Videos of the Week  In this video, we meet Sylvester, a man born and raised in the same town where Emmett Till was tortured and lynched. His story, his connection to the land and the people, and his recollection of that fateful event compels us to bear witness. |
 Anthropologist and police violence researcher Laurence Ralph made the film above to explain exactly what it means to be policed in America today. It moves from my own experiences with racial profiling as a teenager to the horrific history of police torture in Chicago. | Today's Top Headlines - Herman Cain, who Attended Trump's Tulsa Rally, Hospitalized with COVID-19 - Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments over Mueller's Secret Evidence, a Delay for House Democrats Investigating President Trump - After June Job Gains, Still a 'Deep Hole,' and New Worries 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 Alexandra Fair Time and time again, the Pioneer Fund subsidized research that advanced eugenic theories about racial difference and actively undermined racial equality. |
 by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva How will the inundation of historic seaports as climate change progresses affect historical memory of the Atlantic slave trade? |
 by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins The Freedmen's Memorial in Washington embodies not white supremacy, but African-American agency and cooperative struggle. |
 by Daniel Bessner Democrats must not just defeat Trump; they must commit to fighting a culture of elite impunity that has enabled the rise of Trump and an unaccountable Republican Party. |
 by Erika L. Briesacher Material culture centers objects as historical documents that can be read like a text; whether highlighting the physical piece or searching for the biography behind it, this approach reveals complex sociocultural behavior. | | |
 by Richard Kreitner For most of U.S. history, patriotism and white supremacy, the values supposedly embodied by the two flags, have hardly been at odds. Rather, they have been mutually constitutive and disturbingly aligned. |
 by Marlene Daut Because the indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them, Haiti should be at the center of the global movement for reparations. |
 by Jim Downs Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power. |
 by Crystal R. Sanders Wilmington, North Carolina police officers who spoke eagerly about the chance to kill black protesters evoke the history of a violent white supremacist coup against the city's biracial government during Reconstruction. |
 by Eric Cervini Why isn't Sylvia Rivera a household name? | 
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!  The evidence of David's life is sparse. Was he an emperor? A local king? Or, as Biblical archaeologist Israel Finkelstein claims, a Bedouin sheikh? |
 As you plan your weekend celebrations, remember this quip by founding father Samuel Adams, who lent his name to a Boston brewery: "Let no man thirst for good beer." |
 Trump stood up for the honor of Confederate leaders while also lobbing a racist insult at Senator Elizabeth Warren and native Americans. |
 Musicians and historians suggest the anthem, which was written by a 19th-century slave owner, has run its course as America's national song. |
 Because of the area's troubled past, it's easy for locals to think the worst happened to Fuller. |
 Like music itself, this spirit of resistance takes many shapes, but has never been silenced. |
 Many schools are giving students the option to take classes remotely while expecting faculty to teach classes in person. |
 The history of American Indian people's relationships with the federal government has shaped complex traditions of observing (or not) July 4th. |
 A panel of experts including historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Max Felker-Kantor, Carl Suddler, Stuart Schrader and Melanie Newport assemble a reading list for understanding policing and its relationship to racism and social class in the US. |
 "East of East" draws on scholarship in disciplines such as history, cultural studies and urban geography. However, its strength lies in its ability to amplify the voices and expressions of those generally excluded from official archival histories to provide a "new archive" of the region's historical and contemporary significance. |
 The histories of Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois and Eric Foner, as well as the later speeches and writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. demonstrate that the cause of racial justice has never been separable from closing the vast economic gulf between owners and workers in America. |
 In light of Trump's plans to hold a July 4th celebration at Mount Rushmore on Friday, historian John Taliaferro discusses the monument's complex legacy. |
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