Week of January 19, 2009

#1 Tom Palaima: MLK, Barack Obama and our hope for racial justice
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60162.html

#2 Juan Cole: King's Anti-Imperialism and the Challenge for Obama
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60400.html

#3 Ron Radosh: Bush’s Legacy in History and the Press
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60399.html

#4 Thomas Frank: George W. Is No Martyr
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60381.html

#5 John Steele Gordon: Obama isn't just our first black president. He's the first who doesn't come from Northwest Europe.
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60370.html

#6 Annette Gordon-Reed: Jefferson's vision
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60268.html

#7 James McPherson: Removing the Stain
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60267.html

#8 Ivan Eland: From Van Buren to Bush, a better way to rank US presidents
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60389.html

#9 Arthur Herman: The Return of Carterism?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60429.html

#10 Daniel Franklin: How Could Bush (If He’s Interested) Recover His Reputation? http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/60361.html