Week of March 30, 2009
Up Front
In Memory of John Hope Franklin: HNN Readers Open Forum
Political Highlights: President Obama’s Second Press Conference Focusing on the Economy & Budget
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
OAH 2009
Highlights from the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians
News
- OAH Finances Take a Slide and Convention Attracts Fewer Attendees
- OAH Awards Go To Joyce Appleby, Susan Armeny, Stan Katz, and Brian Lamb
- OAH's Executive Director Lee Formwalt gets standing ovation
Videos
- Does Women's History Have a Future Mary Ryan
- Race: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories Mark Auslander
- Race: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories Al Brophy
- Race: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories Jim Campbell
- New Deal: The Consumer and the New Deal Louis Hyman
- New Deal: A New Deal for Public Works Jason Scott Smith
- Katrina: The Neglected Challenge to Racial Citizenship in Cosmopolitan New Orleans Ann Holder
- Katrina: Constructions of Blackness in Tourist New Orleans Lynell Thomas
- Katrina: The Question of Urban Exceptionalism Miriam Greenberg
- Katrina: Scientists Versus the Local Community Amy Lesen
- Liberalism: The Cultural Sensibility of American Liberalism, 1890-1941 Daniel Wickberg
- Liberalism: Sentimental Liberalism in Gilded Age America Susan Pearson
- Liberalism: Cold War Social Science and the Production of Consensus Liberalism Jamie Cohen-Cole
News at Home
Do the Humanities Matter in Hard Times? A Russian Historian's Answer
Walter G. Moss
Guess What? The New Deal Worked!
Steven Conn
News Abroad
Can You Do Business with Al Qaeda Terrorists?
James Livingston
Palestinians Who Helped Create Israel
Daniel Pipes
A Flawed Basis for Middle East Peace
Jonathan Goldstein
Historians & History
History Doyens: John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009
Bonnie Goodman
The Journalist as Historian: A Case Study
David Grann
Books
Review of Jeffrey T. Richelson's Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
Lawrence S. Wittner
Review of Steven Greenhouse's The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Robert Parmet