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Not Even a Trip to the Amusement Park Has Been Easy for African-Americans
Victoria W. Wolcott
On past Memorial Day weekends blacks faced discrimination and open hostility.
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Is It Ok to Attack the Patriotism of Those with Whom We Disagree?
Gregory A. Daddis
It’s become an unfortunate habit for many.
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Why Isn’t Congress Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Memorial Day?
Ed Hooper
It is after all arguably our most sacred holiday.
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You’ve Heard of Eric Schneiderman. You Should Know About Rose Schneiderman.
Jennifer Scanlon
She’s the Schneiderman who championed women’s rights in the 20th century.
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The Anniversary We Forgot to Celebrate this Year – And Need to Remember More than Ever
Vaughn Davis Bornet
It’s the “American’s Creed,” a patriotic paean that reminds us of who we are and should aspire to be.
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The Year The World Almost Blew Up – And Nobody Noticed
Taylor Downing
It was 1983 and the Soviets nearly ordered a full pre-emptive nuclear strike against the US and Western Europe.
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History is Beyond the Relentless News Cycle
Daniel Noah Moses
The helpful perspective history offers in trying times like these.
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We Used to Understand the Connection Between Hunger and War
William Lambers
We shouldn’t have to relearn the lesson today that prompted the Marshall Plan.
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Old Lions Department: An Interview with the Africanist Joseph C. Miller at 78
Erik Moshe
How did Miller ever become an Africanist in the first place? By mistake, he says.
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Why We Should Be Celebrating the Treatment of Women in Anglo-Saxon England
Lynda Telford
They had rights and legal safeguards that it took women over eight hundred years of hard struggle to win back after the Norman Conquest.
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19 Presidents in a Row Promoted Social and Environmental Programs to Benefit Ordinary Americans. And then Came Donald Trump.
Ronald L. Feinman
History shows Trump is out of step with all of his predecessors, both Democrat and Republican, since Teddy Roosevelt.
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Gina Haspel Has Only Just Now Concluded that Waterboarding Is Torture?
William Schroderlives
It’s been used for thousands of years. It’s always been torture.
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What Was so Remarkable About that Royal Wedding Sermon
Ed Simon
And why it should be regarded as the best sermon of this young century.
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What Happens When You Discover that Your Father Lynched Someone?
Bruce Chadwick
That's the premise behind a play being staged around the country.
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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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The Forgotten Men who Shaped the Arab Revolt
Philip Walker
No. T. E. Lawrence wasn’t the only key European player.
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We Used to Think Only Other Countries Suffered Crises of Political Legitimacy.
Richard F. Miller
Now we have our own.
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Russia’s Our Enemy Again. What Should We Do?
Michael Creswell
A good place to begin is with our postwar Cold War strategy.
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Review of “Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary,” Edited by Laurence Bogoslaw
Walter G. Moss
Unlike many U. S. commentators, “they do not impugn his character, honesty, or intelligence.”
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Review of “Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey Through Peace, War, Revolution, & Terror” by Richard G. Robbins Jr.
Ron Briley
The fascinating story of a figure who straddled Imperial and Soviet Russia, shedding light upon modern Russian history and the legacy of autocracy which continues under Vladimir Putin.
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Worried About the Effect of Modern Technology on Kids?
Margaret M. Cassidy
Well, that’s an old story and here’s why.
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Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?
Bruce Chadwick
You can answer Shakespeare. But a new play in New York swears it's Marlowe.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
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