Week of May 25, 2009
Memorial Day
Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
Dear President Obama: Please Don't Honor the Arlington Confederate Monument
Edward Sebesta and James Loewen
Up Front
Political Highlights: President Barack Obama, Dick Cheney & Guantanamo
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
News at Home
Thinking of Dick Cheney as Cicero
David R. Carlin
Why Obama's Right to Claim that Torturing Prisoners Is Un-American
Edwin G. Burrows
Lawyers Should Punish the Torture Lawyers
Harold H. Bruff
Is Economic Growth a Delusion?
Steven Stoll
Is the GOP Washed Up? Hardly.
David L. Stebenne
News Abroad
The Specter of Hiroshima in an Age of “Virtual Nuclear States”
Robert Gellately
The Limits of Terrorism
Daniel Pipes
Books
Review of Said Sayrafiezadeh's When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood
Murray Polner
Review of Dan Fleshler's Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change
Murray Polner