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Week of October 3, 2011

Up Front

HNN Book of the Month: Teofilo F. Ruiz's The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization

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