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This is how kids are learning the history of the French Revolution now by Kabir Chibber Let Them Play Assassin's Creed? With sympathetic noblemen and bloodthirsty common folk, the French Revolution-set Unity is re-igniting an historic debate over the period's heroes and villains.

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Imperfect Union: The Constitution Didn't Foresee Divided Government by Garrett Epps Watching the battle between Obama and a Republican Congress for two years may shake Americans' faith in the Framers.

Obama’s JFK Problem by Fredrik Logevall and Gordon M. Goldstein How the battle between the president and his joint chiefs chairman over Iraq recalls the early days of Vietnam.

3rd Possibility: Coming Civil War in West Bank/ Jerusalem? by Juan Cole Observers of the evolution of the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians have long argued that there are only two likely outcomes of the alternating violence and diplomacy between the two sides that has gone on nearly 70 years now.

Why Is American Teaching So Bad? by Jonathan Zimmerman Who becomes a teacher in America? The answer keeps changing, and not in ways that should make any of us proud.

The President Who Never Earned His Varsity Letter by Michael Beschloss For a president who never made the front line of his college squad, football played a surprisingly large part in Richard Nixon’s life.

Delusions of the Democrats by Kevin Baker Demographics will not save them. A vision might.

Textbooks proposed for Texas schools open can of worms by Emile J. Lester "Students in Texas public schools could soon be learning that democracy and our nation’s government are based on the ideas of biblical figures like Moses and King Solomon."

Common Core: It Really Is All About the Tests (and Corporate Profits) by Alan Singer When you look at the history of the push for national standards you realize Common Core is all about testing.

This Republican Loved Taxes & Modern Art by Scott Porch A social progressive and a fiscal conservative, Nelson Rockefeller was closer to FDR than Reagan, says his biographer Richard Norton Smith.

Obama Is Legally Allowed to Enforce—or Not Enforce—the Law by Eric A. Posner Ross Douthat misunderstands the separation of powers

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Al Jazeera investigates the USS Liberty attack in ‘The Day Israel Attacked America’ The documentary concludes Israel deliberately attacked the ship, killing 34 Americans.

German Town Pulls One Over on Neo-Nazis Turns annual extremist march into a fundraiser for a very good cause

Did Jefferson's younger brother father a child by a Sally Hemings sister? A new book is said to offer strong evidence that Randolph Jefferson fathered the author's ancestor, Edwin Jefferson, with Betty Brown Hemings.

Cornell Professor Unlocks Mysteries of Paintings The Cornell University electrical and computer engineering professor is a digital art detective, able to unlock the mysteries of a work's age and authenticity by analyzing its underlying canvas or paper.

Facelift? Nose job? How about cranial deformation! Artificial cranial deformation—or the practice of intentionally changing the shape of a person’s skull—has been practiced by Neanderthals of 40,000 years ago until very recently, maybe even still today.

German auction house putting Hitler watercolour on market A 1914 watercolour by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday.

Sixty Years Ago, the Regency TR-1 Transistor Radio Was the New "It" Gift For the Holiday Season In a burst of post World War II innovation, the transistor radio with music for your pocket fueled a teenage social revolution.

Nixon Library -- 3 years running and still no director Critics charge the Nixon foundation with interference with federal control of the institution.

CBS video retells the Emmett Till story in under 2 minutes as tree in DC is planted in his memory A sycamore was planted in memory of a black teenager whose murder, nearly 60 years ago, helped spark the civil rights movement.

Return of the Veto? President Obama has rejected just two bills in his six years in office, the fewest of any White House occupant who has served as long since James Monroe. That could begin to change next week.