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These articles, taken from HNN's archives, help put Ronald Reagan's life and presidency in proper perspective. Click here for a roundup of articles about Reagan that appeared the week he passed away.

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  • Legacy "Final Take on Ronald Reagan ?" Edmund Morris

  • Legacy "Debunking the Reagan Myth" Paul Krugman

  • Legacy "Reagan's Vision Triumphed ... But Is His the World We Want to Live in?" Jules Tygiel

  • Legacy "The Big Opportunity Ronald Reagan Missed" Otis L. Graham

  • Legacy "Was Reagan a Great President?" Christopher Bates

  • Legacy "5 Myths About Ronald Reagan" David Greenberg

  • Legacy "How Reagan Invented the 1980s" Gil Troy

  • Legacy "How Do Historians Assess Ronald Reagan?" Chester Pach

  • Legacy "The Man Who Was Responsible for Dividing the Country ... into Reaganite Republicans and Reaganite Democrats" Richard Jensen

  • Legacy "Reagan's Style of Politics and Governing" Fred Greenstein

  • Legacy "Where Reagan Ranks in a New Poll by Conservative Historians"
  • Legacy "Reagan's Legacy " Richard Norton Smith

  • Legacy "About Reagan's Tax Cuts" Paul Krugman

  • Legacy"Edmund Morris on Reagan's Passing"

  • Legacy " Reagan May or May Not Appear as Heroic in the Future as He Does Right Now " Lewis Gould

  • Legacy "The Reagan Economics Legend" Paul Krugman

  • Legacy "Reagan the Divider" Rick Perlstein

  • Legacy "Reagan's Role in Ending the Cold War" Walter Russell Mead
  • Legacy "Reagan Didn't End the Cold War " Robert Parry

  • Legacy "66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan" David Corn

  • Legacy "Reagan Supported Dictators ... As Long as They Said They Opposed Communists" David Corn

  • Legacy "On Hearing that Ronald Reagan Had Died" Rick Shenkman

  • Legacy "Was He a Great President? " Rick Shenkman

  • Legacy "How Reagan Looks to a Teacher of World History" Jonathan Dresner

  • Legacy "Reagan's Legacy of Debt"

  • Legacy "Those Reagan Deficits"

  • Legacy "Reagan Wasn't a Neocon" John Patrick Diggins

  • Legacy "Reagan Allied Pro-Life Catholics and Protestants"

  • Legacy "Put Reagan on the Dime? "

  • Bush & Reagan "The Bush and Reagan Families ... Not Really Very Close"

  • Popularity "Why Reagan Is So Popular Now" Jon Meacham

  • Popularity "Replace FDR on the Dime with Reagan?" Colin Gordon

  • Popularity "FDR Should Remain on the Dime" Ruth Rosen

  • Popularity "Turning Reagan into a Monument Is Only Going to Hurt the Conservative Cause" Phillip Payne

  • Terrorism "Reagan's Response to Terrorism Was Uneven"

  • Terrorism "Before We Move on, Let's Remember Ronald Reagan's First Victory Against Terrorism" Daniel Pipes

  • Terrorism "Reagan Was Responsible for the Rise of Osama bin Laden " Fred Kaplan

  • Cold War "Reagan's Real Role in Ending the Cold War" Fred Kaplan
  • Cold War "Reagan Was No Lightweight" John Lewis Gaddis

  • Cold War "Reagan's Role in Ending the Cold War Is Being Exaggerated" Roger Chapman

  • Cold War "Reagan Needed Gorby to Succeed in Ending the Cold War" Marshall Goldman

  • Cold War "Cold War Did Reagan's Military Build-Up Really Lead to Victory in the Cold War?" Lawrence Wittner

  • Cold War "The Surprising Effect of the Nuclear Freeze Movement on the Administration of Ronald Reagan " Lawrence Wittner

  • October Surprise "Remember Ronald Reagan's October Surprise? It Never Happened." Daniel Pipes

  • Blacks "Why Reagan Gave MLK a National Holiday" Kiron Skinner

  • Blacks "War of words on NYT op ed page over Reagan's 1980 visit to Philadelphia, Mississippi "

  • Blacks "So Reagan's Policies Harmed Blacks?" Larry Elder

  • Gays Reagan Opposed the Briggs Amendment, Helping Gays Hugo Schwyzer

  • Documentaries The Ridiculous Criticisms of"The Reagans" Gil Troy

  • Reagan Era Documents "The Reagan Papers Runaround" Hugh Davis Graham

  • Reagan Era Documents "Release the Reagan Documents" Bruce Craig