Assuming History's a Good Guide, Trump's Going to Win
By Allan J. Lichtman
The Latest 
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What Historians Are Saying About the First Trump-Clinton Debate
The opinions of Juan Cole, Max Boot and others.
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Imagining What a President Donald Trump and President Hillary Clinton Would Be Like
David B. McLennan
Here are the results if you judge them by six standard criteria applied by political scientists.
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This Is What Bad Leadership Looks Like
Howard J. Erlichman
The story of the bad reign of the Spanish Empire’s Felipe II and the unintended consequences of his harsh and unwise rule.
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Trump Ridiculously Compares His Big Wall on the Mexican Border with the West Bank Barrier in Israel
Aaron Brown
The comparison is preposterous, if you understand history.
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What Are Historians Supposed to Make of Quotes Reported by the Discredited Historian and Holocaust Denier David Irving?
Christopher A. Lawrence
The question gains new attention as a movie about his trial hits theaters.
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Coal Comfort: Is Hillary Clinton being “Al Gored”?
Infinity, Limited
She didn't promise to put coal miners out of work. But the media passed along the claim that she did. This is deplorable.
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If You Want a Future with Fewer Floods, Fires, and Other Environmental Disasters, Vote Democratic
Walter G. Moss
Vote for Trump if you want the planet to keep burning up.
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Where Is That Wasteful Government Spending?
Lawrence S. Wittner
It's not where Donald Trump seems to think.
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The Great, Sad, Impractical, Wall of Trump
Fred Zilian
History shows great resources have to be spent on the building and maintenance of walls and even then human beings find ways around them.
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What We Learn When We Compare Obama’s Two Victories with This One Election from the Past
Ronald L. Feinman
That election is 1896. And what we learn is good news for Democrats.
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Senator Chuck Grassley Has Twice Sabotaged Merrick Garland’s Judicial Appointments
Dirk Langeveld
The senator previously sought to abolish a judgeship to which Garland had been nominated. Could he do it again?
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One Historian’s Questionable Use of the Founding Fathers
Brent J. Aucoin
A critique of John Fea’s claim that the Founding Fathers objected to ministers serving in public office.
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Here’s Why There’s Real Hope for a Two-State Solution
Cary Nelson
Both sides are less far apart than seems.
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Custer’s First Last Stand
Jim Stempel
It happened 12 years before the disaster that ended in his death. And he made the same mistake.
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The Sexual Problems that Confront the Catholic Church
Bruce Chadwick
How one playwright has tried to illuminate an issue that's bedeviled the church.
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How to Watch the Debates
Stone Age Brain
An almost sure-fire method of determining how the candidates are trying to manipulate you.
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Congratulations Georgetown. Now It’s Time to Own Up to the Racist History of the Catholic Church.
Shannen Dee Williams
The Catholic Church was the largest corporate slaveholder in the Americas. But this history is barely acknowledged.
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Donald Trump Has to Stop Dropping Hints of Violence Against Hillary Clinton
Ronald L. Feinman
We are now in the month of the most threats against America’s Presidents historically, the month of September.
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Could Hillary Clinton Win the Popular Vote But Lose in the Electoral College?
Jeremy Tewell
Remember 2000? It’s happened before.
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Smith, Snowden, Manning, Kaepernick & Moral Courage
There's No There There
So anyone for a host of Obama pardons before he leaves office?
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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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The President Who Deserves the Credit for Reviving Presidential Debates May Have Lost Because of Them
Yanek Mieczkowski
This is the explanation for his gaffe.
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40 Years Ago a Bomb Blew Up the Former Ambassador of Chile in Downtown Washington DC
Alan McPherson
This act of terrorism perpetrated by Chile’s dictator Augusto Pinochet marked the end of U.S. tolerance of state-supported terror abroad.
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Washington Fears Snowden. Hollywood Fears Washington. Is that Why Oliver Stone Made His Movie About Snowden Overseas?
Richard Rashke
The facts, as we currently know them.
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Hitler Analogies in the 2016 Election
“Trump not bothered by comparisons to Hitler” — Politico headline
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Is Donald Trump One of Russia’s Useful Idiots?
Jeffrey Kaplan
Ego, ambition and his unique imagination provide the strings from which Putin’s puppy now dangles.
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Religion Could Decide the Election of 2016
Ronald L. Feinman
Trump’s strategy of using religion as a political weapon is likely to backfire in November.
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Every Country’s Got Its Donald Trump
David Lee McMullen
The theme of their lives: “It is better to be known as the village idiot than not to be noticed at all.”
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Why We Shouldn’t Be Surprised the Arab Spring Failed
Jonathan Adelman
Revolutions that succeed are few in number.
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How Charles II Took Revenge on His (and His Father’s) Enemies
Don Jordan and Michael Walsh
The fascinating story of what happened after Charles I was executed.
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Review of Ronald A. Smith’s "Wounded Lions: Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, and the Crisis in Penn State Athletics"
Ron Briley
"Wounded Lions" by Penn State sport historian Ronald Smith makes extensive use of university archives to document how Penn State lost control of its athletic program, and how Paterno played a key role in this process.
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The News Has You Depressed? Go See a Marx Brothers Movie.
Bruce Chadwick
The Marx Brothers have not only charmed people in America, but all over the world.
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Dead Shot Mary: A Woman Cop in the Great Depression
Bruce Chadwick
"Dead Shot Mary" is an informative and highly educational work about the NYPD in the 1930s, when New York was overrun with pickpockets and Mafioso.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
News
- This New York Times ‘Hitler’ book review sure reads like a thinly veiled Trump comparison
- Chicago Tribune editorial: The government should release secret grand jury testimony about its 1942 scoop: "Jap Plan to Strike at Sea"
- US owes blacks reparations over slavery: UN experts
- Mali Islamist jailed for nine years for Timbuktu shrine attacks
- Poland wrestles with its past — and present
- What Historians Are Saying About the First Trump-Clinton Debate
- Princeton professor documents the movement that ended single-sex education at elite schools
- Annette Gordon-Reed tells historians the controversy over Harvard law school's shield is different from the fight over the Confederate flag
- Historian EP Thompson denounced Communist party chiefs, files show
- Voting opens soon for the leaders of the OAH in 2017
