| HNN DONATION DRIVE 2020 
NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER! 2020 has shown that historical perspective is absolutely essential for understanding the news. All year, HNN has gathered and published the insights of historians on the COVID-19 pandemic, the election, and so much more, providing the context behind the headlines. If you value what HNN stands for, now is the time to show it. Our goal is to raise $25,000 from our community of readers to sustain our mission for the coming year. You may securely contribute to HNN at the George Washington University by credit card by internet or telephone or by mailing a check. Click here to donate. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. 
Don't Miss Original Stories from HNN!  by Alan J. Singer Populist and feminist agitator Mary Lease advised farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." Her brand of hell-raising, however, included a strong current of antisemitism that needs to be widely known. |
 by Steven F. Lawson If Joe Biden wants to implement progressive change, he'll be stopped not by a lack of popular support, but by the conservatism built into American institutions. |
 by Brian Glyn Williams Trump's cult-leader response to COVID-19 is causing the equivalent of a Jonestown every day. | Today's News Headlines - Barr: DOJ Has No Evidence Of Fraud Affecting 2020 Election Outcome - Black Friday, Cyber Monday Sales Disappoint, another Sign the Economic Recovery is Stumbling - Trump Has Discussed With Advisers Pardons for His 3 Eldest Children and Giuliani 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!
 Harrison Ruffin Tyler, at age 91, is a rare example of a person whose life and family history connect the present to the era of the early republic in two generations. |
 As the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region enters a cease-fire, what are the prospects for protecting sites of cultural and historical significance from destruction as acts of reprisal? History suggests it's possible, though difficult. |
 Tourism to San Francisco has fallen by half since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and tourist spending has declined even further, impacting many of Chinatown's businesses as well as its social life. |
 Explore an immersive, interactive page that shows how "The Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West created a heroic myth of the British defeat of the French near Quebec, which helped decide the Seven Years War. |
 NPR's Steve Inskeep reflects on the prospect that historical distance will make Trump and Trumpism smaller (and not all-consuming) parts of a story about American society struggling with bigger questions of political, economic and social equality that became increasingly contentious during the Obama era. |
 "Generally, in Mob stories, the cute bits are not real, and the real bits are not cute. Given that grim truth, there's something to be said for just shutting your eyes and repeating the cute bits." Some new books on the Mafia unfortunately follow the pattern. |
 In earlier eras, one-term presidencies were more the rule than the exception, but Donald Trump is a rarity among modern presidents in losing his bid for reelection. A scholar of the presidency examines the shift. |
 Irish Immigrant Maeve Higgins looks at the expanded civics test for naturalization, and gives it a failing grade--unless its purpose is to reduce immigration. | 
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!  German editorialist Jochen Bittner warns that Trump's insistence that the election has been stolen from him echoes the Dolchstosslegende rhetoric which sustained the ascendant National Socialists for years after the end of World War I. |
 Modern archaeology has largely succeeded in instituting professionalization and historical rigor to the study of sites of theological significance, but the discipline has a long and continuing historical entanglement with efforts to find proof of religious doctrines. |
 "You don't play politics with the Shoah, and this is playing politics with the Shoah," Professor [Deborah] Lipstadt said. She is one of 750 historians, Jewish studies experts and cultural figures who signed a petition protesting the appointment of Effie Eitam to head Israel's national Holocaust memorial. |
 The National Archives of American Art has been moving aggressively to document artists' responses to the concurrent social traumas of 2020, including the pandemic, police violence and protests, and a tumultuous election campaign. |
 Abbas Milani of Stanford University discusses the US-Iran relationship and the shocking assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist last week. |
 The African American Intellectual History Society will present next week a series of responses to Dr. Brandon Byrd's 2019 book examining the relationship between Black American intellectuals and activists and the Republic of Haiti. |
 Professor Harold's new book looks at gospel music in the late 20th century and reappraises it as a period of artistic innovation, not of misguided pursuit of commercial or crossover success. |
 Contingent Magazine recommends books written by non-tenure track faculty and historians and scholars in non-academic positions. |
|
0 comments:
Post a Comment