Week of Oct. 1, 2007
Up Front
History Buzz Bonnie Goodman
News Abroad
Should We Even Be Using Mercenaries in Iraq? Paul Finkelman
An Anniversary to Celebrate If You Oppose War Lawrence S. Wittner
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide, Except for Me and the Mahdi: Ahmadinezhad Escapes from New York Timothy R. Furnish
The Transcript that Reveals Impeachable Offenses by President Bush Juan Cole
News at Home
Is America a Christian Nation? What Both Left and Right Get Wrong John Fea
It's Time for an Independent Investigation of America's Intelligence Strategy: The Church Committee Shows How. Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., and Aziz Huq
The First Mother Who Fought the Military to Find Out How Her Son Died Robin R. Cutler
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy David Weaver-Zercher
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... John C. McManus Bonnie Goodman
Discrediting the Politicization of History Keith Windschuttle
Ike's Wise Restrained Response to Sputnik Yanek Mieczkowski
How the U.S. Schemed Against Spain's Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy Vicente Navarro
Books
Review of Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, ed. Brian R. Dirck Craig Buettinger
Review of Jeff Wiltse's Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America Lawrence Culver