Week of August 31, 2009
Up Front
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Edward Kennedy's Life and Legacy
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
News at Home
Government Death Panels and Mass Murder Were Always an Option in 20th Century America's War Against the Weak
Edwin Black
When "Public Options" Serve the Public—and When They Don't
Lawrence S. Wittner
UC System Funding: Less Can't Masquerade as More
Mark A. LeVine
Historians & History
Why Is Civil Rights Hero T.R.M. Howard Still Ignored?
David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito
The Uses and Abuses of History: An Interview with Margaret MacMillan
Aaron Leonard
Long Ago: A Total War in the Pacific Came to an Unimaginable End
Vaughn Davis Bornet
Distorting the Holocaust: Why Numbers Matter
Alex Grobman
The Legacy of Florence Harding, a Most Modern First Lady
Katherine A. S. Sibley
The Evolution of the History Department in the United States, 1940-1980
William Palmer
Culture Watch
Bruce Springsteen and American History
Louis P. Masur