Browsing: News from Around the Internet  Presidents Clinton, GW Bush and Obama addressed John Lewis's life and legacy on Thursday. |
 Trump pledged to rescind an Obama-era order to enforce mandates of the Fair Housing Act and claimed to save the "suburban dream" from violent crime. |
 Historians assess the unconstituitonality of postponing the election and what the announcement means for democracy 100 days from election day. |
Video of the Week  by Washington Post Hundreds had gathered along the route from the church to the bridge, some traveling hours to see Lewis's final journey, others lining up in the early morning. | Today's Top Headlines - Three Presidents Embrace the Struggle for Rights. Trump Suggests Postponing the Election - American GDP Collapse is Most Devastating on Record - Trump Floats an Election Delay, and Republicans Shoot It Down - Postal Service Backlog Sparks Worries that Ballot Delivery Could be Delayed in November 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 Richard Kreitner and Rick Perlstein Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place. The allegation is not even necessarily meant to be believed. It is simply a cover story, intended to shield from responsibility not only the authorities implicated in crimes or abuses of power, but also society as a whole. |
 by François-Xavier Fauvelle During the Middle Ages, while Europe fought, traded, explored and evolved, Africa was a continent in darkness, 'without history' – or so the traditional western narrative runs. In fact, as François-Xavier Fauvelle reveals, it was a shining period in which great African cultures flourished. |
 by Karl Jacoby What's happening in Oregon reflects the long history of unprecedented police powers granted to federal border agents over what has become a far more expansive border zone than most Americans realize. |
 by Malinda Maynor Lowery Senator Cotton's remarks and his proposal to revise history obscure the violence, death and displacement that slavery caused in both Black and Indigenous communities. |
 by Dana Frank When he called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "crazy" and "out of her mind" because he didn't like her politics, Ted Yoho was harking back to Edgar Berman's narrative that a political woman who dares to speak up is constitutionally insane. |
 by Adam Rothman and Barbara J. Fields Those seeking genuine democracy must fight like hell to convince white Americans that what is good for black people is also good for them: Reining in murderous police, investing in schools rather than prisons, and providing universal healthcare. |
 by Nell Irvin Painter Capitalizing "White" makes clear that whiteness is not simply the default American status, but a racial identity that has formed in relation to others. |
 by Diane Ravitch Amid this uncertainty and anxiety, President Trump has decided that the reopening of schools is essential to his prospects for reelection. |
 by Adom Getachew What is "decolonization?" What the word means and what it requires have been contested for a century. |
 by Eleanor Janega "The idea of having sex with demons or the devil... has a long and proud history. A concern about sleep sex demons traces at least as far back as Mesopotamian myth where we see the hero Gilgamesh's father recorded on the Sumerian King List as Lilu, a demon who targets sleeping women, in 2400 BC." | 
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!  Steven Calabrese argues that Trump's call to postpone the 2020 election is grounds for removal from office if not rescinded. |
 "[Nixon's campaigns] understood something about race that Trump doesn't understand," [Matthew] Lassiter said. "Voters don't want racial privilege challenged, but they don't want to be explicitly reminded that racism is underneath their position." |
 Historians including Robert Perkinson and Monica Muñoz Martinez discuss the impact of having today's cruelly punitive prisons named for racist figures of the Jim Crow era. |
 Elizabeth Dole's fight for seat belt laws in the 1980s inspired the sort of rhetoric and division America is seeing today over government mandates to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. |
 Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City's P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands. |
 Conservatives have wanted the federal government to take control of crime in Chicago for decades — long before Trump got into politics. |
 Scholars including Jeanne Theoharis and Will Guzmán describe the roots and impact of the 1960 Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. |
 Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez argues in "Jesus and John Wayne" that contemporary Evangelical political views are a product of the group's embrace of patriarchal authority and power, a situation that will not end when Trump leaves office. |
 A series of interviews examines the ways that race and social class affect the ability of women to use motherhood as a source of political power. |
 Homecoming, a celebration that has drawn descendants of the town's post-Civil War founders for generations, moves online due to coronavirus. |
 For reasons that she explores in her new book, "Larger Than Life: A History Of Boy Bands From NKOTB To BTS", Maria Sherman says boy bands don't get the same respect as other music acts, especially their rock peers. |
 McCarthy never sent a single "subversive" to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures. |
 In Jason Boog's new book, "The Deep End," he offers colorful and often grim profiles of nine Depression-era writers and connects their stories to the struggles that writers face today. Even before our current economic crisis, it was a depressingly apt comparison. |
 A pair of new statues in South Korea of a man kneeling in front of a girl symbolizing a victim of sexual slavery by Japan's wartime military is the latest subject of diplomatic sensitivity between the countries, with Tokyo's government spokesperson questioning whether the male figure represents the Japanese prime minister. | 
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