Roundup

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

May 1, 2016

The Peril of Perpetual Revenge

by Lawrence Douglas

In a new book David Rieff suggests that in many cases we may be better off forgetting the past.

Source: The National Interest

May 1, 2016

America Becomes What Its Founders Feared

by Louis René Beres

We the people want comfort and easy wealth, but very little else.

Source: Newsweek

April 30, 2016

Native Americans Were Kept As Slaves, Too

by Andrés Reséndez

Native Americans had enslaved each other for millennia, but with the arrival of Europeans, practices of captivity originally embedded in specific cultural contexts became commodified, expanded in unexpected ways, and came to resemble the kinds of human trafficking that are recognizable to us today.

Source: Informed Comment

May 2, 2016

Al-Qaeda Everywhere

by Juan Cole

US support for Oppressive Gov’t’s made Bin Laden’s Killing Moot

Source: The Nation

April 28, 2016

We Know We Hate the Establishment—but Do We Know What It Is?

by Michael Kazin

The vague term obscures where power really lies.

Source: Salon

April 30, 2016

Our gun myths are all wrong: The real history behind the Second Amendment clichés that have sustained our lethal gun culture

by Pamela Haag

America was born with a unique bond to gun culture, some would have you believe. They're peddling bad history

Source: CNBC

April 28, 2016

Who will Hillary Clinton choose as her running mate? Here's a hint.

by Joshua Spivak

Since 1940, every Democratic vice presidential nominee except two very notable exceptions has been a sitting U.S. Senator.

Source: NYT

April 29, 2016

The First Global Terrorists Were Anarchists in the 1890s

by Maya Jasanoff

In its heyday, anarchism promoted a broadly appealing vision of a free, stateless society.

Source: The Washington Post

April 28, 2016

Trump and Sanders aren’t blazing new trails.

by Bart Bonikowski and Noam Gidron

Populism has run through U.S. politics for a very long time.

Source: The Conversation

April 28, 2016

Labour in meltdown – but what is antisemitism?

by Eric Heinze

With simmering tension within the British Labour Party over claims of antisemitism, it’s an ideal moment to consider what antisemitism actually is.

Source: Politico

April 24, 2016

Sorry Gov. Kasich, ‘Electability’ Is Bunk

by Jeff Greenfield

Why 'electablility' is not—and should not be—a qualification for becoming a presidential nominee.

April 28, 2016

Roundup Top 10!

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

April 28, 2016

Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About

This week: Niall Ferguson leaves Harvard, Mary Beard has a new show on TV, Tim Naftali on being presidential, and lots more.

April 28, 2016

Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This week: Cervantes, Harriet Tubman, Reagan movie, a gay bookstore and more.

Source: Salon

April 28, 2016

Donald Trump, our terrifying Lone Ranger: The GOP front-runner acts like the president is above the law

by Rick Perlstein

Can old-fashioned democracy survive when the law is reduced to one man's will?

Source: CNN

April 28, 2016

Trump's 'America First' has ugly echoes from U.S. history

by Susan Dunn

Donald Trump chose to brand his foreign policy with the noxious slogan "America First," the name of the isolationist, defeatist, anti-Semitic national organization that urged the United States to appease Adolf Hitler.