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Trump’s Genius
Stone Age Brain
He understands this one important truth about politics. The election is not about him, it's about us and our feelings. -- Rick Shenkman
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What You Don’t Know About Presidential Libraries – And the Scandalous Way in Which They Are Operated
Anthony Clark
New legislation would require disclosure of donations, but leave the rest of the broken system unregulated.
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Roundup 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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Does Even the New York Times Glamorize Modern Armed Conflict?
Robin Lindley
An interview with David Shields, the author of "War Is Beautiful."
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Review of Harry Jaffe’s “Why Bernie Sanders Matters”
Murray Polner
Bernie is what he's always been -- “a Brooklyn guy on a crusade” who really believes in social justice.
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Why Did Officials Neglect Flint? Because They Felt They Could.
Bob Buzzanco
This is the long awful lesson of impoverished communities.
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Why Most Everyone Gets Munich Wrong
John Kelly
Why it wasn’t relevant in Vietnam or Iraq, but might be if terrorists get a nuclear bomb.
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Our Emotional Brains May Be Inherited from Our Stone-Age Ancestors, but We Are Evolving
Pearl Duncan
This is something politicians should keep in mind.
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Jeffersonians Claimed Washington Was Hamilton’s Dupe. They Were Wrong.
Stephen F. Knott
Washington called the shots.
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The New PBS Series on the Civil War: An Interview with the Creator of "Mercy Street"
Robin Lindley
Filmmaker and executive producer Lisa Wolfing explains what it was like to create a show for PBS about the nurses and doctors who served at a Union hospital during the Civil War.
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Why We Need an American Environmental History
Dan Allosso
“I didn't think there's a really good general Environmental History textbook for undergrads, so I wrote one.”
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Ted Cruz: Is He or Isn’t He a Natural Born Citizen?
Ray Raphael
A historian of the Constitution shows the answer is unclear – proof positive of the deficiencies of the theory of originalism that Cruz champions.
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Five Things You Think You Know about Roe v. Wade – But Actually Don’t
Daniel K. Williams
The way that many Americans understand Roe v. Wade today - that is, as a liberal women’s rights decision that gave women throughout the United States immediate access to abortion – says more about the politics of a later era than the political situation of 1973.
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Yes, We Apologized to Iran and Should Have after Our Sailors Crossed into Their Waterways
John Dickson
Other countries have apologized when in the wrong. So have we.
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A Few Women vs. The Greatest Superpower the World Has Ever Known
There's No There There
Stories about American women who challenged the US and its awesome war-making powers.
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“Mercy Street”: The Nearly Flawless New Series on PBS About the Civil War
Kevin M. Levin
It’s the Civil War as the people who lived through it experienced it. And it’s superb.
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Roundup 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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Historians Need to Write and Teach with Empathy
Walter G. Moss
What we are talking about here is not just attempting to feel as others do, but also to experience how they think.
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Ted Cruz’s Stone-Age Brain and Yours
Stone Age Brain
Why we have a hard time feeling for the victims of collateral damage -- and how historians can help.
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NYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week?
Erik Moshe
This week ... Lady Byron, a history of the horse, Lear, and the battle of Ardennes.
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How Does Today’s Middle East Threaten Obama’s Legacy?
Deepak Tripathi
Two developments in particular have caused a sharp deterioration with threatening consequences in the coming year.
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HNN Hot Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best of web commentary on the man and his legacy.
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This Isn’t The First Time Armed Ranchers Have Seized Government Land in Oregon
Steven C. Beda
Back in 1941 they proclaimed themselves the State of Jefferson. Then Pearl Harbor happened.
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A Trump Win Might Wreck the Republican Party
Ronald L. Feinman
By comparing him with Ross Perot and George Wallace we can better understand what he represents.
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The Frightening Prospect of a Nuclear War Is About to Become a Lot More Likely
Lawrence S. Wittner
The Obama administration is making nukes smaller and easier to direct at specific targets.
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Yet Again: The American Historical Association Rejects a Resolution Denouncing Israel
Jeffrey Herf
Part of the reason for the defeat lay in the hubris of the backers fostered by decades of easy victories at the UN or in academic associations that had already been taken over by the radical left.
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Yes, that Was George Washington Leading a Charge in Times Square
Thomas Fleming
Historians are rallying to save his Princeton battlefield from bulldozers.
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Chinese Underwear and Presidential Briefs: What the CIA Told JFK and LBJ About Mao
Steve Usdin
And the real reason, it seems, that the CIA fought for decades to keep these documents secret.
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Review of Ginger Adams Otis’s “Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest”
Paul Moses
"Firefight" sheds light on how favoritism can riddle a civil service system supposedly based on merit.
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The Angry Skeleton Crew Workers of Labor History
Bruce Chadwick
A sharply written play full of deep and absorbing characters, "Skeleton Crew" is really just the latest chapter in labor history in which mega-corporations sometimes destroy the lives of tens of thousands of hard working American laborers.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
- How the Bush Family Destroyed the Republican Party
- GOP Campaign Against Planned Parenthood Fails
- Clinton Would Consider Appointing Obama to Court
- Trump’s Debate Decision Really Hurts Cruz
- It All Comes Down to Turnout
- Bush Doesn’t Think Trump Is a Christian
- 3 Reasons Why a Contested Convention Is Possible
- The Conservative Crackup Is Real
- Majority of Insiders See Trump Winning Nomination
- Quote of the Day
- Who’s to Blame for Trump?
- Should Sanders Attack Clinton?
- New Poll Gives Sanders Small Edge In Iowa
- Cruz Challenges Trump to a One-on-One Debate
- Why Trump Was Smart to Skip the Next Debate
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- Money for Chattanooga History Museum runs out before any exhibits are built
- Is This the End of the GOP as We Know It?
- How A Leading Egyptian Historian Found Himself In The Middle Of A Revolution
- Yale professor redesigns syllabus after campus protests
- The Washington Post flags a website that gives users a new way to think about the past
