HNN Rundowns
Up Front
 May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement Lawrence S. Wittner |
 The Real War on Muslim Women Daniel Martin Varisco |
 HNN Book of the Month: Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument -- by Eli Zaretsky |
 Bork Redux Josh Brown: Life During Wartime |
Polls
 The NYT's Frank Bruni wrote on Sunday that humanities majors "are least likely to find jobs reflective of their education level" according to federal projections. Why should students major in the humanities, especially given the ever-rising sticker price of college? We encourage comments and hope for a rigorous discussion -- click on the graphic to go the comments board! |
HNN Teacher's Edition: For High School and Grade School
HNN’s Teacher’s Edition is designed to help busy teachers build classes around topics in the news. With just a few minutes preparation, teachers will be able to teach a class on current events, even if they haven't been in a position to follow the news closely.
Grade School
High School
News at Home
 Peter Beinart and the Specter Haunting American Jewry Jack Ross |
 Mitt Romney Must Decide What Kind of America He Believes In Ian Reifowitz |
News Abroad
 Civilian Casualties: Tactical Regrets and Strategic Hypocrisy Steven I. Levine and Michael H. Hunt |
 Fantasies of Male Chivalry Ignore the History of Women in Wartime Heather Marie Stur |
Historians & History
 Setting the Record Straight: Harry Dexter White and Soviet Espionage R. Bruce Craig |
OAH/NCPH 2012
 Public History's Great Showing at the 2012 NCPH/OAH Annual Meeting David A. Walsh |
 Highlights from the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee David A. Walsh |
Education
 The Pineapple that Ate Global History Alan Singer |
Culture Watch
 Chicago 1959: This Old House It's Not Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of John B. Thompson's Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century Jim Cullen |
 Review of More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, and Progressives in New York's Year of Anarchy Jim Cullen |
2012-04-29 11:50
Up Front
NCPH Award Winners Announced |
 North Carolina's Pursuit of a Master Race Edwin Black |
 Svetlana Savranskaya: Soviet Perspectives on the Caribbean Crisis [VIDEO] OAH/NCPH 2012 |
OAH/NCPH 2012
Highlights from the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee David A. Walsh |
Index
News
Videos
- Svetlana Savranskaya: Soviet Perspectives on the Caribbean Crisis
- Vox Populi: Highlights from the OAH
- Alice Kessler-Harris: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Emancipation of Belief
- Field Critique: The Republic of Nature: Rediscovering the Environmental Origins of American History
- Melani McAlister: The Roots of the Democratic Upheavals in the Middle East
- Juan Cole: The Roots of the Democratic Upheavals in the Middle East
- Rashid Khalidi: The Roots of the Democratic Upheavals in the Middle East
- Heather Ann Thompson: From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime ... The Rise of Punitive Policy at the Federal, State, and Local Levels
On Other Websites
- Historians Gather in Milwaukee to Discuss the "Central Issue of Our Time"
- OnMilwaukee: Historians at Large on City Streets
- OnMilwaukee: Historians gather this week in Milwaukee for annual conference
Blogs
- The Europeanist: More Thoughts from the Annual Meeting of the OAH
- Larry Cebula: NCPH Day 2: A Lightning Post on Lightning Talks
- The Europeanist: Thoughts on the OAH Annual Meeting
- Tenured Radical: Hey Babe, It’s OAH Day One: Public History Rock and Roll
- Official OAH Blog
News at Home
 The True Story Behind the "War on Moms" Mary C. Brennan |
News Abroad
 The Shame of Nations: A New Record is Set for Spending on War Lawrence S. Wittner |
Historians & History
 Tim Weiner's Enemies: The Final Say Susan Rosenfeld (with endnote by Tim Weiner) |
 The Forgotten History of Milwaukee's Civil Rights Struggle Patrick D. Jones |
Culture Watch
 Sports History Gets Another Look with Magic/Bird Basketball Drama Bruce Chadwick |
Books
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 Review of Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It Jim Cullen |
2012-04-22 22:38
Up Front
