| Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Cassandra Tate The same period that saw the public affirmation of the Confederate Lost Cause myth saw a proliferation of monuments that portrayed the conquest of the indigenous people of the west as virtuous pioneering. The case of Marcus Whitman shows a national reckoning is in order. |
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 by Matthew Lindaman A history professor reflects on a course teaching critical perspectives on patriotism through protest and music that articulates an inclusive and progressive nationalism. | Today's News Headlines - Biden's Early Moves Foreshadow A Cautious Presidency - Fauci Calls for a 'Uniform Approach' Rather than a 'Disjointed' State-by-State Pandemic Response - Reassured by Biden Win, Palestinians Will Resume Cooperation With Israel 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!
 Since the dawn of the 21st century, it has become commonplace for party leaders to talk of a rising demographic tide that is destined to lift the Democrats to dominance. The party should look at the defeat of California's affirmative action referendum as a caution that things won't be so simple. |
 A former Florida Congresswoman and the former Interior Secretary present bipartisan advocacy for an American Latino Museum. |
 "If we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing." |
 Georgia's runoff election laws were instituted in response to a 1960s Supreme Court decision to eliminate the "county unit" system that had overrepresented white rural voters at the expense of urban and Black Georgians. |
 According to her top tags on RateMyProfessors.com, Dr. Jill Biden gives her students "good feedback" and is "respected" and "inspirational," but she's also a "tough grader" who gives "lots of homework." |
 A recent excavation has produced the largest discovery of artifacts of the year at the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. |
 New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value. |
 The Washington Post columnist argues that the delayed transition to the George W. Bush presidency in 2000 and 2001 limited the nation's preparedness for a terrorist attack. |
 Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas, who is Black, was cleared of charges related to this summer's protests against public monuments to the Confederacy. |
 "Ms. Hambling's sculptural woman — perched above a plunge of mountainous form — seems to embody the epic saga that so many women have endured for their voices to be heard." |
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!  Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt is among the academics criticizing the appointment of a right-wing politician to head the Israeli Holocaust memorial and educational center, arguing that his remarks toward Palestinians and Arab Israelis are disqualifying. |
 Crisis Cities is a public symposium on the 2020 crises and their impact on urban life, co-organized by Public Books and the NYU Cities Collaborative. |
 Presidential historian Craig Fehrman says that presidents in the early republican period shunned writing memoirs as vain and self-promoting. The quality of many subsequent presidential books suggests they were on to something. How will the recent first volume of Obama's memoirs be received? |
 Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat studies authoritarian regimes, like Italy under Mussolini. Can a democracy pry itself out of a strongman's grip? |
 Two historians of science have traced the ownership and sharing of Sir Isaac Newton's first edition of "Principia" to conclude that the book was more widely read and influential among Enlightenment thinkers than previously believed. |
 Magda Teter's new book examines the history of the pernicious antisemitic myth, its cultivation by Christian authorities, and its amplification by the growth of print and literacy in renaissance Europe. |
 Journalist Daniel José Camacho reviews Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book "Jesus and John Wayne" and considers the way that masculinities are expressed in non-white evangelical communities. |
 Reagan biographer Lou Cannon and historian Rick Perlstein contend the series misconstrues Reagan's politics by portraying him as a dog-whistling race baiter (Cannon says it's flat wrong, Perlstein says it's more complicated than that). |
 Although dogs will return to the White House in January and revive a long tradition, past presidents have kept some unusual pets (also, Calvin Coolidge was gifted a raccoon to eat for Thanksgiving dinner). |
 Garrett Felber's book takes a new look at the Nation of Islam and reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on school desegregation and voting rights. | Browsing: News from Around the Internet
 As Trump refuses to concede, few Republicans have repudiated his baseless charges of election fraud. Are they indulging a sore loser or starting a coup? |
 As the Trump administration withholds transition help and the Senate hangs in the balance, what can Democrats plan for Biden's first term? Student debt forgiveness has been an early policy idea. |
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