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HNN Rundowns

Week of April 12, 2010

Up Front

History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman

Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman

HNN Hot Topic: Katyn Tragedy

HNN Hot Topic: Supreme Court Nominations

HNN Hot Topic: Confederate History Month

Past AHA & OAH Annual Meetings

HNN's Coverage of the OAH

Highlights from the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington D.C.
David Walsh and Dave Lieberson

HNN Videos

News at Home

Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge
Edwin Black

New York City's Latest Taxi Scam
Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Exit Gen. Grant - Enter St. Ronald?
Steven Conn

Channelling George Washington: The Learning Curve
Thomas Fleming

News Abroad

Oh, Canada: Why Anti-Zionism Festers in a Country Otherwise Known for its Friendliness
Gil Troy

Is START Really a Beginning?
Lawrence S. Wittner

Haiti's Revolution Fueled the Rise of Big Sugar in Cuba and Louisiana
Elizabeth Abbott

Opium, the CIA and the Karzai Administration
Peter Dale Scott

The Decentralization of Morocco's Monarchy
Yossef Ben-Meir

Historans & History

Staughton Lynd: A Historian with a Place in History
Carl Mirra

Republican, Democrat, or Independent: Which Choice for Me?
Vaughn Davis Bornet

Books

Review of Alan Brinkley's Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Larry DeWitt

Review of Mary Karr's Lit: A Memoir
Jim Cullen