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This Week's Op Eds Original essays for the History News Network.  by Michael J. Pfeifer A historian of criminal justice contends that two conceptual boundaries--between North and South and between lynching and police force--help conceal the racist violence in the American system of justice. |
 by Leonard Steinhorn Visual images convey power relationships, and many famous images have shown that African Americans are not yet fully recognized as American citizens to whom police are accountable. |
 by Annye C. Anderson and Preston Lauterbach In an excerpt from her new book Annye Anderson, sister of bluesman Robert Johnson, describes time spent with Johnson in Memphis, and the trends in music, movies, and black politics that shaped Johnson's personality and innovative music. |
 by Jeffrey Herf A University of Maryland professor urges this spring's history graduates to "place skills you have learned here in service of defending and developing the search for truth that we need to move from catastrophe to recovery." |
 by Robin Lindley "Churchill also had an ability to express empathy, which was an important element in a time of war. It was not unusual to see him openly weeping at the scene of a bombing, something I can't imagine our current president doing on any occasion, ever." |
 by Lior Sternfeld and Mana Kia When Donald Trump hinted that injecting "disinfectants" could cure COVID-19, he was displaying a lack of critical thinking skill that is endemic in a society where learning is valued only in economic, rather than civic, terms. |
 by Eva von Dassow The progress of an ancient plague shows that when faith--in gods or medical research--fails, it's a long road to safety. |
 by Ed Simon Historically the powerful have described deaths from disease and starvation as "natural" to hide the political nature of suffering and their own responsibility. To mourn is to fight this erasure. |
 by Steve Hochstadt A talk radio ethos that puts provocation above understanding and ideological rigidity over cooperation has become the core of the Republican Party. This is not a good thing. |
 by Rafael Medoff Donald Trump recently continued an ignoble legacy of American presidents endorsing eugenics and other pseudoscientific theories of racial hierarchy. |
 by Kevin Shird Police in Jim Crow Alabama offered two kinds of outreach to schools: an "Officer Friendly" visit to white children, and traumatizing and intimidating threats of incarceration to black children. |
 by Roger Peace The end of the Cold War presented an opportunity for American foreign policy to turn away from militarism and toward cooperative development. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest consequence of failing to secure a "peace dividend." |
 by Ronald L. Feinman Four prior presidential elections have made the period between election and inauguration a time of uncertainty and danger. The period of time beginning on November 3 might outdo them all. |
 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. |
 by Walter G. Moss Donald Trump certainly exploited many white Americans' racism to win votes in 2016. But there are some other disturbing trends--from our anti-intellectualism to our taste for celebrity--that he could exploit again. |
Don't Miss!  by Selina O'Grady A historian of monotheistic religion argues that the Islamic world showed greater tolerance of religious minorities during medieval plagues than did Christendom. Yet tolerance is a poor model for intercultural cooperation in our current crisis. |
 by John Hemming The Villas-Bôas brothers worked with Brazil's indigenous people to balance the preservation of their Amazonian lands with inclusion in modernizing society. The policies of Jair Bolsonaro are a dire threat to their work, the survival of indigenous peoples, and the planet. |
 by Daniel Burnstein Right-wing conservative movements are driven by a psychological complex of threat and hostility to heterodox opinion that makes them difficult to stop once they've developed. |
 by David Head If the day comes when the USPS, like privateering, has outlived its usefulness, the Constitution will prove no obstacle. The only question that matters is the practical one: does the postal service accomplish its mission better than the alternatives? |
 by Greg Bailey Lynching and mob terrorism against African Americans have never been strictly southern phenomena, as a bloody incident from southern Illinois's histrory reveals. | Roundup Top 10
 It was a big week, and impossible to choose ten op-eds. We've got a baker's dozen. | |
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