Week of Jan. 7, 2008
Up Front
Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Wash. DC)
Rick Shenkman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Poll: President Huckabee? President Obama? What does Iowa tell us?
New HNN Feature: The Big Books of Our Time: This Month ... Books on the History of Science -- Selected by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Bonnie Goodman (editor)
News at Home
Iowa: The Snap of a Starter's Pistol, not the Roar of a Rocket Launcher
Gil Troy
Is Bush Inventing Another Constitutional Power?
Robert J. Spitzer
The Return of the Imperial Presidency: An Interview with Charlie Savage
Robin Lindley
News Abroad
Democracy by Force, or by Example?
Joyce Appleby
Why Do We Always Forget How to Wage Wars We Successfully Fought in the Past?
Raymond Callahan
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Ted Widmer
Bonnie Goodman
"For Want of Knowledge": Microhistory and Pivotal Public Choices (video)
Philip Zelikow
Is Condoleezza Rice Right to Say the Founders Believed Blacks Were Only 3/5ths of a Person?
Eric Zencey
History Q & A
NEWDid Anyone Care that George Romney Was Mormon?
Mark Neels