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HNN Sponsor     Trending on HNN - What Will Happen on November 4? Steve Hochstadt - Twelve Scholars Critique the 1619 Project and the New York Times Magazine Editor Responds  - Who Was Our Worst President? Think About it When a Grim 75th Anniversary Arrives Paul W. Lovinger This Week's Op Eds Original essays for the History News Network. Let Us Now Remove Famous Men by Calvin Schermerhorn Should the statues remain up, doing the quiet work of reinforcing white supremacy while we get to work dismantling the interlocking components of structural racism? Or are the statues part of a 400-year history of violence against African-descended people that needs urgent attention and rectification? What's in a Name?: Decolonizing Sports Mascots by Paul C. Rosier Decolonizing sports history requires a deeper analysis of how false historical narratives that 'blamed the victim' became embedded in public venues in everyday life that shaped generations of Americans' perceptions of Native people. Lincoln, Cass, and Daniel Chester French: Homely Politicians Divided by Politics, United through Art by Harold Holzer In the age before the glare of television and instantaneous photography were relentlessly aimed at our leaders, politicians could succeed even if they looked like Lewis Cass. Or Abraham Lincoln. One of the Chicago 7 Reflects on Dissident Politics Then and Now by Lee Weiner A veteran of dissident politics in the 1960s warns that while today's broad coalition of activists for a more just and democratic America are on the right track, they must learn from the mistakes of an older generation and find ways to keep united despite difference.  Mankato's Hanging Monument Excluded Indigenous Perspectives when it was Erected and when it was Removed by John Legg Both while it stood and when its presence became inconvenient, the Hanging Monument shows how memorials control historical narratives and elevate particular interpretations of the past. What the Faithless Electors Decision Says about SCOTUS and Originalism by Ray Raphael The outcome of the "faithless electors" case shows that judicial "originalists" use that principle pragmatically and selectively.  Two Contagions, One Opportunity to Reboot our Approach by Steve Pyne Outbursts of megafires resemble emerging diseases because they are typically the outcome of broken biotas – a ruinous interaction between people and nature that unhinges the old checks and balances.  "You Sold Me to Your Mother-in-Law...": An Ongoing Quest to Reconnect a Family by Ken Lawrence David Jackson had been forcibly separated from members of his family with no word of their subsequent fates for more than two decades, yet he had not given up hope of finding them. Can today's historians shed light on his quest? Will the Crisis Year of 2020 Turn Out Like 1968? by James Thornton Harris Trump's attempt to use Nixon's outdated playbook will fail. Our nation is younger, more diverse and better educated now. We know better.  Who Opened the Door to Trumpism? David Frum's "Trumpocalypse" Reviewed by David O'Connor Through his long analysis of Trump's follies, Frum never develops his contention that twenty-first-century conservatism helped open the door for Trump. Without a full accounting, his political mea culpa is hollow and fails to offer guidance on how to avoid mistakes in the future. Weighing the Evidence when a President is Accused of Antisemitism by Rafael Medoff In weighing the evidence that has so far been produced concerning Trump, one must consider the standards that historians have applied with regard to the other three presidents who have been accused of antisemitism—Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, and Franklin Roosevelt. Can Martin Luther King's Spiritual Vision Kindle a New Progressivism? by Walter G. Moss Advocates for a broader social democratic political agenda should consider the spiritual roots of Martin Luther King's activism, which have historically engaged a broad range of political views to reform movements.  Don't Tear Down the Wrong Monuments; Don't Attack Every Holiday by Jim Loewen When COVID concerns allow, visit the Gettysburg and Vicksburg battlefields, and come to your own conclusion about how the National Park Service is meeting its 1999 Congressional mandate "to recognize and include ... the unique role that the institution of slavery played in causing the Civil War." Life during Wartime 515 by Joshua Brown The Wartime President   Don't Miss!   "The Day I Start Being Free": Detained Migrants Struggle for Human Rights 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. What Comes After the Fall of Pro-Slavery Monuments? 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. The Right to Breathe Free: A Showdown Over Race and Nature (Part II) 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. 75 Years Ago the First "Nuclear Race" Was in Hollywood by Greg Mitchell Despite Americans' keen interest and considerable fear in 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.  Will White Liberals Keep Faith With This Historical Moment? 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."    Roundup Top 10 Roundup Top Ten for July 24, 2020 The top op eds by historians from around the web last week.

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