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HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis (2009)

Commentary & News Juan Cole: Rafsanjani's Steps to Resolve Iran's Crisis Jonathan Lyons: Spectre of Khomeini as religious radical Iran views hostage-taking as solution to any crisis Dilip Hiro: The Clash of Islam and Democ

HNN Hot Topics: Was Lincoln Gay?

Our full coverage of the controversy.

HNN Hot Topics: LGBT History

All across the world LGBT people are celebrating. Here's the background you need if you want to understand what it's all about.

HNN Hot Topics: Low History IQ's ... The Ignorance of History

This page lists articles about the teaching of history, focusing in particular on studies which demonstrate the historical ignorance of Americans. 

HNN Hot Topics: Pandemics

Related Links   AHA: The Great Pandemic News   Heather Munro Prescott : The Swine Flu and Historic Memory   Scientists dig for lessons from past pandemics   How to Deal with Swine Flu: Heeding the Mistakes of 1976   Bird Flu Planners Urged To Study 1918 Pandemic (2005) History   Spencer Dew: Pigs, Plagues, Politics, and Religion   Nick Bravo & Jana Remy: What’s Not New About Swine Flu   Officials Are Urged to Heed Lessons of 1976 Flu Outbreak   Robert Barro & Jose Ursua: History shows the swine flu could take an economic toll  

HNN Hot Topics: Piracy

Commentary Nathan Williams: How Did the United States Defeat the Barbary Pirates? Dominic Tierney: How Somali Pirates Could Take Obama Hostage Mackubin T. Owens: What To Do About Piracy? Ben Macintyre: Piracy's Roots Go Deep In S

HNN Hot Topics: Obama at 100 Days

News HNN Political Highlights: The 100 Days Fox News: First 100 Days ... Obama Image, Communications Skills Strong, Even as Public Questions Policies NYT: Obama Takes 100th-Day Hoopla and Runs With It (NYT story) Politico: 1

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HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008)

Archives: HNN Hot Topics ... Financial MeltdownHNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Current: 2009) HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Oct. 16 to Dec. 31 2008) Related LinksHNN Hot Topics: The New Deal What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac

HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Oct. 16 to Dec. 31, 2008)

Archives: HNN Hot Topics ... Financial Meltdown   HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Current: 2009)   HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008) Related Links   HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008)   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?   Jim Powell: It's Time to Explode the Myths About the New Deal   Eric Rauchway: In Defense of the New Deal   New Deal Network (The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) and the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University)  

HNN Hot Topics: Social Security

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HNN Hot Topics: Lincoln's Bicentennial

Related Links On This Day in History.... February 12, 1809 the 16th President Abraham Lincoln is born Official Website: Lincoln Bicentennial Oxford University Press blog: Lincoln Bicentennial HNN Hot Topics: Was Lincoln Gay?

HNN Hot Topics: Barack Obama Is Like ... ?

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Holocaust Denial

IndexNewsCommentaryNews Vatican stresses pope's condemnation of Holocaust Protesters break into Oxford Union to disrupt David Irving debate Deep Roots of Denial for Iran’s Tr

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Middle East Crisis

History SHUR: The Israeli myths debunked by the New Historians Where Can I find Information About the History of the Middle East on the Web? Michael Oren: What Are the Origins of the Middle East Crisis? Commentary Ronald

HNN Hot Topics: Whither the Republicans?

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Senators Who Are Appointed to Office

Commentary   Joseph Lane: Roland Burris and the U.S. Senate: A Replay of Marbury v. Madison?   Stanley Kutler: Blagojevich vs. the Senate   Burris and the Vare Precedent   Thomas Geoghegan: Governors shouldn't be filling all those empty senate seats   Walter Dellinger: Seat Burris