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HNN Sponsor       Video of the Week This Ida B. Wells Mosaic is also a Monument to Women's Suffrage While women of color have been sometimes overlooked throughout history, you can't miss suffragist and civil rights icon Ida B. Wells inside Washington, D.C.'s Union Station right now. Browsing: News from Around the Internet  It's the Republicans' Turn: Historians on the RNC Historians comment on the week leading up to Trump's Thursday address from the White House Lawn (#HatchAct) to conclude the Republican National Convention. Protests Against Police Abuse Continue, but Now with Right-Wing Vigilantes Historians discuss the grim new state of affairs in Kenosha and nationwide. Historians Share Cute Animal Pictures for Trying Times Trying times call for cute animals. Historians share here, with #NationalDogDay pics this week! Today's Top Headlines - Suspect in Kenosha Killings Ardently Promoted Blue Lives Matter - The White House Makes it Clear that it Sees Chaos in the Streets as Politically Useful - Wind, Rain and a Chemical Fire. Hurricane Laura was Gone but the Crisis Wasn't Over.   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. The Guardians: Does "The Resistance" Actually Want More Democracy, or Less? by Samuel Moyn Samuel Moyn warns that a leading Never Trump legal scholar is less concerned with how Trump might harm minorities than with how Trump might harm the image of rule by elites.  Nepotism Is Bad For Government. Trump's Convention Reminds Us Why by Christine Adams The pervasive influence of Trump's family members on government compares to the courts of the Bourbon kings of France. Republicans might consider how that worked out.  For Black Women, The 19th Amendment Marked Not The End, But The Beginning Of The Movement For Voting Rights by Martha S. Jones Black women sought ways to exercise political power without the vote at the same time as they labored in a long campaign to win access the ballot.  Trump's Convention May Be The Culmination Of Decades Of Republicans' Dirty Politics by Julian Zelizer The low-road tactics have proved to be effective. They play to the worst fears of voters, and they have succeeded in negatively shaping how parts of the electorate view Democratic candidates.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right to Warn of "Fascism in the United States" by Federico Finchelstein, Pablo Piccato and Jason Stanley American exceptionalism establishes as dogma that Americans are either too good or too dumb to embrace ethnonationalist authoritarianism and overthrow democratic institutions. The authors are not confident this is true.  The Evangelical Left once Had a Home in the GOP. What Happened? by John W. Compton Evangelical Christians in the political arena today support conservative Republicans. It's not just because the Democratic party moved too far left; the leaders of the New Right purged moderate Evangelicals from the ranks in the 1970s and left the religious left without a clear partisan home.  The Banality of Evocation: How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn't Ended by Erin L. Thompson The success of the organization Monumental Women in placing statues of Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Central Park in fact illustrates that the struggle for women's power is very much ongoing.  No, There Isn't A Constitutional Right To Not Wear Masks by Helena Rosenblatt Libertarian arguments against compulsory mask-wearing to fight COVID-19 claim the mantle of individual liberty but ignore the way that liberal theory has focused on both rights and duties as the core of the social contract.  Jimmy Carter Tried to Make it Easier to Vote in 1977. The Right Stopped Him with the Same Arguments it's Using Today by Rick Perlstein The ascendant New Right in the Republican Party thwarted efforts to make voting easier in the 1970s. Making voting difficult remains a central strategy for the party today.  Stars and Stripes and Blasphemy by L.D. Burnett What we heard from Mike Pence was a white evangelical Christian swapping out the Savior for the United States flag.         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! Why Hurricane Katrina Was Not a Natural Disaster Fifteen years ago, New Orleans was nearly destroyed. A new book by Tulane historian Andy Horowitz suggests that the cause was decades of bad policy—and that nothing has changed. 'Soul!' Brought Black Culture to TV in 1968. A New Doc Tells Its Story. "Mr. Soul!" spotlights Ellis Haizlip, the host of a show that gave Stevie Wonder, Wilson Pickett and James Baldwin a platform. Those who Like Government Least Govern Worst Both George W. Bush and Donald Trump represent a Republican Party soaked in contempt for, and mistrust of, the federal government. When you don't respect, or even like, the institution you lead, you lead it poorly. When that institution is incredibly, globally important — as the US government is — leading it poorly can invite global catastrophe. Remembering When RNC Delegates Fought For Racial Justice The Republican Party conventions of the Reconstruction era were biracial events that featured delegates committed to the cause of racial equality. Anyone using the term "Party of Lincoln" should take a long look at how the party approached racism then and today.  Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement A report from the Brennan Center for Justice documents the long history of racism in law enforcement and the lack of attention to recent FBI warnings that white supremacists groups are infiltrating law enforcement agencies.  Scholars of Poverty and Inequality Face Their Own Racial Reckoning Social scientists have long entertained the theory that persistent Black poverty results from in-group cultural deficiency. Now the field of poverty studies faces a growing rebellion of scholars who call this victim-blaming.  'Ax Handle Saturday': The Klan's Vicious Attack On Black Protesters In Florida 60 Years Ago Historian Clayborne Carson notes that this incident marked a shift in the nature of racist backlash during the sit-in movement. A Bibliography of Historians' Responses to COVID-19 The bibliography includes commentary and publications by historians in both scholarly and popular periodical literature; recorded lectures and webcasts; and digitized primary source materials from past epidemics and pandemics.  America Has Two Feet. It's About to Lose One of Them Although only a handful of specialized professionals are aware of the difference between two standard measurements of a foot, confusion among the standards has the potential to complicate architecture, meteorology, and surveying.  Civil War And Southern Charm: How Hollywood Takes On The South (audio) Film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes talk about watching films that gloss over the darker parts of Southern history, but they also explore how more contemporary films resonate with viewers as true to their own experiences.

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