Week of May 18, 2009
Up Front
In Memory of David Herbert Donald (1920-2009)
Gil Troy
HNN Poll: What's the impact of the recession on your school's history department (and students)?
Political Highlights: President Obama & Health Care Reform
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
News at Home
"Big Bang": Changing the National Approach to the Treatment of Detainees (June 2005)
Philip Zelikow and Gordon England
Tortured Reasoning and Tortured Results
William Loren Katz
Tortured Debate: Why the Media Should Stop Referring to the Inquisition
Liam Brockey
Are Americans Still Stupid?
Rick Shenkman
Evangelicalism—the End of an Era?
Steven P. Miller
News Abroad
Obama and Netanyahu Meet ... What's Next?
Daniel Pipes
How Somali Pirates Could Take Obama Hostage
Dominic Tierney
Historians & History
How Did We Get the Term D-Day?
Jonathan Gawne
Pugetopolis -- A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice: An interview with Knute Berger
Robin Lindley
Books
Review of Bob Luke's The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sports & Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball
Murray Polner
Review of Don Graham's State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies
Kirk Bane