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Up Front
NEW 2011 Advent Calendar of America's Fighting Men
NEW "Brian’s Song": What Really Happened
Barron H. Lerner
NEW A Modest Proposal for Occupy Wall Street: Take Our Children, Please!
Steve Fraser
Occupy the American Historical Association: Demand a WPA Federal Writers' Project
Jesse Lemisch
Book of the Month: Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
HNN Poll: Do You Support Historian Newt Gingrich's Candidacy for the GOP Presidential Nomination?
Questions People are Googling
Blogs
- Josh Brown: The Inexorable Forward March...
- Robert Higgs: The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making Them Dependent on Government Benefits (L&P)
- Chris Bray: The Whites of Their Eyes (Clio)
- Sheldon Richman: Bachmann Endangers the World with Her Lies (L&P)
- Ralph Luker: The History of English in 10 Minutes (Clio)
News at Home
The Militarization of American Police Has Long Historical Roots
Jeremy Kuzmarov
The Growing Gap Between Civilians and the Military Could Have Serious Consequences
Mary L. Dudziak
News Abroad
Anti-Liberal Netanyahu Slams Arab Spring as Anti-Liberal
Juan Cole
We Don't Need a "Pacific" President—We Need an American One
Kenneth Weisbrode
Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?
Lawrence S. Wittner
Historians & History
Arabist Snobs
Daniel Pipes
Culture Watch
U.S. Theater Takes a New Look at Russian History
Bruce Chadwick
Blood and Gifts and Blood and Blood in the History of the U.S. in Afghanistan
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think About Claims of Conspiracy
Mel Ayton
Review of Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial, edited by Thomas J. Brown
Jim Cullen
Up Front
NEW The Thanksgiving Myth
Nicolaas Vergunst
NEW BLOG Walid Phares on the Middle East
HNN PollHot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- Did Van Gogh Really Cut Off His Own Ear?
- Who Invented the Martini?
- Did Hyperinflation Doom the Weimar Republic?
Blogs
- Sheldon Richman: Regarding that IAEA Report on Iran’s Alleged Nuclear Weapons Program (L&P)
- Lester Hunt: Anti-Government or Pro-Goverment? Make Up Your Mind! (L&P)
- Chris Bray: Boston College (Cont.): Paging the Energizer Bunny (Clio)
News at Home
Why Didn't Mike McQueary Stop Jerry Sandusky? Why Didn't Anyone Help Kitty Genovese?
Joseph De May
How Long Will Mothers Have to Wait for Decent Prenatal Care?
Janet Golden and Howard Markel
News Abroad
The European Debt Crisis is a Problem of Political Will
Iwan Morgan
Is Rising Isolationism in America Dangerous?
Christopher McKnight Nichols
Friendless in the Middle East
Daniel Pipes
Historians & History
Studying Crowds is out of Fashion for Historians—Here's Why We Should
Peter N. Stearns
Can History Be Used in Risk Analysis?
Yoav J. Tenembaum
Lincoln's Wartime Thanksgiving
Thomas Fleming
This Thanksgiving Feed a Silent Guest and Build World Peace
William Lambers
Culture Watch
NEW White Christmas Makes Turn from 1954 Movie to 2011 Musical with Lots of Holiday Cheer
Bruce Chadwick
The Cotton Club Roars Back to Life
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Richard White's Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Ron Briley
Review of Frank Dikötter's Mao’s Great Famine
Aaron Leonard
Up Front
Blogs
- Iwan Morgan: The European Debt Crisis: A Problem of Political Will?
- Chris Bray: Boston College (Cont.): Pushing Holder (Clio)
- Lester Hunt: Defending the Oxford Comma (L&P)
- Josh Brown: He May Talk Softly, but I'd Watch Out for that Big Stick...
Hot Topics
News at Home
Give Students A Break—An Election Break
Leonard Steinhorn
Occupy Wall Street Should Remember that No One Liked Vietnam Protesters, Either
Simon Hall
Sports Riots are Nothing New—Just Ask the Romans
David Potter
Why Teachers Must Become Community Organizers and Justice Fighters
Mark Naison
Mitt Romney: Interviews with Rogers M. Smith and Lou Cannon
Alexander Heffner
Can America Return to Normalcy? Should We Even Try?
Alan Singer
News Abroad
The Passing of the Postwar Era
Andrew J. Bacevich
Historians & History
Kissinger's "Diplomatic" Review of John Gaddis's Latest Book
Jim Sleeper
Exploring “The Wall in the Head”—Historian Edith Sheffer on How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
Robin Lindley
Culture Watch
Iron Curtain Musical Is a Charming Jab at the Old Soviet Union in 1955
Bruce Chadwick
A Grim Tale of the Destruction of Germany during World Wars I and II
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot
Jim Cullen
Review of John Marsh's Class Dismissed: Why We Can't Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality
Jim Cullen
Up Front
History is Worth Fighting For, But Where is the AHA?
Jesse Lemsich
Response to Jesse Lemisch: It's Not Enough to Just Wish for Change
Anthony Grafton and James Grossman
News
Cliopatria Awards Nominations are Now Open!
Hot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- When was the Internet Invented?
- Was Hitler Jewish?
- How Did the Taft-Hartley Act Come About?
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- Who Dreamed Up Our Concept of Time?
News at Home
Why Occupying Detroit Is Harder Than It Seems
Rachel Burstein
Rick Perry: Interviews with Historians Edward F. Countryman and Greg Cantrell
Alexander Heffner
News Abroad
NEW How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism
Juan Cole
NEW This Is What Defeat Looks Like
Tom Engelhardt
Let's Call a Spade a Spade: We're Still at War with Terror
Walid Phares
Neither the Left nor the Right Gets the Iraq Withdrawal
Andrew Meyer
Historians & History
NEW Veterans Day is a Time for Love for One's Country
Vaughn Davis Bornet
NEW Japanese Companies Used American POWs as Slave Labor—Where's Their Apology?
Kinue Tokudome
"In God We Trust" or "E Pluribus Unum"? The Founding Fathers Preferred the Latter Motto
Thomas A. Foster
Did Slavery Expand the Power of the Federal Government?
David F. Ericson
Medal of Honor Upgrades Are Rare—And They Ought to Be
Ed Hooper
This Veterans Day, Let's Reflect on the D.C. War Memorial
Jeffrey S. Reznick
Culture Watch
Hollywood Jumps Into British History: Did William Shakespeare Write His Own Plays?
Bruce Chadwick
The Ghosts of the Vietnam War Haunt Riveting "Other Desert Cities" in New York
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Denis Lacorne's Religion in America: A Political History
Jim Cullen
Review of John J. Miller's The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
Luther Spoehr
