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Another Way in Which Jackson and Trump Are Linked (And It’s Disturbing)
Donald J. Fraser
The followers of both men believe that you have to be white to be a true American.
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Why We Should Remove the Central Park Statue of Dr. James Marion Sims
Alan Singer
Even by the standards of his own day, his operations on black slave women were abhorrent.
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“I Wanted to Tell the Story of How I Had Become a Racist”: An Interview with Historian Charles B. Dew
Robin Lindley
His new book is “The Making of a Racist.”
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It’s Been 398 Years since the Arrival of Kidnapped Blacks in America – And Still We Haven’t Come to Terms with It
James Thornton Harris
What will the president say on the 400th anniversary in two years?
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Trump Is Everything the Founding Fathers Feared in a President
Jeremi Suri
The widening gap between power and values produced President Donald Trump, elected to promote raw power above all.
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Down with Stonewall Jackson! He’s Just Like Lenin.
David Mould
All around the world statues of historic figures are falling. Removing them is just like editing inconvenient ideas from textbooks.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview with Civil War Historian Gary W. Gallagher
Erik Moshe
“I can say with great firmness that I did not choose [history] in the hope of retiring early with a large bank account!”
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Review of Kevin Gutzman’s "Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary"
M. Andrew Holowchak
This short biography makes the case that Jefferson’s legacy as a statesman has been sorely underplayed.
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When Trump Denounces the “Fake Media” Anti-Semites Hear “Jew Media”
Victoria Saker Woeste
His attacks resemble Henry Ford’s. He too was embraced by anti-Semites.
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Bombing North Korea in a Preventive War Is a Bad Idea
Michael H. Creswell
The record of the hawks pushing this idea should give us all pause.
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If Jeff Sessions Is Serious About Cracking Down on Immigration Law Violators, He’s Going to Have to Arrest Millions of American Citizens
Robert Brent Toplin
People who knowingly hire undocumented workers are also lawbreakers.
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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 Relevance of History
Rick Shenkman
History's never been more relevant. That's something all of us need to acknowledge, even the president.
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Will Trump Upend the Plan to Replace Jackson with Tubman on the Front of the $20 Bill?
Jeremy J. Tewell
She may not survive Trump extreme vetting.
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To This German Historian, the Implications of Trump’s Pardon of Sheriff Arpaio Are Ominous
Richard E. Frankel
The message Trump is sending with his pardon of such a man.
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One Thing We Should Learn from Harvey
Pearl Duncan
We should pay more attention to gray swans. What’s that?
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How Did Workers Win the Right to Form a Union and Go on Strike?
Timothy P. Lynch
It happened in Flint, Michigan 80 years ago. We should remember it today. It was American labor’s biggest victory of the 20th century.
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Trump’s Cruel (And Inaccurate) Boast About Pershing Was More Ignorant than You Think
Ron Briley
Like many Americans he believes the US role in the Philippines was innocent. It wasn’t.
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How Charlottesville Got that Robert E. Lee Statue
Bruce W. Dearstyne
It was thanks to a philanthropist who also paid for a park in honor of Booker T. Washington.
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Whatever Your Thoughts About Robert E. Lee, You're Bound to Admire His Ancestor, Richard Henry Lee
Harlow Giles Unger
He was the First Founding Father – and he believed blacks deserved to be free.
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Why Campus Free Speech Laws Won’t Free Campus Speech
Adam Laats
That’s the lesson of the anti-evolution campaigns of the 1920s.
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We Should Keep a Close Eye on Business, too
Nate Holdren
A review of Elizabeth Anderson’s “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)” and Chad Pearson’s “Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.”
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40 Years Ago NASA Launched Voyagers 1 and 2. It’s Been a Stunning Ride.
Steve Pyne
The Voyagers launched 20 years after Sputnik. They continue 40 years later. They span 67% of the entire space age.
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Tired of Long Complicated Wars with Tough Choices?
Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrichs
That’s just how Americans felt in 1945, too.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
News
- Poland ‘ready’ to demand WWII reparations from Germany
- The Birth of ‘Illegal’ Immigration
- Washington National Cathedral to remove stained glass windows honoring Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson
- Senators Push Trump to Condemn White Supremacists, KKK
- Forty Years Later, the Voyager Spacecraft Remain Beacons of Human Imagination
- Mark Lilla’s book against identity politics continues to draw the fire of liberals
- 500 scholars have signed a petition defending a former UCLA historian who runs the Center for Jewish History
- Historian: Ending DACA isn’t about the rule of law. It’s about race.
- Vanity Fair asks top historians to assess Trump
- A historian will tell this to students who enroll in her Hitler class this Fall