Week of October 6, 2008
Up Front
NEW Their Great Depression and Ours: Part I
James Livingston
News at Home
What Effect Would Obama's Election Have on Race Relations?
David R. Roediger
The Real West Is an Urban West
Carl Abbott
Ed Koch's Lesson for Today’s Mortgage Crisis
Jonathan Soffer
The Bankruptcy of Militant Free Market Ideology
Robert Brent Toplin
We Could Better Integrate New Immigrants into American Society -- And Should
Ian Reifowitz
How Forgotten Iraq May Elect the Next President
Ira Chernus
News Abroad
The Rise of Fascist Rhetoric in Russia
Andreas Umland
Iran’s Political Motivation For Ridiculing the Holocaust Again
Richard L. Cravatts
Historians & History
Spies Who May or May Not Exist: The 1948 Hiss-Chambers U.S. Spy Trial
Mark Weisenmiller
How the Republicans and Democrats Used History at Their Conventions
Hanna Laney
Books
Review of Michael Kammen's American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century
Ulf Zimmermann
Review of Terence Kissack's Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917
Doug Ireland