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Week of July 4, 2011

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: July 4

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