The Republican Party Isn’t Collapsing
By Corey M. Brooks
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Why Are Trump Voters Not Bothered by His Lies?
Stone Age Brain
The answer may cause angst in us all, says Rick Shenkman.
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Why Thucydides Is (Sadly) So Relevant Right Now
Eric Orlin
“War is a violent teacher, and brings most men's passions to the same level as their circumstances.”
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What Would Eleanor Roosevelt Think of the Fight for Equal Pay for Equal Work?
Brigid O’Farrell
We don’t have to guess. We know.
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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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Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians: 2016
Highlights from the annual meeting being held in Providence, RI.
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At Least Trump Got One Thing Right. There Were No WMDs in Iraq.
Brian Glyn Williams
That’s more than can be said of the majority of GOP voters, who still think WMD were found.
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Could the Hulk Hogan Case Change Journalism?
Samantha Barbas
The Hogan lawsuit could be the beginning of something big.
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Human Beings Aren’t Elephant Seals. But Still ....
(R)evolutionary Biology
A close look at these creatures reveals a lot about male-female differences in our own species.
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Will the GOP Crown Paul Ryan as Its Presidential Nominee?
Ronald L. Feinman
If it does, it will be a sharp break with history and not for the reasons you think.
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Pogroms to Producers: A New Look at 135 Years of Yiddish Theater
Bruce Chadwick
The story of the Yiddish theater is chronicled in “New York’s Yiddish Theater from the Bowery to Broadway,” a new, absorbing and enriching exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.
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One Reason Why Blacks Rallied to Harry Truman in 1948
Jennifer Scanlon
It was because of the unheralded work of Anna Arnold Hedgeman, a liberal black activist.
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Who Really Discovered America?
Ed Simon
That’s a complicated and fraught question that no fresh discovery of the Vikings’ presence, however important, can answer.
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The Supreme Court Mystery We Couldn’t Solve
Brian Johnson
The Obama administration claims that every nominee to the Court since 1875 has received a hearing or an up or down vote. So what happened in 1875? Nothing as far as we could determine.
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The Surprising Similarity in the Crises Facing Both Wheaton and Oberlin
Louis B. Gallien, Jr.
One school’s hard Christian right. The other’s devoted to social justice causes. But the trouble they’re facing is rooted in a similar past.
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We’ve Had a Dealmaker as a Candidate for President. It Was Stephen Douglas. Lincoln trounced him – with good reason.
Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle
Lincoln trounced him – with good reason.
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Your Brain on Politics (Video)
Stone Age Brain
What we need to know about the brain to protect ourselves from manipulative politicians. By Rick Shenkman
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North Carolina's Brutal Tradition of Sexual and Gender Discrimination
Marc Stein
The state rejects lavender and purple state politics and turns a bright shade of red.
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Abraham Lincoln vs. the Republican Party
John C. Waugh
Lincoln’s Republican party has dramatically changed since it was his. If there is a Trump as its presidential nominee in 2016, would Lincoln still be in it?
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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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The Rosenbergs Were Blamed for Starting a War. It Wasn’t True.
Lori Clune
That was just one of the egregious flaws in the trial that ended in their deaths.
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Does the GOP Have a Moral Obligation to Nominate Trump just Because He’s the Front Runner?
Ronald L. Feinman
History suggests the answer is no.
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This Year’s Reminding Me a Lot of 1968. That’s Scary.
Ron Briley
If we are not careful we may reap a whirlwind more threatening to American democracy than the 1968 winter of discontent.
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Historic Crime Photography Exhibit Shoots Blanks
Bruce Chadwick
There are chilling portraits of killers, both young and old, hundreds of mug shots, photographic studies of bad guys’ chins and noses, copies of old crime magazines and photos of guns galore. But there is no connection between any of the pictures, no story line, no theme.
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Why Bernie’s Right About Glass-Steagall
Edward Morris
History may not repeat itself, but why take the risk it will?
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Why Historians Should Teach the Future
Peter Bishop, David Hochfelder, Joe Sears, and David Staley
"We teach about the past, don’t we? Why can’t we teach about the future?”
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How Military Service Changes You
Vaughn Davis Bornet
“Military service had its effect on me, that’s for sure. Over time, if you join up, it will almost inevitably have an easily noticeable effect on your perceptions of reality.”
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Why Did Whittaker Chambers Leave the Communist Party?
Daniel Oppenheimer
It wasn’t one big thing. It was a series of small shocks.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
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Hitler in the 2016 Election
“Trump not bothered by comparisons to Hitler” — Politico headline
News
- Microsoft's latest AI experiment is refusing to look at photos of Adolf Hitler
- Concern Grows That Hamilton Euphoria Will Push Woman to Back of the $10 Bill
- Finally, the U.S. Steps Closer to Racial Healing With a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Syria says restoring Palmyra to the way it was is its goal
- Handwriting Analysis Sheds Light on Biblical Timeline
- Alfred L. Brophy says the field of legal history has changed dramatically in the last couple of decades
- Thomas Fleming Wins Coveted Writer’s Award
- Croatian Historian Condemns Minister’s WWII Rhetoric
- Report: Historians in 107 countries were subject to censorship or persecution in 2016
- Petition calls for dismissal of UCLA historian Gabriel Piterberg
