| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Richard Haw A biographer of Brooklyn Bridge designer John Roebling expected to write about a genius. He also ended up writing about a complete weirdo, and how one man could be both. |
 by Betsy Gaines Quammen In a country with segments of people who deny science, act on revelation, see regular events as either conspiratorial or supernatural, COVID-19 offers a platform for misinformation and agitation. |
 by Jason Steinhauer Viewers have embraced the ESPN Documentary "The Last Dance" as an escape and the best sports "fix" around. But its framing of leadership reflects a serious issue: the limits of how American media presents history. |
 by Jim DeFelice We should definitely celebrate people like Henry Langrehr, the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne, and the other troops who fought with them. But we should also spend a moment thanking people like his wife, who made their triumph possible. |
 by Joe Renouard The U.S. diplomats who left China in 1949 left oral histories that are now archived at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Their stories warning how how misunderstandings, misplaced hopes, and missed opportunities can poison relations between great powers. | | Today's COVID Headlines - Armed Militia Helped a Michigan Barbershop Open, a Coronavirus Defiance that Puts Republican Lawmakers in a Bind - Small Business Used to Define America's Economy. The Pandemic Could Change that Forever. - Testing, Vaccines and Delayed C.D.C. Guidance: Highlights from Senate Testimony 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!
 Our cities are broken because affluent Americans have been segregating themselves from the poor, and our best hope for building a fairer, stronger nation is to break down those barriers. |
 Brunswick, Ga., gained national attention during the civil rights era for the way black and white leaders had worked together to integrate peacefully. |
 Prior decisions involving Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton established precedents that seem to portend defeat for President Trump in the upcoming hearing. |
 As the coronavirus began its inexorable march across the country's 11 time zones, it robbed the capital of lives, and also its chance to come together over a shared victory. |
 He was the only white defendant to be convicted alongside Nelson Mandela and others in 1964 for resisting apartheid. He spent 22 years in prison. |
 Kim, who narrates the PBS documentary, discusses its unanticipated resonance in the age of Covid-19 and his own experiences with the disease. |
 Ms. Pratt, who died May 6 at 101, was one of the first members of the Rockford Peaches, a powerhouse Illinois team formed in 1943 and immortalized in director Penny Marshall's sports comedy "A League of Their Own." |
 For decades, these bookstores have occupied a singular place in the cultural life of black America, says W. Paul Coates, founder and director of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing and father of bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates. |
 "I would not hold the good job I have today were it not for Barbara," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said. |
 Little Richard was a challenge to 1950s proprieties: to segregation, to musical decorum, to chastity, to straightness. |
 Biden's advisers agreed: If they were going to talk about lessons from history, their future calls might as well dive into the Great Depression and World War II. |
 In allowing various perspectives to shine through, "Mrs. America" takes a piece of the past that, through the work of time, has been smoothed of its rough edges and grants it complexity. |
 In an ironic twist, Edward Jenner's historic house is struggling to outlast the financial toll of being closed. |
 An interactive plan for a Holocaust museum envisioned sorting visitors into victims, executioners and collaborators. Backlash ensued. |
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!  An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide? |
 The historian offers a hopeful view of human nature in his latest book, "Humankind." It couldn't have come at a better time. |
 Isaac Chotiner's interview with historian Evelynn Hammonds on the relationship between African-Americans and epidemics in American history, from the eighteenth century to the present day. |
 The Invisible Histories Project has received the Society of American Archivists' Archival Innovator Award for their efforts in preserving LGBTQ history. |
 Barry Gewen's new biography of the American national security figure argues that Kissinger's perspective was shaped by stories older German emigres told him about the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. |
 An attack by the pirate Henry Every on a ship owned by the Grand Mughal of India jeopardized the toehold the British East India Company had gained in India. The British government's response helped launch imperial rule. |
 A former police officer with a Harvard Ph.D., he brought a street cop's experience and a scholarly perspective to the Citizens Crime Commission in New York. |
 "[Jackson State] reflects so many themes in the history of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans." |
 The Harvard professor explores questions such as, "Where did the idea of a fact as an elemental unit of evidence come from? And then, what forces have undermined that over the years and especially recently?" |
 Historian Adam Sowards' most recent work "An Open Pit Visible from the Moon" delves into the effort to block the mining of Miners Ridge in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area. |
 The Polish historian Jan Grabowski is one of many scholars whose work has been challenged and attacked by right-wing nationalists who wish to present a purely heroic version of how Poles acted during World War II. |
 A review of historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck's new book "The Women With Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II." |
 "Understanding our past provides a pathway for our future, which is why I'm so glad to be partnering again with History to tell the remarkable stories of some of our best past presidents," Doris Kearns Goodwin said. |
 Yury Dmitriyev's supporters have said charges were brought against him because of his research into a side of history that complicates the Kremlin's glorification of the Soviet past. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 The Cal State System announced that Fall 2020 classes will be held online. Can students and faculty be returning to campus this fall? Should they? |
 Dr. Anthony Fauci's testimony proved contentious even by teleconference. |
 Historians consider the Supreme Court's hearing arguments by teleconference on cases involving subpoenas of the President's financial records. |
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