The Roundup Top Ten for August 14

HNN Sponsor       Video of the Week Citizen's Arrest: How is This Still a Law? Hofstra professor (and HNN contributor) Alan J. Singer explains to The Daily Show why "citizens arrest" is a legacy of the era of slavery and white supremacy.  Browsing: News from Around the Internet  The Right Questions Kamala Harris's Citizenship, Eligibility to Be Vice President 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.  Trump Doubles Down on Vote-by-Mail Fraud Predictions, Undermines USPS After declaring that voting by mail would lead to fraud, Trump told an interviewer that he would block financial support to the Postal Service because he expected many Democrats to vote by mail.  Today's Top Headlines - Israel and United Arab Emirates Strike Major Diplomatic Agreement - Think QAnon Is on the Fringe? So Was the Tea Party - Trump Says He's Blocking Postal Service Funding Because Democrats Want To Expand Mail-In Voting During Pandemic   Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on. Why Kamala Harris Matters to Me by Manisha Sinha Despite well-deserved criticism from the left of some of their policies, Mr. Obama and Ms. Harris represent the cosmopolitan, interracial democracy that a majority of Americans aspire to live in today.  Understanding Today's Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them by Jeanne Theoharis The history of social unrest like the 1965 Watts Rebellion must acknowledge that public authorities had ignored peaceful demands for inclusion and opportunity from communities of color for years before the unrest. Stacey Abrams Could Have as Much Impact on 2020 as Kamala Harris by Liette Gidlow Stacy Abrams's work to protect voting rights and ballot access may be a decisive factor in the 2020 election.  Armed Poll Watchers: New Jersey's Cautionary Tale Ahead Of The 2020 Presidential Election by Mark Krasovic In the history of voter suppression in the United States – including attempts to stop Black and Latino people from voting – Republican tactics in the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial race are worth highlighting. How History Turns Riots Into Tea Parties by Stacy Schiff For years Boston hesitated to erect a monument to the rabble-rousers of 1770. We do not care for the revolutionary spirit to survive the revolution. The revolution, however, goes nowhere without it. Trump Is Hobbling the Mail the Old-fashioned Way by Winifred Gallagher If Republicans wanted to limit voter turnout and raise doubts about the election's integrity, creating chaos within the Postal Service and undermining its independence would be an efficient way to pursue that goal.    As College Football Grapples with the Coronavirus, it also Confronts its Racist History by Bennett Parten It's no coincidence that the south is the heartland of college football. The region first embraced the game as an expression of southern honor culture. While southern colleges were slow to adopt integrated rosters, today's Southeastern Conference teams rely heavily on the unpaid labor of Black players.  The Problem with Asking Police to Enforce Public Health Measures by Emily Brooks World War II-era campaigns against prostitution in New York City show that enacting public health controls through the police department results in racially unequal enforcement and increased policing of communities of color.  We Can Tear Down False Idols of History. Thomas Jefferson Did it to Jesus Christ by Peter Manseau "Considering 'The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth' anew today, we might begin by asking whether Jefferson's willingness to challenge convention gives the lie to a justification of his many failings as unavoidable for a man of his time." The Inevitability of Defending Henry Kissinger by Jim Sleeper A new book on the Cold War statesman offers a dangerous justification for the unaccountability of powerful figures.        Breaking News 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! Boston Refused to Close Schools During the 1918 Flu. Then Children Began to Die Boston's school health officials in 1918 denied that school attendance posed a heightened risk for children contracting or transmitting the flu.  What to Stream: A Blazing Interview with Orson Welles By Richard Brody Welles is careful to distinguish actors from stars: "The real star is an animal absolutely separate from actors. He may be, or she may be, the greatest actor in the world, but he is not like actors. The vocation of being a star is separate from the vocation of being an actor. It is very close to wanting to be President of the United States." Kamala Harris and the Growing Political Power of Black Women Kamala Harris's selection as the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate is a result built on decades of Black women's political organizing and struggle for representation.  Trump's Attack on the Postal Service Is a Threat to Democracy—and to Rural America You'd think that the Republican Party, which depends on the undue weight given to rural voters for its continued political life, would be particularly solicitous of the post office. But, at the higher reaches, its ideological preoccupations are stronger: the post office is a government service, and therefore bad; it should be run instead by people who can make money from it. The Harvard Professor Who Told the World That Jesus Had a Wife (Review) A new book details Karen King's 2012 discovery of a papyrus scrap suggesting that Jesus had a wife whose existence was concealed from posterity. As it turns out, the discovery was a fraud.  For Black Suffragists, the Lens Was a Mighty Sword Photographs of generations of Black suffragists offer invaluable documents about their thwarted and central roles in the history of women's rights. The Unfinished Business of Women's Suffrage Historian Lisa Tetrault's book "The Myth of Seneca Falls" documents how white women leaders of the suffrage movement both excluded nonwhite women from leadership of the suffrage struggle but wrote the movement's founding histories to justify their position. These exclusions blind us to the way that millions of women's right to vote is restricted today. A Black Nurse Saved Lives. Today She May Save Art Graduate student Laura Voisin George discovered an image of Biddy Mason, a Black woman born in slavery who became a founding figure in Los Angeles's African American history, in a set of WPA murals in an auditorium at the University of California-San Francisco. The discovery may help preserve the murals.  He's Sharing the History of Black New York, One Tweet at a Time Oluwanisola "Sola" Olosunde is an urban planning graduate student whose Twitter feed is a chronicle of the everyday life of Black New York. He helped bring to light a recent viral video of white Queens residents yelling racist abuse at young Black girls during a period of resistance to desegregation in the 1970s. Kamala Harris isn't the First Black Woman to Run for VP. Meet Charlotta Bass Historians Martha S. Jones, Eric McDuffie and Denise Lynn identify the Los Angeles newspaper publisher and civil rights activist of the mid-20th century as a key figure paving the way for Kamala Harris and contemporary women of color in politics.  'She May Very Well Hold The Key To Biden's Win' A group of women scholars and activists including Keisha N. Blain, Jo Freeman, Oneka LaBennett and Treva Lindsey give perspective on Kamala Harris's selection as the Democratic vice presidential candidate.  After Falwell Stumbles, His Hometown Sees a Leader in Need of Redemption 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.

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