When We’re Betrayed We Call It Treason
By Brian F. Carso
The Latest 
-
America in Crisis: Both Parties Have Forgotten the Lesson of the Great Depression
Richard Striner
And that’s led to economic drift.
-
Blog
How Nancy MacLean Went Whistlin’ Dixie
Liberty and Power
In her new book about the origins of the radical right she claims that economist James M. Buchanan drew his inspiration from the segregationist poet Donald Davidson. But her story appears completely made up.
-
Whole Foods Is Opening in Harlem. Should We Be Celebrating?
Brian D. Goldstein
It’s more complicated than you think.
-
Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
-
How Much Is a Boss Worth?
Lawrence S. Wittner
Americans favor limiting CEO pay to no more than six times the pay of the average worker. How much more than that CEO’s actually make!
-
Should Smart Black Students Be Sent to Special Schools?
Bruce Chadwick
That's the question addressed in a new play, "Pipeline," running at Lincoln Center.
-
What We’re Learning Now About the Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
Elizabeth Norton
A fresh perspective is giving us insight into the challenges they faced.
-
What I’m Reading: An Interview with Alexander Rose
Erik Moshe
Rose is the author of “Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring,” which served as the basis for the AMC drama series, “Turn: Washington's Spies.”
-
Review of Alexandra Zapruder’s “Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film”
John McAdams
The story of the Zapruder family’s saga.
-
Still Playing at the Byrd Theater after Nearly Ninety Years …
Bruce Chadwick
The Byrd, one of the oldest movie houses in America, opened its doors in 1928 in Richmond and except for a brief seven-month period in the late 1970s, never closed them.
-
How Shakespeare Imagined Julius Caesar's Invasions of Britain
Bruce Chadwick
The play is Cymbeline. The latest production is being staged in the Berkshires.
-
America in Crisis: Dangerous Flaws in the Structure of Our Government Could Lead to Our Undoing
Richard Striner
If in 2020 the winner of the popular vote for president loses in the Electoral College, the rage of the decent American majority will surge as it has never surged before.
-
At the Last Minute the ISIS Captor Had Lowered His Demands and We Had Rescued Fayza from Certain Death in Mosul
Brian Glyn Williams
One beautiful young Yazidi girl now had something that so many other sex slaves did not have, freedom and a chance to live her life.
-
Fake News? Maybe This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Jocelyn Olcott
A look back at the 1975 women’s conference shows that people who share different assumptions will often disagree about what constitutes fake news.
-
Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
-
Everything Politicians in the Trump Era Need to Know George Washington Knew as a Boy
Suzy Evans
That they don’t know how to behave is demoralizing.
-
A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before. It Ended in Disaster.
Michael Todd Landis
A history lesson from the 1850s that the GOP and Donald Trump should heed.
-
Fake Facts Have Creeped into the Narrative of the Election of 2000
Sheldon Stern
It’s simply not true that the “effect of the two third-party candidates on the electoral vote was essentially a wash.”
-
Now We Know What the State Department Was Hiding
Ervand Abrahamian
A new collection of documents shows why the US resisted for decades releasing documents on the Mossadeq coup in 1953 in Iran.
-
Why I’m Running for Congress
David Benac
An historian throws his hat in the ring for Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District.
-
Blog
We Really Could Use Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev Now
There's No There There
Respect or trust Putin or not, we may need Russia one day to help resolve dangerous crises.
-
Blog
On Dealing with Serious Problems
Jim Loewen
What pieces of music reach you deeply? Bruckner's Eighth reaches me.
-
What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
News
- Defense Secretary James Mattis tells high school student to study history
- Dunkirk survivors’ terror didn’t end when they were rescued
- Site of Germany’s Biggest World War II Battle in the News
- Champion of the Black Community Is Given Her Rightful Due in Richmond
- CIA Plans to Destroy Some of Its Old Leak Files
- Rick Perlstein joins criticism of Nancy MacLean's "Democracy in Chains"
- Daniel Pipes says it’s time for the Palestinians to recognize they lost
- Wm. Theodore de Bary, Renowned Columbia Sinologist, Dies at 97
- Iran sentences Princeton history grad student to 10 years for spying
- Medievalists, Recoiling From White Supremacy, Try to Diversify the Field
Trending Now
