Week of February 16, 2009
Historians & History
Why Aren't the Nixon Tapes Now Available? They've Been Ready Since 1988.
Maarja Krusten
Darwin’s Great Work Was ...
Larry DeWitt
Lincoln's Mistaken Neglect of General George H. Thomas
Benson Bobrick
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln: An interview with John Stauffer
David Liebers
News at Home
Is Obamania Stopping Us From Questioning Obama's Competence?
Gil Troy
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post Racial America
Ron Briley
The End of the Ownership Society?
Marc Goldwein
What We Should Learn from the Founders' Decision to Put Off Hard Choices About Slavery
Douglas R. Egerton
Barack Obama Didn’t Win the Presidential Debates – And Neither Did John McCain
Aaron Zelinsky
History Q & A
When Did the Great Depression Receive Its Name? (And Who Named It?)
Noah Mendel
Books
Review of Alan Clayson's The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet
Kirk Bane