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2004 Articles Archive

Michael Bellesisles: "Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well," [The problems of rewarding scholars who make their research useful to "national needs"] (distributed 1/4/04)

John C. Pinheiro: "Getting Away from the "Quagmire" Cliché," [Iraq, Vietnam, and the Mexican War] (distributed 1/4/04)

Ralph E. Luker: "King in Time; King in time," [A look back at Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 75th anniversary of his birth] (distributed 1/18/04)

Max Paul Friedman: "The Guantanamo Camps: a Mistake Repeated," [The story of several thousand German immigrants "captured" in Latin America] (distributed 1/18/04)

Timothy Walch: "Cheney: Silent Partner to the President," [The increased significance of the vice-presidency] (distributed 1/22/04)

Ira Chernus: "The Danger of Scaring the Voters," [JFK's 1960 campaign strategy] (distributed 1/26/04)

Alice L. George: "Mars: A Planet Too Far?," [George Bush's Mars proposal compared to JFK's moon proposal] (distributed 1/28/04)

Jeffrey J. Matthews: "How Dean Followed in Goldwater's Steps," [The risks and rewards of striking a stringent tone in politics] (distributed 1/31/04)

Jonathan Coopersmith: "No Cheap Ticket to Outer Space," [George Bush's history of bold but underfunded proposals] (distributed 2/1/04)

Maarja Krusten: "Will There Be a Last Nixon Cover-Up?," [The transfer of the Nixon tapes from the National Archives to the Nixon Library] (distributed 2/5/04)

Lawrence S. Wittner: "What About the WMDs that DO Exist?" [The United States' nuclear stockpile] (distributed 2/8/04)

James McWilliams: "Marcus Dixon or Strom Thurmond: Which Is the Predator?" [A history of racial stereotyping in the South] (distributed 2/13/04)

William Lambers: "Will the United States Start a New Nuclear Arms Race?" [Comparing the nuclear weapons policies of the Bush and Eisenhower administrations] (distributed 2/25/04)

John Fea: "Celebrating the 'Seussentennial'" [The values underlying the work of Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel] (distributed 2/25/04)

William C. Kashatus: "History Through a Faith-Based Lens," [Defending Mel Gibson's Interpretation of the Gospels] (distributed 2/26/04)

Stacy Bergstrom Haldi: "Why We Need to Rearm Iraq," [The problems created by failing to rearm South Korea] (distributed 3/2/04)

Andrew M. Schocket: "An Immigrant in the White House? But Will It Be Arnold?" [The sometimes unintended consequences of changing the Constitution] (distributed 3/10/04)

Lawrence S. Wittner: "The Two Sides of the Nuclear Coin," [U.S. must take the lead in disarming nuclear weapons] (distributed 3/17/04)

Murray Polner: "Cracking Down on Dissent" [The renewed threats to civil liberties] (distributed 4/7/04)

Robert E. May: "When America Was Considered a Rogue Nation" [The filibusterers of the 19th century] (distributed 4/9/04)

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev: "The Return of the Mercenary" [The use of mercenaries in warfare] (distributed 4/20/04)

By Philip Gerard: "When the Cry Was 'Over the Hill in October!'" [The challenges of extending soldiers' commitments] (distributed 4/30/04)

By William Kashatus: "The Long-Term Legacies of Brown v. Board," [The continued struggle to provide equal educational opportunities] (distributed 5/7/04)

By Michael D. Richards and Jeffrey E. Key: "Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines," [Iraq, Vietnam, and the Spanish-American War] (distributed 5/12/04)

By Michael S. Foley: "The Political Costs of Filling the Ranks," [Vietnam and the challenges of maintaining troop strength] (distributed 5/14/04)

By Hal Hellman: "Back to the Future With Thomas A. Edison," [An energy-saving alternative from the 19th century] (distributed 5/20/04)

By Christopher Endy: "We Didn't Go It Alone in 1944," [Multinational Participation in the D-Day Invasion] (distributed 6/1/04)

By Shawn McHale: "Torture in Iraq: Lessons from Algeria," [The French Experience with Torture] (distributed 6/3/04)

By Christopher Bates: "Measuring Reagan for Greatness," [Ranking Reagan among U.S. Presidents] (distributed 6/9/04)

By Otis L. Graham, Jr.: "Behind the Reagan Myths, a Mediocre Presidency," [Reagan overrated as president] (distributed 6/15/04)

By Adina Back: "The Unfinished Business of School Desegregation," [On the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board, de facto desegregation still exists] (distributed 6/22/04)

By Andrew J. Bacevich: "Fighting a War in Name Only," [The war on terror compared to World War II] (distributed 6/27/04)

By David E. Kyvig: "The Gay-Marriage Amendment: A Danger to the Constitution," [Unintended consequences of Constitutional Amendments] (distributed 6/15/04)

By Robert David Johnson: "What's a Convention For, Any More?" [The irrelevance of the modern-day political convention] (distributed 7/6/04)

By Robert David Johnson: "Could We Postpone the Election -- Even If We Wanted To?" [The power of the states to control elections] (distributed 7/20/04)

By Elliott Young: "What's Really At Stake in the Venezuelan Election," [Hugo Chavez, Juan Peron, and U.S. support for democracies abroad] (distributed 8/8/04)

By Yanek Mieczkowski: "The Forgotten Virtues of Gerald Ford," [Coping with divisiveness in politics] (distributed 8/17/04)

By Matthew Levinger: "Nation-Building Demands Heavy Lifting," [The recostruction of Germany and Japan compared to Iraq] (distributed 8/17/04)

By Robert E. May: "When "Sensitivity" Has Opened the Road to Victory," [Lincoln, FDR, Eisenhower and their approach to defeated enemies] (distributed 8/24/04)

By Robert S. McElvaine: "Bush: Gaining on James Buchanan for Last Place," [George W. Bush shaky record as president] (distributed 9/20/04)

By Ian C. Friedman: "What Can Happen when Bush Meets Kerry," [The history of presidential debates] (distributed 9/30/04)

By Richard Labunski: "When Congress Tampers with the Court's Independence," [Congress should not wield its power to limit the Supreme Court's jurisdiction] (distributed 10/01/04)

By William Lambers: "'Open Skies' for India and Pakistan?," [Using a 1950s idea to solve a modern-day problem] (distributed 10/08/04)

Robert S. McElvaine: "Can Bush out-Hoover Hoover?" [Comparing the election of 1932 and the election of 2004] (distributed 10/18/04)

By Peter B. Levy: "He's Just a Prez Who Can't Say No," [President Bush and the veto] (distributed 10/18/04)

By Stephen A. Allen: "Shooting the Wounded: What Are the Rules Now?" [Civilized warfare and terrorists] (distributed 11/24/04)

Pictured at top (left to right): 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, Bill Gates.