The Roundup Top Ten from HNN for April 10

HNN Sponsor       HNN Follows News For You Updated 4/10: Historians on COVID-19 and the 2020 Elections   The Wisconsin primary SCOTUS decision, social-distanced polls, and historians' reactions. Bernie Sanders Ends 2020 Campaign, Historians Respond   Online discussion of Sanders's decision to end his campaign.  Updated 4/10! News About Books   Awards, Releases, and Discussions of New Books in History Historians Share Cute Animal Pictures for Trying Times   Another Friday, more cute animals.   Today's COVID Headlines - As Millions More Americans Lose Their Jobs, More Aid From Washington Is Uncertain - Trump Says Mass Testing not Needed to Reopen the Country, Contradicting Experts - EU Ministers Agree Half Trillion Euro Coronavirus Rescue Plan Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on. A Revolution of Values by Peniel E. Joseph Racial apartheid's grip on American democracy, argued King, corrupted the nation in war and peace. Letters From An American, April 4, 2020 by Heather Cox Richardson Manipulating the vote has a long and shameful history in America, but modern media and computer modeling has enabled today's Republican Party to carve out its voters with surgical precision. Common-Good Constitutionalism Is an Idea as Dangerous as They Come by Garrett Epps A recently published theory of law is an argument for authoritarian extremism. Scapegoating New York Means Ignoring Its Desperate Need by Kim Phillips-Fein Blaming the city for coronavirus is a way of letting the federal government off the hook. Republicans Could Use the Coronavirus to Suppress Votes Across the Country. This Week We Got a Preview by Carol Anderson This week Wisconsin provided a glimpse of the dystopian democracy, in which American voters find their rights even more constrained. When Centrists Sounded Like Bernie by Ed Burmila If today's centrist, establishment Democrats are unwilling to hear warnings coming from the left, perhaps they will heed their own advice from an earlier era. The Long History of US Racism against Asian Americans, from 'Yellow Peril' to 'Model Minority' to the 'Chinese Virus' by Adrian De Leon Self-isolation, social distancing and healthy practices should not be in the service of proving one's patriotism. Lessons from Haiti on Living and Dying by Marlene L. Daut The late historian C.L.R. James sought to disavow the importance of one of Haiti's most storied revolutionary heroes to reveal the role played by the Revolution's masses and less visible leaders, reflecting that each life and death is profoundly poltical. How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court by John Fabian Witt We are now at least one decade into a nearly unprecedented experiment in partisan judging at the highest court in the land. Our legal and political systems have barely begun to process what that means.   How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From History by Rachel Lance For so many American families, lack of representation in paperwork might have otherwise led to a lack of representation in memory, but technology and crowdsourcing are finally bringing them out of the shadows.   Breaking News 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! Historians Among Recipients of 2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships Historians Mark Philip Bradley, Amy Nelson Burnett, James T. Campbell, Dyan Elliott, Susan Juster, Vera Keller, Bernadette Meyler, Chris Otter, H. Glenn Penny, Kim Phillips-Fein, Camille Robcis, Erica Schoenberger, David Sepkoski, and Anna Shternshis were among the 2020 awardees of the Guggenheim Fellowship.   A Letter From The UHA About Our 2020 Conference As a result of the uncertainly resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the Urban History Association has decided to postpone by one year our biennial conference previously scheduled for October 2020.  Mrs. America Conjures Up the Messy History of 1970s Feminism—and Anti-Feminism Mrs. America doesn't dwell just on Phyllis Schlafly. An ensemble series, it gathers an array of compelling women who've never quite gotten their due in history books, let alone had a prestige TV series devoted to them. John Prine Dies at 73; Acclaimed Folksinger, Songwriter Created Classics of Lyricism and Storytelling Bob Dylan once said, "Prine's stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs." Will the Virus Trigger a Second Arab Spring? The coronavirus outbreak is likely to bring into focus the legitimacy and governance deficit of troubled Middle Eastern regimes. Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics In acknowledging that many of its artifacts had tainted histories and that others were fake, the institution hopes candor will build trust. U.S. Labels Russian White Supremacist Group as Global Terrorist First time a white supremacist organization Is targeted by terrorism designation. How the Coronavirus Bailout Repeats 2008's Mistakes: Huge Corporate Payoffs With Little Accountability As the government rushes to aid the economy, how that's done, who benefits and who is left behind matter. So far, the signs are ominous. Will The Coronavirus Change How Skeptics Think About Science? Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and author of "Why Trust Science?" explores whether or not the world's lack of preparation for the coronavirus outbreak has a silver lining. CSUF Professor's New Book on the History of Robots in America Resonates in Coronavirus Era Dylan Abnet's "The American Robot" explores how robots and their like—automatons, androids, artificial intelligence and cyborgs—are tied to questions about modern culture. How Coffee Ruined a Country Lizabeth Cohen reviews Augustine Sedgewick's book, which argues that coffee monoculture was disastrous to El Salvador. Meet Your Meme Lords A small team at the Library of Congress, led by Abbie Grotke, is archiving internet culture as fast as it can (now, from home). Online Roundtable—Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago A roster of historians of racism and law enforcement including Melanie Newport, Max Felker-Kantor, Anne Gray Fischer and Dan Berger discuss Simon Balto's book "Occupied Territory" on policing in Black Chicago.  'America First' and the Coronavirus The pandemic makes a mockery of Trump's core principle. New Orleans Cultural Historian Died of Coronavirus, But His Family Only Found Out on the Day of Funeral "I want to educate the world about our great culture," Ron Lewis wrote on the museum's website. "How we do this, and why we are so successful at it even though the economics say we ain't supposed to be." If You Thought Byron Was Bad You Should Have Met His Family The scandal-prone poet came from a family mired in cuckoldry, cowardice and killing.

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