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Videos of the Week  As the United States celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, a heated competition between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden was rife with accusations of voter fraud and suppression. |
 For months, President Trump has been casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and mail-in ballots, even though legal and historical experts say there's no cause for concern. |
Today's Top Headlines - Coronavirus Cases Are On The Rise In Every Swing State - Gen Z, Millennial Voters Embrace Activism and Voting, as Youth Turnout Surges Ahead of Election Day - Biden's Call for 'National Mask Mandate' Gains Traction in Public Health Circles 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 Angus King and Heather Cox Richardson "To put it bluntly, the whole premise of originalism is nonsense in that it pretends to make the work of the Supreme Court look straightforward and mechanical, like 'calling balls and strikes,' in Justice John Roberts's famous phase." |
 by Jon Grinspan Many of our election rules date from that moment, around 1900, when Americans redirected their "love of smart dealings" toward tightening up electoral systems, rather than finding ways around them. |
 by Paul A. Kramer Los Angeles's first sanctuary law grew out of the refugee wave that had brought Alicia Rivera to the city. By 1982, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 refugees from El Salvador and tens of thousands of Guatemalans had fled to the United States to escape murder, poverty, and starvation. |
 by Ben Railton Voter suppression has consistently gone hand in hand with racial terrorism to prop up white supremacy. |
 by Priya Satia While historians view their discipline as empirical and secular, its practice has typically enfolded a religious or quasi-religious effort to integrate human action and stories of moral necessity. |
 by Manisha Sinha "The one underlying commonality that binds these two historic presidential elections is the conviction that it is American democracy -- rather than just opposing presidential candidates -- that is on the ballot." |
 by Joe Lowndes "There is a straight line from Buchanan to Trump, or rather from Duke to Trump, that stretches back to the fall of 1991, and before." |
 by Simon Gilhooley At the core of originalism is a fundamentally conservative effort to limit the possibilities of our constitutional order to the imagination of historical figures from the 18th century, which included racial hierarchy and support for chattel slavery. |
 by Martha S. Jones Shut out from the white-led suffrage movement by the beginning of the 20th century, Black women built their own political movement. |
 by Gillian Frank The recent controversy over a prominent writer's exposure on Zoom is part of a story of white men's power to sexualize and control workplaces and public space through these same actions. | 
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!  "The Constitution does not tell you what should happen if there are disputed returns in a presidential election," says Eric Foner. "We are in uncharted waters if disputes arise as to who carried a state." |
 A prison employee named Irma Clifton was instrumental in preserving the site's legacy as the place where suffrage picketers in Washington DC were incarcerated, beaten and tortured in 1917. |
 Museums dedicated to the struggle for civil liberties in Hong Kong face a crisis to preserve records in the face of new public safety laws aimed at curbing criticism of the People's Republic of China. |
 The murder of a French social studies teacher who showed his multiethnic class images offensive to Islam illustrates the dilemma of the French policy of secularism, which is beset on one side by complaints that immigrants do not assimilate and on the other by rising xenophobia and racism. |
 A new documentary, "537 Votes," takes viewers back to the 2000 Florida recount—and shows how little has changed since then. |
 Donald Trump's chances in North Carolina depend on whether he can successfully deploy the politics of white resentment mastered by the state's longtime senator Jesse Helms. |
 Mr. Jarvis, who died in 1986, framed his campaign as a way to make the tax system more equal, but Proposition 13's legacy has been the opposite. |
 Assessing the current company's financial ties to slavery requires understanding how the entity functioned as a pass-through for buyers and sellers of merchant insurance, rather than as an underwriter or funder of insurance policies. |
 Rick Perlstein has been reluctant to do media appearances, perceiving that journalists may use historical analogy as a shortcut to investigating and explaining the present. He discusses his thoughts on history and the media with CJR. |
 Kevin Kruse joins host Keri Leigh Merritt to discuss his new book on the Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Era and the relevance of that history to the 2020 election. | 
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