Week of January 26, 2009
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Barack Obama's Inauguration
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News at Home
Farewell to Campaign Finance Reform--Good Riddance!
Thomas Fleming
Could Obama's Internationalism Cost Him Support at Home?
Tim Roberts
Inauguration 2009: Obama's Break with Tradition
Elvin T. Lim
On Hearing Obama Speak Paine’s Words
Harvey J. Kaye
News Abroad
How Did Russia Rebuild Itself? Sorry, But You're Wrong.
Stephen Kotkin
Historians & History
Did Nixon Commit Treason in 1968? What The New LBJ Tapes Reveal.
Robert "KC" Johnson
HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Natasha Zaretsky
Bonnie Goodman
At Last Bush's Restrictions on Presidential Records Are Lifted
Anna K. Nelson
The Riddle of Herbert Hoover
David Greenberg
Muddling the Holocaust in Lithuania
Steven F. Lawson
The Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations: A Sad Lesson from American History
Robert Justin Goldstein
Who Moved the Inauguration? Dispelling an Urban Legend
Donald Ritchie
Howard Zinn: The Historian as Don Quixote
Larry DeWitt
History Q & A
Are We Really Printing Money to Finance Our Debts?
Omar Hossini
Have Presidential Inaugurations Always Featured Religion?
Megan McKee
Books
Review of W. Barksdale Maynard’s Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency
Luther Spoehr
Review of Kristian Gustafson's Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964-1974
Steven Schwab