Highlights from the 2012 OAH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee David A. Walsh |
 Updated OAH/NCPH 2012 Sessions List (Now with Room Numbers!) |
 Twitter Details for OAH/NCPH 2012 |
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HNN Community Poll
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HNN Face/Off
Tim Weiner's Enemies Wears Its Anti-FBI Agenda on Its Sleeve Susan Rosenfeld |
 What Susan Rosenfeld Gets Wrong About Enemies Tim Weiner |
News at Home
 Channelling George Washington: Obamacare -- The Monster Law Thomas Fleming |
 Child Rearing and the American Future (Let the "Hunger Games" Begin!) James E. Block |
 Beware the Education-Industrial Complex Alan Singer |
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News Abroad
 What History Should Teach Us About Blockading Iran Juan Cole |
Culture Watch
 Editor's Desk: Mad Men: The Decline and Fall of Peter Campbell |
 The Soap Myth Does Not Cleanse the Nazis or Holocaust Bruce Chadwick |
 Will Ozzie Guillén Go the Same Way as Al Campanis? Murray Polner |
 Where are History Plays Born? Interview with History Playwright Alex Borinksy Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Thomas Fleming's Liberty Tavern Jonathan Carriel |
 Review of John Paton Davies, Jr.'s China Hand: An Autobiography Murray Polner |
2012-04-15 13:28
Up Front
 Editor's Desk: Mad Men Gets Dark. Really Dark. |
 Vietnam Has Left Town, Say Hello to the New Syndrome on the Block Tom Engelhardt |
Polls
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News at Home
 "People in the Press are Just as Patriotic" as Everyone Else -- Interview with Anthony Lewis, Part 2 Adam Eisenberg |
Romney Still Fails to Make the Sale Gil Troy |
 The Founding Fathers Had an Individual Mandate -- to Buy Guns David A. Walsh |
 Americans Elect Could Become a Viable Political Party J. David Gillespie |
News Abroad
 Power Pivot or Duffer's Divot?: Obama's Asia Policy Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine |
 The GOP Doesn't Have a Foreign Policy -- They're Just Against Whatever Obama is For Steve Hochstadt |
 It's Not Road Rage -- It's Terrorism Daniel Pipes |
 A Small But Solid Victory for Liberal Education at Yale Jim Sleeper |
 South Sudan Could Learn From America's War of 1812 on How to Build a Lasting Peace William Lambers |
Culture Watch
 Editor's Desk: Should We Preserve Ugly Buildings? |
 "The Best Man": Does the Convention Always Nominate Him? Bruce Chadwick |
 Judy Garland Goes Over the Rainbow in Powerful Play about the Show Biz Legend Bruce Chadwick |
Books
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 Review of Alasdair Roberts's America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Crisis of 1837 Jim Cullen |
2012-04-08 01:35
Up Front
 History Shows Brokered Conventions Go for the Moderate Candidate Nicole Hemmer |
 Editor's Desk: Rock 'n' Roll Sells Out on Mad Men |
 HNN Book of the Month: A People's History of Baseball |
Polls
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Questions People are Googling
- Can Anything Be Done to Increase Voter Participation?
- What Happened When Democrats in Congress Cut Off Funding for the Vietnam War?
News at Home
 "The Supreme Court is a Very Great ... Institution," but Today It's "Outrageous": Interview with Anthony Lewis, Part 1 Adam Eisenberg |
 The Texas Sabbath Showdown—The Inside Story Edwin Black |
 Life During Wartime: Wisconsin Death Trap? Joshua Brown |
News Abroad
 Dennis Kucinich, Lefty for Radical Islam Daniel Pipes |
 The Arab Spring Continues, Just Not on American TV Juan Cole |
Historians & History
 April 1912 Didn't Just See the Sinking of the Titanic -- The Fortunes of the GOP Sank, Too Adam Burns |
 Despite What Some Still Maintain, the Lewinsky Scandal Didn't Affect Clinton's Iraq Strategy Lee Ruddin |
Culture Watch
 The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties Are Back, Green Light and All, On Stages and Screens Near You Bruck Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Michael T. Klare's The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the Globe's Last Resources Lawrence S. Wittner |
 Review of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion Jim Cullen |
2012-04-01 20:42
