Roundup: Talking About History

Marcia Alesan Dawkins: Giving Loving Day Its Due

Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D. is Visiting Scholar at Brown UniversityIf you’re reading this, then you’ve probably been invited to commemorate or at least think about Loving Day this year. And with good reason. In 1958, newlyweds Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving were indicted on charges of violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages and were banished from their home state. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law in 1967.

Felisa Rogers: How the Hot Dog Became the Most American Food

Felisa Rogers studied history and nonfiction writing at the Evergreen State College and went on to teach writing to kids for five years. She lives in Oregon’s coast range, where she works as a freelance writer and editorAs the Coney Island boardwalk gives way to textured cement, and traditional Coney Island haunts such as Ruby's and the Cha Cha celebrate their last summer in the shadow of forced demolition, it seems an opportune time to take a look at the history of Coney Island's most iconic emblem: the hot dog.

James K. Galbraith: Why Not Keynes? Adam Smith’s disciples run America—and that’s the problem

James K. Galbraith is the author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. He teaches Keynes at the University of Texas at Austin. In the high crisis just two years back, the cult of John Maynard Keynes saw a dramatic revival. Deficits were acceptable, stimulus plans became law, books entitled Return of the Master and The Keynes Solution rushed into print.

Joshua Green: The Heroic Story of How Congress First Confronted AIDS

Joshua Green is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe

Alex Beam: On the Goodness of King George

Alex Beam is a columnist for the I.H.T.At the beginning of June, on a date that is not June 4 but is called June 4, Eton College in Windsor, England, celebrates the birthday of King George III. June 4 is indeed the king’s birthday, but the celebration generally takes place after Britain’s end-of-May bank holiday....

Clyde Prestowitz: What if Kissinger was wrong to go to China?

Clyde Prestowitz, founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute, served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. Henry the K was at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace yesterday using the occasion of the publication of his latest book, the portentously titled On China, to t

James M. Lundberg: *Sarcasm* Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns

James M. Lundberg is assistant professor of History at Sacred Heart University.

Michael Oren: Remembering Six Days in 1967

Michael Oren is Israel's ambassador to the United States and author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. "We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants," declared Palestine Liberation Organization leader Ahmad al-Shuqayri.

Jim Lacey: A Great and Terrible Day

Jim Lacey is the professor of strategic studies at the Marine Corps War College. He is the author of Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II.

Paul Kengor: Remembering D-Day With Ike and Reagan

Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College.

Jim Lacey: A Great and Terrible Day

 Jim Lacey is the professor of strategic studies at the Marine Corps War College. He is the author of Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II. “Good Luck!

Henry D. Fetter: The French Open During World War II: A Hidden History

Henry D. Fetter is the author of Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball and has written widely about the business and politics of sports.

Natasha Kandic: The Shame of Serbia

Natasha Kandic is the executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center in Serbia. This article was translated by Vesna Bogojevic from the Serbian.THE arrest of Ratko Mladic on May 26 caught me off guard. I couldn’t believe it. I clenched my fists, trying to grip him tightly in my hands. Finally, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Ted Galen Carpenter: Mladic’s Arrest and Corrosive Bosnian Myths

Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, is the author of eight books on international affairs.

Robert Zaretsky: War and Work are the Forces of Life

Robert Zaretsky is professor of history in the Honors College, University of Houston, and the author, most recently, of Albert Camus: Elements of a Life.

Andrew Leonard: The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory About Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon.At Salon, we try to keep abreast of as many currently percolating conspiracy theories as possible....

Ray Fisman: The Persistence of Hate

Professor Fisman received his PhD in Business Economics at Harvard University.From Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., to the "Little Rock Nine," who defied school segregation in Arkansas, most of the civil rights clashes of the 20th century played out on the turf where the Confederacy had fought to preserve slavery 100 years earlier.

Jacob Heilbrunn: How Bad Was Franco?

Jacob Heilbrunn, a senior editor at the National Interest, is the author of They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons.

Christopher Hitchens: Red Rosa

Christopher Hitchens is an Atlantic contributing editor and a Vanity Fair columnist.The generally accepted verdict on 20th-century ideology—that its “totalitarian” character eclipses any of the ostensible differences between its “left” and “right” versions—is one that few wish to dispute.

Gil Troy: Jogging Memories of 1947 and 1967 on Jerusalem Day

Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University and a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow in Jerusalem.