Week of November 5, 2007

Up Front

History Buzz Bonnie Goodman

News at Home

Are We Living the Nightmare Outlined in Federalist #8? Carol V. Hamilton

How Not to Choose a President Alexander Keyssar

Why We Should Be Lucky Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Don't Take After Cornelius Vanderbilt Edward Renehan

News Abroad

Mosul and Iraq's Next War Daniel Pipes

Combating Muslim Extremism Juan Cole

Historians & History

New FeatureMaster Teachers: The Educator Who Most Influenced Me Gil Troy

Is Paul Krugman a Good Historian? Michael Kazin

The Politics of History: How “Exceptional” is America? Alonzo Hamby

If You Could Ask the Author of One of Those Big Oxford Histories What He Learned He'd Say ... Daniel Walker Howe

What Did LBJ Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis? And When Did He Know It? Max Holland and Tara Marie Egan

How Museums and Libraries Lose Stuff Samuel J. Redman

Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan