Browsing Archive July, 2015
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Editorial Note 0
Introduction to Issue #3
Issue #3! Our publication schedule has been irregular, sure, but here we are, back again. We feature Mary Lawlor’s excerpt of her memoir, Fighter Pilot’s Daughter (Rowman & ...
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Fighter Pilot’s Daughter
By Mary Lawlor The following excerpt comes near the end of Mary Lawlor’s memoir Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War (Rowman & ...
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Hello Goodbye: Mad Men and “The End of an Era”
By Jeremy Varon The finales of beloved television series have long been hyped as heralding “the end of an era.” Such claims are hardly just the conceit of ...
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On Street of the Prophets
By Lisa Benisti The apartment I rent is in Nachlaot, the quaint collection of small West Jerusalem neighborhoods founded in the 1880s for Jews who were moving outside ...
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Book Review 1
The Limits of Force
Edward E. Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 512 pages. By Mike Fennell The subject ...
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Life After Academia
By Greg Renoff In the spring of 1992, I decided that I wanted to be a historian. I can pinpoint this moment in time because that semester I ...
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Podemos, Part 2
By John McClure “hacienda de abogado del diablo, lo paradójico de todo esto es que parece que estamos llamados a salvar el capitalism nosotros porque, a fin y ...
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Pivot to Iran
By James Livingston Back when New York Magazine asked me (and 52 other historians) what President Obama’s foreign policy legacy might be, I suggested that in the short ...
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Interview with Dana Yahalomi
An interview with Dana Yahalomi, director of the Israeli political theater group “Public Movement” by Bruce Robbins from his documentary, Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists. ...
