Current Events that Relate to History
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Comment
There’s a Very Specific Issue Haunting This Election. No One Is Talking About It.
You can bury it. But you can’t escape it.Slate -
Book Review
The Crime of Human Movement
Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.New York Review of Books -
Comparison
The Echoes of 1800 in the 2024 Election
This year’s momentous vote strangely resembles one of the most consequential elections in American history.The Bulwark -
Book Review
The Parenting Panic
Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.Boston Review -
Collection
Trumpism = Fascism?
Since 2015, historians and others have been debating the analogy with interwar Europe. Follow along in this annotated collection of their writing on the topic. -
Retrieval
How Women Used Cookbooks to Fight for Their Right to Vote
Before women could vote, they sold cookbooks like ‘The Woman Suffrage Cook Book’ to raise money for their cause.Eater -
Collection
Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Voting, a right not initially enshrined in the Constitution, has been secured, revoked, and contested since the nation's founding era.
From the HNN Archive
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The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Ohio’s Little-Known Fascist Member of Congress
How a local prosecutor protected white supremacists and went on to a career in Washington, DC. -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
The Bowl Truth
On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut. -
Regency Sex Ed
How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?