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9-2-15
News at HomeWhat Does Ben Carson's Popularity Say About GOP Voters?
Robert Brent Toplin
It's assumed by many that they're racists (which would account for the heated demonization of Barack Obama). But maybe the opposition to Obama is just political gamesmanship.
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Hot Topics
What Is Labor Day All About?
News and commentary about the holiday.
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9-3-15
RoundupRoundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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9-2-15
News at HomeLet's Hear It for Ohio and Its Presidents -- But that Alaska Mountain Should Be Called Denali
James Robenalt
"My only problem with the way this was handled was that it seemed as if Ohioans and their presidents were once again being disrespected."
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8-28-15
Historians/HistoryWorld War II: From the Chinese Perspective
Tom Clifford
The history’s more relevant than ever as Russia, China and Japan manipulate it for their ends.
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8-30-15
Historians/HistoryHow the Empire Struck Back Starting with Jimmy Carter
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Even though Carter wants to be remembered as a peace president, the fact is that his presidency was crucial to the revival of American militarism after Vietnam.
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8-31-15
Historians/HistoryExonerate Ethel Rosenberg? No. Apologize for Her Execution? Yes.
Lori Clune
In imposing the death penalty that federal officials committed a cruel and unjust act, no matter her guilt as an aware spectator of her husband's spying.
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8-30-15
Historians/HistoryWhat You Don’t Know About the End of World War II
Stephen Harding
The story of the last American killed in combat in World War II – and how his death almost changed the course of history.
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8-30-15
News AbroadMilitarism Run Amok: Russians and Americans Get Their Kids Ready for War
Lawrence S. Wittner
How long will we continue raising our children to be soldiers?
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8-30-15
News AbroadWhile We Weren't Paying Attention, South Africa Suddenly Has Become Pals with China and Russia
Heinrich Matthee
A strange paranoia about the United States underlies the shift.
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8-30-15
News at HomeThis Is What Black Lives Matter Is All About
Ron Briley
... and what it isn't about. Hint: Black privilege.
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8-30-15
Historians/HistoryWhy Didn’t Jefferson Go After Slavery and Pull It Out Root and Branch?
M. Andrew Holowchak
The answer lies in his understanding of the Greek concept of the kairotic moment.
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8-30-15
Historians/History1919, the Year of Racial Violence: An interview with David Krugler
Robin Lindley
In his new book 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back, professor Krugler goes beyond previous histories of this tumultuous period by putting African Americans at the center of the story.
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8-30-15
Historians/HistoryThe Incredible Role of Pure Golden Luck in the Acquisition of California
Steve Boggan
What a few weeks difference may have made.
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Books
Review of Elijah Wald's "Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties"
Luther Spoehr
Who was shocked, and what it meant.
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9-1-15
Culture WatchGinger Rogers Misses A Few Steps and Turns
Bruce Chadwick
The musical tries to zero in on Ginger’s life from about 1930 to 1940, showing how her success was due to an unbelievable work ethic, a lot of pushing from her mom and, well, good luck. There is much good in the musical, but somewhere along the way, the Ginger Rogers musical misses a few steps.
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8-27-15
News AbroadThe Bubble of Emerging Markets Pops
Guy Laron
Is it 1929 all over again? The striking parallels.
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8-26-15
Historians/HistoryJulian Bond’s Great-Grandmother a “Slave Mistress?” How the New York Times Got it Wrong
Martha S. Jones
When telling the history of slavery we must admit its brutal complexity. The term slave mistress leaves too much unsaid, blanketing over the assault and coercion in many enslaved women's lives.
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8-27-15
RoundupRoundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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8-25-15
News AbroadBarack Obama: Historian in Chief
Robert Shaffer
How he is using history to bolster his case for the Iran deal.
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8-23-15
News at HomeThe Historical Ironies of the Right-Wing Movement Against Common Core
Andrew Hartman
Both left and right critics have assailed Common Core. Here's the debate in historical perspective.
