Week of July 27, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Poll: What do you make of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates?
HNN Hot Topics: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
HNN Special: The Vassiliev Papers
Historians' Muted Response to the Vassiliev Papers Is Surprising
Steve Usdin
Who’s Afraid of I.F. Stone?
D.D. Guttenplan
Review of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev
Robert Justin Goldstein
News at Home
Obama Beware: Presidential Magic Can Prove Tragic
Gil Troy
Bowling, Basketball, BCS, Baseball, and Birdies: Obama’s Use of Sport to Connect
Russ Crawford
What Passes for "Populism" These Days Is Laughable
Charles Postel
A Progressive Era Legacy We Could Do Without
Francis S. Barry
Historians & History
Pitfalls with the Nixon Tapes and How to Avoid Them
Richard A. Moss
The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing
David Brown
Books
Moshik Temkin's The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Review of Two Books on Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski and Justin Marozzi
B. C. Knowlton