Week of July 29, 2013
Up Front
 Report: Adjunct Historians Very Much at Bottom of the BarrelDavid Austin Walsh A new OAH report shows that adjunct historians face low pay, poor working conditions, and less chance of gaining a full-time, tenure-track position than counterparts in business and the sciences. Tags: academic jobs, adjunct faculty, jobs, Organization of American Historians |
 Revolutionary Situations are Inherently MessyAlyssa Goldstein Sepinwall As difficult as overthrowing a government is, it's even tougher to build a new one. Tags: Arab Spring, Egypt, French Revolution, revolutions |
 Why Deng Zhengjia Will Not Be China’s Mohamed BouaziziMaura Elizabeth Cunningham The latest in Revolutionary Moments. Tags: China, Deng Zhengjia, Mohamed Bouazizi, Arab Spring |
News at Home
 Why the Relentless Assault on Abortion in the United States?Ruth Rosen Majority opinion lies between the two parties, so why the war on access to abortion? Tags: abortion, women's rights, feminism, openDemocracy |
 Why the Hell is Anthony Weiner Still Running for Mayor?Steve Hochstadt Carlos Danger isn't right for New York City. Tags: Anthony Weiner, New York City, sex scandals, Carlos Danger |
News Abroad
 Trayvon Martin and Edward SnowdenVicente L. Rafael Might Snowden share Trayvon's fate? Tags: Trayvon Martin, Edward Snowden, drones, vigilantism |
 Edward Snowden vs. Robert Seldon LadyTom Engelhardt A renegade CIA agent gets picked up in Panama after over three decades on the run. Tags: Robert Seldon Lady, Edward Snowden, CIA, 1970s |
 The U.S. Military’s Limited Critique of Itself Ensures Future DisastersWilliam J. Astore H.R. McMaster's New York Times op-ed was unsurprisingly banal. Tags: H.R. McMaster, military history>, NYT, U.S. Army |
Historians & History
 92 Professors Go After Mitch DanielsRon Radosh And embarrass themselves. Tags: Rosenberg case, Mitch Daniels, Howard Zinn, Minding the Campus |
 Michael Fullilove: FDR the Greatest Statesman of the Twentieth Century (INTERVIEW)Robin Lindley How FDR and five trusted aides built the American world. Tags: diplomacy, FDR, foreign policy, interviews, World War II |
Culture Watch
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 Bruce: Every Historian's Favorite Rock StarJohn W. Johnson The Boss's new documentary Springsteen and I hits theaters for one night only July 30. Tags: Bruce Springsteen, movie reviews, music, Springsteen and I |
Books
 Review of Marc Morris's The Norman ConquestJim Cullen Not just 1066 and all that. Tags: 1066, Battle of Hastings, Marc Morris, William the Conqueror |
 Review of Joseph W. Scott and Solomon A. Getahun's Little Ethiopia of the Pacific NorthwestVaughn Davis Bornet How '70s-era refugees from communist-controlled Ethiopia built a home in Seattle. Tags: book reviews, Little Ethopia, Seattle, Ethiopia |