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Week of May 21, 2012


Up Front: HNN Expose



Someone Used My Research without Acknowledgement
Richard Labunski

HNN Face/Off


Review of Brian Latell's Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine: "He Has Fallen into the Morass That is Assassination 'Scholarship'"
John McAdams


Response to John McAdams: "Fidel Knew that Oswald Intended to Shoot at Kennedy"
Brian Latell

Hot Topics




HNN Hot Topics: Memorial Day

Polls


Education



OAH/NCPH Sessions “Chart the Future of Teaching the Past”
Craig Thurtell

News Abroad



Should NATO Be Handling World Security?
Lawrence S. Wittner

Historians & History



Understanding American Myths: Announcing the New Blog "MythicAmerica"
Ira Chernus


The Baffling Harry White
David Chambers

Culture Watch



Historical Whodunits, Dramas about Women Prevail in Summer Theater
Bruce Chadwick


Seeing Our Presidents in the Light of Poetry

Paul J. Ferlazzo

Books



Review of Bruce Bustard's Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates
Jim Cullen