Week of November 30, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News Abroad
Darfur: Time To Let The People Speak
Linda Bishai
News at Home
What After All Do Americans Mean When They Say They Love "Liberty"?
David Reynolds
Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?
Derek Catsam
Historians & History
“He Knew How to Die”: John Brown on the Gallows, December 2, 1959
David W. Blight
What's Modern About the Early Modern Period?
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
What We Can Learn from a New History of Early Christianity
Charles Freeman
Were Early Islamic Historians the First to Embrace Post-Modernism?
Lesley Hazleton
When Was Taft President? Reflections on a One-Term Presidency
Lewis Gould
From Jesus' Foreskin to Mussolini's Brain: History's Relics
Jonathan Tremblay
Books
Review of Joyce Purnick's Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics
Paul Moses
Review of David Crystal's Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
Jim Cullen