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2010-05-24 01:39

Up Front

HNN Poll: Should Elena Kagan be Confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice?

HNN Hot Topics: The Nomination of Elena Kagan

History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman

Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman

HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Kathryn Lofton
Bonnie K. Goodman

Independent Historians

HNN Hot Topics: Texas's History Curriculum

HNN Hot Topics: UK General Election 2010

HNN Special: Texas Historians Assess the Proposed Texas Social Studies Standards

Introduction to the Feature
Keith A. Erekson

Plagiarized Work
Michael Soto

An Almost Impossibly Large Set of Standards Produced by a Problematic Process
Jesús F. de la Teja

A Pattern of Neglect and a Missed Opportunity
Emilio Zamora

A Culturally Irrelevant History of "Melodramatic Minutiae"
Iliana Alanís

An Overstuffed Laundry List that Treats Seniors like Kindergartners
Keith A. Erekson

A Sanitized History
Roberto R. Calderón

An Incomplete Version of the Past that Silences Important Struggles
Kirsten Gardner

The God in Whom We Should Trust
John Willingham

News at Home

Gulf Spill Serves as Referendum on the High-Energy Existence
Brian Black

News Abroad

May 10 Elections in the Philippines Will Change Little
Luis H. Francia

European Citizenship's Past and Future
Andreas Fahrmeir

Historians & History

The Death (and Life) of the Newspaper
Tom Robinson

Lessons from the 36th Congress on Party Rigidity Today
Jordan Goldstein

Books

Review of Dick J. Reavis's Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
Jim Cullen

Review of Adam Haslett's Union Atlantic: A Novel
Jim Cullen


2010-05-11 01:24