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1998 Articles Archive

Stephen A. Allen: "Abortion, History, and the Beginning of Life" [Roe v. Wade and the the timing of the beginning of life] (distributed 1/28/98)

Robert S. McElvaine: "Another Watergate?" [Clinton and Nixon scandals] (distributed 2/11/98)

John F. Marszalek: "The Long Tradition of White House Sex Scandals" [presidential sex scandals through history] (distributed 2/19/98)

Clark Davis: "Downsizing Becomes Normal" [corporate downsizing] (distributed 4/15/98)

Daniel Szechi: "Ending the War in Northern Ireland" [the war and the peace process] (distributed 4/22/98)

John H. Summers: "The Politics of Civility" [civility and political journalism] (distributed 5/21/98)

Ira Chernus: "Time to Question the Nuclear Myth" [the myth of Cold War nuclear stability] (distributed 6/10/98)

James M. Banner, Jr.: "Free Speech: Still Under Threat" [library censorship and muzzled criticism] (distributed 6/24/98)

Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan: "Second-Guessing Hiroshima?" [reexamining the decision to bomb Hiroshima] (distributed 7/29/98)

Alvin Finkel: "The Lessons of Munich" [appeasement and strange alliances] (distributed 9/9/98)

Michael D. Richards: "Germany after Kohl" [the future of modern Germany] (distributed 9/30/98)

Theodore Kornweibel, Jr.: "President's Commission on Race a Failure" [presidential race commissions' traditions of failure to bring change] (distributed 9/30/98)

Sean McDougall: "Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics" [the Irish peace process] (distributed 10/15/98)

Robert Brent Toplin: "Can the Global Economic Crisis of the Nineties Lead to Another Great Depression?" [economic crisis and historical context] (distributed 10/21/98)

Stephen A. Allen: "The Catholic Church and the Holocaust" [Catholic Church's degree of responsibility] (distributed 10/29/98)

Robert S. McElvaine: "History of Sixth-Year Elections Bodes Well for Democrats" [Democrats and the election of 1998] (distributed 11/5/98)

Donald R. Shaffer: "Why Clinton Will Survive" [president's relationship with moderate Republicans] (distributed 11/5/98)

Jay Sharp: "The 'First' First Thanksgiving" [alternative theories of the first Thanksgiving] (distributed 11/18/98)

Norman Markowitz: "Sex Scandals and U.S. History" [chronicles scandals throughout U.S. history] (distributed 11/19/98)

Kevin Smant: "The History of the 'Right Wing Conspiracy'" [Democrats' efforts to identify conspiracy in the past] (distributed 12/11/98)

Daniel Szechi: "Uneasy Lies the Head that Sleeps in the White House" [regicide and the Clinton impeachment] (distributed 12/21/98)

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, Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates.