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 by Jonathan W. White Today's debate about broadening access to absentee ballots amid a pandemic should be less controversial than the Civil War era struggle over creating an entirely new system. |
 by Adam Tooze The latest U.S. data proves the world is in its steepest freefall ever—and the old economic and political playbooks don't apply. |
 by Yuval Levin Restrained action in a crisis is no wiser than panic in normal times. |
 by Molly Ladd-Taylor Let me say it now. Thank you, Dr. Fauci. Stay safe. |
 by Stacey Patton Black America is ground zero for covid-19. |
 by Kate Brown Zoonotic diseases can seem like earthquakes; they appear to be random acts of nature. In fact, they are more like hurricanes—they can occur more frequently, and become more powerful, if human beings alter the environment in the wrong ways. |
 by David W. Blight The president is the latest in a long line of conservative politicians to see minority voters as a threat. |
 by Kyla Sommers Former HNN editor-in-chief Kyla Sommers reminds us that Washingtonians have united in the face of a crisis before, and they can do so again. |
 by Tyler Parry In leaving a record of their trauma, the formerly enslaved invite their readers to approach the emotional histories of those trapped in antebellum slavery. |
 by Jia Lynn Yang "This isn't the first time we've been treated as a threat," writes Jia Lynn Yang. |
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 "The COVID-19 outbreak is essentially a reaping of what we've sown with mass incarceration, from a public health perspective." |
 An author of 12 books and countless articles and a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, Professor Henry Graff was best known as a keen observer of the men who occupied the White House — 17 of whom presided during his lifetime. |
 Historians including Kevin Levin, Nancy Bristow and Lora Vogt reflect on what people today can do to help historians of the future understand life during the COVID crisis. |
 William Rohrabaugh, known to his colleagues as Bill, was a popular teacher and prolific scholar whose legacy will be felt for many years to come. |
 Mab Segrest explores the history of blaming black people for bad health outcomes in her new book, "Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum." |
 "The poor were dying in disproportionate numbers not because they suffered from moral failings," Steven Johnson writes. "They were dying because they were being poisoned." |
 The 2018 midterms and 2020 primaries showed just how critical the turnout of women—Democrat, independent and moderate Republican will be this November. |
 There's no mistaking that "Mrs. America" is Schlafly's show, giving her everything she lacked as a media caricature: shape, complexity and even some empathy for her personal struggles and her own experiences (whether she acknowledges them or not) of being discriminated against as a woman. |
 From shouting candidates' names, to hanging chads to electronic scanning, the nature of voting has a long, sometimes bumpy history in the United States. |
 The war metaphor is not only inapt to apply to a viral pandemic, it is dangerous. |
 James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, noted that older academics are both the bridges and the glue of not just institutions, but all sorts of identification that people have, and can hold an institution and people together. |
 The impulse to separate and redefine the region is as old as the Euro-American settlement of the Northwest, and has roots in so-called "rural values" and racial exclusion that date back to before, during and after the Civil War. |
 AHA Executive Director James Grossman says that as historians, we work hard to understand people—the people we study and the people we teach, in the classroom and beyond. This perspective will inform the AHA's efforts to help historians affected by this emergency. |
 Ms. Goodacre's Vietnam Women's Memorial, a 6-foot-8 bronze sculpture of three uniformed women and a wounded serviceman, honors the roughly 265,000 military women of the Vietnam era, about 10,000 of whom served in Vietnam itself. |
 But he clarity of the law, as experts like Claire Finkelstein of the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law see it, does not necessarily stop the president from taking action as part of a political strategy. |
 Trailblazing aviator Harriet Quimby has never received the level of recognition she deserves in the American pantheon, despite her extraordinary life. |
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