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New perspectives on how history is made

Week of June 4, 2012


HNN Blogs




Josh Brown: As Wisconsin Goes...

HNN Polls


Further Reading



Were the Bailouts Necessary? Look to Europe for the Answers
Robert Brent Toplin

News at Home



John F. Kennedy Wouldn't Vote for Scott Walker
Martin Halpern


If He's Re-Elected, Will Obama be a Successful Second-Termer?
Alfred J. Zacher


Mormonism: On the Wrong Side of White
W. Paul Reeve

News Abroad



This is Not Your Grandfather's Germany
Kevin Kennedy


Do Nuclear Weapons Really Deter Aggression?

Lawrence S. Wittner


Count Palestine Refugees?
Daniel Pipes


Thou Shalt Not Leak
Murray Polner

Historians & History



America's Moral Reckoning with War
Raymond Haberski


Reflecting on Military Service
Vaughn Davis Bornet

Education



What is Lost When Teaching as a Lifetime Calling is Undermined
Mark Naison

Culture Watch



The Story of the Child of Holocaust Survivors: Laughter, Tears, and the Ghosts of World War II
Bruce Chadwick

Books



Review of Andrew Delbanco's College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
Luther Spoehr


Review of Rachel Maddow's Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Robin Lindley