Up Front

May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement Lawrence S. Wittner

The Real War on Muslim Women Daniel Martin Varisco

HNN Book of the Month: Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument -- by Eli Zaretsky

Bork Redux Josh Brown: Life During Wartime

Polls

The NYT's Frank Bruni wrote on Sunday that humanities majors "are least likely to find jobs reflective of their education level" according to federal projections. Why should students major in the humanities, especially given the ever-rising sticker price of college? We encourage comments and hope for a rigorous discussion -- click on the graphic to go the comments board!

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

• Syria
• Electing the President: How Do You Make Up Your Mind?

High School

• Syria

News at Home

Peter Beinart and the Specter Haunting American Jewry Jack Ross

Mitt Romney Must Decide What Kind of America He Believes In Ian Reifowitz

News Abroad

Civilian Casualties: Tactical Regrets and Strategic Hypocrisy Steven I. Levine and Michael H. Hunt

Fantasies of Male Chivalry Ignore the History of Women in Wartime Heather Marie Stur

Historians & History

Setting the Record Straight: Harry Dexter White and Soviet Espionage R. Bruce Craig

OAH/NCPH 2012

Public History's Great Showing at the 2012 NCPH/OAH Annual Meeting David A. Walsh

Highlights from the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee David A. Walsh

Education

The Pineapple that Ate Global History Alan Singer

Culture Watch

Chicago 1959: This Old House It's Not Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of John B. Thompson's Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century Jim Cullen

Review of More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, and Progressives in New York's Year of Anarchy Jim Cullen