Week of August 10, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights: Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed as the First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice
Bonnie Goodman
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
News at Home
Why Sotomayor Shouldn't Have to Apologize for Being Proud of Her Ancestry
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Obama on Race: Process over Product
Yossef Ben-Meir
The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome and the Future of Housing
John F. Wasik
News Abroad
Anti-Semitism Vs Anti-Semitism in Iran
Hamid Tehrani
Whither Jerusalem?
Richard L. Cravatts
HNN Special: On Diplomatic History
What's Wrong with the New History: An Interview with David Kaiser
Mark Dragoni
Diplomatic History Isn't in Decline
Thomas W. Zeiler
Historians & History
35 Years After Nixon
Stanley I. Kutler
Building the Erie Canal Was Messy: It's Worth Remembering That!
Gerard Koeppel
Books
Review of George Selgin's Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Review of Chris Hedges's Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Jim Cullen