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HNN Rundowns

Week of April 19, 2010

Up Front

History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman

Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman

Historians on the Hot Seat

HNN Hot Topics: Global Warming

HNN Hot Topics: Supreme Court Nominations

HNN Special: Forty Years of Earth Day

From an Economy of Consumption to an Economy of Sustainability
Walter G. Moss

Making"Environmentalism" Relevant for Everyone
Brian Hamilton

HNN Special: Confederate History Month

America's Complete History Includes Slaves
Pearl Duncan

How McDonnell's Remarks Could Jeopardize Southern Tourism
Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts

Civility in Modern America Isn't as Bad as Before the Civil War
Williamjames Hull Hoffer

News at Home

Obama’s Nuclear Initiatives Are Neither “Sufficient” Nor “Bold”
Shane J. Maddock

News Abroad

Female Suicide Bombers are Nothing New
Thomas R. Mockaitis

America and the Dictators, From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai
Alfred W. McCoy

Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.: Islam’s Luther—or its Don Quixote?
Timothy R. Furnish

What We Choose to Remember: Jerusalem in World History
Judith Mendelsohn Rood

Historians & History

Anonymous Slander on Amazon, Soviet Style
Donal O'Sullivan

Barack Obama's Legal Predecessor? Charles Hamilton Houston
Rawn James, Jr.

Learning Nuclear Policy from an Iowa Farmer
Lee Winningham

Culture Watch

Rummaging in “The Hurt Locker” for a Moral Equivalent of War
James Livingston

100 Years of a Presidential Baseball Tradition
Adam Burns

Books

Review of Randi Hutter Epstein's Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
Jim Cullen

Review of Sharon Davies's Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Raced, and Religion in America
Jim Cullen