Browsing: News from Around the Internet  The Arkansas Republican Senator introduced a bill to block any federal funds from being used to teach the (free) companion curriculum to the New York Times's 2019 special issue on the centrality of slavery to American history. |
 Historians are parents and childcaregivers (and historians teach in primary and secondary schools!) too. With a month to go until the scheduled reopening of schools, what are their thoughts on the push to return kids to classrooms? |
 Historians discuss the unprecedented use of the agency and the implications for democracy and civil liberties. | Today's Top Headlines - Trump Cancels Jacksonville Part Of Republican National Convention - Brazil Reports Record Infections As Coronavirus Spreads To All Regions - 9-Day Waits for Test Results Threaten N.Y.C.'s Ability to Contain Virus 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 Stuart Schrader The history of the Office of Public Safety, created to support counterinsurgency around the globe during the Cold War, demonstrates that Trump's ardor for authoritarian force has long-standing, homegrown roots. |
 by David W. Blight As we are witnessing, the problem of the 21st century in this country is some agonizingly enduring combination of legacies bleeding forward from conquest, slavery and color lines. Freedom in its infinite meanings remains humanity's most universal aspiration. How America reimagines its memorial landscape may matter to the whole world. |
 by Heather Cox Richardson Warren G. Harding created an atmosphere in which the point of government was not to help ordinary Americans, but to see how much leaders could get out of it. |
 by Moshik Temkin Historical analogies, done in good faith, can make crucial points about the present and help to clarify where we stand on moral and political issues. The problem begins when we begin to substitute historical analogies for historical analysis – or, even more problematically, when we come to believe that history 'repeats itself'. |
 by Keisha N. Blain By linking national concerns to global ones, John Lewis compelled others to see that the problems of racism and white supremacy were not contained within U.S. borders. |
 by Paul Schor The Trump administration's effort not to count undocumented immigrants is nothing less than an effort to redistribute political power, one that calls to mind a particularly fierce battle over the 1920 census that highlights the role of these broader fights. |
 by Nicholas Lemann The Senators chosen by John F. Kennedy as "Profiles in Courage" would not fare well if their actions were evaluated today. |
 by Lisa Levenstein Today, in nearly two-thirds of households with children, the parents are employed. In 3 out of 5 states, the cost of day care for one infant is more than tuition and fees at four-year public universities. |
 by Robert Zaretsky Eighty years later, Bloch's investigation casts useful light for those historians who, gripped by the white heat of their own moment, may seek to understand the once unthinkable defeat of the United States in its "war" against the new coronavirus. |
 by Brent Cebul Ensuring that Black Lives Matter doesn't just require police reform. The history of urban renewal shows that governments have worked to dismantle and destabilize Black communities in the name of progress. | 
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 Texas Rangers were vicious enforcers of white power. J.T. Canales was the only Mexican American in the legislature. He lost the fight, but the reckoning he sought is finally underway. Historians Monica Muñoz Martinez and Doug Swanson explain. |
 The bipartisan vote to banish the statues from display was the latest step in a nationwide push to remove historical symbols of racism and oppression from public places. |
 Vivian was a monumental figure in the Civil Rights Movement, with a stretch of advocating for racial equality for more than six decades from his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Illinois. |
 Since the early 2000s, an escalating fight over so-called voter fraud has crippled the EAC, often sabotaging its most dedicated commissioners while emboldening those who are less effective. |
 A 93-year-old former SS guard has been found guilty of accessory to the murder of 5,232 people at a Nazi concentration camp in the final days of the second world war. |
 The question of what to include in the case against President Trump is at the heart of a new book by Norm Eisen, a lawyer working with House Democrats in the impeachment effort. |
 The Sierra Club isn't the only organization that is shaking its foundations. Leaders of predominantly white, liberal and progressive groups throughout the field of conservation say they are taking a hard look within their organizations and don't like what they see. |
 Recently, Florida State University law professor Mary Ziegler sat down with Nursing Clio to talk about her new book, "Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present". The book illustrates how the question of "abortion rights" is only one piece of a puzzle that includes policy, funding issues, and larger questions about public health. |
 "The idea of bringing in troops or law enforcement in its many forms to quell civilian protest is as American as apple pie — it is foundational to this nation," said Heather Ann Thompson, a historian at the University of Michigan. |
 Peniel Joseph, one of the nation's leading civil rights scholars, has studied and written about the history of race and democracy. He has some ideas on how cities and urban areas can begin to dismantle racism. |
 No one knows exactly what Jesus looked like, and there are no known images of him from his lifetime. Art history professor Anna Smartwood House writes about the complicated history of the images of Christ and how historically they have served many purposes. |
 "The striking thing about 1941 is that there was no debate or controversy between the scientists and the government, there was just rapid agreement that this made sense and it wasn't costly," said Dr Jesse Olszynko-Gryn. |
 Nearly 200 historians on Wednesday denounced what they said was the "misrepresentation of slavery and empire" in the history section of Britain's citizenship test, calling for it to be corrected. |
 "Leopold's Legacy" by Oliver Leu is the most timely of books. It details how Belgian monuments to empire sustain narratives that abdicate responsibility, divert blame, and ultimately deny Belgium's role in the mutilation and murder of millions of people. But English readers shouldn't feel superior. | 
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