| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Joe Renouard Congressional gridlock, eroding public trust, and partisan polarization are not media creations; they are observable and measurable realities. |
 by Brian Glyn Williams A historian and scholar of the War on Terror says that Trump's claims of credit in the fight against ISIS are hot air. |
 by Priya Satia "Churchill was the apotheosis of the historically-minded statesman, committed to the idea of history as progress in which the role of great men was to suppress ordinary moral compunctions about destructive events that forwarded it." |
 by Thomas Lecaque As a historian, I see recent attacks on indigenous Americans and intrusions on tribal lands as part of a lengthy tradition of violence. But this year has witnessed a surge in apologetics for colonial violence in history that give support to present-day harm. | Election Day Mini Roundup  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell Election night 2020 promises to test whether the media has learned from failures of the past. |
 by Jelani Cobb "Science is increasingly worried that the virus will become endemic, a permanent part of our lives going forward. We should hold the same concern about the anarchic forces of Trumpism." |
 by James Henson "Ironically, the return of real competition to Texas politics stems from the very thing that originally opened the door for Republicans: the political and cultural changes tied to the growing diversity that fractured the old Texas Democratic Party." |
 by Julio Capó Jr. and Melba V. Pearson "The result of legal maneuvering in Florida is a 21st-century version of Jim Crow, now matured into James Crow Esq. The intent — to restrict minority community access to the ballot box — is the same, but the methods of voter suppression have become more sophisticated." |
 by Daniel Larsen America's electoral machinery, for all its oddities and flaws, offers greater systemic safeguards than other democracies, however those safeguards may be tested. | 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!
 Ultimately, the concession isn't about the losing candidate accepting the loss, it's about their supporters accepting it. |
 White suburban women have been important liberal activists since Trump's election, but still face difficulty in creating coalitions with communities of color in metro areas like Pittsburgh where segregation and inequality are rampant. |
 Ted Olson served as counsel to George W. Bush in the 2000 Florida recount. He offers his advice to any election lawyers who may end up in the Supreme Court this year. |
 The long-serving Secretary of State's new book laments the unwillingness of current leadership to embrace the international cooperation and diplomacy needed to solve the world's largest problems. |
 Election time is a perfect opportunity to help kids build up a foundation of knowledge. |
 The rhetoric in the slide show is consistent with "warrior-style" police training, which teaches officers to dehumanize people to act aggressively and forcefully. It also trains officers to approach every encounter with citizens as having a possibility of becoming dangerous or fatal. |
 Rock did not call out any Civil Rights movies by name, although his argument that such films "make racism look very fixable" were the same criticisms thrown at Best Picture winner "Green Book." |
 "The Supreme Court has long recognized that peaceful protesters cannot be held liable for the unintended, unlawful actions of others," said American Civil Liberties Union National Legal Director David Cole. |
 A look at the people who enabled the creation of a far-right sewer of racism and bigotry on the internet. |
 Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of slavery, the Civil War and the violence of Jim Crow, he fought his entire life for what he believed was a sacred, natural right that should be available to all people - voting. | 
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!  "I think if people really understood and grappled with the fact that (Oklahoma City) was the work of a widespread terrorist movement that was deeply organized, had people in every region of the country," she says in the interview, "I think that people would treat it very, very differently." |
 Leah Wright Rigeur discusses the process by which Black voters shifted from loyal Republicans to Democrats. |
 Two new books articulate a critique from a conservative perspective of American military intervention abroad. |
 New books by David Nasaw and Paul Betts examine the uncertain fate of Jewish Holocaust survivors in postwar Europe, the problem of massive human displacement, and the tension between interpreting Europe's refugee problem in universal terms or focusing on the specific consequences of anti-Jewish policies and prejudice. |
 Historian Julian Zelizer discusses the history and fallout of FDR's 1937 plan to "pack" the court, and similarities and differences that might come into play in 2021. |
 Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez says Donald Trump's aggressively masculine political posture is dysfunctional because it requires enemies. |
 A new book by historian Monica Black suggests that the irrational was never absent from the postwar order—and, moreover, that florid eruptions of mystical thinking often accompany periods of extreme political upheaval. |
 Historians and election scholars explain the changes in the political media and the ideological composition of the parties that have made a small number of states politically decisive in presidential elections. |
 "We need to turn away from the rule by entrenched elites and return to the rule of law. We must replace the politics of "internal enemies" with a politics of adversaries in a healthy, democratic marketplace of ideas." |
 Heather Clark's new biography of the poet returns focus to her life and work rather than her afterlife. |
Video of the Week  Journalists from around the world are reporting on the 2020 Presidential race—and offering perspectives not found in American media coverage. |
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