Current Events that Relate to History
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CIA Agents Successfully Executed a Plan For Regime Change in Iran in 1953
A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy.The Conversation -
CommentWho Makes the Meaning of Mount Rushmore?
The Black Hills, and the memorial carved there, sit at the center of debates about American history and identity.Zócalo Public Square -
CommentDo U.S. Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?
On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.The New Yorker -
AntecedentThe Magazine That Made the Right Anticommunist
With its first issue eighty years ago, "Plain Talk" led the resistance to Soviet Russia and Communist China.Modern Age -
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2026 Iran war
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CommentLost Recipes
Early hip-hop magazines shaped culture journalism, but poor archiving, legal issues, and neglect have left much of their history missing online.Defector -
exhibitImperial Ambitions
Five hundred years of empire building in North America and beyond its borders.
From the HNN Archive
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How to Succeed in Government Without Really Trying
The long history of promising an “efficient” federal government. -
If the Slipper Doesn’t Fit
A scorched shoe is a crucial part of Zelda Fitzgerald’s modern mythology. But there’s no proof it existed. -
Indifferent to the Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters. -
Elevating the Few
What JD Vance excludes from the history of the Civil War and immigration. -
Whose Side Are College Administrators On?
There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts. -
Solve for AI
What the history of the pocket calculator reveals about the future of AI in classrooms. -
“At Any Future Time”
In 1880, the daughter of a Welsh politician turned to fiction to expose perspectives missing from the official record, upending histories for generations to come. -
Slamming America’s Door Behind Him
How a son of European immigrants fought to keep Indian immigrants out of America. -
Governing by Police
The Metropolitan Police Department in DC has been an essential component of Washington politics since its founding. -
When Good Housekeeping Meant Getting Vaccinated Against Polio
The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial.