Week of October 29, 2012
Up Front
_0.jpg) HNN Hot Topics: Natural Disasters In the wake of Sandy, a look back at other historic hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters in American history. |
Blogs
 Let's Make Sure this Natural Disaster Doesn't Become a Political Disaster My plea to state and country officials: Let Election Day proceed as normally as possible |
 From “Who Lost China?” to “Who Lost Libya?” Those familiar with U.S. foreign policy since the 1940s can hardly avoid drawing comparisons. |
 Why Obama Will Win This Election Two words: Republican failures. |
 High Speed Amtrak: Part II Amtrak's Quik-Trip from Chicago to St. Louis. |
 With Apologies to Browning... The GOP's rape problem. |
News at Home
 The Curious Creation (and Unintended Consequences) of the Electoral College The Framers would be aghast at our electoral politics today. |
 Presidential “Czars”: A Constitutional Aberration Obama has appointed more executive branch czars than any other president. |
 Barack D. Eisenhower Why Obama is like Ike. |
 Hetch Hetchy Redux: An Effort to Turn Back the Environmental Clock Inside the efforts to drain the San Francisco reservoir. |
News Abroad
 Face/Off: The Last 2012 Presidential Debate On foreign policy, the candidates are practically identical. |
 Big Maps, Big Dreams, and the Failure of the Obama Doctrine Don't count on the Pentagon ever changing its first principles. |
 Why the Only Solution is the Two-State Solution A one-state solution means the end of a Jewish Israel. |
Historians & History
 The Importance of Doing Recent History Navigating a bewildering world of new sources, new media, and information overload. |
 The Inevitability of the Cold War Six months in 1945 determined the course of the next half-century. |
 The Forgotten Los Angeles Race Riot Interview with Historian Scott Zesch on the Chinatown Massacre of 1871 |
Culture Watch
 Coast to Coast, Presidential Election Ignites New Look at Campaigns and Politics 'Tis the political season on-stage as well as off. |
 When History Repeats Itself on A Summer's Day But does anybody really care? |
Books
 Review of Emily Bernard's Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance |
 Review of Paul S. Boyer's American History: A Very Short Introduction A solid, workmanlike, and inexpensive approach to U.S. history for students. |