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History News Network
Week of January 16, 2012

Up Front

Videos from the American Historical Association Annual Meeting

Historians and the Obama Narrative

 

Full coverage of the AHA annual meeting

Questions People are Googling


Blogs

News at Home

Early Attacks on Romney's Bain Capital Record May Inoculate Him Against Democratic Attacks
Gil Troy

Lesson for Obama: GOP Mud Didn't Stick to FDR
Rosemarie Ostler

Americans Are Less Nationalistic than Flag-Waving Politicians Think
Lawrence S. Wittner

Let's Ditch "Detainee" and "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" and Use the Right Words: "Prisoner" and "Torture"
Caroline V. Hamilton

News Abroad

"We're on a Destabilizing Planet": Interview with Tom Engelhardt
David A. Walsh

The Lost Generation? Youth and the Great Recession
Iwan Morgan

How Beijing Sees Us
Michael H. Hunt

South Sudan, Israel's New (Troubled) Ally
Daniel Pipes

Will Pakistan’s Crisis Affect the U.S. in Afghanistan?
Juan Cole

Who Will Be the Next Pope?
Charles Keenan

Historians & History

Richard Nixon, from Mean-Spirited Disgrace to Elder Statesman
Yoav J. Tenembaum

Books

Review of Jason Heller's Taft: A Novel
Jim Cullen

Review of Louisa Thomas's Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacificists, One Family—A Test of Will and Faith in World War I
Murray Polner

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Highlights from the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago

Index

News

Notes from the AHA Business Meeting
David A. Walsh and Rick Shenkman

AHA Features Panels on the Indifference of Journalists to History
Rick Shenkman

Videos

Past AHA Annual Meetings

Cliopatria Awards 2011

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News at Home

Fed Up with the Iowa Corn Con 
Gil Troy

Can a Mormon Candidate Rise Above the Religious Issue to Win It All Next Year?
Vaughn Davis Bornet

Historians & History

You Want to Understand Occupy Wall Street? Start Reading Havel
James Livingston

Restoring Indian History at Jamestown and Williamsburg: Interview with Historic Anthropologist Buck Woodard
Priscilla Hart

A Video Interview with Juan Cole on Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Tunisia

Culture Watch

NEW Brutal 1973 "Goodbar" Murder Now Subject of Confused Musical
Bruce Chadwick

NEW The Return of Radical Writer Susan Sontag: History Ignored
Bruce Chadwick

The Lost Decade: The 1950s Comes Back with a Roar
Bruce Chadwick

War Horse a Winner Whether on Stage or Screen
Bruce Chadwick

It’s the Holidays and Time for History’s Dark Fairy Tale Champs, Hansel and Gretel
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Greil Marcus's The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
Jim Cullen

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