| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  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 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 William Johnston It might come as a surprise that most Americans' knowledge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki says more about how contemporary American leaders wanted those bombings remembered than it does about their real history. |
 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. | Today's News Headlines - WHO Warns Young People Are Emerging As Main Spreaders Of The Coronavirus - Postmaster General Announces He Is 'Suspending' Policies Blamed For Mail Delays - G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russia Video of the Week  Author Eric Alterman discusses the history of presidential lying and connects the increased power of the executive to the tendency to propount "alternative facts." | 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!
 An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern history. |
 The Portsmouth, VA Police Department has thrown the book at public officials they believe supported protests which led to the destruction of Confederate monuments. They also appear to be working to prevent a progressive Black state prosecutor from handling the case by claiming she is a witness to the events. |
 Right-wing challenges to Kamala Harris's eligibility for the presidency depend on a legal argument that American-born children of immigrants are a lesser category of citizen. There is no basis under the Constitution for this. |
 At 55, Ms. Harris is on the older side of this second generation of Americans whose parents came in those early years. But her family is part of a larger trend that has broad implications for the country's identity, transforming a mostly white baby-boomer society into a multiethnic and racial patchwork. |
 "The education system is where people form values other than what their parents have," 18 year old Vanessa Amoah of Omaha said. "George Floyd, Philando Castile — none of it would have happened if this country worked on proactively teaching anti-racist values." |
 Freshkills is possibly the least likely poster child for urban ecological restoration in the world, and it is radical not just for the way it works — by encouraging flora and fauna do as they please — but for its sheer size. It is almost unbelievable that New York City would set aside a parcel of land as big as Lower Manhattan south of 23rd Street — and just let it go to seed. |
 Major League Baseball's celebration of the centennial of the Negro Leagues whitewashes the role of major league owners in segregating baseball with an 1887 "Gentlemen's Agreeme |
 The Good Humor ice cream company joined forces with RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan to replace a standard jingle with roots in racist minstrel shows. |
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 Trachtenberg is best known as one of the most distinguished and authoritative interpreters of what photographers have shown about history through the camera lens. |
 Many of the women who fought for representation were rebels living nonnormative, queer lives. |
 Ph.D. candidate in history Jemar Tisby reviews "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity." |
 "My research shows that Black lives hardly mattered at all at Clemson until after desegregation, and the discovery we made in this burial ground tells me that Black deaths mattered even less," Dr. Rhondda Thomas said Monday. "The thing that I found was that Black labor mattered the most on this land where Clemson was built." |
 D.C.'s Black Lives Matter protests taught historian Graham H. Cornwell and his son that the Civil War cannot be studied in abstraction. |
 The missives, preserved by the Library of Congress, include notes to and from the beloved president. |
 After its emergence in the 1990s, the Michigan militia movement was dormant until the Obama years. The state's COVID lockdowns have brought a mix of libertarians, racists and anti-government radicals into a prominent public role again. |
 "Just because we are in England … that's not an excuse to be able to commemorate individuals who were involved in keeping other people in chains," said historian Laurence Westgaph. |
 Michael Eric Dyson, Brittney Cooper and other scholars discuss how Trump's insult of Senator Kamala Harris fits a historial stereotype of Black women who assert themselves as angry. |
 The Black Lives Matter movement has offered a rare moment for the descendants of plantation laborers brought aboard ships in the 19th century to make their family histories known. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Historians' responses to Bernie, Kasich, AOC, a different state roll call, Jill Biden, and more. |
 COVID spikes lead Notre Dame to announe a temporary shift to online classes and the University of North Carolina student newspaper to rip the administration's reopening plans. |
 A Newsweek op ed argues that because Kamala Harris's parents were not US citizens at the time she was born in Oakland, CA, that she does not qualify as a "natural born" citizen. Historians respond. |
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