“Frost/Nixon’s” Unsung Hero?

Feb 19, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

John W. Dean’s latest column at findlaw.com concerns Frost/Nixon. That’s not especially surprising in itself. But what is downright strange is that Dean has not seen Ron Howard’s film or Peter Morgan’s play because, he says,...

An Historian-To-Be Looks At The Kutler Controversy

Feb 14, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

Jeremy Young, a doctoral student in history at Indiana University and the founder of progressivehistorians.com, offers this observation after reporting the rejection by the American Historical Review of Peter D. Klingman’s paper about Stanley I. Kutler’s...

Letter From The Editor

Feb 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

This afternoon the History News Network site published a statement by Robert A. Schneider, professor of European history at Indiana University and the editor of the American Historical Review.   Regular TNN readers will recall that the AHR is the journal to which...

The “Abuse Of Power” Controversy Goes On

Feb 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

It has been a week since the New York Times published Patricia Cohen’s article about an article which historian Peter D. Klingman submitted to the American Historical Review arguing that University of Wisconsin Professor Stanley I. Kutler’s book of...

The Ginsburg Slam, Or Meeting The Media

Feb 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon

Eleven years and three days ago, when the nation was ten days into the trauma that was l’affaire [Monica] Lewinsky (or Lewinski, as the late Richard Grenier initially spelled her name in his Washington Times column), the personal attorney of the errant intern,...