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HNN Teacher's Edition: For 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.
 Electing the President: What Makes for a Great President?Lesson Plan Backgrounder |
 The U.S. ConstitutionLesson Plan Backgrounder |
Blogs
Neither side is articulating what they really believe. |
And a Romney victory would bring back the neocons. |
The ghosts of a very ugly past of voter suppression. |
We're San Diego bound! |
Don't believe the pundits -- the candidates are actually have a real debate about the proper role of government. |
News at Home
Whether or not a vote counts is ultimately up to election workers ... and the poll watchers keeping an eye on them. |
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe -- Clinton, Bush, Obama? |
"[A] Samson who had allowed himself to be shorn by the harlot, England." -- Jefferson on Washington. |
Violent deaths spike under Republican presidents. |
How American democracy became the property of a commercial oligarchy. |
Which side are you on? |
The idea that government aid buys votes for the Democrats has been around since the New Deal. |
Detroit mayor Frank Murphy's New Deal before the New Deal. |
News Abroad
This election will be determined by how the president handles the whirlwind of world events. |
"Who the !@$% does he think he is? Who's the !@$%ing superpower here?" -- Bill Clinton on Benjamin Netayahu. |
Comparing the U.S. "civilizing mission" in the Philippines to "nation-building" in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
The UN should look back at the 1922 campaign to cloth Armenians for ideas. |
A new polls shows that Americans are surprisingly skeptical about weapons, wars, and defense spending. |
Historians & History
The state of Georgia got more than it bargained for when it tried to close its archives to the public. |
Thirty acres of America's historic battlefields are lost every day. |
Joseph Smith ran for president in 1844 ... and was also the first presidential candidate to be assassinated. |
Why thank you, Muslim Public Affairs Council, for this endorsement. |
Bed-hopping with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. |
Books
A solid bio, but it doesn't capture Wells's personality. |
A thorough, exhaustively-researched account of the icon. |
Blogs
 Registering to Vote, Then and Now Jim Loewen |
 The Myth of Arab (Or Is It Muslim?) Rage Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 Who Should Make Our Foreign Policy? Steve Hochstadt |
 What are They Trying to Tell Us? Josh Brown's Life During Wartime |
 Let's Not Rush to Judge Mitt's Libyan Rush to Judgment Gil Troy |
Google Questions
 Why Can Paul Ryan Run for Vice President and Congress at the Same Time? David Austin Walsh |
News at Home
 What Nixon Wrought With the Checkers Speech ... And What Romney Can Learn Kevin Mattson |
 Lincoln Would Choose Obama over Romney Daniel Herman |
 No Julian Castro Without Mother Rosie Castro Cynthia E. Orozco |
 America Needs an Industrial Policy Judith Stein |
 Fifty Years After Silent Spring, Let's Not Roll Back Environmental Protections Nancy C. Unger |
News Abroad
 Judging Romney Fairly K.C. Johnson |
 Romney, Reagan, and Campaign Foreign Policy Chester Pach |
 The “Muslim” Problem Daniel Martin Varisco |
 Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect Juan Cole |
 The Arab Spring and the Loss of Innocence Andrew Meyer |
Historians & History
 The Cuban Missile Crisis, According to Harvard Max Holland |
 The Grand Old Party Ain't What It Used To Be: Interview with Lewis L. Gould David Austin Walsh |
 Katyń: A History Written in Blood and Tears Padraic Kenney |
 How Trauma Shaped Renowned Writing: Interview with Doug Underwood Robin Lindley |
Education
 Chicago Teachers Strike a Blow Against Testing Ronald W. Evans |
Culture Watch
 On Jews and Baseball for the High Holidays Peter Ephross |
 New "Oliver Twist" Plays Takes Searing Look at London’s Criminal Class in the 1830s Bruce Chadwick |
 The Little Tramp, His Four Wives, Eight Children, Five Film Companies and Even J. Edgar Hoover Conquer the Stage in Chaplin Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Roger Peace's A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign Murray Polner |
 Review of Eric Laursen's The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan Robert D. Parmet |
Up Front
 HNN Hot Topics: Education Reform |
 HNN Hot Topics: 9/11 |
Features
 Michelle Bachmann Award for Distinguished Lack of Historical Knowledge |
 Hitler Watch: Three Days, Three Democratic Leaders, Three Nazi References |
Blogs
 Who Gets to Vote? Steve Hochstadt |
 Repeat After Me . . . Josh Brown's Life During Wartime |
Polls
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News at Home
