HNN Rundowns
Up Front
 Editor's Desk: Is History Bunk? |
Polls
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Questions People are Googling
- Do Mormons Practice Polygamy?
- Who Invented the Martini?
- Why Do We Hear About the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions? Where Are the Other 99?
News at Home
 The Myth of a Brokered Convention Leo P. Ribuffo |
 The Perils of a Brokered Convention R. Craig Sautter |
 "Americans Elect" May Upend the Presidential Election Robert Brent Toplin |
News Abroad
 Japanese Cuisine is Excellent, but Does It Deserve UNESCO Protection? Jonathan Dresner |
Historians & History
 Five Myths about Aaron Burr David O. Stewart |
Culture Watch
 Editor's Desk: The Return of Mad Men |
 New York, Nuke York Mick Broderick and Robert Jacobs |
 To Kill a Mockingbird at Fifty Thomas Doherty |
 Was Shakespeare an Anti-Semite? Glenn Speer |
 History Resonates through the Lives of Families in The Big Meal Bruce Chadwick |
 Lenin, Joyce and the Dadaists in Zurich Together in 1917 in the at Times Brilliant and at Times Very Confusing Travesties Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Peter Beinart's The Crisis of Zionism Murray Polner |
 Review of Andrew Nagorski's Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power Jim Cullen |
Up Front
 BRIC By BRIC: The Changing Global Economic League Iwan Morgan |
Polls
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Questions People are Googling
- Where Did the Term "The West" Originate?
- What Qualifies as Demagoguery?
- How Did the Atomic Bomb Get Built?
News at Home
 Memo to Pundits: Stop Calling Rick Santorum a Fascist Michelle Nickerson |
 I Studied Savonarola, I Wrote About Savonarola, and Rick Santorum, Sir, You are No Savonarola Donald Weinstein |
 The Value of Shaming the Banks? Around $2 Billion. Joe Krudler |
 Why Drug Companies Can Take Your Body Tissue Without Your Consent: Interview with Bioethicist Harriet A. Washington Robin Lindley |
News Abroad
 Try a Little Nuclear Sanity Lawrence S. Wittner |
Historians & History
 Did France Cause the Great Depression? Douglas Irwin |
 March is Texas History Month -- So Let's Remember the Alamo Through a New Lens John Willingham |
Culture Watch
 Could HBO's Game Change Change the Game of Politics? Robert Brent Toplin |
 Little Known World War II Court-Martial Gets Vibrant New Hearing Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Thomas Mallon's Watergate: A Novel Jim Cullen |
 Review of Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Midway Luther Spoehr |
Up Front
 Editor's Desk: Ireland's Abortionist Saint (and Other Saint Patrick's Day Musings) |
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 It's Been Fifty Years Since We "Discovered" Poverty -- Has Anything Really Changed? Barbara Ehrenreich |
 Damn Yankees Musical about 1950s Hits Home Run Bruce Chadwick |
 The Moral Crusade Against Contraception Won't Work John W. Johnson |
Polls
Questions People are Googling
- Who are the Afghans?
- When Did the Killing of Civilians in War Become Illegal?
- Why Do Historians Write About Race, Class & Gender?
News at Home
 The Georgia Senate Tries to Whitewash the Founding Fathers James C. Cobb |
 What the War over Contraception is Really About: Control over Women's Bodies Ruth Rosen |
 Does Barack Obama Have True Political Wisdom? (Yes, He Does.) Walter G. Moss |
News Abroad
 Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran Tom Engelhardt |
 The Arab World As It Was Seen Fifty Years Ago Daniel Pipes |
Historians & History
 Corroborating MLK's Quote on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism Martin Kramer |
 Comparing the British Giants: Niall Ferguson and Tony Judt Nick Shepley |
 Postcard from Potsdam: Frederick the Great Gets the Full Museum Treatment Kevin Kennedy |
 How to Write a Good Memoir (It Helps If You Were Once Targeted by the Unabomber) Lawrence S. Wittner |
 The Solution for Rising Textbook Costs? Free Peer-Reviewed Textbooks. David J. Trowbridge |
Culture Watch
 I Love Downton Abbey, Because the Granthams are (Essentially) My Ancestors Pearl Duncan |
Books
 Review of Dave Zirin's Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love Jim Cullen |
 Review of Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Jim Cullen |
Up Front
Blogs
- Editor's Desk: Abe Lincoln is a Filthy Traitor!
- Lester Hunt: Top Five Reasons Not to Write a Nasty Obit (L & P)
Polls
Has your opinion of JFK changed?
Hot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- Why Do Mormons Baptize Holocaust Victims?
- How Much Does Character Count in a President?
- Why Did President Ford Ban Assassinations?
- The Surprising Origins and Meaning of the “Pursuit of Happiness”
News at Home
Is Rick Santorum's Fundamentalist Catholicism at Odds with Protestant Christianity?
Steven Conn
Pat Buchanan was Breitbart Before Breitbart
Timothy Stanley
"Obamacare": A History of the Most Effective Scareword in Politics
Robert Brent Toplin
What is True Political Wisdom? A Primer for the 2012 Election
Walter G. Moss
News Abroad
Legal Case Against Attacking Iran
Bruce Ackerman
Project Censored At Home And Abroad
Jim Loewen
Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb
Juan Cole
Historians & History
IBM’s Role in the Holocaust? New Documents Confirm the Worst
Edwin Black
Does Mimi Alford's New Memoir Finally Mean the Death Knell for the Camelot Myth of JFK?
Vaughn Davis Bornet
The Expansion and Transformation of NATO ... The Real Clinton Doctrine
Lee Ruddin
An Interview with Ambassador David Scheffer, the Architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunals
Robin Lindley
Should We Really Still Like Ike? Interview with Stephen Schlesinger
David A. Walsh
Culture Watch
An Iliad for the Ages Takes History Lovers Back to the Trojan Wars
Bruce Chadwick
Albee’s 1980s Lady from Dubuque Gains Ground as a History Play in 2012
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Steven J. Ross's Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Andrew Feffer
Review of S. Brian Willson's Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson: A Psychohistorical Memoir
Jeremy Kuzmarov
