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Week of December 5, 2011

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Up Front

Newt Gingrich the Galactic Historian
Ray Smock

HNN Hot Topics: Newt Gingrich

The Day of Infamy—How Japan’s Hollow Victory Spelt the End for Hitler
Rupert Colley

Pearl Harbor Roundtable

Pearl Harbor: Seventy Years Later
Hiroshi Kitamura

Remembering Pearl Harbor with Japanese and American Teachers
Yujin Yaguchi

The Road to War between the U.S. and Japan was Paved by Irreconcilable Worldviews
John Gripentrog

Another Sort of Pearl Harbor Infamy for Japanese Americans
Greg Robinson

Remember 9/11, Forget Pearl Harbor?
Emily S. Rosenberg

Questions People are Googling


Blogs

News at Home

Why Does the 99 Percent Let Athletes, Executives, and Movie Stars Get Away with Huge Salaries?
Walter G. Moss

Will The Occupy Movement Fade Now That Most of the Occupations Have Been Cleared?
Mark Naison

Penn State and Violence Against Men
Jim Loewen

Save and Preserve Our American System
Vaughn Davis Bornet

News Abroad

Revisiting a Massacre in Lebanon's Civil War—Were Lebanese Christians Responsible?
Franck Salameh

Historians & History

Fairy Tale History at New York’s (un)Historical Society
Alan Singer

A 1978 Critique of Gaddis on Kennan
Michael H. Hunt

The Sad Lives and Demise of Stalin's Sons
Rupert Colley

Culture Watch

Merry Christmas to All: the American Theater Recycles Films of the Past for Historic Holiday Cheer this Season
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Craig Mark's and Ron Tannenbaum's I Want My TV: The Uncensored History of the Music Video Revolution
Jim Cullen

Review of Thomas A. Kohut's A German Generation: An Experential History of the Twentieth Century
Murray Polner