Week of July 14, 2008

Up Front

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Hot Topic: Election 2008

News at Home

Nationalism is NOT a Dirty Word
Gil Troy

What's Different About the Immigration Problem We Face Today--And What Can Be Done About It?
Phil Kretsedemas

Why Is the Flag so Important?
Rick Shenkman

Historians & History

The Problem with Middle East Studies: A Microscopic Investigation
Daniel Pipes

Eat Out this Bastille Day ... It's a Tradition
Tony Perrottet

What Are We to Make of Pope Pius XII?
Paul O'Shea

A Historian's Daring Use of Fiction to Tell the Story of the Black Death
John Hatcher

Fact & Fiction

Sorry George, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Was Probably a Myth
Damion Pechota

Books

Review of Shane O'Sullivan's Who Killed Bobby?
Mel Ayton

Review of Scott Kurashige's The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
Jon Wiener