Up Front

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Poll: How Historians Rank the Presidency of George W. Bush (2008)
Robert S. McElvaine

HNN Hot Topics: Election 2008 ... Primaries

News at Home

Is Obama Channeling Marcus Garvey?
Colin Grant

A Historian Reflects on the Rural-Urban Divide and Election '08
Daniel Herman

Misremembering Reagan
Michael H. Creswell

News Abroad

Why Today's Peace Activists Should Not Be Discouraged: An Example from 1958
Lawrence S. Wittner

The Army Monograph that Predicted Just About Everything that's Happened in Iraq
Conrad C. Crane and W. Andrew Terrill

Historians & History

HNN's Top Young Historian: This Week ... Doug Rossinow
Bonnie Goodman

What Are We to Make of the West's First Genocide?
Mark Gregory Pegg

Reading Stalin's Secret Police Files of the Executed
Hiroaki Kuromiya

Latin American Independence: The Rodney Dangerfield of World Historical Events?
John Chasteen

Books

Review of A Companion to International History: 1900-2001, ed. by Gordon Martel
Lee P. Ruddin

Review of Jon Kukla's Mr. Jefferson's Women
Luther Spoehr