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Today's COVID Headlines - GOP Leaders Refuse Democrats' Coronavirus Demands, Won't Negotiate - Torn Over Reopening Economy, Trump Says He Faces 'Biggest Decision I've Ever Had to Make' - India To Extend Nationwide Lockdown, State Minister Says What are Historians Talking About?
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 Materials, Expectations, Experiences, and Opinions: What has this crisis taught historians about pedagogy, communications, and their institutions? |
 What's next for the democratic party? | This Week's Op Eds Original essays for the History News Network.  by Kimberly A. Hamlin Gardener's historic appointment as U.S. Civil Service Commissioner 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." |
 by Frank Palmeri Defoe's accomplishment as a work of history lies not so much in the accuracy of its numbers or facts as in its power as a work of fiction, in the observing eye and skeptical intelligence which convey through common language and the details of common life what it was like to live through the plague. |
 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." |
 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 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Our 46th president, whenever he or she arrives, will confront a changed world, partly because of COVID, but also because of the effects of Trump's personality and policies. |
 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 Alan M. Kraut The coronavirus will not succeed in doing to American society what fascism did to Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, but it has sparked a virulent wave of racism and intolerance, especially aimed at Chinese Americans. |
 by Robert Rupp If history shows Hoover followed the wrong path for principled reasons, what will it say about Donald Trump, who has several tools that were not available to Hoover? |
 by Carolyn Eisenberg History teachers have two urgent challenges: helping their students cope with this crisis, and helping them understand the society that created it. Neither allows teaching as usual. |
 by David O. Stewart The notoriety of the Lincoln assassination has obscured the other Booths in history, but some were as well known as John Wilkes--or even better, at least until he pulled the trigger in the president's box at Ford's Theater, 155 years ago this week. |  by Jeffrey Anderson and Janet Golden Insufficient attention was paid to the first influenza death in the city. The United States was in the throes of the Great War, and the Kaiser, not the flu, was on the minds of Philadelphians. |
Don't Miss!  by Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin Superhero popular culture has always been embedded within American racial attitudes, reflecting and even contributing to them in ways that reveal goodwill is not sufficient, in and of itself, to fix our problems. |
 by Eugenia Lean As China's economic power grows, global intellectual property might end up looking more and more like the Chinese tradition of shanzhai in the future. |
 by Jon Wilkman A sizable percentage of Americans get their sense of history through television documentaries. The history of nonfiction filmmaking offers crucial insight on how we got to, and how we might escape, a "post-truth" world. |
 by G. Geltner Pundits have described fighting the pandemic in terms of "medieval" or "modern" approaches. A historian of late medieval public health explains that dichotomy is a false one, and dangerous as well. | 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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