Roundup

Top Republicans Should Say They'll Accept the Result

by Corey M. Brooks

We saw perhaps more faith in the political system in 1860 than we are seeing today.

You won't have Trump to kick around anymore?

by Julian Zelizer

There is a historical model that comes to mind when thinking about what Trump might do or say if he loses in November: Richard Nixon.

‘Too Bad You’re Latin’

by John Leguizamo

The actor John Leguizamo, referring to himself as an amateur historian, says Americans need to know more about the Hispanic experience.

How a public park in the suburbs of Virginia helped beat the Nazis

by Karen Duffin

A story about Nazis who were sent to America to be interrogated. Many of the interrogators were Jewish. 

When women were admitted to Ivy League schools, the complaints sounded a lot like a Trump tweet

by Nancy Weiss Malkiel

A member of the class of 1936 objected to diluting ‘Princeton’s sturdy masculinity with disconcerting, mini-skirted young things...’

How the Battle of Trafalgar triggered a 19th-century Brexit

by Martin Robson

Over 200 years ago, Britain found itself isolated from Europe and looking elsewhere for trade. Remind you of anything?

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

Crazy, Fascinating & Horrifying

This Edition:  Holocaust denier David Irving, Trump's tax return, Charles Dickens, slavery, Nazi drug abuse, and more.

Pop Culture Roundup

This week ... Smithsonian's ruby red slippers, Nat Turner, Bob Dylan, Jim Lehrer, Wright Brothers movie, and much more!

Should a nation apologise for the crimes of its past?

by Tom Bentley

Merely recognising the violations of colonialism does not automatically lead to the conclusion that the states that once practised it should now apologise for their historical misdeeds.

Rise of the Reactionary

by Sam Tanenhaus

How a handful of Weimar émigrés came to have an outsized influence on the ideology of the American right.

The $5 trillion wars

by Linda J. Bilmes

Yet the trillions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in these wars have rated barely a mention in the presidential campaign.

7 Things to Know about Mosul

by Juan Cole

The Iraqi government has announced that the campaign to take the large northern city of Mosul back from ISIS. So what is the significance of Mosul as a city?

Britain is right to celebrate the abolition of slavery, but must acknowledge excesses of empire

by Alan Lester

Britain’s humanitarianism was part of the very fabric of imperial expansion – and reflected all its ambivalence.

Japanese Memories of the Asia-Pacific War

by Akiko Takenaka

Analyzing the Revisionist Turn Post-1995.

Our Feuding Founding Fathers

by Alan Taylor

Why do we cling to the myth of a golden age of American politics?

In a highly indebted world, austerity is a permanent state of affairs

by Mark Blyth

Strip away all the electoral politics at the moment in the US, the UK, Italy, Spain and elsewhere, and there's one underlying question. It’s a creditor/debtor stand-off where the creditors have the whip hand.

Roundup Top 10!

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

Peter Thiel Shows Us There's a Difference Between Gay Sex and Gay

by Jim Downs

When you abandon numerous aspects of queer identity, are you still LGBT?

Guns, Empires and Indians

by David J Silverman

Multilateral imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race and led to the violent transformation of Native America.