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  May 5, 2004
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Contents: Week of May 3, 2004

News at Home

NEW Why Remembering the Names and Number of Dead in Iraq Matters Thomas G. Palaima

The Wrong War, Again P.M. Carpenter

Mother's Day, 2004, and We're at War Again Murray Polner

Will 2004 Be Like 1980? Robert E. Mutch

Anti-War? Unenthusiastic About Kerry? The Recipe for a Bush Victory John Mueller

News Abroad

We Are Repeating the Mistake We Made in the Philippines 100 Years Ago William Loren Katz

What Democracy in Iraq Would Look Like Paul Sullivan

What Exactly Is Our Goal in Iraq? Daniel Pipes

A Little Fantasy, A Little Reality, A Lot of Absurdity (Letters from Japan, Part 8) William Thompson

De-Bathification Went too Far Walid Phares and Robert G. Rabil

We Are Losing the War Over Pictures Juan Cole

Historians & History

Why Are There Now 2 Journals Devoted to Labor History? Joseph A. McCartin

Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2004 Meeting of the European Association of American Studies Ellen Carol Dubois

An Open Letter to Alan Brinkley Rick Perlstein

Culture Watch

Review of Samuel Huntington's Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity Jim Sleeper

Contents: Week of April 26, 2004

News at Home

Why Vietnam Haunts the Debate Over Iraq David Greenberg

Why Powell Should Resign Stanley I. Kutler

An Historian's Take on Outsourcing Robert E. Mutch

The Democrats’ Wendell Willkie? John Moser

Why You Shouldn't Pay Much Attention to Those Bush Poll Numbers P.M. Carpenter

News Abroad

Custer? The Alamo? Iraq 2004 Tom Engelhardt

Iraq in April 2004 Paul Sullivan

The Bush Administration's Militarism Lawrence S. Wittner

Should We Be Alarmed by the Wide Use of Mercenaries? Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Putting SARS in Historical Perspective Howard Markel

Playing God—Or, Playing with Gods (Letter from Japan, Part 7) William Thompson

Historians & History

Wanted: The Truth About The Kent State Killings Murray Polner

Why It's Unlikely the Emmett Till Murder Mystery Will Ever Be Solved David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito

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What Other Presidents Have Faced Official Questioning?

 

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Iranian Historian Declines to Appeal Death Sentence: A university professor has decided not to appeal a reinstated death sentence, effectively challenging Iran's hard-line judges to execute him for criticizing clerical rule, his lawyer said Tuesday. The original sentence handed down to Hashem Aghajari in 2002 provoked massive student demonstrations and street battles with hard-line vigilantes. The uproar highlighted the power struggle between reformists and conservatives in Iran.

Maya: More than 2,000 years ago, while Rome was laying waste to Carthage and the Hopewell people were building mounds in Ohio, a grand civilization flourished at a now little-known site in Guatemala called Cival. "It's very interesting when we reverse some existing ideas. We thought the preclassic Maya were a relatively simple society ... and they were not," Francisco Estrada-Belli, who led the excavation work at the site, said Tuesday. "There was a whole civilization during the preclassic time we are just beginning to recover."

South Africa's "Titanic": The latest search for a luxury British liner that sank three years before the Titanic has proved inconclusive. Dubbed ‘South Africa's Titanic’, the SS Waratah sank in July 1909 with the loss of all 211 crew and passengers.

NYT Kills "Arts & Ideas" Section: The NYT is killing the Saturday section "Arts & Ideas" in September. This section frequently featured articles about history and historians.

New History Channel: Scandinavian media outfit Modern Times Group (MTG) has launched a new pay TV channel Viasat History in eight Central and Eastern Europe (C&E;) countries.

Rosewood: Governor Jeb Bush recognized the families of those whose lives were changed by the Rosewood Massacre. The massacre happened 81 years ago, and it's called one of the darkest moments in Florida's history.

Not a Lynching: When turkey hunters found the body of a black man hanging from a pecan tree off a dirt road a week ago, folks near and far conjured up the region's ugliest history and feared he had been lynched. Word spread lightning-fast, and Reginald Jackson, the black sheriff of Wilkinson County, was barraged with telephone calls from the media and outraged people across the country. Jackson spent much of last week dousing the "Mississippi is still burning" story. "Some people tend to relive the past, both black and white," he sighed.

Vietnam: Vietnamese veterans of Dien Bien Phu gather to celebrate victory, mourn those lost in epic fight. "It was a defeat that reverberated around the world," said Carlyle Thayer, a Vietnam expert at the Australian Defense Force Academy. "For Vietnam, it was electrifying on a global level. This was a major defeat for a colonial power at the hands of a Third World population."

Paula Jones: Ten years ago this week, a lawsuit was filed that poisoned a presidency. When Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton on May 6, 1994, alleging sexual harassment, she touched off a blizzard of events that made Monica Lewinsky a national figure and led to the first presidential impeachment since 1868. Jones declined repeated requests to comment. A spokeswoman for Clinton said he had no comment.