JFK. A Motorcade. A Rifle. But this Wasn’t Dallas.
By Stephen F. Knott
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Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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How Our Stone-Age Brain Undermines Smart Politics: An Interview with Rick Shenkman
Robin Lindley
An in-depth interview with HNN Editor Rick Shenkman, author of "Political Animals."
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Don’t Worry. Brexit Isn’t Likely to Pass.
Luke Reader
The fact is Brexit would leave the UK poorer. Voters know this.
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The Long Journey from the Age of Jackson to Harriet Tubman on the Twenty
Catherine Clinton
The biographer of Harriet Tubman recalls the long struggle to gain academic recognition of Tubman's contributions.
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Who Would Jesus Vote for?
Ed Simon
This is not the question we should be asking, but many people can’t seem to stop themselves.
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Does Woodrow Wilson Have an Irish Problem, too?
Robert Schmuhl
Although he tried to disguise another bias, an examination of his papers reveals an almost total lack of concern for the Irish Question that demanded an answer during his presidency.
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Is Donald Trump the Most Dangerous Presidential Candidate in American History?
Ronald L. Feinman
Of course, he has a lot of competition for the title: Huey Long, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and others. But still.
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What Happened to America’s Good Jobs?
Louis Ferleger and Matthew Lavallee
The world of work is much different today than in the postwar Golden Age when good jobs built the American middle class.
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What Do Democratic Socialists Like Bernie Sanders Believe?
Walter G. Moss
And while, we're at it: What do progressives believe?
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How Did People in the Colonial Period Stay Informed?
Alejandra Dubcovsky
This is how. It was through networks made and maintained by native Americans.
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The Jewish Artist: Post World War II Brooklyn
Bruce Chadwick
The play, "My Name is Asher Lev," is the story of a young Hasidic Jewish artist from Brooklyn who is determined to become a potent force in a field of work in which Jews have rarely succeeded.
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Report: Number of history PhD’s is at a record, while the number of students majoring in history is falling
Robert B. Townsend
More bad news: Progress in attracting women to the discipline has largely stalled—and among undergraduates actually reversed.
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A Historian Considers American Socialism
Vaughn Davis Bornet
Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. This is how socialism in America has been defined.
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How Bernie Sanders Is Like Carl Sandburg – And Why that’s Worth Remembering
Walter G. Moss
Both were devoted socialists in their youth who later came to embrace the Democratic Party.
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Hamilton’s Pulitzer Prize is a Shot in the Arm for History
Bruce Chadwick
The nod of the Pulitzer committee will whet the public appetite for more history plays, and movies.
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Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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There is Counterfactual History as Science and Counterfactual History as Speculation
Yoav J. Tenembaum
Here’s the difference.
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Obama's Gift To Our Next President: War With China and Russia?
There's No There There
The US is trying to contain China and Russia and running the risk of a real war
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If You’re A New Yorker 2016 Is Your Year
Ronald L. Feinman
The frontrunners in both parties are New Yorkers. That hasn’t happened since 1944.
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Trump’s Misguided and Empty Promise of Protectionism Dovetails with His Appeal to Isolationism
Christopher McKnight Nichols
It’s an old formula. It should be resisted.
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How the Columbine Memorial Missed an Opportunity We Should Have Seized
Harriet F. Senie
Wouldn't we honor the dead (and their families) more by building memorials that also provide a safe place to consider the causes and implications of the events that cost them their lives?
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Remember the Maine? This Is How that Event Looks Like from the Cuban Perspective.
Joseph J. Gonzalez
It’s when Cubans swapped one colonial overlord for another.
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Mercy Street in Context: Historian Pamela Toler on the Real Nurses of the Civil War
Robin Lindley
Historian Pamela D. Toler provides historical context for the PBS series in her new book "Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War."
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
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Hitler in the 2016 Election
“Trump not bothered by comparisons to Hitler” — Politico headline
News
- Now it’s the University of Louisville’s turn to remove a Confederate statue
- A fortress built by Alexander the Great after he conquered Jerusalem has been discovered
- Yale students protest decision to keep Calhoun’s name
- Six maps that will make you rethink the world
- Middle Tenn. State President Wants to Strip Confederate General’s Name From Building
- The historian and cartographer Bill Rankin has developed a new way to visualize slavery
- Paula S. Fass says young Americans need required national service
- Historians are now trying to show that the gay revolution also took place in the midwest
- The Unconference Movement Grows – And Historians Are Taking the Lead
- New appeal to "Bring Back Military History"
