Week of June 22, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
News at Home
The Last Integrationist: A Note on Michael Jackson
Jim Cullen
What Cap and Trade Programs Are Really About
Hugh Gorman
Why Soap Operas Should Be Taken Seriously By Gays and Straights
Lisa Szefel
The Tea Party in Politics: Why the Event in Boston Harbor Keeps on Appealing to Conservatives
Woden Teachout
News Abroad
The Chávez-Castro Connection Lie in a Now Forgotten Chapter of the Cold War
Brian Nelson
Why We Are Less at Risk of Major Famines Today than in the Past
Cormac Ó Gráda
Historians and History
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Anne Pastore
Nixonland: An Interview with Rick Perlstein
Rick Shenkman
President Reagan Approves the Bombing of Iran
Jason Saltoun-Ebin
A Holocaust Survivor's Reflections on a Grandson's Graduation
Gustav Schonfeld
Books
Review of Edmund S. Morgan's American Heroes: Portraits of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America
Jim Cullen
Review of Anne Nelson's Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
Patrick Devenny