Week of September 1, 2008
Up Front
Convention Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
News at Home
Martin Luther King's Thoughts on a Future Black President
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Remember Sharon? He too Was an Old Man Who Picked an Inexperienced Second in Command
Dror Wahrman
Obama: Historical Immortality at 47
Gil Troy
Dear Sean
James Livingston
Could an Italian Economist Born in the 19th Century Offer an Answer to Our Political Prayers?
Robert E. Wright
News Abroad
What a Difference a Century Makes: China from Imperial Plaything to Global Leader
James M. Carter
The Iraq War and Similarities With an Earlier Conflict
Timothy D. Johnson
Seattle Bag Law Not a Threat to Freedom
Daniel Burnstein
Historians & History
Medicine in the Gulag Hell
Vlad Jecan
Engineering a Historical Oblivion for Soldiers of the Wrong Wars
Roger Pulvers
Books
Review of Paul Donnelley's Assassins and Assassinations: History’s Most Infamous Plots
Mel Ayton
Review of Anthony Lewis's Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
Zachary J. Lechner