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HNN Hot Topics: Newt Gingrich

Related LinksHNN Hot Topics: Election 2012NewsFormer Gingrich Ally Claims Republican Leaders Blackmailed Him Over AffairScot Faulkner: How Newt Gingrich's GOP Rivals Blackmailed Him Back in the '90s Historians on GingrichDaniel S. Margolies: No, Newt, the U.S. Cannot Make the Moon a State. That's Illegal Under International Law. Ray Smock: Newt Gingrich the Galactic Historian Carl S.

HNN Hot Topics: The Recession

News Double-Dip Recession May Be Returning (8-4-11) Commentary: Historians Iwan Morgan: Lessons from History on the Double-Dip Recesion Yoni Applebaum: Yoni Appelbaum: Can Rhetoric Create a Recession? It Has Before The Recession Is Dead! Long Live the Recession! James Livingston: This Recession is Going To Be a Long One Robert E. Wright: The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression How's the Recession Affecting Consumers? An Interview with Historian Lawrence Glickman Niall Ferguson: Our Great Recession Commentary: Media Jon Talton: Today’s Recession Is Different From Those of the 1980s

HNN Hot Topics: Income Inequality

NewsStudy shows: Income Inequality At An All-Time High (8-14-09)Commentary: HistoriansIncome inequality may contribute to financial crises, says Harvard economic historianMark Naison: Any Long Term Solution to the Economic Crisis Requires Raising Wages and Redistributing IncomeCommentary: MediaEric Alterman: The Era of the 'One Percent'Timothy Noah: The United States of InequalityBruce Judson: Economic Inequality: The Wall Street Journal Is Just WrongSteven Pearlstein: The Cost of Rising Income InequalityMichael Lind: The Clintonites Were Wrong

HNN Hot Topics: Unemployment

News Black teenage unemployment rises to 40.6% Commentary: Historians Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman: Uncle Sam Does(n’t) Want You: America's Reserve Army of the Unemployed Robert Higgs: Will the Real Rate of Unemployment Please Stand Up Jonathan Dresner: Technological Advances Cause Economic Distress

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HNN Hot Topics: 2012 Election: Primaries

Related LinksMitt RomneyRick SantorumNewt GingrichElection 2008: PrimariesElection 2008: GeneralHistorians and the 2008 ElectionObama's Election: What It MeansGender and 2008 ElectionCommentary: HistoriansWalter G. Moss: What is True Political Wisdom?

Political Gaffes

They Said What? Rick Perry: The Sixteenth-Century American Revolution? Herman Cain: African-Americans Have Been "Brainwashed"? Rick Perry Thinks Global Warming is Wrong Because of … Galileo?According to Sarah Palin, Paul Revere Warned the BritishIt's OK, Herman Cain Hasn't Read the Constitution EitherRick Santorum: A Torture Expert?Michele Bachmann's Concord Mix-upMichele Bachmann Thinks the Founding Fathers Fought to End SlaveryBiden Not So Sure About FDR and TV

HNN Hot Topics: Stock Market Crashes

Stock Market CrashesDuring the panic of 2008-2009, HNN compiled some of the best historical and economic commentary on the web into a series of "Hot Topic" pages. Under the Related Links section of this page, you'll find full coverage of the 2008-2009 panic, as well as related issues, and under Commentary highlights of that coverage.Check back for updates as the current situation unfolds.Stocks Plunge on Fears of Global TurmoilNate Silver: The Stock Market Is the Least of Obama’s WorriesRelated LinksDebt Ceiling Financial Meltdown (Jan. 1, 2009 to 2010) Financial Meltdown (Oct. 16 to Dec. 31 2008)Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008)Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. HistoryThe New Deal Commentary

HNN Hot Topics: Debt Ceiling

The best of web commentary on the debt ceiling.

Students Fail at Civics: NAEP History Exam Results at a Glance

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HNN Hot Topics: Floods ... What's the worst flood in U.S. history?

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HNN Hot Topics: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?

