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A Modest Proposal to Rescind Child Labor Laws
Janet Golden
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Washington on the Rocks
Alfred W. McCoy and Brett Reilly
Judging What’s Vital—The Problems of Measuring Progress in Unconventional Wars
Gregory A. Daddis
Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark
Tom Engelhardt
A Right Royal Wedding
Charles Carlton
The History of Families New and Long Lost: An American Compares Coat of Arms with Kate Middleton’s
Pearl Duncan
Historians & History
A 50-Year Perspective—JFK, Richard Bissell, and the Bay of Pigs
Howard Jones
A Forgotten Site in Florida Where the Bay of Pigs Invaders Trained
Don Bohning
Sam Houston, San Jacinto, and the Coming Civil War
John Willingham
Culture Watch
Drama about Triangle Shirt Waist Factory 1911 Blaze Does Not Catch Fire
Bruce Chadwick
A Boy, a Horse, World War One and a Searing Story
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Christopher McKnight Nichols's Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
Jim Cullen
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The Devil is in the "Debt"
Ira Chernus
News Abroad
Mohammed Bouazizi, Historical Figure
Daniel Pipes
The Man Who Continues to Speak about Experiencing the H-Bomb -- Exposed Clearly: the Deception that is Deterrence
Oe Kenzaburo
Historians & History
Fort Sumter Sesquicentennial: Charleston Changes Her Tune
Ethan J. Kytle
In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten
John Gripentrog
The Third Reich in History: An Interview with Richard Evans
Aaron Leonard
The Bay of Pigs Fiasco Fifty Years On
Yoav J. Tenembaum
Henry Johnson and an Honor Long Overdue
Chad Williams
Culture Watch
One of History’s Great Con Men Is Back, and with Panache
Bruce Chadwick
From Bengal Tigers to Baghdad Tanks, the Stage Finally Catches Up with the Wars in the Middle East
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Del Quentin Wilber's Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Jim Cullen
Review of Tim Bird and Alex Marshall's Afghanistan: How th West Lost Its Way
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Up Front
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History News Network 2.0 is Now Live!
HNN Unveils New Disqus Comments System
News at Home
The Devil is in the "Debt" by Ira Chernus
News Abroad
The Man Who Continues to Speak about Experiencing the H-Bomb -- Exposed Clearly: the Deception that is Deterrence
Oe Kenzaburo
Historians & History
Fort Sumter Sesquicentennial: Charleston Changes Her Tune
Ethan J. Kytle
In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten
John Gripentrog
The Third Reich in History: An Interview with Richard Evans
Aaron Leonard
The Bay of Pigs Fiasco After Fifty Years
Yoav J. Tenembaum
Henry Johnson and an Honor Long Overdue
Chad Williams
Culture Watch
One of History’s Great Con Men Is Back, and with Panache
Bruce Chadwick
From Bengal Tigers to Baghdad Tanks, the Stage Finally Catches Up with the Wars in the Middle East
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Del Quentin Wilber's Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Jim Cullen
Review of Tim Bird and Alex Marshall's Afghanistan: How th West Lost Its Way
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Up Front
HNN/Vote iQ Poll: William Cronon Affair
HNN Book of the Month: America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield
HNN Website of the Month: Remembering Jim Crow
HNN Hot Topics Warmaking: President vs. Congress
HNN Hot Topics: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Meltdown in Japan
News at Home
Detroit Isn't Dead—But Tell That to the Media
Kevin Boyle
We Are One: Remembering King’s Struggle for Labor Rights
Michael Honey
News Abroad
Ai Weiwei and Qingming: An Appeal to China
Lionel M. Jensen
Iran’s New Mahdism Da`wah Video: Letting Slip the Jinns of Jihad?
Timothy R. Furnish
Reports from Tohoku: Assessing Death, Dislocation, and Flight of the Victims Back
Matthew Penney
“Long Since Passed the Level of Three Mile Island”—The Fukushima Crisis in Comparative Perspective
Asia-Pacific Journal
Irradiated Zone: Don’t Go There!
Tom Engelhardt
The Atomic Bomb and "Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy"
Yuki Tanaka
Historians & History
How to Write a Trilogy Without Really Trying
Mary Beth Norton
Channelling George Washington: The Forgotten Soldiers of World War I
Thomas Fleming
Culture Watch
Censored Art: The Return of the Repressed
Paul Boyer
"Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo" Does Not Roar
Bruce Chadwick
History Plays Need Football’s Two-Minute Drill
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Jerome Charyn's Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil
Ron Briley
Review of The Columbia History of the Vietnam War, edited by David L. Anderson
Murray Polner
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
HNN Videos
Celebrating Ten Years of HNN
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News at Home
Can't We Afford to Teach Civics Any Longer? Can We Afford Not To?
Richard Dreyfuss
Haley Barbour’s “Nixon to China” Opportunity on Race
Chris Myers Asch
News Abroad
What Can Air Power Achieve? From Rolling Thunder to Odyssey Dawn
Matt Jacobs
Time for the Academy to Stand Up to Chinese Racism
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Obama in Latin America: So Not Nixon
Alan McPherson
Libya's Century as a Target for Air Power
Brett Holman
Historians & History
Some Sociological Uses of History
Herbert J. Gans
Channelling George Washington: The Greatest American General
Thomas Fleming
Remembering the Triangle Fire
David Lee McMullen
Culture Watch
Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...
Bruce Chadwick
A Proposal for a New ‘Spiderman’ on Broadway: Turn on the History
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Michael Burleigh's Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II
Jim Cullen
Review of John D. Fairfield's The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Bell Clement
