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Week of July 12, 2010

Up Front

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History Buzz
Bonnie K. Goodman

Political Highlights
Bonnie K. Goodman

HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Thomas G. Andrews
Bonnie K. Goodman

HNN's Independent Historians: Alexander Rose
Jill O'Neill

HNN Poll: Is America Headed for Imminent Collapse?

HNN Poll: What Should Be Done Now That Tenure is Dead?

Celebrating Nine Years of HNN

Why You Should Use HNN's Ning Network!

Hear What Historians are Saying About HNN

News at Home

Byrd’s Soiled Nest
Robert H. Dockery

The Conservative Side of Barack Obama
Alan Luxenberg

The Tea Party and the New Right-Wing Christian Feminism
Ruth Rosen

After the Kagan Hearings, Back to an Activist Court?
David A. Strauss

Goodbye Cleveland!
Michael H. Carriere

News Abroad

The McChrystal Affair: Pity the Poor Historian
Michael H. Hunt

European Socialism Isn't as Socialist as You Might Think
Philip Nord

Historians & History

Historians, Policymakers, and Hybrid Failures: A Menage à Trois in the Making?
Robert E. Wright

Culture Watch

George Steinbrenner: The Face of the Evil Empire
Ron Briley

Misstatements and Factual Errors from Critics
Oliver Stone

Responding to the New York Times's Broadside at Our Documentary
Oliver Stone, Mark Weisbrot, and Tariq Ali

Books

Review of Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Luther Spoehr

Review of D.M. Giangreco's The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman
David O. Whitten