Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sometimes, the Cover-up Works: What the Tapes Show LBJ Did in 1964 by Robert "KC" Johnson An aide had been arrested in a washroom. The election was just weeks away. LBJ was worried.

For Ebola, the Band Played On, and On, and On by Heather Munro Prescott There are more similarities between the current Ebola outbreak and the early years of the AIDs epidemic than the mounting death toll

The Pentagon's  Commemorating the Vietnam War. So Should We. by James W Loewen The Pentagon's spending $30,000,000 on its commemoration.

It's Been Two Years Since Sandy: The Lesson We Missed by Gregory Rosenthal Who got hurt in Sandy depended on their class and race.

This Is How Abraham Lincoln Played Politics. And It Won Him Re-Election. by Harold Holzer He did it by cutting deals with the powerful leaders of New York's three newspaper publishers.

To Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Do Away With Borders Instead of Firing Across Them by Mathias Mossberg and Mark LeVine It's time to think creatively.

Why I Stand by What I Wrote About the Dutch by Russell Shorto It goes without saying that the Dutch founders of New York were bigoted—just like all Europeans of the time. But they also laid the roots of tolerance.

Why Are Palestinians Still Living as Refugees 6 Decades Later? by Alon Ben-Meir "The Palestinian people are creative, vibrant, resourceful, and proud people; they must not continue to live in a state of contrived conditions of misery, fed with empty slogans."

What Should You Include in an Encyclopedia? by Gregory Norris That's the question the editors of Encyclopaedia Aethiopica faced. But did they make the right choices?

This Is What Happened to Gay People in Florida 50 Years Ago. It Should Never Happen Again. by Jonathan Harrison It is only 50 years ago that the state of Florida was hounding lesbians and gays from their jobs in schools and universities.

Why We Felt It Was Essential to Publish an Anti-Boycott Book by Cary Nelson The arguments put forward by the BDS movement needed to be answered.

This Is How a Historian Ends Up Becoming a Novelist Who Writes About Vampires by Brandy Schillace "Did I mention I’m a historian? Right. I also write vampire fiction.”

The Awful Secret of Children’s Lives by Bruce Chadwick Stalking the Bogeyman is one of the best history plays, best plays of any genre, this year.

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