Week of February 27, 2012
Questions People are Googling
- Did Mormons Ban Black People from their Church?
- Why Do People Say Muslim Now Instead of Moslem?
- Why are Great Men (or Women) Not Chosen President?
- Does the Presidential Candidate with the Most Money Usually Become the Party Nominee?
- What’s in a Coat-of-Arms?
HNN Book of the Month: Governing America: The Revival of Political History
News at Home
Rick Santorum and the War Upon America’s Poor
Ron Briley
Santorum and Romney Were Wrong on the Bailouts -- But George W. Bush Wasn't
Robert Brent Toplin
News Abroad
Is the U.S. in Relative Decline? Sadly, the Answer is Yes.
Iwan Morgan
Historians & History
The Context Behind Hitler's WWI Lovechild
Julian T. Saltman
Washington Weathered a Terrible Economy and Great Power Rivalry Before ... in 1842
Alasdair Roberts
We Have Had a Gay President, Just Not Nixon
James Loewen
The Forgotten Bomb: Interview with Documentary Producer Craig Collie on the Destruction of Nagasaki
Robin Lindley
Culture Watch
NEW World War II Sailors Chase Victory—and Lots of Women—in 1944 New York
Bruce Chadwick
NEW Will The Help's Oscar Revive Interest in The Long Walk Home?
Peter Dreier
Antiwar Critics Forgotten on Oscar Night
Adam Hochschild
Galileo, the Earth, the Sun, the Catholic Church and Injustice
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Randy Roberts's Joe Louis: Hard Times Man
Murray Polner
Review of Peter Rollins's America Reflected: Lanuage, Satire, Film, and the National Mind
Ron Briley