Help Either Democrats or Republicans in the Presidential Election Robert Brent Toplin |
 We Need to Stop Using the Phrase "American Civil Religion" Ira Chernus |
News Abroad
 The Justice Cascade: Political Scientist Dr. Kathryn Sikkink on Human Rights Prosecutions Robin Lindley |
 Egypt: An Election within a Coup within a Coup Juan Cole |
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Historians & History
 Remembering Watergate Stanley Kutler |
 Nixon's Biggest Crime Was Far, Far Worse than Watergate Ken Hughes |
 The Real Reason the Bible Bans Homosexuality Eric Berkowitz |
Culture Watch
 The True Story of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud Altina L. Waller |
 Ed Wood: The Original Experimental Filmmaker Bruce Chadwick |
 The Women War Correspondents of World War II: Guts, Bravery and Stockings Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of James Mann's The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power Murray Polner |
 Review of Matthew F. Delmont's The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia Luther Spoehr |