Week of March 10, 2008
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Poll: How Historians Rank the Presidency of George W. Bush (2008)
Robert S. McElvaine
HNN Hot Topics: Election 2008 ... Primaries
News at Home
Is Obama Channeling Marcus Garvey?
Colin Grant
A Historian Reflects on the Rural-Urban Divide and Election '08
Daniel Herman
Misremembering Reagan
Michael H. Creswell
News Abroad
Why Today's Peace Activists Should Not Be Discouraged: An Example from 1958
Lawrence S. Wittner
The Army Monograph that Predicted Just About Everything that's Happened in Iraq
Conrad C. Crane and W. Andrew Terrill
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historian: This Week ... Doug Rossinow
Bonnie Goodman
What Are We to Make of the West's First Genocide?
Mark Gregory Pegg
Reading Stalin's Secret Police Files of the Executed
Hiroaki Kuromiya
Latin American Independence: The Rodney Dangerfield of World Historical Events?
John Chasteen
Books
Review of A Companion to International History: 1900-2001, ed. by Gordon Martel
Lee P. Ruddin
Review of Jon Kukla's Mr. Jefferson's Women
Luther Spoehr