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Original essays for the History News Network.

Morning or Mourning in America? Political Advertising and the Politics of Emotion

by Wendy Melillo

The Lincoln Project's recent "Mourning in America" ad seeks to connect Donald Trump to deep misery in America. The history of political advertising suggests it's likely to work


100 Years of Political Spectacle: Women, Political Protest, and the White House

by Bernadette Crehan and Susan Liebell

Like suffrage protesters a century ago, nurses demonstrating at the White House to demand adequate protection for frontline medical workers can win by taking on the President on the grounds of spectacle and social media to shape public opinion. 


Hong Kong Apocalyses: Teaching the Recent Past and the Speculative Future

by James Carter

The chaos of Hong Kong's recent protests and the Coronavirus unsettled a historian's sense of the boundary between past and present. Perhaps we understand either only through the mirror of the other. 


Interview: Historian and Professor Nancy K. Bristow on the Forgotten Police Shooting of Black Students at Jackson State College

by Robin Lindley

"Fifty years is too long for these crimes to continue to happen, and to go unpunished by our justice system."


A Mathematical Duel in 16th Century Venice (Excerpt)

by Fabio Toscano

The advancement of mathematics in renaissance Italy was complicated by a context of secrecy, jealousy, and competitive dueling governed by implicit codes of honor.


Who Can Learn From Taiwan? Apparently not WHO

by Keith Clark

The World Health Organization is unable to effectively learn from Taiwan's response to COVID-19 because the agency adheres to a "One China" policy that doesn't recognize both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. 


What Happened to My Future: The Pivotal Years of 1914, 1929, and 2020

by Walter G. Moss

There aren't many comparisons to 2020 as a year when illusions of normalcy and prosperity were shattered. 


Graduate Students: NOT THE WORST

by Michelle Nickerson

A history professor celebrates her graduate students' idiosyncrasies and their outstanding work under duress as redemption for a calamitous semester.


Coronavirus Exposed the Contradictions Behind the Curtain. Will Americans Pay No Attention?

by Walter L. Hixson

Liberal centrism has come up short in the COVID-19 crisis. Decades of cold war demonization of social democracy have made it disturbingly likely that an American fascism will fill the void.


Tax Protesting on the Cheap

by Jim Loewen

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The Unfulfilled Potential of Progressive Democracy after World War II

by Isser Woloch

After the military defeat of Nazism, the governments of Britain, France and the United States made uneven and incomplete progress to remake their societies along more egalitarian lines, but their efforts should be seen as part of an international trend.


Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, America's Billionaires Thrive and Prosper

by Lawrence Wittner

Americans may wonder whether the nation can afford to maintain a small, parasitic stratum of society in splendor during economic collapse and pandemic.


What the New Evidence on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Means

by Rafael Medoff

In the end, whatever their respective reasons, the Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time.


 

 

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Healing And Reconciling History 100 Years After the Elaine Race Massacre

by J. Chester Johnson

The author's realization that his beloved grandfather had participated in a racist massacre in Elaine, Arkansas led him to an unlikely journey of reconciliation with a descendent of one of the victims of that campaign of terror, and an understanding of the need for honesty about how heritage can excuse racism.


The Heroism of an Ordinary American Woman on the World War II Homefront

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.


If Farmworkers Are "Essential," Why Are They Treated So Badly?

by Lawrence Wittner

Farmworkers are essential. Our government, businesses and laws treat them as expendable.


Youth Crises Past and Present: Learning from the New Deal and Eleanor Roosevelt

by Robert Cohen

It is time to start demanding a successor to the National Youth Administration to meet the educational and economic needs of students--and to ask who in Washington will carry the torch that Eleanor Roosevelt raised during the Depression decade as the champion of low income youth.   


The Untold Story of Boko Haram's Origins

by Jacob Zenn

Researchers who view Boko Haram as a Nigerian unsurgency need to understand its history as part of pan-African Islamist networks; responses to extremism must work across national borders.

 

Roundup Top 10

Roundup Top Ten for May 15, 2020

This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

 
 






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