| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Joan Wallach Scott If, as the abolitionist Theodore Parker wrote, "the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice," then why bother to hasten its arrival? Those who don't believe that history will guarantee a better future will act to bring a different future into being. |
 by Daniel Horowitz Mark Burnett's reality TV empire has championed individualism and the myth of the entrepreneurial genius while reviving the celebrity and launching the political career of Donald Trump. Is 2020 the end of the line for both? |
 by James D. Robenalt Franklin Roosevelt's error in 1937 was not to propose expanding the court, it was to fail to explain and defend his popular political reasons for doing so. |
 by Robin Lindley Robin Lindley interviews Dr. Bernice Lerner, whose book "All the Horrors of War" connects the stories of Dr. Glyn Hughes, the British military doctor tasked with the health of liberated prisoners, and her own mother, who was among them. | Today's News Headlines - How Mitch McConnell Delivered Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Rapid Confirmation - 90,000 Told to Flee as California Fires Nearly Double in Size - Trump Predicts Massive Stimulus Deal after Election, but Negotiations Have Mostly Ended 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!
 "This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3," Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast. |
 While Donald Trump imagines American suburbia as affluent, homogenous and imperiled by liberal housing policies, Joe Biden ignores the fact that separate suburban municipalities work to segregate Americans by race and class and perpetuate different levels of access to opportunity. |
 "Now we have one Supreme Court justice identifying with Trump's alleged horror of post-Election Night uncertainty, and two Supreme Court justices pointing the way to a state legislative hijacking of the results." |
 "Regardless of what was done with the money, it was just wrong for us to take it in the first place. It's antithetical to everything that the school stands for." |
 Columbian Harmony is among at least five major African American cemeteries in D.C. that were obliterated in the past century for the sake of development. |
 "I expect the B.O.E. to pull this off — there's no other option. It's the most important election of our lifetime," said Scott Stringer, the city comptroller. "But we shouldn't have to hold our breath because of their gross incompetence." |
 While "The Trial of the Chicago 7" is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication. |
 NPR's David Greene talks to election law expert Rick Hasen about Monday's Supreme Court decision that may offer a a window into how the court could rule over a contested Election Day outcome. |
 More bluntly, in keeping with the tone of MC5 songs like "Kick Out the Jams," Kramer said, "Give me a break with your jive bulls—." |
 By one estimate, the pandemic has cost colleges at least $120 billion. | 
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 Antebellum slave power suppressed democracy and abolitionism through control of the institutions of American government, from the Senate to the courts to the postal service. Only after secession and the start of civil war did the Republican Party fight back successfully with hardball tactics. |
 Despite Jackie Robinson's intercession, Richard Nixon's moment of indecision in 1960 allowed Jack Kennedy to connect his campaign with the cause of Martin Luther King and civil rights. |
 In this episode, the process of voting; how it was originally designed, who it was intended for, moments in our country's history when we reimagined it altogether, and what we're left with today. |
 Historian Lawrence Goldstone supports the argument that today's Roberts Court is continuing the jurisprudence of the post-Reconstruction era by denying the racism of restrictions on voting even as nonwhite voters are disenfranchised. |
 Gettysburg's symbolic importance in the divided America of 2020 is not always rooted in the significance of the 1863 battle for the defeat of the Confederacy. |
 The George Washington DC Mondays series supports discussion with local authors and historians about the DC region. |
 In "The Kidnapping Club," the historian Jonathan Daniel Wells describes the circle of slave catchers and police officers who terrorized New York's Black population in the three decades before the Civil War. |
 "The question of the Anti-Masonic Party's legacy is anything but settled among political historians. Was it all a righteous democratic force for justice or a cynical conspiracy cult?" |
 "The consensus intellectuals of the '50s plucked the term from 19th-century obscurity and redefined it. It is their redefinition that is still with us today." |
 Fred Logevall, author of a new JFK biography, discusses the 1960 presidential debates between Kennedy and Nixon. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 With one week until election day, historians discuss voting lines, potential legal battles, and all things election. |
 Amy Coney Barrett has been sworn in a week before the election. Historians discuss the process and the future. | Video of the Week  The weekly comedy-investigative program includes an assessment of the World Health Organization's past work eradicating disease in the developing world and the Trump administration's attacks on the agency (includes some vulgar language and jokes). |
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