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This Week's Op Eds Original essays for the History News Network.  by Jana Lipman The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the 1990s, who experienced detention and a bureaucratic process exposing them to dangerous repatriation, are a precedent for the treatment of asylum-seekers in contemporary America. |
 by Ana Lucia Araujo "In nearly two decades studying monuments, memorials, and museums memorializing slavery in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, I learned several lessons. When groups decide to erect a monument to remember an event or a person from the past, they are always driven by present-day motivations." |
 by Douglas C. Sackman Over time American nature has been retrofitted with an infrastructure of racism, one that gives some people open access to land, clean water, and good air while constricting the access of others to these vital natural resources, or takes them away altogether. |
 by Marika Plater Closed gates around City Hall Park in New York not only restrict access to the park as a site for protest, but ignore the site's history as a theater for political expression. |
 by Greg Mitchell Despite Americans' keen interest in (and considerable fear of) the atomic bomb after the end of World War II, the first commercial film to tackle the Manhattan Project was a bomb of a different sort. |
 by Linda Morse Let us get busy: history teachers must change the world! |
 by John Davenport After the upheavals of June, we may now have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get to the constitutional roots of so many national problems. |
 by Rick Shenkman HNN Founding Editor Rick Shenkman returns to blogging inspired by the controversies around monuments and politics. |
 by David Stebenne For a long time it seemed as though the 1930s era of high unemployment was a kind of "great exception" in American history, but now it has appeared again, suddenly and unexpectedly, just as it did in the early 1930s. |
 by Elwood Watson White liberal allies to today's Black protest movements must dig in for the long haul and remember the words of Audre Lorde: "The war against dehumanization is ceaseless." |
 by Yoav J. Tenembaum The evidence suggests that Neville Chamberlain was sincere in his desire but profoundly mistaken about his ability to keep Britain out of war with Germany. |
 by Lawrence Wittner The dire crises facing humanity--climate change, pandemic disease, widespread pollution, and nuclear weapons, to name a few--demand that we reject a fatalistic sense of impotence and the legacies of nationalism that prevent cooperative solutions. |
 by Joshua Brown National Anthem - Mt. Rushmore Edition |
 by Ludovic Rembert These days, most of Professor McLuhan's "global village" is kept in private and confined spaces: the village plaza is Facebook, a space that is operated for commercial purposes, restricting our discussions and absorbing our private data within our conversations and searches to sell it to advertisers. |
Don't Miss!  by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein It took deep reforms and patience to build trust in policing across the sectarian divide of Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Accords. Does that process have lessons for the United States? |
 by David B. Parker Marian Sims's 1942 historical novel Beyond Surrender was not nearly as popular as Gone with the Wind. But it reminds us today of a history that might have been--both during Reconstruction and in the popular portrayal of the period. |
 by Ann Tucker White southerners looked to contemporary European nationalist movements and compared the South to aspiring nations abroad. This allowed them to conceive of the South as a potential nation, distinct from the North and separate from the United States, and to justify secession and the creation of the Confederacy. |
 by Max Felker-Kantor The history of liberal law-and-order reveals that procedural reforms implemented on top of a structure of policing that has been empowered to protect property and control "disorder" are not only doomed to fail but will produce the conditions for more protest and resistance. |
 by Paul Starobin Alexander McKenzie's plot to corner Alaska's gold proved to be the last great swindle of the original gilded age, as this seamy chapter in our national life gave way to what become known as the Progressive Era. | Roundup Top 10
 The top op eds by historians from around the web last week. | |
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