 The Simple Message Dems Are Missing Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 A Lesson in Volunteerism from George Romney Laura Jane Gifford |
 Paul Ryan Plays Politics With the Family Business Tammy Ingram |
 Where to Find America's True Democratic Spirit Mark Naison |
News Abroad
 Monopolizing War: Doing What America Does Best Tom Engelhardt |
 Romney vs. Obama vis-à-vis Israel Daniel Pipes |
 Obama’s "Smart Power" Foreign Policy Not Smart at All John Feffer |
Historians & History
 Another Open Letter to the Middle East Studies Association Alan Luxenberg |
 Honoring the Second World War Debt Britons Owe Americans Lee Ruddin |
Books
 Review of James Rice's Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Colonial Virginia Jim Cullen |
 Review of John Kelly's The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People Jim Cullen |
Up Front: History and Neuroscience
 History Meets Neuroscience Daniel Lord Smail |
 What Can Historians Learn from Neuroscience? Christopher U.M. Smith |
 HNN Hot Topics: What History Can Learn from the New Social Sciences |
Polls
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Features
 HNN Book of the Month: Samuel Popkin's The Candidate: What it Takes to Win -- and Hold -- the White House |
 HNN Hot Topics: Labor Day |
 Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day? Interview with Peter Dreier David A. Walsh |
Blogs
 Michelle Challenges Nineteenth-Century Myth Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 Dinesh D'Souza: Knave or Fool? Jim Loewen |
 Clinton Eastwood’s GOP Performance: Unforgiven or Beguiling Gil Troy |
 For the GOP, It's the Patriotism, Stupid Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
News at Home
 Money in Politics: Where Is the Outrage? Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger |
 Deficit Disorder Scot Faulkner |
 Women are People, Too Catherine Allgor |
 Clint (and Mitt), What Were You Thinking? Robert Brent Toplin |
 Election Primer 2012: Religion and Government Steve Hochstadt |
 Voter Suppression: The Unraveling of American Democracy Ruth Rosen |
News Abroad
 What Should Obama and Romney Read on China? Jeffrey Wasserstrom |
 The History Romney Should Consider before Returning Churchill’s Bust to the Oval Office Lee Ruddin |
Historians & History
 When It Comes to First-Person Accounts of Lincoln's Last Days, Who Do You Trust? Noah Pierre Trudeau |
 2012 Politics and William James Walter G. Moss |
Education
 The Oldest University Buildings in America David A. Walsh |
 Message To Teachers at the Start of a New School Year Mark Naison |
 Richard Levin Leaves Behind a Mixed Legacy at Yale Jim Sleeper |
Books
 Review of Peter Heather's Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe Jim Cullen |
 Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City Antonio Ramirez |
Up Front
 Lest We Forget -- Condi Redux? Josh Brown's Life During Wartime |
 "Tell Them About Yourself Mitt, Tell Them About Yourself" Gil Troy |
 How Do We Rank Our Presidents? Interview with Robert W. Merry David A. Walsh |
 Weird Facts about Presidential Conventions HNN Staff |
 Neil Armstrong: A Life in Pictures HNN Staff |
News at Home
 On The Road To Ryan And Ruin Lawrence Davidson |
 Paul Ryan's Hijacking of Natural Rights John Willingham |
 Ryan's Doctrine . . . Josh Brown: Life During Wartime |
 HNN Hot Topics: Paul Ryan |
News Abroad
 The Republican "Small Government" Fraud Lawrence S. Wittner |
Historians & History
 JFK Was a Legend in His Own Time Yoav J. Tenembaum |
 In Search of New Mythology (Part Three) Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
Culture Watch
 A Harrowing and Brilliant Look at Gay America in 1958 Bruce Chadwick |
 Sad Tale of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries in the 1940s Is Devastating Bruce Chadwick |
 An Unsteady John Wilkes Booth Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Paul Ingrassia's Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars Luther Spoehr |
Up Front
Nine Weird Facts About Presidential Conventions HNN Staff |
 Why Are Americans So Confused? Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
News at Home
 Todd Akin and Paul Ryan are American Salafis Juan Cole |
 Is Paul Ryan Jack Kemp, Model 2012? Nicole Hemmer |
 The L-Word: Libertarianism Robert Brent Toplin |
 Ryan's Hope: A Vice Presidency in the Tradition of Dick Cheney and Joe Biden Timothy Walch |
 How Does Obama's Personality Stack Up Against FDR's? Andrew M. Obritsch |
 The 2012 Election: Freedom, Justice, Fairness, and Opportunity Walter G. Moss |
News Abroad
 Wait Out the War in Syria Daniel Pipes |
 Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad Alfred W. McCoy |
 Why Timbuktu Will Overcome Its Latest Fundamentalist Conquerors Steve Kemper |
