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Where Are the Moderates?
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When Immigrants Become "Animals" Who "Infest Our Country" We Give Ourselves Permission to Do Terrible Things
Leonard Steinhorn
This includes tearing children away from their mothers.
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Critics of Trump’s Immigration Policy Can Cite the Bible, too
Ed Simon
For being a remarkably ambiguous text in so many ways, its position on the treatment of immigrants is consistent.
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Was the “Wizard of Oz” a Feminist Tract?
David B. Parker
A new way of looking at Frank Baum’s classic story.
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UPDATED Trump's Immigration Policy of Separating Children from Their Parents
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What America Keeps Forgetting About Robert E. Lee
John Reeves
He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him.
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The Little-Known Reason for the Battle of Gettysburg
Declan Cronin and Catherine L. Thompson
The Confederates marched on Gettysburg on account of their need for … shoes.
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Review of “Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy” by Ethan Kytle and Blain Roberts
James Thornton Harris
This detailed account of the struggles in Charleston provides a valuable new perspective on why certain groups in the South cling to a “whitewashed” version of history.
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t – A Summer of Magic
Bruce Chadwick
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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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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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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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