Week of May 11, 2009
Up Front
News at Home
American Torture: No Knowledge of History, No Sense of Tragedy
William J. Astore
The Swine Flu and Historic Memory
Heather Munro Prescott
News Abroad
Can a Comic Book About MLK Change the Middle East (At Least a Little)?
Noah Mendel
Will it Remain Business as Usual in the Middle East?
Mark A. LeVine
Will There Be a Second Crimean War?
Andreas Umland
Historians & History
Why Mary Is the Mother We Celebrate the Rest of the Year
Miri Rubin
Reagan Was His Own Man
James Mann
Harry S Truman at 125
Frederick G. Slabach and Michael R. Gardner
Four Days in May ... Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Sean L. Malloy
Books
Review of Patrick D. Jones's The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
Ron Briley
Review of David King's Red Star Over Russia
Roger Pulvers