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June 6, 2004
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HNN Guide: Who Should Be the Next Commander-in-Chief? Moral Leader-in-Chief? Educator-in-Chief? Statesman-in-Chief? Politician-in-Chief?

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Week of May 10, 2004

Is the Abuse of POW's Under American Control Unprecedented? by Günter Bischof

Week of April 26, 2004

What Other Presidents Have Faced Official Questioning?

Week of February 23, 2004

Is Iraq an Arab Country? by Juan Cole

Did the Jews Kill Jesus? by Robert Goldenberg

Who Played the First Dirty Tricks in American Presidential Politics? by Rick Shenkman

Week of February 16, 2004

Why Do Historians Write About Race, Class & Gender? by Robert Alford

Week of December 8, 2003

What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? by Rob Alford

Week of December 1, 2003

Are New Purple Hearts Being Manufactured to Meet the Demand? by D.M Giangreco and Kathryn Moore

Week of November 24, 2003

How Did the Public Financing of Presidential Candidates Come About? by Marc Wiseman

Week of November 17, 2003

Whatever Happened to the Old-Fashioned Jimmy Stewart-Style Filibuster? by Aaron Erlich

Week of November 10, 2003

Have Presidents in the Past Attended the Funerals of Dead Soldiers? by HNN Staff

Week of October 20, 2003

How Far Back Do Suicide Attacks Go? by Willard Hogeboom

Week of September 29, 2003

Leaks to the Media ... An Old Story? by HNN Staff

Week of September 15, 2003

Why Did California Adopt the Recall? by Joshua Spivak

Week of September 8, 2003

What Is the Difference Between Islam and Islamism? by Melvin E. Matthews, Jr

Week of September 1, 2003

What Is the History of Recall Elections? by Joshua Spivak

Week of July 21, 2003

What Is Medicare? by Will Mallon

Week of July 7, 2003

How Strong Are the Ties that Bind the U.S. and Liberia? This Strong ... by HNN Staff

Week of June 23, 2003

WMD: Where Did the Phrase Come from? by Will Mallon

Week of May 26, 2003

Who Are the Shia? by Paul Sullivan

Week of May 12, 2003

Who Dreamed Up Our Concept of Time? by Derek Alger

Week of April 14, 2003

How Many American Troops Have Died in War? by HNN Staff

Week of March 24, 2003

When Did the Killing of Civilians in War Become Illegal? by Hans J. Morgenthau

Week of March 10, 2003

What You Need to Know About the Kurds by Paul Sullivan

Week of February 3, 2003

Is It Sacajawea or Sacagawea? by Melvin E. Matthews, Jr.

Week of January 6, 2003

How Did the Iraqi Opposition Come into Existence? by Robert Rabil

Week of December 30, 2002

Who Are the Kurds? by Carole A. O'Leary

Week of December 16, 2002

Can Anything Be Done to Increase Voter Participation? by Thomas E. Patterson

Week of December 9, 2002

Why the Re-election of Incumbents Year After Year Is a Threat to Democracy by Thomas Patterson

Week of December 2, 2002

Why Is News So Negative These Days? by Thomas Patterson

Week of November 25, 2002

Why Do So Many Americans Hate Politics? by Thomas Patterson

Week of November 18, 2002

How Many Presidents Have Lied About Their Medical History? by HNN Staff

Where Have All the Voters Gone? by Thomas E. Patterson

Week of November 4, 2002

Did President Bush Have to Submit a National Security Strategy Report to Congress? by John Lewis Gaddis

Week of October 28, 2002

How Many U.S. Senators Have Returned to the Senate After Defeat or Retirement? by Robin Toner

How Did Iraq and the United States Become Enemies? by Robert Buzzanco

Week of October 21, 2002

Are Lame Duck Sessions of Congress Unusual? by Todd S. Purdum

Week of October 14, 2002

Has the U.S. Ever Started a War? by David Greenberg

How Did the Taft-Hartley Act Come About? by Steven Wagner

Week of October 7, 2002

Would Daniel Webster Approve of an Attack on Iraq? by HNN Staff

Week of September 30, 2002

How Did Iraq Come into Being? by Charles Tripp

How Do We Know that Iraq Tried to Assassinate President George H.W. Bush?

Week of September 23, 2002

How Did Afghanistan Receive Its Current Borders? by William F. Shughart II

Week of September 9, 2002

What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter? by HNN Staff

Week of September 2, 2002

Why Did Congress First Meet in New York City? by HNN Staff

Week of August 12, 2002

What Books Are Helpful in Understanding 9-11? by Mike Mattocks

Week of July 29, 2002

What Are the Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. History? by HNN Staff

What Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1987? by Jennifer Itskevich

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