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• 1-27-15
  Historians/History

  My 20 Year Search for the Truth About One of Hitler's Most Infamous Soldiers: Col. Jochen Peiper

  Danny S. Parker

  Hitler’s Warrior showcases an SS officer’s unique vantage on the Second World War—the dark side from Everyman.

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• 1-25-15
  News at Home

  Obama the Man's Been a Lot More Popular than His Policies. Why Is that?

  Morton Keller

  The regulatory, welfare, and warfare state models of the twentieth century have run into stormy weather. Obama's been a victim of this.

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• 1-25-15
  News Abroad

  Churchill Était Charlie Aussi

  Jonathan Rose

  As signals of political will, even cartoons matter, as Britain found out in the 1930s when it tried to appease Hitler by silencing satirists.

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• 1-25-15
  Historians/History

  The Slippery Slope We’re on with Selma

  Sheldon Stern

  Historical manipulation, even for the best of motives, can easily become a slippery slope on which no one can safely keep their footing.

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• 1-25-15
  Historians/History

  10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Congress of Vienna that Influence Us Today

  Mark Jarrett

  The Congress of Vienna statesmen left a legacy of solid accomplishments, many of which still influence us today.

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• 1-25-15
  News Abroad

  Are the U.S. and Russian Governments Once Again on the Nuclear Warpath?

  Lawrence S. Wittner

  Instead of reducing their deployed nuclear weapons, they’re increasing them.

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• 1-25-15
  Historians/History

  How an International Perspective Changes Our Understanding of the Civil War

  Don H. Doyle

  More than any other episode in America’s past, the Civil War has remained firmly encased within a tight national narrative.

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• 1-25-15
  News Abroad

  Satire, Tolerance, Humility, Terrorism, Islam -- And Charlie Hebdo

  Walter G. Moss

  What are we supposed to make of it all?

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• 1-25-15
  News at Home

  The Presidential Name Game: The Surprisingly Shifting Sands of What Presidents Call Themselves

  David Pietrusza

  President Leslie Lynch King, Jr? President Barry Soetero? Yep.

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• 1-25-15
  Historians/History

  Can Timothy McVeigh and His Ilk Claim Jefferson as a Hero of Liberty?

  M. Andrew Holowchak

  They have, but Jefferson was never committed to liberty per se, but always committed to liberty in the service of intellectual and moral advance.

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• 1-25-15
  News Abroad

  The Battle of the Military Theorists: Clausewitz vs. Sun Tzu

  Mark McNeilly

  Why I think Clausewitz offers sounder advice.

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• 1-25-15
  News at Home

  A Black Captain America is Nothing New

  Patrick Hamilton and Allan Austin

  As Americans watch events unfold on their television screens, stereotypical understandings of African Americans too easily shape our understandings of current events.

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• CSPAN
  1-25-15
  News at Home

  AHA 2015: Historical Perspectives on Ferguson (Video)

  Marcia Chatelain, William Jelani Cobb, Colin H. Gordon, Khalil Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson

  Historians talked about the history of race relations in Ferguson, Missouri, and how we got here.

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• 1-26-15
  Culture Watch

  South African Apartheid as Ugly History

  Bruce Chadwick

  Sizwe Banzi Is Dead succeeds because of Fugard’s superb script, but it soars, too, due to the superior acting of Atandwa Kani as Styles, the passport schemer, and Mncedisi Shabangu as Sizwe. 

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• 1-23-15
  Roundup

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

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• 1-21-15
  News at Home

  The Hacking of the U.S. Military: The Florida Connection

  Mark Weisenmiller

  The two U.S. military social media accounts that were hacked last week had major accounts in Florida. Is there something about Florida?

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• 1-21-15
  Breaking News

  "Jewish Ritual Murder" ... This is on Facebook?

  HNN Editor

  Facebook features a page that claims "Jews admit ritual consumption of Muslim and Christian children's blood to gain success in life." Facebook refuses to take the page down.

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• 1-20-15
  Historians/History

  The American Internment Camp You Never Heard of

  Jan Jarboe Russell

  FDR’s Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of Japanese, also allowed the Roosevelt administration to intern German and Italian immigrants and their American-born children.

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• 1-20-15
  Historians/History

  Selma Corrects Hollywood’s History of the Civil Rights Movement

  Ron Briley

  Mississippi Burning depicted a top-down Civil Rights Movement in which whites played the leading role. Selma shows what really happened.

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• 1-16-15
  News Abroad

  Europeans Need to Reconsider the Lessons of the Great Depression

  Barry Eichengreen

  It is still not too late for European policy makers – and historians – to get this lesson right.

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• Historians/History

  HNN Hot Topic: Selma, the Movie

  Everything you need to know before you go see the movie -- and after.

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• News at Home

  Important State of the Union Addresses in History

  The addresses we remember.

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• 1-16-15
  Historians/History

  What I Know about Selma

  Bernard Weisberger

  Selma is worth seeing, but does the director’s decision to falsely claim that LBJ conspired with J. Edgar Hoover against King encourage truth-twisting?

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• 1-18-15
  News at Home

  The Myth of Neutrality in American Sporting Culture

  Ron Briley

  As you sit comfortably in front of your television before the championship game, take a moment to think about the images of militarism associated with the contest.

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• 1-18-15
  News at Home

  Choking on the Truth: Race, Justice, and the Thin Blue Line

  Yohuru Williams

  Until mainstream society appreciates the real fear that people of color harbor toward police, the dialogue will be fruitless.

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• 1-14-15
  Culture Watch

  The Silent Movie Revival Can Be Heard All Over America

  Bruce Chadwick

  Many theaters and entertainment complexes are not only showing silent movies to a growing number of film fans, but hosting these large, weekend long silent movie festivals that draw thousands of people.

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• 1-16-15
  News Abroad

  HNN Hot Topic: Charlie Hebdo

  Making sense of the tragedy in Paris -- and the reaction to it. 

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• 1-18-15
  Historians/History

  Does Reagan Rank with Webster, Lincoln and Bryan as a Great Orator?

  Christopher L. Webber

  Why I felt compelled to include him in a book about speakers who changed American history.

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• News Abroad

  These Books Were Forbidden Reading. They Deserve to Be Remembered. And Now They Will Be.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  People need to read these books to find out what America has really done throughout the world.

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• 1-16-15
  News at Home

  Does Gun Control = Death Control?

  William Heuisler

  "Eleven American cities – Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, Los Angeles, Jacksonville (Fla.), Miami, Orlando, Omaha, Atlanta, Aurora, IL, and Dallas, account for over 70% of all American gun homicides."

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• 1-18-15
  Historians/History

  Remembering the Battle of the Bulge

  Robert Huddleston

  A pilot who was there tells what it was like.

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• Hot Topics

  HNN Hot Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.

  The best of web commentary on the man and his legacy.