Week of August 29, 2011

Up Front

Joshua Brown: Occasional Sketches

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HNN Book of the Month: The Global Lincoln, edited by Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton

HNN Hot Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.

News at Home

The American Family Association Says that the Nazis were Gay—The GOP Needs to Distance Itself from that Craziness
Jonathan Zimmerman

A Stimulus Isn't Enough to Fix this Economy, But Here are Three Ideas that Might
Judith Stein

Three Lessons in Emergency Management from Someone Who Did It Well
Utpal Sandesara and Thomas Wooten

News Abroad

Daniel Pipes: Uncertain Times in the Middle East

Historians & History

School Reform Grudge Match: Diane Ravitch vs. Steven Brill
David A. Walsh

MLK Would Be Against the War Today
William Loren Katz

The Delicious Irony of the Federal Government Memorializing MLK
Jo Freedman

Is an Apology Enough for Genocide?
Edwin Black

The Flight from Justice: Historian Gerald Steinacher on How Nazis Fled Europe after World War II
Robin Lindley

Culture Watch

There Is No Business Like Show Business and No History Like the History of It
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of John Patrick Diggins's Why Niebuhr Now?
Luther Spoehr

Review of James T. Sparrow's Warfare State: World War II and the Age of Big Government
Jim Cullen