Up Front

Eurotrash Iwan Morgan

SOCOM Unleashed: Globalizing the Global War on Terror Andrew J. Bacevich

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

• Electing the President: Voter Apathy

Memorial Day Special

Who Invented Memorial Day?  Jim Downs

It's Time for a National World War I Memorial Julian Saltman

At Last, Honor for Albert Wedemeyer, a Great American Soldier Thomas Fleming

How to Forget on Memorial Day Tom Engelhardt

HNN Hot Topics: Memorial Day

News at Home

The Solution to the Voter's Dilemma: Split the Ticket Steve Hochstadt

Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible Fred Nielsen

The Lessons of People’s Park for the Occupy Movement Michael H. Carriere

Historians & History

The Perils of Internet Research: The Case of LBJ and Affirmative Action Samuel Walker

Slavery and the Myth of the Alamo James W. Russell

The Science (and History) of Disgust: Interview with Psychologist Rachel Herz on Understanding Human Repulsion Robin Lindley

Education

What Would Ben Franklin Think about What's Happening to Higher Ed. in Pennsylvania? Caroline V. Hamilton

Culture Watch

Show Biz History Jammed into a 1940 Boarding House: Operas, Novels, Poems, and a Stripper, Too Bruce Chadwick

Drugs, Fires and Murder in New York: Welcome to Life on the Street in 1975 Bruce Chadwick

The American Small Town in the Age of U.S. Empire Ryan Poll

Books

Review of Lawrence S. Wittner's Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual Robert Shaffer

Review of Troy Bickham's The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812 Jim Cullen

Up Front

2012's Real Victory Won't Be Obama or Romney: It'll Be the National Security State William J. Astore

Now It's Obama Who's Our First Gay President! James Loewen

Polls

News at Home

What Does It Take for a Candidate to be President? Interview with Samuel Popkin David A. Walsh

Why Did President Nixon Show George Romney the Door as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? Michael H. Ebner

Obama "Evolved" on Same-Sex Marriage -- Lincoln "Evolved" on Slavery Corey M. Brooks

News Abroad

Why Did the Jewish Daily Forward Interview a Hamas Spokesman? Daniel Mandel

Mother's Day, 2012, and We're Still at War Murray Polner

America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill Tom Engelhardt

Historians & History

Was the Economic Miracle of World War II Fact or Fiction? Richard Striner

Roosevelt, Hughes, and the Battle over the New Deal: Interview with James Simon Robin Lindley

Culture Watch

"Elementary": Sherlock Holmes Is Back in a Big Way Bruce Chadwick

Peter Pan, the Boy Who Never Grew Up, Flies Back to Broadway with the Lost Boys in Tow Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Chase Madar's The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History Murray Polner

Review of Randal Maurice Jelks's Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography Luther Spoehr