Week of April 20, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Obama at 100 Days
OAH 2009
Sam Wineburg Dares to Ask If the Teaching American History Program Is a Boondoggle
Rick Shenkman
News at Home
Political Highlights: President Obama at the Summit of the Americas
Bonnie Goodman
Obama's 100 Days: Partisan, Moderate or Both?
Gil Troy
News Abroad
How Did Obama Do in Latin America?
Alan McPherson
100 Years of Solitude: Tel Aviv's Anniversary
Mark A. LeVine
How Feasible Is Obama's Nuclear Disarmament Agenda?
Lawrence S. Wittner
Rational Pirates? The Hidden Economics of History’s Most Notorious Criminals
Peter T. Leeson
Mary McCarthy in Vietnam, Barack Obama in Afghanistan
William J. Astore
Historians & History
John W. Dean III and the Watergate Cover-up, Revisited
Luke A. Nichter
The Phone Call that Kept the Castro Brothers in Power for Decades
Don Bohning
The Challenge of Writing Contemporary History
Sir Lawrence Freedman
I Love It When You Talk Retro
Ralph Keyes
A Story. About What? Well, You Wouldn't Want Us to Spoil the Surprise, Would You?
Kimit A. Muston
Books
Review of Richard W. Lyman's Stanford in Turmoil: Campus Unrest, 1966-1972
Luther Spoehr
Review of Karen Pastorello's A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Robert D. Parmet