I have mentioned the History News Network before, but I want to recommend it again. What they are trying to do there is what I try to do in the classroom: link current affairs to a historical perspective. And the relationship goes both ways: contemporary issues can help frame historical questions and research, and historical contexts tell us more about current issues than we get in most media. Not all historians would think this to be a worthwhile, or even possible, endeavour. But is is what animates me.
There is currently a series of articles on post 9/11 America, coming from different perspectives. Very interesting stuff.
Another instructive aspect to the site are the comments sections. There, you can learn how historians debate, bringing to bear different evidence, theories, and interpretation. You can also see that historians can be insufferable and intolerant jerks, too.
Another place to see (usually) reasoned debates and discussions among historians is through H-NET. They run discussion lists for scholars. You can read book reviews and the archives of debates over specific issues. Most lists are even open to undergrads (sometimes with a faculty reference), so check it out. They have over a 100 of them.
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