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Week of May 12, 2008

Up Front

NEW George W. Bush and "Appeasement"
Thomas Palermo

NEW Historians sponsor petition to protest John Yoo's legal opinions on torture

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Hot Topics: Obama and Race

HNN Hot Topics: Election 2008 ... Primaries

News at Home

Are Blacks Being Victimized Twice by the Cherokee?
Arica L. Coleman

Why Have Obama's Poll Numbers Been More Accurate in the South than Elsewhere?
James C. Cobb

Obama Should Thank Clinton for Strengthening Him
Gil Troy

Why We Better Ask Some Hard Questions About Presidents and Their Health
Steve Lomazow

Whatever Happened to the Gentleman?
Carol V. Hamilton

Historians & History

HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Micki McElya
Bonnie Goodman

Why It's Time to Give Joseph Kennedy a Break
Will Swift

Historians and the Dumbing Down of Public Discourse
Susan Jacoby

MLK .. . Badass and More
Scott Saul

Samantha Power Talks About Her New Book (Interview)
Robin Lindley

Both the Left and the Right Misremember the Sixties
Gerard J. DeGroot

The Author of Not Out of Africa Pens Her Memoir
Mary Lefkowitz

Books

Review of Susan Levine's School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program
Kevin Kosar

Review of John Dougan's The Who Sell Out
Kirk Bane

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Week of May 5, 2008

News at Home

Is Barack Obama Another Adlai Stevenson?
Jean Baker

Will We Ever Get Past the Cultural Wars of the 1960s?
Ron Briley

Is Hawaii a Colony that Needs to Be Freed?
Jonathan Dresner

News Abroad

Advice for What the Next U.S. President Should Do About Iran
Michael Axworthy

A Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Lawrence S. Wittner

Historians & History

Mr. Jefferson: Did You Ever Have Gonorrhea?
Alan Pell Crawford

Historians Should Take the Jihadi Rhetoric of 1948 Seriously
Benny Morris

"A Land Without a People for a People Without a Land"
Diana Muir

Culture Watch

Johnny Cash's Folsom at Forty
Kirk Bane

Books

Review of Andrew E. Kersten, Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor During World War II
Robert D. Parmet

Review of Peter Morris's But Didn't We Have Fun? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870
Luther Spoehr