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Week of September 5, 2011

Up Front

Ten Years After 9/11, Jihadis are Winning the War
Walid Phares

One Day, We'll Commemorate 9/11 Like the Civil War—Heart-Felt, but Detached and Reflective
Kevin M. Levin

Still Smoldering Ten Years after 9/11 -- Yet Still Hopeful
Gil Troy

"What If It Had Rained on September 11?" and Three Other Questions about 9/11
Jesse Lemisch

How to Teach about 9/11
Bruce Craig

Dispatches from APSA: John Yoo talk on Lincoln interrupted by protest in Seattle

HNN Website of the Month: Picture America

HNN Feature: Historians on the Daily Show/Colbert Report

HNN Hot Topics: 9/11

HNN Hot Topics: Labor Day

News at Home

Is Walmart the Cure for Homesickness?
Susan J. Matt

Kansas City Here It Comes: A New Nuclear Weapons Plant!
Lawrence S. Wittner

When Else Have Poor People Been So Disenfranchised?
Jerome Braun

Herman Cain: The Man from Pizza
Alexander Heffner

News Abroad

Muammar Qaddafi: A Retrospective
Daniel Pipes

Turkey Has Big Plans for the Middle East—But It Needs to Reckon with Its Genocidal Past First
Taner Akçam

Europe and America: Hissing or Kissing Cousins?
Peter Baldwin

Nevermind the Bullocks—The UK-U.S. Special Relationship is Here to Stay
Alanna O’Malley

Historians & History

Did 9/11 Really Change Everything?
Mary L. Dudziak

Stetson Kennedy's Decades-Long Pursuit of Truth and Justice
Paul Ortiz

America Isn't an Innocent Abroad
Ron Briley

Culture Watch

Theater World Hopes History Plays Make Up for Historic Hurricane Losses as Season Opens
Bruce Chadwick

On Stage, New York Commemorates the Tenth Anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Richard Miles's Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
Jim Cullen

Review of David A. Ansell, MD's County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
Murray Polner