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8-25-15
Historians in the NewsNYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week?
Erik Moshe
This week ... books about moral panics, language, big ideas in history, and the fascinating history of autism.
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8-23-15
Historians/HistoryJust Why Exactly Is Woodrow Wilson Rated so Highly by Historians? It's a Puzzlement.
Sheldon M. Stern
It’s understandable why earlier generations of scholars ranked him high. They overlooked his racism, hostility to women’s suffrage, and religious zealotry. But today?
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8-23-15
Historians/HistoryJimmy Carter Retrospectives Are Missing These Important Facts
Robert Brent Toplin
When journalists assess Jimmy Carter’s place in history, they should recognize that Carter’s policies were not the principal cause of difficult economic times in the Seventies.
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8-23-15
Culture WatchAlexander Hamilton and the Hip Hop Founding of America
Bruce Chadwick
Hamilton is the revolution on stage, history come to life, strong fists trust into the air and bold men and women singing their hearts out for the overthrow of the British yoke and the emergence of a new world order on the shores of the United States.
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8-23-15
Culture WatchWhy “Hamilton” Is the Right Musical for Our Time
Robert W. Snyder
“Hamilton” pulls musical theater decisively into the 21st century and reinterprets the American past.
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8-23-15
News AbroadToward a National Strategy to Cope With a New World: Part 2
William R. Polk
We must come to terms with the reality that we live in a multicultural, multinational world. Our assertion of uniqueness has been enormously expensive and counterproductive.
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8-23-15
Historians/HistoryThomas Jefferson’s Campaign Against the Physicians of His Day
M. Andrew Holowchak
The inexperienced & presumptuous band of medical tyros let loose upon the world, destroys more of human life in one year, than all the Robinhoods, Cartouches, & Macheaths do in a century.”
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8-23-15
News AbroadThe Strangest Odd Couple on the World Stage Today: Russia and Israel
Jonathan Adelman and Joseph Szyliowicz
Despite their strained history, they’re able to work together.
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8-23-15
News at HomeShould Carly Fiorina Go All In to Qualify for the First String Reagan Library Debate in September?
Mark Nevin
Nelson Rockefeller’s unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 should give her pause.
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8-23-15
News at HomeWorried About Big Insurance Company Mergers? You Should Be.
Christy Ford Chapin
What history tells us is that the system is broken.
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8-23-15
Historians/HistoryThe Belief that President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon Were Insensitive to Civil Rights Is a Myth
Irwin Gellman
But we keep seeing it pop up, most recently, in a book published by Harvard University Press.
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8-23-15
Historians/HistoryDid the Pentagon Learn from Vietnam?
Christopher A. Lawrence
Vietnam was the bloodiest guerrilla war in modern history, and when it ended the United States military never really conducted any significant studies of the failed war.
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8-24-15
Culture WatchBehind the Scenes at the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
Bruce Chadwick
Tiananmen Annie is a delightful story, full of absorbing anecdotes, about Ann Starbuck’s time in Beijing and how, as a CNN “go-fer,” she learned all about politics and television real fast.
News
- Most Millennials Resist the ‘Millennial’ Label
- Isis profits from destruction of antiquities by selling relics to dealers – and then blowing up the buildings they come from to conceal the evidence of looting
- China military parade commemorates WW2 victory over Japan
- New documentary explores the legacy of the 5,000 Rosenwald schools set up by a Sears magnate and Booker T. Washington
- Rare silent Native American movie of 1920s attracting a lot of interest
- Historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham wins National Humanities Medal
- AHA President Vicki L. Ruiz named National Humanities Medalist
- Historians of Color Are Revolutionizing the Narrative of ‘American Exceptionalism’
- Henry VIII voted worst monarch in history
- The Fuhrer style: Historian says press coverage of Hitler’s lavish life fueled his rise to power
