Week of November 17, 2008

Up Front

HNN Poll: Should Obama Appoint a "Team of Rivals" ?

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

Political Highlights: The Obama Transition Continues, Bipartisanship & the Historical Moment
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Hot Topics: Whither the Republicans?

HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do

HNN Hot Topics: Meltdown 2008

News at Home

An Elderly Historian Ponders “What’s Next?”
Vaughn Davis Bornet

Why President-Elect Obama Should Follow the Example of President-Elect Lincoln
Harold Holzer

King, Obama, and the Politics of Hope
Michael Honey

The Suburban Sunbelt and the Making and Unmaking of the Conservative Republican Majority
Mark D. Nevin

Did Obama Make the South Irrelevant?
James C. Cobb

President Obama and Bretton Woods
Luke A. Nichter

Why the Sarah Palin Gamble Didn’t Pay Off
Joel K. Goldstein

Why Putting Civil Rights Up to a Vote Is a Bad Idea
Thomas A. Foster

Obama's "Historic" Triumph: Did He Win or Was it a GO George – Get Out George W. Victory by Default?
Gil Troy

News Abroad

Closed Consulates and Closed Minds: Bush’s Last Shot at Chávez
Robert Buzzanco

Historians & History

HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Matthew Avery Sutton
Bonnie Goodman

The Honey Trap: The True Story of Madame Elizabeth Brousse, AKA "Cynthia" (Part 1)
Jeff Shear

Please, President-Elect Obama, Reverse Bush's Muzzling of Presidential Records
Joseph Palermo

Books

Review of Peter Galbraith’s Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America’s Enemies
Reidar Visser

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Week of November 10, 2008

News at Home

Communities of Rumor and the American Electorate
Jeremy Young

Why Public Confession Speaks to a Secular America
Susan Wise Bauer

News Abroad

The Middle East Presents Obama with a Host of Problems, and Few Palatable Solutions
Mark A. LeVine

The Obama Administration, Iraq, and the Question of Leverage
Reidar Visser

Terrorism in Kashmir ... Origin and Growth
Shiben Krishen Raina

Historians & History

Iraq, Vietnam, and the Lessons from History
Ingo Trauschweizer

Bush’s Library ... The Kurds, Oil and Missing Records
Laray Polk

The Civil War Through Slaves' Eyes: An Interview with Andrew Ward
Robin Lindley

Failures of the Presidents: JFK's Bay of Pigs Disaster
Thomas J. Craughwell with M. William Phelps

How We Remember Them: The 1914-18 War Today
Dan Todman

Books

Review of Charles Murray's Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality and Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can Do About It
Luther Spoehr

Review of Pete Fornatale's Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends
Kirk Bane