Letter From The Editor

This afternoon the History News Network site published a statement by Robert A. Schneider, professor of European history at Indiana University and the editor of the American Historical Review.   Regular TNN readers will recall that the AHR is the journal to which...

The “Abuse Of Power” Controversy Goes On

It has been a week since the New York Times published Patricia Cohen’s article about an article which historian Peter D. Klingman submitted to the American Historical Review arguing that University of Wisconsin Professor Stanley I. Kutler’s book of...

Obama Dilemma: Learn From History Or Repeat It?

In today’s column, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann limn the major choice President Obama is about to have to make: President Obama must now decide whether he’ll govern from the center or from the left. President Bill Clinton faced the exact same decision in...

Frost/Nixon Comes To A Small Town

While I’m probably a bit late to this party, the Frost/Nixon movie finally came to my small town of Pres-cut. (That’s the way the natives say it around here. If you pronounce it Prescott, then people ask where you’re from.) Walked away from the...

Over The Moon

Political advance —of which presidential advance is a subset— is an art as well as a science.  It’s not just important to move POTUS from point A to point B in the most efficient and secure way possible.  What he does when he reaches point B is,...

Stephen L. Zetterberg 1916 – 2009

Stephen L. Zetterberg, who ran against RN in 1948 to represent the 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, California. He was 92. His obituary appears in many papers today, among them The New York Times and...