Current Events that Relate to History
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CommentBad Beef
Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.Public Books -
CommentHistory’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism
Even Trump’s recent assertion that he would use executive action to abolish birthright citizenship has a historical link to the Chinese American experience.The New Yorker -
ObituaryShe Launched the Modern Antigay Movement in America. It Worked—Just Not as She Intended.
Anita Bryant’s legacy is not what she hoped—but her destructive message lives on.Slate -
Book ReviewThe Battle for Birth Control Could Have Gone Differently
Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?The New Republic -
TV ReviewStar Trek’s Cold War
While America was fighting on the ground, the Federation was fighting in space.The Atlantic -
DebunkMy Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife
A new theory of the leisure class influencer.Literary Hub -
exhibitLegacies of Jimmy Carter
Historical reappraisals of Carter's legacies in foreign relations, the economy, the environment, and electoral politics.
From the HNN Archive
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Letting the World Scream
In 1984, the U.S. rejected the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction, revealing its tendency to ignore international rules it sees as unfavorable — even when it helped write them. -
The Burned-Over District
The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come. -
The Other Sherman’s March
How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power. -
Knight Club
Were the Knights of the Golden Circle responsible for Lincoln’s assassination? No one knows, but far-right secret societies always draw power from speculation. -
The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Nuggets of Condescension
By universalizing their own economic history, Western observers have used the past to portray African economic culture as backward and inadequate.