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On Other Websites: Week of April 30, 2012
  • Gil Troy: Culture Warriors Don’t Win
  • Niall Ferguson: How Africa Is Primed for Economic Take Off
  • Max Holland: New Questions About Deep Throat
  • Adam Arenson: Stonewall Jackson's Arm Lies Here
  • Thai Jones: The First of May
  • Todd Gitlin: How Occupy's Year of Transformation Compares t o the Revolutions of 1848 and 1968
  • William Shawcross: Murdoch Has Been the Bravest Media Owner in Britain in the Last 40 Years
  • Christoph Gunkel: The Good Göring ... How a Top Nazi's Brother Saved Lives
  • Jose A. Rodriguez: The Path to bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Start with Obama
  • Donald Sassoon: To Understand This Crisis We Can Look to the Long Depression Too

    • On Other Websites: Week of April 23, 2012
  • Christopher Layne: The Global Power Shift from West to East
  • Conrad Black: Obama’s No FDR ... FDR’s Policies Revitalized America
  • Geraldo L. Cadava: Arizona Shows What Not to Do
  • Alice Kessler-Harris: Lillian Hellman's Convictions
  • Michael Kazin: Obama, a European Socialist? I Wish!
  • George Monbiot: Deny the British Empire's Crimes? No, We Ignore Them
  • Julian Zelizer: Campaign Rhetoric May Tie Next President's Hands
  • Barbara Zollner: An Islamic State in Egypt? The Muslim Brotherhood and the Presidential Elections
  • Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman: Prison Labor as the Past -- and Future -- of American “Free-Market” Capitalism
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's Undiplomacy
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    On Other Websites: Week of April 9, 2012
  • Anthony Grafton: My Stomach Hurts When I Think About Upcoming Changes at the New York Public Library
  • Paul Moreno: The Unhappy History of Running Against the Supreme Court
  • Jeffrey Herf: The Odious Musings of Gunter Grass
  • Gregory Mann: The Mess In Mali
  • Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline
  • Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Playing the Violence Card
  • Aaron David Miller: The Second-Term Illusion
  • Timothy Garton Ash: Turkey’s Neo-Ottoman Game Plan
  • Carlos Eire: What Pope Benedict Got Wrong in Cuba
  • Bret Stephens: Why the Falklands Matter

    • On Other Websites: Week of March 26, 2012
  • Alexandra M. Lord: Our Secret Nonacademic Histories
  • Nell Irvin Painter: When Poverty Was White
  • Stanley N. Katz: Beware Big Donors
  • Beverly Gage: Meet the Man Who Invented the GOP’s Defense of the Wealthy—in 1883.
  • Samuel Gregg: The Left Resumes Its War on History
  • Andrei Lankov: What South Koreans Learn About the North
  • Ben Alpers: The Academy in Peril
    • Damien Ma: Children of the Revolution: The History China's New Leaders Won't Confront
  • Mehdi Hasan: Bomb Iran and it Will Surely Decide to Pursue Nuclear Arms
  • Ian Milligan: Illusionary Order: Cautionary Notes for Online Newspapers

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    On Other Websites: Week of March 5, 2012
  • James C. Cobb: Taking an Ideological Ax to U.S. History
  • Michael Kazin: Why ‘Crony Capitalism’ is as American as Apple Pie
  • Walter Russell Mead: America is Stuck with the Mideast.
  • William Cronon: Why We Should Avoid an Overly-Narrow Definition of "Professional History"
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Rush Limbaugh 'Slut' Comment Reveals a Double Standard on Sex
  • Louis Galambos: Dwight Eisenhower, Quiet Radical
  • Robert Fisk: Is Homs An Echo of What Happened in Srebrenica?
  • Geoffrey Kabaservice: Why Mitt Romney’s Whole Career Is Making His Father Roll Over in His Grave
  • James Poulos: Why Europe Needs Another Napoleon
  • William McGurn: Reagan Was A Sure Loser Too
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    On Other Websites: Week of February 27, 2012
  • Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin: Co­lo­ni­al­ism in Africa Helped Launch the HIV Epidemic a Century Ago
  • Jon Gertner: True Innovation at Bell Labs
  • Rick Perlstein: Reagan's Attacks On Carter's Embrace of "Big Government" Were B.S.
  • Victor Davis Hanson: History Never Quite Ends ... Whatever Else Changes, Human Nature Does Not
  • Jeffrey Herf: Why Won’t Obama Speak Frankly About Iran?
  • Ross Douthat: The Greatness of Ike
  • Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse: The End in Afghanistan
  • Simon Jenkins: We Are Fighting Islamism From Ignorance, As We Did the Cold War
  • James Romm: Greeks Today Might Ask ... What Would Pericles Do?
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Murder in a Time of Bigotry

