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2007 Articles Archive

By Randal Maurice Jelks: "Martin Luther King's True Legacy: Revolutionary Ideals," [The radicalism of Martin Luther King, Jr.] (distributed 1/8/07)

By John R. Bawden: "The Costs of Intervention," [Iraq and American intervention in Nicaragua in the 1920s] (distributed 1/17/07)

By Matthew Pinsker: "Coming: Something New in Presidents," [How the leading candidates differ from past White House occupants] (distributed 2/15/07)

By Randal Maurice Jelks: "Memorandum to Sen. Obama: How to Run," [The lessons of Harold Washington's political career] (distributed 2/20/07)

By Nancy C. Unger: "It's Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter," [Frank Kameny, gay rights pioneer] (distributed 2/27/07)

By Steve Estes: "Time to Ask and Tell!" [Gay veterans from World War II to the present] (distributed 3/15/07)

By Jonathan Goldstein: "A Peace Plan That May Be Worse Than War," [The Saudi Plan for peace in Israel] (distributed 3/22/07)

By William C. Kashatus: "Living Up to Jackie Robinson," [Jackie Robinson compared to modern baseball players] (distributed 4/11/07)

By Steven Conn: "Why the Great Plains Are Dying," [John Wesley Powell's unheeded warnings about the environment] (distributed 4/16/07)

By Michael Punke: "Why the Buffalo Still Roam," [George Bird Grinnell as a model for today's environmental movement] (distributed 4/17/07)

By Daniel Gordon: "Theater of Cruelty," [The national debate on abortion] (distributed 4/25/07)

By Jeremy Cameron Young: "France Views America: Friend, Rival, or Both?" [Franco-American relations since 1776] (distributed 5/1/07)

By Todd DePastino: "A Day for Remembering -- and Accepting Responsibility," [Lucian Truscott's 1945 Memorial Day speech] (distributed 5/12/07)

By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: "Survivor: The Chinese Communist Party," [The world's last major Communist nation] (distributed 5/23/07)

By Nancy C. Unger: "Passive Citizenship is Not Enough," [The lesson of the Progressives] (distributed 5/29/07)

By John Fea: "Democrats Revive Our Civic-Religious Traditions," [The role of religion in American politics] (distributed 6/9/07)

By Elliott Young: "The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers," [The federal government's role in controlling laborers] (distributed 6/30/07)

By Thomas A. Foster: "Hatred Aimed at Gays Hurts All," [Homophobia in historical context] (distributed 7/5/07)

By Joyce Appleby: "When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right," [Brown v. Board of Education and Williams v. California] (distributed 7/10/07)

By Catherine Allgor: "The Power of the Pedestal," [Lady Bird Johnson: An Appreciation] (distributed 7/17/07)

By Robert Brent Toplin: "Avoiding Market Meltdowns," [The importance of government management of the economy] (distributed 8/19/07)

By Joyce Appleby: "Let's Do Something Constitutional on Constitution Day," [Congress and the War in Iraq] (distributed 9/5/07)

By John Fea: "Those Who Abuse the Past Are Bound to Misunderstand It," [Christianity and the founding of the United States] (distributed 9/18/07)

By Joyce Appleby: "Democracy by force, or by example?" [American efforts to spread democracy, in 2007 and in 1824] (distributed 9/25/07)

By Paul Finkelman: "From King George the Third to the Third President George: Mercenaries are Still a Bad Idea," [Mercenary soldiers in American history] (distributed 9/28/07)

By Shannon Monaghan: "Churchill on Iraq: "Living on an Ungrateful Volcano," [George Bush, Winston Churchill, and Iraq] (distributed 10/1/07)

By Gabrielle Hecht: "Contradictions in Atomic Agency's Mandate," [Iran's nuclear program and the International Atomic Energy Agency] (distributed 10/3/07)

By Hal Brands: "Vietnam and Iraq: The Benefits of Getting Out," [The costs and benefits of leaving Iraq] (distributed 10/4/07)

By Ken Hughes: "Don't Believe 'Peace Is at Hand'" [Iraq and the end of the Vietnam War] (distributed 10/20/07)

By Colin Fisher: "San DiegoÕs Natural Disaster WasnÕt Entirely Natural" [The political and human mistakes that contributed to the San Diego fires] (distributed 10/27/07)

By Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan: "Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima" [The death of Paul Tibbets, Jr. who piloted the Enola Gay] (distributed 11/2/07)

By William Lambers: "We Cannot Afford to Neglect Nuclear Disarmament" [The members of the "nuclear club" must work together] (distributed 11/4/07)

By Jeremy Cameron Young: "Why Al - and many others - choose not to run" [The diminishing power of the presidency] (distributed 11/11/07)

By Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson: "Joe McCarthy Rides Again" [Jane Harman's "Thought Police" bill] (distributed 11/13/07)

By Maarja Krusten: "New Laws Needed to Stop Bullying of National Archives" [Presidential pressure on national archivists] (distributed 11/15/07)

By Johann N. Neem: "The Peril of Absolute Power" [The importance of international cooperation] (distributed 11/24/07)

By Steven Conn: "The 'Wall of Separation' Has Preserved Religion -- Including Mormonism" [Mitt Romney, and the importance of keeping church and state separate] (distributed 12/10/07)

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.