Week of September 3, 2012
Up Front: History and Neuroscience
 History Meets Neuroscience Daniel Lord Smail |
 What Can Historians Learn from Neuroscience? Christopher U.M. Smith |
 HNN Hot Topics: What History Can Learn from the New Social Sciences |
Polls
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Features
 HNN Book of the Month: Samuel Popkin's The Candidate: What it Takes to Win -- and Hold -- the White House |
 HNN Hot Topics: Labor Day |
 Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day? Interview with Peter Dreier David A. Walsh |
Blogs
 Michelle Challenges Nineteenth-Century Myth Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 Dinesh D'Souza: Knave or Fool? Jim Loewen |
 Clinton Eastwood’s GOP Performance: Unforgiven or Beguiling Gil Troy |
 For the GOP, It's the Patriotism, Stupid Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
News at Home
 Money in Politics: Where Is the Outrage? Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger |
 Deficit Disorder Scot Faulkner |
 Women are People, Too Catherine Allgor |
 Clint (and Mitt), What Were You Thinking? Robert Brent Toplin |
 Election Primer 2012: Religion and Government Steve Hochstadt |
 Voter Suppression: The Unraveling of American Democracy Ruth Rosen |
News Abroad
 What Should Obama and Romney Read on China? Jeffrey Wasserstrom |
 The History Romney Should Consider before Returning Churchill’s Bust to the Oval Office Lee Ruddin |
Historians & History
 When It Comes to First-Person Accounts of Lincoln's Last Days, Who Do You Trust? Noah Pierre Trudeau |
 2012 Politics and William James Walter G. Moss |
Education
 The Oldest University Buildings in America David A. Walsh |
 Message To Teachers at the Start of a New School Year Mark Naison |
 Richard Levin Leaves Behind a Mixed Legacy at Yale Jim Sleeper |
Books
 Review of Peter Heather's Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe Jim Cullen |
 Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City Antonio Ramirez |