HNN Rundowns
Book of the Month
 Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian -- by Bernard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill |
Blogs
 Editor's Desk: History, as Painted by Video Games |
 What’s the Deal With the Squabble in the South China Sea? Eric G. Prileson |
News at Home
 Our Latest Mormon Moment Matthew Bowman |
 The Two Elections that Dealt Unions the Biggest Blows Last Tuesday Didn't Happen in Wisconsin Kevin Boyle |
 Will We Be Able to Preserve Yellowstone, America's Living Cathedral? George Black |
News Abroad
 Vietnam is Back in Town Jerry Lembcke |
 Coca-Cola Profits Off Egyptian Jew's Seized Property Edwin Black |
Historians & History
 The Forgotten American Pandemic: Historian Nancy K. Bristow on the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 Robin Lindley |
Education
 Does Common Core Encourage War? Alan Singer |
Culture Watch
 A Play about a Civil War Prisoner Debuts in a Real Civil War Prison Bruce Chadwick |
 Alcatraz Assailed Again, this Time in Drama about a 1941 Murder Bruce Chadwick |
 England is Drenched in Blood in the Fifteenth-Century Wars of Henry IV Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Paul Dickson's Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick Ron Briley |
 Review of Steven Biel's Bonnie Parker Writes a Poem: How Two Bungling Psychopaths Became Bonnie and Clyde Jim Cullen |
HNN Blogs
 Josh Brown: As Wisconsin Goes... |
HNN Polls
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Further Reading
 Were the Bailouts Necessary? Look to Europe for the Answers Robert Brent Toplin |
News at Home
 John F. Kennedy Wouldn't Vote for Scott Walker Martin Halpern |
 If He's Re-Elected, Will Obama be a Successful Second-Termer? Alfred J. Zacher |
 Mormonism: On the Wrong Side of White W. Paul Reeve |
News Abroad
 This is Not Your Grandfather's Germany Kevin Kennedy |
 Do Nuclear Weapons Really Deter Aggression? Lawrence S. Wittner |
 Count Palestine Refugees? Daniel Pipes |
 Thou Shalt Not Leak Murray Polner |
Historians & History
 America's Moral Reckoning with War Raymond Haberski |
 Reflecting on Military Service Vaughn Davis Bornet |
Education
 What is Lost When Teaching as a Lifetime Calling is Undermined Mark Naison |
Culture Watch
 The Story of the Child of Holocaust Survivors: Laughter, Tears, and the Ghosts of World War II Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Andrew Delbanco's College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be Luther Spoehr |
 Review of Rachel Maddow's Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Robin Lindley |
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 |
Up Front: HNN Expose
 Someone Used My Research without Acknowledgement Richard Labunski |
HNN Face/Off
 Review of Brian Latell's Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine: "He Has Fallen into the Morass That is Assassination 'Scholarship'" John McAdams |
 Response to John McAdams: "Fidel Knew that Oswald Intended to Shoot at Kennedy" Brian Latell |
Hot Topics
 HNN Hot Topics: Memorial Day |
Polls
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Education
 OAH/NCPH Sessions “Chart the Future of Teaching the Past” Craig Thurtell |
News Abroad
 Should NATO Be Handling World Security? Lawrence S. Wittner |
Historians & History
 Understanding American Myths: Announcing the New Blog "MythicAmerica" Ira Chernus |
 The Baffling Harry White David Chambers |
Culture Watch
 Historical Whodunits, Dramas about Women Prevail in Summer Theater Bruce Chadwick |
 Seeing Our Presidents in the Light of Poetry Paul J. Ferlazzo |
Books
 Review of Bruce Bustard's Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates Jim Cullen |
