Week of November 12, 2012
Up Front
 The Arab Reading of the Petraeus/Allen Affair Jill Kelley, who sparked the scandal, is Gilberte Khawam, a Lebanese woman. |
 After the Election, Reaping the Climate Change Whirlwind Even under Obama, we'll continue to fiddle while the burns. |
 The “Fiscal Cliff” and THE SCANDAL Good luck trying to knock Petraeus off of the front page.
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HNN Special: Recasting Presidential History
 "Recasting Presidential History": A Trans-Disciplinary Approach to the Office and the Presidents The University of Virginia's Miller Center hosted. |
 David Greenberg on the State of Presidential History A field long out of fashion is undergoing a renaissance. |
 William Hitchcock: Was Ike Really a "Moderate Republican"? Probably not. |
 Cathie Jo Martin: Europe Has *Less* Government Regulation than America It all comes down to counterintuitive choices the business classes in Europe made at the beginning of the twentieth century. |
 Brian Balogh: Advice for Aspiring Presidential Historians Keep in mind the future of presidential history is a fusion of political/social/cultural history. |
Blogs
 Obama vs. Boehner: Who is the True Jeffersonian? The metropolis of government vs. the metropoles of big business. |
 The Shape of Politics to Come A permanent Democratic majority? |
Veterans Day
 This Veterans Day, Beware the Dangers of Robot War Drone technology is both overhyped and misunderstood. |
 Remembering the Code Talkers The passing of Navajo code talker George Smith last month gives us pause. |
 A Salute to the U.S. Army Remembering the veterans on Veterans Day. |
 A Spirit, Unbroken Interview with bestselling author Laura Hillenbrand on her 2010 book. |
News at Home
 Reclaiming Our Coasts and Shorelines Hurricane Sandy should inspire new ways of building and living on the seashore |
Election 2012
 Video Chat with HNN Blogger Ira Chernus What happens now? |
 Another Election Year, Another Catastrophe in Florida At least it didn't determine the outcome this year. |
News Abroad
 Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Space warfare and the future of U.S. global power. |
 Israel Can Curb a Nuclear Iran But it may require an end to its nuclear ambiguity. |
Historians & History
 The Bretton Woods Transcripts, Hiding in Plain Sight How I "found" an unused (but not unknown) transcript of Bretton Woods. |
 Jacques Barzun: A Legacy of Passion It's a cliche, but it's true: we really won't see a scholar like Barzun again. |
 The Ultimate What-If: What If the Cuban Missile Crisis Sparked Nuclear War? It probably wouldn't have meant the end of the Unitd States ... but forget about Europe and Russia. |
Culture Watch
 Trying to Make a Hero of Henry Wallace Oliver Stone's recycled leftist history.
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 At Long Last, Something Involving a Sandy that Isn't a Hurricane Little Orphan Annie returns to Broadway in a triumphant revival. |
Books
 Review of Peter Ames Carlin's Bruce The Boss as a Woody Guthrie-esque troubadour. |
 Review of Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, edited by Ken Wachsberger Underground media proliferated everywhere. |