HNN Rundowns
Up Front: Lincoln
 How Historically Accurate is Spielberg's "Lincoln"? Louis Masur: Not everything in the movie is 100% accurate, but most of it is, and the level of detail's incredible. [PODCAST] |
 HNN Hot Topics: Lincoln the Movie Pictured at left: Abraham Lincoln. The real one. But Daniel Day-Lewis is pretty convincing. |
 Daniel Day-Lewis's Abe Lincoln: (Racial) Trailblazer |
 How True is Lincoln? |
 Lincoln: Jesus Christ! God Almighty! What a (Biblical) Movie! Abe the prophet. |
Blogs
 A New "New Cold War" in the Mideast? “The good guys” can become “the bad guys” awfully fast in our national security discourse. |
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.
 What Does the President Actually Do?Lesson Plan Backgrounder |
 What Does the Vice President Actually Do?Lesson Plan Backgrounder |
News at Home
 General Motors vs. General Electric Which company is better representative of twentieth-century capitalism? |
 The Origins of the Latino "Immigration Problem" It goes back to the U.S.-Mexican War ... from the peace movement. |
 Mitch McConnell and the Art of Dysfunction New Senate rules will be necessary to keep him in check. |
 Channelling George Washington: How Much Should the Majority Rule? Guard against class hatred, for down that road lies revolutionary France. |
News Abroad
 Sucking Up to the Military Brass Generals who run amuck, politicians who could care less, an “embedded” media... and us. |
 How Morsi Took Power in Egypt He staged a coup ... against his own generals. |
 Morsi’s Second Coup Provokes Mass Protest in Egypt Thousands take to Tahrir Square to demonstrate against new government decrees. |
Historians & History
![](http://hnn.us/sites/default/files/800px-Photograph_titled_"The_Chicago_Memorial_Day_Incident"_-_NARA_-_306197_0.jpg) Unions and Strikes Through the Camera Lens Interview with Carol Quirke on news photography and the labor movement. |
 Lessons from the Dust Bowl With climate change upon us, what can we learn from one of the worst environmental disasters in American history? |
Culture Watch
 A Chilling New Look at Anti-Semitism in Stalin’s Russia The Twenty-Seventh Man an appropriately bleak look at Stalinist repression. |
 Holiday Theater from the Past The sudden yearning for Christmases of the past. |
Books
 Review of Jon Wiener's How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America A counterintuitive, but extremely valuable, book. |
 Review of Hal Holbrook's Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain Not a classic memoir, but a useful one about Hal Holbrook's one-main Twain show. |
Up Front
How True is Lincoln? |
 Just how true are the old myths? (The answer: Not very.) |
Blogs
 Class: The Missing Link in the Story of Election 2012 The Democrats risk losing the next election unless the narrative of the election is about class. |
 Petraeus's Tragedy "No room for my Merit Badges!" |
Google Questions
 How Many Women Have Served in Congress? Short answer: 277, nearly a third of whom are currently serving. |
News Abroad
 The March of Scandal from Pericles to Petraeus There's nothing new about a powerful man being brought down by sex. |
 Turkey's Islamist Turn, Ten Years Later Erdoğan is undoing the work of Atatürk. |
 Facing Another Kind of Cliff Obama and the future of U.S. strategic doctrine. |
Historians & History
 Remember: Those Notorious Anti-Semitic "Protocols" are Fiction! They continue to be an anti-Semitic canard. |
 Channelling the Spirit of 1800 This Post-Election Season Can we become friends like Adams or Jefferson, or will we stay enemies like Hamilton and Burr? |
Culture Watch
Daniel Day-Lewis's Abe Lincoln: (Racial) Trailblazer |
 You Can’t Lose with Little Kids, Dogs or Dick Nixon Checkers at New York's Vineyard Theater. |
 A Little Fire and Brimstone And a lot of Aimee Semple McPherson in this Roaring Twenties musical |
 Dickens's "Drood" is a Winner A veritable carnival of nineteenth-century skits and spoofs. |
Books
 Review of Marguerite Bouvard's The Invisible Wounds of War |
 Review of Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide, edited by John K. Roth and Carol Rittner Not easy reading, but necessary. |
Up Front
 The Arab Reading of the Petraeus/Allen Affair Jill Kelley, who sparked the scandal, is Gilberte Khawam, a Lebanese woman. |
 After the Election, Reaping the Climate Change Whirlwind Even under Obama, we'll continue to fiddle while the burns. |
 The “Fiscal Cliff” and THE SCANDAL Good luck trying to knock Petraeus off of the front page.
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HNN Special: Recasting Presidential History
 "Recasting Presidential History": A Trans-Disciplinary Approach to the Office and the Presidents The University of Virginia's Miller Center hosted. |
 David Greenberg on the State of Presidential History A field long out of fashion is undergoing a renaissance. |
 William Hitchcock: Was Ike Really a "Moderate Republican"? Probably not. |
 Cathie Jo Martin: Europe Has *Less* Government Regulation than America It all comes down to counterintuitive choices the business classes in Europe made at the beginning of the twentieth century. |
 Brian Balogh: Advice for Aspiring Presidential Historians Keep in mind the future of presidential history is a fusion of political/social/cultural history. |
Blogs
 Obama vs. Boehner: Who is the True Jeffersonian? The metropolis of government vs. the metropoles of big business. |
 The Shape of Politics to Come A permanent Democratic majority? |
Veterans Day
 This Veterans Day, Beware the Dangers of Robot War Drone technology is both overhyped and misunderstood. |
 Remembering the Code Talkers The passing of Navajo code talker George Smith last month gives us pause. |
 A Salute to the U.S. Army Remembering the veterans on Veterans Day. |
 A Spirit, Unbroken Interview with bestselling author Laura Hillenbrand on her 2010 book. |
News at Home
 Reclaiming Our Coasts and Shorelines Hurricane Sandy should inspire new ways of building and living on the seashore |
Election 2012
 Video Chat with HNN Blogger Ira Chernus What happens now? |
 Another Election Year, Another Catastrophe in Florida At least it didn't determine the outcome this year. |
News Abroad
 Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Space warfare and the future of U.S. global power. |
 Israel Can Curb a Nuclear Iran But it may require an end to its nuclear ambiguity. |
Historians & History
 The Bretton Woods Transcripts, Hiding in Plain Sight How I "found" an unused (but not unknown) transcript of Bretton Woods. |
 Jacques Barzun: A Legacy of Passion It's a cliche, but it's true: we really won't see a scholar like Barzun again. |
 The Ultimate What-If: What If the Cuban Missile Crisis Sparked Nuclear War? It probably wouldn't have meant the end of the Unitd States ... but forget about Europe and Russia. |
Culture Watch
 Trying to Make a Hero of Henry Wallace Oliver Stone's recycled leftist history.
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 At Long Last, Something Involving a Sandy that Isn't a Hurricane Little Orphan Annie returns to Broadway in a triumphant revival. |
Books
 Review of Peter Ames Carlin's Bruce The Boss as a Woody Guthrie-esque troubadour. |
 Review of Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, edited by Ken Wachsberger Underground media proliferated everywhere. |
