Week of December 3, 2012
 What is the Best History Book of 2012? |
Up Front: "Lincoln"
 How Historically Accurate is Spielberg's "Lincoln"? Louis Masur: Not everything in the movie is 100% accurate, but most of it is, and the level of detail's incredible. [PODCAST] |
 HNN Hot Topics: "Lincoln" the Movie Pictured at left: Abraham Lincoln. The real one. But Daniel Day-Lewis is pretty convincing. |
 HNN on Zeen: Special "Lincoln" issue |
Blogs
 Cheer Up, Rush: Dems Keep "Traditional America" Alive The Obama White House sends out a holiday postcard worthy of Romneyland. |
Google Questions
 How Was History Made in the 2012 Election? The 113th Congress will have a record number of women serving. |
News at Home
 The Hollowing Out of America How the financial industry sucked the lifeblood out of America's industrial heartland. |
 How Republicans See Democrats The party of treason. |
 How Can We Make Congress Work Better? We need to find a way to end the permanent campaign. |
 Are Evangelicals Politically Homeless? Independent evangelicals are caught between hostile Democrats and hard-edged Republicans. |
News Abroad
 Gaza's Not the Key, Philadelphi Is Israel should reassert its control over the Philadelphi corridor between Gaza and Egypt. |
 “It’s Mostly Punishment…” Testimonies by veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces From Gaza and the Occupied Territories. |
Historians & History
 Thomas Jefferson: Monster? Let's get beyond the moral indignation about Jefferson and slavery and start examining how and why those power structures worked. |
 Remembering Alfred F. Young, 1925-2012 The modern practice of public historian owes him a huge debt. |
Education
 School Closings and Public Policy The anatomy of a catastrophe. |
Culture Watch
 What Argo Gets Wrong About the 1953 Iran Coup Yes, the CIA was involved, but the plot originated in London, not Washington. |
 2012: Mayan Apocalypse Watch The end of the world is not actually coming, but here's why this weird belief is still out there. |
 America's Real Religion: Shopping 'Tis the season... |
Books
 Review of Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick's The Untold History of the United States Sheds light on overlooked history, but gets JFK wrong. |
 Review of Melinda L. Pash’s In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The Americans Who Fought the Korean War |