Current Events that Relate to History
In the Newsletter
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ProfileHe Told Richard Nixon to Confess
Most ministers were silent about Watergate. Why was one evangelical pastor different?Christianity Today -
NewsRemarkable Documents Lay Bare New York’s History of Slavery
A newly digitized set of records reveals the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North.Smithsonian -
AntecedentHow 'The Campus' Captured Our Imaginations—And Our Politics
At least since the 1960s, a warped vision of college life has shaped U.S. culture and politics.Made by History -
Book ReviewHow Snacks Took Over American Life
The rhythms of our days may never be the same.The Atlantic -
Book ReviewA Terrible Mistake
The long history of confusions, misconceptions, and miscalculations in the relationship between the US and Iraq, from 1979 to 2003.New York Review of Books -
LongreadThe Recollector
How the Wakasa stone, a memorial to a Japanese man murdered in an internment camp in Topaz, Utah, became the flash point of a bitter modern disputeThe Believer -
exhibitKidding Around
Stories of American children at work and play.
History and Current Events
From the HNN Archive
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The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Overexposed
What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age? -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
A Nice, Provocative Silence
An interview with the author of Cahokia Jazz. -
Access Denied
When the British government opened its archives to historians — and started relying less on the past for its own business. -
Mastering the Art of Reading an Old Recipe
For every moment of historical significance, there is a figure — often hidden — who fed the figures we do remember.