Week of February 2, 2009
Up Front
President Obama's First Week in Office
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Barack Obama's Inauguration
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News at Home
Booker and Barack: What Can Obama Learn From Booker T. Washington?
David T. Beito and Jonathan Bean
Obama, Sandburg and Lincoln
Walter G. Moss
Warren Harding, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Whaat?
Phillip Payne
Should Obama Really Be Pressing for a Consensus?
John A. Grigg
After Guantánamo: The Crisis of U.S. Prisons and Lessons from the Medieval Past
G. Geltner
Four Myths About the Weather
Bernard Mergen
News Abroad
Fouad Ajami's Illusions
Juan Cole
Can the New Administration Keep Canada as an Ally in Afghanistan?
Adam Chapnick
Chavez: The Story of a Bully Boy
Michael Rowan
Historians & History
If Obama Wants to Demonstrate Transparency, He Can Start with the State Department's Historian's Office
Douglas Selvage
How a Historian Turned Novelist and Wrote a Book about World War II: An Interview with Ivan Doig
Robin Lindley
Books
Review of Robert H. Ferrell's The Question of MacArthur’s Reputation
Thomas Fleming