Week of January 5, 2009
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Up Front
Highlights of the 2009 Annual Convention of the American Historical Association
AHA Members Back Move to Embarrass but Not Boycott Anti-Gay Hotel Owner at Next Convention
Rick Shenkman
HNN Hot Topics: Whither the Republicans?
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News at Home
An Ancient Athenian’s Advice to President-Elect Obama
Josiah Ober
Bigotry Still Rules
Lisa Szefel
Sacrificing the Security of the Nation for the Sake of Profit: A Long History
Thomas M. Truxes
The Eisenhower Lesson Obama and the Democrats Need to Learn
Michael Bowen
Who Can Write Obama's History?
Kenneth Weisbrode
Republicans Should Look Back to the Future
Robert Brent Toplin
Should We Be Wary of Political Dynasties?
David Liebers
News Abroad
‘Lawfare:’ Another Weapon in the Jihad Against Israel
Richard L. Cravatts
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Shane Hamilton
Bonnie Goodman
Culture Watch
'Rap Music Invented in Scotland'? Nonsense! Rap Music Is American, of African Roots
Pearl Duncan
Books
Review of H. W. Brands's Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Luther Spoehr