By universalizing their own economic history, Western observers have used the past to portray African economic culture as ...

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Mr. Buzzanco is Professor and Chairman, Department of History, University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era and Vietnam and the ...

Mr. Herman is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Central Washington University. He is currently a research fellow at the Clements Center at SMU. I write in pique. I have been ...

Dr. Judith A. Klinghoffer is a senior research associate in the department of Political Science at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the co-author of International Citizens' Tribunals: Mobilizing ...

In the September edition of"Perspectives," the monthly newsletter of the American Historical Association, AHA president Lynn Hunt suggests that tenure be reexamined. She suggests, to begin with, that ...

Mr. Winkler is Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is a member of the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) U.S. History Standing Committee. What do ...

Ms. Klinghoffer is senior associate scholar at the Political Science department at Rutgers University, Camden, and the author of Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East. She is also an HNN blogger. Click ...

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"You have got to understand that [the atomic bomb] isn't a military weapon. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses." Harry S Truman, discussing atomic ...

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