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HNN Hot Topics: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meltdown in Japan

Related Links1923 Kanto Earthquake: Echoes from Japan's PastFor Elderly, Echoes of War's Horrors in Post-Quake JapanHNN Hot Topics: 2010 Haitian Earthquake HNN Hot Topics: 2004 Pacific Tsunami NewsNuclear Emergency Is Worst in DecadesJapanese PM: Worst disaster since WWIICommentaryFrank Uekoetter: The Atomic Age After Fukushima—Time for an Epilogue?Jonathan Schell: From Hiroshima to Fukushima David Rothkopf: The Lessons of Japan's Disaster and the Losses It Did and Did Not ProduceWilliam Tucker: Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl Simon Winchester: The Scariest Earthquake Is Yet to Come

Warmaking: President vs. Congress

Related Links   HNN Hot Topics: Executive Privilege Obama & Libya Bruce Ackerman: Obama’s Unconstitutional War   Patrick J. Buchanan: Obama Goes to War   Congressonal Research Service: No-Fly Zones: Strategic, Operational, and Legal Considerations for Congress   Michael Lind: The False Defenders of Obama's War in Libya   Fred Kaplan: Is Libya Like Kosovo?   Commentary & News   Stanley I. Kutler: Civics for Cheney   News Story: Echoes from an earlier conflict ... How Congress wrestled with two presidents for control of the Vietnam War   News Story: In First since Vietnam, Congress sets terms of Iraq exit  

HNN Hot Topics: Arab Spring

Related LinksHNN Poll: Revolutions in the Middle East: What Next?Table of ContentsGlobal PerspectiveLibyaEgyptTunisiaUnited StatesGlobal PerspectiveCommentary: MediaThe Lands Autocracy Won’t QuitDavid Cameron says West was wrong to back dictators Greg Grandin: Brazil Stares Down the U.S. on LibyaSimon Sebag Montefiore: Every Revolution Is Revolutionary in Its Own WayGreg Grandin: Brazil Stares Down the U.S. on LibyaDaniel Pipes: My Optimism about the New Arab RevoltFouad Ajami: How the Arabs Turned Shame Into Liberty

HNN Hot Topics: Wisconsin Union Protests

NewsIn Showdown with Air Traffic Controllers, the Public Sided with ReaganA Watershed Moment for Public-Sector UnionsAbraham Lincoln jumped out of a window to avoid quorumCommentary: HistoriansWalter Russell Mead: A Red Dixiecrat Dawn?Melvyn Dubofsky: Anti-Union Measures About Power, Not MoneyNelson Lichtenstein: Is Wisconsin a Victory for Unions?Nelson Lichtenstein: The Long History of Labor BashingVernon M. Briggs, Jr.: Illegal Immigration and the Dilemma of American UnionsChristopher Phelps: The Wisconsin IdeaStanley Kutler: Gov. Walker Does ‘Something Big’David Kaiser: Echoes from the Fifties

HNN Hot Topics: Texas's History Curriculum

Related LinksCoverage of OAH 2011:"History Wars: The Texas Textbook ControversyHNN Hot Topics: Civil War in Virginia History Textbook VideosRebecca Goetz: History Wars: The Texas Textbook ControversyDavid Kennedy: History Wars: The Texas Textbook ControversyLisa Norling: History Wars: The Texas Textbook ControversyMark A. Chancey: History Wars: The Texas Textbook ControversyNews Texas school board approves resolution decrying"pro-Islamic" textbook bias  Texas education board to consider rule on Islam's portrayal in textbooks  Texas SBOE may OK resolution on Islamic bias in Texas textbooks  

HNN Hot Topics: Civil War Sesquicentennial

Related LinksCivil War Artifacts in the SmithsonianHNN Poll: Are Reenactments of Slave Auctions Ever Okay?NewsSlave Sale Reenactment Held in St. Louis As Part Of Civil War AnniversarySC cadets re-enact 1861 firing on US supply shipCivil War-Related National Parks Schedule Commemorative Events for Civil War 150th AnniversaryThe largest slave revolt in U.S. history is commemoratedFort Sumter and Bull Run Stamps Will Lead Off Civil War 150th Anniversary Commemorative SeriesCivil War, 150 Years Later, Still Divides Our NationNY, other states scrimp on Civil War anniversarySouth Carolina Secession Draws Debate 150 Years Later

HNN Hot Topics: Women's History Month

The best web commentary about Women's History Month.

HNN Hot Topics: Education Reform

Clockwise from top: Michelle Rhee, former DC schools chancellor and school reform advocate (Credit: Ira Harris); Students at DREAM Charter School in New York City (Credit: Flickr/{* ferris!); Teachers on strike in Chicago (Credit: Flickr/br5ad).