| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN! |  by Chelsea Connolly and Hana Hancock "This pandemic is global in scale and personal in impact, and as a result, it's touching and transforming virtually every topic that historians have studied. We have a duty to share our insights with the larger world. They're interested in what we have to say. (And... stuck at home looking for something to read!)" |
 by Dave Welky No president can end an epidemic single handedly, but they can inspire a popular movement that eradicates a disease. Such was the case with Franklin Roosevelt and polio. |
 by Robin Lindley Professor Frank Snowden discusses the situation in Italy, the progress of COVID-19 and governments' responses to it, and his career researching the history of epidemics. |
 by Kimberly A. Hamlin Gardener's historic appointment marked one symbolic step toward the idea that women should be universally recognized as "self- respecting, self- directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own." | | Today's COVID Headlines - Trump announces cutoff of new funding for the World Health Organization over pandemic response - Trump's Claim of Total Authority in Crisis Is Rejected Across Ideological Lines - Fauci again cautions against Trump's call to quickly reopen US, says 'we're not there yet' 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!
 "You won't find that written in the Federalist Papers anywhere," Robert Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told The Washington Post. |
 Time to give new life to an old idea: A strong public health system is the best guarantor of good health. |
 More than 40 descendants of Louis Agassiz support Tamara Lanier's efforts and have written an open letter to Harvard asking the university to relinquish the photos. |
 The outside effort from conservative groups is expected to be led by Stephen Moore, a conservative at the Heritage Foundation who is close with White House economic officials. |
 In January, a fire tore through an historic building in the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown, threatening to engulf decades of artifacts documenting Chinese life in the US. |
 Republicans want privatization, Trump wants to stick it to Amazon. |
 How did a son of Republicans Ronald and Nancy Reagan become an "unabashed atheist"? And how did the parents take that? |
 Finally, someone who knows him very well told [Jane Mayer], "Give up. You can look and look for something more in him, but it isn't there. I wish I could tell you that there is some secret thing that he really believes in, but he doesn't." |
 If approved, the request could throw a wrench into redistricting plans in many states. |
 The airport added, "Doing this to an aircraft is the equivalent to pushing down a World War II veteran just to watch him fall." | 
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!  "I'm cautiously optimistic that the economic effects will be severe but not nearly as long-lasting as the Great Depression," says David Kennedy, a professor of history at Stanford University. "Both the depth and duration are not likely to look like the Great Depression." |
 A review of German historian Gotz Aly's new book "Europe Against the Jews: 1880-1945." |
 A geographer who studies the civil rights movement told Deirdre Mask, "We have attached the name of one of the most famous civil rights leaders of our time to the streets that speak to the very need to continue the civil rights movement." |
 As Howard Markel, a physician and historian of science, wrote in WIRED last month, "I feel like quoting Yogi Berra: It's 'déjà vu all over again,' albeit a nightmarish blend of several déjàs vu into one." |
 Historian Nancy F. Cott tells the story of the interwar period through the lives of four American foreign correspondents. |
 Stephen Kotkin, renowned for his work studying authoritarian regimes, said history teaches that the United States can triumph over the coronavirus pandemic if America doesn't "defeat ourselves." |
 "There will always be official records," says Anne McDonough. "But the thoughts and the responses and the impact on everyday, local people, if it is not actively collected, unfortunately that will go by the wayside." |
 A new book by Monika Zgustova brings the harrowing, heartbreaking history of the Soviet Gulag's female prisoners to life. |
 At the outset of the war, the great majority of Northerners wanted to reunify the country more or less on prewar terms. |
 "That practice, even if it is only a ritual formality, it nevertheless, I believe, sets a tone that makes for a more civil society in a land where a settler society lives alongside Indigenous peoples," said Tom Isern, a history professor at North Dakota State University. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Historians and others tweet about the Postal Service and its financial peril. |
 Online discussion of Bernie's decision to end his campaign and endorse Joe Biden, and what's next for the Democrats. |
 The latest, including Trump's relationship to the states and renewed interest in federalism. |
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