| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  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 Paul Ham Many people, including historians, believe that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan's unconditional surrender, saved a million American lives, and was the least morally repellent way to end World War II. Paul Ham contends that none of this is true. |
 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. | Today's News Headlines - Powerful Explosion in Beirut Kills More Than 70, Injures Thousands - Census Bureau Says Counting Will End A Month Earlier Than Planned - Trading Concessions on Recovery Plan, Negotiators Set Week's End Deadline for a Deal Video of the Week  John Oliver takes a look at how the history of race in America is taught in schools, how we can make those teachings more accurate, and why it's in everyone's best interest to understand the most realistic version of the past. | 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!
 Speaking in honor of the late John Lewis, the former President said that the activist and Congressman's legacy demanded new legislation to protect voting rights, and that the Senate filibuster should be abolished if needed to pass a law. |
 An oral history by witnesses and survivors of Charles Whitman's mass shooting at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966. |
 There aren't many historical precedents for such a move, but when they exist, they have been undertaken by politicians who are extremely well liked. |
 "We're not asking them to destroy the statue," McFarland said. "We're asking them to remove it. I no longer want to have my taxpayer dollars keeping this symbol of hate and racism erected here on the courthouse square." |
 Tenured faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) told undergraduate students in an open letter not to return to campus this fall because of coronavirus concerns, the latest move in the debate over reopening schools. |
 "In the parlance of Northern Ireland, Mr. Hume was a "nationalist" whose dream of a reunited Ireland had no place for the violence embraced by "republicans" like the I.R.A., with its armed fighters and networks of financiers, bomb-makers and sympathizers in the region and in the United States." |
 As Covid-19 spreads, keeping workers from becoming sick on the job is taking on renewed importance. Research shows that robust sick leave policies can play an important role in stemming a pandemic. |
 At a news conference, State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford said current history teachings lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities. |
 Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans |
 "As soon as T.S. Monk listened to the recording, he knew right away that his father was feeling really good that day and wasn't just going through the motions," Danny Scher said. |
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 Those who survived the bombings are known as hibakusha. Survivors faced a horrifying aftermath in the cities, including radiation poisoning and psychological trauma. |
 "As historian Faye E. Dudden writes in 'Fighting Change,' her book on the suffrage movement in the Reconstruction period, Stanton dipped her pen into a tincture of white racism and sketched a reference to a nightmarish figure, the black rapist'." |
 A new book documents the way that the South African security forces targeted percevied opponents of apartheid for extrajudicial killing. |
 The United States has flirted with truth and reconciliation. But it abandoned Reconstruction and failed to act on the warnings of the 1968 Kerner Commission. Most of all, these failures reflect the vain hope that overcoming the country's racist past can be done quickly. |
 Keisha N. Blain provides historical context for the high visibility of white moms in Portland, and the problems this posed for the city's protest movements. |
 For most of American history, newspapers in the South supported the people and systems that promoted and maintained prejudice and discrimination. |
 "Much has been made about how much historians can learn from economists, and I think that this is an area where economists could learn a lot from historians. We are trained to look at things from multiple perspectives and to understand complex contexts."--Caitlin Rosenthal |
 Columnist David Brooks looks to historians of the New Deal era to suggest Joe Biden can succeed like FDR by offering an active but pragmatic plan to pull America out of the hole created by the coronavirus pandemic. |
 Museums now face a moral reckoning over artifacts stolen by people who took colonial violence and racial superiority as a given. It is time to start having honest conversations about righting those wrongs. |
 Historians and scholars including Ira Katznelson, Jeffrey Sammons, Edward Humes, Richard Rothstein, David H. Onkst, and Charissa Threat describe the difficulties faced by Black veterans of World War II returning to a racist society. |
 John Nichols's new book argues that Franklin Roosevelt's decision to cut loose Vice President Henry Wallace crippled egalitarian politics in the Democratic Party with lasting consequences. |
 Bissera Pentcheva used virtual acoustics to bring Istanbul to California and reconstruct the sonic world of Byzantine cathedral music. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 A resurgent Coronavirus pandemic is scrambling plans to bring students back to campus. Most recently UNC tenured faculty warned students to stay away and NCAA student-athletes threaten to withhold their unpaid labor. |
 The latest twists: A Vanity Fair story suggests a comprehensive, nationally coordinated COVID response was spiked to stick it to blue states and Trump gives a factually-challenged interview about America's response. |
 Through interviews, tweets and media surrogates Trump pushes the unfounded fear of fraudulent votes, while state election boards and the Postal Service struggle to prepare. |
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