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2002 Articles Archive

Norman Markowitz: "Why an Intelligence Inquiry Is Needed" [calls for investigation and reform of intelligence community] (distributed 1/8/02)

Nancy C. Unger: "Television Biography: History Lite" [the limits of popular biography in explaining historical figures] (distributed 1/17/02)

Ira Chernus: "Which Martin Luther King to Honor?" [complicated place of MLK in current, post 9/11 mentality] (distributed 1/21/02)

Andrew M. Schocket: "Enron's Collapse Follows a Familiar Pattern" [the intimate relationship between huge corporations and Washington D.C.] (distributed 1/24/02)

Seth Rockman: "Economic Justice -- in the Streets" [past expressions of public outrage in the aftermath of corporate malfeasance] (distributed 2/7/02)

Nikki R. Keddie: "War Without End Brings Endless Dangers" [the "axis of evil" rhetoric, and the real threats of an endless conflict] (distributed 2/21/02)

Peter Maguire: "War Crimes: The 'New Era' Looks Like the Old" [Milosevic's war crimes trial and today's double standard of international crime] (distributed 2/25/02)

Norman Markowitz: "When the Axis Was Truly Evil" [the danger of "crying wolf" in the use of "axis" rhetoric] (distributed 2/25/02)

Andrew M. Schocket: "The Hidden Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform" [bill weakens parties while strengthening interest groups] (distributed 3/22/2)

Cheryl Koos: "Far Right's Electoral Success in France has Deep History" [background for France's historic vote] (distributed 5/2/02)

Robert L. Tignor: "Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization" [the Middle Eastern crisis in the context of the late-twentieth century end of the colonial era] (distributed 5/6/02)

William Lambers: "Arms Reductions: An Approach that Has Worked" [1817 Anglo-American arms accords as model for US-Russian relations] (distributed 5/25/02)

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: "New Protests in China Won't Be the Last" [thirteenth anniversary of Tienanmen Square Massacre and continuing problems in China] (distributed 5/31/02)

Sam Wineburg: "History Teaching: Still Crazy After All These Years" [low scores on high school History exams and the methods of teaching History] (distributed 5/31/02)

William C. Kashatus: "The Changing Symbolism of Old Glory" [tradition and meaning of displaying the United States flag] (distributed 6/7/02)

Robert Brent Toplin: "Brazil's Soccer Mania: An Example for the World" [World Cup soccer as catalyst for social and political change] (distributed 7/1/02)

Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Anthony A. Cipriano: "A New Resource in the War Against Terrorism?" [the proposed use of privateers in the war against terrorism] (distributed 7/9/02)

Robert Brent Toplin: "A New Deal Prescription for Gordon Gekko" [governmental regulation of business from the New Deal] (distributed 7/22/02)

Norman Markowitz: "Time to End Deregulation" [New Deal policies, and attitudes, might subdue the Enrons of today] (distributed 7/24/02)

Andrew M. Schocket: "Our Federal Government: Still for Sale" [Current corporate corruption scandal finds corellation in Gilded Age politics] (distributed 7/31/02)

Andrew M. Schocket: "America Needs New Words on Sept. 11" [political leaders' use of historic words on the anniversary of September 11] (distributed 8/26/02)

Ira Chernus: "Yom Kippur: A First Step to Peace" [historical and current contexts of the Day of Atonement] (distributed 9/10/02)

Itai Sneh: "Meddlers Hamstring Iraq Policy" [comments by such practitioners of realpolitik as Zbigniew Brzezinski are inappropriate in current war crisis] (distributed 9/13/02)

Joyce Appleby: "The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War" [the erosion, in recent history, of Congress's constitutional power to declare war] (distributed 9/23/02)

Donald R. Shaffer: "Remember the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" [cautions arising from the Vietnam experience about providing the president a "blank check"] (distributed 9/26/02)

Ira Chernus: "Bush's Road Leads Back to Rome's Empire" [correlations between the Roman Republic's sacrifice of republican virtue for empire and the war on Iraq] (distributed 10/8/02)

Itai Sneh: "The Nobel Committee Speaks to America" [Jimmy Carter's Nobel Prize came with a pointed message about American unilateralism attached to it] (distributed 10/17/02)

Henry Butterfield Ryan: "Regime Change: New Name, Dangerous Old Policy" [the history of U.S.-sponsored regime change in the 20th century makes current policy risky] (distributed 10/21/02)

Michael D. Richards: "Playing Fast and Loose with Historical Analogies" [the use and abuse of historical analogies in the current crisis with Iraq] (distributed 10/22/02)

Robert Brent Toplin: "War with Iraq: The Movie" [fears that moral certainty of "High Noon" will bring massed opposition as in "A Fistful of Dollars"] (distributed 10/24/02)

Ira Chernus: "The National Insecurity State" [the Bush administration's effort to foster a permanent sense of peril to justify military expenditures] (11/1/02)

Joyce Appleby: "An Historic Question: Over There or Over Here?" [a fundamental issue faces the nation: whether to oversee the world or perfect democracy at home] (distributed 11/4/02)

Michael D. Richards: "Policies for the Fearful: Rollback Then, Regime Change Now" ["Rollback" and "Regime Change"--both ill-advised uses of blunt force] (distributed 11/13/02)

Timothy Walch: "Now, About that First Thanksgiving Dinner..." [myth is oftern more important than fact concerning the first Thanksgiving] (distributed 11/21/02)

Matthew Levinger: "The Enduring Lesson of Sarajevo" [1914, unintended consequences, and the impending war on Iraq] (12/4/02)

Ralph E. Luker: "Trent Lott Should Be History" [senator's comments were not merely a slip of the tongue] (distributed 12/11/02)

Margaret DeLacy: "Voluntary Vaccination: Deciding the Risk of Unknowable Danger" [the inherent dangers of both smallpox and its vaccination] (12/16/02)

Robert Bonner: "Trent Lott and the Collapse of Southern Mythology" [the "Lost Cause" and the myths of Confederate heroism] (distributed 12/25/02)

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