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 Tensions between persons with Hispanic and Native American ancestry in New Mexico have been crystallized in protests over a statue of a brutal Spanish conquistador. |
 Bristol was built with money from the slave trader Edward Colston. Tearing down his statue has reopened a painful reckoning with the city's racist past. |
 Calhoun was a slave owner and secessionist whose plantation became Clemson University; Tillman was a governor and white supremacist whose name adorns Clemson's most iconic building. |
 A prosecutor said there was "reasonable evidence" that the man who shot the Swedish prime minister was Stig Engstrom, a graphic designer, who took his own life in 2000. |
 Four years before the state adopted a flag design with the confederate emblem in the top left corner, Mississippi made radical changes to its Constitution which deliberately targeted Black residents and reversed Reconstruction-era reforms. |
 A new book details how Ted Turner broke the rules of the news business (and occasionally good taste) to launch CNN. |
 In the last few weeks, books from authors the likes of Ibram X. Kendi, Annette Gordon-Reed, and David W. Blight have seen surges in sales. But in the current moment, how much do sales say about social and political influence? |
 Edith White was part of a team of women who served the US Navy as codebreakers, and fought for democratic values like integrated schools after the war's end. |
 A brief video discussion of the worldwide movement to removing public monuments to racist figures features Professor Ana Lucia Araujo of Howard University. |
 She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy. |
 As public-health experts have known since the 19th century, information can be the best medicine. What new data streams could help quell future outbreaks? |
 A segregationist congressman's "poison pill" amendment to include sex discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act became the linchpin of a ruling that LGBTQ people are protected by the act. | 
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!  LGBTQ historian George Chauncey reviews Eric Cervini's biography of scientist Franklin Kameny, "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America." |
 A platform of "law and order" no longer functions when there is no "silent majority" to receive it. |
 An interview with historian Geraldo Cadava, a scholar of Latinx history, borderlands, and immigration. |
 Historian Douglas Brinkley and the Nobel laureate Bob Dylan discuss the COVID pandemic, the effects of electronic media, and American history in music in a wide-ranging interview. |
 Inaction over figures such as Colston had bred anger that would be felt "all over Britain", said Andrea Livesey, a historian specialising in the study of slavery and its legacies and who described the events in Bristol as "wholly justified". |
 UT Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies Edmund T. Gordon explains how the university's spirit song is tied to Robert E. Lee. |
 Marc Restellini, an art historian, is fighting the Wildenstein Plattner Institute over the ownership of a research archive he spent decades compiling. |
 Historians Kellie Carter Jackson and Karen L. Cox discuss the film's effect on audiences then and now. |
 The New Deal, per historian Eric Rauchway, illustrates the relationship between the American economy and American democracy. |
 "This is not the first time New York has been challenged. It won't be the last," says historian Kenneth T. Jackson. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Protests over who is honored in public space have spilled over from the American south to the Southwest, the Northwest, and the world. |
 Historians discuss the rapid change in many local officials' stances on Confederate memorials in public space. |
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