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HNN Hot Topics: The Return of Michael Bellesiles

Michael A. Bellesiles is back in the news after a nearly seven-year hiatus. HNN first brought you news of Mr. Bellesiles's new book, 1877: America’s Year of Living Violentlyback in May, when controversy erupted over a provocatively-worded press jacket. Mr. Bellesiles contributed an op-ed to HNN that same month in connection with his book, and at the end of June penned

HNN Hot Topics: Obama & the Gulf Oil Spill

Related LinksHNN Poll: Forget Katrina — Is the BP Spill Obama's Iran Hostage Moment? News & CommentaryCajuns on Gulf Worry They May Need to Move Again Julia Baird: We Don't Hear About Africa's Oil Spills Ellen Cantarow: Big Oil Makes War on the Earth History is repeating, Valdez investigators say Anna M. Clark: Obama's Bigger Problem with the Gulf Oil Spill -- You Tar balls reveal the biological legacy of Gulf's early life Environmental historian Brian Black talks about impacts of oil spill  BP, the Gulf spill, and classical liberal theory Stephen Kinzer: BP in the Gulf -- The Persian Gulf

The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Related Links HNN Poll: What do you make of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ? HNN Hot Topics: Obama and Race. Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (Speech in Philadelphia) Vaughn Davis Bornet: How Race R

HNN Hot Topics: July 4th

What are we celebrating on the 4th?  And every other question you've ever had about the holiday!

HNN Hot Topics: Gun Violence

Right vs. Left: What the Founders believed about gun control.

HNN Hot Topics: Obama & McChrystal

Related LinksMichael Hastings: The Runaway General [Rolling Stone Article]HNN Poll: Was Sacking McChrystal the Right Thing to Do?HNN Hot Topics: Obama & Afghanistan?News & CommentaryGary Leupp: The McChryst

HNN Hot Topics: Ireland

President John F. Kennedy greets spectators in Cork, Ireland, June 28, 1963. Credit: JFK Library.

HNN Hot Topics: U.S.-Israel Relations

NewsHelen Thomas, White House reporter since the days of Eisenhower, quits over Israel comments Flotilla raid could be fatal blow to Turkey-Israel friendship, says Israeli historian Gaza flotilla attack: Israeli ambassador compares raid to Second World War

HNN Hot Topics: The Future of the Euro

News EU reviving policies from the Great Depression CommentaryNiall Reynolds: An Ancient Continental Conflict that Never Ends Victor Davis Hanson: History Down the Danube Judith Stein: The Perils of Portugal

HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Jan. 1, 2009 to present)

Archives: HNN Hot Topics ... Financial Meltdown   HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Oct. 16 to Dec. 31 2008)   HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008) Related Links   Robert E. Wright: The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression   HNN Hot Topics: The New Deal   What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?   What Are the Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. History?   When Did the Great Depression Receive Its Name? (And Who Named It?)   Jim Powell: It's Time to Explode the Myths About the New Deal   Eric Rauchway: In Defense of the New Deal  

Memorial Day

Who invented Memorial Day?

Supreme Court Nominations

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HNN Topics: UK General Election 2010

Related LinksHistory & Policy: Election 2010 Guardian: Election 2010 Special Commentary & NewsDavid Cameron is new prime minister; Clegg deputy PM Gordon

HNN Hot Topics: Confederate Flag

Different views on the Confederate flag and the history of the Confederacy.

Mother's Day

Why we celebrate it. Who dreamed it up.

HNN Hot Topics: Crisis in the Catholic Church

NewsIn Abuse Crisis, a Church Is Pitted Against Society and Itself For Now, a Refuge for the Catholic Church in Poland For Now, a Refuge for the Catholic Church in Poland Can the Pope resign?

APRIL 2010 UPDATE:Richard Rayner, writing in the April 26, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, revealed that Ambrose exaggerated his relationship with Dwight Eisenhower. Ambrose claimed that Eisenhower approached him in 1964 to write his biography, and he subsequently spent "hundreds and hundreds of hours" interviewing the former president. Tim Rives, the deputy director the

HNN Hot Topics: Katyn Tragedy

Commentary & NewsJudy Dempsey: Tragedy as Harbinger of ChangeKrzysztof Bobinski: Poland’s Second Katyń: Out of the AshesAndrei Kolesnikov: Russia-Poland: A History Too TerribleBen Macintyre: In Dark Times Poland Needs the Sunli

HNN Hot Topics: Srebrenica Massacre

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Armenian Genocide

Armenian Genocide