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Today's Top Headlines - With Hospitals Slammed by COVID-19, Doctors and Nurses Plead for Action by Governors - U.K. and U.S. Officials Spar Over 'Vaccine Nationalism' - David Perdue Appears to Tacitly Acknowledge Biden's Victory in Video Call with Republican Group   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. The Enduring Disposability Of Latinx Workers by Natalia Molina "For over a century, we have excused systemic inequalities, justifying them by pointing to Mexicans' difference from 'us'." History Reminds Us that Vaccines Alone Don't End Pandemics by E. Thomas Ewing Positive news about advances on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus should not be taken as a license to stop mask-wearing and social distancing argues a historian of viral pandemics.  Governing in Prose: Realpolitik and Idealism in Obama's First Term by Eric Foner Eric Foner's review of the first volume of Obama's memoir focuses on the conflict between pragmatism and idealism, and concludes that the 45th President erred in offering bailouts to bankers and expecting cooperation from Republicans, mistakes that set the stage for Trump.  Reckoning With Slavery: What A Revolt's Archives Tell Us About Who Owns The Past by Marjoleine Kars Researching the history of the 1763-1764 Berbice slave rebellion demonstrated that key records for understanding slavery in the Americas are held in archives in Europe and written in the language of colonial powers, making the history of enslaved people difficult to access for their present-day descendants. Minority Rule Cannot Last in America. It Never Has by Kenneth Owen When parties commit themselves to minority rule, the backlash can be severe, as has been shown repeatedly when ruling parties stood in the way of popular will.  Joe Biden's Harshest Critics are Likely to be Some of His Fellow Catholics by Theresa Keeley Abortion is the most divisive issue for liberal and conservative Catholics in America today, but reflects a decades-long division in beliefs about how the Church should engage with the world. It may be tricky for Joe Biden to navigate as a faithful Catholic. What The Hitler Conspiracies Mean by Richard J. Evans Against evidence and common sense, theories persist that Adolf Hitler escaped Berlin to live in Argentina. An expert on the memory of the Third Reich argues that the conspiracy theories reflect a broad rejection of expertise and show the need for historians to engage the public.  The Supreme Court Has to Choose Between Trump and the Nation's Founders by Amanda Frost The Trump administration's efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census count is a test of whether the SCOTUS conservatives will sincerely follow originalism.  Let Trump Try To Defend Racist, Traitorous Confederates. Congress Can Still Prevail by Ty Seidule "This nation should honor those who fought bravely to defend it, not its enemies." Cicely was Young, Black and Enslaved – Her Death During an Epidemic in 1714 Has Lessons that Resonate in Today's Pandemic by Nicole S. Maskiell The gravestone of an enslaved teenage girl in Cambridge, Mass., points to gap between the importance of black women's labor to colonial society (especially in times of crisis like epidemics) and their remembrance in history.       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! A Massive New Effort to Name Millions Sold into Bondage during the Transatlantic Slave Trade Historians Daryle Williams, Walter Hawthorne, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and David Eltis, along with Henry Louis Gates, are part of an interdisciplinary collaboration to create access to biographical and genealogical information about individual people enslaved in the United States.  Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation Journalist and photographer Richard Frishman examines traces of segregation and racial exclusion in the built environment of the US. AHA Joins Lawsuit to Protect Historical Records The AHA is party to a lawsuit pressing the Trump administration and the National Archives to comply with laws requiring complete preservation of presidential records.  How the 1968 Presidential Transition Compares to Today's Taped recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal the conflict between LBJ and Richard Nixon over the degree to which a president-elect could expect to influence policy before being inaugurated.  The Story of a 1970s Mississippi Textbook that Changed how Students Learned about their Past Contemporary historians look back on the long struggle to unseat the "Lost Cause" myth and other white supremacist ideas from the state's history curriculum that began with the introduction of "Mississippi: Conflict and Change" to state high schools in 1980. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump's Coup Is Not Over; His Enablers Aren't Done Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat speaks with Salon's Dean Obeidallah and argues that the danger of a collapse of democracy is not over.  Grave Is Found at Site of Historic Black Church in Colonial Williamsburg The excavation may have discovered the remains of a Baptist congregation dating to the late 18th century, and may prompt a rethinking of the place of African American history in the open museum of Colonial Williamsburg. From Cholera To Seat Belts: History Of Americans Reacting To Public Health Messages Public Health historian David Rosner argues that strains of religiosity and individualism in American culture have made it difficult to win acceptance for many public health and safety measures in the past.  Do Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Issues with his Father Help Explain Mass Incarceration? Ben Tumin's "Skipped History" video series tackles the legacy of the Moynihan Report through the work of historians Elizabeth Hinton and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.  Exhume the Body of Warren G. Harding? A Judge Says That Won't Be Necessary Previously resistant descendants of Warren G. Harding had denied proof based on commercial DNA testing that plaintiff James Blaesing was Harding's grandson. With exhumation looming, they conceded that Blaesing was a descendant of Harding and mistress Nan Britton.  The Great Black Radical You've Never Heard Of The author of a new book on an understudied Black labor radical presents context for an exerpt of an interview Ben Fletcher gave to the New York Amsterdam News, a rare surviving case of the organizer telling his own story. Washington History Seminar: Mira Siegelberg on "Statelessness: A Modern History" (Monday, Dec. 7) The Washington History Seminar and the Woodrow Wilson Center host Mira Siegelberg for a discussion of her book "Statelessness: A Modern History" on Monday, Dec. 7 at 4:00 PM. David Hackett, Historian and Holocaust Expert, Dies at 80 Professor Hackett was noted for translating "The Buchenwald Report," made by German-speaking US military officers who described in detail their findings at the liberated concentration camp, preserving a key document for the fight against Holocaust denialism. He died of complications of the coronavirus.  A History of Felines, as Narrated and Illustrated by a Cat A new book presents a history of significant cats and the human-feline relationship, with a substantial assist from the author's cat.

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