Week of May 12, 2008
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Obama and Race
HNN Hot Topics: Election 2008 ... Primaries
News at Home
Are Blacks Being Victimized Twice by the Cherokee?
Arica L. Coleman
Why Have Obama's Poll Numbers Been More Accurate in the South than Elsewhere?
James C. Cobb
Obama Should Thank Clinton for Strengthening Him
Gil Troy
Why We Better Ask Some Hard Questions About Presidents and Their Health
Steve Lomazow
Whatever Happened to the Gentleman?
Carol V. Hamilton
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Micki McElya
Bonnie Goodman
Why It's Time to Give Joseph Kennedy a Break
Will Swift
Historians and the Dumbing Down of Public Discourse
Susan Jacoby
MLK .. . Badass and More
Scott Saul
Samantha Power Talks About Her New Book (Interview)
Robin Lindley
Both the Left and the Right Misremember the Sixties
Gerard J. DeGroot
The Author of Not Out of Africa Pens Her Memoir
Mary Lefkowitz
Books
Review of Susan Levine's School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program
Kevin Kosar
Review of John Dougan's The Who Sell Out
Kirk Bane