HNN Rundowns

August 29, 2011

Week of August 29, 2011

Up FrontJoshua Brown: Occasional SketchesFollow other historians on Twitter through our expanding lists of historians who tweet.HNN Book of the Month: The Global Lincoln, edited by Richard Carwardine and Jay SextonHNN Hot Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.News at HomeThe American Family Association Says that the Nazis were Gay—The GOP Needs to Distance Itself from that Craziness Jonathan ZimmermanA Stimulus Isn't Enough to Fix this Economy, But Here are Three Ideas that Might Judith SteinThree Lessons in Emergency Management from Someone Who Did It Well Utpal Sandesara and Thomas WootenNews AbroadDaniel Pipes: Uncertain Times in the Middle East

August 22, 2011

Week of August 22, 2011

Up FrontHNN Exclusive: Bill Moyers to Return to TV with a New SeriesBill Moyers and Robin Lindley: Continuing the Conversation—The Renowned Journalist on His New Book, His Career, His Brushes with History, and Where We Stand NowHNN Hot Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.HNN Hot Topics: Stock Market CrashesHNN Hot Topics: Financial MeltdownHNN Polls: Grading ObamaAmerican Historical Association:  Pacific Coast Branch (Videos)Mom:  The Transformation of MotherhoodRebecca Jo PlantBush's Wars:  Roundtable on Terry Anderson's Book

August 8, 2011

Weeks of August 8 and August 15, 2011

Up FrontHNN Poll: Grading ObamaHNN Hot Topics: Stock Market CrashesHNN Hot Topics: Financial MeltdownHNN Hot Topics: Debt CeilingHNN Hot Topics: HiroshimaNews at HomeStock Market Crash: What are the Politics Behind It?Robert Brent ToplinHow Not To Talk About Financial Panics: New Rules For Pundits James LivingstonWanted: A President Who is Tougher Than TerryclothGil TroyObama's Just Another Moderate RepublicanStanley KutlerConservatives Put Their Faith in the God "Market" ... And It's a God that Can Fail Robert S. McElvaine

August 1, 2011

Week of August 1, 2011

Up FrontHNN Hot Topics: Debt CeilingHNN Poll: What Do You Think of the Deal to Raise the Debt Ceiling?Iwan Morgan: Live Blogging the Debt CrisisNews at Home Obama at 50 Should Have More Faith in America Gil Troy Debt Ceiling: A Minority Victory Without Precedent? Iwan Morgan The Debt Deal is "Bad for Everyone": Jim Livingston on the Latest Developments David A. WalshWhat Would Alexander Hamilton Have Done in the Debt Crisis? Financial Historian Richard Sylla on the Debt Ceiling David A. WalshRemember in the Debt Limit Crisis, the Real "Job Creators" are Consumers James LivingstonRick Perry's Vice-Presidential Mistake Joel K. GoldsteinNews AbroadNorway's Terrorism in Context Daniel Pipes

July 25, 2011

Week of July 25, 2011

Up FrontHNN Hot Topics: TerrorismHNN Hot Topics: Debt CeilingNews at HomeDid Beer End Minnesota's State Shutdown? Christine SismondoWhatever Happened to Rational Conservatism? Caroline HamiltonNews AbroadEmpower Iranians vs. Tehran Daniel PipesWe Live in an Age of Violence Deepak TripathiHow Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East Tom EngelhardtHistorians & HistoryJames Bradley's The Imperial Cruise is an Outrage, Pure and Simple William N. TilchinAmerica Fought Hunger as Well as Communists in Korea William LambersCulture WatchHow Real is the History in Historical Dramas? It May Not Matter Bruce Chadwick

July 18, 2011

Week of July 18, 2011

Up FrontHNN Hot Topics: TerrorismHNN Hot Topics: Debt CeilingNews at HomeMichelle Bachmann Was Half-Right: New York's Founding Fathers Worked to End Slavery Alan SingerWhy the Media Got Betty Ford's Breast Cancer Story Right ... But What They Left Out Barron H. LernerWhy Teach For America is Not Welcome in My Classroom Mark NaisonNews AbroadNixon's "Decent Interval" Vietnam Strategy Should Give Obama Pause on Afghanistan Ken HughesAre Americans Cold-Blooded? Do We Care About Civilian Casualties in Our Wars? John TirmanHistorians & HistoryChannelling George Washington: Winston Churchill, Great-Grandson of the American Revolution Thomas FlemingThe Surprising Story of How Stonewall Jackson Became a Mythical Figure for the Religious Right Wallace Hettle

July 10, 2011

Week of July 11, 2011

HNN Roundtable: Do Democrats Have a Double Standard for Obama?Liberals Need to Stop Making Excuses Bernard A. WeisbergerProgressives Don’t Have a Double Standard—But Partisan Democratic Talking Heads Do Michael LindProgressive Are Disenchanted with Obama—Abolitionists Were Disenchanted with Lincoln Kenneth W. MackRepublicans Are Inconsistent with Obama, But Democrats Are Hypocritical Daniel PipesIs Obama So Bad at Impromptu Remarks that He Can't Handle More News Conferences? Rick ShenkmanObama Should Own His Continuities with the Bush White House Gil TroyNews at HomeThe Partnership of Betty and Gerald Ford Yanek MieczkowskiBetty Ford's Candor Hurt Gerald Ford's Presidency - but Enhanced his Historical Reputation Gil TroyWe Need to Rethink the Morality of the Economy James Livingston

