| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Michael Koncewicz Independent civil servants checked Richard Nixon's worst impulses to use the executive branch to punish enemies. The independence of the bureaucracy has since eroded, to Donald Trump's advantage. |
 by Brian M. Puaca As the new 1776 Commission begins to consider how to wield history as a weapon against indoctrination, America's educational work in Germany can serve as a guidepost for a commitment to preparing vigilant young men and women to build and defend democracy. |
 by Richard Moe A founding member of the Commission on Presidential Debates argues that the body must take stock of its rules and procedures after Tuesday's debacle or risk irrelevance. |
 by Teresa Barnes The South African National Party won a parliamentary victory in 1948 and consolidated power quickly to institutionalize Apartheid and focus national politics on racial issues. This surprise turned into a half-century of hard right rule and stands as a warning to Americans today. | Video of the Week  by WABC New York A 1964 news story on the rise of the John Birch Society and its political views. | Today's News Headlines - 'We Need to Take Away Children,' No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said - Amy Coney Barrett served as a 'handmaid' in Christian group People of Praise - Navalny demands EU crackdown on oligarchs close to Kremlin 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!
 Barbara Perry, Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, says that secrecy and obfuscation about his health "is one precedent this president is following." |
 Orange County's popular historian Gustavo Arellano recounts a 1988 election day featuring the kind of nativist fearmongering about fraudulent voting coming from the White House today. |
 "The beauty of monuments as a rubric is, it's really a way of asking, 'How do we say who we are? How do we teach our history in public places?'" Elizabeth Alexander, the foundation's president, said. |
 "Ironically, Trump's most recent executive order banning racial sensitivity training confirms critical race theory's central point: Racism is embedded in the law." |
 "To walk the streets of Santiago was to read a collective, anonymous scroll of inchoate rage: Abort the police, Die Piñera, ACAB, Bankers to the gallows. The graffiti was on seemingly every wall and sidewalk in the central districts of the city." |
 Trump and Carson do not want white America to see itself as recipients of federal welfare policies that made suburbs possible, profitable, and desirable–from Federal Housing Administration loans and interstate highways to mortgage interest deductions. Instead, they position white suburbanites as defenders of democracy. |
 Sarah Collins Rudolph has long argued that officials of the state of Alabama incited racial hatred that encouraged the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, and that they must compensate her as a culpable party. |
 German reunification allowed the return of far-right political movements, in large part because communist education in East Germany did not emphasize the role of nazism in the nation's history. |
 Student Ashton Weber recently helped create a petition, signed by more than 200 undergraduates, calling for Jenkins to resign because of his repeated failures to follow the public-safety precautions expected of students. |
 Critic Carvell Wallace writes of the new television adaptation of James McBride's novel that trying to make entertainment out of the subject matter of slavery is an impossibility in 2020. | 
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!  Historian Chris West notes that "driving in a racist society" persists as a "gut-wrenching horror" in a new PBS documentary "Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America." |
 A new book demonstrates that the United States and western allies attempted to thwart the Bolshevik revolution and actually started the Cold War with an ill-fated 1918 invasion of Russia, but is on more speculative ground tracing an assassination attempt against Lenin to the US. |
 University of Southern California historian Natalia Molina is among the 2020 awardees of the MacArthur Foundation's prestigious award in recognition of her research on racism, immigration and American citizenship. |
 Heather Cox Richardson's book makes an essential argument that the conceptual distinction between class and race in American history obscures the way that American elites have worked to create and defend oligarchy. |
 Had he died in the 1790 flu pandemic, the United States might have died with him. The new Constitution lacked detailed instructions on how to treat presidential incapacitation and death. (This was remedied in the 20th century by the 25th Amendment). |
 David Farber's book examines the entrepreneurial culture of crack cocaine and how the drug trade meshed with Reagan-era changes in urban political economy. |
 Although he would later claim not to know who the "Proud Boys" far-right political goon squad are, Trump's debate comments could be seen as a "green light" for political violence, says historian Kathleen Belew. |
 Historian Lon Kurashige joins US Senator Mazie Hirono and other guests to discuss rising racism against Asian Americans and Asians in America. |
 Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year N'Dia Riegler, and Director of Literacy and Humanities for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education discuss how to teach the difficult and conflict-ridden aspects of the national past. |
 Historian of Germany Anne Berg is among scholars warning that the combination of armed right wing groups and Donald Trump's suggestions that force may be needed to prevent fraudulent voting indicate a dangerous moment for democracy. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Trump has left the hospital, but his health is in question as more aides including Stephen Miller test positive, the Joint Chiefs of Staff go into quarantine, and the remaining debates are in doubt. |
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