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Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Poll: What do you make of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates?
HNN Hot Topics: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
HNN Hot Topics: Health Care Reform
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
HNN Special: The Vassiliev Papers
Historians' Muted Response to the Vassiliev Papers Is Surprising
Steve Usdin
Who’s Afraid of I.F. Stone?
D.D. Guttenplan
Review of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev
Robert Justin Goldstein
News at Home
Obama Beware: Presidential Magic Can Prove Tragic
Gil Troy
Bowling, Basketball, BCS, Baseball, and Birdies: Obama’s Use of Sport to Connect
Russ Crawford
What Passes for "Populism" These Days Is Laughable
Charles Postel
A Progressive Era Legacy We Could Do Without
Francis S. Barry
Historians & History
Pitfalls with the Nixon Tapes and How to Avoid Them
Richard A. Moss
The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing
David Brown
Books
Moshik Temkin's The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Review of Two Books on Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski and Justin Marozzi
B. C. Knowlton
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
News Abroad
The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure: From the Vietnam to the Afghan Quagmire
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Japan’s Unresolved Colonial Past and Today’s North Korea Problem
Gavan McCormack
News at Home
The Dangers of Excessive Secrecy
Kathryn Olmsted
The Tea Party’s Appeal Across the Political Spectrum
Benjamin L. Carp
Are We Always Going to Be Preoccupied with Racism?
William McKee Evans
Historians & History
McNamara's Other War
Patrick Sharma
The World at 65
Tom Engelhardt
What We Can Learn from Harlem's Encounter with Columbia University Forty Years Ago
Stefan Bradley
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground at Forty
Ron Briley
Books
Review of Thomas Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle of Civil Rights in the North
Wesley Hogan
Review of Thomas Childers’s Soldier From the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II
Luther Spoehr
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
Political Highlights: Obama's First 4th in the White House, Bush Celebrates in OK., Obama's Meeting in Moscow, & G-8 Summit
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
News at Home
Lincoln and Obama: Parallel Paths to Power
John C. Waugh
Empathy in a Justice? You Bet.
Joel K. Goldstein
Historians and History
Michael Jackson, Robert McNamara, Whatever …
James G. Hershberg
Did Postwar Jews Really Ignore the Holocaust for Several Decades?
Hasia R. Diner
The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
Peter Nelson
A Jamestown Shipwreck 400 Years Ago this Month Awakened Shakespeare’s Muse
Hobson Woodward
What We Can Learn from a Biography of Hellen Keller's Teacher
Kim E. Nielsen
The Secret to Interviewing Historians on the Radio
Ken MacDermotRoe
History of "Cynthia," the World War II Spy: Part 3
Jeff Shear
Culture Watch
Does the New Dillinger Movie Speak to Our Worries?
Ron Briley
Bruno’s American Dream
Jim Cullen
Books
Review of Gordon S. Barrass's The Great Cold War: A Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors
Ron Weinberg
History Buzz BONNIE GOODMAN
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HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
http://hnn.us/articles/92995.html
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HNN Hot Topics: Meltdown 2009
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NEWS AT HOME
The Last Integrationist: A Note on Michael Jackson JIM CULLEN
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What Cap and Trade Programs Are Really About HUGH GORMAN
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Why Soap Operas Should Be Taken Seriously By Gays and Straights LISA SZEFEL
http://hnn.us/articles/95129.html
The Tea Party in Politics: Why the Event in Boston Harbor Keeps on Appealing to Conservatives WODEN TEACHOUT
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NEWS ABROAD
The Chávez-Castro Connection Lie in a Now Forgotten Chapter of the Cold War BRIAN NELSON
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Why We Are Less at Risk of Major Famines Today than in the Past CORMAC Ó GRÁDA
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HISTORIANS AND HISTORY
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" ANNE PASTORE
http://hnn.us/articles/95108.html
Nixonland: An Interview with Rick Perlstein RICK SHENKMAN
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President Reagan Approves the Bombing of Iran JASON SALTOUN-EBIN
http://hnn.us/articles/89502.html
A Holocaust Survivor's Reflections on a Grandson's Graduation GUSTAV SCHONFELD
http://hnn.us/articles/95040.html
BOOKS
Review of Edmund S. Morgan's American Heroes: Portraits of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America JIM CULLEN
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87299.html
Review of Anne Nelson's Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler PATRICK DEVENNY
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/88121.html
News at Home
Political Highlights: Sarah Palin Resigns as Governor of Alaska – For 2012 Presidential Run?
Bonnie Goodman
The Bureau of Missing Pols: Reflections on the Ever-So Mysterious Road Trips of Mark, Dick & Harry
David Pietrusza
Signing Statements: Is Obama Following in Bush's Steps?
Nick Underwood
Why Jimmy Carter's Malaise Speech Is More Relevant than Ever
Kevin Mattson
News Abroad
A Coup is Not a Coup. A Not-Coup is a Coup.
Kevin Coleman
What Has Prevented Nuclear War?
Lawrence S. Wittner
The Two-State To Nowhere: Another Futile Attempt At Appeasement
Alex Grobman
What Clash of Civilizations?
Ian Almond
Yet Another Vital Task for Obama Is Deciding When We Should Go to War
Robert M. Saunders
Historians and History
The Trollope Ploy Myth Lives On: Robert McNamara and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Sheldon M. Stern
Robert S. McNamara: The War Wizard Passes
John Prados
Annette Gordon-Reed and the Jefferson DNA Myth
D. M. Giangreco
Stalin’s Wars: An Interview with Professor Geoffrey Roberts
Aaron Leonard
Obama, Buchenwald, and the Children
Kenneth Waltzer
How Do Historians Think?
Michèle Lamont
Why the Vatican's Latest Attempt to Absolve Galileo Is Bound to Fail
Thomas Mayer
The African Diaspora as a Perspective on the World
Patrick Manning
Why Did I.F. Stone Sidestep the Hiss Case?
Max Holland
