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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...

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 Watergate tape...

In today's column, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann limn the major choice President Obama is about to have to make: President Obama must now decide whether he'll govern from the center or from the left. President Bill Clinton faced the exact same decision in 1993 - and...

While I'm probably a bit late to this party, the Frost/Nixon movie finally came to my small town of Pres-cut. (That's the way the natives say it around here. If you pronounce it Prescott, then people ask where you're from.) Walked away from the theater wondering how...

Political advance ---of which presidential advance is a subset--- is an art as well as a science.  It's not just important to move POTUS from point A to point B in the most efficient and secure way possible.  What he does when he reaches point B is, well, the whole...

Stephen L. Zetterberg, who ran against RN in 1948 to represent the 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, California. He was 92. His obituary appears in many papers today, among them The New York Times and...

Leon Panetta has come a long way since he was a maverick (and one man's maverick is another man's gadfly) in RN's Department of HEW. The Wall Street Journal has just posted an article online indicating that President Obama's nominee to head the CIA has been part of...

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, William...

In his attack in today's Daily Beast on the critics of Stanley I. Kutler's book Abuse Of Power, John Dean informs the world that in the wake of the much-discussed New York Times article on the subject, he has decided that the time has come to republish his long...

Yesterday's Boston Globe had an amusing op-ed in which Alan Cox and Stacy Keach (the Frost and Nixon, respectively, of the touring production of Peter Morgan's play) and Bob Zelnick, the gray eminence of David Frost's researching team, discussed the play and its...