HNN Rundowns
Week of March 15, 2010
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Polls: What are the Pros and Cons of Texas's New History Curriculum?
HNN Hot Topics: Texas's History Curriculum
HNN Hot Topics: Saint Patrick's Day
HNN Hot Topics: Women's History Month
HNN Saint Patrick's Day Special: Immigrants in America
The Wearing of the Green
Christopher Shannon
Mexican War Traitor, Hero, and Irishman: The Three Faces of John Riley
Peter F. Stevens
A Discussion on Irish Immigrants in America with Timothy Meagher
Jill O'Neill
Immigrant Loyalties During the Great War and Today
David Laskin
The Saga of the Warner Brothers, Hollywood's Studio Family
Thomas Doherty
News at Home
The Texas State Board of Education’s Reasons for Elevating Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson
John Willingham
The Seneca Nation's Cigarette Fight With New York State
Matthew Dennis
The Tea Party Movement Has Deep American Roots
Louise Knight
News Abroad
The American Insurgency in Iraq?
Priya Satia
Inside the Sit-Ins Against U.S. Military Expansion on Okinawa
Kikuno Yumiko
Books
Review of Hirosoki Kuromiya's Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s
James G. Ryan
Week of March 8, 2010
Up Front
How Zoroastrianism Influences the Worldview of Iran's Leadership
Juan Cole
A Critique of Peter Kuznick's Interview with HNN
Ron Radosh
History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Polls: Should the House Pass a Resolution Recognizing the Armenian Genocide?
HNN Polls: Does Economics Explain "Social Reality" More Simply than History?
HNN Hot Topics: Armenian Holocaust
HNN Hot Topics: Women's History Month
HNN Hot Topics: Saint Patrick's Day
News at Home
Dismantling SUNY, America's Largest Public University System
Lawrence S. Wittner
Getting Gun History Right
Saul Cornell
The Texas State Board of Education and the Vindication of Joe McCarthy
John Willingham
News Abroad
Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: An Interview with Kim Dong-choon
Mark Selden
Why Saladin Continues to Captivate the Arab World
Jonathan Phillips
Historians & History
Decline of a Great Power?
Robert Brent Toplin
Women's History and a Woman's Subtle Power
Catherine Allgor
Oliver Stone's Secret History: An Interview with Peter Kuznick
Dave Lieberson
Culture Watch
Could Gerard Depardieu Play Marcus Garvey?
Colin Grant
Books
Review of Edward Buscombe's The Searchers
Kirk Bane
Review of In Sisterhood: The History of Camp 2 of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, edited by Kimberly L. Metcalfe
Wesley Hogan
Week of March 1, 2010
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Women's History Month
HNN Hot Topics: Saint Patrick's Day
HNN Hot Topics: Book of the Month
HNN Hot Topics: Website of the Month
News at Home
Choking Off Our Past by Cutting Preservation
Ed Hooper
Obama Isn't the First Male Feminist
Arianne Chernock
Texas State Board of Education Tries to Dilute History of Women, Minorities
John Willingham
News Abroad
The China We're Stuck With
Warren I. Cohen
With a Free Enterprise Vietnam, Who Really Won the War?
William Thompson
Historians & History
Channelling George Washington: Presidents Criticizing Presidents
Thomas Fleming
The 240th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
Richard Archer
Big Tobacco and the Historians
Jon Wiener
The Forgotten Washington Race War of 1919
Rawn James Jr.
How Thomas Jefferson's Wartime Record Shaped His Life
Michael Kranish
Culture Watch
Lone Star: Discovering the Music of Sam Baker
Jim Cullen
Books
Review of William L. O'Neill's A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001
Ron Briley
Review of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall: A Novel
Jim Cullen
Week of February 22, 2010
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Black History Month
HNN Hot Topics: Women's History Month
News at Home
Channelling George Washington: The Imperial Congress
Thomas Fleming
The Faculty Mental Health Story That’s Being Missed After the Huntsville Massacre
Heather Munro Prescott
The Texas State Board of Education's Attempt to Christianize the Founders
John Willingham
The Manhattan Declaration and "Traditional" Marriage
David Lee McMullen
Criticism of Obama Mirrors That of FDR
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Is Michelle Obama the Ultimate Insider?
