America in Crisis: Is a Second Civil War in the Making?
By Richard Striner
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Not Until the Loving Decision Legalizing Interracial Marriage Did the Supreme Court Denounce White Supremacy
Sheryll Cashin
What does that tell you?
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The Trump Doctrine in the Middle East Is to Follow Saudi Arabia’s Lead
James L. Gelvin
This explains what sparked the Saudi-Qatari Cold War.
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The Myth that Hobbles Our Understanding of the Six Day War
Yoav J. Tenembaum
The myth? The fiftieth anniversary marks fifty years of occupation.
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The World’s Nuclear Powers Are Renewing their Race to Catastrophe
Lawrence Wittner
But non-nuclear powers in the UN are pushing back. In July there will be a vote on a treaty in the UN to outlaw nukes.
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How Hollywood Keeps Getting Afghanistan Wrong
Robert W. Thurston
From the glory of Charlie Wilson’s War to the pathos of Brad Pitt’s new movie, War Machine.
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A Key Turning Point in Darwin’s Thinking – And It Didn’t Happen in the Galapagos Islands
Isobel Charman
It happened in a London zoo.
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Review of "Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools" by Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson
Luther Spoehr
Controversy belongs in the classroom.
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My Cheating Memoirs #3: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Plays Vermont
Jim Loewen
The students claimed they'd watched the performance. They hadn't. They'd lied.
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Now Shakespeare's Being Set in a New Jersey Junkyard?
Bruce Chadwick
Yes. It's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." And it works.
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We’ve Gone from American Exceptionalism to American Unexceptionalism
Fred Zilian
This is what Trump has accomplished in 6 short months.
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Rural and City Folk ARE Different, and History Shows this Isn’t New
Michael Rapport
But what the past also suggests is that the right forms of investment in such areas as infrastructure and education may provide part of the solution to the problems that beset both.
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The Debate over the Lack of Debate on the GOP Healthcare Plan
Checkered History
The Political Uses of the Past Project discovered in Senate speeches an unusual number of references and appeals to history.
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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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Did Russia Kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?
Robert T. Souza
Friday’s claim should be taken with a grain of salt.
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China’s Moving in on Africa. Why Africans Should Be Afraid.
Greg Bailey
As China increases its footprint on the continent there will doubtless be more push back with no guarantees it will be any smoother than the rest of Africa’s beleaguered history.
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What Does H.R. McMaster’s Famous Book Tell Us About Him?
Michael H. Hunt
How would McMaster today compare the Vietnam policy he indicted in his book with the failed record of counter-insurgency in which he has played so signal a role?
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My Cheating Memoirs #2: Freud's Four Stages of Sexuality in Mississippi
Jim Loewen
You remember the 4 stages, right? Oil, annual, psychosexual, and nonmanual.
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Why There’s Plenty to Celebrate on JFK’s 100th Birthday
Michael McQuillan
“My children ask why I still admire Kennedy since he betrayed his marriage vows. He matured as a leader, I say.”
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What Fax Machines Can Tell Us About Electric Cars
Infinity, Limited
Imagine if you could fill up your GM car only at GM gas stations. It's the fax system problem all over again.
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An Outrageous Claim About Jefferson Made to Make a Point
M. Andrew Holowchak
On the “sloppiness of much of Jeffersonian scholarship.”
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Deep Soap Opera and Villainess (?) in 1830s England
Bruce Chadwick
"My Cousin Rachel" is a delicious romantic puzzle and a good old English family squabbles tale, and DuMaurier fans will love it.
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How's that New Movie About Slain Rapper Tupac Shakur?
Bruce Chadwick
"All Eyez on Me" is a fierce, vivid look at rap music history in the 1990s and the way that Tupac and his music shook up a nation of young people in search of a new world and a new star to lead them to it.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
News
- New book says amount of mustard gas exposure in World War II may be higher than acknowledged by government
- Canada’s Secret to Resisting the West’s Populist Wave
- Trump’s travel ban is built on a law meant to ‘protect’ the U.S. from Jews and communists
- The Time to Retrieve Time’s Time Capsule Is at Hand
- Manassas church opens restored slave cabin to the public
- John B. Boles wants students to know more about Jefferson than that he was a slaveholder
- Historian Daniel K. Williams says Democrats have a religion problem
- Bill O’Reilly – America’s best-selling “historian” – ridiculed in Harper’s for writing bad history
- Largest history festival is the UK criticized for being white and male
- Eric Foner doesn’t think much of a book that claims Lincoln moved slowly to emancipate blacks because he was a racist
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