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Week of May 30, 2011

Up Front

HNN Poll: How Will the Elimination of TAH Grants Affect You?

HNN Special: Articles and Book Reviews for Memorial Day

Memorial Day in Mountain View Cemetery
Vaughn Davis Bornet

HNN Hot Topics: Memorial Day

HNN Poll: How Do You Celebrate Memorial Day?

Preserving History at the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Kristi Davenport, Peter Gabriele, Stephen Greenberg, Holly Herro, Christie Moffatt, Paul Theerman, and Jeffrey S. Reznick

Review of Adam Hochschild's "To End All Wars": A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Murray Polner

Review of Allan Bérubé's My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, & Labor History
Doug Ireland

News at Home

The Money Trail in Education Reform Leads to Everyone But Those Who Need It The Most
Mark Naison

News Abroad

Ass-Backwards in the Middle East
Ira Chernus

Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima
Matthew Penney and Mark Selden

Historians & History

Writing History in an Age of Inequality
Jefferson Cowie

Channelling George Washington: How Kentucky Stayed in the Union
Thomas Fleming

Culture Watch

A Post-Civil War Puzzle Play in the Hills of Tennessee
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Tony Shaw and Denise J. Youngblood's Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds
Andrew Feffer