Week of January 4, 2010

Up Front

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform

HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan

News at Home

In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Marc Stein

Historians & History

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: Organizational Comatosis or Hibernation?
William N. Thompson and Ernita Joaquin

A Closer Look at"Vinegar Joe" Stilwell
John J. McLaughlin

The Historian as Time Traveler
Ian Mortimer

The Politics of National Security from World War II to the War on Terrorism: An Interview with Julian E. Zelizer

The Extraordinary Story of the Hanging of the Black Man Who Owned Slaves
J. William Harris

Why Did the Bush White House Copy and Print Every Email It Received? It's a Long Story
Nneoma Amadi-obi

Books

Jim Cullen: Review of Clarence Clemons's and Don Reo's Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales (Grand Central Publishing, 2009)

Murray Polner: Review of Beth Bailey's America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (Harvard, 2009)