Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

“But Is It Good for the Jews?” by Lawrence Davidson If you are over fifty and were raised in a Jewish household, you either heard this question explicitly asked numerous times or were subtly encouraged to think the question to yourself.

Advanced Placement United States History: A Fifty-Year Classroom Perspective by Luther Spoehr A historian puts the AP course in history in historical perspective.

How the Government and Private Elites Have Teamed Up for Decades to Astroturf America by Louis Trager Administrations of both parties have collaborated secretly with bipartisan, blue-ribbon “citizens committees.”

The Sad Reason We Don't Know More About Ebola by Pearl Duncan It’s been said that one of the reasons the Ebola virus went out of control, undetected, is because so little attention is paid to Africa. Not only is little attention paid to issues in current Africa, but very little is known about African history.

Americans Are Worried about ISIS and Putin. What They Should Be worried About is Climate Change. by Juan Cole The US public is again being misled by its media and politicians as to the true shape of the world, and is likely to suffer pretty badly for this ignorance.

40 Years of Free Market Policies Is Long Enough for the Magic of the Market to Have Worked. So What Went Wrong? by Iwan Morgan The Democrats went ballistic when the numbers of Americans living in poverty hit 14.5 percent of the population in the early Reagan years. Today, it's 16 percent and neither party seems to take notice.

What We Don't Remember About Nuremberg, but Should by Diana West The fascinating and unfamiliar story of the disclosure of the Soviet pact with Hitler.

Review of Roger Moorhouse’s “The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact With Stalin, 1939-1941" by Murray Polner Nazi Germany and Communist Russia, two bitter rivals, stunned the world when they joined together in 1939 in a non-aggression and economic pact, dividing Eastern Europe and influencing the course of WWII.

Why Historians Can't Afford to Ignore Gossip by Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer Frost Gossip, rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, scandal, dirt. Whatever the term, gossip is one of the most common—and most condemned—forms of discourse in which we engage.

Why Multiple Historians Can Listen to the Same Watergate Tape and Come Up with 3 Different Transcripts by Sheldon M. Stern It is becoming increasingly clear that scholarly works rooted in the extraordinary and unique presidential recordings from the JFK, LBJ, and Nixon administrations actually constitute a new and distinct genre of historical investigation.

1936 Olympics Relays – No Jews Allowed by Bruce Chadwick Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Game in Berlin. But this is the story of how Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, phenomenally fast runners, were kicked off the American 400 meter relay team in the ’36 Olympics because they were Jews.

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