Week of April 29, 2013
Up Front
 American Heritage Magazine Temporarily Suspends PublicationDavid Austin Walsh The publisher is retooling the organization to focus on education. Tags: American Heritage, history, magazines, publishing |
 Redressing Wikipedia's Historical Gender and Racial GapFatima Ahmed-Farouta Good luck finding entries on non-Western women... but Roopika Risam and Adeline Koh are on it. Tags: gender, postcolonialism, Rewriting Wikipedia Project, Wikipedia |
 The Black Russian and the JewsVladimir Alexandrov The strange saga of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the African American-turned-Russian businessman. Tags: Black Russian, George Frederick Thomas, Russian Jews, World War I |
News at Home
 Liberals: Stop Making Excuses for ObamaMary L. Dudziak It wasn't the filibuster that kept Gitmo open or institutionalized targeted killings. Tags: Barack Obama, liberals, progressives, accountability |
 Time Again for Repayable Taxes?Robert E. Wright The Romans, Italians, and the Dutch have pegged high tax rates to economic growth -- why can't we? Tags: Netherlands, repayable taxes, taxes, fiscal policy |
 Seeking the Good DeathEmily K. Abel Lessons from nineteenth-century health care on how to attend to the dying. Tags: death, dying, health care, medicine |
 Historians Still Despise George W. BushDavid Austin Walsh A new HNN poll shows that the former president remains a failure in the eyes of historians. Tags: George W. Bush, historians, presidential legacies, presidential rankings |
 Is the Press Too Big to Fail?Todd Gitlin It’s dumb journalism, stupid. Tags: media, newspapers, press, journalism |
News Abroad
 Jesus and MuhammadJuan Cole Islam is not an inherently violent religon. Tags: Christianity, Islam, Jesus, Muhammad |
Historians & History
 Remembering "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"Randal Maurice Jelks Just like the biblical epistles, MLK's most famous piece of writing was carefully edited. Tags: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", Martin Luther King, MLK, civil rights movement |
 The History of the World Keeps Changing. Literally.Odd Arne Westad How John M. Roberts's classic History of the World was updated for a new generation. Tags: History of the World, John Roberts (historian), revisions, world history |
Culture Watch
 How Accurate is "42"?Ron Briley The latest Jackie Robinson biopic may be a great baseball movie, but not great history. Tags: 42, baseball, Hollywood, Jackie Robinson |
Books
 Review of Andrei Lankov's The Real North KoreaDavid Austin Walsh Andrei Lankov brings perspective to the failed Stalinist monarchy as only a former Soviet citizen can. Tags: Andrei Lankov, North Korea, Stalinism, The Real North Korea |
 Review of Ron Reagan's My Father at 100Bernard von Bothmer An affectionate, engaging, and useful biography of the fortieth president. Tags: "book reviews, "presidents, "Ron Reagan, "Ronald Reagan |