Roundup

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Weaponization of History

by Wilfred M. McClay

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

Can you name the Republican president who risked his career for Mexico?

by Michael Hogan

A failure to teach the full and complex 19th century history of the U.S. and Mexico in U.S. classrooms has resulted in ignorance that helps feed anti-Mexico prejudice. 

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.

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. 

What country will Trump try to buy next?

by Jonathan Zimmerman

An imagined week in the real estate scheming of our tweeter in chief.

Roundup Top 10!

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

What Anti-Zionist Leftists Get Wrong

by Bernard Bohbot

Fully opposing the legitimacy of Zionism allows for the dubious proposition that Jews were wrong to seek a safe haven from persecution. 

The history of “German Angst” could serve as a lesson for today’s democratic societies

by Frank Biess

The Federal Republic is a remarkable democratic success story and the only such story in German history. 

It Takes Black Women in the U.S. 20 Months to Earn What White Men Make in a Year. Here's the History Behind That Wage Gap

by Andrea Flynn

In order to understand the present day race and gender wage gaps we must first look to slavery and the Jim Crow era that followed. 

Trump's tweets about 'disloyal' Jews are laced with centuries of antisemitism

by Emma Goldberg

There’s a sordid history to charges of Jewish dual loyalty in the US – and that history is alive and well.

White evangelicals once admitted they were wrong about Nixon. Will Trump come next?

by Anja-Maria Bassimir and Elesha J. Coffman

White evangelicals voted 84 percent for Richard Nixon in 1972 and 80 percent for Donald Trump in 2016. And many of the leaders stood by Nixon as scandals swirled around him, just as they have with Trump.

My 60 Years of Disappointment With Fidel Castro

by Enrique Krauze

Latin American, with few exceptions, they have refused to see the historical failure of the Cuban Revolution and the oppressive and impoverishing domination of their patriarch.

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. 

The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619

by Ibram X. Kendi

Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.

What 1969 Retrospectives Get Wrong About Baby Boomers and the Sixties

by Louis Menand

Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.

Video of the Week: The 1619 Project details the legacy of slavery in America

To observe the anniversary of American slavery, The New York Times Magazine launched The 1619 Project to reframe America’s history through the lens of slavery. The project lead, reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.