Browsing: News from Around the Internet  The foregone conclusion of a Senate Judiciary Commitee vote is scheduled to advance Amy Coney Barrett's controversial nomination. Historians discuss her originalism and the committee hearings. |
 Trump resumes campain rallies despite COVID, simultaneous town halls replace a debate, and the national media catches on to the threat of violence. The election is less than three weeks away. |
Video of the Week  The Bitter Southerner magazine and PBS's The American Experience partner on a short film that examines the plot to murder the civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in 1964. |
Today's Top Headlines - As Trump's Language Grows More Heated, Fears Rise of Political Violence - Inside the Fall of the CDC - GOP Sen. Sasse Says Trump 'Kisses Dictators' Butts' And Mocks Evangelicals 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 Kevin M. Kruse In 2020, as in 1981, the realities of voter fraud don't matter. Republicans are insisting that their very real efforts at voter intimidation are warranted because they insist that Democrats have done or will do or possibly might do something much worse. |
 by Ruth Ben-Ghiat "From the fascist years in Europe, nearly a century ago, to our own times, right-wing leaders have accused universities of being incubators of left-wing ideologies and sought to mold them in the image of their own propaganda, policy, and policing aims." |
 by Nükhet Varlik "Whether bacterial, viral or parasitic, virtually every disease pathogen that has affected people over the last several thousand years is still with us, because it is nearly impossible to fully eradicate them." |
 by John Fabian Witt "Now a new generation of judges, propelled by partisan energies, look to deprive states of the power to fight for the sick and dying in a pandemic in which the victims are disproportionately Black and brown." |
 by Geraldo L. Cadava When politicians see us as more than voters, we may give them our votes. |
 by Greg Downs, Hilary N. Green, Scott Hancock, and Kate Masur At historic sites across the United States on September 26, dozens of participating historians presented evidence to disrupt, correct, or fill out the oversimplified and problematic messages too often communicated by the nation's memorial landscape. |
 by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Right-wing diatribes about diversity training often ended with a call for Trump to issue an executive order banning federal agencies from holding them. So it was not unexpected when, on September 22, Trump signed an executive order forbidding diversity training within the government. |
 by Priyamvada Gopal Tory attacks on "victim narratives" in the history curriculum defend entrenched power and ignore the fact that Black British histories are about the power of protest and activism to make social change. |
 by Joy Neumeyer Like his Communist counterparts, Trump's predilection for pageantry offers a hollow illusion of vitality while letting potentially fatal problems fester. |
 by Stephen Wertheim "There was a time when Americans believed that armed dominance obstructed and corrupted genuine engagement in the world, far from being its foundation." | 
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!  A Second Amendment scholar examines the SCOTUS nominee's historical interpretation of prohibitions on individual firearm ownership, concluding that her record shows a commitment to gun rights but uncertainty about how she might rule on particular cases. |
 The rise of national parties, the use of the judiciary to advance policy goals, and the decision of Republican leadership to consolidate a narrow electoral base have made judicial nominations a partisan battle the Founders did not adequately anticipate, according to American U. Law professor Robert Tsai. |
 "I knew it was going to be a landmark case," Mr. Cohen told the Associated Press in 1992. "And I definitely thought there was something serendipitous about the fact that the case would be called Loving vs. the Commonwealth of Virginia." |
 Experience suggests that when institutions issue these kinds of condemnatory statements the harassers are only encouraged to push harder, says Hank Reichman, Chair of the American Association of Univrersity Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. |
 "The creation of this fellowship is an important opportunity to deepen our understanding of slavery's enduring legacy in our nation's capital," said Stewart McLaurin, the association's president. |
 Aaron Sorkin discusses the work of creating authenticity for his Netflix series on the conspiracy trial that followed the protests at the 1968 Democratic convention. This was complicated, as he admits, by being only vaguely aware of the case before Steven Spielberg suggested making a film about it. |
 At its best, the "You're Wrong About" podcast transcends fact-checking and debunking to ask why so many of the stories we know are wrong, and why they persist nevertheless. |
 A new biography of Malcolm X sets his political thought in the context of the midcentury Black communities where he lived and how his Black contemporaries saw him. |
 The Urban History Association announces its annual awards for best book, best journal article, and best dissertation. |
 Julia Rose Kraut's "Threat of Dissent" examines major court decisions and legislation affecting the deportation of political radicals, while showing the lives of the people involved. She addressed the National History Center's Washington History Seminar this October. |
 The Nebraska Senator, who holds a PhD in US history, spoke of governing norms above politics and got harsh criticism online. |
 In a United States wracked by virus, mounting climate change, and ruthless corporate pillaging and governmental deregulation, the lessons from one tiny New Hampshire town are stark indeed. Plus, bears. | 
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