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HNN Features Articles and Op Eds by Historians
from Both the Left and the Right
Contents: Week of June 7, 2004
Up Front
NEW Ronald Reagan, De-Mythologized Juan Cole
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
Did President Bush Forget About Jesus Day? Matthew Dennis
So President Bush Thinks This is WW II and He's FDR? Phillip Payne
Did Bush Decide to Talk to Outside Counsel Because He's in Legal Hot Water over the Plame Leak? John W. Dean
News Abroad
How We Betrayed Our Own History in Iraq Glenn Melancon
From Normandy to Jihadi Beach Tom Engelhardt
12 Questions for President Bush Chalmers Johnson
Can Vietnam Teach Lessons Useful in Iraq? A Symposium Jamie Glazov, David Kaiser, Stephen J. Morris, Michael Rubin
Historians & History
NEW It's Not PC to Remember the Soviets Lost More Soldiers Breaking the Back of the Nazi Army than We Did Mike Davis
Contents: Week of May 31, 2004
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
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
The Wrong Lessons to Learn from D-Day Christopher Endy
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
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