Middle East Blog Spot
by Eric Davis, professor of political science and former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,...
Read MoreAdventures in Geneology
By Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall University This past summer, quite expectedly, I found myself becoming obsessed with genealogy. At a time when I had no lack of other things to do, I spent hours scouring the internet in search of crumbs of information about long deceased ancestors. Family history, to be sure, was not a new interest. In fact, I am convinced that it is one of the reasons why...
Read MoreUsing Classic Television Shows to Teach United States History
by Marybeth Farrell, Universityof Southern Mississippi One easily overlooked resource that teachers might find highly useful inUnited Stateshistory or government classes is the classic television show. By that, I mean the dramas, comedies, and documentaries of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. These are readily available on the Internet; they can be converted and downloaded to...
Read More“Doing History”: Using Sources
by Dr. Ray Miles, McNeese State University Footnotes or endnotes appear in all history books, especially monographs. Some students comment that they are distracting because those little numbers clutter the text. Of course the notations are not meant to clutter and they serve several functions. Footnotes can be used to clarify, define, or argue a point more thoroughly than is appropriate...
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by Eric Davis, professor of political science and former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. http://new-middle-east.blogspot.com/2011/12/crisis-in-iraq.html
Read MoreUS Foreign Policy in Post-SOFA Iraq
By Eric Davis Eric Davis (davis@polisci.rutgers.edu) is professor of political science at Rutgers University and former director of Rutgers’ Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 2005) and the forthcoming Taking Democracy...
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