Kenneth Weisbrode
News Abroad
How the Russians View Abraham Lincoln
William G. Shade
The (Very) French Argument against Google Books
Christine S. Haynes
Historians & History
Lenin's Brother: An Interview with Philip Pomper
Aaron Leonard
William Kunstler: The Lawyer Who Disturbed the Universe
Ron Briley
Books
Review of Ken Auletta's Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
Jim Cullen
Review of Robert V. Well's Life Flows On in Endless Song
Ron Briley
Week of February 15, 2010
Up Front
Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Presidents' Day
HNN Hot Topics: Black History Month
News at Home
How the Modern Day Tea Partiers Missed the Message of 1773
Jim Sleeper
Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Partisanship
Bryan DuBose Peery
News Abroad
George Galloway and the Left’s Unholy Alliance
Richard L. Cravatts
Jack London, Asian Wars and the "Yellow Peril"
Daniel A. Métraux
"Secret" 1965 Memo Reveals Plans to Keep U.S. Bases and Nuclear Weapons Options in Okinawa After Reversion
Steve Rabson
Historians & History
Interview with Gordon S. Wood
Jill O'Neill
The Return of Staughton Lynd
David Waldstreicher
Remembering the Late J.R. Pole
Joyce Appleby
Books
Review of John Milton Cooper's Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
Luther Spoehr
Review of Douglas Cazaux Sackman's Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America
Tony Platt
Week of February 8, 2010
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Black History Month
News at Home
Channelling George Washington: The Role of the Presidency
Thomas Fleming
Obama and U.S. Foreign Policy
K.C. Johnson
Liberals Get a War President of Their Very Own
Murray Polner
The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression
Robert E. Wright
News Abroad
“Confucius” and “Avatar” at the Chinese Multiplex
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Who Was Stepan Bandera?
Norman J.W. Goda
Historians & History
The Howard Zinn I Remember
Staughton Lynd
Living in the Eighties: Moving Beyond the Gilded Age Versus Golden Age Paradigm
Gil Troy and Vincent J. Cannato
Preserving the Golden Rule as a Piece of Anti-Nuclear History
Lawrence S. Wittner
Why Knowing More About FDR's Health Matters
Steven Lomazow
Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway: A Story of Two Political Women
Kristie Miller and Robert McGinnis
Stealing the First Amendment from the People
Matthew E. Crow
Books
Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor's Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness
Renee Romano
Review of Michael Fellman's In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Week of February 1, 2010
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Black History Month
HNN Hot Topics: Important State of the Union Addresses in History
HNN Poll: Rate Obama's State of the Union!
News at Home
Channelling George Washington: Campaign Finance
Thomas Fleming
Presidential Inaugurations from Washington to Obama
Sandra Moats
Once Again the State of the Union Makes a President Strong
Gil Troy
News Abroad
Missteps on Afghanistan
William R. Polk
The Smallest Army Imaginable
C. Douglas Lummis
Historians & History
America the Awful - Howard Zinn's History
Ron Ronash
Thank You, Howard Zinn!
Ron Briley
Black Loyalists in the American Revolution
John J. McLaughlin
Howard Zinn's Disputed Legacy
Michael Honey
Hans Trefousse: A Scholar and a Gentleman
Paul A. Thomsen and Joshua Spivak
Inspired by John Gunther: An Interview with Mark Weisenmiller
Aaron Leonard
The Last of the Doughboys
David Laskin
Books
Review of Matthew B. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
James Livingston
Review of Stephen H. Norwood's The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses
Andrew Feffer
Week of January 25, 2010
Up Front
Upset! Massachusetts Votes: Republican Scott Brown Elected to the Senate
Bonnie K. Goodman
The Obama Presidency: One Year Later
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Poll: What Does the Massachusetts Senate Election Mean?
Hot Topics: Haitian Earthquake
HNN Special: Liberals Respond to Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism
Introduction
David Neiwert
The Scholarly Flaws of Liberal Fascism
Robert O. Paxton
An Academic Book - Not!
Roger Griffin
Poor Scholarship, Wrong Conclusions
Matthew Feldman
The Roots of Liberal Fascism: The Book
Chip Berlet
News at Home
Driving From the Center
Gil Troy
"Hands off My Medicare": The Deadly Legacy of Social Insurance
Colin Gordon
News Abroad
Haiti's Curse
Claire Robertson
Replacing International Oppression with International Aid
Lawrence S. Wittner
Charter 08: A New Beginning for Chinese Liberalism
Feng Chongyi
Historians & History
Interview with AHA President-elect Anthony Grafton
Jill O'Neill
What in the World is Oliver Stone Talking About?
Eric Kurlander
Books
Review of How They See Us: Meditations on America, edited by James Atlas
Jim Cullen
Review of Gordon Wood's Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1780-1815
Jim Cullen
Week of January 18, 2010
Up Front
Upset! Massachusetts Votes: Republican Scott Brown Elected to the Senate
Bonnie K. Goodman
The Obama Presidency: One Year Later
Bonnie K. Goodman
HNN Poll: What Does the Massachusetts Senate Election Mean?
