Week of May 9, 2011
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Osama bin Laden
HNN Hot Topics: 9-11: Teaching About It
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