HNN Rundowns
Up Front
In Memory of John Hope Franklin: HNN Readers Open Forum
Political Highlights: President Obama’s Second Press Conference Focusing on the Economy & Budget
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
OAH 2009
Highlights from the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians
News
- OAH Finances Take a Slide and Convention Attracts Fewer Attendees
- OAH Awards Go To Joyce Appleby, Susan Armeny, Stan Katz, and Brian Lamb
- OAH's Executive Director Lee Formwalt gets standing ovation
Videos
- Does Women's History Have a Future Mary Ryan
- Race: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories Mark Auslander
- Race: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories Al Brophy
- Race: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories Jim Campbell
- New Deal: The Consumer and the New Deal Louis Hyman
- New Deal: A New Deal for Public Works Jason Scott Smith
- Katrina: The Neglected Challenge to Racial Citizenship in Cosmopolitan New Orleans Ann Holder
- Katrina: Constructions of Blackness in Tourist New Orleans Lynell Thomas
- Katrina: The Question of Urban Exceptionalism Miriam Greenberg
- Katrina: Scientists Versus the Local Community Amy Lesen
- Liberalism: The Cultural Sensibility of American Liberalism, 1890-1941 Daniel Wickberg
- Liberalism: Sentimental Liberalism in Gilded Age America Susan Pearson
- Liberalism: Cold War Social Science and the Production of Consensus Liberalism Jamie Cohen-Cole
News at Home
Do the Humanities Matter in Hard Times? A Russian Historian's Answer
Walter G. Moss
Guess What? The New Deal Worked!
Steven Conn
News Abroad
Can You Do Business with Al Qaeda Terrorists?
James Livingston
Palestinians Who Helped Create Israel
Daniel Pipes
A Flawed Basis for Middle East Peace
Jonathan Goldstein
Historians & History
History Doyens: John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009
Bonnie Goodman
The Journalist as Historian: A Case Study
David Grann
Books
Review of Jeffrey T. Richelson's Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
Lawrence S. Wittner
Review of Steven Greenhouse's The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Robert Parmet
News at Home
Political Highlights: AIG's Bonus Scandal and St. Patty's Day at the O'Bama White House
Bonnie Goodman
The Businessman from the Past Who Puts Our Rogues Gallery of Thieves to Shame
Michael J. Makley
Is Greed Good? It Depends on the Times
Robert Brent Toplin
A Short History of American Rage
Michael Kazin
Why Neither Nationalization Nor a New Tarp Can Fix Our Finances
James Livingston
The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal
John Paul Rossi
The Obamas’ Working Marriage
Kristin Celello
News Abroad
Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith
Finding a Way Out in Afghanistan
Walter L. Hixson
Will Obama Be Influenced by the Latest Big Task Force on Latin America?
Don Bohning
Historians & History
Women’s History Month: Comparing Presidential Proclamations
Daniel Sauerwein
If Our 16th President Were Alive Today, Chances Are He Wouldn't Be Barack Obama
Andrew Ferguson
The Inadvertence of Benedict Anderson ... Engaging Imagined Communities
Radhika Desa
History Q & A
What Is the "Negro National Anthem"?
Alison Diefenderfer
Up Front
Political Highlights: AIG's Bonus Scandal and St. Patty's Day at the O'Bama White House
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News at Home
The Businessman from the Past Who Puts Our Rogues Gallery of Thieves to Shame
Michael J. Makley
Is Greed Good? It Depends on the Times
Robert Brent Toplin
A Short History of American Rage
Michael Kazin
Why Neither Nationalization Nor a New Tarp Can Fix Our Finances
James Livingston
The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal
John Paul Rossi
The Obamas’ Working Marriage
Kristin Celello
News Abroad
Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith
Finding a Way Out in Afghanistan
Walter L. Hixson
Will Obama Be Influenced by the Latest Big Task Force on Latin America?
Don Bohning
Historians & History
If Our 16th President Were Alive Today, Chances Are He Wouldn't Be Barack Obama
Andrew Ferguson
The Inadvertence of Benedict Anderson ... Engaging Imagined Communities
Radhika Desa
History Q & A
What Is the "Negro National Anthem"?
Alison Diefenderfer
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News at Home
Irish and Black Americans: Have the Parallel Lines Finally Met?
Thomas Fleming
A 9/11 Reformer's Final Plea for Justice in Washington
Anthony Toth
Remembering Past Hard Times
TH McGraw
News Abroad
Christians Demonizing Muslims? An Old Story
Thomas Kidd
Wanted: A New Foreign Policy
Robert Whealey
Historians & History
Selling Gandhi
Joseph Kip Kosek
American Corporate Complicity Created Undeniable Nazi Nexus
Edwin Black
Culture Watch
The Best History of Country & Western Music. Ever.
Kirk Bane
Books
Review of Campbell Craig's and Sergey Radchenko's The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War
Robert Justin Goldstein
Up Front
Political Highlights: Obama Focuses on the Economy, Budget Debate Dominates, but Afghanistan Looms
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News at Home
That Chimpanzee Cartoon Was Dangerous
William Loren Katz
Why We Need a “Truth Commission” to Investigate Torture
William J. Astore
News Abroad
The Voice of America, Silenced on Radical Islam
Daniel Pipes
National Security Reform: A Second Opinion
James Douglas Orton
A Lesson of History: U.S.-Soviet Recognition and Barack Obama’s Iran Policy
Asgar Asgarov
Nuclear Weapons, The Great Lakes and Lake Champlain?
William Lambers
Historians & History
HNN's Top Young Historians ... This Week: Holly Case
Bonnie Goodman
Why Do the Courts Let Presidents Get Away with War?
Alfred W. Blumrosen and Steven M. Blumrosen
The Pastness of the Past
Gordon Wood
It's Time to Remember the Role of Indians in the Mexican-American War
Brian DeLay
Books
Review of Deborah Nelson's The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Up Front
Political Highlights: Obama Presents the Budget, Announces Iraq Troops Pull Out Date & CPAC Meets
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: What Obama Should Do
News at Home
The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Financial Crisis
Richard Bensel
National Education Standards: Here They Come Again!
Kevin R. Kosar
A Nation of Tax-Evaders
Lawrence S. Wittner
A Double Standard for Campus Free Speech
Richard L. Cravatts
News Abroad
The New Plan for Implementing National Security
Anna Kasten Nelson
The Beijing Games Six Months On
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Historians & History
Holocaust Story Faker is No Angel
Ken Waltzer
Was George W. Bush the Worst President?
Thomas Fleming
Hawaii and the Lincoln Bicentennial: Remembering a Special Relationship
James Oliver Horton
Hillary and the State Department Historian’s Office: A Way Forward
Douglas Selvage
Michelle Obama, First Ladies and African-American History
Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Opening the Files on Bush's Secrets
Jon Wiener
