Tulane: Caught in the Middle of a Disaster

HNN, 9-02-05 Tulane: Caught in the Middle of a Disaster By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an Assistant Editor at HNN. This past week hurricane Katrina ripped through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama with New Orleans suffering some of the worst devastation as water levels rose throughout the city, [...]

Q & A: Did Republicans Apply an Ideological Test to Bill Clinton’s Supreme Court Nominees?

HNN, 7-25-05 Did Republicans Apply an Ideological Test to Bill Clinton’s Supreme Court Nominees? By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an Assistant Editor at HNN. Even before he selected Appellate Court Judge John G. Roberts for the Supreme Court President Bush argued that any person he nominated would [...]

Where History is Making News Around the World

HNN, 7-11-05 Where History is Making News Around the World By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an Assistant Editor at HNN. If history doesn’t really matter, as so many people, taking their cue from Henry Ford, seem to believe, what do they make of all the events in [...]

Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman: Interviewed on C-SPAN

HNN, 6-28-05 Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman: Interviewed on C-SPAN By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an Assistant Editor at HNN. Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman said on C-Span’s “Q&A” that they welcomed the recent press coverage concerning the liberal accusation that as Republicans they are pushing forth [...]

Q & A: How did the Present Alternative Minimum Tax come into Existence?

HNN, 6-20-05 How did the Present Alternative Minimum Tax come into Existence? By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an Assistant Editor at HNN. Why are more and more people having to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)? And what is it? This controversial tax was enacted as part [...]

Deep Throat Revealed: Historians’ Comments

HNN, 6-03-05 Deep Throat Revealed: Historians’ Comments By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an Assistant Editor at HNN. This past week it was revealed that W. Mark Felt, the second in command at the F.B.I. during the Nixon Administrstion, admitted in a Vanity Fair magazine interview that he [...]

Interview with Michael J. Klarman, Winner of the 2005 Bancroft Prize

HNN, 4-18-05 Interview with Michael J. Klarman, Winner of the 2005 Bancroft Prize By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. Michael J. Klarman, the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of History at the University of Virginia, recently won the 2005 Bancroft Prize for From [...]

What Historians Are Saying About the Pope: Excerpts

HNN, 4-06-05 What Historians Are Saying About the Pope: Excerpts By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. FACTS • Pope John Paul II, the 264th Pope, was elected on October 16, l978. He was the first-ever Slavic pope and the first non-Italian Pope in 455 years, [...]

Why Is the OAH Moving Its Convention from San Francisco to San Jose?

HNN, 2-21-05 Why Is the OAH Moving Its Convention from San Francisco to San Jose? By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. On February 15th the Organization of American Historians issued a press release indicating that officials had finally decided to move the 98th annual conference [...]

Q & A: What Did Condi Rice’s Nomination in the 21st Century Have in Common with Henry Clay’s in the 19th?

HNN, 2-14-05 What Did Condi Rice’s Nomination in the 21st Century Have in Common with Henry Clay’s in the 19th? By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. On January 26, 2005 history was made when the Senate confirmed Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state by a [...]

Interview with Kevin Boyle, Winner of the National Book Award

HNN, 1-24-05 Interview with Kevin Boyle, Winner of the National Book Award By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. Kevin Boyle, a professor of history at Ohio State University, recently won the National Book Award (non-fiction) for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, [...]

What Historians Thought of President Bush’s 2nd Inaugural Address: Excerpts

HNN, 1-22-05 What Historians Thought of President Bush’s 2nd Inaugural Address: Excerpts By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. Allan Lichtman (Presidential Historian, Professor of History American University) • “It’s one of the most ringing endorsements of American intervention in American history… There’s no limit to [...]

Q & A: How Have Wartime Inaugurations Been Handled in the Past?

HNN, 1-17-05 How Have Wartime Inaugurations Been Handled in the Past? By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. Looking at earlier wartime inaugurations the trend was toward simple ceremonies such as James Madison’s in 1813, Abraham Lincoln’s in 1865, Woodrow Wilson’s in 1917, Franklin Roosevelt’s in [...]

Has Scandal Taken Its Toll on Joseph Ellis?

HNN, 11-21-04 Has Scandal Taken Its Toll on Joseph Ellis? By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern. On October 26, 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning historian Joseph Ellis’s latest work, His Excellency, George Washington, was released. The book, which focuses on Washington’s flaws, is the first Ellis [...]

Highlights of Election Night 2004 (Featuring Historians’ Commentary)

HNN, 11-05-04 Highlights of Election Night (Featuring Historians’ Commentary) By Bonnie Goodman Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an HNN intern The Electoral College • George W. Bush: 286, Number of States: 31 • John F. Kerry: 252, Number of States: 20 The Popular Vote • George W. Bush: 59,459,765 (51% [...]