Week of October 12, 2009
Up Front
HNN Poll: Does Obama deserve the Nobel Prize for Peace?
HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Special Report
Robert Proctor vs. Big Tobacco
HNN Staff
News at Home
Roman Polanski and the History of “Rape-Rape” in America
Heather Munro Prescott
The “Tea Party” Movement and Its Misuse of History
Jeremy Stern
Why Justices of the Supreme Court Make Bad Historians
Ken Shear
The New Tammany Hall
Fred Siegel and Dan DiSalvo
News Abroad
Left and Right Against War
Murray Polner
Obama's Prize: Noble Hopes in an Ignoble World
Gil Troy
Obama, Afghanistan, and American History
William O. Walker III
Can Obama Redefine the "Real" in Realpolitik? The Nobel Committee is Betting that He Can
Mark LeVine
Obama as Nobelist, Obama as Game-changer
Juan Cole
Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment
Ira Chernus
Historians & History
Conquering the Demons from the Holocaust
Natan P.F. Kellermann
Happy Birthday ER!
Nancy Shear
The Unknown Connection between General David Petraeus and Harry Truman
Ryan Forman
Culture Watch
How the Short, Unruly Life of ‘Ramparts’ Magazine Changed America: An Interview with Peter Richardson
Aaron Leonard
Books
Review of Andrew Ross's Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
Robert D. Parmet
Review of Richard Deats's Marked for Life: The Story of Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Duane L. Cady
Review of George B. Kirsch's Golf in America
Luther Spoehr