Week of Sept. 17, 2007

Up Front

HNN Poll: Is the Surge Working?

News at Home

When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right Joyce Appleby

I Love Reading Economists When They Write Like Journalists James Livingston

News Abroad

Why Iranians Are Still Railing Against Britain--And Why that Matters Christopher N. B. Ross

“What Did You Do in the War, Daddy-O?” An Appreciation of John Sack’s M, Forty Years On Kirk Bane

Historians & History

HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Kenneth A. Osgood Bonnie Goodman

They Don't Have Anything Like Our Presidential Libraries, but Brits Now Do Have the Churchill and Thatcher Archives and that's Something Jeff Shear

When's a Palace an Emblem of Democratic Aspirations? Ron Briley

What is Wrong with Quotas? Equality, Democracy, Bias, and Balance in American Society Jules R. Benjamin

Books

Review of Erez Manela’s The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Review of Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, ed. Robert James Maddox Richard B. Frank