Week of July 4, 2011
Up Front
The Declaration of Independence and the American Dream
 Jim Cullen
Channelling George Washington: The Revolution That Changed the World
 Thomas Fleming
News at Home
Rick Perry, Don't Let the Confederate Flag on the Texas License Plate
 Edward H. Sebesta
Immigration Reform is Overdue
 Ian Goldin
Sarah Palin's Paul Revere Gaffe Should All Give Us Pause
 Mark R. Malebranche II
News Abroad
"Hostilities" and War Powers: Let's Choose the Constitution
 John C. Pinheiro
Isolationism: Behind the Myth, A Usable Past
 Michael H. Hunt
Historians & History
Middle East Studies in Upheaval
 Daniel Pipes
How Did the Railroads Survive and Prosper?
 Maury Klein
Culture Watch
Powerful Play on 1920 Harvard Secret Court Uncovers Sex Scandal
 Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Peter Dale Scott's American War Machine: Deep Politics, The CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan
 Jeremy Kuzmarov
 Review of Julia C. Ott's When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investor's Democracy
 Jim Cullen