| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Paul Ham Japan's surrender was hastened by imminent invasion by the Soviet Red Army, a crippling US naval blockade and conventional bombing, and a diplomatic promise to protect the Japanese Emperor from execution, argues Paul Ham. Granting undue credit to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki excuses atrocity. |
 by Marc Gallicchio The terms on which the United States pressed Japan for surrender were shaped by American domestic politics; New Deal Democrats and their liberal allies succeeded in convincing Harry Truman that it was necessary to dramatically rebuild Japan's society along more social-democratic lines. |
 by Daniel K. Williams The 1976 campaign highlights a paradox: while the person a presidential nominee chooses as their running mate might be surprising, that individual is selected using criteria that are predictable. |
 by Robin Lindley Author Steve Olson makes sense of the complexities of the nuclear age by telling the story of plutonium processing in Hanford, Washington, arguably the key site in the history of nuclear weapons. |
 by Peter N. Stearns Historians have much to add to the social science theory on crowds and can help advance understanding past simplistic and mechanistic understandings of today's public unrest. | Today's News Headlines - Big Ten and Pac-12 Are First Marquee Conferences to Postpone Football - Russia Approves Coronavirus Vaccine Before Completing Tests - In picking Harris, Biden makes history and plays it safe Video of the Week  Douglas Brinkley recounts part of an interview with Trump in which the President's lack of erudition was revealed. |
 Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s wrestled with the idea of a planet without humanity. After "Dr. Strangelove" satirized any effort to treat nuclear war seriously on the big screen, Hollywood viewed the bomb through schlock and horror, until the 1980s revival of sentiment for disarmament and "The Day After." | Breaking 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!
 A proposal for DC statehood would preserve a Capital District around the White House and Capitol, which is granted three Electoral College votes by the Constitution. It's possible that the only residents of the district would be the inhabitants of the White House. |
 Family of biochemist and tabletop designer Martha Nierenberg, 96, says they'll continue legal battle for art collection, stolen by the Nazis and still held by Hungary. |
 Here, compiled from sources including Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro's memoir, contemporary news clippings and interviews with players who were part of this history, is a look back at Ferraro's exhilarating, much-scrutinized path to becoming a political standard-bearer. |
 The FBI has a long history of acting more as a "national security" agency than a law enforcement body, targeting racial and ethnic minorities and leftist activists. |
 The anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the circumstances of Roosevelt's failing health should be reminders of the significance of Joe Biden's choice, even beyond the campaign. |
 Demographers and political strategists say Trump is promoting a vision of America's suburbs with aproned housewives, leafy cul-de-sacs and picket fences that no longer exists. |
 The German military's infiltration by far-right extremists should be a warning for how we confront our own troubled history. |
 President Donald Trump suggested Monday evening that the "1917" influenza pandemic ended World War II, wrongly citing both the year that the pandemic occurred and the year that World War II ended. |
 For a decade, Harry Truman's oldest grandson has engaged in dialogue with the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
 Citing recent economic research, the author argues that fighting employment discrimination and ending the idea that white men have a privileged claim on good jobs will be a potent engine for economic growth if and when America recovers from the pandemic. |
 The outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Japan exposed the ignorance and indifference of many Britons to Japan. The British Ministry of Information responded with "creative and aggressive propaganda about the Japanese enemy." |
History 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!  Anya Jabour and Susan Goodier offer insight into the motives of women who opposed female suffrage. |
 Historians of religion including Grant Wacker, Anthea Butler and John Fea comment on the significance of Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s recent public scandals and the position of Liberty University in the evangelical world. |
 Brown establishes what it says is the first endowed professorship in Palestinian studies at a U.S. research institution, held by Beshara Doumani. |
 Congress can amend the nation's first civil rights law to make explicit that it protects against both intentional discrimination and policies that perpetuate racial inequality. |
 "It is always a fact of some importance to know where a man is born, if, indeed, it be important to know anything about him." So wrote Frederick Douglass in his 1855 autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom. It was with these reflections and Douglass's words in mind that, on Juneteenth, I got in the car with my family and drove from our home, outside Washington, D.C., to Talbot County, Maryland, where Frederick Douglass was born. |
 Wilkerson's book contends that what we know as racism must be understood as a system of social domination, not as a matter of group conflict or prejudice. |
 Historian Patrick Iber reflects on "Reaganland," the concluding volume of Rick Perlstein's genre-defining series of books on American conservatism, and urges readers to consider how the movement mobilized anger and resentment as opposed to high principle. |
 An acknowledged landmark in scholarship, Bernard Bailyn's "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution" won the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize in 1968. |
 Alison Rose Jefferson had been scheduled to brief the Manhattan Beach City Council about how to commemorate a stretch of beach historically used by Black Californians barred from other parts of the coastline. Her participation ended under disuputed circumstances. |
 "The experience was very dispiriting for a lot of Black soldiers," says Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College and author of "Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers." |
 The library, in Springfield, Ill., said Black community leaders who previewed it feared parts of the traveling exhibition, created 15 years ago, were outdated and lacked context. |
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 The California Senator will be the first African American woman and the first person of south Asian heritage to appear on a major party presidential ticket. Historians discuss the impact of the selection. |
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