| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Rebecca Clifford "A tenth of Europe's pre-war population of Jewish children survived the Holocaust. Many sought and achieved reunification with their families, but reunification did not usually end the trauma endured by this "fragment of an entire generation." |
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 by Gregory A. Daddis The bizarre idea that COVID-19 can be defeated through manliness is one of the stranger cultural themes of our time, but it connects to a long history of anxiety about masculinity in a changing America that encourages violent and even self-destructive actions in the name of proving virility. |
 by Alicia K. Jackson The unspoken realities of past voter suppression resonate in the present experience of many Black Georgians. | Today's News Headlines - Trump's Den of Dissent: Inside the White House Task Force as Coronavirus Surges - McConnell Moves to Head Off Stimulus Deal as Pelosi Reports Progress - The Real Divide in America Is Between Political Junkies and Everyone Else 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!
 As a young adult in troubled times, Joe Biden steered a moderate course toward public life. For supporters and critics alike, it seems Joe has always been Joe. |
 Despite claims by many estates that weddings and events pay for educational programming that addresses the history of slave labor on the property, many still debate the ethics of using plantation properties for celebrations. |
 Trump and Biden both seek to embody a masculine ideal on the campaign trail, but the differences in each candidate's vision of what manliness is show that the idea is changing. |
 A new project updating the famous Anthology of American Folk Music wrestles with the fact that part of the American songbook has been overtly racist. |
 The fight over seatbelt laws in the United States was fraught with trying to strike a balance between individual and public interests. Those concerns have also been reflected in similar matters of health and safety, including vaccinations, helmet laws — and masks. |
 Virginia's governor has called for investigation of the culture of the state-run institution, where Black students have described an entrenched culture of racism and veneration of the Confederacy. |
 Jeweler Lafayette Cornwall collected the autographs of the most famous figures of his time, including Melville, Houdini, Edison, Mark Twain and Sarah Bernhardt. |
 It took litigation to drag Mississippi's history instruction out of the Lost Cause mythology. |
 A Texas chapter of Kappa Alpha called for the national fraternity to repudiate its veneration of the Confederacy, sparking a firestorm among active members and alumni about the place of the Lost Cause and Robert E. Lee in the organization's culture. |
 The Times columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the original meaning of the Reconstruction Amendments establishes a constitutional vision of equality and civil rights that conservative originalists ignore. | 
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!  The term "white supremacy" has recently expanded to cover social phenomena beyond overt racial bigotry and discrimination. Historians and other scholars debate this usage. |
 Historian Geraldo Cadava discusses why many Latinos have voted for Republicans and why many will again. |
 This year's finalists were selected from a field of over 1,400 entries by nearly 150 dedicated prize committee members. |
 The literary scholar Saidiya Hartman's studies of the aftermath of slavery and the African diaspora point to the limits of archival records for understanding historical Black experience. Some historians question whether her methods fill archival gaps too creatively. |
 Nathan D.B. Connolly and Harvey Kaye are among scholars asked to explain the stakes of the election for higher education. |
 Critics of the 1619 Project have identified changes and edits to the text of Nikole Hannah-Jones's article, which they claim were made surreptitiously to conceal errors. Editor Jake Silverstein addresses those criticisms. |
 In the wake of a political movement consciously designed to denigrate any expertise outside of making money, calming anxious trustees an uphill battle. But it's necessary. Anyone with a grasp of history knows that there's no appeasing a purity movement; one kill simply whets its appetite for the next one. |
 "Historically, most acts of racial terror have been enacted in rural communities, small towns or medium-sized cities," said Khalil Muhammad, a history professor at Harvard University. |
 NPR's Throughline launches its (mis)Representative Democracy series on the institutions of American elections with a focus on the Electoral College, featuring Alexander Keyssar, Carol Anderson and Akhil Reed Amar. |
 H.W. Brands discusses his new book "The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom" with NPR's Fresh Air. |
 Urban historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz discusses the impact of Latino immigrants on revived urban centers in the late 20th century, sponsored by the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Jill Lepore's recent op ed suggests that the real fight is to preserve documentary evidence for future historians to render judgment on Trump. That view is not universally shared among historians. | Video of the Week  by Vice News and Retro Report A Vice News and Retro Report collaboration on the media coverage of the 2016 campaign asks what responsibility the news media bears for the election result. |
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