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
High School
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 |
Up Front
NCPH Award Winners Announced |
North Carolina's Pursuit of a Master Race Edwin Black |
Svetlana Savranskaya: Soviet Perspectives on the Caribbean Crisis [VIDEO] OAH/NCPH 2012 |
OAH/NCPH 2012
Highlights from the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee David A. Walsh |
Index
News
Videos
- Svetlana Savranskaya: Soviet Perspectives on the Caribbean Crisis
- Vox Populi: Highlights from the OAH
- Alice Kessler-Harris: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Emancipation of Belief
- Field Critique: The Republic of Nature: Rediscovering the Environmental Origins of American History
- Melani McAlister: The Roots of the Democratic Upheavals in the Middle East
- Juan Cole: The Roots of the Democratic Upheavals in the Middle East
- Rashid Khalidi: The Roots of the Democratic Upheavals in the Middle East
- Heather Ann Thompson: From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime ... The Rise of Punitive Policy at the Federal, State, and Local Levels
On Other Websites
- Historians Gather in Milwaukee to Discuss the "Central Issue of Our Time"
- OnMilwaukee: Historians at Large on City Streets
- OnMilwaukee: Historians gather this week in Milwaukee for annual conference
Blogs
- The Europeanist: More Thoughts from the Annual Meeting of the OAH
- Larry Cebula: NCPH Day 2: A Lightning Post on Lightning Talks
- The Europeanist: Thoughts on the OAH Annual Meeting
- Tenured Radical: Hey Babe, It’s OAH Day One: Public History Rock and Roll
- Official OAH Blog
News at Home
The True Story Behind the "War on Moms" Mary C. Brennan |
News Abroad
The Shame of Nations: A New Record is Set for Spending on War Lawrence S. Wittner |
Historians & History
Tim Weiner's Enemies: The Final Say Susan Rosenfeld (with endnote by Tim Weiner) |
The Forgotten History of Milwaukee's Civil Rights Struggle Patrick D. Jones |
Culture Watch
Sports History Gets Another Look with Magic/Bird Basketball Drama Bruce Chadwick |
Books
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Review of Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It Jim Cullen |