Week of October 3, 2011
Up Front
HNN Website of the Month: Taiwan Documents Project
History on TV: Highlights of Upcoming Shows
News at Home
Rick Perry's "Niggerhead" Camp Is Only Part of the Problem
Jim Loewen
Lessons from History on the Double-Dip Recession
Iwan Morgan
We Need to Do Something Radical to Break Out of Our Malaise
T.H. McGraw
News Abroad
The World is Actually Safer than It Used to Be ... And It Keeps Getting Safer
Christopher J. Fettweis
Historians & History
Michael Kazin on the Left's Past Victories and How It Can Reinvent Itself Again
David A. Walsh
The Moral Crucible of the Bloodiest War: Historian Michael Burleigh on Good and Evil in the Second World War
Robin Lindley
Who Knew that Armageddon Actually Matters in American Politics? Matthew Sutton Explains.
David A. Walsh
How to Link the Distant Past and the Present (It Involves Good Writing)
Craig Harline
We've Come a Long Way from the Effort to Memorialize the Slave Mammy
Mark Auslander
Don't Believe the Critics—Literature Still Matters
Walter E. Moss
Culture Watch
Lemon Sky Charts the Below-the-Surface History of the 1950s
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Eric C. Schneider's Smack: Heroin and the American City
Murray Polner
Review of Peter Van Buren's We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
Murray Polner