HNN Feature Articles - Week of April 26, 2004

HNN Features Articles and Op Eds by Historians from both the Left and the Right

News Abroad - Custer The Alamo Iraq 2004 - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Author Tom Engelhardt grapples with the issues of mercenaries, contract armies, and the effectiveness of brute force in Iraq.
http://hnn.us/articles/4860.html

News at Home - Why You Shouldn't Pay Much Attention to Those Bush Poll Numbers - (Found June 24, 2008 )

P.M. Carpenter is back with his weekly column. This week he contends that the still strong support for Bush in the polls is simply the public being behind the times as far as the reality of the political and economic situation in the country.
http://hnn.us/articles/4852.html

News at Home - The Democrats' Wendell Willkie - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Ashland University Professor John Moser compares John Kerry to Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate against FDR in 1940.
http://hnn.us/articles/4760.html

News at Home - An Historian's Take on Outsourcing - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Political History writer Robert Mutch believes that outsourcing is the economic equivalent of time travel--it allows American industry to utilize nineteenth century labor.
http://hnn.us/articles/4829.html

News at Home - Why Powell Should Resign - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Author Stanley Kutler suggests that Secretary Powell should resign because he was kept "out of the loop" regarding the Iraq war and has now been put in a situation where has must defend a conflict which was started at odds with his own political beliefs.
http://hnn.us/articles/4858.html

News at Home - Why Vietnam Haunts the Debate Over Iraq - (Found June 24, 2008 )

Yale Political Scientist David Greenberg explains why the "Vietnam Syndrome" forces Americans to remain ambivalent about military action despite all the successful military campaigns since.
http://hnn.us/articles/4779.html

HNN Blogs - Thomas C. Reeves - (Found June 24, 2008 )

An HNN Blog run Thomas C. Reeves, a Senior Fellow of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.
http://hnn.us/blogs/22.html