On Other Websites: Week of August 1, 2011
- Robert Dallek: U.S. Debt Deal: The Cracks are Starting to Show
- WTF Barack? Historians on the Left Hold Facebook Roundtable on Obama
- Fouad Ajami: Barack Obama the Pessimist
- Jim Sleeper: The Republic After Obama
- John B. Judis: If Obama Likes Lincoln So Much, He Should Start Acting Like Him
- Stanley Kutler: Obama's Just Another Moderate Republican
- Gideon Rachman: Beware the Guns of August
- Jacob S. Hacker and Oona A. Hathaway: Our Unbalanced Democracy
- Tera W. Hunter: Putting an Antebellum Myth to Rest
- Johann N. Neem: Why We Should Teach National History in a Global Age