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Could the Governor’s Race in Virginia Turn on the Question of Confederate Monuments?
Bruce W. Dearstyne
It might. History shows why history and politics don’t mix well.
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Donald Trump Is Making Richard Nixon Look Good by Comparison
Ronald L. Feinman
Trump’s trying to destroy the agencies Nixon helped establish to protect workers and keep air and water clean.
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Old Glory: Patriotic Symbol?
Rick Shenkman
Nothing seems more natural to an American than to venerate the patriotic symbols that represent America. But we didn't always.
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Mexico Hasn’t Been at the Center of US Politics Like It Is Now Since 1848
Peter Guardino
Alas, the debate today is marked by the same strand of bigotry.
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This Story About the Publishing of Mein Kampf Is Well-Known in France. Americans Need to Know It.
Blake Smith
Rather than fight the publication of Hitler’s memoir, these French anti-Nazis raced to distribute it themselves.
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Trump’s New Communications Director Reminds this Historian of Missy LeHand
Kathryn Smith
Both served as presidential gatekeepers.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview with Andrea Zuvich
Erik Moshe
How a kid who grew-up in Florida decided to become a historian of 17th century Stuart England.
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Blacks in Britain Were Discouraged from Joining the Army During World War I. They Did It Anyway.
Stephen Bourne
Recovering their stories isn’t easy.
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The Remarkably Similar Parallels Between the Debate About Our Role in the World in 2016 and 1919
Michael S. Neiberg
With the benefit of time we can see more clearly the essential bifurcation in American views about US leadership and how they began in the aftermath of the heated debate over the Treaty of Versailles.
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Review of Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened”
Kathryn Smith
She’s not going to shut up. And she shouldn’t.
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Ken Burns’s War Stories
Bob Buzzanco
He’s more storyteller than historian and that weakens his series considerably.
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The Media’s Silence on Climate Change During Irma Was Deafening
Frank Palmeri
They are doing the oil corporations’ work by harping on the industry’s publicity campaign of doubt.
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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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What You Can Do to Stop Nuclear Tests
William Lambers
Try joining a peace walk. They worked in the past.
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A Negotiated Curbing of North Korea's Nuclear Capabilities Is Good, But Not Good Enough
Lawrence Wittner
We should recognize that the danger of nuclear annihilation will persist as long as any nations possess nuclear weapons.
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What Historians Are Saying About the New Vietnam War Documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
The 10 part documentary is being broadcast on PBS.
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World Citizenship Is More Popular Than You Might Think
Lawrence Wittner
Zealous nationalists have been garnering headlines, but they’re in the minority.
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We Traded in One of the Most Self-Disciplined Presidents for the Most Undisciplined President
Walter G. Moss
The country is paying a price for this recklessness.
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Let’s Keep the Central Park Statue of Dr. James Marion Sims
Steven Lomazow
He’s getting a bum rap from critics.
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It’s Good to See the Mainstream Media Debunking Conspiracy Claims, but Where Were They Years Ago When RFK’s Death Became Fodder for Nutty Stories?
Mel Ayton
Hopefully they’ll do better next year on the 50th anniversary.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview with Stanford’s Richard White
Erik Moshe
“I live among dead people, which sometimes frightens my wife.”
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When the USSR Waged War Against Israel. (No, that’s Not a Misprint.)
Karl Pfeifer
An interview with Gideon Remez.
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Few Want to Admit It, but the French Saved America During the Revolution
Tom Shachtman
Myths stop us from conceding the truth.
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Review of Noam Maggor’s “Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age”
Daniel Lazare
Inside Noam Maggor’s somewhat over-stated examination of nineteenth-century capitalism is a modest little study struggling to get out.
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This Year’s NYC Mayoral Election: Boring. Not So 100 Years Ago!
David Pietrusza
When Red Mike crushed the Boy Mayor (who later got a hero’s funeral when he died in a plane accident while serving in World War 1).
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Peter Pan Finally Gets Off the Runway
Bruce Chadwick
A new version of the play has debuted in New York in time for the 70th anniversary of Peter Pan. The final third is great! The first 2/3rds? Ugh.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
News
- The National Security Agency's own history of tracking of U.S. Citizens is flawed
- Before Trump vs. the NFL, there was Jackie Robinson vs. JFK
- Saudi Textbook Withdrawn Over Image of Yoda With King
- Israelis are celebrating the Kurds’ bid for independence
- Wall Street Journal study finds that rural youths who enlisted after 9/11 shouldered the greatest burden for the nation’s defense
- Jelani Cobb unloads on Trump’s double standard of patriotism in the New Yorker
- Lonnie Bunch is astonished the African-American History Museum has become a pilgrimage site so fast
- Nancy Isenberg says what Americans think is exceptional about them is that they erased class distinctions
- Niall Ferguson’s new book is a warning about the pernicious threat of networks
- Yale history department now emphasizing global history in undergraduate courses
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