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The Challenges of Writing about the Age of Clinton by Gil Troy The Start of an Historical Conversation

It’s Ok to Love your ’64 Mustang, but Here’s What You’re Missing by Gary Cross What’s good about nostalgia and what isn’t.

The Surprising Consensus on What Experts Say about Putin by Walter G. Moss He’s intelligent, capable, pragmatic, distrusts democracy, the US and NATO, and is worried about the threat ISIS poses to Russia.

Anne Frank, Attic Hideaways and the World War II Persecution of the Jews by Bruce Chadwick After all these years, it is still the poignant story of a young teenager trying to make sense of the world and her place in it. amidst the horror of World War II and the Holocaust.

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Air Force One, a Cherished Perk Awaiting an Upgrade President Obama plans to bequeath his successor — or perhaps his successor’s successor — a new-and-improved Air Force One for the smartphone age.

Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA The FBI maintains a national genetic database with samples from convicts and arrestees, but this was the most public example of cops turning to private genetic databases to find a suspect.

Palestinians set fire to Joseph's Tomb Palestinian rioters set a fire on the compound containing Joseph's Tomb — which is venerated by Jews as a holy site — in the West Bank city of Nablus

These ancient Chinese teeth could rewrite human history A set of 47 human teeth found in China have been dated as at least 80,000 years old -- perhaps even older.

Iraqi City and Egyptian Archeological Site Make World Monuments Watch List The World Monuments Fund announced its 2016 watch list for heritage sites on Thursday. Jordan’s popular archeological tourist destination of Petra, the town of Amedy in Iraqi Kurdistan and an Albanian hilltop prison are among the sites included in the list.

Neglect eats away historical Iraqi city of Uruk These sites are neglected, abandoned, lack organized protection, and are covered by sand and exposed to tampering by modernists and thieves.

NYT Magazine digs into claims the story of Osama bin Laden raid was mythologized Seymour Hersh claims the original story is flawed. But there's no way to verify his sources' account that a tipster eager for a $25 million reward was responsible for disclosing the terrorist's whereabouts.

Geneticists Reconstruct Population History Of New York City By Combining Genetic Data, Ancestry Information, And Electronic Health Records, Scientists Are Able To Identify Neighborhood-Level Patterns Of Migration In The New York City Area, According To Research Presented At The American Society Of Human Genetics (Ashg) 2015 Annual Meeting In Baltimore.

Magna Carta Exhibition in China Is Abruptly Moved From University A public showing of one of the few surviving copies of the 13th-century document was shifted to the British ambassador’s residence, with no explanation given.

Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says An American professor happened upon a manuscript by one of the Bible’s translators at Cambridge, a discovery that may shed light on how the translators worked.

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Poland may sue historian Jan Gross over claim Poles killed more Jews than Germans during war The Yale historian says he’s not worried. He’s got the truth on his side.

Intellectual history conference in DC debates what it means to be an intellectual Speakers include: Corey Robin (CUNY), Leo Ribuffo (GW), Claire Potter (New School), David Ferriero (Archivist of the United States), and Russell Jacoby (Author of The Last Intellectuals).

What One Historian Wishes Bernie Sanders Said About Being a Socialist Bernie Weisberger imagines how Bernie Sanders might have answered the big question hanging over him at the Democratic debate.

British Museum’s Director Follows a Fascination to Germany Neil MacGregor will leave his post in Britain to help shape one of Germany’s most audacious cultural projects, the Humboldt Forum.

This is what the author of a book on the Rebel Yell thinks of the Confederate flag controversy A (brief) interview with S.C. Gwynn.

Historian Robert Zaretsky suggests the non-academic market for history is flourishing He wonders if grad schools are to blame for their own problems.

Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist, Dies at 76 Ms. Baxandall was an author of “America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present,” a key text for students of American labor history and gender studies.

American Studies Leader Sorry for Press Release David Roediger, president of the American Studies Association, sent an email to members apologizing for a press release that suggested he and the ASA back Obama’s police reforms

Historian Gil Troy reexamines the Clintons and the 1990s (interview) In his new book about the 1990s he says Bill Clinton was a transformational figure like Reagan

Tim Naftali: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president Back channels to the Soviets, the ‘girlfriend system’ and doubts about LBJ: historian Timothy Naftali paints a portrait of a President Kennedy ‘far more interesting intellectually and far less appealing personally’

Call to help Moroccan historian Maâti Monjib, who has been on hunger strike since 6 October 2015 A long campaign of harassament and intimidation was waged against him, including threats and defamatory articles in newspapers and on news sites.

NC student’s senior thesis selected as top paper sheds light on little-known victory over Jim Crow It’s a story pulled from today’s headlines: Black voters turn out on election day only to learn that their names have been stricken from the voter rolls. But this one has a happy ending.

Daniel Pipes says we should be worried that immigrants don’t share western values In an op ed he says the Immigration Act of 1965 was dangerous.