The Trump Cult
By Ed Simon
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Trump's Immigration Policy of Separating Children from Their Parents
What historians are tweeting and retweeting.
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Trump’s Getting Us Ready to Fight a Nuclear War
Lawrence Wittner
Even as he holds out the hope of denuclearizing North Korea, he wants to increase the size and scope of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
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Trump Is Terrorizing Children
Richard E. Frankel
To this Holocaust historian what's happening is unconscionable.
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Which of the GOP Leaders in Congress Will Be Remembered for Their Moral Authority?
Donald J. Fraser
The answer seems all too clear.
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Is the West in Disarray?
Bruce W. Dearstyne
That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.
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A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine
Tom Engelhardt
The U.S. military has taken us through the gates of hell.
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This Juneteenth Let’s Remember Stories Like This One
Anna-Lisa Cox
It shows that slavery was not the only injustice affecting African Americans before the Civil War.
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The Great Black Abolitionist the World Forgot
Jared A. Brock
His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?
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Should We Bring Back Asylums?
Stacy Horn
If we did they’d probably fail and the for the same reason they failed in the past.
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Review of "Ocean's 8" – And Yes, There's a Reason to Review It on HNN
Bruce Chadwick
"Ocean’s 8" is a good film but leaves out the history behind a central event: the Met's Gala ball.
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Edith Sheffer's Amazing Book, "Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna"
Jonathan Rose
The appalling story behind the man Asperger’s is named for.
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The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Now Claims He Fathered Six Children with Sally Hemings
M. Andrew Holowchak
But is the matter really settled?
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Would the Trump Administration Separate Jesus from Mary and Joseph?
David B. Gowler
The policy of separating children from their parents is horrific.
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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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It’s No Downton Abbey, but It’s Just as Much a Part of English History
Jennifer Tucker
Widnes, where the Royals are visiting this week, was where the chemical industry was founded during the Industrial Revolution.
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The Notre Dame and Harvard of the Christian World?
Adam Laats
That was the dream for Liberty University at its founding.
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The Pulitzer's Gentlemen's Agreement
Philip Nobile
An open letter to the Pulitzer Board about its indifference to Alex Haley’s "deliberate deception" in his prize-winning "Roots."
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“Women Also Know History”: Dismantling Gender Bias in the Academy
Keisha N. Blain and Karin Wulf
Nearly half of graduate degrees awarded in history go to women and yet there's still a persistent problem of gender bias in the academy.
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Islamic Spain Ended in the 15th Century and We Still Can’t Agree If It Was a Paradise or Hell?
Brian Catlos
Even historians can’t agree.
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The Horrifying Nazi Roots of the Doctor After Whom Asperger’s Syndrome Is Named
Robin Lindley
An interview with Edith Sheffer.
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The Overlooked Radical of the Revolution: James Monroe
John Ferling
Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine – And Monroe? Why this historian thinks they should be grouped together.
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Unlike Obama, Trump Has No Moral Compass
Walter G. Moss
The failing is Trump’s – and ours – for electing him.
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Who Benefits from the “Booming Economy”?
Lawrence Wittner
Soaring wealth and incomes for the few do not automatically translate into better lives for the many.
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Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History
Chris Riback
There was really no way for the city of New Orleans to prepare itself for the next 300 years without dealing with its Confederate statues, he says in an interview.
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Old Lions Department: Architectural Historian Albert Schmidt at 92
Erik Moshe
His daily schedule? He gets up early, and starts working at 5:30-6:00 AM on his research papers.
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When We Murdered Birds to Make Hats
Bruce Chadwick
You can find out about this travesty from the New-York Historical Society's new exhibit, “Feathers: Fashion and the Fight for Wildlife.”
News
- Mark Twain Claimed He Got His Pen Name From a Riverboat Captain
- The story of the slave trade’s last survivor
- UFO Toy Discontinued for Teaching Kids That Nazis Could Travel in Space
- Psychologists say memorials to lynching victims help their African-American descendants
- Posters, Banners, Boarding Passes: Museums Try to Get a Head Start on History
- Daniel Pipes predicts chaos in the Middle East as countries turn away from fossil fuels
- Stanley Fish says historians are deluded in thinking their training gives them special insights in politics that should be passed on to students (and others)
- Guest historian this week: Paul Krugman, the economist!
- US Senator (and historian) Ben Sasse has denounced the policy of separating children from parents at the border
- Randall Stephens predicts most evangelicals will probably fail to come to grips with Trump’s cynical manipulations, his divisive, culture-war grandstanding, his philandering, and his lying
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