http://www.realclearscience.com/ en Copyright 2010 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:20:16 -0400 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:23:13 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 For close to sixty years, Morton Sobell dined out on his reputation as one of the innocent "progressives," wrongly convicted, along with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, of spying for the Soviet Union. After his 1969 release from Alcatraz prison, Sobell was feted by communist regimes in Cuba and canonized by fellow leftists as yet another victim of a wicked American justice system. All that changed last week. Sobell, now 91, has finally admitted the truth. He really had been a Soviet spy "“ and so had Julius Rosenberg. As the New York Times...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/rosenbergs_still_guilty_after_all_2652.htmlhttp://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32417http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32417 1002652 AM Update Kathy Shaidle, Front Page Mag Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:23:33 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 Divisive since it was handed down "” or more precisely, since a famous article in London's Guardian challenged the verdict and helped elevate it into a latter-day Dreyfus case "” the Rosenbergs"˜ sentence has inspired so much acrimony over several generations that merely to observe the date is to invite a debate capable of eminently more heat than light.Where to begin with a case so towering in the recent cultural milieu?A textbook might say that Julius and Ethel were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Russians, that they maintained...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/rosenberg_case_latter-day_dreyfus_affair_2653.htmlhttp://www.executedtoday.com/2008/06/19/1953-julius-ethel-rosenberg/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/06/19/1953-julius-ethel-rosenberg/ 1002653 AM Update Executed Today Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:23:52 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 America's birthday is fast approaching. But let's not wait for July 4th to light the fireworks. There is another Independence Day on the horizon. Juneteenth falls on June 19 each year. It is a holiday whose history was hidden for much of the last century. But as the nation now observes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's onset, it is a holiday worth recognizing. In essence, Juneteenth marks what is arguably the most significant event in American history after independence itself"”the eradication of American slavery. For centuries, slavery was the dark...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/america039s_other_independence_day_2651.htmlhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Juneteenth-Our-Other-Independence-Day.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Juneteenth-Our-Other-Independence-Day.html 1002651 AM Update Kenneth Davis, Smithsonian Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:32:01 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 The C.S.S. Alabama was the most successful Confederate commerce raider of the American Civil War. In a career that lasted for nearly two years, she sank or captured 66 Union ships, including the warship Hatteras. The Alabama had been built through the efforts of James D. Bulloch, one of the more successful Confederate agents in Europe. He had placed orders for two ships soon after his arrival in Britain in June 1861. The Alabamawas built in the Laird's shipyard at Birkenhead, Liverpool. She was a combined steam and sail ship, with a propeller that could be raised from the water to turn...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/css_alabama_finally_meets_its_match_2654.htmlhttp://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_css_alabama.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_css_alabama.html 1002654 AM Update John Rickard, History of War Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:01 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 Maximilian I (1832-1867), Emperor of Mexico from 1864-1867, qualifies as one of the country�s most ill-fated rulers. Hailing from a european dynasty, Maximilian was duped into accepting the role of Mexico�s emperor. Brought to the country under false pretenses, the archduke of Austria was led to believe his presence would be welcome by the people of Mexico. In fact, the opposite was true. Mexico was experiencing the painful residues of a civil war (The War of the Reform) when Maximilian arrived in Veracruz in 1864. Mexico�s president, Benito Juarez, supported wide sweeping reforms for...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/mexico039s_quixotic_european_emperor_2650.htmlhttp://www.mexonline.com/history-maximilian.htmhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.mexonline.com/history-maximilian.htm 1002650 AM Update Mex Online Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:16 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 In this era of the carousel of mass migration, family names are more important than ever. When we alter them we lose a little bit of where we came from. Yet 90 years ago, perhaps Europe's most famous family decided to change its name, backed into a corner by a public increasingly hysterical about the enemy within. On 18 July 1917 the Times newspaper carried a royal proclamation introducing the name Windsor and dropping "all German titles and dignities".  King George V was under considerable pressureSince the marriage of Victoria - the last of the Hanovers - to Prince...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/german_roots_of_british_royals_2648.htmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6904531.stmhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6904531.stm 1002648 AM Update Finlo Rohrer, BBC News Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:42 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 One month before the 30th anniversary of one of London's most enduring murder mysteries, the mafia godfather at the heart of the case has spoken for the first time about why he believes the real killers of Italian financier Roberto Calvi will never be brought to justice. Calvi, dubbed "God's banker" because of his work with the Vatican, was found hanging from scaffolding beneath Blackfriars bridge in London on 18 June 1982. Bricks had been stuffed in his pockets and he had more than £10,000 in cash on him. In the months before his death he had been accused of stealing...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/mafia_boss_reveals_banker_killing_2649.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/12/roberto-calvi-blackfriars-bridge-mafiahttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/12/roberto-calvi-blackfriars-bridge-mafia 1002649 AM Update Tony Thompson, The Guardian Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:32:25 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 Buried deep in their Washington Post review of the lessons of Watergate, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein made a remarkable admission: that they've failed to solve the Watergate break-in. After all this time, they still can't tell us who ordered the burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972"”or why. This failure"”which I wrote about here in April"”doesn't diminish my admiration for the courageous, groundbreaking reporting they did on the Nixon White House cover up and other illegalities. Indeed their...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/reporters_still_don039t_know_watergate_origin_2655.htmlhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/06/18/on_watergate_s_40th_anniversary_bob_woodward_and_carl_bernstein_still_don_t_know_who_ordered_the_watergate_break_in.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/06/18/on_watergate_s_40th_anniversary_bob_woodward_and_carl_bernstein_still_don_t_know_who_ordered_the_watergate_break_in.html 1002655 AM Update Ron Rosenbaum, Slate Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:31:13 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 The disgraced US president, Richard Nixon, told Watergate prosecutors he was furious about a partially erased tape of a White House meeting that became the focus of cover-up accusations, according to transcripts of secret testimony released on Thursday. But Nixon's anger is primarily directed at the fact that prosecutors obtained the tape "“ from which 18 and a half minutes of conversation had been been wiped over "“ rather than the erasure itself. Nixon gave two days of secret grand jury testimony in June 1975, less than a year after he resigned...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/much_ado_about_nixon039s_missing_tape_2661.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/10/richard-nixon-transcripts-fury-tapehttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/10/richard-nixon-transcripts-fury-tape 1002661 AM Update Chris McGreal, The Guardian Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:26:31 -0400 06/19/2013/00/00/00 If Curt Flood had not existed, not even Marvin Miller could have invented him. Who Curtis Charles Flood was and precisely his significance in baseball history is something that can't be understood just by looking at the record book. Not that Flood suffers from such an examination. He played 15 years from 1956 to 1971. (He took the 1970 season off, which is something I'll discuss in a moment.) He batted .293, was a three-time All-Star, and, playing centerfield for the St. Louis Cardinals, won Gold Glove seven consecutive seasons, from 1963-1969. He was on three pennant-winning teams...]]>http://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/06/19/how_curt_flood_changed_baseball_2647.htmlhttp://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/how-curt-flood-changed-baseball-and-killed-his-career-in-the-process/241783/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/how-curt-flood-changed-baseball-and-killed-his-career-in-the-process/241783/ 1002647 AM Update Allen Barra, The Atlantic