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Genocide Denial In Bosnia: A Danger to Europe and to the World
Albinko Hasic
The same de-humanizing philosophy which fed into ethnic and religious tropes leading to genocide is back, perhaps stronger than ever.
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The Entangled History of “America First” and “The American Dream"
James Thornton Harris
Sarah Churchwell unravels the complicated history behind “America First” in her new book Behold America.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview With Public Historian Amanda Higgins
Erik Moshe
“The best historians are removing the layer between the finished thing and the work to get to that finished project.”
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Will the U.S. Government Abide by the International Law It Created in Venezuela?
Lawrence Wittner
And how the U.S. government has violated these principles of international law in the past.
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Remembering Audrey Hepburn's Best Role
William Lambers
How her experiences as a child motivated her commitment to ending children's hunger.
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Is Bernie Sanders Actually A Democratic Socialist?
Michael Sheng
"For the sake of history, please tell your voters what you really believe, and don’t just throw out a label without a precise definition."
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Battlefield Tourism At Ypres and How Public History Sites Change
Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel
Modern Ypres or Ieper is a world forged and shaped in the furnace of a conflict that ended one hundred years ago this November.
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What FDR Can Teach Us About Congress and National Emergencies
Martin Halpern
Seventy-five years ago this week, there was a serious conflict between President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress.
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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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Levittown, PA and The “Northern Promised Land That Wasn't”
Jasmine Torres and Alan Singer
Levittown, Pennsylvania violently errupted when William and Daisy Myers moved into the suburban town in 1957.
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What Can the Humanities Teach Us About Big Data?
Jo Guldi
The "Critical Search" techniques of Big Data uncover the nuances and patterns of the past in the Humanities.
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Teaching the Fall of the Roman Republic During the Trump Presidency
Edward Watts
My students are trying to understand Rome’s mistakes and discover sources of its political resilience.
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UPDATED: What Historians are Saying: In Response to Max Boot's Op Ed on Historians
Max Boot published an article saying historians are not engaged enough with the public. Here's how historians reacted.
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Why Preserving Historical Places and Sites Matters
Thompson Mayes
Historical sites can become the vortex and venue for understanding our changing civic and national identity.
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One Of The Greatest Cover-Ups Of The 20th Century
John Heminway
A quest to learn more about a friend after her death revealed shocking secrets.
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What Can One Ecologist Teach Historians?
John Gaudet
Ecology can help substantiate historical changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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A Dozen Books To Help Weather The Political Storm
John T. Shaw
The discipline of serious reading helps us slow down, think more carefully, weigh evidence, and respect - and expect - careful argument.
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The Many Joys of Writing History
Walter G. Moss
It is the chance to stand back and observe the whole human story, with all its tragedies and comedies, and like Shakespeare think “What a piece of work is man!”
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What 2020 Presidential Hopefuls Can Learn From Carter, Clinton, and Obama's Foreign Policy
Ronald L. Feinman
It would be wise if the next President of the United States examined the records of accomplishment in foreign policy of the three most recent Democratic Presidents.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview With Russianist Historian Katherine Antonova
Erik Moshe
A historian sees what happened in the past not as a set story, but as disparate bits of evidence that might or might not cohere enough to answer our questions.
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The Price of Thomas Scott is Pretty High
Bruce Chadwick
The drama is a sturdy look at the lives of women in that era and shows how thousands of them found work in millinery and other women’s’ shops, creating a whole new underclass of fashion workers.
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Why Aren't Americans More Enraged About Russian Interference? World War 2 History Helps Explain
William K. Klingaman
Even after Pearl Harbor, "the Greatest Generation" was often complacent about foriegn threats.
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The Polar Bear Expedition: When America Intervened in Russian Affairs
James Carl Nelson
As allegations and investigations swirl around the questions of Russian intervention in our 2016 elections, it’s worth a look back one hundred years to our own intervention in Russia.
