Week of Jan. 21, 2008

#1 Rachel What are historians doing when they explain things?
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/46611.html

#2 Joseph Ellis: 'The better angels' side with Obama
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46692.html

#3 Jacob Weisberg: The Bush Tragedy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46775.html

#4 KC Johnson: "One of the Worst Negative Ads . . ."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/46620.html

#5 Martin Kramer: Memo from Gulfistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46674.html

#6 Daniel Galvin: History as a Guide to the Presidential Primaries? Nah…
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46664.html

#7 Melvin E. Lee: Grievance-Based Terrorism
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46769.html

#8 Gordon Taylor: Turkey's nationalist thugs
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46647.html

#9 Darius Rejali: Why have modern democracies been such important innovators of torture?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46637.html

#10 Nick Turse: America's Forgotten Vietnamese Victims
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/46752.html