Week of December 1, 2008
Up Front
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Whither the Republicans?
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News Abroad
Obama Says He's a Realist in the Mold of George H.W. Bush. What Does that Really Mean?
Lloyd Gardner
News at Home
How Not to Deal with the Oncoming Depression: The Case of New York State
Lawrence S. Wittner
Bush’s 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy
Stanley Kutler
Why Americans Are Reluctant to Admit Their Presidents Are Kings
Frank Prochaska
How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess
Richard Striner
Historians & History
The Historians' Paradox
Peter Charles Hoffer
The Myth of Arab Innocence
Elliott A. Green
When Writing About John Muir, I Had to See What He Saw
Donald Worster
In the Footsteps of a Forgotten Emigration - America, Russia and the Archaeology of Genocide
Tim Tzouliadis
Books
Review of David Chappell's A Stone of Hope
Ralph Luker
Review of Harold Holzer's Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861
Daniel W. Crofts