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
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
