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George and Robert Leonard, founding members of the Fifties retro group Sha Na Na, examine the scholarly interest in how their singing group...

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Thomas J. Craughwell (with M. William Phelps), Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pis and ...

Jay Hakes , A Declaration of Energy Independence: How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environme...

79.2 percent of historians self-identify as Democrats ( h/t ). Many even going so far as to actively campaign for the Democratic Party nom...

Matt Damon is adapting Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States” into a documentary. That's just great. Wa...

Ralph Luker called attention to Ending Tyranny: The Past and Future of an Idea by John Lewis Gaddis, and (after dissing Victor Davis Hanse...

Sean Wilentz's head must be spinning. It must be tough to have been firmly ensconced within the fraternity of Democratic Party House Hi...

Jeff Sypeck at Quid Plura explains that the people in the center of the Russia/Georgia conflict consider themselves to be contemporary Alan...

Peter Navarro , author of The Coming China Wars ( reviewed here ), is critical of ABC's Bob Woodruff's recent " China Inside ...

Richard Clarke, Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters Your government failed you. So said Richard ...

I've done a few substantive posts about the Barbary Wars in the past. Michael Medved is the latest (here's another ) to use them ...

This is just too bad . Plymouth police say vandals broke into Plimoth Plantation , damaged eight houses, smashed fence sections and stole fu...

Kevin J. Hayes, The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson . This book could easily have been titled, "Jefferson the...

Trevor Burnard , in a piece on the importance of geography over time for historians of Colonial America explains why this is so: Why are ear...

What is it about sharks? Welp, whatever, but Jeff Sypek at "Quid Plura" has decided to host " Medieval Shark Week ". M...

The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (3rd Edition) and Historians on History: An Anthol...

Jeffrey Kluger: Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) What, or who, is more effective at...

Peter Navarro, The Coming China Wars: Where They Will be Fought, How The Can Be Won . The purpose of this book is to warn that unless strong...

The first thing I thought of when I read the story about the 17 wanna-be baby mamas of Gloucester, Massachusetts were the teenage girls who...