Week of Oct. 29, 2007

History Buzz Bonnie Goodman

News at Home

So Mukasey Doesn't Know If Waterboarding Is Torture? Please. Joyce Appleby

San Diego's Natural Disaster Wasn't Entirely Natural Colin Fisher

The Terrible State of Our Economy? Thomas C. Reeves

News Abroad

Annapolis Blues Daniel Pipes

Intellectual Fallacies of the War on Terror Chalmers Johnson

What Happened When We Stayed the Course in Cuba Joseph J. Gonzalez

Historians & History

HNN's Top Young Historian: This Week ... Mark I. Greenberg Bonnie Goodman

Americans are Tourists of History Marita Sturken

Is the History of the U.S. Supreme Court Essential? Peter Hoffer

Books

Review of Miles Marshall Lewis's There's a Riot Goin' On Kirk Bane

Review of Jeffrey R. Smith's A People's War: Germany's Political Revolution, 1913-1918 Jason Crouthamel