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HNN Features Articles and Op Eds by Historians
from Both the Left and the Right
Contents: Week of May 31, 2004
Up Front
The Man Who Was Responsible for Dividing the Country ... into Republican Reaganites and the Democratic Reaganites Richard Jensen
How Reagan Looks to a Teacher of World History Jonathan Dresner
HNN Index: Ronald Reagan's Life and Presidency
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News at Home
The American “Good War” vs. the German “Bad War”: World War II Memory Cultures Günter Bischof
What We Really Need to Remember on Memorial Day Martin Halpern
How the Christian Right Borrowed the Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement David John Marley
News Abroad
The Wrong Lessons to Learn from D-Day Christopher Endy
Attempting Analogy: Japanese Manchuria and Occupied Iraq Jonathan Dresner
Why This Historian of World War I Sees Parallels Between the U.S. Today and Germany Then Larry Zuckerman
Do Soldiers Have a Duty to Disobey Illegal Orders? Patrick F. McDevitt
We Should Call Torture By Its Proper Name Edward Peters
Why in Japan I Feel Like an Individual (Letters from Japan, Part 9) William Thompson
Historians & History
What We Can Learn from Two Anniversaries of 1989 Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Irena Grudzinska Gross
Fact & Fiction
Why Richard Nixon Deserves to Be Remembered Along with Brown Joseph J. Sabia
Culture Watch
Review of Jeremy Bernstein's Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma Stanley I. Kutler
Review of Eric Alterman's and Mark Green's The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America Anders Lewis
Contents: Week of May 24, 2004
News at Home
How We--You and Me--Missed the Story of the Taliban in the Years Leading Up to 9-11 Irfan Khawaja
Of Rats and Men P.M. Carpenter
News Abroad
The Politics of Cutting and Running John Mueller
On the Difference Between Bush and Saddam Matthew Mason
End the Occupation Now Ruth Rosen
About Donald Rumsfeld's Comparison of Iraq and the Civil War David M. Wrobel
Historians & History
K.I.A.: The Uncle I Never Knew Ralph Young
Who Is Philip Zelikow? Alice Lemieux
The Delusions Behind the Brown Decision Christopher W. Schmidt
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