Week of August 22, 2011

Up Front

HNN Exclusive: Bill Moyers to Return to TV with a New Series

Bill Moyers and Robin Lindley: Continuing the Conversation—The Renowned Journalist on His New Book, His Career, His Brushes with History, and Where We Stand Now

HNN Hot Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.

HNN Hot Topics: Stock Market Crashes

HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown

HNN Polls: Grading Obama

American Historical Association:  Pacific Coast Branch (Videos)

Mom:  The Transformation of Motherhood

• Rebecca Jo Plant

Bush's Wars:  Roundtable on Terry Anderson's Book

• Terry Anderson
• David Schmitz
• Kyle Longley

Vietnam

• David Anderson:  Understanding the Origins of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
• David Schmitz:  Understanding the Origins of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
• Matthew Masur:  Understanding the Origins of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
• Jessica Elkind:  Understanding the Origins of U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
• Kathleen Belew: Timothy McVeigh's Vietnam War in Oklahoma 
• Simeon Man: Asian American Veterans and the 'Gook Syndrome'

Religion and Politics

• Larry McAndrews:  Carter, Catholics and Abortion
• Elise Boxer:  Mormon Manifest Destiny, Mormon Whiteness and Racial Formations
• Christopher Schlect: The Great Depression and the Elasticity of Fundamentalism
• Janine Giordano Drake: What Does Fundamentalism Have to Do with Class?
• W. Andrew Tooley: Evangelical Methodists and Postwar Conservatism

Great Power Intervention in the Middle East

• Peter Mellini
• Jonathan Katz

News at Home

Neither Bachmann nor Perry is the Serious Candidate the GOP Needs 
Stanley Kutler

Why the Left Needs Its Koch Brothers
Richard Striner

The Fed's Not the Cavalry in this Crisis
Iwan Morgan

Obama and Hoover: Two "Smart" (Stupid) Presidents
Jonathan J. Bean

News Abroad

The Great Tripoli Uprising
Juan Cole

White House Weasel Words in the Middle East
Daniel Pipes

The UK Riots Show the Bankruptcy of Conservative Policies
Deepak Tripathi

Historians & History

J.H. Plumb Would Be Aghast at Today's Distorted History
John Willingham

What if the Americans Had Established Six Nations, Rather than One?
Robert Higgs

Culture Watch

RIP Nick Ashford and Jerry Leiber: You Created the Soundtrack for a Multiracial America
Mark Naison

Fringe Festival: "Noir" is Hard-boiled Good Fun
Bruce Chadwick

Chasing History in New York's Fringe Festival
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Baseball, edited by Leonard Cassuto and Stephen Partridge
Ron Briley

Review of Terry H. Anderson's Bush's Wars
Jim Cullen