Week of July 27, 2009

#1 Race, Politics, And Obama: Scholars Respond To Sean Wilentz's 'Who Lincoln Was'--And Wilentz Strikes Back
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107795.html

#2 Miriam Pawel: The study of history demands nuanced thinking
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107517.html

#3 William R. Polk: Waiting for the Obama We Elected
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107089.html

#4 Jonathan Zimmerman: The Gates cop, in perspective
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107098.html

#5 Dick Morris: Obama's Dwindling Power
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/106084.html

#6 Timothy B. Weston: A Cultural Symbol Passes from the Scene: Ji Xianlin, Not Michael Jackson
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/106073.html

#7 Juan Cole: Empire's Paranoia About the Pashtuns
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107097.html

#8 Dick Polman: Why Obama can't pull an LBJ
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/106311.html

#9 Eliot Spitzer: In Sickness and in Wealth
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107161.html

#10 James Millward: The Urumchi Unrest Revisited
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107521.html

#11 Julian Zelizer: How presidents work Congress
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107143.html