Week of January 11, 2010

Up Front

Hot Topics: Haitian Earthquake

HNN Poll: What Do You Think of the Filibuster?

History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman

Political Highlights
Bonnie Goodman

HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform

HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan

HNN's Coverage of the AHA

Highlights of the 2010 Annual Convention of the American Historical Association in San Diego
David Walsh

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4

News of the Convention

• Video of Protest at AHA
• AHA Portfolio Makes Gains in the Market
• Relations between AHA and Committee for LGBT History strained by annual meeting
• American Historical Association Annual Meeting begins today amidst controversy
  

HNN Videos

• Joan Heifetz Hollinger: Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases
• Estelle Friedman: Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases
• Michael Grossberg: Marriage on Trial: Historians and Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Cases
• Abby Rumsey: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age?
• Anthony Grafton: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age?
• James W. Cortada: What Becomes of Print in the Digital Age?
• Protest at the AHA
• Jonathan L. Walton: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections
• Jennifer Manion: Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections
• Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman: What Has Obama Learned from History?
• Jason Scott Smith: What Has Obama Learned from History?
• Julian Zelizer: What Has Obama Learned from History?
• Paul Duguid: Is Google Good for History?
• Daniel Cohen: Is Google Good for History?

HNN Special: Obama One Year Later

What Obama is Doing Wrong
Judith Apter Klinghoffer

Why It's Unlikely Obama Will Suffer Carter's Fate
Ashley Wayne Cruseturner

Obama, Diplomat-in-Chief
Kenneth Weisbrode

News at Home

News Abroad

Divide and Confound—or Divide and Empower? The Opportunities and Dangers of Strategic PSYOP against the Alawi Rulers of Syria
Timothy Furnish

How an Ancient Act of Terror Brought Down a Republic
Adrienne Mayor

Nuclear Terrorism: How It Can Be Prevented
Lawrence S. Wittner

Historians & History

Texas Social Studies Reform: What Texans Aren’t Talking About—But Should Be
Keith A. Erekson

History without Reading
Jim Cullen

What Would You Include in a Children's Book About the Ancient World?
Cathy Diez-Luckie

Books

Review of Stephen Cox's The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison
Phyllis B. Taylor

Review of Slavoj Zizek’s First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Aaron Leonard