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This Week's Op Eds Original essays for the History News Network.  by Derek Litvak John Eastman's claims that Kamala Harris is not a natural-born U.S. citizen fly in the face of 14th Amendment jurisprudence and Eastman's own prior defenses of Ted Cruz's eligibility for the presidency. |
 by Jeffrey Amestoy The 1851 prosecution of Black attorney Robert Morris for violating the Fugitive Slave Act showed how complicit in the brutality of slavery northern white elites could be. |
 by William Johnston It might come as a surprise that what most Americans associate with Hiroshima and Nagasaki says more about how contemporary American leaders wanted those bombings remembered than it does about their real history. |
 by Aimee Liu Historical novelist Aimee Liu uncovered the history of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, the western front of the Pacific theater in World War II, in the course of plotting her new novel "Glorious Boy." |
 by Gill Paul Novelist Gill Paul argues that Jackie Kennedy's current status as an icon of female empowerment conflicts with the reality of her life as a woman who grew up and was educated in a slowly changing society. |
 by Thomas E. Patterson Thomas Patterson's new book, excerpted here, evaluates the political traps the Republican Party has set for itself and considers the consequences for the nation if the party implodes. |
 by Alan J. Singer Recent attacks on Kamala Harris's citizenship and eligibility to serve as Vice President depend on willful misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment and ignorance of the specific racist injustices it was written to prevent. |
 by Michael Creswell While Trump's decision to halve the contingent of US troops in Germany has drawn bipartisan condemnation, critics should recognize that whether the decision is wise or foolish for today's context, it is in line with decades of efforts to shift the burdens of collective security onto NATO allies. |
 by Andrew Joseph Pegoda Historical amnesia and everyday privilege are what make it seem to some Christians that end prophecies are actively in progress. |
 by Greg Bailey You cannot understand the pain and purpose that constitutes our heritage by hiding. |
 by Michael A. Genovese While the Constitution says more about limiting the overreach of the executive branch, functioning government must beware of an underreaching executive that abdicates responsibility. |
 by Ron Steinman I first experienced the horror of CS gas more than 50 years ago. Today when I think of CS gas I remember how badly I felt when tear gassed on the streets of Saigon, and in Northern Ireland. |
 by Ken Lawrence A never-recorded song from 1955 linked the Watts rebellion to systemic injustice and a long history of police abuse. |
 by Bruce Chadwick "We want to remind the Berkshires, and the country, that the virus will be defeated and that in the meantime we must reclaim our lives and the arts is the way to do that," said Nick Paleologos of the Berkshires Theater. |
 by Don Farrell Japan's surrender makes the question a matter of speculation, but the history of military facilties built on Tinian in the Mariana Islands suggests that American military leadership was preparing to assemble many more atomic bombs should the Pacific war have continued. |
Don't Miss!  by Rachel Ida Buff Now, on the streets of U.S. cities, federal agents join militarized police in waging war on Americans who are exercising their lawful rights of freedom of speech and assembly. There is no doubt that the results endanger us all. |
 by David T.Z. Mindich Lynching helped to raise the odious flag in 1894. But in 2020, hundreds of thousands of marchers protesting the lynching of George Floyd brought the flag down. |
 by Stephen Kiernan Creating the bomb was both a milestone achievement, and a profound expansion of the limits of warfare. This complexity deserves a permanent public memorial. |
 by Billy J. Stratton Silas Soule and Joseph Cramer, two Civil War-era heroes who rebelled and refused to join a brutal attack against Native peoples represent the moral courage we would do well to honor. |
 by Mark Holan Authors, academics, musicians, and others bothered by their work being "cancelled" might consider the original boycott for some needed perspective. | Roundup Top 10
 The top op eds by historians from around the web last week. | |
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