Week of January 24, 2011
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Important State of the Union Addresses in History
Celebrating Nine Years of HNN
HNN's Ning Network is Now LIVE!
Why You Should Use HNN's Ning Network!
Hear What Historians are Saying About HNN
News at Home
What Will Civil Dialog Look Like?
Geraldo Cadava
Property Tax Discrimination and the Question of Fair Taxation
Andrew W. Kahrl
News Abroad
Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable
Andrew Bacevich
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?
Ira Chernus
Historians & History
On Going Viral: Reflections on Why the South Really Seceded
James W. Loewen
Puncturing Betty Friedan, but Not the Mystique: An Interview with Stephanie Coontz
Author and Oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee on the History of Cancer
Robin Lindley
Teaching Huckleberry Finn in Historical Context
Ron Briley
Mass Consumption Isn't Just All-American—The Nazis Had It, Too
S. Jonathan Wiesen
The Mafia and Me: Reflections on Being Italian
Michael Parenti
The Firebombing of Tokyo and Its Legacy
Bret Fisk and Cary Karacas
Culture Watch
Another Week, Another Round of History Plays in New York
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Brian Hick's Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
Jim Cullen
Review of Lewis Hyde's Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership
Jim Cullen