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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