Week of September 26, 2011

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Election 2012

HNN Feature: Questions People Are Googling 

• Are Jews a Race or a Religion?
• Is the Income Tax Illegal?
• Is America a Christian Nation?
• Will Obama be Re-Elected?
• Was Hitler ... Missing a Very Specific Part of His Anatomy?
   

Gaffes from the Archives: It's Okay, Herman Cain Hasn't Read the Constitution, Either
Daniel Mallia

News at Home

John Mearsheimer's Disturbing Connection to a Notorious Anti-Semite
Adam Holland

Tracing the Resurgence of Rick Perry, "Governer Goodhair"
John Willingham

News Abroad

Is Turkey Going Rogue?
Daniel Pipes

U.S. Support of the Bahraini Monarchy and the Threatened Palestinian Veto are Prime Examples of Hypocrisy
Juan Cole

The Two-State Solution in Israel/Palestine is as Dead as Burhanuddin Rabbani
Deepak Tripathi

Historians & History

The South Has Come a Long Way in Public History: Dispatches from AASLH
Jim Loewen

The Great Human Cost of the Great War: Historian Adam Hochschild on Militarists, War Resisters, and the Lost Generation of World War I
Robin Lindley

Historians Need to Take the Long View when it Comes to Civil Rights
Clay Risen

Culture Watch

‘Extra ! Extra ! Read All About It’: "Newsies" Makes Media History Soar
Bruce Chadwick

The Missed History of Ten Cents a Dance
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Carlos Ulises Decena's Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men
Aaron Leonard

Review of Annie Jacobsen's Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Robert S. Norris and Jeffrey T. Richelson