| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Richard Kreitner The ink was hardly dry on Lee's surrender at Appomattox before Andrew Johnson's conciliation toward the former Confederacy clashed with the unfulfilled goals of freed slaves and radical Republicans to threaten further violence. These fault lines have been hidden but never healed in the restored American union. |
 by Robin Lindley "I had two articles that I wanted to write. One was all about white supremacy and memory and the other was about lies and memory. And then I looked at those projects and it eventually dawned on me that this was actually the same project. The lies were part of the monuments and the white supremacy aspect was tied to the monuments and the Confederate fraud." |
 by Robert F. Williams The lesson of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion for African Americans is a sadly familiar one: proving oneself is not enough; becoming members of a select fraternity was not enough to earn the respect and equality that comes with full citizenship. |
 by Michael Nelson As fans mourned Elvis at Graceland, the National Enquirer came to Memphis and got the coffin shot that sold 6.7 million copies. | Today's News Headlines - Justice Dept. Intervenes on Behalf of Trump in Defamation Case Brought by Woman Who Accused Him of Rape - House Oversight Committee Will Investigate Louis Dejoy Following Claims He Pressured Employees To Make Campaign Donations - Republicans Revive 2018 Strategy, Hoping for Better Result: Scare Voters 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!
 Donald Trump's "law and order" campaign message has failed to gain significant traction, which should put lazy comparisons to 1968 out to pasture. |
 A Washington, D.C. government committee issued recommendations for reassessing many public facilities named for historical figures. In some cases, the case against the figure is might need some explanation. |
 A 105 year-old woman, one of two known living survivors of the Tulsa massacre in 1921, is a lead plaintiff in a suit charging that the destruction of Black-owned property and government approval of terrorism against Black Tulsans causes ongoing harm today. |
 The real problem with the Electoral College isn't that it inflates the power of small states. It erases the votes of tens of millions through state winner-take-all election rules. |
 The University of Maryland made the change to honr the hero of emancipation and reflect its commitment to teaching and scholarship about Black women's history. |
 The British politician whose words Joe Biden used without credit in a 1987 campaign speech still supports Biden in the upcoming election. The scandal is recapped here. |
 "The N.R.A. fueled a toxic debate," Mr. Powell writes, "by appealing to the paranoia and darkest side of our members, in a way that has torn at the very fabric of America." |
 The Chilean author Ariel Dorfman warns that while his country elected a democratic socialist in a landmark election, it was unprepared to deal with violent and ruthless efforts to maintain the status quo. Joe Biden is no socialist, but if he wins, his administration and Americans at large must be similarly prepared. |
 "As a publication that's underwritten by the military but not answerable to the brass, Stars and Stripes embodies that most American of values: the right to speak truth to power." |
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!
 "I came across one textbook that declared on its first page, "This is the White Man's History." At that point, you had to be a dunce not to see what these books were teaching." |
 A dialogue with a historian of Armenians in the United States shows that the boundaries of the "white race" have shifted historically and been determined not by biology but by politics played out in immigration courts. |
 Audrey Cronin's new book warns that terrorist networks are less likely to employ cutting-edge technology than to adapt widely-available tools to new destructive ends; security experts are still surprised by this repeating pattern. |
 The "Jefferson Bible," representing Thomas Jefferson's efforts to excise the supernatural and miraculous from the New Testament, is an important document of American religious culture. The story of its preservation by Cyrus Adler and John Fletcher Lacey is a remarkable tale as well that reflects changes in the political nature of American religion. |
 Atlantic writer Adam Serwer argues that people who want to understand this year should look not to 1968, but to 1868, when a moment of potential for establishing interracial democracy through government intervention seemed possible. |
 Writer Robin Wright looks to historians Richard Kreitner and Colin Woodard to explain that the idea of a unified American nation has not been the historical norm. |
 Historian Karin Wulf interviews Martha S. Jones, author of the newly-released "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All," on the role Black women have historically played in advancing egalitarian politics. |
 Journalist and historian of policing Radley Balko discusses the changing perception of police and police abuse in an interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie. |
 Historians John Barry and Howard Markel are among the medical and social science experts who explain that the 1918 pandemic didn't "end" so much as endure in an era of recurrent viral pandemics. |
 Fredrik Logevall's new book, the first of two volumes on the life of JFK, pushes back against perceptions of the young Kennedy as an accidental politician or intellectual lightweight, and describes the way world events shaped his worldview. |
 Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer, along with political scientists William Howell and Terry M. Moe, offer context for growing concerns about the power of the Presidency. |
 A social-media organized effort by professors represents a new effort to connect academic work to activism for justice. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Trump apparently wants to make acknowledging the existence of racism a campaign issue. |
 An Atlantic story, citing sources close to the President, describes Trump's belief that military personnel injured or killed in war were "suckers." |
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