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Republican majority would support Christianity as ‘national religion’

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Butting In and Screwing Up by Steve Hochstadt The GOP Senate let a freshman with no foreign policy experience mess up foreign policy with Iran?

After Obama's Executive Order Against Venezuela, We'll Be Hearing "Yanqui, Go Home" Once Again by Murray Polner "Whoever looks at the map and says that Venezuela could be a threat to the U.S. has to be out of his mind."

The UN Success Story Nobody Talks About by William Lambers On the fifth anniversary of the Syrian Civil War, it’s worth remembering that but for the UN millions would have starved to death.

NYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week? by Erik Moshe This week's books cover the Lusitania sinking, the Spanish civil war, terrorism, and Caesar.

Los Angeles Conference Confronts BDS Financing and Tactics by Edwin Black Several hundred individuals will gather March 21-23, 2015 in a Los Angeles hotel at the International Anti-BDS Conference convened by the leading pro-Israel group, StandWithUs.

Bells Will Ring for the Latest Hunchback of Notre Dame by Bruce Chadwick The new, revised musical, said to be headed towards Broadway, is a lustrous story that really brings the history of Paris in 1482 to life in all of its glory, and in all of its poverty and misery, too.

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A final Watergate scandal uncovered by researcher President Richard Nixon stole 4,000 acres from the United States Marine Corps to secretly build his presidential library on a spectacular piece of prime federal real estate and created a new federal bureaucracy to cover up the scheme.

Chicago land feud over Obama presidential library plan reflects familiar history This is not the first time a presidential library has been at the center of a land dispute.

Awash in Information, Historians Fear Loss of Rich Material When Hillary Rodham Clinton disclosed that she had destroyed more than 30,000 emails about personal matters during her tenure as secretary of state, it was painful for historians and biographers.

UN announces members of panel probing new information on Dag Hammarskjöld death Established by a General Assembly resolution adopted in December 2014, the Panel is expected to submit its report to the Secretary-General no later than 30 June 2015.

Republican majority would support Christianity as ‘national religion’ Fifty-seven percent of Republicans polled in national survey back establishing Christianity as the “national religion” of the United States.

Amazing but true: America is only four presidents’ lives old Rutherford B. Hayes was alive at the same time as John Adams and at the same time as Dwight Eisenhower.

NPR drawing attention to long neglected archive of the civil rights movement It's called Project South and it features recordings from King to Fannie Lou Hammer.

The Islamic State’s Attack on the Past Unfortunately, depredation of this sort has a long tradition in human history.

ISIS’ archaeological destruction creates a new Dark Age The barbarians of the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its ancillary hordes are pulverizing and plundering millennia-old heritage sites, museums, and ancient artwork across Syria and Iraq.

New definitive biography of Clay Shaw exonerates him of any role in JFK's assassination The real Clay Shaw simply does not emerge as the Kennedy-hater some have suspected he was.

Secret historians preserve past in China amid state amnesia In his small ground-floor apartment just a few blocks from Beijing's landmark Bird's Nest stadium, Chinese language teacher, writer and do-it-yourself documentary maker Xu Xing is urgently preserving what he can of China's forbidden past.

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Yale historian David Brion Davis wins National Book Critics Circle Award The culmination of more than 50 years of research, Davis’ award-winning work is the third volume in his “Problem of Slavery” trilogy, which includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture” (1966) and “The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823” (1975).

The art historian bodybuilder Feminist art history professor discusses book on how she came to study and participate in a form of bodybuilding called "figure girl" competitions.

AHA bemoans lack of federal support for history "[S]ince FY 11 there has been no federal funding provided for history or civics education. We are not providing our teachers with the help they need, the professional development that is essential, to prepare our children to be productive citizens."

Erik Larson, Author of ‘Dead Wake,’ Seizes Historical Mysteries Five years and eight drafts later, Mr. Larson’s new book, “Dead Wake,” which is about the sinking of the Lusitania, is shaping up to be one of the biggest nonfiction titles of the year.

OAH Amicus Brief Filed in Same-Sex Marriage Case Written by OAH member George Chauncey, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, the brief focuses on the history of discrimination against gays.

Jill Lepore says Wonder Woman is the missing link in the history of feminism "The book argues against the idea that the struggle for woman’s equality came in waves."

What happens when historian Yuval Noah Harari and psychology's Daniel Kahneman meet up? Find out. Harari is the author of the new book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Kahneman is the author of Fast and Slow Thinking.

Historians meeting in Berlin are debating Germany's responsibility for the Armenian Genocide Witness or accomplice? New findings show that Germany’s complicity is greater than previously assumed.

Gender bias ‘rife’ in UK history departments, says report Conditions for female academics in some UK university history departments “smack still of the 1970s.”

Senate historian Donald Ritchie to retire Actually: " “Historians never retire, they just have more time to research.”

Yale changing requirements for history majors It’s the biggest change in a generation, says Beverly Gage