Week of November 26, 2012
Up Front: Lincoln
 How Historically Accurate is Spielberg's "Lincoln"? Louis Masur: Not everything in the movie is 100% accurate, but most of it is, and the level of detail's incredible. [PODCAST] |
 HNN Hot Topics: Lincoln the Movie Pictured at left: Abraham Lincoln. The real one. But Daniel Day-Lewis is pretty convincing. |
 Daniel Day-Lewis's Abe Lincoln: (Racial) Trailblazer |
 How True is Lincoln? |
 Lincoln: Jesus Christ! God Almighty! What a (Biblical) Movie! Abe the prophet. |
Blogs
 A New "New Cold War" in the Mideast? “The good guys” can become “the bad guys” awfully fast in our national security discourse. |
HNN Teacher's Edition: For 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.
 What Does the President Actually Do?Lesson Plan Backgrounder |
 What Does the Vice President Actually Do?Lesson Plan Backgrounder |
News at Home
 General Motors vs. General Electric Which company is better representative of twentieth-century capitalism? |
 The Origins of the Latino "Immigration Problem" It goes back to the U.S.-Mexican War ... from the peace movement. |
 Mitch McConnell and the Art of Dysfunction New Senate rules will be necessary to keep him in check. |
 Channelling George Washington: How Much Should the Majority Rule? Guard against class hatred, for down that road lies revolutionary France. |
News Abroad
 Sucking Up to the Military Brass Generals who run amuck, politicians who could care less, an “embedded” media... and us. |
 How Morsi Took Power in Egypt He staged a coup ... against his own generals. |
 Morsi’s Second Coup Provokes Mass Protest in Egypt Thousands take to Tahrir Square to demonstrate against new government decrees. |
Historians & History
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.historynewsnetwork.org/sites/default/files/800px-Photograph_titled_"The_Chicago_Memorial_Day_Incident"_-_NARA_-_306197_0.jpg) Unions and Strikes Through the Camera Lens Interview with Carol Quirke on news photography and the labor movement. |
 Lessons from the Dust Bowl With climate change upon us, what can we learn from one of the worst environmental disasters in American history? |
Culture Watch
 A Chilling New Look at Anti-Semitism in Stalin’s Russia The Twenty-Seventh Man an appropriately bleak look at Stalinist repression. |
 Holiday Theater from the Past The sudden yearning for Christmases of the past. |
Books
 Review of Jon Wiener's How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America A counterintuitive, but extremely valuable, book. |
 Review of Hal Holbrook's Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain Not a classic memoir, but a useful one about Hal Holbrook's one-main Twain show. |