Week of August 6, 2012

Up Front

How a Left-Wing Look at America's "Heroes" Reveals Its Own Ignorance Ron Radosh

Myth Versus Myth: Remembering Nagasaki Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica

Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices Revisited Stanley Kutler

HNN Special: Barack Obama's Slave Ancestor

Barack Obama’s “Slave” Ancestor and the Politics of Genealogy Honor Sachs

There's No Basis for the Claims that John Punch was Indentured -- Or That His Comrades Were "White" Jeffrey B. Perry

John Punch Wasn't the First Slave in America -- Just the First Slave in the English Colonies Pearl Duncan

News at Home

Why Do Married Women Vote Republican? Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica

It’s Time to Impeach Justice Scalia Alan Singer

Whatever Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Customer Service? Richard Striner

News Abroad

The Secret Tie that Binds U.S. and Israel Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica

Hot Topics: The Olympics

Egypt's Sixty Years of Misery Daniel Pipes

Historians & History

Hot Topics: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

How Suffering Shaped Emancipation: Historian Dr. Jim Downs on the Plight of Freed Slaves During the Civil War and Reconstruction Robin Lindley

"The Other America": Still Invisible Ron Briley

Saul Alinsky Elementary School? How We Honor America's Radicals and Reformers Peter Dreier

Culture Watch

A Thousand Laughs in "A Thousand Clowns," a Look at Life in the 1960s Bruce Chadwick

Another Chapter in the History of World War II Women Journalists Unfolds in the Berkshires Bruce Chadwick

Whether 1606 or 1906, Bad Leadership Brings Bad Results Bruce Chadwick

King Kong is Back in 1930s Radio Play; Gorilla Climbs Empire State Building; Air Corps Attacks; Millions Scream Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Larry Tye's Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero Ron Briley

Review of Owen J. Hurd's After the Fact: The Surprising Fates of American History's Heroes, Villains, and Supporting Characters Jim Cullen