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This Week's Op Eds Original essays for the History News Network.  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? |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 by Ray Raphael The outcome of the "faithless electors" case shows that judicial "originalists" use that principle pragmatically and selectively. |
 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. |
 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? |
 by James Thornton Harris Trump's attempt to use Nixon's outdated playbook will fail.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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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." |
 by Joshua Brown The Wartime President |
Don't Miss!  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 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. |
 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
 The top op eds by historians from around the web last week. | |
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