Current Events that Relate to History
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It’s the Charisma, Stupid
It’s not whom you’d want to get a beer with, but whom you’d want to watch getting a beer.Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera -
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Who Owns the Mountains?
Hurricane Helene has revived urgent questions about the politics of land in Appalachia.New York Review of Books -
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The Case Against New York Times v. Sullivan
The malice test is the result of judicial activism and should be rejected by a Court that understands its task as the discovery, not the invention of law.Law & Liberty -
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Trump's Deportation Model
A 1950s mass deportation campaign shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.Dissent -
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Climate Change Comes for Baseball
The summer sport is facing big questions about how it will adapt.The Atlantic -
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Congress’s Power to Investigate Crime Is More Important Than Ever
A new historical study finds that Congress’s authority to investigate crime is “indispensable” to the system of checks and balances.Lawfare -
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Trumpism
A presidency often referred to as "unprecedented" has deep roots in American history.
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. -
Ohio’s Little-Known Fascist Member of Congress
How a local prosecutor protected white supremacists and went on to a career in Washington, DC. -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
The Bowl Truth
On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut. -
Regency Sex Ed
How did women in 19th-century Europe learn about the birds and the bees?