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Week of January 18, 2010

Up Front

Upset! Massachusetts Votes: Republican Scott Brown Elected to the Senate
Bonnie K. Goodman

The Obama Presidency: One Year Later
Bonnie K. Goodman

HNN Poll: What Does the Massachusetts Senate Election Mean?

What in the World is Oliver Stone Talking About?
Eric Kurlander

Haiti's Troubled History with the U.S. and France
Marc Becker

Too Hard for the White Folks? Americans and the Haitian Revolution
Jacqueline Bacon

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman

Hot Topics: Haitian Earthquake

HNN Poll: What Do You Think of the Filibuster?

News at Home

How the Professional Media Creates Its Own Reality
Jack R. Censer and Jerry Prout

Toward a More Complete MLK Day
Simon Balto

Rethinking MLK and Vietnam
Michael H. Carriere

Recovering the Voice of Martin Luther King from 1960
Keith L. Sprunger

News Abroad

Obama Follows Reagan-era Blueprint After Earthquake in Haiti
Alexander Poster

T.E. Lawrence, American Strategist
Daniel Pipes

U.S. Military Escalation in Afghanistan: A Response to President Obama
Richard Drake

How to Teach All Sides of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Without Taking Sides
Donna Robinson Divine

Many Church Leaders Remain Silent While Palestinian Arabs Suffer at the Hands of Muslims
Alex Grobman

Historians & History

Demystifying the Clinton Presidency: An Interview with Historian Taylor Branch
Robin Lindley

New Video from the 1945 Yalta Summit
Steven Lomazow

Books

Review of Mark Frost's and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow's Singapore: A Biography
Rachel Leow

Review of Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
H.G. Callaway

Review of Mark Debeaux's and Jonathan Hafetz's The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law, and Stephen Irving's and Max Schawb's Guantanamo USA: The Untold Story of America's Cuban Outpost
Jeremy Kuzmarov