| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  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 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. |
 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. |
 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. | | Today's COVID Headlines - A Wendy's With No Burgers as Meat Production Is Hit - Americans Deeply Wary of Reopening as White House Weighs Ending Covid-19 Task Force - India Coronavirus: Country Records Highest Spike In Covid-19 Cases 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!
 Before inspiring "The Big Lebowski," Jeff Dowd was a Seattle activist who led students to block Interstate 5 in Seattle to protest the war in Vietnam and the killing of students by the National Guard at Kent State. |
 The "work sets you free" sign translated the inscription on the gates of Auschwitz and was aimed at the Jewish governor of Illinois. |
 Ida B. Wells's pioneering role as a journalist on the front lines of struggle against racist terrorism at the nadir of American race relations was posthumously recognized with a Pulitzer Prize yesterday. |
 Layoffs of tenure-track and contingent faculty and unionized maintenance workers at Ohio University is being called a "May Day Massacre." |
 Making Tierra MÃa, says the director of the Smithsonian Latino Center, proved transformative in giving voice to the people |
 While art historians have been able to employ state-of-the-art imaging techniques to establish a more precise analysis of the artwork — often referred to as the "Dutch 'Mona Lisa'" — its subject remains a mystery. |
 "Nevertheless, the next ten days demonstrated the value of international medical cooperation in moments of crisis, even when politics might make success seem impossible." writes Yair Reisner, an Israeli doctor whose help was requested by Russian officials after the disaster. |
 Kim Bok-dong, a former sex slavery victim-turned human rights activist received a posthumous award from Amnesty International. |
 Anti-Defamation Commission urges GoDaddy.com web hosting firm to take down World Truth Historical Revisionism site, calling it 'an incitement to murder.' |
 Over the years, the city of Santee has worked to overcome a history of racially motivated attacks and skinhead activity that led to nicknames such as "Klantee." |
 Historian Thomas Grace argued that, contrary to the perception of student protesters as Ivy League elites, movements at Kent State built on family histories of labor unionism and the perception that working class kids' path to a better life was being short-circuited by the war in Vietnam. |
 A leading Russian avant-garde expert says he has identified dozens of works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova languishing in an obscure history museum in the Kirov region. | 
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!  Historians are collecting archival documents related to COVID-19 in real-time to ensure that no experience with the virus is forgotten. |
 The author's encounter with a family trove of news clippings from V-E day was cause for reflection on victory as a process, not an event. |
 More than a hundred years ago, germ theory — the discovery that microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses caused disease — had a profound impact on almost every aspect of human behavior, just as the novel coronavirus could do after the current pandemic ends. |
 As COVID-19 rages around the world, archivists, librarians, oral historians, and activists have spun up oral history projects to document their communities' everyday experiences during an extraordinary social, political, cultural, and historical moment. |
 The early American historian passed away on May 2 after contracting coronavirus. |
 Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001. |
 An interview with science historian Naomi Oreskes on the impact of the coronavirus on the relationship between science and politics. |
 Medical historians Howard Markel and Frank Snowden note how pandemics, including the present one, have to power to completely upend daily life. |
 German historian and Catholic Priest Father Hubert Wolf has claimed that recently opened Vatican documents show Pope Pius XII was complicit with Nazi atrocities. Other Church historians dispute the novelty or veracity of his evidence. |
 When historians rank the worst presidents in American history, indecision and inaction in the face of crisis are common attributes. Until now, most of the worst served before or after the Civil War. |
 Historian Allen C. Guelzo reviews Fergus Bordewich's new book "Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America," which argues that the 37th and 38th Congresses had a bigger role in the abolition of slavery than the 16th president. |
 According to scholar Elizabeth Outka, the tragedy haunts modernist literature between the lines. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Historians respond to announced budget and program cuts and proposals for more to come during the COVID crisis. |
 Nikole Hannah-Jones's Pulitzer Prize has pushed some critics to complain about historical revisionism. Historians discuss how the field works. |
 Labor protections, workplace safety, income guarantees, rent, healthcare and more are up for discussion during this crisis. |
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