July 3, 2011

Week of July 4, 2011

Up FrontHNN Hot Topics: July 4The Declaration of Independence and the American Dream Jim CullenChannelling George Washington: The Revolution That Changed the World Thomas FlemingNews at HomeRick Perry, Don't Let the Confederate Flag on the Texas License Plate Edward H. SebestaImmigration Reform is Overdue Ian GoldinSarah Palin's Paul Revere Gaffe Should All Give Us Pause Mark R. Malebranche IINews Abroad"Hostilities" and War Powers: Let's Choose the Constitution John C. PinheiroIsolationism: Behind the Myth, A Usable Past Michael H. Hunt

June 27, 2011

Week of June 27, 2011

Up FrontHNN Hot Topics: July 4thHNN Hot Topics: Obama & AfghanistanNAEP History Exam Results at a GlanceNews Abroad America Comes to Its Senses Andrew J. Bacevich Not Stealing Palestine but Purchasing Israel Daniel PipesAfghanistan: The End Game? Deepak TripathiWill Demilitarization Work in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict? Probably Not Jonathan DresnerHistorians & HistoryIn a Dark Time: Author Erik Larson on an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Robin LindleyTeachers Haven't Failed Students—Historians Have James LivingstonMaking the Past Come Alive ... Through Cable News from 1861 William RabkinHarriet Beech Stowe at 200 Tess Chakkalakal

June 20, 2011

Week of June 20, 2011

Up FrontSenate Intelligence Committee to Investigate Juan Cole-CIA AllegationsHNN Roundtable: Why Don't Students Know Anything About U.S. History?Wrong "Correct" Answers: The Scourge of the NAEPPaul BurkeWe Need a STEM-Like Initiative for History Linda K. Salvucci Can Educators Even Answer These Lame Questions? Sam Wineburg

June 13, 2011

Week of June 13, 2011

Up FrontEx-CIA Agent Alleges Bush White House Sought to Spy on Juan ColeNAEP History Exam Results at a GlanceHNN Hot Topics: Low History IQs HNN Hot Topics: U.S.-Israel RelationsHNN Hot Topics: Presidential Doctrines

June 6, 2011

Week of June 6, 2011

Up FrontHNN Hot Topics: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meltdown in JapanNews at HomeHating Boomers: America’s Last Acceptable Prejudice Leonard SteinhornQuestions America Needs to Ask Itself Gil TroyNews AbroadThe Emptying of Yemen Daniel Pipes

May 30, 2011

Week of May 30, 2011

Up FrontHNN Poll: How Will the Elimination of TAH Grants Affect You?HNN Special: Articles and Book Reviews for Memorial DayMemorial Day in Mountain View Cemetery Vaughn Davis BornetHNN Hot Topics: Memorial DayHNN Poll: How Do You Celebrate Memorial Day?

May 22, 2011

Week of May 23, 2011

Up FrontHNN Hot Topics: U.S.-Israel RelationsHNN Poll: Obama's Mideast SpeechNews at HomeAdding the Pressure of High-Stakes Testing to the Pressures of Poverty Mark NaisonNews AbroadObama Offered Two Speeches in One—Neither Worked Gil Troy

May 15, 2011

Week of May 16, 2011

Up FrontHNN's Independent Historians: Jeffrey B. PerryHouse Bill Introduced to Eliminate Teaching American History GrantsNews at HomeThe Path to a Steady-State Economy Eric ZenceyNews AbroadDing Dong, but Which is Dead? James Livingston

May 9, 2011

Week of May 9, 2011

Up FrontHNN Hot Topics: Osama bin LadenHNN Hot Topics: 9-11: Teaching About It HNN Hot Topics: 9/11 HNN Hot Topics:  FloodsNews at HomeOriginal Intent and the Debt Ceiling Robert E. Wright"Not American Enough?" This Political Slur Has a Long History Rosemarie Ostler

May 2, 2011

Week of May 2, 2011

Up FrontHNN/Vote iQ Poll: The Death of Osama Bin LadenHNN Hot Topics: Osama bin LadenHNN Hot Topics: 9-11: Teaching About It HNN Hot Topics: 9/11 News at HomeSome Thoughts on Ivy League Admissions—and Affirmative Action—for Donald Trump Mark Naison

April 25, 2011

Week of April 25, 2011

Up FrontHistory News Network 2.0 is Now Live!HNN Unveils New Disqus Comments SystemNews at HomeA Modest Proposal to Rescind Child Labor Laws Janet GoldenNews Abroad Washington on the Rocks Alfred W. McCoy and Brett Reilly

April 18, 2011

Week of April 18, 2011

Up FrontHistory News Network 2.0 is Now Live!HNN Unveils New Disqus Comments SystemNews at HomeThe Devil is in the "Debt" Ira ChernusNews AbroadMohammed Bouazizi, Historical FigureDaniel Pipes

April 16, 2011

Week of April 11, 2011

Up FrontTestHistory News Network 2.0 is Now Live!HNN Unveils New Disqus Comments SystemNews at HomeThe Devil is in the "Debt" by Ira ChernusNews AbroadThe Man Who Continues to Speak about Experiencing the H-Bomb -- Exposed Clearly: the Deception that is Deterrence Oe Kenzaburo