Week of Jan. 28, 2008
HNN Hot Topics: Election 2008 ... Primaries
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
News at Home
Debating Who Is more Oppressed, Blacks or Women, Is a Fool's Game
Eric Foner
Obamarama: The Absurd Arguments Being Used Against Him
James Livingston
Hail Reagania!
Gil Troy
Who Owns the Noose?
Jim Downs
The Two Albu[r]querques
David Holtby and Tobías Durán
Can Washington DC Legally Stop Residents from Owning a Handgun? (Supreme Court Brief)
Jack N. Rakove, Saul Cornell, David T. Konig, William J. Novak, Lois G. Schwoerer, Fred Anderson, Carol Berkin, Paul Finkelman, R. Don Higginbotham, Stanley N. Katz, Pauline R. Maier, Peter S. Onuf, Robert E. Shalhope, John Shy, and Alan Taylor
News Abroad
The Middle East's Tribal Affliction
Daniel Pipes
South Korea's Leader Tries to Turn His Back on History
Alexis Dudden
Why the Debt Crisis Is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic
Chalmers Johnson
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Matthew Connelly
Bonnie Goodman
The Surprisingly Democratic Roots of Evangelicalism
Thomas S. Kidd
The Surprising Origins and Meaning of the “Pursuit of Happiness”
Carol V. Hamilton
Books
Review of James G. Blight & Janet M. Lang's The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Review of Jose Ramon Sanchez's Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States
Jaime Partsch McMillan