Current Events that Relate to History
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Book Review
Friend of the Family
Jean Strouse explores the relationship between the Anglo-Jewish Wertheimers and John Singer Sargent, who painted twelve portraits of them.New York Review of Books -
Film Review
The Thin Line Between Biopic and Propaganda
The success of Reagan reflects the market demands of a more fragmented moviegoing public—and reality.The Atlantic -
Comment
Understanding Latino Support for Donald Trump
Democrats have often described Latinos as decisive when they support liberal candidates and inconsequential when they don’t.The New Yorker -
Retrieval
A Linear Morse Code
How fifty years of barcode magic came to be.What's Gone Right -
Longread
The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict
History can make the U.S. better prepared for the specter of protracted large-scale ground combat, which has grown more real in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine.Texas National Security Review -
Film Review
"A Long Way to Go and a Short Time to Get There"
In the 1970s, trucker films like "Smokey and the Bandit" celebrated rebellious, working-class solidarity and freedom, with complex politics at play.Dreams in the Which House -
exhibit
Blame Games
This exhibit meditates on the theme of blame, exploring who has been deemed responsible for what throughout the course of American history.
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. -
The Other Sherman’s March
How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power. -
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?