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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: Arab Revolts

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