These articles, taken from HNN's archives, help put Ronald Reagan's life and presidency in proper perspective. Click here for a roundup of articles about Reagan that appeared the week he passed away.

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• Legacy "Final Take on Ronald Reagan ?" Edmund Morris
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• Legacy "Debunking the Reagan Myth" Paul Krugman
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• Legacy "Reagan's Vision Triumphed ... But Is His the World We Want to Live in?" Jules Tygiel
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• Legacy "The Big Opportunity Ronald Reagan Missed" Otis L. Graham
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• Legacy "Was Reagan a Great President?" Christopher Bates
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• Legacy "5 Myths About Ronald Reagan" David Greenberg
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• Legacy "How Reagan Invented the 1980s" Gil Troy
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• Legacy "How Do Historians Assess Ronald Reagan?" Chester Pach
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• Legacy "The Man Who Was Responsible for Dividing the Country ... into Reaganite Republicans and Reaganite Democrats" Richard Jensen
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• Legacy "Reagan's Style of Politics and Governing" Fred Greenstein
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• Legacy "Where Reagan Ranks in a New Poll by Conservative Historians"
• Legacy "Reagan's Legacy " Richard Norton Smith
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• Legacy "About Reagan's Tax Cuts" Paul Krugman
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• Legacy"Edmund Morris on Reagan's Passing"
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• Legacy " Reagan May or May Not Appear as Heroic in the Future as He Does Right Now " Lewis Gould
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• Legacy "The Reagan Economics Legend" Paul Krugman
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• Legacy "Reagan the Divider" Rick Perlstein
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• Legacy "Reagan's Role in Ending the Cold War" Walter Russell Mead
• Legacy "Reagan Didn't End the Cold War " Robert Parry
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• Legacy "66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan" David Corn
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• Legacy "Reagan Supported Dictators ... As Long as They Said They Opposed Communists" David Corn
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• Legacy "On Hearing that Ronald Reagan Had Died" Rick Shenkman
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• Legacy "Was He a Great President? " Rick Shenkman
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• Legacy "How Reagan Looks to a Teacher of World History" Jonathan Dresner
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• Legacy "Reagan's Legacy of Debt"
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• Legacy "Those Reagan Deficits"
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• Legacy "Reagan Wasn't a Neocon" John Patrick Diggins
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• Legacy "Reagan Allied Pro-Life Catholics and Protestants"
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• Legacy "Put Reagan on the Dime? "
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• Bush & Reagan "The Bush and Reagan Families ... Not Really Very Close"
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• Popularity "Why Reagan Is So Popular Now" Jon Meacham
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• Popularity "Replace FDR on the Dime with Reagan?" Colin Gordon
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• Popularity "FDR Should Remain on the Dime" Ruth Rosen
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• Popularity "Turning Reagan into a Monument Is Only Going to Hurt the Conservative Cause" Phillip Payne
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• Terrorism "Reagan's Response to Terrorism Was Uneven"
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• Terrorism "Before We Move on, Let's Remember Ronald Reagan's First Victory Against Terrorism" Daniel Pipes
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• Terrorism "Reagan Was Responsible for the Rise of Osama bin Laden " Fred Kaplan
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• Cold War "Reagan's Real Role in Ending the Cold War" Fred Kaplan
• Cold War "Reagan Was No Lightweight" John Lewis Gaddis
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• Cold War "Reagan's Role in Ending the Cold War Is Being Exaggerated" Roger Chapman
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• Cold War "Reagan Needed Gorby to Succeed in Ending the Cold War" Marshall Goldman
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• Cold War "Cold War Did Reagan's Military Build-Up Really Lead to Victory in the Cold War?" Lawrence Wittner
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• Cold War "The Surprising Effect of the Nuclear Freeze Movement on the Administration of Ronald Reagan " Lawrence Wittner
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• October Surprise "Remember Ronald Reagan's October Surprise? It Never Happened." Daniel Pipes
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• Blacks "Why Reagan Gave MLK a National Holiday" Kiron Skinner
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• Blacks "War of words on NYT op ed page over Reagan's 1980 visit to Philadelphia, Mississippi "
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• Blacks "So Reagan's Policies Harmed Blacks?" Larry Elder
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• Gays Reagan Opposed the Briggs Amendment, Helping Gays Hugo Schwyzer
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• Documentaries The Ridiculous Criticisms of"The Reagans" Gil Troy
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• Reagan Era Documents "The Reagan Papers Runaround" Hugh Davis Graham
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• Reagan Era Documents "Release the Reagan Documents" Bruce Craig