Week of April 11, 2011
Up Front
HNN/Vote iQ Poll: Civil War Reenactments
HNN Hot Topics: Civil War Sesquicentennial
HNN Hot Topics: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meltdown in Japan
HNN Special: 150 Years Since Fort Sumter
Why Visit a Civil War Battlefield?
Scot Faulkner
The Civil War: Losing the War, Winning the History
Steven Conn
News at Home
Closing America’s Playground: Los Angeles and the History of Our Parks and Recreation Crisis
Lawrence Culver
Teaching is Relationship Building—Something School Reformers Often Forget
Mark Naison
News Abroad
To the Shores of (and Skies Above) Tripoli
Andrew J. Bacevich
Ai Weiwei and the “Age of Madness”
Lionel M. Jensen
Historians & History
Channelling George Washington:"So Help Me God"
Thomas Fleming
Why Literature Matters: A Historical Perspective
Walter G. Moss
The Blowback World of Chalmers Johnson
Sheila K. Johnson
Human Spaceflight Began Fifty Years Ago This Month, But Not Much Has Happened Lately
Jonathan Coopersmith
Finding Harry Truman’s Chrysler
Matthew Algeo
Culture Watch
Science History Dull? No More, Boasts Stage Festival
Bruce Chadwick
Anything Does Go in “Anything Goes,” a Spectacular Musical about the 1930s
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Michael Schiavi's Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
Doug Ireland
Review of Eugene Robinson's Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
Luther Spoehr