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 by Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz, and Richard Toye A new book examines the ways that Winston Churchill's image has been used in British politics, not least by Churchill himself. |
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 The preservation and archiving of the NWP's documents was complicated by the fact that its rival, the National American Woman Suffrage Association struck a deal with the Smithsonian forbidding the museum from including the NWP or Alice Paul in any exhibition on suffrage. |
 "There are some things that I wouldn't agree with how Sorkin has characterised certain figures in the trial, myself included. But the impact of the movie is there and I certainly endorse and support it," says Chicago 7 defendant and antiwar activist Rennie Davis. |
 Billie Holliday's legal problems over drugs were made more difficult by her refusal to stop performing the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit." |
 For Black Americans, the amphitheater-style stadium was home to and embodied the incredible spirit of Negro Leagues baseball. It will now be renovated so its story can be preserved. |
 In a recent interview, Mr. Kurosawa, 65, said he found it hard to understand why Japan's war crimes remained almost taboo among the country's filmmakers 75 years after the conflict's end. |
 The White House used the occasion of Columbus Day to attack historical revisionism and the use of "racially divisive concepts" in workplace training. |
 Although the findings have not been peer reviewed, a working paper on college administrators' decisions to reopen campuses suggests that Republican state leadership was correlated with decisions to return students to campus this fall. |
 Removing Confederate monuments from public grounds to museums is easier said than done, drawing on scarce resources and pleasing few parties in the conflict over memorializing the CSA. |
 The year of the COVID pandemic is not an opportune time for museums to weather controversies over the content of exhibits, but many face criticism from across the spectrum about racial inclusivity and provocative works. |
 Donald Trump's participation as a military school drill team member shows that his love of spectacle has remained unchanged even as the national dialogue on racism and history has been transformed. | 
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!  "There should, it seems, be a useful lesson to be learned from that frantic afternoon. But what, in God's name, is it?" |
 Interviewing project lead Nikole Hannah-Jones and numerous supporters and detractors, Sarah Ellison explores why the 1619 project, more than a year after its publication, is still making people argue about history. |
 In response to the president's recent executive order prohibiting the inclusion of "divisive concepts" in employee training sessions, the AHA has issued a statement urging the retraction of the order because it is "neither necessary nor useful." |
 Lincoln delayed in announcing a replacement to Chief Justice Roger Taney in large part because the leaving the appointment unresolved would help preserve his fragile coalition through the election, especially by inducing potential rivals to campaign for him. |
 Lindsay Chervinsky announces a new collaborative podast "The Past, The Promise, The Presidency" to offer an accessible understanding of racism and the presidency. |
 Historian Tracy E. K'Meyer says that, despite the mutual misgivings of older and younger activists, Louisville's legacy of civil rights protests in the 1960s is highly influential today as activists seek justice and policing reform in the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor. |
 A new digital project by Eric Gonzaba and Amanda Regan maps out places listed in gay travel guides from the 1960s to the present, giving new insight into how gay people outside of tolerant cities created social spaces. |
 Amid condemnation of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, much less attention is being paid to the case of Yuri Dmitriev, a tenacious researcher and activist who campaigned to create a memorial to the victims of Stalinist terror in Karelia, a province in Russia's far northwest, bordering Finland. |
 West German society intially sought to repress evidence of the Holocaust and Nazi crimes, preserving a myth that German civilians were also victims. The work of owning up to those crimes took decades and encountered bitter resistance. |
 Wideman's account of events leading to the bombing of MOVE by Philadelphia police "is not just a map of the city but of the nation and our collective condition." | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 Historians on the politics of Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation, originalism, and the delicate avoidance of answering questions. |
 Boasting of his recovery, Trump returns to live rallies. It's unclear whether his health or presidency will recover from COVID. |
 Harris and Pence have debated, Trump/Biden II is cancelled, and masses of voters have turned out for early voting. |
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