| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Selina O'Grady A historian of monotheistic religion argues that the Islamic world showed greater tolerance of religious minorities during medieval plagues than did Christendom. Yet tolerance is a poor model for intercultural cooperation in our current crisis. |
 by John Hemming The Villas-Bôas brothers worked with Brazil's indigenous people to balance the preservation of their Amazonian lands with inclusion in modernizing society. The policies of Jair Bolsonaro are a dire threat to their work, the survival of indigenous peoples, and the planet. |
 by Christine Adams and Nina Kushner The idea of truth reached by reason and evidence is under grave threat. Historians must find ways to publicly defend their methods for the good of history and society. |
 by Daniel Burnstein Right-wing conservative movements are driven by a psychological complex of threat and hostility to heterodox opinion that makes them difficult to stop once they've developed. |
 by Alan J. Singer Georgia's Citizens's Arrest law has always been used to enable and support white supremacy since its enactment during the Civil War. | Today's COVID Headlines - Twitter Adds Fact-Check Notices to Trump Tweets on Mail-In Ballots - Trump calls mask wearing 'politically correct,' Biden calls him a 'fool' - 'It's the Death Towers': How the Bronx Became New York's Virus Hot Spot 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!
 The virus has spread in more than 40 veterans' homes in more than 20 states, leading to the deaths of at least 300 people. |
 The History Channel miniseries "Grant," executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, celebrates Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War heroism and exposes the evils of the racist Confederacy. |
 As budgets are stricken and mass layoffs become routine, scholars of all levels are fighting back to make sure diversity in academia won't become collateral damage in the pandemic. |
 Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell has deepened the public memory of the Civil Rights Era. His reporting offers important lessons for today. |
 Joan Trumpauer Mulholland joined the Freedom Riders in 1961, served a sentence at the notorious Parchman Farm prison, and enrolled at historically Black Tougalou College, where she joined the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and continued civil rights activism in Jackson, MS. |
 McCoy headed the Brooklyn district where teacher transfers in 1968 sparked a bitter, racially-charged dispute over union seniority and community control. |
 The curators of three Washington-based exhibits on the centennial of the 19th Amendment discuss the history of women's suffrage. |
 In the new book, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court", coauthors Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson tell the story of nine women who were considered for positions on the country's highest court in the decades before Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment. |
 Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, idols of the Golden Age of baseball, helped launch a boom in the business of sports and sports news. |
 Jonathan Chait is skeptical of John Nichols's new book, which argues that the Democratic Party's present struggles stem from the decision in 1944 to remove progressive VP Henry Wallace from the ticket in favor of moderate Harry Truman. |
 It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors. | 
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!  The role of African Americans in creating a day of tribute to the Union Army has been obscured by pro-Confederate narratives of national reconcilation after the overthrow of Reconstruction. |
 Kenneth Pomeranz's work on global economic history has been recognized for driving new understanding of the history of global exchange and sparked global collaboration among historians. |
 Historian Lisa Jacobson explains that the "Wine Mom" meme is rooted in gender and middle class norms regulating women's obligations to their children (and women's desire for freedom from them). |
 Eric Foner argues that reasons both strategic and idealistic informed the establishment of the Electoral College, and recent books support the case for its abolition. |
 Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris focused on the patriotism of men who fought for the country abroad while being discriminated against at home. |
 "What I'm trying to do in this book is to turn this narrative around, to show that actually, over thousands of years, people have actually evolved to be friendly," says Bregman. |
 Thirty years ago, Stephen J. Pyne wrote the definitive history of fire in Australia and has just released an updated version of his book, Still Burning Bush. |
 In reviewing Robert Dallek's recent book, Robert Merry argues that the writer short-changes the agency of voters and the significance of the basic political and economic conditions in determining who wins a presidential election. |
 Historians including David Kennedy, Martha S. Jones, and Brenda Stevenson, along with curators at national and local museums, discuss the assembly of artifacts to document the COVID crisis for posterity. |
 "The biggest argument, though, and the one into which I poured my best intellectual energy, was the argument at the center of the book: that politics is driven by language, and America's peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy." | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Trump's recent remarks and tweets suggest he's preparing to reject the legitimacy of mail-in votes. |
 A New York Times editorial urging the Pentagon to rename facilities named for Confederates has renewed attention to Confederate memorials and white supremacy. |
 Discussion continues about Ford's racist beliefs and Trump's possible embrace of them. |
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