Week of May 23, 2011
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: U.S.-Israel Relations
HNN Poll: Obama's Mideast Speech
News at Home
Adding the Pressure of High-Stakes Testing to the Pressures of Poverty
Mark Naison
News Abroad
Obama Offered Two Speeches in One—Neither Worked
Gil Troy
Danger in the Lowground: The Japan Earthquake in Historical Context
Gregory Smits
Militarist Madness
Lawrence S. Wittner
Historians & History
Thicker than Water: Dr. Holly Tucker on Blood, Medicine and the Scientific Revolution of the 1600s
Robin Lindley
The Last Cavalry Charge in U.S. History
Peter F. Stevens
How Hate Groups Influenced Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin
Mel Ayton
Culture Watch
Ten Years Later: the Theater Tackles the National Tragedy of September 11, 2001 with a Riveting Play
Bruce Chadwick
Law and Order Meets History, 1873 Style
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Tim Wu's The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Jim Cullen