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• 3-5-15
  News Abroad

  Obama and Netanyahu Differ on History, Not Just Iran

  John Dickson

  Both leaders take a long view of history, but while Netanyahu’s view goes backward, Obama’s looks forward.

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• 2-27-15
  News Abroad

  Ukraine: The Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse

  William R. Polk

  How the process of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and what we face today over the Ukraine compare.  It's not reassuring. But there's a way out. 

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• 2-27-15
  News at Home

  Selma Is Now? No, Not Really.

  James B. LaGrand

  2014 ≠ 1965 or 1955 or the 1890s

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• 3-2-15
  Historians in the News

  NYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week?

  Erik Moshe

  Can a book that includes possibly plagiarized sections be saved? That’s our question of the week about a book under review.

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• Hot Topics

  HNN Hot Topics: Women's History Month

  The best web commentary about Women's History Month.
  

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• 3-1-15
  News Abroad

  Obama’s ISIS War Request Is an “Extraordinary Opportunity” for Congress

  Andrew Bacevich

  Pretend that it’s the spring of 1970. President Richard Nixon has just sent US troops into Cambodia, expanding the war.  Angry?  Then why aren't you angry now?

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• 3-1-15
  News Abroad

  What Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress Will Mean for Israel and US Politics

  James Stocker

  On March 3 Bibi Netanyahu ties Winston Churchill for the title of the foreign leader who has given the most speeches to the Congress. Is his address of long-lasting significance?

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• 3-1-15
  News Abroad

  You Can Blame Juan Peron for Argentina’s Inflation

  Eduardo Singerman

  It was the result of out and out fraud.

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• 3-1-15
  Historians/History

  War Babies: The Generation that Changed America

  Richard Pells

  They’re the generation that never got due attention.

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• 2-27-15
  Historians/History

  Do You Remember Dag Hammarskjöld? You Should. An Interview with Biographer Roger Lipsey

  Robin Lindley

  Dr. Lipsey’s biography of Hammarskjöld, based on extensive research including previously unpublished correspondence and documents, deliberately strikes a balance between Hammarskjöld’s engagement in world affairs and his spiritual journey, and how the two were intimately related, mutually supportive.

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• 3-1-15
  News Abroad

  This Is When Muslims in the Middle East Turned to Extremism

  Richard Drake

  It started with a treaty few in the West even remember: The Treaty of Sèvres (1920)

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• 3-1-15
  Historians/History

  5 Ways Pirate Ships Functioned as a True Democracy

  Rachel Rolnick

  This is something you don’t learn in school. Pirates pioneered many of the features we associate with democracy.

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• 2-20-15
  Books

  Review of Colman McCarthy’s “Teaching Peace: Students Exchange Letters with Their Teacher”

  Murray Polner

  “Teaching Peace: Students Exchange Letters with Their Teacher,” is riveting and a real gem, filled with insights gleaned from the thousands of letters he’s received from former students.

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• 3-2-15
  Culture Watch

  Fashions for Men Is a Well-Dressed 1917 Delight

  Bruce Chadwick

  Fashions for Men is a gem, a lost treasure of the theater.

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• 2-27-15
  Roundup

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

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• 2-26-15
  News at Home

  Why Hollywood’s Diversity Problem Can’t Just Be Solved with Fancy Award Ceremonies and Gold Statues

  Cara Caddoo

  For most of its history, Hollywood has worked hard to identify—and undermine—the work of black actors and filmmakers.

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• Compromising Engineers and the Keystone XL Pipeline

  Compromise may be a career-ending concept in politics, but it is essential in engineering. 

  Infinity, Limited

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• 2-23-15
  News Abroad

  Seven Reasons Why We Should Not Send Weapons to Ukraine

  Walter G. Moss

  The hawks who urge us to arm Ukraine say we need to remember 1938. But Putin’s not Hitler.

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• 2-24-15
  Historians/History

  What Would Happen If Humanity Was Suddenly Rebooted?

  Roland Hughes

  “The entire point of this op ed is to get you, the learned few in the hallowed halls, to focus on gathering all of the basic knowledge in a form which will survive flood, fire, and nuclear winter.”

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• 2-22-15
  News Abroad

  3 Lessons from the French Revolution European Policymakers Should Keep in Mind

  Rebecca L. Spang

  The moment has come to diversify our analogy portfolio to include the French Revolution if we are to understand the Euro crisis.

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• 2-22-15
  Historians/History

  The Myth of the Rational Actor

  Susan J. Matt

  Why we need a social history of selfishness.

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• 2-20-15
  News at Home

  What’s the Matter with Kansas? Nothing

  Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban

  Working class whites mostly vote their interests, but they define their interests more broadly than many liberals want them to.

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• 2-22-15
  News Abroad

  America Is More than the 82nd Airborne. We Need to Let the Muslim World Know that.

  Greg Barnhisel

  Using culture to define us is one of the lessons of the Cold War we need to relearn.

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• 2-20-15
  Historians/History

  Why Is a French Library Refusing to Carry a History of Stalin’s Russia?

  Michael Dwyer

  The book, by Geoffrey Roberts, was published by Yale University Press. Is this a case of censorship?

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• 2-22-15
  Historians/History

  The Missing Chapter in the History of America’s Sixties Radicals

  Aaron Leonard

  Fresh research shows that the FBI had a secret war on Maoists.

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• 2-22-15
  Historians/History

  Why History Matters


  Charles Spencer

  History comes alive when we connect with characters.

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• 2-22-15
  News at Home

  When a City Turns White, What Happens to Its Black History?

  David S. Rotenstein

  Case Study: Decatur, Georgia

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• 2-22-15
  Historians/History

  90 Years Later: Is It Time to Revise Our Understanding of the Underrated and Misunderstood Locarno Conference?

  Dr. Yoav J. Tenembaum

  As a result of the Locarno Conference, Germany was admitted in 1926 into the League of Nations. Isn’t that worth remembering?

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• 2-2-15
  Books

  Review of “The 40’s: The Story Of A Decade: The New Yorker,” Edited by Henry Finder and Giles Harvey

  Mark Weisenmiller

  Readers and writers should relish this “story of a decade” for it’s education and entertainment. 

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• 2-23-15
  Culture Watch

  Winston Churchill: Back and as Feisty as Ever

  Bruce Chadwick

  Ronald Keaton is a delight as Britain’s wartime leader in Churchill, written by Keaton and nicely directed by Kurt Johns. Keaton brings the English leader back to life in an admirable show that is extraordinarily informative.