Historians & History
 Niall Ferguson's Newsweek/Daily Beast Cover Story Ignites a Firestorm HNN Staff |
 Does David Barton's Flameout Make This a Scopes Moment for American History? Adam Laats |
 Rome: The Origin of Empire Greg Woolf |
Blogs
 In Search of New Mythology (Part One) Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 In Search of New Mythology (Part Two) Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
Culture Watch
 A 1950s Harvest Moon Rises Over Tragedies in a Small Texas Town Bruce Chadwick |
 Judge Seeks Sexual Favors from Young Woman to Save Her Brother. Is this 1604 or 2012? Bruce Chadwick |
 Tweets and Twitters: A Mormon Runs for President Bruce Chadwick |
 Summer, 1938: Parody of The Sound of Music Hits All the Right Notes Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Clint Hill's and Lisa McCubbin's Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir Vaughn Davis Bornet |
 Review of Kevin Levin's Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder Jim Cullen |
Blogs
In Search of New Mythology (Part One) Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
News at Home
 The Mythic Paul Ryan Enters, Stage Right Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 Did Monica Lewinsky Really Save Social Security? Eric Laursen |
 The Romney Economic Plan's Misreading of History Iwan Morgan |
 What Al Smith Can Teach Mitt Romney Michael R. Whitaker |
 Protections for the Working Class Have Vanished in America Jerome Braun |
 Defunding Mass Transit is Not Good for the Tea Party, Whatever They May Think Tammy Ingram |
News Abroad
 Mahdism (and Sectarianism and Superstition) Rises in the Islamic World Timothy R. Furnish |
Historians & History
 The Nixon Foundation *Did Not* Delay the Opening of the New Watergate Exhibit at the Nixon Library Bob Bostock |
 Middle East Studies Association to Israelis: “Go to the Back of the Bus” Alan Luxenberg |
 Mark Twain's Progressive and Prophetic Political Humor Walter G. Moss |
Culture Watch
 What Happened When the Gun That Was Supposed to Kill Hitler Jammed? Bruce Chadwick |
 "The Dark Knight Rises" Elevates the 1 Percent and Trashes the Ninety-Nine Ron Briley |
 A Thousand Laughs in "A Thousand Clowns," a Look at Life in the 1960s Bruce Chadwick |
 Another Chapter in the History of World War II Women Journalists Unfolds in the Berkshires Bruce Chadwick |
 Whether 1606 or 1906, Bad Leadership Brings Bad Results Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of David Goodway's Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward Eric Laursen |
 Review of Miko Peled’s The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine Murray Polner |
Up Front
 How a Left-Wing Look at America's "Heroes" Reveals Its Own Ignorance Ron Radosh |
 Myth Versus Myth: Remembering Nagasaki Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices Revisited Stanley Kutler |
HNN Special: Barack Obama's Slave Ancestor
 Barack Obama’s “Slave” Ancestor and the Politics of Genealogy Honor Sachs |
 There's No Basis for the Claims that John Punch was Indentured -- Or That His Comrades Were "White" Jeffrey B. Perry |
 John Punch Wasn't the First Slave in America -- Just the First Slave in the English Colonies Pearl Duncan |
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News at Home
 Why Do Married Women Vote Republican? Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 It’s Time to Impeach Justice Scalia Alan Singer |
 Whatever Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Customer Service? Richard Striner |
News Abroad
 The Secret Tie that Binds U.S. and Israel Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 Hot Topics: The Olympics |
 Egypt's Sixty Years of Misery Daniel Pipes |
Historians & History
 Hot Topics: Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
 How Suffering Shaped Emancipation: Historian Dr. Jim Downs on the Plight of Freed Slaves During the Civil War and Reconstruction Robin Lindley |
 "The Other America": Still Invisible Ron Briley |
 Saul Alinsky Elementary School? How We Honor America's Radicals and Reformers Peter Dreier |
Culture Watch
A Thousand Laughs in "A Thousand Clowns," a Look at Life in the 1960s Bruce Chadwick |
Another Chapter in the History of World War II Women Journalists Unfolds in the Berkshires Bruce Chadwick |
Whether 1606 or 1906, Bad Leadership Brings Bad Results Bruce Chadwick |
 King Kong is Back in 1930s Radio Play; Gorilla Climbs Empire State Building; Air Corps Attacks; Millions Scream Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Larry Tye's Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero Ron Briley |
 Review of Owen J. Hurd's After the Fact: The Surprising Fates of American History's Heroes, Villains, and Supporting Characters Jim Cullen |
