Andrew Roberts: The Case for Pre-Emptive War, From Goliath to the Dardanelles
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-01 07:18:11 -0700 | travel-news
WSJ (4-30-13) Mr. Roberts, a historian, is the author, most recently, of "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War" (Harper, 2011). Whenand it is most probably now a question of when, rather than ifIsrael is...
Sarah Kendzior: The Wrong Kind of Caucasian
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-04-21 11:14:25 -0700 | political-news
Sarah Kendzior is an anthropologist who recently received her PhD from Washington University in St Louis. In 1901, a 28-year-old American named Leon Czolgosz assassinated US President William McKinley...After McKinley died, the American media blamed Polish immigrants.
Walter Laqueur: The Many Faces of Neo-Marxism
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-04-24 15:17:32 -0700 | political-news
one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century, if not the single most important one -- is enjoying a kind of renaissance. This is attributed by some to the great economic crisis that began in 2008 and destroyed...
The Civil War's 'Young Napoleon': An Interview with Richard Slotkin
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-07 08:08:51 -0700 | disasters-news
Richard Slotkin is one of the most well-known historians of American history and culture. His writings on the frontier, the Old West, Hollywood Westerns, the Civil War, and World War I, among other topics, have played a significant role in...
Alexander Nazaryan: Blood and Tragedy -- The Caucasus in the Literary Imagination
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-04-23 13:10:53 -0700 | political-news
At the beginning of The Cossacks, Leo Tolstoy's early novel about imperial Russia's military campaign in the Caucasus, the protagonist Olenin muses about the battles to come: All his dreams about the future were connected with Circassian maids, mountains, precipices,...
Jonathan Zimmerman: Colleges as Country Clubs
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-04-21 13:28:04 -0700 | political-news
Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York University. He is the author of "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory." My daughter is a junior in high school, so I've spent part of this spring...
Julia F. Irwin: International Humanitarianism in the United States
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-08 15:08:29 -0700 | travel-news
Irwin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Florida. She specializes in the history of U.S. relations with the 20 th century world, with a particular focus on the role of humanitarianism in U.S. foreign affairs....
Rosa Brooks: Would Machiavelli Have Drawn a Red Line?
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-06 14:13:32 -0700 | political-news
Rosa Brooks is a law professor at Georgetown University and a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation. She served as a counselor to the U.S. defense undersecretary for policy from 2009 to 2011 and previously served as a senior advisor at...
Percy Harvin and Richard Sherman will play Madden at EMP Museum
Source: Seattle Times
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-04-30 18:07:14 -0700 | technology-news
Special guests include Seahawks players WR Doug Baldwin, WR Percy Harvin, CB Richard Sherman, and FS Earl Thomas who will play grudge matches of Madden NFL (2012) on EMP's mammoth Sky Church screen. Richard Rowen Richard Thames Rowan is an...
Jonathan Bernstein: History Will Not Be Kind to George W. Bush
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-04-25 13:00:25 -0700 | political-news
WaPo (4-25-13) Jonathan Bernstein is a columnist for the Washington Post...Gallup has his retrospective approval at 47 percent ; that's third-lowest in the polling era, better than only Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson (Harry Enten has more on placing post-presidential...
How scholars in Timbuktu protected medieval texts under an Islamist occupation
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-06 07:10:21 -0700 | political-news
Sidi Lamine gently opens the creaky wooden door that leads to his collection of manuscripts. Housed in a dark, windowless room, hundreds of medieval texts line handsome wooden bookshelves that reach to the ceiling...On an ornate table under dusty glass...
Beverly Gage: Unanswered Questions About Watergate
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-04-24 08:16:10 -0700 | entertainment-news
The title of Robert Redford's new documentary, which aired on the Discovery Channel last night, is All the President's Men Revisited . At times, it seems more like All the President's Men Repeated . Though created to coincide with the...
Japan's no-apology diplomacy
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-04-23 10:41:37 -0700 | political-news
WaPo (4-23-13) Just one year after Emperor Meiji proclaimed the Japanese Empire in 1868, he ordered the construction of a majestic new Shinto shrine in Tokyo. The Yasukuni Shrine was to record the names of every man, woman and child...
Manuel Barcia: Niall Ferguson Does a Romney
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 07:25:42 -0700 | political-news
Dr. Manuel Barcia is Deputy Director at the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Leeds. Over the past few years as gays, lesbians and transsexuals made social gains across the world, they have found themselves at...
Pearl Duncan: Lost History in Downton Abbey
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-07 10:12:42 -0700 | political-news
Pearl Duncan is completing two books, tentatively titled, DNA Adventure, Rebels' Birthright Reclaimed, and A Pirate Ship of Old New York: Colonial Slavery, The Founding Fathers and a Remarkable 9/11 Discovery. Now that it is announced by the producers of...
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