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Blogs


HNN Special: National Council for the Social Studies Annual Meeting 2011

All stories by HNN correspondent Craig Thurtell

How to Teach Students to Think Like Historians

Arne Duncan Exhorts Teacher “Troublemakers”

What's Wrong with School Reform: Interview with Diane Ravitch

News at Home

It’s Not Such a "Wonderful Life" This Holiday for Homeowners
Robert E. Wright

What Will the Democratic Left Do in 2012?
Lawrence S. Wittner

Channelling George Washington: A Carnival of Buncombe
Thomas Fleming

Can American Trains Achieve Steam Speeds in the Modern Era?
Jim Loewen

The Words That Mattered In 2011
Ian C. Friedman

Historians & History

Why Today's Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt
Rosemarie Ostler

Culture Watch

On Christopher Hitchens, Atheism, and Inanity
James Livingston

How the New England Patriots Use Sound Business Strategy to Win Football Games
Louis A. Ferleger

2,400 Years Later, Greek Vixen Lysistrata Rides Again, This Time on the Basketball Court
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Richard Borkow's George Washington’s Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson and the Trapping of Cornwallis
Thomas Fleming

Review of Steven M. Gillon’s Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War
Luther Spoehr