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Joshua Brown: Occasional Sketches
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HNN Book of the Month: The Global Lincoln, edited by Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton
HNN Hot Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.
News at Home
The American Family Association Says that the Nazis were Gay—The GOP Needs to Distance Itself from that Craziness
Jonathan Zimmerman
A Stimulus Isn't Enough to Fix this Economy, But Here are Three Ideas that Might
Judith Stein
Three Lessons in Emergency Management from Someone Who Did It Well
Utpal Sandesara and Thomas Wooten
News Abroad
Daniel Pipes: Uncertain Times in the Middle East
Historians & History
School Reform Grudge Match: Diane Ravitch vs. Steven Brill
David A. Walsh
MLK Would Be Against the War Today
William Loren Katz
The Delicious Irony of the Federal Government Memorializing MLK
Jo Freedman
Is an Apology Enough for Genocide?
Edwin Black
The Flight from Justice: Historian Gerald Steinacher on How Nazis Fled Europe after World War II
Robin Lindley
Culture Watch
There Is No Business Like Show Business and No History Like the History of It
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of John Patrick Diggins's Why Niebuhr Now?
Luther Spoehr
Review of James T. Sparrow's Warfare State: World War II and the Age of Big Government
Jim Cullen
Up Front
HNN Exclusive: Bill Moyers to Return to TV with a New Series
HNN Hot Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.
HNN Hot Topics: Stock Market Crashes
HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown
American Historical Association: Pacific Coast Branch (Videos)
Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood
Bush's Wars: Roundtable on Terry Anderson's Book
Vietnam
- David Anderson: Understanding the Origins of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
- David Schmitz: Understanding the Origins of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
- Matthew Masur: Understanding the Origins of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
- Jessica Elkind: Understanding the Origins of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
- Kathleen Belew: Timothy McVeigh's Vietnam War in Oklahoma
- Simeon Man: Asian American Veterans and the 'Gook Syndrome'
Religion and Politics
- Larry McAndrews: Carter, Catholics and Abortion
- Elise Boxer: Mormon Manifest Destiny, Mormon Whiteness and Racial Formations
- Christopher Schlect: The Great Depression and the Elasticity of Fundamentalism
- Janine Giordano Drake: What Does Fundamentalism Have to Do with Class?
- W. Andrew Tooley: Evangelical Methodists and Postwar Conservatism
Great Power Intervention in the Middle East
News at Home
Neither Bachmann nor Perry is the Serious Candidate the GOP Needs
Stanley Kutler
Why the Left Needs Its Koch Brothers
Richard Striner
The Fed's Not the Cavalry in this Crisis
Iwan Morgan
Obama and Hoover: Two "Smart" (Stupid) Presidents
Jonathan J. Bean
News Abroad
The Great Tripoli Uprising
Juan Cole
White House Weasel Words in the Middle East
Daniel Pipes
The UK Riots Show the Bankruptcy of Conservative Policies
Deepak Tripathi
Historians & History
J.H. Plumb Would Be Aghast at Today's Distorted History
John Willingham
What if the Americans Had Established Six Nations, Rather than One?
Robert Higgs
Culture Watch
RIP Nick Ashford and Jerry Leiber: You Created the Soundtrack for a Multiracial America
Mark Naison
Fringe Festival: "Noir" is Hard-boiled Good Fun
Bruce Chadwick
Chasing History in New York's Fringe Festival
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of The Cambridge Companion to Baseball, edited by Leonard Cassuto and Stephen Partridge
Ron Briley
Review of Terry H. Anderson's Bush's Wars
Jim Cullen
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Stock Market Crashes
HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown
News at Home
Stock Market Crash: What are the Politics Behind It?
Robert Brent Toplin
How Not To Talk About Financial Panics: New Rules For Pundits
James Livingston
Wanted: A President Who is Tougher Than Terrycloth
Gil Troy
Obama's Just Another Moderate Republican
Stanley Kutler
Conservatives Put Their Faith in the God "Market" ... And It's a God that Can Fail
Robert S. McElvaine
We May Not Like What Teach for America Has Become, But Maybe Progressives Can Bring It Back to Its Roots
Mark Naison
Are America and Europe Sinking into Meltdown 2.0?
Iwan Morgan
How to Save a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars: Axe "Missile Defense"
Lawrence S. Wittner
News Abroad
Canada Helped Feed Europe's Children—Now It Needs to Feed Africa's
William Lambers
Historians & History
NEW Hiroshima & Nagasaki: 66 Years Later
Murray Polner
Why Stephen Ambrose's World War II and Mine Are So Different
Bernard A. Weisberger
"Witness to an Extreme Century": An Interview with Robert Jay Lifton
Robin Lindley
The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up—And the Greatest Movie Never Made
Greg Mitchell
Wait, The Berlin Wall's Already Been Down for Twenty Years?
Brian Ladd
Culture Watch
"Chasing Heaven" Chases the Question of Who Writes History
Bruce Chadwick
A Sarcastic Play about Bombings, Suicides, Police Scandals, Anarchists and the New Left in Italy in 1969 Scores for New Jersey Theater
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of John Ferling's Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free
Eric Herschthal
Review of Steven Tyler's Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
Jim Cullen
Review of Jennifer Frost's Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism
Ron Briley
Up Front
HNN Poll: What Do You Think of the Deal to Raise the Debt Ceiling?
Iwan Morgan: Live Blogging the Debt Crisis
News at Home
Obama at 50 Should Have More Faith in America
Gil Troy
Debt Ceiling: A Minority Victory Without Precedent?
Iwan Morgan
The Debt Deal is "Bad for Everyone": Jim Livingston on the Latest Developments
David A. Walsh
What Would Alexander Hamilton Have Done in the Debt Crisis? Financial Historian Richard Sylla on the Debt Ceiling
David A. Walsh
Remember in the Debt Limit Crisis, the Real "Job Creators" are Consumers
James Livingston
Rick Perry's Vice-Presidential Mistake
Joel K. Goldstein
News Abroad
Norway's Terrorism in Context
Daniel Pipes
Famine Strikes Again in Africa. America Needs to Respond
William Lambers
Playing Ball With the Pentagon
Andrew J. Bacevich
Historians & History
Barry Landau Isn't an Historian, He's an Antiquarian—So Let's Stop Calling Him One
Samuel J. Redman
Books
Review of Ronald A. Wolk's Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It
Luther Spoehr
Review of Jack Ross's Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism
Thomas Kolsky
