Week of June 29, 2009
Up Front
NEW Some Tips for Celebrating the Fourth
Ray Raphael
NEW Channelling George Washington: The Glorious Fourth!
Thomas Fleming
NEW After a Century of Overthrows, What’s Washington’s Role?
Alan McPherson
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
HNN Hot Topics: Iran in Crisis
HNN Hot Topics: Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
News at Home
The Last Integrationist: A Note on Michael Jackson
Jim Cullen
What Cap and Trade Programs Are Really About
Hugh Gorman
Why Soap Operas Should Be Taken Seriously By Gays and Straights
Lisa Szefel
The Tea Party in Politics: Why the Event in Boston Harbor Keeps on Appealing to Conservatives
Woden Teachout
News Abroad
The Chávez-Castro Connection Lie in a Now Forgotten Chapter of the Cold War
Brian Nelson
Why We Are Less at Risk of Major Famines Today than in the Past
Cormac Ó Gráda
Historians and History
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Anne Pastore
Nixonland: An Interview with Rick Perlstein
Rick Shenkman
President Reagan Approves the Bombing of Iran
Jason Saltoun-Ebin
A Holocaust Survivor's Reflections on a Grandson's Graduation
Gustav Schonfeld
Books
Review of Edmund S. Morgan's American Heroes: Portraits of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America
Jim Cullen
Review of Anne Nelson's Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
Patrick Devenny
Week of June 22, 2009
News at Home
President Obama's Press Conference & ABC Town Hall Special on Health Care Reform
Bonnie Goodman
President Obama's Healthcare Reform in Trouble? Poll Numbers Sliding
Bonnie Goodman
Michael Jackson: The King of Pop Made His Mark
Gil Troy
The First Swine Flu Epidemic
John M. Morra
How's the Recession Affecting Consumers? An Interview with Historian Lawrence Glickman
David Liebers
How Has the Presidency Changed Most in the Last 30 Years?
Peter M. Shane
Race and Non-Race on the High Court
Simon Balto
What We Can Learn from the Last Indian War About Ourselves
Elliott West
News Abroad
Kicking the Nuclear Habit: Why We Need a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Lawrence S. Wittner
"Daughters of Liberty" America 1776, Iran 2009
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
The Other War in Pakistan
William Lambers
Historians and History
HNN Poll: Do you still use index cards when taking notes?
John Dean Slams "Revisionists" and Nixon Foundation in Talk at Library
Luke A. Nichter
Why I Cannot Stand the Redesigned Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Larry DeWitt
Mobilizing World Opinion Against the Government: How the Irish Did It and Won
Maurice Walsh
The Pioneer in Women's Rights Who Was on the Wrong Side of History
Sheila L. Skemp
Anthropologists as the Good Guys
Elizabeth Weiss
Keeping Prostitution History Under Wraps
Jan MacKell
Culture Watch
Will Moviegoers Want the Real Story of John Dillinger?
Elliott J. Gorn
Books
Review of For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom By Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post
Luther Spoehr
Review of Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement By Lynne M. Woehrle, Patrick G. Coy and Gregory M. Maney
Lawrence S. Wittner
News
- Breaking News
- History Buzz
- Historians in the News
- Political Highlights
- Washington DC
- Obituaries
- History on TV
Hot Topics
- July 4th
- Gay History
- Iran in Crisis
- Apologies
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Supreme Court
- North Korea
- Torture
- Obama at 100 Days
- Health Care Reform
- Meltdown 2009
- The New Deal
Features
- Top Young Historians
- Doyens
- Books About History
- On This Day in History
- This Week in History
- Quote/Unquote
Roundup
HNN Blogs
- History Blogroll
- Cliopatria
- Liberty & Power
- Judith Apter Klinghoffer
- How Stupid?
- Mark A. LeVine
- POTUS
- Gil Troy
