Browsing: News from Around the Internet  With a month and a half to go, the discussion is dominated by Trump's refusal to pledge a peaceful transition and reports of maneuvering to influence the selection of electors or throw the decision to the courts. |
 The passing of the long-serving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg prompts reflection on her legacy as a lawyer and jurist, the future of the court, and the impact of a nomination fight on the election. |
 The decision not to indict officers on murder charges in the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville drew protesters and armed militias to the city. |
 On September 17, Constitution Day, the White House convened a panel discussion of the importance of history to the nation, devoting strong criticism to recent trends emphasizing the importance of racism to the founding and development of the nation. |
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 by Leslie M. Harris and Karin Wulf "Journalists and politicians are examples of two groups that are differently but equally susceptible to a desire for clarity and simplicity about the historical past. But the past is rarely clear and was never simple." |
 by Andrew R. Graybill The presidency of Donald Trump has allowed supporters of George W. Bush to push for a reevaluation of a man who left office with historically high unfavorability ratings. A SMU professor digs into recent books by way of evaluating whether Dubya will get a raw deal from history. |
 by Serena Mayeri Ruth Bader Ginsburg's achievements were remarkable, but a professor of law and legal history argues that her determination to open paths for others to follow her was greater. |
 by Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson Available data do not support claims that university professors are extremely leftist, that a majority of students are being educated by left-wing professors, or that academe is biased against conservatives. So why do so many people believe these claims? Methodologically flawed studies and a long-running culture war. |
 by Ron Radosh "There is good history and bad history, and either can be written by historians on the left or on the right. There is no such thing as left-wing history or right-wing history. There is only historical research and the conclusions drawn from evidence." |
 by Jefferson Cowie In American mythology, there exists a gauzy past when white citizens were left alone to do as they pleased with their land and their labor (even if it was land stolen and labor enslaved). In the legend, those days of freedom and equality were, and still are, perpetually under assault. |
 by L.D. Burnett "As a historian who writes about the field of history's place in the culture wars of the 1980s, I watched this conference and saw one long exercise in logrolling for the participants' politically intertwined institutional commitments." |
 by Andrew Bacevich Neither Trump nor Biden seems prepared to do the necessary work of moving military power and force from the center of American foreign policy. The consequence will be further endless war at the expense of the global-scale policies needed to confront the most urgent threats. |
 by Tom Mockaitis The time has come to stop mincing words about militias and other far-right extremist groups. They are at best-armed vigilantes and at worst domestic terrorists acting on behalf of a racist ideology. |
 by Steven C. Beda The idea of left-wing radicals starting wildfires in the Pacific Northwest dates back to timber companies blaming the Industrial Workers of the World for blazes as a way to discredit demands for workers' power through unions. | 
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!  Ruth Bader Ginsburg's research trip to Sweden at age 29 challenged her to see that gendered divisions of labor and opportunity in American society were not automatic or necessary. |
 Letters between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon in the 1980s, recently released by the Nixon Library, show the two men bonded over themes that resonate today: a shared distrust of the media, a desire to maximize TV ratings, the idea of using people as "props," and more. |
 In June, leaders formally acknowledged the department's past role in perpetuating racism and so-called "lost cause" ideals. |
 The British historic preservation agency has begun to grapple with how to present the historic connections between properties it manages and fortunes built through slavery and colonialism. |
 After 1960, much of history as many Americans experienced it — through popular culture on TV, on the radio and at the movies — is preserved and easily accessible online. With a few clicks around YouTube, history leaps into the present, often in ways that deepen and complicate the narrative. |
 Lisa Levenstein's book assesses a shift in the women's movement in the 1990s into digital spaces and professionalized issue organizations. A reviewer considers what that shift enabled women to achieve and what it cost. |
 Historian Julian Zelizer says Trump has recently spoken aloud what many fear he has been thinking: he may refuse to hand over power willingly. |
 "'We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans,' Du Bois wrote in Black Reconstruction." Today, American students' levels of ignorance about slavery suggests this too often remains true. |
 The AHA only reluctantly gives air to such distraction; we are not interested in inflating a brouhaha that is a mere sideshow to the many perils facing our nation at this moment. |
 McCarthyite attacks on the political left also pushed women out of policymaking positions in the federal government, the historian Landon Storrs argues. | 
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