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• Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Reading about Moscow (With Beijing on My Mind)

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chair of the History Department at the University of California, Irvine, and the author, most recently, of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2010). His reviews and commentaries have appeared in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and a wide ...
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• Physicists use ion beams to detect art forgery

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) Nuclear physicists are using accelerated ion beams to pinpoint the age and origin of material used in pottery, painting, metalwork and other art.The results of their tests can serve as powerful forensic tools to reveal fakes in art work, without the destruction of any sample as required in ...
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• Nostradamus End of World Theories – Are Nostradamus’ Predictions Coming True?

  
  Vote 4 The USA — Authority: 120
  Article by Maya Prodgers Throughout the years, many people have predicted the end of the world, but perhaps the most notorious of these future seers is Nostradamus. Few psychics have had the degree of success at making predictions that we’ve seen from Nostradamus. He lived from 1503 to 1566 and historians and ...
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• VIDEO: Professor Gingrich was “often absent” and “spent little time teaching history.”

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 597
  This is a must-watch video. Taegan has a link to the Wall Street Journal story about Newton Leroy Gingrich’s stint at University of West Georgia, way back when he supposedly taught history: “In addition to seeking the college presidency , Mr. Gingrich was often absent as he pursued political goals. He ...
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• Simon Schama brands Downton cultural necrophilia

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Historian Simon Schama has launched a scathing attack on Downton Abbey, accusing it of improbable storylines and historical inaccuracies. Criticising the shows popularity in the US, he accused it of "cultural necrophilia" and of pandering to "cliches" about British stately homes. "Downton serves up a steaming, ...
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• Adam Cathcart: Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Un Era

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Adam Cathcart is Assistant Professor History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington and the editor of SinoNK.com. The pigs were being slaughtered in the streets when the news of Kim Jong Il’s death arrived in Dachuan , a small logging village in the mountains of western Sichuan province. Over ...
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• Michael Kazin: The End of the Christian Right

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Michael Kazin is the author, most recently, of American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation. He teaches history at Georgetown University and is co-editor of Dissent . Is the Christian Right still a power in American politics? The lavish coverage which its partisans and their favorite issues have received ...
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• Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Most Disturbing Legacy ... Racial Politics

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author most recently of the just-released The End of Sparta , a novel about ancient freedom. Never has America been more assimilated, integrated, and intermarried — as is evident in everything from politics to ...
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• A New Geography of Civil War Memory

  
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  If you haven’t read Brian Matthew Jordan’s reflections on David Blight’s Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory ten years later head on over to The Civil War [...]
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• Joseph A. McCartin: Public Unions: Whats the Big Deal?

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Joseph A. McCartin teaches history at Georgetown University and is the author of "Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America." Source:  LA Times Source URL:  ...
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• Kevin M. Kruse: For God So Loved the 1 Percent …

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Kevin M. Kruse , an associate professor of history at Princeton, is the author of the forthcoming “One Nation Under God: Corporations, Christianity, and the Rise of the Religious Right.” ...The concept of “one nation under God” has a noble lineage, originating in Abraham Lincoln’s hope at Gettysburg that ...
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• Michael Lind: The Potent GOP Combination of Jacksonian Populism and Old Money Oligarchy

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Michael Lind’s new book, "Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States" , will be published in April and can be pre-ordered at Amazon.com. ...The Republican Party is not really a pro-business party at all.  It is a pro-hereditary wealth party.  Its platform serves the interests of those few ...
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• Jonathan Zimmerman: How Rick Santorum and America can be Exceptional: Avoid Empire

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of history and education at New York University . He is the author of “Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory” ( Yale University Press). I just returned from a quick trip to Great Britain , which once ruled a fifth of the world’s inhabitants and a ...
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• Rod Downie: Robert Falcon Scotts South Pole Legacy: 100 Years on

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Rod Downie is the Polar Policy and Programme manager at WWF-UK. He joined the organisation having spent 14 years at British Antarctica Survey working on environmental management and policy. He has also been part of the UK delegation on the Antarctica treaty consultative meetings for nearly a decade. "Great God! This ...
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• King Called For Much More Than Being Color Blind

  
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  There seems to be a strange phenomenon in the political climate of race today. I first noticed it during the 2010 Supreme Court confirmation of Elena Kagan. The search for her liberal past seemed to center around the fact that Kagan had clerked for Supreme Court judge and civil rights veteran Thurgood Marshall. ...
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• Walter G. Moss: Why Leftists Should Support Obama’s Reelection

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University. For a list of his recent books and online publications, click here . He has previously written on mass culture, along with other topics, in his An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces (Anthem Press, 2008). On ...
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• Charles K. Ross: Tim Tebow: What’s Race Got to Do With It?

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Dr. Charles K. Ross is Chair of the African American Studies Program, and Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Ross is the author of, “ Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League ” (New York University ...
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• Julian Zelizer: Gingrichs Attacks Now Could Help Obama Later

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  J ulian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" (Times Books) and author of the forthcoming book " Governing America " (Princeton University Press). As the South Carolina primary approaches, Mitt Romney has been struggling to respond to the ...
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• George Kennan died a very different man than the one whom John Lewis Gaddis portrays in his biography

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Jordan Michael Smith, a contributing writer at Salon, has written for the New York Times, Washington Post , and Boston Globe . The premier Cold War historian first met the premier Cold War diplomat in 1974. Then a very junior professor at Ohio University, John Lewis Gaddis asked the already iconic George Frost ...
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• Niall Ferguson: Rich America, Poor America

  
  George Mason University's History News Network — Authority: 557
  Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University. He is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His Latest book, Civilization: The West and the Rest , has just been published by Penguin Press. There are ...
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