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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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We Need to Acknowledge the Power of the Israel Lobby
Walter L. Hixson
Israel and its American supporters have assembled the most powerful lobby pursuing the interests of a foreign country in all American history.
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“National Security Crisis” or “Power Grab”?
M. Andrew Holowchak
It’s not the Constitutionality of Trump’s Wall, but Its Morality that Matters
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Proof that Bombs Can Stop Genocide
Rafael Medoff
If President Roosevelt had heeded the pleas that were made in 1944 to use force against the machinery of genocide, many lives could have been saved.
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How Do You Fire a Special Prosecutor? Ask Harry Truman.
Andrew Coan
The Truman tax scandals teach an important lesson about the relationship between special prosecutors and democratic politics.
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How the Shortest Presidency Spurred a Brief Constitutional Crisis
Suzy Evans
William Henry Harrision only served as president for 31 days but he still sparked a constituional debate.
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What Dinesh D’Souza's "Death of a Nation" Gets Wrong About Martin Van Buren
Mark Cheathem
D’Souza’s inability, or unwillingness, to ground his case in actual evidence calls into question his motivation and suggests that he wants to use history as partisan propaganda, not as a way to illuminate the past.
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Whose Country is This? Trump, Coolidge, and Immigration
Bruce W. Dearstyne
It was a central question a century ago, and still is today. President Coolidge and President Trump might have similar answers.
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What To Know About the History of Impeachment
Peter Charles Hoffer
A primer on the constitutional basis of impeachment, when it's been used before, and what that means for our current political moment.
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Sacrificing Greatness For Personal Ambition
Alon Ben-Meir
An Open Letter to Turksih President Erdogan
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Do We Make Writing on Jefferson Harder than It Really Is?
M. Andrew Holowchak
Jeffersonian scholarship is not a fool’s errand, but it is extremely arduous.
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Barack Obama, Politics, and Presidential Rankings
Ronald L. Feinman
How can political circumstances alter how scholars rank past presidents?
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America Needs a Moral Leader in 2020
Donald J. Fraser
And we can look to Abraham Lincoln as an example.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Nikki Taylor
Erik Moshe
"We must be able to see and write about the humanity in both our heroes and villains."
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UPDATED: What Historians Are Saying About Trump's National Emergency and Press Conference
A curated collection of Tweets and articles from across the web.
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Is the Green New Deal Impossible?
James Brewer Stewart
The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”
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What a Japanese-American soldier’s thirty-year secret can teach us about race, war, and loyalty
Sandra Vea
Interpreters with the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during WW2 were credited for shortening the war in the South Pacific by two years. Yet, they had to keep their service secret for 30 years.
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The Worldwide Problem of Holocaust Ignorance – and The Barriers to Solving It
Steve Hochstadt
Because encouraging diversity and fighting prejudice are politically controversial, Holocaust education is a partisan political act, and always has been.
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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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Congress and the Trump Administration Are Using and Abusing History At Least Six Times a Day
Checkered History
A new interactive tool helps us understand how politicians use history--and how historians can respond.
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Alexander the Great and "The Republic of Northern Macedonia"
Robert Garland
How Alexander the Great helped created a naming controversy 2,500 years later that was just resolved.
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Old Concepts for New Concerns: the Railroad, the Internet, and Government Regulation
Tom Wheeler
"The principles underpinning the industrial era rules remain valid today, they simply need updating to reflect the capabilities of the new technology." writes the former FCC Chairman.
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The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective
Lauren Jannette
Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations.
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Combatting Crimes against History
Antoon De Baets
Those who died while exercising their right to history are testimony to the fact that the historian’s craft is vulnerable, that its integrity needs constant vigilance and protection, that the defence of its basic principles is a duty for all, always, and everywhere.
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The British, with Guitars and Drums, Invade America in 1963
Bruce Chadwick
As the song goes, rock and roll is here to stay.
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Why the Congress of Racial Equality Has Been Forgotten – And Why It Still Matters Today
L.E.J. Rachell
We need to go back to CORE to have a better understanding of the ongoing antiracist movement.
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