Browsing: News from Around the Internet  The latest development: Trump meets with Michigan legislative leaders after withdrawing lawsuits in the state. Experts say this will fail, but the effort to subvert the vote is unprecedented. |
Video of the Week  The Arkansas Senator warned that the "politically correct editors" of the New York Times are coming for Thanksgiving. |
Today's Top Headlines - Trump Tax Write-Offs Are Ensnared in 2 New York Fraud Investigations - Biden Calls Trump's Attack on Electoral Process 'Totally Irresponsible' - In Georgia, get-out-the-vote operations that helped Biden win haven't stopped 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 Timothy Snyder "A claim that an election was illegitimate is a claim to remaining in power. A coup is under way, and the number of participants is not shrinking but growing. Few leading Republicans have acknowledged that the race is over." |
 by Eric Rauchway Herbert Hoover's refusal to support FDR's policy agenda during his lame duck period delayed economic recovery at the cost of jobs, homes and lives. |
 by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Patsy Takemoto Mink, elected in 1972 as the first woman of color in Congress, deserves recognition as a pioneering advocate for gender equity and the rights of Americans Caribbean and Pacific territories, and for preparing a path for Kamala Harris's election as Vice President. |
 by Sean Wilentz If Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and their respective caucuses persist, they will have tainted their party far beyond what Trump already has. |
 by Nicole Hemmer "The crisis, it turns out, is not the selfishness of this generation of Americans. It's the selfishness of the administration and its allies in Congress." |
 by Derek Penslar and Susannah Heschel "The politicization and radicalization of the institution will rob it of its legitimacy. Yad Vashem cannot fulfill its responsibilities with Effi Eitam at its helm." |
 by Paul Musgrave If former presidents aren't interested in hosting official presidential papers at a library center, there is little oversight of how they tell the president's story. Any future Trump presidential center will likely not function as a library at all, but as a propaganda organ for Trumpism. |
 by David Walsh Liberal pleas to return to a "normal" defined by bipartisan consensus ignore the long legacy of ideological conflict and the pursuit of division as a political strategy by the conservative movement. |
 by Richard Kreitner "Merely ousting Trump is not enough without addressing more fundamental weaknesses in our political system, especially an outdated Constitution that continues to serve a minority of wealthy and white citizens and to curb any movements that might threaten their wealth and power." |
 by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator and Meg White The New Orleans school integrated by Ruby Bridges is now operated by a private charter school company, part of a trend that three education scholars say jeopardizes the survival of the entire system of public education in the United States. | 
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!  "There was an event that happened in 1621," Wampanoag historian Linda Coombs said. "But the whole story about what occurred on that first Thanksgiving was a myth created to make white people feel comfortable." Native activists hope to disrupt the stories of Thanksgiving by questioning public history and by recovering indigenous food practices. |
 Natural language processing reveals huge differences in how Texas history textbooks treat men, women, and people of color. |
 "The problem isn't simply which horses a newly contrite Charles Koch chooses to back, but the extent to which his extreme wealth and his commitment to a system that enshrines the power of the rich has shaped the entire racetrack." |
 While pro-Beijing lawmakers stress the need to promote national unity through civics education, educators, historians and parents in Hong Kong expect censorship and indoctrination under new restrictions. |
 "Are you really listening to the science or are you listening to an industry insider, who is controlling the message?" |
 Chefs and historians of food cultures are working to build public understanding of the history of immigration and the African diaspora through knowledge of cooking and eating practices. |
 Campus Reform seeks to "stoke outrage at 'liberal' professors, with the political intent of creating a viral sensation that circulates through a highly partisan right-wing media ecosystem, and into the broader public discussion," says Isaac Camola, a political science professor who has been active in organizing professors who are targeted by outrage campaigns. |
 Three new books describe the role of administrator Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration in filtering the photographic work of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Russell Lee to emphasize the depression's burden on rural whites. |
 A four-part series of essays and photography examines the creation, maintenance and consequences of the reservoirs constructed to supply water to New York City, including the complex divisions and connections among urban and rural communities. |
 Teachers are working to implement a 2015 change to Washington state's history standards that requires content developed with the state's native tribes. |
 The music writer looks at three recent books on the Mississippi blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson, looking to pull his story out of the realm of myth. |
 An ambitious project seeks to make museums a more immersive experience by using big data to mine primary sources for references to scent and use chemistry and perfumerie to recreate the mix of odors characteristic of a time and place. | 
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