| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Ben Railton In practice, as we see today with Trump and company, American celebratory patriotism has often been wedded to a second and far more divisive form: exclusionary mythologizing patriotism. There are alternatives that also deserve recognition as patriotism. |
 by Noah Shusterman If his lawyer wants to argue that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in the spirit of those eighteenth-century militias which went outside the law and defied their state government, and especially those who did so in the interest of promoting white supremacy – his case would be historically solid. It would not, however, be an exoneration. |
 by John Bodnar Trump's July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore, like his attacks on historians this week, embodied an escapist nostalgia that purges injustice, conflict, and violence. Abraham Lincoln's brand of nostalgia is more worthy of embracing. |
 by Shannon Bontrager Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address demanded that Americans keep the memory of both the Union dead and their cause alive and "hot." The cooling of that memory has enabled backlashes against justice through history, and today. | Today's News Headlines - Rising Coronavirus Case Numbers In Many States Spur Warning Of Autumn Surge - Democrats Seek Investigation Into Pentagon's Coronavirus Fund - House Approves Short-Term Bill to Avoid a Shutdown 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!
 Times SCOTUS reporter Linda Greenhouse presents a comprehensive chronicle of the life, career and impact of the recently deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
 The Trump administration has always engaged in rhetorical attacks on Ivy League institutions as elitist, but critics say launching a civil rights investigation of Princeton represents an effort to weaponize executive branch agencies to fight a culture war. |
 This announcement continues a Trump tradition of claiming other nations will pay for domestic culture war projects. |
 The real estate industry has adopted appraisal standards in response to fair housing laws that are, on the surface, race-neutral. But they don't account for the ways that racism has lowered the sale value in diverse neighborhoods, and still penalize Black and Latino homeowners. |
 Robert Graetz was a rare white voice in favor of desegregation and an ally to the organizers of the Montgomery bus boycott. |
 Law professors Lee Epstein and Eric Posner argue that the conservative bloc on the court has shifted from the libertarianism favored by big business to a more aggressive religious activism. |
 Danielle Pletka's historical revision of Jesse Helms's career shows how Trumpists will rationalize their role in this disastrous presidency. |
 Although the guitarist made a global impact on rock music, he left a particular legacy for Black musicians in his hometown of Seattle. |
 Independent journalism has been in a decades-long death spiral because "the circulatory system of money that had made the writing possible was punctured and bleeding out, and draining into Silicon Valley." |
 Many Minnesotans took issue with Donald Trump's praise for Robert E. Lee at a rally in Bemidji, particularly because of the role of Minnesota troops in defeating the Confederacy. | 
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!  Despite the political diversity within Black America, the political system's accommodation of bigotry and the political utility of appeals to white identity have pushed the overwhelming majority of Black voters to cast ballots for the same party. |
 Stephen Cohen did not shy from controversy, either in his scholarly claims (made at the height of the Cold War) that the Bolshevik revolution contained true democratic potential before being corrupted, or in his criticisms of American efforts to influence post-Soviet Russia. |
 It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective. |
 While the HBO series directed national attention to the Tulsa massacre, some Black descendants of the residents of the Greenwood district targeted by mob violence and arson were uncomfortable with their families' tragedy being mined for dramatic purposes. |
 Adam Gopnik considers new books about Lincoln by David S. Reynolds and Sidney Blumenthal that address the personality and governing of the 16th president. |
 Kevin M. Levin, Lalane Schmidt, Kevin Gover and George Derek Musgrove are among the scholars offering perspective on how local community deliberations about problematic memorials should proceed. |
 Historian Larry Glickman suggests that the pandemic has opened up discussion of a broader role for government in meeting people's needs during a crisis. |
 As Trump's fearmongering, demonization, and threats of violence have invited comparisons to Hitler's rise, historian Peter Fritzsche separates fact from exaggeration on "The Hive" podcast. |
 Though authorities blamed Italian anarchists and other radical sympathizers for the destructive bombing, the case was never solved. |
 Muckrock invites interested historians and history enthusiasts to participate in a project to make declassified Presidential intelligence briefings more widely accessible. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Trump's pledge to name a successor and Mitch McConnell's promise to hold a vote make historians shift from remembering to predicting. |
 The latest: CDC guidelines edited by White House? A Kennedy is a whistleblower on Jared's pandemic response team. The US passes 200,000 deaths. |
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