What in the World is Oliver Stone Talking About?
Eric Kurlander
Haiti's Troubled History with the U.S. and France
Marc Becker
Too Hard for the White Folks? Americans and the Haitian Revolution
Jacqueline Bacon
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
Hot Topics: Haitian Earthquake
HNN Poll: What Do You Think of the Filibuster?
News at Home
How the Professional Media Creates Its Own Reality
Jack R. Censer and Jerry Prout
Toward a More Complete MLK Day
Simon Balto
Rethinking MLK and Vietnam
Michael H. Carriere
Recovering the Voice of Martin Luther King from 1960
Keith L. Sprunger
News Abroad
Obama Follows Reagan-era Blueprint After Earthquake in Haiti
Alexander Poster
T.E. Lawrence, American Strategist
Daniel Pipes
U.S. Military Escalation in Afghanistan: A Response to President Obama
Richard Drake
How to Teach All Sides of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Without Taking Sides
Donna Robinson Divine
Many Church Leaders Remain Silent While Palestinian Arabs Suffer at the Hands of Muslims
Alex Grobman
Historians & History
Demystifying the Clinton Presidency: An Interview with Historian Taylor Branch
Robin Lindley
New Video from the 1945 Yalta Summit
Steven Lomazow
Books
Review of Mark Frost's and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow's Singapore: A Biography
Rachel Leow
Review of Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
H.G. Callaway
Week of January 11, 2010
Up Front
Hot Topics: Haitian Earthquake
HNN Poll: What Do You Think of the Filibuster?
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
HNN's Coverage of the AHA
Highlights of the 2010 Annual Convention of the American Historical Association in San Diego
David Walsh
News of the Convention
- Video of Protest at AHA
- AHA Portfolio Makes Gains in the Market
- Relations between AHA and Committee for LGBT History strained by annual meeting
- American Historical Association Annual Meeting begins today amidst controversy
HNN Videos
- Joan Heifetz Hollinger: Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases
- Estelle Friedman: Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases
- Michael Grossberg: Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases
- Abby Rumsey: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age?
- Anthony Grafton: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age?
- James W. Cortada: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age?
- Protest at the AHA
- Jonathan L. Walton: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections
- Jennifer Manion: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections
- Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman: What Has Obama Learned from History?
- Jason Scott Smith: What Has Obama Learned from History?
- Julian Zelizer: What Has Obama Learned from History?
- Paul Duguid: Is Google Good for History?
- Daniel Cohen: Is Google Good for History?
HNN Special: Obama One Year Later
What Obama is Doing Wrong
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Why It's Unlikely Obama Will Suffer Carter's Fate
Ashley Wayne Cruseturner
Obama, Diplomat-in-Chief
Kenneth Weisbrode
News at Home
Reid's Obama Blunder and What It MeansAdriane Lentz-Smith
News Abroad
Divide and Confound—or Divide and Empower? The Opportunities and Dangers of Strategic PSYOP against the Alawi Rulers of Syria
Timothy Furnish
How an Ancient Act of Terror Brought Down a Republic
Adrienne Mayor
Nuclear Terrorism: How It Can Be Prevented
Lawrence S. Wittner
Historians & History
Texas Social Studies Reform: What Texans Aren’t Talking About—But Should Be
Keith A. Erekson
History without Reading
Jim Cullen
What Would You Include in a Children's Book About the Ancient World?
Cathy Diez-Luckie
Books
Review of Stephen Cox's The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison
Phyllis B. Taylor
Review of Slavoj Zizek’s First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Aaron Leonard
Week of January 4, 2010
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News at Home
In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Marc Stein
Historians & History
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: Organizational Comatosis or Hibernation?
