Week of August 24, 2009
Up Front
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
News at Home
Swine Flu and Student Health: Past and Present
Heather Munro Prescott
The Moderometer: Charting Obama’s Zig-Zag ... July 28 to August 18
Gil Troy
On Cable News, "Truth" Sometimes Resembles "1984"
Tom Palaima
News Abroad
Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan
Stanley I. Kutler
Roseanne Barr, Historian?
Alex Grobman
Historians & History
What Should We Make of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Racism?
Richard Klayman
How the New York Times Missed the Underlying Ugly History Behind a Fun Story About a Georgia Gold Rush
David Walsh
Culture Watch
Somebody Forgot to Mention that the Ships the Artists Painted Carried Slaves
Pearl Duncan
History Q & A
How Did Americans Feel About Incarcerating German POW's in W. W. II on US Soil?
Megan Stephenson
Books
Review of Anthony Pagden's Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
Barry C. Knowlton
Review of Noralee Frankel's Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee
Ron Briley