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News at Home
What Speaker Boehner Should Tell House Republicans About Compromise
Walter G. Moss
News Abroad
Was 2011 Really the "Year of the Protester"?
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Hamas is Making History by Reaching Out to Sunni Islam
Nimrod Hurvitz
Agent Orange is Still Killing People in Vietnam and America
Fred A. Wilcox
Historians & History
"Did Alan Singer Actually See the Exhibition?" A Response from a Curator at the New-York Historical Society
Richard Rabinowitz
Does Anybody Remember the Battle of An Loc?
Thomas Fleming
Culture Watch
Why is Penn State Playing Football in the Midwest Anyway?
Carl Abbott
On Lonesome Highways: Haunted by History, an Interview with Writer/Photographer James A. Reeves
Robin Lindley
Books
Review of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Jim Cullen
Review of Steven J. Ross's Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Jim Cullen
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Up Front
NEW Most Popular Articles of 2011 Published by HNN
Questions People are Googling
- Did We Really Land on the Moon?
- What is the Military-Industrial Complex?
- Who Dreamed Up the Gas Tax?
- Was Spain to Blame for Blowing Up the "Maine"?
Blogs
HNN Special: National Council for the Social Studies Annual Meeting 2011
All stories by HNN correspondent Craig Thurtell
How to Teach Students to Think Like Historians
Arne Duncan Exhorts Teacher “Troublemakers”
What's Wrong with School Reform: Interview with Diane Ravitch
News at Home
It’s Not Such a "Wonderful Life" This Holiday for Homeowners
Robert E. Wright
What Will the Democratic Left Do in 2012?
Lawrence S. Wittner
Channelling George Washington: A Carnival of Buncombe
Thomas Fleming
Can American Trains Achieve Steam Speeds in the Modern Era?
Jim Loewen
The Words That Mattered In 2011
Ian C. Friedman
Historians & History
Why Today's Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt
Rosemarie Ostler
Culture Watch
On Christopher Hitchens, Atheism, and Inanity
James Livingston
How the New England Patriots Use Sound Business Strategy to Win Football Games
Louis A. Ferleger
2,400 Years Later, Greek Vixen Lysistrata Rides Again, This Time on the Basketball Court
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Richard Borkow's George Washington’s Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson and the Trapping of Cornwallis
Thomas Fleming
Review of Steven M. Gillon’s Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War
Luther Spoehr
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Up Front
Newt Gingrich the Galactic Historian
Ray Smock
Occupy: You Can’t Evict an Idea
Ruth Rosen
Questions People are Googling
- Only 1/3rd of Americans Supported the American Revolution?
- Did Everybody in the Greatest Generation Fight ?
- Did the Founding Fathers Really Get Many of Their Ideas of Liberty from the Iroquois?
- Why was Caesar Really Killed?
- Did States Restrict the Voting Rights of Felons on Account of Racism?
Blogs
- Robert Higgs: Why Do So Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism? (L & P)
- Brett Holman: Remembering the Pacific War at Monash (Clio)
- Chris Bray: George Lakoff Isn't a Historian, but that Excuse Only Goes So Far (Clio)
News at Home
Theodore and Barack in Osawatomie
Walter Nugent
Occupy Should Remember: The Public Blamed the Protesters for the Kent State Shootings
Christine Lamberson
Miss USA and Mr. FAA: Our Latest Drunk Drivers
Barron H. Lerner
News Abroad
The Remoteness of 1 Percent Wars
William J. Astore
Historians & History
The Gift of Anguish: An Interview with Psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi on Leadership and Mental Illness
Robin Lindley
How Do Staid Museums Navigate a User-Generated World?
Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski
Culture Watch
J. Edgar Fails to Deliver the Historical Goods
Aaron J. Stockham
Bonnie & Clyde Shoot Up America in the Great Depression
Bruce Chadwick
A Cold Christmas for this "Christmas Carol"
Bruce Chadwick
For Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway, It’s Love on the East Side
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Anna Reid’s Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Murray Polner
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Up Front
Newt Gingrich the Galactic Historian
Ray Smock
The Day of Infamy—How Japan’s Hollow Victory Spelt the End for Hitler
Rupert Colley
Pearl Harbor Roundtable
Pearl Harbor: Seventy Years Later
Hiroshi Kitamura
Remembering Pearl Harbor with Japanese and American Teachers
Yujin Yaguchi
The Road to War between the U.S. and Japan was Paved by Irreconcilable Worldviews
John Gripentrog
Another Sort of Pearl Harbor Infamy for Japanese Americans
Greg Robinson
Remember 9/11, Forget Pearl Harbor?
Emily S. Rosenberg
Questions People are Googling
- Who Was Pocahontas?
- Did Benjamin Franklin Fake the Kite Experiment?
- Did Hitler have Jewish Soldiers?
- Was William T. Sherman the Most Reckless Civil War General of Them All?
- Did Truman Really Oppose the Soviet Union's Decision to Enter the War Against Japan?
Blogs
- Iwan Morgan: The UK's Deficit Dogma: The Lesson for the U.S.
- David Silbey: The Facts of Yesterday (Clio)
- Chris Bray: Boston College (Cont.): The Inextinguishable Rule of Law* (Clio)
- Lester Hunt: What I Learned from Climategate(L&)
- Walid Phares: Questions About Middle East Studies' Unreadiness for the Arab Spring
News at Home
Why Does the 99 Percent Let Athletes, Executives, and Movie Stars Get Away with Huge Salaries?
Walter G. Moss
Will The Occupy Movement Fade Now That Most of the Occupations Have Been Cleared?
Mark Naison
Penn State and Violence Against Men
Jim Loewen
Save and Preserve Our American System
Vaughn Davis Bornet
News Abroad
Revisiting a Massacre in Lebanon's Civil War—Were Lebanese Christians Responsible?
Franck Salameh
Historians & History
Fairy Tale History at New York’s (un)Historical Society
Alan Singer
A 1978 Critique of Gaddis on Kennan
Michael H. Hunt
The Sad Lives and Demise of Stalin's Sons
Rupert Colley
Culture Watch
Merry Christmas to All: the American Theater Recycles Films of the Past for Historic Holiday Cheer this Season
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Thomas A. Kohut's A German Generation: An Experential History of the Twentieth Century
Murray Polner