Current Events that Relate to History
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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 -
CommentTrump's Asylum Rhetoric is Rooted in the Mariel Boatlift
By suggesting that those seeking asylum in the U.S. are dangerous, Trump echoes the often false narratives around the 1980s Mariel boatlift.Made by History -
BiographyHow Louis Ziskind Helped Deinstitutionalize Mental Healthcare
A community health center in Los Angeles that sought to get patients back into the community.Nursing Clio -
Journal Article“Protecting Kids” from Gay Marriage
Leading up to a 2004 debate about same-sex marriage, conservatives shifted their focus away from moral issues and toward arguments about children’s welfare.JSTOR Daily -
VideoMud-Slinging and Deadly Duels: How Negative Campaigning Evolved
The factionalized press was the site of campaigning in the U.S.'s first contested presidential elections.Retro Report -
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. -
Books That Speak of Books
How a subgenre of murder mysteries plays with the way real history is written. -
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.