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Week of June 28, 2010

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Robert Byrd, the Historian's Senator

History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman

Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman

HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Bethany Moreton
Bonnie K. Goodman

HNN Hot Topics: Gun Control

HNN Hot Topics: The Nomination of Elena Kagan

HNN Hot Topics: Obama & McChrystal

HNN Hot Topics: July 4th

HNN Poll: Was Sacking McChrystal the Right Thing to Do?

Celebrating Nine Years of HNN

Tell Your Friends about HNN and Win Fabulous Prizes!

Hear What Historians are Saying About HNN

HNN Special: Debating the Enlightenment

What Samuel Moyn Got Wrong in His Nation Article
Jonathan Israel

A Response to Jonathan Israel
Samuel Moyn

HNN Special: Generals Challenging Presidents

A History of Insubordinate Generals
John C. McManus

General McChrystal and the Wages of Hypocrisy
Mark A. LeVine

The Presidents and the McGenerals
Kenneth Weisbrode

Ten Disgraced Generals
Steven Lomazow

News at Home

Graham Opinion Reflects Justice Kennedy's Moral Foundation
Frank J. Colucci

Myths from the Right about the Disaster in the Gulf
Tyler Priest

News Abroad

How to Rebuild the Special Relationship
Lee P. Ruddin

Historians & History

The Past is No Foreign Country
Randall Stephens

Now We Are Enemies Fifty Years On
Thomas Fleming

We Need More General Wedemeyers
John J. McLaughlin

Culture Watch

Oliver Stone’s Latest Travesty
Ron Radosh

Books

Review of Clint Johnson's A Vast and Fiendish Plot: The Confederate Attack on New York City
Jim Cullen

Review of Robert Brent Toplin's History by Hollywood
Andrew Feffer