    • On Other Websites: Week of February 20, 2012
  • Willard Sterne Randall: Our Founding Fathers Were Broke
  • Julian Zelizer: Many Wild Cards Could Swing the 2012 Presidential Race
  • Tom Switzer: Not Only Nixon Could Go to China
  • Andrew Roberts: The Greek Crisis ... Europe's 'Proud Empire' is Entering a Cul de Sac of History
  • Andrew J. Bacevich: The American Century Is Over— Good Riddance
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Why States Like Iran Can't Have Nukes
  • Geoffrey Kabaservice: How the GOP’s Looming Election Disaster Is, And Isn’t, Like 1964
  • Jeremy Diamond and Davida Aronovitch: The War of 1812 ... Stupid but Important
  • Sarah Mousa: How Nasser Shaped the Arab Spring
  • Lewis L. Gould: Teddy, Teddy, Enough Already

    • On Other Websites: Week of February 13, 2012

     

  • Mary L. Dudziak: This War Is Not Over Yet

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  • Niall Ferguson: We're All State Capitalists Now

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  • Beverly Gage: The Government Had a Better Idea for Fixing Income Inquality 100 Years Ago

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  • Tim Stanley: God Save the Queen ... Why the British Monarchy May Not Outlive Elizabeth

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  • Jeremy Paxman: British Empire was an Amazing Thing

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  • Thomas Bender: What's Been Lost in History

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  • Thomas Sowell: The ‘Progressive’ Legacy ... In the Footsteps of TR and Wilson

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  • Benny Morris: On Iran, Israel Faces a Stark Choice

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  • Robert W. Merry: Obama and the War Decision

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  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr: J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Spy? No. But a Communist Once? Yes.

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    On Other Websites ... Week of February 6, 2012
  • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer: The Long War Between the States (for Business)
  • Niall Ferguson: Israel and Iran on the Eve of Destruction in a New Six-Day War
  • Rick Perlstein: What Mitt Romney Learned From His Dad
  • Simon Schama: Dickens Made Masterpieces Out of Modern Cruelties
  • Susana Ferreira: The Rebranding of 'Baby Doc' Duvalier
  • Judith Stein: Where Recessions Don't Matter -- At the Fed
  • Thomas J. Sugrue: Saul Alinsky -- The Activist Who Terrifies the Right
  • Andrew Roberts: How the Queen Saved and Soothed Britain
  • Mark N. Katz: The Moscow-Damascus Alliance: A Tangled Tale
  • Paul Bew: What Did Churchill Really Think About Ireland?

    • On Other Websites: Week of January 30, 2012
  • Harold Holzer: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Weren’t As Great As Gingrich Thinks
  • Niall Ferguson: How the Rising Bottom Billion Could Explode Inequality at Home
  • Steve Gillon: How Newt Gingrich, the Ultimate Washington Insider, Plays the Part of Outsider
  • Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp: Mormons’ Double Legacy
  • Fouad Ajami: The Last Battle of the Cold War
  • Dmitry Shlapentokh: Imperial Errors Cost U.S. the Middle East
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Are College Students Learning?
  • Uri Friedman: 2012 ... The Darkest Falklands Anniversary Yet?
  • Reza Kahlili: History of Failed Negotiations Shows Iran Won't Deal
  • Piers Paul Read: France is Still Fractured by the Dreyfus Affair

