| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Andrew Meyer We are going to hear much in the near future about the dangers of Chinese ambition. World leaders would be well advised, however, to prepare for the dangers of internal Chinese instability. |
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 by Gail Radford Treasury Secretary William McAdoo was a presidential son-in-law whose knowledge, experience, and belief in the role of government made him an effective public servant. |
 by Annabel Abbs "Because Lucia's own voice had been effectively smothered, most 'facts' came from those later responsible for incarcerating her in a series of mental asylums and hospitals. Few sources are genuinely independent, memory is notoriously fickle, and all facts are open to interpretation." |
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 Confederate monuments across the South were vandalized during demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd. |
 We should be aware of the past — we should understand the processes that produced our world — but it shouldn't be a substitute for thinking. We are not them, and now is not then. |
 NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tony Williams, a contributor to MPD150, who published an investigation into the conduct of the Minneapolis Police Department throughout its 150-year history. |
 Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson (D) said the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which owns the statue, opted to remove the memorial a month ahead of schedule because of demonstrations nationwide in which segregation-era statues have been vandalized. |
 Anthony P. Carnevale, one of the authors of 'The Merit Myth," discusses his new book about how colleges admit and serve students. |
 What new research shows is that number of poor neighborhoods in metropolitan areas has actually doubled from 1980 — and most existing low-income areas only fell deeper into poverty. |
 All of this is bad, and it's getting worse. |
 Learning about history can come from unexpected places. The information booklets sold with the author's dolls may have drawn on more historians' expertise than her school textbooks did. |
 "This funding from our country's National Park Service will certainly jump start efforts to educate our community about the Hall of Negro Life, and it is a direct recommendation of the Task Force that examined how we tell our history," said Council Member Adam Bazaldua. |
 Immersive role-playing games offer an alternative method to engaging students with history and with the research, writing and interpretive skills of historians. |
 The Village Voice reprints its coverage of the unrest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. |
 Christo's works played off of their environment in cities around the world. | 
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!  These two crucial differences—the fact that a Republican is presiding over the chaos and that the opposition to police violence is racially diverse—open the possibility for a better outcome than in 1968. |
 Historian Thurston Clarke describes the year 2020 as "a convergence of the greatest catastrophes of the past 100 years or so, all hitting us at once." |
 "I don't think we should assume there'll be a post-COVID-19 era, any more than there's a post-influenza era, or a post-tuberculosis era, or a post-AIDS era," says historian Niall Ferguson. |
 "Structural racism is really baked into the geography of this city and as a result it really permeates every institution in this city," says historian Kirsten Delegard. |
 UCLA historian Robin Kelley insists rebellions occur when the usual channels for affecting change in a democracy – nonviolent protest, voting – have been ineffective, and the term "riot" obscures that fact. |
 Donald Trump claimed to be ignorant of the origins of a phrase he tweeted warning of violent consequences for looters. |
 History professors Mark Bray and Ruth Ben-Ghiat help break down the definition, origins, goals and methods of antifa. |
 Kurek is infamous for her radical arguments about the Holocaust, which include denial of Polish crimes against Jews. Now she invokes conspiratorial ideas about Jewish control of Europe. |
 The long-shuttered African American beach was created to preserve segregation in New Orleans. |
 Historian John Barry, who studied the influenza outbreak of 1918, evaluates the current administration's handling of COVID-19. |
 The most powerful people and institutions in the South spread paranoia and fear to protect slavery, leading the country to war, as historians Matthew J. Clavin and Manisha Sinha explain. |
 A study from historian Michael Wolffsohn finds some truth and some falsehoods in a prominent businessman's portrayal of his father as a Nazi resister. |
 "Powerful players pay obscene sums for talks. For a 10-minute speech you can get my mother's annual salary in special education. Generally, the more you're paid, the dumber your audience. The cleverest audiences are students and, of course, old people." | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
| Protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd renewed attention to Confederate memorials in public places. |
 Historians discuss what Trump's pledges to "dominate" protestors mean. |
 Discussion of the killing, protests, policing and racism. |
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