Week of October 10, 2011

Up Front: Occupy Wall Street

HNN Hot Topics: Occupy Wall Street

NEW HNN Poll: Do You Support Occupy Wall Street?

NEW A Century of Our Streets Vs. Wall Street
Steve Fraser

NEW Occupy Wall Street: A Sign of Our Times
Judith Stein

Lessons from History for Occupy Wall Street on How to Build a Movement
Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Occupy Wall Street is Absolutely Exhilarating
James Livingston

Hey Protesters, Wall Street Didn't Do It Alone
Sheldon Richman

Occupy Wall Street Heralds a Global Counterculture
Mark Naison

Features

NEW Rick Perry and the Sixteenth-Century American Revolution
Daniel Mallia

HNN Feature: How Do Historians Rate Obama?

HNN Hot Topics: Columbus Day

Gaffe of the Week: Herman Cain: African-Americans Have Been "Brainwashed"?
Daniel Mallia

History on TV: Highlights of Upcoming Shows

News at Home

Blame Wall Street, Not the Baby Boomers
Leonard Steinhorn

Steve Jobs: Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer
Juan Cole

We Can't Abandon Our Veterans, but Slashing the VA Budget Will Do Just That
Ed Hooper

News Abroad

Is Mitt Romney Ready for the World?
Lawrence S. Wittner

Salvador Allende Has Words for Barack Obama from the Other Side of Death
Ariel Dorfman

A Yemeni Woman Just Won the Nobel Peace Prize—Yet Another Stereotype Averted in the Mideast
Daniel Martin Varisco

It's a MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD World for Iran
Walid Phares

Historians & History

Going Postal History
Jim Loewen

Culture Watch

NEW Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett Climb to the Mountaintop in Powerful New Martin Luther King Jr. Play
Bruce Chadwick

The Still Misunderstood Marilyn Monroe Wiggles through the 1950s with a Little Help from a Friend
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Mohamed ElBaradei's The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
Lawrence S. Wittner

Review of Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers
Jim Cullen