These articles, taken from HNN's archives, help put Ronald Reagan's life and presidency in proper perspective.
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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