Week of January 2, 2012

HNN Teacher's Edition:  For High School and Grade School

HNN’s Teacher’s Edition is designed to help busy teachers build classes around topics in the news. With just a few minutes preparation, teachers will be able to teach a class on current events, even if they haven't been in a position to follow the news closely..

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News at Home

What Speaker Boehner Should Tell House Republicans About Compromise
Walter G. Moss

News Abroad

Was 2011 Really the "Year of the Protester"?
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Hamas is Making History by Reaching Out to Sunni Islam
Nimrod Hurvitz

Agent Orange is Still Killing People in Vietnam and America
Fred A. Wilcox

Historians & History

"Did Alan Singer Actually See the Exhibition?" A Response from a Curator at the New-York Historical Society
Richard Rabinowitz

Does Anybody Remember the Battle of An Loc?
Thomas Fleming

Culture Watch

Why is Penn State Playing Football in the Midwest Anyway?
Carl Abbott

On Lonesome Highways: Haunted by History, an Interview with Writer/Photographer James A. Reeves
Robin Lindley

Books

Review of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Jim Cullen

Review of Steven J. Ross's Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Jim Cullen