Videos of the Week  Jeffrey Brown speaks to two historians, Frank Snowden of Yale University and Nancy Bristow of the University of Puget Sound, about how previous pandemics have shaped societies. |
 The Times located a number of the black children assaulted by white teens during an anti-integration march in Queens in 1975. The incident was just one part of an organized and often violent effort by white Rosedale residents to prevent racial integration. | Today's Top Headlines - CDC Chief Says Coronavirus Cases May Be 10 Times Higher Than Reported - Texas Pauses Reopening as Virus Cases Soar Across the South and West - Trump Lashes Out At Black Lives Matter, Accuses One Member Of 'Treason' Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on.
 by Stephanie McCurry Whatever way you look at it, it is impossible to turn this history and its leading figures into a part of American heritage. |
 by Robin D.G. Kelley "Let me offer a more productive question instead: What is the effect of obsessing over looting?" |
 by Adam Goodman "90% of the people pushed out of the country during the 20th century were Mexicans deported via a coercive, fast-track administrative process euphemistically referred to as 'voluntary departure,'" writes Adam Goodman. |
 by Sean Wilentz Unless we can outgrow the conception of history as a simplistic battle between darkness and light, we will be the captives of arrogant self-delusions and false innocence. |
 by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz Our cities and suburbs look and feel very different than they did in the depths of the urban crisis in the late 1960s. That's one reason Trump's attempt to revive the law-and-order playbook of that era has fallen flat. |
 by Sara Matthiesen Historians and other faculty who want to protect their disciplines and their colleagues from budget cuts need to develop maps of power and how it operates in a university. |
 by Stacey Patton Black people's suspicions that a number of recent hanging deaths were murders rather than suicides echoes a long history of concealing violence against black people by ruling it suicide. |
 by Ashley Dennis Black women librarians have been important leaders in promoting books and publishing standards that encourage readers to recognize human dignity and reject racist stereotypes in children's literature. |
 by Victoria L. Jackson For too long, instead of facilitating the intellectual advancement and economic empowerment of young Black men, college sports have helped make American universities another institution perpetuating the undervaluing of Black lives. |
 by Andrew Bacevich Without addressing the fundamental evils of economic inequality and militarism American society will continue to fail to realize the promise of racial equality, as Martin Luther King warned in his 1967 speech at Riverside Church. | 
Breaking News 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!  According to historian Christopher Phelps, Confederate monuments "are a representation of the way people in the early 20th century tried to justify that past and reconcile it with national unity." |
 While making the case for reparations, Nikole Hannah-Jones cites historians Eric Foner, Robin D.G. Kelley, Keri Leigh Merritt, Ira Katznelson, and James D. Anderson. |
 In this interview, Lonnie Bunch discusses the purpose of the Smithsonian in 2020, the future of museums as institutions, and his own career path. |
 Talk of "election integrity" by the Grand Old Party is inextricably intertwined with its modern history of pandering to racist elements of American life; any attempt to disentangle these stories and tell them separately is disingenuous, even if it angers partisans. |
 Protests on Oakland reflect the energy of young organizers but also a legacy of African American activism. Five community leaders reflect on continuity and change in the city. |
 Over about half a century, police unions have become one of the most powerful lobbies in local government. Historian Will Jones is among the experts who explain how. |
 The Alabama Department of Archives & History said in a statement on Tuesday that it is committed to developing programs and exhibits to promote a deeper understanding of the roots and consequences of racism. |
 We need not wait for Congress or the Supreme Court to deny police officers qualified immunity when they violate constitutional rights. State attorneys general and city law departments can—and should—lead the charge themselves. |
 For years members of the community have fought state legislators to have a Confederate statue removed. Faculty are releasing this statement in response to new plans for the memorial that would include its move to a newly renovated cemetery, "a shrine to white supremacy," as one staff member and signatory puts it. |
 The precedent means that election authorities have a positive obligation to alleviate conditions that could make voters afraid to cast a ballot. In the 1960s, that meant the Klan. Under COVID, it could mean crowded polls, long lines, or the lack of means to vote by mail. |
 Los Angeles historian Gilbert Estrada's work shows how planners in the city used federal highway funding to disrupt multiracial communities and serve whites-only suburban developments, increasing segregation and inequality in the region. |
 The city's removal of John C. Calhoun's statue was much more difficult than anticipated. May we assume the same of his legacy? |
 Recent research indicates little progress since the Truman administration. |
 Art historian Jody Patterson, an expert on public art in the 1930s, discusses the legacy of the New Deal's support for the arts and efforts to establish art as a public good. |
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