With support from the University of Richmond

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present. Explore our archive of thousands of original op-eds and curated stories from around the web. Join us to learn more about the past, now.

Week of April 25, 2011

Up Front

History News Network 2.0 is Now Live!

HNN Unveils New Disqus Comments System

News at Home

A Modest Proposal to Rescind Child Labor Laws
Janet Golden

News Abroad

Washington on the Rocks
Alfred W. McCoy and Brett Reilly

Judging What’s Vital—The Problems of Measuring Progress in Unconventional Wars
Gregory A. Daddis

Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark
Tom Engelhardt

A Right Royal Wedding
Charles Carlton

The History of Families New and Long Lost: An American Compares Coat of Arms with Kate Middleton’s
Pearl Duncan

Historians & History

A 50-Year Perspective—JFK, Richard Bissell, and the Bay of Pigs
Howard Jones

A Forgotten Site in Florida Where the Bay of Pigs Invaders Trained
Don Bohning

Sam Houston, San Jacinto, and the Coming Civil War
John Willingham

Culture Watch

Drama about Triangle Shirt Waist Factory 1911 Blaze Does Not Catch Fire
Bruce Chadwick

A Boy, a Horse, World War One and a Searing Story
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood's The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days that Shook the Union
Jim Cullen

Review of Christopher McKnight Nichols's Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
Jim Cullen