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Week of May 9, 2011

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Osama bin Laden

HNN Hot Topics: 9-11: Teaching About It

HNN Hot Topics: 9/11

HNN Hot Topics:  Floods

News at Home

Original Intent and the Debt Ceiling
Robert E. Wright

"Not American Enough?" This Political Slur Has a Long History
Rosemarie Ostler

News Abroad

Channelling George Washington: What Bin Laden's Death Means
Thomas Fleming

A Better Way to Have Dealt With Osama bin Laden
Steven I. Levine

Did Torture Work?
Alexander Boulton

A Tale of Two Mother's Days in Norway and Afghanistan
William Lambers

Historians & History

Put A Quarter In, Get History Out: David Barton's American Past
Claire Potter

The National Park Service Explores the History of Farm Labor in America
Frank P. Barajas

Culture Watch

History Plays Make History at the Tony Award Nominations
Bruce Chadwick

It’s Becoming a Habit: the Theater is Suddenly Overflowing with Nuns, Past and Present
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Andrew Ferguson's Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course on Getting His Kid into College
Luther Spoehr

Review of Richard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War
Murray Polner