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If We’re Going to Use Fire as a Metaphor in Politics, Let’s Get It Right
Stephen J. Pyne
A fire historian sets the record straight.
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Canada's Advantage Over the USA
There's No There There
Canada would never lecture another country on how they choose to govern themselves.
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Abolishing ICE Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Elliott Young
Abolishing ICE is like a demand to abolish fugitive slave catching. It’s a good move, but it’s not the same as abolishing slavery.
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The Overlooked Irony of the Red Hen Restaurant Incident
Wallace Hettle
It’s across the street from the home of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, where the myth of the Lost Cause is still celebrated.
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(Dis)Trust in Science: What Can We Do About the Scourge of Misinformation?
Intentional Insights
See how science can help with management of misinformation.
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Did His Wife Doom His Monarchy?
C.W. Gortner
100 years later we can see more clearly how the Romanov dynasty came to an end 100 years ago.
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India’s Cities Have an Ecological Crisis. A Historian Knows How They Got There.
Harini Nagendra
It was during the colonial and post-colonial period when the people of India’s relationship with nature changed (for the worse).
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Remember the Berlin Airlift?
William Lambers
We should in this hour of desperation when so many people around the world need our help to survive.
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Review of Beverly Gray's “Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How ‘The Graduate’ Became the Touchstone of a Generation”
Luther Spoehr
No counterculture? No Vietnam War? No racial tensions? No problem. How “The Graduate” connected to its audience.
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A Play About Senior Citizens Coming to Terms with Their Pasts
Bruce Chadwick
"Good Morning After Grace," by Carey Crim, is one of the funniest and most charming plays our reviewer says he's seen in years.
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Ibsen's "A Doll’s House" Gets New Lease
Bruce Chadwick
Do these spouses need a new Norwegian marriage manual or a chat with Dr. Phil?
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When (and Why) Did Supreme Court Nomination Battles Become All about Roe v. Wade?
Daniel K. Williams
For the first twenty years after Roe, Senate confirmation hearings were not polarizing conflicts over abortion rights. Here’s how that changed.
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Are Ranchers Out West Really Oppressed by a Federal Government in League with Environmentalists?
Keith Makoto Woodhouse
That’s what Trump’s pardon of the Hammonds implies. It’s wildly simplistic.
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Trump's Supreme Court Pick
What historians are saying on social media about Trump's selection of Brett Kavanaugh.
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The Founders Would Not Recognize Originalism—Why Should We?
Donald J. Fraser
As John Marshall noted, “historians can never forget that it is a debate they are interpreting.”
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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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UPDATED Trump's Immigration Policy of Separating Children from Their Parents
What historians are tweeting and retweeting.
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The Last Best Hope of Earth Society
Greg Bailey
Wondering how you can help revive America’s fortunes. Here’s one concrete suggestion.
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Tom Nichols Vents Again
Tom Nichols
His target: People who complain that rich snooty guys in suits are to blame for the resurgence of populism.
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Shouldn’t Historians Be Free to Ask Important Officials Tough Questions?
John Prados
That’s a pertinent issue in the wake of the decision of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations to invite David Petraeus as a keynote speaker.
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Historians Make too Much of This Document
David O. Stewart
It’s George Washington’s Rules of Civility.
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Has Democratic Socialism a Future in American Politics?
Lawrence Wittner
If it does, it likely will occur within the Democratic Party. There’s already evidence showing it has.
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Another Hero of the Civil Rights Movement You Probably Never Heard of (But Should Have)
Tula Connell
Her name was Vel Phillips. She was a path breaker in Wisconsin. She just died.
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It’s Time to Rethink the Byzantine Legacy
Michael Goodyear
It wasn’t Europe that gave us our idea of the Byzantines. They crafted their own Western European image.
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The Tragic, Too-Soon Death of Quentin Roosevelt
David Pietrusza
It happened 100 years ago this week.
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The Napoleon the French Turned Their Backs On
Alan Strauss-Schom
Why Napoleon III deserves their gratitude.
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Christmas 1956: Who’ll Stop Elvis?
Bruce Chadwick
Review of "Coming Back Like a Song: A Play About Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Jimmy Van Heusen."
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A New Macbeth Stumbles to the Top
Bruce Chadwick
This play's Lady Macbeth looks and acts more like June Cleaver from the old "Leave It to Beaver" television series. She is not plotting treason and murder, but Tuesday’s Tupperware party.
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