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Ebola:  Jewish history lessons

This is how badly infectious epidemics have devastated humans throughtout history (graphic)

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150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Reelection: How the campaign might have looked in the TV age What would the 1864 presidential campaign have looked like if Abe Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan had used today’s deceptive campaign techniques and video attack ads?

New documentary on PBS: Why 1964 was the election that defined our politics today It ushered in age of negative campaign ads, highlighted by “Daisy” spot.

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In embracing an Ebola victim, Barack Obama succeeded where Ronald Reagan failed by Laura Helmuth "The hateful, homophobic, racist response to the AIDS crisis is one of the most shameful episodes in recent American history."

Obama learns LBJ’s tough lesson: You can have guns or butter, not both by Robert Dallek "Like Truman, Johnson and Jimmy Carter before him, Obama now looks like he could end his presidency on a sour note."

The global warming hoax by Steve Hochstadt "This would be the greatest hoax ever, because unlike every other hoax, it is being committed by all the world’s experts, which is precisely what the global warming deniers are claiming."

Liberals yearn to believe in post-ideological blank slates -- and get disappointed every time. Will we ever learn? by Thomas Frank “We are such losers”

The Reagan Reflex by Jeff Shesol Reagan’s appeal seems only to intensify with time.

Common Core and the End of History by Alan Singer "History education in the schools is clearly the victim of Common Core and efforts by New York and other states to secure federal Race to the Top dollars."

How we 'won' in Vietnam, but are losing at home by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Special interests weigh down America's economy, while Vietnam's young capitalism booms.

Okinawa: Why They Chose Death by Jonathan Mirsky The huge US offensive in Okinawa—the only part of Japan where US forces fought on the ground—lasted eighty-two days in the spring of 1945 and cost about as many lives altogether as the atom bombs themselves.

The War on ISIS: More Than One Battle by Max Boot In the Vietnam War, saving Khe Sanh seemed essential. Turned out it wasn’t.

Ben Bradlee, Spiro Agnew and the 'Gray-Haired Grandmother Defense' by Charles J. Holden and Zach Messitte The clever "Gray-Haired Grandmother Defense" argued that Mr. Cohen's notes on the Agnew investigation were actually the property of Graham, as his employer, and not the reporter.

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How Amelia's Plane Was Found Two decades years after finding a piece of metal on a remote Pacific atoll, Ric Gillespie says he has proof it was used to patch the aviator’s plane—and it fits ‘like a fingerprint.’

WWII Pilot Found Buried in Italian Corn Field The remains of an Italian WWII pilot who died in a dogfight with U.S. pilots 70 years ago have finally been unearthed -- still sitting on the parachute in the cockpit.

Melting Cave Ice Is Taking Ancient Climate Data with It Scientists race to sample cave ice before it’s too late.

King Tutankhamun did not die in chariot crash, virtual autopsy reveals New research indicates the boy king mostly likely died as a result of genetic impairments which weakened his body.

Easter Island’s ancient inhabitants weren’t so isolated after all Scientists who conducted a genetic study published last week found that these ancient people had significant contact with Native American populations hundreds of years before the first Westerners reached the island in 1722.

Turin shroud was made for medieval Easter ritual, historian says Charles Freeman believes relic venerated as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth dates from 14th century and was used as a prop.

Japanese Village Grappling With Wartime Sins Comes Under Attack Ultranationalist cyberactivists have menaced the village of Sarufutsu over a memorial to Korean laborers who died building an airfield there.

Gestapo Imposter Tricked Nazi Sympathizers in WWII "It was a brave undertaking, mixing with fascists, pretending to be someone you weren't. It was dangerous work that could have gone wrong."

Mormon Founder had Teen Bride During Polygamy Days The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says most of Smith's wives were between 20 and 40 years old.

Roman-Britons had less gum disease than modern Britons The study, published in the British Dental Journal, examined 303 skulls from a Romano-British burial ground in Poundbury, Dorset for evidence of dental disease.