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Up Front: OAH 2013 Annual Meeting Highlights from the 2013 OAH Annual Meeting, Day 4 David Austin Walsh Tags: annual meetings, OAH 2013, San Francisco VIDEO: Navigating Segregated Life in America's Racial Borderlands Albert Camarillo (Stanford) Tags: Albert Camarillo, OAH 2013, racial borderlands, videos VIDEO: Eric Foner's "Reconstruction" at Twenty-Five Kate Masur (Northwestern); Heather Andrea Williams (UNC Chapel Hill); Gregory P. Downs (CUNY Graduate Center); Thavolia Glymph (Duke); and Steve Hahn (UPenn), and of course Eric Foner (Columbia) Tags: Eric Foner, OAH 2013, Reconstruction, videos VIDEO: OAH Plenary: Corporations in America Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale); Richard White (Stanford); Bethany Moreton (University of Georgia); Karen Ho (University of Minnesota); and Peter James Hudson (Vanderbilt) Tags: OAH 2013, videos, corporations, capitalism VIDEO: Research and Publishing in the Digital Age Philip Ethington (USC); Adam Arenson (UTEP); Niels Hooper (UC Press), and Susan Ferber (OUP) Tags: digital history, digital humanities, OAH 2013, videos VIDEO: OAH Plenary -- Freedom Struggles Matthew Countryman (University of Michigan); Clayborne Carson (Stanford University); Barbara Ranby (University of Illinois at Chicago); Tera W. Hunter (Princeton University); and Scott Kurashige (University of Michigan) Tags: historical conferences, MLK, OAH 2013, videos News at Home President Barack Obama: The First Draft of History Kathryn Moore A short(ish) biography of our forty-fourth president, from the author of The American President. Tags: Barack Obama, biography, book excerpts, presidents The Enemy-Industrial Complex Tom Engelhardt How to turn a world lacking in enemies into the most threatening place in the universe. Tags: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, war on terror Historians & History Are We Still in the Dead Grip of a Premodern Conception of Time? George E. Marcus The still-widespread belief that time is cyclical has tremendous political impact. Tags: neuroscience, philosophy, political psychology, time Towards a New History of the Civil Rights Movement Gary May Bridging the gap between the histories of the leaders and the rank-and-file. Tags: civil rights movement, historiography, Martin Luther King, Voting Rights Act How to Write a Book Dedication Vaughn Davis Bornet Book acknowledgments are all about making choices: should I mention my family, or the archivists who helped me? Tags: authors, autobiography, book dedications, books 1877: The Year the Army Wasn't Paid D.M. Giangreco Congressional bickering over the budget forced the Army to tighten its belt during one of the most violent years in peacetime American history. Tags: 1877, Great Railway Strike, Indian Wars, Nez Pierce War Escaping Slavery in Washington Territory Robin Lindley Lorraine McConaghy on a boy, a flight to freedom, and the reality of Washington Territory in the Civil War Tags: Free Boy, Judy Bentley, Lorraine McConaghy, slavery Books Review of David W. Noble's "Debating the End of History" Ron Briley How to rethink the concept of "perpetual growth." Tags: David W. Noble, Debating the End of History, Ron Briley, University of Minnesota Review of Lisa Phillips's "A Renegade Union" Robert D. Parmet The saga of one of the only unions in America to organize across racial lines. Tags: AFL-CIO, Lisa Phillips, Local 65, unions		HNN sponsor: History channel HNN Blogs History Blogroll Liberty & Power Gil Troy Iwan Morgan Joshua Brown Jim Loewen Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica Steve Hochstadt Stephanie Coontz Walid Phares
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