Video of the Week  by Smithsonian Fannie Lou Hamer suffered unspeakable violence and intimidation at the hands of white supremacists and police to demand the right to vote, and challenged the Democratic Party to reject its southern segregationist branch in 1964. |
Browsing: News from Around the Internet  The former Trump campaign chief and policy adviser was indicted for fraud related to a fundraising campaign that claimed to support construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border. |
 The groundbreaking virtual convention caps off with Joe Biden's acceptance. What do historians think? |
Today's Top Headlines - Trump, Addressing Far-Right QAnon Conspiracy, Offers Praise For Its Followers - Democrats Attack Trump as a Threat to the Country's Foundations, Raising the Stakes for November - Top Republican National Security Officials Say They Will Vote for Biden 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 Keisha N. Blain As Hamer and her Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party colleagues pointed out to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, a "whites-only" Democratic Party representing a state in which one out of five residents were black undermined the very notion of representative democracy. |
 by Martha S. Jones The historian of Black women's fight to secure the vote had a question of family history to solve that drove her research. |
 by Richard R. John and Joseph Turow Despite its impressive track record, the Postal Service has become a target for free market think tanks convinced that corporate America could run the USPS better than the government. |
 by Hilary Levey Friedman The sash embodies the suffragists' vision of womanhood — one that was simultaneously progressive and regressive. That vision helped move women into the public and political spheres, but it did so by emphasizing their appearance. |
 by Victoria de Grazia It is less useful to draw comparisons between today's right-wing politics and past fascist parties than it is to understand how broad crisis in society resembles the conditions from which fascism arose. |
 by Mike Amezcua The 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago offers a cautionary example for Democrats today: the party's success depends on recognizing and meeting the needs of its constituents. |
 by Ruth Ben-Ghiat The Republican Party, and the robust media universe that supports it, had been ready for a far-right, rule-breaking, and polarizing personality like Trump. |
 by Zachary R. Goldsmith While the "paranoid style" in the various conspiracy theories of QAnon are nothing new, they certainly bode ill for democracy. |
 by Asheesh Kapur Siddique Conservatives lionizing Bernard Bailyn for supporting libertarian interpretations of the nation's founding and valorizing the founders "aligns perfectly with the reactionary effort to cancel critically engaged understandings of the American past, but poorly with Bailyn's own far more nuanced vision of historical practice." |
 by Romeo Guzmán The city of El Monte in southern California has embraced a false origin story--that the town was the end of the Santa Fe trail--to focus public history on white/anglo settlers and not the Native, Mexican, and Asian immigrant people who have also built the city. | 
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!  In 1973, a series of incidents on board a naval tank landing vessel nearly got a group of Black Marines imprisoned for decades, and highlighted a broad problem with ongoing racism in the military. Naval historian John Sherwood argues that southern segregationists on key congressional committees blamed recent reforms. |
 "It's deeply troubling that on the verge of Virginia passing long-overdue police reform, the first Black woman to serve as our Senate Pro Tempore is suddenly facing highly unusual charges," said Gov. Ralph Northam. |
 In 2018, the president called birthright citizenship "ridiculous" and vowed to stop it by executive order. |
 A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 36 Facebook groups specifically dedicated to Holocaust denial. |
 Trump may be trying to sabotage the election, but the war against the Postal Service goes back decades. |
 In the 1950s, New York City created the Civilian Complaint Review Board to address police misconduct. Since then, police unions have fought to limit its power. |
 In order to win, Trump "must find a way to reduce the number of anti-Trump voters who can actually cast a ballot," writes columnist Colbert I. King. |
 Susan B. Anthony was found guilty for voting in 1872. According to historians Deborah Hughes and Ann Gordon, Anthony "absolutely" did not want to be pardonned. |
 'Reaganland: America's Right Turn, 1976-1980' is available now. |
 "You're robbing an entire nation of people of their history by pretending Croatoan is a mystery on a tree," said Scott Dawson. |
 "'The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North' is a major milestone in the growing historical literature on racial discrimination and the civil rights struggle outside the South," writes Joshua Clark Davis. |
 Mike Jirik reviews historian Kellie Carter Jackson's new book, "Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence." |
 No reckoning would be adequate, I knew—but looking away was no longer an option. I wrote to Karen that I was thinking of going to Montgomery to look at the Pickett family papers. She suggested we tackle them together. |
 A contemporary artist is recreating the final campaign of suffrage activist Inez Milholland through historical ephemera, primary documents, and photographic reenactments. | 
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