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Video of the Week Watch This 1897 Snowball Fight for a Jolt of Pure Joy The footage was captured in Lyon, in 1897, by the Lumière brothers, who were among the world's first filmmakers.  Browsing: News from Around the Internet  Historians on the 2020 Election The final count is ongoing in several key states. Biden hopes for leads to hold up while Trump initiates legal action.  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. An Embarrassing Failure for Election Pollsters by W. Joseph Campbell Pollsters problems predicting the 2020 election deepened the embarrassment for a field that has suffered through – but has survived – a variety of lapses and surprises since the mid-1930s.  We Must Do More to Honor the People and Places Lost to Violent Racism by Walter Greason Teaching a course about collective racial violence in the United States showed a professor the extent to which this history is both integral to the nation and completely hidden from the majority of Americans.  Trumpania, U.S.A.: Making Federal Buildings Fascist Again by Ed Simon Trump's obsession with establishing neoclassical architecture as the default style for federal buildings echoes the delusional plan of Adolf Hitler to rebuild bombed Berlin in a monumental style purged of "decadent" modernism.  Good TV Demands Results on Election Night, But that's Bad for Democracy by Kathryn Cramer Brownell Election night 2020 promises to test whether the media has learned from failures of the past.  Aaron Sorkin's Inane, Liberal History Lesson by Charlotte Rosen Aaron Sorkin's Chicago 7 film strips away the radical, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist politics of the 1960s New Left to make the defendants heroic defenders of liberal democratic politics.  Monstrous Men: The Medusa #MeToo Monument Has an Oedipal Complex by Erin Thompson and Sonja Drimmer A New York statue of Medusa erected as a monument to the #MeToo movement of identifying sexual abusers of women is in fact yet another instance of fighting among male artists using women's bodies as symbolic weapons. It also garbles the myth of Medusa, draining it of its relevance to #MeToo. What Modern Voter Suppression Looks Like In Florida 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." President Trump's False Claims about Election Fraud are Dangerous by Sid Bedingfield Elected officials' use of the media to claim election fraud has resulted in violence in the past; the news media must take responsibility to avoid fanning the flames.  A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath by Tom Nichols By picking Trump again, those voters are showing that they are just like him: angry, spoiled, racially resentful, aggrieved, and willing to die rather than ever admit that they were wrong. The Racist Lady with the Lamp by Natalie Stake-Doucet "Nursing historiography is centered on whiteness. Even worse, nursing history revolves largely around a single white nurse: Florence Nightingale. This, unfortunately, doesn't mean nurses understand who Nightingale was."       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! Note: News stories reflect the state of the world at the close of business Thursday, November 5! Teaching: Making Sense of the Election Anne Berg, historian of European nationalism, discusses how she conducted her class meetings on November 4 as the presidential election remained undecided.  With Presidency Uncertain, an Anxious Higher Ed Braces for What's Next "Most important to many in higher education, though, would be Biden's embrace of the value of scientific expertise, which Trump, throughout the pandemic, has questioned and even belittled." 2020 Awards, Prizes, And Honors Announced As of Wednesday, some important winners have been announced--the AHA's annual prizes for scholarship, teaching, and contributions to the historical profession. Olympic Protester Tommie Smith Reclaims His Legacy in a New Documentary "There's a lot of people out there who lived the history I lived way back then. That history is not gone, and it will never die." How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart? "Contemporary society has built-in vulnerabilities that could allow things to go very badly indeed — probably not right now, maybe not for a few decades still, but possibly sooner." How America Escapes Its Conspiracy-Theory Crisis Trump's indulgence of conspiracy theorists risks casting the government as the enemy of the people. A new social contract is needed to ensure that this breach doesn't widen.  The Disbelief and Horror of Election Night Were Captured by a Russian Poet in 1933 It is believed that "Stalin's Epigram" led to Mandelstam's arrest, in 1934. The poet died in the Gulag in 1938. Every line is recognizable six decades later. Historian On What Might Come Next In 2020 Election Julian Zelizer joins "Here and Now" to discuss the yet-unfinished election and what may come next. You're Tearing Me Apart: On William L. Barney's "Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy" A new book on secession examines the politics of all 15 slave states and power of a reactionary slaveholding elite to force secession.  New Senator Tuberville Seems to Lack Basic Knowledge of World War II Newly elected Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed contrary to fact that his father helped liberate Paris from communism in World War II.

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