| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Mary Henold Women of color and their allies truly won the right to vote for all American women not in 1920, but in 1965, with the passage of the Voting Rights Act. |
 by John Bodnar The behavior of belligerent patriots in our times has made it clear that the type of allegiance they value most--and their image of America--leaves little room for an ethic of mutualism or compassion. |
 by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein As we remember John Hume and John Lewis, we should find inspiration to continue their struggle. |
 by Quentin Janel Joe Biden's efforts to run an effective campaign under COVID lockdown echo the innovations forced on James Garfield. If Biden succeeds, the "Basement Campaign" may prove as influential as the "Front Porch Campaign" of 1880. |
 by Steve Hochstadt Evangelical leaders have bent and twisted their proclaimed moral precepts so far to embrace Donald Trump that they risk forfeiting any claim to moral authority and becoming a mere reactionary identitarian group in a society leaving them behind. | Today's News Headlines - Trump Uses Republican Convention to Try to Rewrite Coronavirus History, Casting Himself as Lifesaving Hero - GOP Pulls Mary Ann Mendoza From Convention Lineup After She Tweets Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory - After Jacob Blake Shooting, Scrutiny of Kenosha Police Intensifies 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!
 It will surprise no one if Trump pursues the sort of negative race-baiting campaign that George H.W. Bush used to rally after trailing Michael Dukakis in the summer. What remains to be seen will be if Trump can convincingly portray Biden as a greater danger to the public. |
 William Dunlap, a former Assistant Postmaster General who helped implement the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act, warns that the most serious cost of recent "reforms" may be to undermine public confidence in the Post Office as a non-political public service. |
 His assignments for leading magazines took him to pivotal events of the civil rights era. He was also known for his photographs of artists. |
 The pledge to send police and military personnel to watch polling places echoes conduct that resulted in a 1981 consent decree against the Republican National Committee for voter intimidation in New Jersey. This is the first year that the RNC is not bound by the decree. |
 Some of the changes don't necessarily involve new material, but rather teaching the same material from a new perspective. |
 The notion that history can be rewritten is a powerful one. It starts by taking the pen from the authors we've always had — and giving it to someone else. |
 The Democrats were forced out of the old, and figured out the new. How will Republicans respond? |
 Hans Sloane 'pushed off pedestal' and placed with artefacts putting his work in context of British empire. |
 From suffrage to 2020's vice presidential nominee, Black sororities have been part of the political process. But some sisters believe their actions could be bolder. Historian Paula Giddings discusses the significance of Black sororities and social clubs in fighting for voting rights. |
 "If Scientific American is to help shape a more just and hopeful future, we must learn from the arrogance and exclusions of our past. Not just because it is right, but because the power of scientific knowledge is stronger for it." |
 Ending racial preferences in a state university system harmed Black and Hispanic students while doing little to lift whites and Asian-Americans, a study asserts. | 
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 After enduring internment, Japanese Americans were forced to resettle in a changed society with a dire housing shortage. The government's response was grossly inadequate. |
 "How many unions are there where you're assigned a gun and told you can shoot people?" Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner asked me during a phone interview. "I mean, they have superpowers. They are given superpowers over the lives and freedom of other people. Over the integrity of their bodies." |
 A recent study has examined a historical connection between racist redlining practices in urban planning and heat-trapping environments in present-day urban neighborhoods. |
 The FBI recently tweeted out its archival copy of the notorious antisemitic conspiracy tract "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" without any context or explanation. Here's where it came from and a summary of its influence. |
 Richard John, Joseph Adelman, Winifred Gallagher and Devin Leonard offer insight into how Ben Franklin committed to innovation and service improvement to build up the colonial postal service and how the service became an institution tying the new nation together. |
 In 1876 norms governing fair elections broke down beyond the ability of the courts to resolve. The partisan deadlock that ensued was resolved with political dealmaking that relegated Black Americans to second-class citizenship for a century. Anyone who fears a repeat of the 2000 election had better prepare for a repeat of 1876. |
 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum in honor of Black August on the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition organized by incarcerated writer, activist and intellectual Stephen Wilson and historian and professor Garrett Felber. |
 Scholars like Philip Ziegler and Mark Senn have argued that the Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the first large-scale popular revolt in England. |
 The Library of Congress's Web Department works to archive tweets and ephemeral websites that are significant to today's society so they are not lost to history. |
 Music historian Daniel Ira Goldmark counts more than a hundred Warner Bros. cartoons with Wagner on their soundtracks. |
 A new documentary short highlights the journalistic and political career of Charlotta Bass, the Progressive Party candidate for Vice President in 1952. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Historians comment on the Trump Kids, the St. Louis Gun Couple, the influence of QAnon, the effort to brand Joe Biden a socialist, and more from the Virtual Republican Convention. |
 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. |
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