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Review of James Comey’s, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership"
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Can Books by a Fired High Official Like James Comey Damage a President?
Bruce W. Dearstyne
It’s happened before. The president? Andrew Jackson, Trump’s favorite.
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The Long and Despicable Roots of Voter Suppression and Similar Tactics
Frank Palmeri and Ted Wendelin
They go back to the very origins of the country when the white South sought to dominate politics.
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The End of the Trump Presidency Now Looms
Ronald L. Feinman
While it now seems likely that Trump will outlast the 492 days of Zachary Taylor’s presidency, it’s doubtful his term will last as long as Warren Harding’s.
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No Matter How Bad Trump Is at His Job, He’s Unlikely to Be Impeached Unless Congress Can Finger Him for a Crime
David O. Stewart
Impeachment is a political act masquerading as a judicial proceeding.
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Before the Gold Rush There Was This
Richard Ravalli
A half-century boom in the fur trade that decimated California otters.
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Children Are At Risk. Why Aren’t We Doing More?
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100 years ago Woodrow Wilson launched a federal initiative to improve children’s health and welfare. He called it Children’s Year. It’s time for another.
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Review of Steven Pinker’s “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress”
Walter G. Moss
A social scientist’s brief on behalf of reason.
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When Did Americans First Become Shocked by Lying?
John V. H. Dippel
It was at the turn of the last century when two famous explorers both claimed to have been the first to step foot on the North Pole.
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So How Should We Think About Sherman’s March?
J.D. Dickey
The fact is historians are still fighting over it.
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The Man Who Prevented the Outbreak of World War III
Douglas Gilbert
His name was Vasili Arkhipov. During the Cuban Missile Crisis he refused to go along with an order to fire a nuclear missile.
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The US, France and Great Britain Helped Make a Mess of the Middle East
David Lee McMullen
Missiles won’t clean it up.
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Why No One Should Be Shocked at Paul Ryan’s Retirement
Arthur I. Cyr
Whatever his personal reasons, structural changes in Congress make life tough for any House Speaker.
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We Solemnly Chant “Never Again.” Now, We Know Better.
Edwin Black
The new battleground is not in some basement or backyard where hate is brewing. It’s not on the street. It’s in your phone and on your screen.
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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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Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians: 2018
What happened at the annual meeting held in Sacramento.
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How Come Wall Street Hasn’t Been Caught Up in the #MeToo Movement?
Robert Wright
The short answer: They’ve already been here before.
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A Short Chat at a Party with Some Ambassadors from Former Soviet Republics and Suddenly this Historian Was an “Informed Source in Jerusalem”
Isabella Ginor
It happened twenty years ago when Bill Clinton launched missiles in the midst of his sex scandal.
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We Generate More Data Driving to Work Each Day than Did Alexander the Great’s Entire Army Marching to India and Back
Frank L. Holt
But that didn’t stop this courageous historian from trying to quantify Alexander’s wealth.
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What You May Not Realize About the Supreme Court Ruling that Backed Affirmative Action
Anders Walker
40 years after the Bakke decision its endorsement of diversity may have been an ironic legacy of Jim Crow.
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A Writer at The Atlantic Uses History to Make a Point About the 2016 Election – And Historians Moan
Michael Brenes
Here's why they aren't celebrating this attempt at a usable past.
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Which Nations Are the Happiest?
Lawrence Wittner
And guess who’s not on the list: the three countries that claim to be the most powerful.
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There's No There There
Worries in the wake of the U.S.-led bombing of Syria.
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How We Got Trump
Donne Levy
The change in our political structure that led directly to Trump’s election.
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They Thought He Was Black, so They Claimed the Inn Was Full.
Jim Loewen
Motels and race relations in the Mississippi Delta in the 1970s.
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The Rare Pundit Who Understood War & Militarism: In Memoriam
There's No There There
William Pfaff's death represented a serious loss of columnists willing to challenge our politics of war and militarism.
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These Are the Women in Richard the Lionheart’s Life You Should Know About
W. B. Bartlett
First and foremost there’s his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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The Awful War to End All Wars: Now on Display
Bruce Chadwick
The Minnesota exhibit is touring various large museums across the country. Go see it!
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
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- Dartmouth historian Matthew J. Garcia says conservative partisans in Arizona have taken over a civics school he once ran
- Berkeley’s Carolyn Merchant explains what ecofeminism is
- University of Southern California's David Kang says Korea is the only place on earth where the Cold War continues
- W.R. Smyser, U.S. diplomat turned historian of postwar Germany, dies at 86
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