HNN Rundowns
Week of June 25, 2012
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Up Front: Health Care
 Roberts Acted to Preserve the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court Daniel R. Ernst |
 HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform |
 HNN's History of Health Care Reform |
 The Supreme Court: What You Need to Know Before the Health Care Ruling David A. Walsh |
Hot Topics
 Fourth of July |
Blogs
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News at Home
 Obama’s America: Transcending Whiteness Ian Reifowitz |
 Gail Collins Almost Remembers the Alamo John Willingham |
News Abroad
 The Road to Damascus Daniel Martin Varisco |
 Our Drone Planet: Interview with Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse on the Past, Present, and Future of Drones David A. Walsh |
 A Liberal Challenge to Wahhabist Orthodoxy May Be the Way Forward for Islam Judith Mendelsohn Rood |
 Being a Great Power is Just a State of Mind Michael J. Turner |
 The Senate Needs to Rein in Brutal Prison Practices Jeremy Kuzmarov |
Historians & History
 “My Head on a Platter to the Archivist of the United States”: How Tim Naftali was Almost Sacked as Head of the Nixon Library Maarja Krusten |
 The Legacy of the War of 1812 Is With Us Still James M. Banner, Jr. |
 The Most Famous Unknown Writer of the Twentieth Century: An Interview with Historian Peter Clarke on Winston Churchill as Author Robin Lindley |
 Wisdom and War: From Homer’s Trojan Horse to Spielberg’s War Horse Walter G. Moss |
Education
 Lessons *Not* Learned by the University of Virginia Michael H. Ebner |
Culture Watch
 Why Historians Should Be Vampire Hunters W. Scott Poole |
Books
 Review of Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power Ron Briley |
 Review of Michelle Nickerson's Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right Emily Johnson |
