Week of December 1, 2008

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Up Front

Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Hot Topics: Whither the Republicans?

HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do

HNN Hot Topics: Meltdown 2008

News Abroad

Obama Says He's a Realist in the Mold of George H.W. Bush. What Does that Really Mean?
Lloyd Gardner

News at Home

How Not to Deal with the Oncoming Depression: The Case of New York State
Lawrence S. Wittner

Bush’s 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy
Stanley Kutler

Why Americans Are Reluctant to Admit Their Presidents Are Kings
Frank Prochaska

How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess
Richard Striner

Historians & History

The Historians' Paradox
Peter Charles Hoffer

The Myth of Arab Innocence
Elliott A. Green

When Writing About John Muir, I Had to See What He Saw
Donald Worster

In the Footsteps of a Forgotten Emigration - America, Russia and the Archaeology of Genocide
Tim Tzouliadis

Books

Review of David Chappell's A Stone of Hope
Ralph Luker

Review of Harold Holzer's Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861
Daniel W. Crofts

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Week of November 24, 2008

Thanksgiving

Why Is Our Thanksgiving Bird Called a Turkey? (Answer: Because, of course, it came from Turkey)
Larry E. Tise

Can a Turkey Be a Historical Artifact?
Jonathan Rees

News at Home

How GM Betrayed Its Founding Genius
Bernard A. Weisberger

Saving Private Savings, or, The God That Failed
James Livingston

Is It 1932 or 1952?
Colleen Doody

Joe the Trucker and "Real" America's Pocketbook Politics
Shane Hamilton

What's Going On In Ohio?
Jeffrey Kimball

Back When a Socialist Was a Socialist
Ralph E. Shaffer

News Abroad

Our Iraqi Revolution
William J. Astore

Eisenhower's Thanksgiving Mission
William Lambers

Historians & History

Lincoln in His Time and Ours: Highlights from the Columbia University Symposium
Nicholas Osborne

Jefferson and Hemings: An Interview with Annette Gordon-Reed
David Liebers

A My Lai a Month
Nick Turse

Why We Need A People's History of Sports
Dave Zirin