| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Andrew Goss Big pharmaceutical companies have long over-promised the efficacy of their antimalarial drugs. It seems to be happening again. |
 by John Howard Tiger King viewers should look past the show's outrageous elements to consider the political, economic and legal factors that shape queer life in the American south. |
 by Lane Windham For a time, union contracts were the closest thing the U.S. had to the kinds of robust social safety nets found in European countries. |
 by Kimberly A. Hamlin Gardener's appointment as Civil Service Commissioner was one symbolic step toward the idea that women should be recognized as "self- respecting, self- directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own." | | Today's COVID Headlines - Trump Declares Meat Supply 'Critical,' Aiming to Reopen Plants - Push to Reopen Economy Runs up against Workers and Consumers Worried about Risk - Black Activists and Officials See a Major Threat in South's Plans to Reopen Breaking News Stay Up to Date! You can now receive a daily digest of news headlines posted on HNN by email. It's simple: Go Here! What follows is a streamlined list of stories. To see the full list: Go Here!
 Germany has done more than other nations to enlist the advice of philosophers, historians of science, theologians and jurists as it navigates the delicate ethical balancing act of reopening society while safeguarding the health of the public. |
 The Washington Post Beijing Bureau Chief and Kim Jong Un biographer Anna Fifield dissects the swirling rumors around the North Korean leader's health and whereabouts. |
 Councilman Michael Kubosh compared the violation of social distancing orders to the actions of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. |
 The dairy company's decision to remove an iconic logo has been praised and (and occasionally condemned). Learn the history of the logo and reaction to it here. |
 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has a key role to play in reopening the economy, but it has fewer inspectors than at any time since 1975, continuing a pattern of decline that dates to 1981. |
 The decision in a suit brought by Detroit students against the state of Michigan referenced a number of historic cases and revives the question of whether inequality among school systems violates equal protection under the Constitution. |
 The man behind the original "Penny Dreadful," which ran for three seasons and drew on famed figures from Gothic literature, has now taken an oft-forgotten piece of history, added the supernatural and the culturally specific iconography of Santa Muerte, and produced Showtime's spinoff "Penny Dreadful: City of Angels." |
 "This symbol has shown it has the power to inflame feelings of division," Gen. David Berger wrote in a letter to Marines dated Monday and included in a tweet. |
 Normally, South Korean officials maintain a neither-confirm-nor-deny policy, at least on the record, for fear of disturbing sensitive relations between the two Koreas. |
 Since 1958, Ben's Chili Bowl has been many things, a restaurant, meeting place, community center, and landmark. Now, the iconic DC institution is struggling to survive the coronavirus. |
 A Republican state senator in Michigan apologized for wearing a homemade mask that resembled the Confederate battle flag on the Senate floor on Friday. |
 Although the 1964 Times v. Sullivan ruling makes it unlikely Trump would win a libel suit against a media outlet, the adminstration wants to remake the historical relationship between the press and public figures. | 
History and Historians in the News Stay Up to Date! You can now receive a daily digest of news headlines posted on HNN by email. It's simple: Go Here! What follows is a streamlined list of stories. To see the full list: Go Here!  "John Thelin, a University of Kentucky professor and the author of the definitive 'History of American Higher Education,' told me that he's never seen anything like the dual crisis colleges are facing right now." |
 HNN salutes historians newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
 The National Park Service and Historic Preservation Fund awarded the grant to an Americus preservation group to create a new civil rights museum in the original building of a Jim Crow-era hospital that served the black population of southwest Georgia. |
 History professors Kevin Gannon and Christopher Jones are among the faculty members who share ways to make final exams or projects meaningful learning experiences at the end of a difficult semester. |
 Yuri Dmitriev's family believes he has been jailed on false pedophelia charges because his findings challenge a sanitized version of history favored by Russian nationalists. |
 Retired history professor Jon Hunner's blog is a travelogue of a 60,000 mile journey to visit the National Parks system. |
 Geologist Rebecca Flowers has recently published a paper that suggests cataclysimic events that separated eras in natural history may have taken place at different times globally. |
 From the bloody labor struggles of Harlan County, "Which Side Are You On?" made its way into a New York recording studio, and got modified to fit the message of countless underdog protagonists. |
 It was "really a fight" for women in Utah to regain their voting rights in 1895, says history professor Kathryn MacKay. |
 Arlen Austin, Beth Capper, and Tracey Deutsch present a list of readings about the history of movements to demand wages for the domestic and family work typically performed by women. |
 The Stanton Foundation sponsors a weekly award for published essays that "illuminate current challenges and policy choices by analyzing the historical record, especially precedents and analogues." | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Recent statements by Presidents Mitch Daniels and Christina Paxson of Purdue and Brown Universities have sparked controversy among historians and other scholars. Should students and faculty be returning to campus this fall? |
 There is little solid information but a lot of speculation on the status of Kim Jong Un and North Korea's recent past and immediate future. |
 Labor protections, workplace safety, income guarantees, rent, healthcare and more are up for discussion during this crisis. |
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