    • On Other Websites: Week of January 23, 2012
  • Julian Zelizer: It Took a Scandal to Get Real Campaign Finance Reform
  • Juan Cole: South Carolina and Gingrich; Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood
  • Walter Russell Mead: The Once and Future Liberalism
  • Paul Gillespie: Obama Channels Nixon in Asia Pivot
  • Elliott Abrams: Gingrich is No Reagan
  • Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman: How Slavery Led to Modern Capitalism
  • Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Reading about Moscow (With Beijing on My Mind)
  • Michael Dobbs: Could Bill Clinton Have Prevented The Srebrenica Massacre?
  • Michael Lind: How Conservatives Lie About Government
  • William Boyd: Why World War I Resonates

    • On Other Websites: Week of January 16, 2012
  • Stephen Tuck: King of All Nations
  • Julian Zelizer: Gingrich's Attacks Now Could Help Obama Later
  • Niall Ferguson: Rich America, Poor America
  • Simon Schama: Why Americans Have Fallen for Snobby "Downton Abbey"
  • Hendrik Hartog: Bargaining for a Child’s Love
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: How Rick Santorum and America can be 'Exceptional': Avoid Empire
  • Sol Stern: Hannah Arendt and the Origins of Israelophobia
  • Michael Kazin: The End of the Christian Right
  • Praveen Swami: America Embracing the Taliban, Again
  • Michael Wahid Hanna: The Iraqi Revolution We’ll Never Know
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    On Other Websites: Week of January 9, 2012
  • Gil Troy: Not Set in Granite
  • B. R. Myers: Dynasty, North Korean-Style
  • Philip Zelikow: Obama's Foreign Policy is Reminiscent of Eisenhower’s
  • Burton Folsom, Jr. and Anita Folsom: Washington Shouldn't Be Responsible for Infrastructure
  • Rick Perlstein: Santorum's 'Freedom' is Pretty Much Slavery
  • Richard Vinen: Britain Needs to Forgive and Forget the Iron Lady
  • Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper: How Empire Ruled the World
  • Geoffrey Kabaservice: “Moderate” is an Obscenity for Conservatives
  • Max Boot: Overspending the Peace Dividend
  • Jonathan M. Hansen: Give Guantánamo Back to Cuba

    • On Other Websites: Weeks of December 19 & 26, 2011
  • Alan Wolfe: Evil Ain't What It Used to Be
  • Michael Lind: Hitchens, Gossip Columnist of Genius
  • Louis Hyman: How Did World War II End the Great Depression?
  • Andrew J. Bacevich: After Iraq, War is U.S.
  • Daniel Pipes: Tehran Holds Obama Re-Election Wild Card
  • Post Carbon Institute: 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds
  • Rodric Braithwaite: The Myths of Russia
  • Peter Clarke: Churchill is a Poor Lodestar for Cameron’s Isolationism
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: FAMU Hazing, Robert Champion: Violent Rituals Don't Make Men Stronger
  • Melanie Kirkpatrick: The World's Most Repressive State

    • On Other Websites: Week of December 12, 2011
  • Niall Ferguson: Putin's Russia on Its Way to Global Irrelevance
  • Harold James: The British 'Non'
  • John Sainsbury: In the Afterglow, a Balanced View of Empire
  • Scott Farris: It’s Almost-Presidents’ Day!
  • Robert A. Slayton: When a Catholic Terrified the Heartland
  • Benny Morris: Israel's Endangered Left
  • Caroline Glick: Yes, Palestinians Are an Invented People
  • David Wise: China’s Spies Are Catching Up
  • Tim Padgett: Panama Hasn't Overcome Strong-Man Past
  • Gar Alperovitz: Worker-Owners of America, Unite!

    • On Other Websites: Week of December 5, 2012
  • Simon Schama: Why America Should Care About the Collapse of European Unity
  • Adam Hochschild: What Gingrich Didn’t Learn in Congo
  • Benjamin Soskis: How Pundits are Misreading Obama's Speech—and Teddy Roosevelt's
  • Michael Kazin: Why a Gingrich vs. Obama Matchup Would Be Good For the Country
  • Walter Russell Mead: Mission Sort of Accomplished in Iraq
  • Steven F. Hayward: Is Newt Like Churchill?
  • Arthur Herman: A New Pearl Harbor?
  • Paul R Pillar: Debasing Nazism
  • Craig Shirley: Five Myths About Pearl Harbor
  • Robert J. Samuelson: The Welfare State's Reckoning

    • On Other Websites: Week of November 28, 2011

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