Roundup

Source: Informed Comment
8/31/19

As Hurricane Dorian Threatens Florida, Gov. DeSantis & Trump—Who Haven't Curbed CO2 Emissions—Should Resign

by Juan Cole

If you don’t recognize the cause of a problem, you can’t fix the problem.

Source: NY Times
9/4/19

When Henrietta Wood Won Reparations in 1878

by W. Caleb McDaniel

She sued the man who had kidnapped her into slavery for damages and lost wages, offering lessons for today’s debate.

Source: Washington Post
8/29/19

Could footnotes be the key to winning the disinformation wars?

by Karin Wulf

More than ever, we need what this tool provides: accountability and transparency. 

Source: Washington Post
9/3/19

How the advanced placement program is failing students

by Annie Abrams

A new cookie-cutter website designed by the College Board represents a perversion of the program’s original mission of fostering creative and critical thinking.

Source: Washington Post
8/30/19

Globally, many evangelicals lean left: What that means for America’s future

by David C. Kirkpatrick

Conservatism isn’t the only option for religious voters.

Source: Washington Post
9/3/19

Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students

by Kathryn Schumaker

The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.

Source: The Guardian
8/30/19

To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era

by Ganesh Sitaraman

The playbook for taming industrial capitalism already exists. It’s the essential starting point for reform today.

8/30/19

Roundup Top 10!

This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

Source: Arc Digital
8/28/19

World War II Didn’t Begin in 1939. It Began in 1936 — In Spain.

by Paul Richard Huard

Revisiting world history might be one way to break Spain’s national silence about its civil war.

Source: CNN
8/28/19

Bret Stephens launches a foolish Twitter war

by David M. Perry

Being called a bedbug just isn't a big deal. Writing to a provost about the actions of an academic on Twitter, which Stephens said he did because "managers should be aware" how "their people...interact in the world," is the big deal. 

Source: The Activist History Review
8/27/19

Graduate Worker Organizing is Scholarly Praxis

by Hannah Borenstein

For many inside and outside of academia the notion that graduate students are indeed workers is not readily clear. In large part, I came to see this as mirrored through the reproduction of academia’s lack of emphasis on scholarly praxis.

Source: Wall Street Journal
8/25/19

The Weaponization of History

by Wilfred M. McClay

Ignorantly invoking slavery or the Holocaust is an affront to those who seriously study the past.

Source: The Conversation
8/20/19

It's time the public had a share in the past again

by Diána Vonnák

What we can learn about heritage-based urban renewal from Lviv, Ukraine. 

Source: CNN
8/24/19

Under Trump, the deficit has ballooned, exploding a GOP myth

by Julian Zelizer

Once again, President Trump has exposed a myth in American politics. That myth? That Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility.

Source: Washington Post
8/27/19

Democratic candidates are finally talking about domestic terrorism. Here’s why that matters.

by Alaina E. Roberts

When Beto O’Rourke referred to the Tulsa massacre, he was correcting the record on racial violence.

Source: Washington Post
8/29/19

Why anti-immigration politics hurt white workers

by Inés Valdez

No, immigrants aren’t taking your job — but vilifying immigrants helps undermine worker protection.

Source: The Hill
8/27/19

Shedding light on secret laws governing presidential power

by MARY DUDZIAK

This system of secrecy curtails the ability of historians like me to research some of the most consequential opinions justifying executive actions.

Source: Inside Higher Ed
8/27/19

Teaching in the Age of Me Too

by Eric S. Yellin

Eric S. Yellin was nervous about teaching a course based on a false rape accusation but found he was wrong to be so anxious -- and that the experience offered four lessons for instructors.

Source: The Conversation
8/23/19

Setting the historical record straight for the critics of The New York Times project on slavery in America

by Kelley Fanto Deetz

Conservative characterizations oversimplify the complex history of the slave trade and discourage important conversations about, and an understanding of, American history. 

Source: NY Times
8/14/19

America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.

by Jamelle Bouie

Featuring the work of historian Manisha Sinha.