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Country Guitarist Changes His Mind on Gun Control after Vegas: Why That's Not Surprising.
Stone Age Brain
Evolution biased us to feel things we experience. In the modern world, that's a problem.
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The Deadliest Mass Killings in American History by a Lone Shooter
There are now so many it's hard to keep track.
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Puerto Rico’s Hurricane María Proves Once Again that Natural Disasters Are Never Natural
Stuart B. Schwartz
The island’s political and financial crisis and its problematic political status makes coping with disaster very difficult.
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Teacher's Lounge
Hang out here to discover exciting resources for teachers teaching history and current events.
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What Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Want Us to Believe Is that Americans Were Innocents in Vietnam
Ron Briley
We weren’t and our history of imperialism proves it.
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What Do Nixon, Reagan and Trump Have in Common?
Ronald L. Feinman
All three came to power after their campaigns resorted to reprehensible tactics.
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North Korea Expert: If China Had the Capacity to Contain North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions, It Would Have Done So Already.
Erik Moshe
An interview with Sun-Chul Kim.
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What Historians Are Saying About the New Vietnam War Documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
The 10 part documentary is being broadcast on PBS.
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Now is Not the Time to Reduce America's Havana Embassy
Cuba Libre
The Trump Administrationâs intention to reduce the number of U.S. diplomats in Havana will not help Americans or Cubans.
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Citizenship in America Today: What It Means in the Age of Edward Snowden, Colin Kaepernick, and Donald Trump
Fred Zilian
Who's a hero now?
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What Would Eleanor Roosevelt Tell Us?
Nancy Woloch
A new collection of her writings shows she’s still relevant.
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What Happened to the People Behind the Assassination of Che Guevara?
Jonathan C. Brown
50 years later, we know.
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Two Universities Examined a Founder's Role in the Sand Creek Massacre
Billy J. Stratton
Why did they arrive at different conclusions?
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What I’m Reading: An Interview with Archaeologist (and Historian) Joyce Tyldesley
Erik Moshe
“Tyldesley’s Law”: “Any theory about the behavior, beliefs and abilities of the ancient Egyptians, no matter how unlikely, will be accepted as truth by someone.”
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If the U.S. and Russia Could Join Forces Against Nazis, Why Not in the Middle East?
David Churchman
Wouldn't it be wonderful if they could?
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The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen Kinzer
Robin Lindley
Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and U.S. expansionism at the end of the 19th century.
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Billie Jean King Beats Bobby Riggs Once Again in Tennis Battle of the Sexes
Bruce Chadwick
"Battle of the Sexes" is as much fun as it is sports history and the history of the women’s lib movement in the early ‘70s.
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Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, and the “F***Ing Jews”
Leo P. Ribuffo
Why haven’t the GOP’s Jewish, black, and Hispanic leaders broken with Trump?
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What’s Missing From the Vietnam War Documentary?
Jeffrey P. Kimball
Why the US waged war in Vietnam.
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Trump’s NFL Tirade Is a Distraction from Real News – Like the World Hunger Crisis
William Lambers
Hunger threatens Puerto Rico and famine threatens 4 other nations.
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Loose Talk of Nuclear War
There's No There There
We should remember there is no real defense against nuclear war.
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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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Could the Governor’s Race in Virginia Turn on the Question of Confederate Monuments?
Bruce W. Dearstyne
It might. History shows why history and politics don’t mix well.
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Donald Trump Is Making Richard Nixon Look Good by Comparison
Ronald L. Feinman
Trump’s trying to destroy the agencies Nixon helped establish to protect workers and keep air and water clean.
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Old Glory: Patriotic Symbol?
Rick Shenkman
Nothing seems more natural to an American than to venerate the patriotic symbols that represent America. But we didn't always.
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Mexico Hasn’t Been at the Center of US Politics Like It Is Now Since 1848
Peter Guardino
Alas, the debate today is marked by the same strand of bigotry.
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This Story About the Publishing of Mein Kampf Is Well-Known in France. Americans Need to Know It.
Blake Smith
Rather than fight the publication of Hitler’s memoir, these French anti-Nazis raced to distribute it themselves.
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Trump’s New Communications Director Reminds this Historian of Missy LeHand
Kathryn Smith
Both served as presidential gatekeepers.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview with Andrea Zuvich
Erik Moshe
How a kid who grew-up in Florida decided to become a historian of 17th century Stuart England.
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Blacks in Britain Were Discouraged from Joining the Army During World War I. They Did It Anyway.
Stephen Bourne
Recovering their stories isn’t easy.
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The Remarkably Similar Parallels Between the Debate About Our Role in the World in 2016 and 1919
Michael S. Neiberg
With the benefit of time we can see more clearly the essential bifurcation in American views about US leadership and how they began in the aftermath of the heated debate over the Treaty of Versailles.
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Review of Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened”
Kathryn Smith
She’s not going to shut up. And she shouldn’t.
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Time Stands Still for A Clockwork Orange and Street Gangs
Bruce Chadwick
The Clockwork Orange has been brought back as a play. The play is sensational, an absolutely electric production that shakes you to your core with terrific actors.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
News
- Is Las Vegas the worst mass shooting in US history? It’s surprisingly complicated.
- Even in Death, the Spy Kim Philby Serves the Kremlin’s Purposes
- Indiana University at Bloomington to keep anti-KKK painting by Thomas Hart Benton
- The 80th Anniversary of the Two-State Solution
- FEMA Chief Slammed for Calling Puerto Rico Relief Efforts the 'Most Logistically Challenging Event'
- Student Sues Columbia Over ‘Deliberate Indifference’ to Harassment Claims Against Historian William V. Harris
- Jonathan Zimmerman asks: What’s So Bad About Ken Burns?
- Leslie Lindenauer: Your grandfather tells stories differently than your mother
- Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates acknowledges his debt to historians
- Tiya Miles is mapping forgotten corners of slave history
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