Week of January 5, 2008

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Whither the Republicans?

HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do

HNN Hot Topics: Meltdown 2008

American Historical Association: Annual Convention

Highlights of the 2009 Annual Convention of the American Historical Association

AHA Members Back Move to Embarrass but Not Boycott Anti-Gay Hotel Owner at Next Convention
Rick Shenkman

The Bush-Cheney Administration (video)

Seat Roland Burris?

Burris and the Vare Precedent
Robert "KC" Johnson

Blagojevich vs. the Senate
Stanley I. Kutler

News at Home

An Ancient Athenian’s Advice to President-Elect Obama
Josiah Ober

Bigotry Still Rules
Lisa Szefel

Sacrificing the Security of the Nation for the Sake of Profit: A Long History
Thomas M. Truxes

The Eisenhower Lesson Obama and the Democrats Need to Learn
Michael Bowen

Who Can Write Obama's History?
Kenneth Weisbrode

Republicans Should Look Back to the Future
Robert Brent Toplin

Should We Be Wary of Political Dynasties?
David Liebers

News Abroad

An Open Letter to My Fellow HNN Blogger, Daniel Pipes
Mark A. LeVine

‘Lawfare:’ Another Weapon in the Jihad Against Israel
Richard L. Cravatts

Historians & History

HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Shane Hamilton
Bonnie Goodman

Culture Watch

'Rap Music Invented in Scotland'? Nonsense! Rap Music Is American, of African Roots
Pearl Duncan

Books

Review of H. W. Brands's Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Luther Spoehr

Review of Brothers In Arms – The Kennedys, The Castros, and the Politics of Murder by Gus Russo and Stephen Molton
Mel Ayton

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Week of December 29, 2008

News at Home

More than 1,000 American Historians Call for Equity in the Stimulus Package in an Open Letter to Obama

Diplomatic Advisers: Washington, Kennan, FDR
John A. Moore, Jr. and Ralph E. Shaffer

News Abroad

To Succeed Where Clinton Failed, Obama Needs a History Lesson
Mark A. LeVine

Ukraine's Window of Opportunity
Andreas Umland

Historians & History

The Holocaust Memoir that Wasn't
Kenneth Waltzer

Going Back to the Future—Shanghai Style
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

History without Heroes: A Case in Point
Stephen Dando-Collins

Why Do Apologies for History Sometimes Work and Sometimes Don't?
Jennifer Lind

Playing Games with History
Michael Radu

Culture Watch

Ronald Reagan and the Day the Earth Stood Still
Robert Brent Toplin

Books

Review of Avraham Burg's The Holocaust is Over: We Must Rise From its Ashes
Bennett Muraskin

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