 Why Pakistan’s Embrace of Jihadism Is Deadlyby Brian Glyn Williams
The back story to the Peshawar School Massacre.
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 Are We More Like the Roman Empire than We Care to Admit?by David Carr
That’s a good question to ask ourselves at the start of a new year. History doesn’t provide a comforting answer.
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 The Surprising Legacy of the Black Panther Party in Chicagoby Aaron Leonard
An interview with historian Jakobi Williams
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 It Wasn’t Just Japanese Americans Who Fell Under Suspicion in World War II. So Did Italian Americans.by John N. Romano
The shocking story of Italian families in Yonkers.
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 Dylan Thomas: Artist or Roustabout?by Mary Lynne Evans
It’s the 100th anniversary of his birth. Wales is celebrating. But what are we celebrating?
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 The Battle between Journalism and Fiction: Doug Underwood on Genre Bending Journalists and Literary History (Interview)by Robin Lindley
Prof. Underwood stresses the "competition" between "new" or "literary" journalists and contemporary novelists for the hearts of the lovers of realistic literature.
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 The Bright Idea They Had in 1953 that Changed the Worldby William Lambers
It helped feed the world.
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 How Napoleon Nearly Became a U.S. Citizenby Munro Price
One of the greatest “What Ifs” of history is what if he had?
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 Review of George W. Bush’s "41: A Portrait of My Father"by James Graham Wilson
It was at the suggestion of David McCullough’s daughter that Bush decided to write about his father.
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 What I’m Reading Now: Jim Grossman (Interview)by Tiffany April Griffin
"We need to save libraries; we don't need to 'save history.’ ‘History' exists whether we like it or not."
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 Review of Eric Lichtblau's “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler's Men”by Robert Huddleston
The Nazis Next Door does an excellent job in reopening the story of our employment of many who had served Nazi Germany: ardent-Nazis, SS officers, even convicted or alleged war criminals.
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 Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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