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Charlottesville: HNN's Full Coverage: Tweets, Blog Posts, Op Eds – Everything
HNN Staff
Events and trends put into context and continuously updated.
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There Shouldn’t Be any Statues Honoring Robert E. Lee Anywhere
Ed Simon
To remove Confederate memorials is not to white-wash history, far from it. It’s to finally remove the stain which concealed for too many Americans the reasons for why that hideous war was fought.
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What Does it Mean to Carry the Swastika Flag?
Richard E. Frankel
Those who marched under the Nazi banner and those who opposed them are not equal.
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Dr. Strangelove Is Horrifyingly Relevant Again
Robert Brent Toplin
The movie reminds audiences that in the nuclear age humanity is in jeopardy when bellicose leaders promote confrontation.
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No, Mr. President. This Is Not an Issue with “Many Sides”
Ed Simon
Once again Donald Trump caters to the white racists who helped elect him.
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Donald Trump Has Put the U.S. into a Precarious Position
John Prados
His fire and fury language is egging North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toward the abyss, in service of a goal that cannot be achieved by force, creating a situation which may not be exited except through force.
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Forget Those Comparisons with the Cuban Missile Crisis
Sheldon M. Stern
This time, the top military figures in the administration may be forced to try to short-circuit an impulsive over-reaction by their commander-in-chief rather than the other way around.
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How Accurate Is “Dunkirk”?
Robert Huddleston
The motion picture is an excellent opening chapter to the Second World War.
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Think “Dunkirk” Is Epic? Check Out the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park.
Peter Cole
It just might be the most impressive and important war memorial Americans never have heard of.
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The Deep South and the Rest of Us
There's No There There
The Deep South has changed but segregation and discrimination remain throughout the nation.
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What Jared Kushner Could Learn from a Man He’s Probably Never Heard of
Bruce W. Dearstyne
The man is Andrew Jackson’s nephew. Like Kushner, he served as a presidential advisor.
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Why We Really Should Be Concerned About HBO’s New Series “Confederate”
James Thornton Harris
What Herbert Marcuse would make of the show.
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The Historian as Activist: Josh Marshall, Founder of TalkingPointsMemo.com
Erik Moshe
How he turned a passion for history into a full-time job as a crusading journalist.
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Why Was the Quebec Flag Flown at the Statehouse in Connecticut?
Patrick Lacroix
It’s no riddle. The French in Canada migrated in huge numbers to New England and now Canada’s an economic powerhouse.
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Review of Jeffrey Moran's "The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents"
Bernard von Bothmer
Has America really changed that much since the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
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The Vietnam War that Never Goes Away
Bruce Chadwick
A review of the hit revival, Miss Saigon." It holds up well.
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What Does Lincoln Have in Common with Comic Book Heroes?
Michael McLean
He had an enemy with whom he shared a common background.
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Playing Nuclear “Chicken” With Our Lives
Lawrence Wittner
What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally unstable national leaders threaten one another―and the world―with nuclear war?
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Trump Threatens North Korea with "Fire and Fury": What Historians Are Saying on Social Media
Niall Ferguson, Simon Schama, Glenda Gilmore, Jonathan Dresner, Heather Cox Richardson, Max Boot, Tom Nichols, Kevin Kruse, and more.
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Can We Count on the GOP to End the Trump Presidency?
Ronald L. Feinman
There are already signs they are fed up.
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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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Both Republicans and Democrats Used to Believe in Compromise
Walter G. Moss
It’s time we remember why.
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Trump’s Failing Use of the Bully Pulpit
David McLennan
Since TR presidents have been using emotional stories to persuade the public to support their policies. Trump? Not so much.
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The Food for Peace Program: Ike Started It. Trump Wants to End It.
William Lambers
Feeding the hungry is essential to winning the peace. Eisenhower knew this. Trump and the Congress should too.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview with Eric Foner
Erik Moshe
His two favorite teachers: James Shenton and Richard Hofstadter.
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My Lynching Photo Problem, and Ours
Jim Loewen
The first textbook in the USA to feature a photo of a lynching was mine in 1974. But there was a problem.
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Guilty of the Crime of Criticizing the Government
Greg Bailey
It happened to this woman, Rose Pastor Stokes, during World War 1. It’s vital we remember her story today.
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Review of Joel Whitney's "Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers"
William Bole
For most readers, the indignation will probably flow mainly from the CIA's truly despicable activities, not from its curious obsession with the editorial machinations of the literary elite.
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Who Would Think to Pair Andy Warhol and Norman Rockwell?
Bruce Chadwick
The curators at the Norman Rockwell Museum, in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in a new, fascinating, exhibit.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
News
- Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments
- Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Overnight Operation
- How the Nazi Flags in Charlottesville Look to a German
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery to remove Confederate monument after calls from activists and vandalism threats
- Protesters pull down Confederate statue in North Carolina
- N. D. B. Connolly says Charlottesville showed that liberalism can’t defeat white supremacy
- Historian William I. Hitchcock schools policymakers: Ike never threatened to use nukes in North Korea
- Ibram X. Kendi asks and answers this question: What would Jefferson say about white supremacists descending upon his university?
- Yale’s Beverly Gage slams Columbia’s Mark Lilla’s polemic in the New York Times Book Review
- NYT’s review of Nancy MacLean’s book, “Democracy in Chains,” ignores the debate about her use of evidence
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