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1999 Articles Archive

Henry Butterfield Ryan: "Easing Up on Cuba" [U.S.-Cuban Relations] (distributed 1/27/99)

Jonathan Zimmerman: "Needed: A New Deal for Academics" [call for aid to maintain historical sensitivity] (distributed 2/3/99)

Andrew Gow: "The Myth of the Jewish Antichrist: Falwell Stumbles Badly" [Falwell's claims that Jews will end the world] (distributed 2/10/99)

Henry Butterfield Ryan: "Getting Others to Fight Our Wars" [Kosovo as proxy war] (distributed 3/24/99)

Robert Brent Toplin: "Lessons from the Holocaust Are Relevant to the Crisis in Kosovo" [Holocaust and the crisis in Kosovo] (distributed 4/16/99)

Ryan Dunch: "Bombings, Blood Debts, and Mutual Suspicion" [Chinese-U.S. Relations after bombing of Chinese embassy] (distributed 5/26/99)

Henry Butterfield Ryan: "Another Cold War? China This Time?" [Cold War with China] (distributed 6/10/99)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: "Honoring China's June 4th Martyrs" [the Tiananmen Massacre anniversary] (distributed 6/10/99)

Martin Halpern: "Advice from the Past about Yugoslavia" [lessons from the past about Yugoslavia] (distributed 6/16/99)

Daniel Szechi: "What Victory in Yugoslavia May Mean for Future Wars" [lessons from victory in Yugoslavia] (distributed 6/16/99)

William Deverell: "What the Internet Will Bring Us" [the promises of the Internet] (distributed 6/24/99)

Robert E. Mutch: "Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech" [political spending and political speech] (distributed 6/24/99)

Jonathan Coopersmith: "Thirty Years since Apollo 11" [lessons for the space program from Apollo 11 after 30 Years] (distributed 7/14/99)

Ross Collins: "Gun Control and the Old West" [history of gun control legislation] (distributed 7/14/99)

John H. Summers: "Blackouts: Symptoms of Our Dependence" [our dependence on electricity] (distributed 8/20/99)

Ron Briley: "Kosovo: The Lessons of History?" [no easy answers in the conflict over Kosovo] (distributed 8/27/99)

Neil Jumonville: "The Debate That Won't Die" [evolution and education] (distributed 9/19/99)

Stephen A. Allen: "Persecuted Christians?" [claims of persecution of Christians in India] (distributed 9/30/99)

Michael D. Richards: "The Atomic Age" [nuclear proliferation and nuclear accidents] (distrributed 10/6/99)

Ira Chernus: "Y2K and the 'Age of Peril' " [millennial fears] (distributed 10/6/99)

Matthew Pinsker: "Getting Wrong with Lincoln" [Warren Beatty on Abraham Lincoln] (distributed 10/15/99)

Michael E. Latham: "The Test-Ban Treaty and the Cold War's Lessons" [nuclear stockpiles and security] (distributed 10/18/99)

Robert E. Mutch: " The Broken Scandal-Reform Cycle" [Post-Waterate presidential scandal] (distributed 10/21/99)

Robert S. McElvaine: "'Black Tuesday' after 70 Years" [similarities between 1990s and 1920s] (distributed 10/27/99)

Stephen A. Allen: "Homosexuality and Prohibition" [failures of legislating morality] (distributed 10/28/99)

Elizabeth D. Schafer: "Banning Harry Potter" [the Moral Majority and censorship] (distributed 11/13/99)

John D. McMillian: "The (Character) Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr." [FBI smear campaigns] (distributed 11/19/99)

Edward T. O'Donnell: " Hiding Behind Reform" [on immigration and a new nativism] (distributed 11/23/99)

Omar Ali: "A New Populism in the United States" [Lenora Fulani and Patrick Buchanan] (distributed 11/26/99)

David Greenberg: "How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas" [adjusted rituals in context of modern American society] (distributed 12/5/99)

Henry Butterfield Ryan: "America's Intervention Predicament" [partisan political ramifications of peacemaking] (distributed 12/15/99)

Michael L. Oberg: "George W. Bush and Indian Land Claims" [Bush's skewed perception of constitutional interpretation] (distributed 12/17/99)

Alvin Finkel: "Patrick Buchanan's Forebears" [ideological links with Fascism] (distributed 12/28/99)

Pictured at top (left to right): Pope Urban II orders the First Crusade, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sacajawea, William Jennings Bryan, part of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates.