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 The History Channel's miniseries "Grant" invited discussion of the misremembered career and legacy of Ulysses S. Grant. |
 Historians discuss police racism, protests and response, and the consequences of the week's events. |
 The author and activist embraced confrontational tactics to push medical and political authorities to respond to the AIDS crisis. |
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 by Philip V. McHarris The violent response to protests by the Minneapolis Police Department show how police departments that have been granted subsidized access to military equipment have adopted a posture of battle against civilians. |
 by Anya Jabour The COVID-19 epidemic should remind us of the hazards faced by immigrant meatpacking workers a century ago, and the labor and industry reforms needed to secure their safety. |
 by Paul Renfro Concerns about the "safety" and "security" of specific children—particularly those who resemble Etan Patz—played a considerable role in New York's extraordinary late twentieth-century transformation. |
 by Carla Cevasco The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the hunger underneath the rhetoric of American plenty. |
 by Jim Rasenberger The past is a morally untidy place. As a result, it is also a place, perhaps the last one left, where we can meet and lower our weapons for a while. |
 by Julian Davis Mortenson and Nicholas Bagley The delegation of regulatory power to federal agencies is the indispensable foundation of modern American governance. And it is under siege. |
 by Victoria W. Wolcott Public spaces are infused with the power of history: the legacy of segregation, police brutality, and white supremacy. If there was ever a time that called for compassion in our shared spaces, it is now. |
 by Keisha N. Blain Although securing tenure and tenure-track jobs has received great attention lately, it is important that historians from underrepresented groups successfully pursue promotion to full professorship in their institutions to diversify leadership in the profession. |
 by Grace Elizabeth Hale Lynching images can only be created in a context where both killing and observing are allowed by law and society. |
 by Nomi Prins Monetary policy responses to the current crisis can't fix either the structural problems that make the economy vulnerable to severe disruption or the virus and public health crisis that underlie that disruption. Governments must choose to take coordinated action on multiple fronts. | 
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 Even some of the officials Mr. Kramer accused of "murder" and "genocide" recognized that his outbursts were part of a strategy to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency. |
 Scholars including Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, and Stephanie Jones-Rogers describe the historical phenomenon that real or imagined threats to white women's safety has justified repression against black men. |
 According to historian John M. Barry, Americans have not learned their lesson since 1918. |
 Because Wikipedia archives each version of articles as they are edited, it offers a rich resource for tracking how knowledge of a subject changes. |
 William Small built CBS News into a top journalistic organization that covered the biggest stories of the 1960s and 1970s. |
 "A president alone can't do everything," says historian Lizabeth Cohen, "that president needs a supportive Congress." |
 The editors of a collection of essays by non-traditional women historians celebrate the impact of the Catherine Prelinger Award (of the Coordinating Council for Women in History), which aided the scholarship published in their book and is supporting a new generation of women historians expanding the scope of the field to address race, disability, indigeneity, and mass incarceration (among other issues). |
 How did one of the most addled government agencies end up as our last line of pandemic defense? The answer lies in the agency's history of capture by large business interests. |
 Historian Douglas Selvage sheds light on a conspiracy theory that reverberates to this day. |
 Activists including education historian Diane Ravitch hope to push Biden toward a progressive education platform and break from the status quo in Washington. |
 Economic data suggest that Millennials aren't just complaining. Their early years on the job market have been affected by the Great Recession and COVID and seen less growth than any other generation. |
 The conflict between a national day of mourning declared for Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and the Jewish holiday commemorating God's revelation of the law to Moses (during which mourning is forbidden) reflects conflicting ideas of how Jews should balance observance and participation in civic life. |
 The winner of a 2020 Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History's new book focuses on the Battles of Saybrook Fort during the Pequot War. |
 J. Alexander Navarro of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine has compiled archival records of the 1918 Influenza pandemic in 43 U.S. cities. The findings suggest staying closed helps prevent a deadly second wave of infections. |
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