Week of July 28, 2008
Up Front
Campaign 2008: Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
News Abroad
Iraq: The Army Knew Better
Christopher McKnight Nichols and R. Joseph Parrott
Why John McCain's "Surge" Success Story Is A Lie
Joseph Palermo
A Social History of the Surge
Juan Cole
Obama and the Taliban
Mark A. LeVine
News at Home
No Free Lunch: Obama and Nietzsche in Berlin
Andreas Daum
Once Again Social Security's on the Table
Marc Goldwein
The Ghosts of Presidents Past
Leonard Steinhorn
Why the Vice-Presidential Nominees Will Be Presidential
Joel K. Goldstein
Historians & History
Why Historians Should Write Books Ordinary People Want to Read
Jeremy Cameron Young
The Greatest Hoax In American History: Japan’s Alleged Willingness to Surrender During the Final Months of World War II
Robert James Maddox
Is the Pulitzer Prize Board Clueless?
Markian Pelech
The National Archives: Alone in a Clash of Cultures
Maarja Krusten
A School Abolishes the Humanities--And Our Culture Suffers
Amy Solowiej
Red Star Over Edgar Snow
C. W. Hayford
Books
Review of Robert Kagan’s The Return of History and the End of Dreams
Lee P. Ruddin