Week of April 4, 2011
Up Front
HNN/Vote iQ Poll: William Cronon Affair
HNN Book of the Month: America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield
HNN Website of the Month: Remembering Jim Crow
HNN Hot Topics Warmaking: President vs. Congress
HNN Hot Topics: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meltdown in Japan
News at Home
Detroit Isn't Dead—But Tell That to the Media
Kevin Boyle
We Are One: Remembering King’s Struggle for Labor Rights
Michael Honey
News Abroad
Ai Weiwei and Qingming: An Appeal to China
Lionel M. Jensen
Iran’s New Mahdism Da`wah Video: Letting Slip the Jinns of Jihad?
Timothy R. Furnish
Reports from Tohoku: Assessing Death, Dislocation, and Flight of the Victims Back
Matthew Penney
“Long Since Passed the Level of Three Mile Island”—The Fukushima Crisis in Comparative Perspective
Asia-Pacific Journal
Irradiated Zone: Don’t Go There!
Tom Engelhardt
The Atomic Bomb and "Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy"
Yuki Tanaka
Historians & History
How to Write a Trilogy Without Really Trying
Mary Beth Norton
Channelling George Washington: The Forgotten Soldiers of World War I
Thomas Fleming
Culture Watch
Censored Art: The Return of the Repressed
Paul Boyer
"Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo" Does Not Roar
Bruce Chadwick
History Plays Need Football’s Two-Minute Drill
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Jerome Charyn's Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil
Ron Briley
Review of The Columbia History of the Vietnam War, edited by David L. Anderson
Murray Polner