Roundup

Video of the Week: Mount Rushmore worker looks back on project, 75 years later

by Chip Reid

Nick Clifford is the last survivor of the 400 men who carved the monument more than 70 years ago. Now, at 95, he’s a rock star.

The Liberal Dilemma: Can the New President Achieve Both Guns and Butter?

by Matthew Dallek

“Wake up every one of you to the two fronts on which our defense must be built!” - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1940

No Concession, No Sleep: Glued to the TV on Election Night 1960

by Michael Beschloss

The shifting returns of the Kennedy-Nixon race tested the fledgling television news operations and kept viewers in suspense until well past dawn.

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

by Matt Stoller

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

Why the Black Panthers Matter Today

by Yohuru Williams

One of the lessons to take away from the formation of the Black Panther Party is the need to acknowledge the concerns of citizens brutalized by a criminal justice system which functions today much in the same way it did fifty years ago.

The Truth About the Late Tom Hayden—Whitewashed by the MSM

by Ronald Radosh

The worst claim in the Times’ obituary is that Hayden was a “peace activist” who “opposed violent protests but backed militant demonstrations.”

Why Historians Must Use Wikileaks To Write The History of the 2016 Election

by Paul Gregory

Wikileaks is giving historians access to documents the authors never thought would be public; that makes the documents invaluable.

Blowback for American sins in the Philippines

by Stephen Kinzer

Rarely has blowback from an overseas intervention come back to haunt us so long after the shooting stopped.

Does history happen in leaps or incrementally?

by Stephen J. Dubner

A discussion with Harvard economist Ed Glaeser on the podcast Freakonomics.

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

Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About

Topics this Week include ... slavery, a gentleman named Trump, Jerusalem, democracy, and more.

Pop Culture Roundup

This Week:  #BlackAmericaPBS, American Revolution Museum, THE anti-labor film, Barry Obama movie, and much more!

Trump’s attitude is not ‘unprecedented.’ Nixon was a sore loser, too.

by David Greenberg

Stop pretending the defeated candidate is always gracious.

Can democracy be saved by those who have been historically excluded?

by Michael Suk-Young Chwe

The people we rely upon to save democracy are exactly those people whom the United States historically excluded: women and people of color.

Iran/Contra Was the Prototype for Post-Vietnam Imperial Adventure

by Greg Grandin

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.

Thanks to Trump, We Can Better Understand How Hitler Was Possible

by Chemi Shalev

America isn't Nazi Germany and Trump isn't the Führer. But today it is easier to grasp how millions of people accepted the outrageous lies and dangerous delusions offered by the tyrant.

Seeing Hitler Everywhere

by Uri Friedman

“As a rule Hitler comparisons are not about fairness. They have a political purpose.”

Video of the Week: What Are the Nastiest Campaigns in History?

A Columbia professor walks viewers through some of the ugliest campaigns in our history.

The Urge to Splurge

by William D. Hartung

Why Is It So Hard to Reduce the Pentagon Budget?

The Republican Party is coming apart. Here’s what it can learn from the 1956 Democrats.

by Boris Heersink

If Trump loses in November, Republican leaders can continue along the same path they have followed in recent years, or they can try to actively compete for a growing segment of the voting population.