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2000 Articles Archive

Ralph E. Luker: "'Til All the World's an Ebenezer" [on King's Ebenezer Baptist Church] (distributed 1/12/00)

Edward T. O'Donnell: "The Wearing of the Rainbow" [groups in the St. Patrick's Day Parade] (distributed 3/11/00)

Daniel Szechi: "Apologizing for History" [symbolic apologies for historic wrongs] (distributed 3/18/00)

Edward O'Donnel: "Hiding Behind Reform" [nativism disguised as reform] (distributed 3/24/00)

William S. Hammack: "How Clocks Helped Conquer the World" [clocks as tools of conquest by the West] (distributed 3/27/00)

Stephen A. Allen: "Facing Anti-Semitism and American History" [anti-Semitism in the U.S.] (distributed 3/27/00)

Matthew A. Redinger: "The Catholic Voter in the Twentieth Century" [Catholics as a voting bloc] (distributed 3/30/00)

George B. Tindall: "Who's Desecrating the Flag, Anyhow?" [unexpected actions constituting "desecration"] (distributed 3/31/00)

Joseph J. Gonzalez: "Who is responsible for the Elian Gonzalez case?" [ramifications of Gonzalez case and immigration law] (distributed 4/6/00)

Ralph E. Luker: "Spring Marches on Washington" [populist demonstrations in Washington, D.C.] (distributed 4/14/00)

Stephen A. Allen: "Morality and Presidential Elections" [the place of candidates' personal morality in elections] (distributed 4/27/00)

Theodore Kornweibel, Jr.: "Of Bill Gates, Casey Jones, and the Search for Heroes" [the public's incongruous choice of heroes] (distributed 4/30/00)

Henry Butterfield Ryan: "Cuba in Focus--Again" [Elian Gonzalez and the U.S.'s failed Cuba policy] (distributed 5/7/00)

Jodi Vandenberg-Daves: "Million Moms March in Noble Company" [Million Moms March and "maternal politics"] (distributed 5/11/00)

Nikolas K. Gvosdev: "Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia" [Putin's effort to claim ideological links to Thomas Jefferson] (distributed 5/18/00)

Norman Markowitz: "The Politics of Compassion" [George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and "compassionate conservatism"] (distributed 6/15/00)

Ira Chernus: " Legacy of Korean War Still Shapes Our National Myth" [the Korean War and the myths of security and absolute victory ] (distributed, 6/20/00)

Richard Jensen: "Bill Gates -- Another Rockefeller or Another Ford?" [Microsoft and the Sherman Antitrust Act] (distributed 6/23/00)

Gregory L. Kaster: "Hollywood's American Revolution" [Ideology, The American Revolution, and "The Patriot"] (distributed 7/2/00)

Itai Sneh: "Will Fox be a Mexican Jefferson? [Vicente Fox Quesada and a political revolution in Mexico] (distributed 7/9/00)

Alfred L. Brophy: "In Oklahoma, Another Debate About Reparations" [issue of reparations for families of lynching victims] (distributed 7/21/00)

Ross F. Collins: "Dot-Coms and the Great Cattle Die-Off" [comparison of Internet boom of 1990s with cattle boom of 1880s] (distributed 7/26/00)

Ira Chernus: "Jerusalem and the Jewish Future" [the Jewish community and the future of Jerusalem] (distributed 7/29/00)

Uday Mohan and Leo Maley III: "Journalists and the Bomb" [journalists' shifting interpretation of the bombing of Hiroshima] (distributed 8/1/00)

Norman Markowitz: "Is History Really Bunk?" [the History Channel and a lack of historical consciousness among Americans] (distributed 8/5/00)

Norman Markowitz: "The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics" [Cheney and Lieberman in context of vice presidents' traditional succession to the presidency] (distributed 8/5/00)

Nancy C. Unger: "Lessons for the Nader Camp: 'Fighting Bob' La Follette in 1924" [similarities between the Independent campaigns of Nader (2000) and La Follette (1924)] (distributed 8/22/00)

