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 June 6, 2011

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meltdown in Japan

News at Home

Hating Boomers: America’s Last Acceptable Prejudice
Leonard Steinhorn

Questions America Needs to Ask Itself
Gil Troy

News Abroad

The Emptying of Yemen
Daniel Pipes

Remembering the Marshall Plan in the Arab Spring
William Lambers

Lessons From History and From Japan’s March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami
Gregory Smits

Historians & History

The Globalization of History
Rick Shenkman

War and Intrigue Before the Feast: Author Jennet Conant on Julia Child and Company in the OSS
Robin Lindley

Culture Watch

Dedicated to the Ones We Loved: a Trip into Rock ‘N Roll History
Bruce Chadwick

1600s History: Shakespeare Invades the American Summer Stage
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Sarah Burns's The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
Murray Polner

Review of Robin Blackburn's An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Aaron Leonard