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HNN Sponsor     Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN! The Proud City: Patrick Abercrombie's Unfulfilled Plan for Rebuilding London by Simon Jenkins In 1942, the British government endorsed a plan that turned the Blitz into an opportunity for massive centrally-planned rebuilding of London. This was a break from the previous anarchic pattern of development, and, for better or worse, today's eclectic metropolis owes its form to the failure of the plan.  Gettysburg's First Confederate Monument by David K. Graham The dedication in 1886 of a monument to the Maryland 2nd Confederate Regiment at Gettysburg launched the movement by southern partisans to lay claim to the site of the Union victory as a monument to national reconciliation. The Grand Army of the Republic organization wasn't buying it then, and we shouldn't today. Remember Punk Rock? Probably Not…: The Real Culture War of 1980s America by Kevin Mattson Digging beneath the aesthetics of punk to find its politics, Kevin Mattson's new book finds a counterculture of suburban youths who identified the unrestrained capitalism of the Reagan era as the true nihilism threatening America. Constitutional Textualism and Congressional Debate Over the 14th Amendment by Alan J. Singer Supreme Court decisions based on text without context have been responsible for some of the greatest perversions of justice in United States history, mostly around denying the scope of authority the 14th Amendment grants to the government to enforce civil equality.     Videos of the Week Why the Fight Over Statues Will Never End   Art historian and "art crime" expert Erin Thompson offers insight into the history of iconoclasm and why social change makes arguments about statues and public memorials inevitable. Amazing Disgrace: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on Confederate Monuments   The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history.  Today's News Headlines - Trump Spread Multiple Conspiracy Theories on Monday. Here Are Their Roots - 1 Million Primary Ballots Were Mailed Late, Postal Service Watchdog Says - U.S. Says it Won't Join WHO-Linked Effort to Develop, Distribute Coronavirus Vaccine   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! There's A Reason It's Hard To Discipline Police. It Starts With A Bill Of Rights 47 Years Ago The passage of a "Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights" in Maryland set the tone for other state laws insulating police officers from meaningful oversight. C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists The uncensored memoir makes the claim that torture interrupted and undermined effective interrogations by other means.  The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color The stalled career of a distinguished Black Marine officer raises questions about how completely the Corps has embraced racial integration and equality in its leadership.  Will Covid-19 Revive Faculty Power? Will the COVID crisis be the moment that seals the power of trustees, donors and administrators over universities organized like corporations, or will faculty organize to reassert shared governance? The Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights Announces its Launch, September 3, 2020 A group of historians has launched a new group dedicated to making sure that college students are able to exercise their right to vote.  Cop Who Charged Black Senator With 'Injuring' Confederate Statues Nurtured A Long Grudge The story of the effort by Portsmouth, Virginia police to prosecute a local state legislator for conspiring to "injure" Confederate monuments continues to develop.  Millions of Young Men Toiled in FDR's 'Tree Army' to Help End the Great Depression. Could it Work Again? Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon are introducing legislation for a revived version of the New Deal-Era Civilian Conservation Corps, seeking to create jobs in forestry, parks, and land conservation.  US Cables: Colombia's Ex-President Suspected Of Militia Ties The National Security Archive has publicized documents from the George W. Bush administration which show the US government was well aware of ties between Colombian president Alvaro Uribe and right-wing paramilitary groups that the US had identified as terrorist groups.  In His Own Words: Jacob Lawrence at the Met and MoMA The artist Jacob Lawrence died in 2000; he spent a day in New York museums with Times art critic Michael Kimmelman four years before, discussing art and his creative process.  There's a Movement to Get More Schools to Teach Black History and it's Being Led by Teens Young activists and their faculty supporters see an urgent need for education reform. Stanley Kubrick's Calculated Rebellion A new biography of the acclaimed director focuses on his thematic obsession with rebellion and how it suceeds or fails.     History 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! Unsealed Archives Give Fresh Clues to Pope Pius XII's Response to the Holocaust Reports by historian David Kertzer that documents in the Vatican archives reflect on the antisemitism of Pope Pius XII and his advisors have sparked countercharges by church historians that reports based on newly available sources will give priority to sensational findings.  Donald Trump's Incitements to Violence Have Crossed an Alarming Threshold Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat argues that Trump's seeming endorsement of militia and other armed citizen groups is a dangerous step toward the establishment of paramilitary groups that occurred under Mussolini in fascist Italy.  The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists The Colfax Massacre, sparked by white supremacists' refusal to accept a state election result, set in motion a series of legal rulings that made it virtually impossible for the federal government to prosecute civil rights violations by private citizens, ensuring that mob violence and racial oppression would continue.  Black Americans Worry Postal Changes Could Disrupt History Of Secure Jobs Historian Philip Rubio comments on the historic importance of public employment, especially in the postal service, for Black Americans to avoid hiring discrimination and achieve economic security--gains threatened by plans to privatize the Post Office.  Women Would Abolish Child Labor (and Other Anti-Suffrage Excuses) A host of reactionary forces let by southern segregationists and big businesses mounted a last-ditch campaign to thwart the Nineteenth Amendment, raising false accusations of bribery and corruption against state officials who supported the amendment. When that failed, they took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, to no avail.  50 Years Later, Mexican American Vietnam War Vets Recall Protests That Conflict Inspired At the 50th anniversary of the 2nd Chicano Moratorium protest against the Vietnam War, Mexican American veterans and historians reflect on how the war and the protests affected Mexican Americans.  A Salvadoran-American Assembles the Fragments of a Violent Cultural History (Review) Carolyn Forché reviews Roberto Lovato's book "Unforgetting" on the transnational history of the Salvadoran people. BLM Organizers See the 1972 National Black Political Convention as a Model. What Can They Learn From It? The 1972 National Black Political Convention sought to chart a path for Black empowerment that reflected both protest and institutional politics. Its history has lessons for organizers today.  How Reagan Captured the Presidency, and the Right Captured Politics (Review) Rick Perlstein's latest history of American conservatism is reviewed as a lens on today's aggrieved conservatism.  White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police American Studies scholar Nick Estes argues that the acceptance of vigilante groups by the police reflects a long history of cooperation between official law enforcement and informal groups to defend white supremacy.  'Ten Days in Harlem': An Interview with Historian Simon Hall An interview with historian Simon Hall examines the links between revolutionary Cuba, anticolonial rebellion, and civil rights militancy in the United States as revealed by Fidel Castro's 10-day visit to Harlem and the United Nations in 1960.   Browsing: News from Around the Internet  Updated: Campus Reopening Hits Major Snags COVID spikes threaten in-person instruction, community transmission defies administrative control, and technology may be unreliable. The latest on the new academic year. Protests Against Police Abuse Continue, but Now with Right-Wing Vigilantes Historians discuss the climate, while Rand Paul pledges to subpoena Antifa and Trump talks about airplanes full of thugs and the deadly potential of canned soup.

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