Browsing: News from Around the Internet  Trump pledged to rescind an Obama-era order to enforce mandates of the Fair Housing Act and claimed to save the "suburban dream" from violent crime. Historians have since checked in to discuss contemporary suburban diversity and the state of housing segregation. |
 Historians are parents and childcaregivers (and historians teach in primary and secondary schools!) too. Their thoughts on safety, the impact on working parents, remote learning and more. |
Today's Top Headlines - 'I Was a Little Scared': Inside America's Reopening Schools - New York Attorney General Sues N.R.A. and Seeks Its Closure - White House, Democrats fail to reach agreement on virus relief bill, and next steps are uncertain 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.
 by Howard Markel To defeat the virus, we will have to start thinking in years, not months. We must refuse to give up on flattening the curve. It's up to us to hold the line until our government catches up. |
 by Samuel Moyn Never Trump's historic role turns out to be not among Republicans so far, but within a Democratic Party whose members have chosen to convert enemies into friends, setting up a guardrail against the capture of their party by the left. |
 by Anna K. Danziger Halperin Today's child-care crisis may have been fueled by the outbreak, but it is not new. It has been simmering below the surface for decades and can be traced back to President Richard M. Nixon's 1971 veto of federally funded universal child care. |
 by Greg Mitchell The Hersey article, with its unflinching account of what survivors witnessed in Hiroshima, threatened the official narrative of justification. |
 by Caroline E. Janney The South's mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same. |
 by Keri Leigh Merritt and Chris Richardson Confederate monuments valorize a political movement that violently "cancelled" interracial movements to improve the lives of poor southerners. |
 by Morgan Jerkins Regina was a Black woman working as an LAPD dispatcher in the 77th Street Division of South Los Angeles. She sent officers to respond to another's call for aid on August 11, 1965, warning them not to escalate any situation. Today she still asks "why didn't they listen to me?" |
 by Mark Boonshoft The Coronavirus pandemic threatens to entrench the undemocratic practice of exclusive education for children of the rich. |
 by Brian Tochterman As a vigilante film, "Joe" inaugurated a genre that exploded onto screens in the 1970s. |
 by Margaret O'Mara The mood of Congressional questioning of tech executives recalled the traffic safety debates of the mid-1960s that helped catalyze significantly more regulation for the auto industry. | 
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!  Read John Hersey's influential 1946 account of the atomic bomb and its aftermath, along with related articles from The New Yorker. |
 Photographs commissioned by Japanese newspapers in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were suppressed by American occupation authorities in both countries. A new book offers Americans a new opportunity to grasp the physical and human toll of nuclear weapons. |
 Women such as Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash and Marie Foster are not acknowledged for their efforts during the 1960s. |
 Douglas Macgregor described the German cultural concept of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung," which seeks to "cope with the past" and confront the atrocities the country committed in World War II, as a "sick mentality" and he downplayed the country's Nazi history. |
 The Constitution, by design, stacks the impeachment deck strongly in the president's favor. And it's those 233-year-old design choices that dictated the Trump impeachment trial's eventual outcome. Presidential impeachments are never a fair fight, and they weren't meant to be. |
 Carl Juste's double portrait of father and son presents an extraordinarily intimate experience on the usually busy public plaza surrounding the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami. |
 Colleges are racing to reconfigure dorms, expand testing programs and establish detailed social distancing rules. And then, what to do about sex? |
 Unknown numbers of American children of Japanese ancestry were stuck in Japan because of visits to family when war broke out; some were in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. |
 The antiwar movement had already helped turn public opinion against Mr. Nixon's conduct of the war. He was determined to deny activists a victory that could cause further political damage. |
 Suburbs are getting more diverse, but that doesn't mean they're woke. Historian Thomas Sugrue says if you want to understand where American politics is going, look how suburban whites are sorting themselves out. |
 Allan Lichtman describes polls as "snapshots" which are fairly useless for predicting the outcome compared to stable "keys" reflecting how the President's party is perceived to be governing. Watch the video (if you dare) to see his 2020 prediction. |
 The Marshall Islands were exposed to the daily equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima-sized explosions between 1946 and 1958, if the impact were spread evenly. |
 "Caste" lands so firmly because the historian, the sociologist and the reporter are not at war with the essayist and the critic inside her. |
 Extensive Compilation of Primary Source Documents Explores Manhattan Project, Eisenhower's Early Misgivings about First Nuclear Use, Curtis LeMay and the Firebombing of Tokyo, Debates over Japanese Surrender Terms, Atomic Targeting Decisions, and Lagging Awareness of Radiation Effects | 
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