Video of the Week  Jelani Cobb investigates the Wisconsin primary election as a lens onto the ongoing struggle to protect voting rights. |
Today's Top Headlines - As Big Ten Football Returns, Mayors Worry Their Cities are Being Used as Test Cases - Stop Wiping Down Groceries and Focus on Bigger Risks, Say Experts on Coronavirus Transmission - Trump Campaign Draws Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on.
 by Jack Rakove "Some of the key words and terms in our constitutional vocabulary were subject to pounding controversy and reconsideration. One has to engage these debates to understand how Americans were thinking about these issues at the time." |
 by Nomi Stolzenberg In recent decades, religious influence on the Court has been shaped by conservatives of different faiths, construed as part of a mythical Judeo-Christian tradition, coalescing around a common agenda defined less by affiliation with a religious denomination than with opposition to liberalism and secularism. |
 by John M. Barry Prolonged isolation measures to fight COVID-19 do cause harm--social, emotional, and economic. But advocates of "herd immunity" are not offering a practical or safe plan to protect the vulnerable if the virus spreads on a mass scale. |
 by Melissa J. Gismondi and Shira Lurie American democracy won't endure just because it always has. In this moment, American exceptionalism could prove fatal. |
 by Charlotte Rosen Because the pretrial population is disproportionately non-White, this kind of "de facto disenfranchisement" constitutes an abhorrent form of racist voter suppression, despite rarely gaining the headlines and outrage that long voting lines do. |
 by Natalie Hopkinson Community archives such as the District of Columbia's are critical interventions into the omissions of history. This one, like others, makes clear that behind every great feat in the public record lies an untold story of the unsung foot soldiers, architects, analysts and fixers — and these are often women. |
 by Priya Satia We would do better to listen to today's historians in order to understand how we got here and recover other guides to conscience, not just look to future historians for consolation. |
 by Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, and Jennifer Sutton We need to understand the history of global connections between white supremacists if we are to grasp what has sustained white nationalism despite global trends toward liberation and equality. |
 by Rob Alex Fitt "Liberal groups such as People for the American Way were aghast at what was happening in Texas. They launched counter campaigns in the early 1970s to try to break conservative activists' stranglehold on the textbook selection process, to no avail." |
 by Nicholas Guyatt Argument isn't an obstacle to the work of historians; it is the work of historians. Public interest in 1619 has suggested something truly profound: that Americans have the capacity to think differently about their history. | 
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!  Officers of the North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans are under investigation for abusing the organization's tax-exempt status by running a political action committee. |
 The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Circuit Court decision that would have allowed access to the grand jury records of the Moore's Ford Lynchings, the unpunished murder of four Black Georgians in 1946. |
 Following comedian Chris Rock's observations, Gene Seymour argues that baseball is out of step with a multicultural America and ruled by traditions and unwritten rules that limit its appeal outside of White America. |
 Two coffins were discovered in Oaklawn Cemetery, where victims of the 1921 anti-Black massacre were buried. Forensic analysis has not yet connected the remains to the violent mob attacks on the city's Black community. |
 The latest battle between Russia and Ukraine is over which nation can claim the beet soup as its emblematic food. So far, no shots have been fired. | | |
 Partisan supporters, most often those favoring Donald Trump, have engaged in noisy demonstrations near early voting sites. Local election officials must determine if these actions are technically in violation of laws shielding polling places from electioneering activity, and whether the goal is to intimidate potential voters. |
 Land use planners in unlikely places--the Texas suburbs--are revisiting the idea of gridded street plans as solutions for car dependence and traffic. |
 A review of Stephen Wertheim's "Tomorrow, The World" concludes the new book shows how American military supremacy moved in a generation from a novel idea to embedded common sense, and demands rethinking the resources spent to maintain it. |
 Jack Goldmith and Robert Bauer, legal veterans of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations respectively, are proposing a slate of reforms to limit executive branch powers. They hope to match the legislation passed after Watergate and the revelations of intelligence community abuses exposed by the Church Committee. |
 According to Jeet Heer, "Sorkin takes many liberties with the facts, most of which are designed to make both the New Left and its conservative opponents more palatable to contemporary liberal viewers." |
 Historian Carol Anderson joins Merrittocracy host Keri Leigh Merritt to discus Trump, racism, and the state of democracy leading up to the 2020 election. | 
|
0 comments:
Post a Comment