Week of October 19, 2009
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
News Abroad
Why We Fear General McChrystal's Counterinsurgency Plan May Be Doomed
Joseph Magagnoli and Andrew Enterline
A Curtain Call for the Domino Theory?
Kenneth Weisbrode
News at Home
Snow(e) Job: Tokenism is not Bipartisanship
Gil Troy
American Schools Were Always Violent
Jonathan Zimmerman
Weimar America
Steve Hochstadt
Barack Obama in the Footsteps of James Meredith
Frank Lambert
The Moderometer: Charting Obama's Zig-Zag, September 28 to October 12
Gil Troy, with Theodoric Meyer
Historians & History
History Handed George W. Bush Greatness on a Platter, but He Kicked It Aside
John Edward Philips
Why It's Time to Write Wives into the Story of the Civil War
Carol Berkin
The Woman Who Attempted to Etch Herself into the History of the Cuban Revolution
Katrina Gulliver
Books
Review of Michael D'Antonio's Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
John Richard Starkey
Review of The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage -- By Rosalee McReynolds and Louise S. Robbin
Robert Justin Goldstein