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2006 Articles Archive

By William Lambers: "The Need to Talk with Iran," [Precedents for nuclear disarmament] (distributed 1/16/06)

By Nancy C. Unger: "After Past Scandals, Real Reforms," [The long-term effects of Gilded Age political scandals] (distributed 1/19/06)

By Howard P. Segal: "What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa," [The creative management of Henry Ford] (distributed 1/23/06)

By Derek Catsam: "Fighting a Cold War Against Osama bin Laden," [Following the example of Dean Acheson] (distributed 1/25/06)

By Laura Browder: "Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition," [False authenticity in American autobiography, from Ben Franklin to James Frey] (distributed 2/14/06)

By Joyce Appleby and Gary Hart: "The Founders Never Imagined a Bush Administration," [The constitutional crisis precipitated by Presdient Bush's actions] (distributed 3/28/06)

By Michael R. Adamson: "Selling Iraq with the Wrong Pitch," [Post-WW II Japan and modern Iraq are not comparable] (distributed 4/11/06)

By Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson: "San Francisco 1906 and Katrina 2005: The Increasing Costs of Unpreparedness," [The need to spend more money on natural disaster protection] (distributed 4/12/06)

By Harvey Simon: "The Dangers - Then and Now - of a Pre-Emptive Strike," [Kennedy and China, Bush and Iran] (distributed 4/13/06)

By Ron Hayduk: "Noncitizens have the obligations of citizens-so why not the right to vote?," [The enfranchisement of immigrants in the 1800s and 1900s] (distributed 4/25/06)

By Ralph E. Shaffer and Walter P. Coombs: "Oh, Say Can You Sing..." [The evolution of the National Anthem] (distributed 5/2/06)

By William Lambers: "What Open Skies Can Do For Chinese-American Relations" [Extending the Open Skies Treaty of 1992] (distributed 5/3/06)

By Saul Cornell: "Reconstructing the Second Amendment" [The history of gun control laws] (distributed 5/7/06)

By Jeffrey Mankoff: "The Lessons of Mr. Polk's War" [The Mexican-American War and the Iraq War compared] (distributed 5/9/06)

By Dino E. Buenviaje: "Strangers in the Land: An Old Theme Replayed" [The history of anti-immigrant rhetoric] (distributed 5/14/06)

By Colin Baxter: "Iraq War a Major Departure in American Foreign Affairs" [Americans' historical reluctance to act preemptively] (distributed 5/19/06)

By Michael Punke: "Written With the Blood of Miners" [The long struggle for safe mining conditions] (distributed 6/12/06)

By Steven Conn: "Which Side Are We On in the Struggle for Women's Freedom?" [The ongoing challenge of gender equity] (distributed 6/19/06)

By Dino E. Buenviaje: "Iran: Still Struggling toward Self-Determination," [The century-long history of Western muddling in Iran] (distributed 6/24/06)

By Daniel Gordon: "The Truth About Capital Punishment: It's Inherently Cruel," [The evolution of the death penalty] (distributed 6/24/06)

By Thomas Michael Holmes: "The Ambiguities of 'Cut and Run'," [Comparing Korea, Vietnam, Beirut, and Iraq] (distributed 7/5/06)

By Harvey Simon: "The Dawn of the Second Cold War," [North Korea and Iran vs. the Soviet Union] (distributed 7/8/06)

By Johann N. Neem: "The Road to a New American Aristocracy," [The importance of estate taxes] (distributed 7/10/06)

By Michael Creswell: "Why Israel's Campaign Will Likely Fail," [Comparing Israel's 1982 and 2006 attacks against Lebanon] (distributed 7/22/06)

By David Carlin: "The World's Longest War," [The eternal struggle between Europe and the Middle East] (distributed 8/8/06)

By Jeff Mankoff: "Calling Al-Qaeda Fascist Doesnt Make It So," [The differences between World War II and the war on terror] (distributed 8/19/06)

By Derek Catsam and Tom Bruscino: "For Iraq, a Lesson from Africa," [Iraq and the Congo] (distributed 8/23/06)

By Nancy C. Unger: "When Principle May Be the Best Policy," [Robert M. Lafollette and other politicians who opposed wars] (distributed 9/1/06)

By Joyce Appleby: "Nationalism in Decline," [The United States in an era of supranationalism] (distributed 9/5/06)

By William Lambers: "Democracy's Vital Ingredient -- Food," [The Marshall Plan and the need for aid to Afghanistan] (distributed 9/15/06)

By Jeffrey Mankoff: "Restoring Russian Support for the War on Terror," [The Russian perspective on the Middle East] (distributed 9/23/06)

By John Weiss: "Why We Should Leave Iraq Now," [Winston Churchill, George W. Bush, and Iraq] (distributed 10/1/06)

By Laura Browder: "Will Women Join the Ranks of Esteemed Veterans?" [Women soldiers in the Civil War, World War II, and Iraq] (distributed 10/4/06)

By Dino E. Buenviaje: "The UN Follows the League's Long Trail to Impotence," [The United Nations and the League of Nations] (distributed 10/24/06)

By Jonathan Coopersmith: "Who Will Pay for Iraq and When?" [How the United States has borne the cost of its wars] (distributed 11/2/06)

By Robert E. Bonner: "Tributes of Silence, the Honor of Words," [Re-imagining Veterans Day] (distributed 11/8/06)

By Derek Catsam: "The Unpredictability of an Unhappy Electorate," [The precedents for and meaning of the recent elections] (distributed 11/15/06)

By Steven Conn: "Democrats -- the Party of Disorder, and Achievement," [The history of Democratic lawmaking] (distributed 11/21/06)

By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: "Kentucky Fried Globalization," [The complexities of the spread of American culture abroad] (distributed 11/27/06)

By Nikolas Kozloff: "An End to Interventionism in Venezuela," [America's history of interference in Venezuela] (distributed 12/1/06)

By David Kaiser: "Is Iraq Vietnam?" [The challenges of nation-building] (distributed 12/7/06)

By Jeff Mankoff: "The Perils of Breaking Away," [Kosovo, Iraq, and the difficulties in creating a new nation] (distributed 12/15/06)

By Jonathan Goldstein: "In Bethlehem, Persisting Hope," [The potential for peace in the Middle East] (distributed 12/16/06)

By Derek Catsam: "In Historical Truths, the Road to an Open Society," [P. W. Botha, Augusto Pinochet, and the importance of truth commissions] (distributed 12/17/06)

By Robert Brent Toplin: "President Bush at His -- and Our -- Crossroads," [The stubbornness of Andrew Johnson and George Bush] (distributed 12/19/06)

By Christopher Bates: "Will Vindication Elude Ford?" [The legacy of Gerald Ford] (distributed 12/28/06)

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.