Week of October 17, 2011

Special Coverage: Occupy Wall Street

HNN Hot Topics: Occupy Wall Street

HNN Poll: Do You Support Occupy Wall Street?

Occupy Wall Street Isn't the Same Old Political Crap—It's Much, Much More
James Livingston

A Century of Our Streets Vs. Wall Street
Steve Fraser

Occupy Wall Street: A Sign of Our Times
Judith Stein

Features

Questions People are Googling

• Why Don't Black People Vote Republican?
• When Were the Dark Ages?
• How Did the United States Defeat the Barbary Pirates?
• What is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims—and Why Does It Matter?
• What's the History Behind the Deficit?

History on TV ... Highlights of Upcoming Shows

News at Home

We've Become a Nation Dangerously Beholden to the Past
C. Wyatt Evans

Turning Downtowns from Ratholes to Artists' Lofts
Roberta Brandes Gratz

News Abroad

Cyprus on the World Stage
Daniel Pipes

Historians & History

Exposing Rashid Khalidi's Bogus Claim about Leon Uris's Exodus
Martin Kramer

A Visit to the Museum of the Confederacy
Kevin Impellizeri

Culture Watch

Can’t King Tut Rest in Peace?
Bruce Chadwick

Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett Climb to the Mountaintop in Powerful New Martin Luther King Jr. Play
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Jim Lehrer's Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to McCain-Obama
Luther Spoehr

Review of Cameron McWhirter's Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
Jim Cullen