Week of September 24, 2012
HNN Teacher's Edition: For 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.
 Electing the President: What Makes for a Great President?Lesson Plan Backgrounder |
 The U.S. ConstitutionLesson Plan Backgrounder |
Blogs
Neither side is articulating what they really believe. |
And a Romney victory would bring back the neocons. |
The ghosts of a very ugly past of voter suppression. |
We're San Diego bound! |
Don't believe the pundits -- the candidates are actually have a real debate about the proper role of government. |
News at Home
Whether or not a vote counts is ultimately up to election workers ... and the poll watchers keeping an eye on them. |
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe -- Clinton, Bush, Obama? |
"[A] Samson who had allowed himself to be shorn by the harlot, England." -- Jefferson on Washington. |
Violent deaths spike under Republican presidents. |
How American democracy became the property of a commercial oligarchy. |
Which side are you on? |
The idea that government aid buys votes for the Democrats has been around since the New Deal. |
Detroit mayor Frank Murphy's New Deal before the New Deal. |
News Abroad
This election will be determined by how the president handles the whirlwind of world events. |
"Who the !@$% does he think he is? Who's the !@$%ing superpower here?" -- Bill Clinton on Benjamin Netayahu. |
Comparing the U.S. "civilizing mission" in the Philippines to "nation-building" in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
The UN should look back at the 1922 campaign to cloth Armenians for ideas. |
A new polls shows that Americans are surprisingly skeptical about weapons, wars, and defense spending. |
Historians & History
The state of Georgia got more than it bargained for when it tried to close its archives to the public. |
Thirty acres of America's historic battlefields are lost every day. |
Joseph Smith ran for president in 1844 ... and was also the first presidential candidate to be assassinated. |
Why thank you, Muslim Public Affairs Council, for this endorsement. |
Bed-hopping with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. |
Books
A solid bio, but it doesn't capture Wells's personality. |
A thorough, exhaustively-researched account of the icon. |
