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This Week's Op Eds Original essays for the History News Network.  by Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin The Hate-Monger, a supervillain introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, called attention to the destructive power of bigotry, but today readers should resist the idea that defeating any one person, no matter who or how powerful they might be, can eliminate racism. |
 by Jenny Woodley Thinking of the Mary McLeod Bethune memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park in tandem with the controversial Emancipation memorial suggests ways in which commemorative spaces can operate as places of dialogue. |
 by Elliott Young As Justice Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, a recent decision could "eliminate all procedural protections for any noncitizen... and summarily deport them no matter how many decades they have lived here, how settled and integrated they are in their communities, or how many members of their family are U. S. citizens or residents." |
 by Pete Daniel Change is on the front foot, and this is no time to allow wealth and ignorance to gain ground. Achiever exhibits and sculpture gardens seem pathetic sideshows to the powerful history of the country. |
 by Ralph Young At a time like this one longs for a Gandhi or a King to come along and show us the way. Or a Lincoln or a Roosevelt who took up the challenge of leading the United States through existential crises. But I don't see that happening. Not in 2020. Not on the federal level. |
 by Martin Halpern Activists in today's struggles against institutionalized racism and for black lives can benefit from studying a local victory of fifty years ago. In the spring of 1970, the Black Action Movement (BAM) at the University of Michigan led a thirteen-day strike that won a commitment to change by the university administration. |
 by G.W. Gibson We can take heart that our country and our discipline have come a long way from the nadir and Frederick Jackson Turner. Somewhere between Teddy Roosevelt and Colin Kaepernick, we have managed to pick up a few yards as Americans and as American Historians. |
 by Ron Steinman A 1970 speech by Barry Zorthian, the Pentagon's chief public information officer in Vietnam, shows a thoughtful approach to balancing the rights of journalists with the need of the military to control information. That approach is missing in the era of "fake news" and open hostility by the administration for the press. |
 by Paul W. Lovinger The anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should inspire consideration of the global fallout from Harry Truman's presidential decisions. |
 by Stewart D. McLaurin No one should be at a disadvantage because they can't visit D.C., or other historical landmarks like Presidential homes and libraries. We can take advantage of our increased dependence on online learning to inspire students, no matter where they live. |
 by Dolores Janiewski In his life and his death Floyd experienced the coercive structures that constrain, punish and eventually kill altogether too many Americans. More than Confederate statues, these need to be torn down. |
 by Ronald L. Feinman Three very young men sought to jump from a governor's mansion to high national office. Philip LaFollette and Harold Stassen failed, but in part due to a series of lucky events Bill Clinton succeeded. |
 by Steve Hochstadt What Trump will do if he loses is the wrong question. What matters is what his supporters will do. |
Don't Miss!  by Lucy Salyer Senator Charles Sumner lost his battle on the Fourth of July 1870, with dire consequences for both Asian immigrant communities and the prospects of a more racially egalitarian America. |
 by Andrew Joseph Pegoda People have a right to walk around their neighborhood park without being terrorized by iconography devoted to people who denied their ancestors human rights. |
 by Kevin C. O'Leary We are stuck with two major parties and when one party abandons the broad liberal-conservative center, the system stops working. |
 by James Thornton Harris "I don't think it is fair for a scholar like me to tell a community what sort of monuments it should put up. This should be a local decision—and one that takes into account the perspectives of the entire community, which was not the case with Confederate monuments." |
 by William Lambers As we celebrate America's birthday on July 4th, let's remember how our nation's generosity has aided many hungry and oppressed people around the world. | Roundup Top 10
 The top op eds by historians from around the web last week. | |
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