Week of April 7, 2008
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst
Robert S. McElvaine
Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention: NYC (March 28 to 31)
Rick Shenkman
HNN Hot Topics: Obama and Race
HNN Hot Topics: Election 2008 ... Primaries
News at Home
Before Obama Was a Favorite Son
Timothy Stewart-Winter
London Calling: The Dollar is Falling!
James Livingston
Is Reverend Wright a Black Liberationist?
Clare L. Spark
Let’s Face It: All Three Leading Candidates Lack Executive Experience
Gil Troy
Time (Yet Again) for Preventative Regulation
Christopher McKnight Nichols
News Abroad
The Olympics: A Return to Ethics: Character, Principles, and Consequences
William Thompson
Predicting China’s Fate in the Year of 08/08/08
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Why the Japanese Will Not Be Seeing a Film About Yasukuni
David McNeill
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Samuel Truett
Bonnie Goodman
The Follies of Instant History: Another Meaningless Poll of Historians
Larry DeWitt
OAH: Slighting '68
Fran Shor
The Worst Massacre of Blacks by Whites in U.S. History--And the Lesson It Teaches Today
Charles Lane
Forgiveness : Grandeur or Political Slogan?
Valérie Rosoux
Books
Review of Gavin Mortimer’s The Great Swim
Barron Lerner