David Greenberg: "The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History" [traditional lack of advocacy of African-American issues by the Republican Party] (distributed 8/29/00)

Stephen A. Allen: "Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up" [electoral maturity seen through Jewish vice-presidential nomination (distributed 9/8/00)

Barbara Keys: "Peace through Olympic Sport?" [potential for the Olympic Games to promote peace and international understanding (distributed 9/12/00)

Itai Sneh: "An October Surprise Again?" [speculation of possibilities of Gore/Bush end-game strategies] (distributed 9/19/00)

R. Jonathan Moore: "Tearing Down the 'Wall of Separation between Church and State'" [historic misinterpretation of the origins of the spearation of Church and State] (distributed 9/21/00)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: "Reframing the Debate on Human Rights in China" [human rights and permanent normal trade relations] (distributed 9/26/00)

Richard D. Friedman: " Windows and the Bench: Microsoft and the Judges" [Microsoft, the Supreme Court, and anti-trust suits] (distributed 9/29/00)

Timothy M. Roberts: "Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?" [the popularity and firing of Bobby Knight compared to Douglas MacArthur] (distributed 10/9/00)

Kevin Smant: "Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative" [Buchanan's populist rhetoric out of step with conservatives] (distributed 10/13/00)

J. Barton Starr: "Let's Hear It for the Losers!" [reminiscences of presidential candidates who came in second] (distributed 10/17/00)

Jonathan Coopersmith: "But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet" [Gore's initiatives which helped shape the development of the Internet] (distributed 10/24/00)

Ira Chernus: "After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes" [Gore, Bush, and the traditional global police power of the U.S.] (distributed 10/30/00)

David S. Foglesong: "The American 'Nation Building' Mission and Russia" [realistic expectations of modernization and Americanization in Russia] (distributed 11/2/00)

Matthew A. Redinger: "Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida" [the place of Florida in the elections of 1876 and 2000] (distributed 11/11/00)

Robert M. Saunders: "Will an Eighteenth-Century Election System Paralyze America in the Twenty-First Century?" [impact of the electoral college on the presidential elections of 2000] (distributed 11/11/00)

Joyce Appleby: "Arguing the Electoral College: Con" [arguments in opposition to the electoral college] (distributed 11/12/00)

James M. Banner, Jr.: "Arguing the Electoral College: Pro" [arguments in favor of the electoral college] (distributed 11/12/00)

Holly Brewer and Laurie Burnham: "Disputed Elections: An American Tradition" [long history of contentious elections and delayed resolutions in American electoral history] (distributed 11/15/00)

James M. Banner, Jr.: "Mexico's Great Transition" [Mexico's momentous peaceful tranfer of power from PRI to PAN] (distributed 11/28/00)

Donald R. Shaffer: "Why We Shouldn't Worry So Much" [court's place in the election of 2000 is no cause for concern] (distributed 11/30/00)

Jon Kukla: "A Time to Listen" [the wisdom of patience in waiting for a just resolution of the election of 2000] (distributed 12/1/00)

Jonathan Zimmerman: "Race and Voting, Past and Present" [when bureaucratic errors have the effect of racial discrimination: the Florida vote] (distributed 12/4/00)

Frank Towers: "Winner of the 2000 Election will be the Reform Movement" [as in election of 1888, electoral reform will result from electoral crisis] (distributed 12/11/00)

Jeffrey J. Matthews: "Leadership and the New Bush Administration" [history of presidential leadership without clear mandates] (distributed 12/19/00)

Ira Chernus: "Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict" [Chanukah, oppressed peoples, and the current Mideast conflict] (distributed 12/19/00)

Bruce Craig: "For History's Sake, Preserve Florida's Presidential Ballots" [recommendation that Florida ballots go to National Archives] (distributed 12/21/00)

Pictured at top (left to right): Pope Urban II orders the First Crusade, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sacajawea, William Jennings Bryan, part of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates.