Week of December 14, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News at Home
Obama and the Democrats Need to Confront the Deficit Monster
Iwan Morgan
Who Lewis Henry Morgan Was and Why We Should Care
Daniel Noah Moses
News Abroad
Iraq: Your Next Holiday Destination
Scott Laderman
Historians & History
65 Years Later: The Malmedy Massacre, December 17, 1944
Joseph Cummins
Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic:
An Interview with Gary Kornblith
Seth Binder
Culture Watch
The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
James Livingston
The Leo Frank Case--Now a PBS Documentary
Thomas Doherty
What More We Can Learn from "On the Waterfront": An Interview with James T. Fisher
Rodger D. Citron
Decoding Dan Brown
Simon Cox
Books
Two New Books on the Reagan Era
Jim Cullen
Review of Alfred W. McCoy's Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines
and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Jeremy Kuzmarov