Week of September 10, 2012

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Education Reform

HNN Hot Topics: 9/11

Features

Michelle Bachmann Award for Distinguished Lack of Historical Knowledge

Hitler Watch: Three Days, Three Democratic Leaders, Three Nazi References

Blogs

Who Gets to Vote? Steve Hochstadt

Repeat After Me . . . Josh Brown's Life During Wartime

Polls

News at Home

The Simple Message Dems Are Missing Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica

A Lesson in Volunteerism from George Romney Laura Jane Gifford

Paul Ryan Plays Politics With the Family Business Tammy Ingram

Where to Find America's True Democratic Spirit Mark Naison

News Abroad

Monopolizing War: Doing What America Does Best Tom Engelhardt

Romney vs. Obama vis-à-vis Israel Daniel Pipes

Obama’s "Smart Power" Foreign Policy Not Smart at All  John Feffer

Historians & History

Another Open Letter to the Middle East Studies Association Alan Luxenberg

Honoring the Second World War Debt Britons Owe Americans  Lee Ruddin

Books

Review of James Rice's Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Colonial Virginia Jim Cullen

Review of John Kelly's The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People Jim Cullen