Week of May 28, 2012
Up Front
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 SOCOM Unleashed: Globalizing the Global War on Terror Andrew J. Bacevich |
HNN Teacher's Edition: For High School and Grade School
HNN’s Teacher’s Edition is designed to help busy teachers build classes around topics in the news. With just a few minutes preparation, teachers will be able to teach a class on current events, even if they haven't been in a position to follow the news closely.
Grade School
Memorial Day Special
 Who Invented Memorial Day? Jim Downs |
 It's Time for a National World War I Memorial Julian Saltman |
 At Last, Honor for Albert Wedemeyer, a Great American Soldier Thomas Fleming |
 How to Forget on Memorial Day Tom Engelhardt |
 HNN Hot Topics: Memorial Day |
News at Home
 The Solution to the Voter's Dilemma: Split the Ticket Steve Hochstadt |
 Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible Fred Nielsen |
 The Lessons of People’s Park for the Occupy Movement Michael H. Carriere |
Historians & History
 The Perils of Internet Research: The Case of LBJ and Affirmative Action Samuel Walker |
 Slavery and the Myth of the Alamo James W. Russell |
 The Science (and History) of Disgust: Interview with Psychologist Rachel Herz on Understanding Human Repulsion Robin Lindley |
Education
 What Would Ben Franklin Think about What's Happening to Higher Ed. in Pennsylvania? Caroline V. Hamilton |
Culture Watch
 Show Biz History Jammed into a 1940 Boarding House: Operas, Novels, Poems, and a Stripper, Too Bruce Chadwick |
 Drugs, Fires and Murder in New York: Welcome to Life on the Street in 1975 Bruce Chadwick |
 The American Small Town in the Age of U.S. Empire Ryan Poll |
Books
 Review of Lawrence S. Wittner's Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual Robert Shaffer |
 Review of Troy Bickham's The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812 Jim Cullen |