William N. Thompson and Ernita Joaquin
A Closer Look at "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell
John J. McLaughlin
The Historian as Time Traveler
Ian Mortimer
The Extraordinary Story of the Hanging of the Black Man Who Owned Slaves
J. William Harris
Why Did the Bush White House Copy and Print Every Email It Received? It's a Long Story
Nneoma Amadi-obi
Books
Weeks of December 21 & 28, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News at Home
Name That Decade: the '00s, the Whatever Decade
Gil Troy
Obama, MLK and that Nobel Peace Prize
LeeAnna Keith
A Plea for the Employee Free Choice Act
Harvey Schwartz
News Abroad
In War, Winners Can Be Losers
Lawrence S. Wittner
Looking for a Common Language at Copenhagen
Kenneth Weisbrode
Emigre Dilemma: From Ayn Rand to Moshe Sazegara
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
The War Over Jerusalem
Daniel Mandel
Historians & History
Rethinking Franklin D. Roosevelt: Getting Past the Gospel According to Bruenn
Steven Lomazow
A Historian of Golf Rethinks What's Relevant in History After the Tiger Woods Scandal
George B. Kirsch
What We Can Learn By Studying the Lives of the Jews Who Went to Palestine in the 1920s
Donna Robinson Divine
Vietnam: What War Stories Need to Accomplish
Wayne Karlin
We Know the Truth About Sacco and Vanzetti
Richard Newby
Books
Review of George H. Nash's Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism
Daniel McCarthy
Review of William Cohan's House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Jim Cullen
Review of E.D. Hirsch, Jr.'s The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools
Luther Spoehr
Week of December 14, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News at Home
Obama and the Democrats Need to Confront the Deficit Monster
Iwan Morgan
Who Lewis Henry Morgan Was and Why We Should Care
Daniel Noah Moses
News Abroad
Iraq: Your Next Holiday Destination
Scott Laderman
Historians & History
65 Years Later: The Malmedy Massacre, December 17, 1944
Joseph Cummins
Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic:
An Interview with Gary Kornblith
Seth Binder
Culture Watch
The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
James Livingston
The Leo Frank Case--Now a PBS Documentary
Thomas Doherty
What More We Can Learn from "On the Waterfront": An Interview with James T. Fisher
Rodger D. Citron
Decoding Dan Brown
Simon Cox
Books
Two New Books on the Reagan Era
Jim Cullen
Review of Alfred W. McCoy's Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines
and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Week of December 7, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights: President Obama Focuses on the Economy, Max Baucus Scandal and Sarah Palin at the Gridiron Dinner
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
HNN Special: TR and Pearl Harbor
Teddy Roosevelt's Secret Deal with Japan: An Interview with James Bradley
Aaron Leonard
HNN Special: Nixon, Kissinger & Fritz Kraemer
Who Was Fritz Kraemer? And Why We Should Care.
Luke Nichter
The Nixon Quartet
Tom Shachtman
News at Home
Why Homicide Declined in American Cities during the First Six Months of 2009
Randolph Roth
Fred Hampton, Barack Obama, and the American Urban Poor
Simon Balto
Obama and Health Care: Confronted by Critics, Haunted by History
Gil Troy
How the Vice President Can Serve as the President's Most Unbiased Adviser
Joel K. Goldstein
After Maine: Can Houston Provide a Much-Needed Victory for the Gay Rights Movement?
Blake A. Ellis
In Praise of “Happy Holidays”
Edward T. O'Donnell
News Abroad
Obama, Copenhagen, and the Global Warming Skeptics
Walter G. Moss
Thinking Outside the Box: What Obama Could Have Said
Lawrence S. Wittner
Post-Islamophobia: How Cultural Integration Can Prevent Terrorism and Build Peace
Antony Adolf
The Neglected Art of Diplomacy
Kenneth Weisbrode
Books
Review of Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original, ed. by Daniel Rice
Mac McCorkle
Week of November 30, 2009
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News Abroad
Darfur: Time To Let The People Speak
Linda Bishai
News at Home
What After All Do Americans Mean When They Say They Love "Liberty"?
David Reynolds
Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?
Derek Catsam
Historians & History
“He Knew How to Die”: John Brown on the Gallows, December 2, 1959
David W. Blight
What's Modern About the Early Modern Period?
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
What We Can Learn from a New History of Early Christianity
Charles Freeman
Were Early Islamic Historians the First to Embrace Post-Modernism?
