Before Germans Slaughtered Jews They Slaughtered Africans
By Edwin Black
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What Would the Founding Fathers Have Made of Donald Trump?
Harlow Giles Unger
You might as well ask what they would have made of a semi-literate, with the limited vocabulary of a thuggish adolescent.
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Why I Am a Social Democrat (and Why I Voted for Hillary Clinton)
John L. Godwin
A southerner’s perspective.
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The Other Big Surprise of 2016 Is the Return of Democratic Socialism
Lawrence S. Wittner
Whether or not Sanders reaches the White House, it’s clear that democratic socialism has made a comeback in American life.
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Why Obama’s Trip to Hiroshima Matters more than You Might Think
William Lambers
It could give a boost to the stalled effort to approve the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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An Open Letter to President Obama on Hiroshima
Thomas Fleming
What Hiroshima means to this historian who interviewed Truman about the decision to drop the bomb.
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Why this Historian Decided to Run for Congress
Junius P. Rodriguez
He decided he no longer could sit on the sidelines.
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This Historian Just Made It Likelier that Sandy Hook Parents Will Be Able to Press Their Case Against Remington
Pamela Haag
She’s got the evidence that bolsters their case that Remington’s marketing has long targeted teenage boys.
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The Black Leader in the 19th Century Who Warned Us About a Donald Trump
Shawn Leigh Alexander
His name was T. Thomas Fortune and his prophesy came in 1884.
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Without this, Technological Progress in the 19th Century Would Have Been Much Slower
Ben Wilson
It’s gutta-percha. Here’s why it was vital.
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Dick Gregory Comes Out Blasting Once More
Bruce Chadwick
The powerful story of Dick Gregory is told in a dazzling new play, "Turn Me Loose: A Play about the Comic Genius Dick Gregory."
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Five Things You Didn’t Know About John James Audubon
Peter B. Logan
#4: He wasn’t a conservationist.
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Turning the Movies of the Past into Concert Hits of the Present
Bruce Chadwick
The combination of historic movies and orchestral music is a surefire hit and we are bound to see more of them around the country.
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The World War 2 Maritime Disaster that History Forgot
Robert P. Watson
It was the mistaken sinking of the Nazi Titanic – Cap Arcona. The British bombed the ship at the end of the war, killing thousands of Holocaust survivors.
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The 2016 Choice: A Liberal Hawk vs. America First
Ralph Seliger
Sure Hillary Clinton made mistakes, but her strategy in retrospect often looks sound. Trump’s approach to foreign policy doesn’t.
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One Thing the Democrats Don’t Need to Worry About
Ronald L. Feinman
It’s a myth that a third term for a president of the same party is rare.
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Remember the Generation Gap? No, Not THAT One!
Marc Wortman
A generation before the sixties another group of young people resisted their elders’ entreaties to prepare for war. These were the people who became the Greatest Generation.
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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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An Islamic Historian’s Response to Donald Trump’s Proposed Muslim Immigration Ban
Timothy R. Furnish
“Not all branches of Islam are equally culpable for this global problem.”
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They Are Europe’s Largest Minority – And also Its Most Despised
Jud Nirenberg
They’re Roma. And almost no one knows their history.
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How the Chinese Cultural Revolution Came to an End
Guobin Yang
A retrospective, 50 years after the official start of the Cultural Revolution.
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Yes, Native Americans Were the Victims of Genocide
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.
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The Movie that May Have Helped Change the Outcome of an Election: “All the Presidents Men”
Robert Brent Toplin
In the close election of 1976, it helped remind voters of the White House horrors of Watergate.
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A Magazine for the Complicated American
Ed Simon
Have you heard of the website ‘Merica Magazine? Here’s why it might be for you (or not).
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Sad Songs about Gay Life in Great Britain in the 1960s
Bruce Chadwick
As this play shows, gay life in Great Britain was excruciatingly repressive until the passage of the 1967 bill that made homosexuality legal.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
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Hitler in the 2016 Election
“Trump not bothered by comparisons to Hitler” — Politico headline
News
- The First Time a Plane Was Bombed
- Female World War II Pilots Can Now Have Their Ashes at Arlington National Cemetery
- Obama Signs Bill Removing ‘Negro,’ ‘Oriental’ from Federal Laws
- ISIS Destroys Ancient Adad & Mashki Gates in Nineveh, Iraq
- Geographical names with “Jim Crow” are history in this state
- Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90
- Greg O’Malley’s go-to slave trade database will soon show more than the path the ships took from Africa to the New World
- In a wide-ranging interview Manisha Sinha discusses abolitionism, Bernie Sanders and socialism
- Bill Gates recommends reading Yuval Noah Harari’s "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"
- Fritz Stern, a Leading Historian on Modern Germany, Dies at 90