Lesley Hazleton
When Was Taft President? Reflections on a One-Term Presidency
Lewis Gould
From Jesus' Foreskin to Mussolini's Brain: History's Relics
Jonathan Tremblay
Books
Review of Joyce Purnick's Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics
Paul Moses
Review of David Crystal's Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
Jim Cullen
Week of November 23, 2009
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
HNN Special
How to Get Out of Afghanistan
William Polk
News Abroad
Why It Is Time for a Much More Critical History of Human Rights
Eric D. Weitz
Why We Need to Make Sure We Know Our Enemies Today as well as We Knew the USSR by the End of the Cold War
David C. Engerman
Thanksgiving for Truman's Cabinet Committee on Food
William Lambers
Going Rogue, or Going Down Allah’s Path? Ottomans, Ayatollahs and Nidal Malik Hasan
Timothy R. Furnish
News at Home
What's Grand About the Grand Concourse in the Bronx
Constance Rosenblum
Rosy Scenarios and Red Realities: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and the Deficit
Iwan Morgan
When the Advocates of Full Disclosure Go too Far
Steve Usdin
Historians & History
A Morgenthau Legacy
Arnold Reisman
False Atrocity Tales from the War in Vietnam
Gary Kulik
The Idea of Communism: An Interview with Tariq Ali
Aaron Leonard
Culture Watch
Beyond Diversity: The Cosmopolitan Dilemma
Jim Cullen
Books
Review of Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women
Jim Cullen
Review of Thulani Davis's My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Confronts Her Roots
David Barber
Week of November 16, 2009
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News at Home
Pathology and Ideology: Major Nidal Malik Hasan and the Case of Leon Czolgosz
Evan Matthew Daniel
Seeing Red: The Budget Deficit - Past, Present and Future
Iwan Morgan
The Bush Pardon Obama Needs to Deal with
Jeffrey Crouch
News Abroad
Secretary Clinton -- Leader or Figurehead?
Kenneth Weisbrode
Who's Afraid of World Government?
Lawrence S. Wittner
Drugs, Corruption, and Justice in Vietnam and Afghanistan ... A Cautionary Tale
Merle L. Pribbenow
Tokyo, Washington and the Missing Nuclear Agreements
Yuki Tanaka
Historians & History
It's Oh So Easy to Forget the Pioneers in Women's Rights
Sally G. McMillen
Books
Review of Dennis Baron's A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Jim Cullen
Review of Christopher Bigsby's Arthur Miller: 1915-1962
Andrew Feffer
Review of Peter Morris's Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero
Luther Spoehr
Week of November 9, 2009
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
News at Home
The Marshmallow Center of American Politics in the 21st Century
Rich Benjamin
Is Health Care a Human Right?
Walter Moss
The New Alabama
Robert "KC" Johnson
Fort Hood: What the Right and the Left Have Gotten Wrong about Hasan
Jonathan Zimmerman
News Abroad
How James Monroe Policies Might Help Obama Triumph over Foreign Foes
Harlow Giles Unger
The Forgotten Japanese in North Korea: Beyond the Politics of Abduction
Tessa Morris-Suzuk
What Is Zionism?
Alex Grobman
Historians & History
The Civil Rights-Black Power Nexus in African American History
Kwasi Konadu
Why 1808 Marked a Pivotal Moment in US History
Lacy Ford
Encounters with the History of South Africa
Dominique Lapierre
Books
Review of Sam Tanenhaus's The Death of Conservatism
Andrew Hartman
Review of Eric Kurlander's Living With Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich
Jeffrey Gaab
Review of Constance Rosenblum's Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in The Bronx
Robert Parmet
Week of November 2, 2009
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
News Abroad
The Cost of Empire
Deepak Tripathi
Afghanistan as a Bailout State
Tom Engelhardt
Should US Troops in Iraq be held Hostage to the Next Election
Juan Cole
Keeping Veterans Day Alive
Ed Hooper
How the Arabs Manipulate the Media, Israelis and the West
Alex Grobman
Historians & History
What Studying the Women in the Founders' Lives Reveals
Thomas Fleming
Reflections on Cambridge
Alan MacFarlane
The Role of Turkish Diplomats nn Saving Turkish Jews in France: 1940-1944
Arnold Reisman
20 Years Later: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Legacy of Erich Honecker
Jonathan Tremblay
Books
Review of David Barber's A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed
Nicole Frisone
Review of Paul Moses's The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace
Joseph Cunneen
Review of Michael J. Allen's Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War
Murray Polner
Week of October 26, 2009
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Special: Nuclear Weapons
What Savvy Leaders Could Do to Move Toward a Nuclear-Free World (Obama--Are You Listening?)
Lawrence S. Wittner
How Ike Can Help Obama’s No Nukes Quest
William Lambers
News Abroad
Obama's Choice, Failed War President or the Prince of Peace?
Nick Turse
The Attack on the International Islamic University and the Future of Pakistan
Mark A. LeVine
News at Home
The Appalling Decline of Literacy Among College Graduates
William O'Neill
Historians & History
A Day of Infamy: November 10, 1975
Alex Grobman
The Preposterous Attack on Providence’s Founder
J. Stanley Lemons
Imagining the Past in Paris
Thad Carhart
A Question Answered: Did Britain Use Gas in Iraq in the 1920s?
Brett Holman
Books
Review of Karen E. Dill’s How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing through Media Influence
Jim Cullen
Review of Jeffrey Escoffier's Bigger Than Life
Doug Ireland
Review of Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood
Kirk Bane
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