Roundup

Feb 11, 2016

Roundup Top 10!

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

Feb 11, 2016

Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About

This week ... Yohuru Williams, Simon Schama, Rick Perlstein, David Greenberg and more.

Feb 11, 2016

Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This week ... NASA, Hitler, Japan, Roots, crossword puzzles, and more.

Source: OUPblog

Feb 11, 2016

Infographic: The evolution of humans

To celebrate his birthday and Darwin Day, the University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) team has read through the hundreds of academic works available to delve into the history of humanity. View their infographic and find out for yourself how we became human.

Source: The Los Angeles Times

Feb 11, 2016

A Jewish candidate won a U.S. presidential primary for the first time

by Jonathan Zimmerman

And America yawned.

Source: In These Times

Feb 9, 2016

‘Liberal’? No. ‘Progressive’? Nah. How About ‘Democratic Socialist’?

by Leon Fink

The democratic socialist tradition that Sanders is invoking may be just what we need.

Source: Tom Dispatch

Feb 9, 2016

Two, Three... Many Flints

by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis

Source: Slate

Feb 8, 2016

Ted Cruz Is Not Eligible to Be President

by Eric Posner

At least according to the most plausible constitutional interpretation.

Source: NYDailyNews

Feb 8, 2016

When black athletes can't win: Attacks on Cam Newton are consistent with how the white establishment has always treated African-American stars

by Jonathan Zimmerman

We shouldn't judge Newton's behavior more harshly than other players who have acted in similar ways.

Source: The American Prospect

Feb 8, 2016

Black Culture and History Matter

by Kirsten Mullen

It took 150 years after America officially abolished slavery to get a national museum on the black experience.

Source: The Boston Globe

Feb 7, 2016

How Margaret Chase Smith stood up to Joseph McCarthy — and won

by Ted Widmer

When the Republican senator from Maine stood up to Joseph McCarthy in 1950, attacking him for his shameful reliance on "the Four Horsemen of Calumny — Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear," it caused a sensation.

Source: Informed Comment

Feb 7, 2016

5 Worst Foreign Policy Moments of GOP New Hampshire Debate

by Juan Cole

Inevitably with this gang, war, torture and sundry mayhem did make an appearance. Here are the five most cringeworthy moments.

Source: Edge Effects

Feb 4, 2016

America’s First Great Epidemics From Lead in Water Pipes

by Karen Clay and Werner Troesken

During the 1890s and early 1900s, epidemics of water-related lead poisoning occurred all across the United States and Europe.

Feb 4, 2016

Roundup Top 10!

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

Feb 4, 2016

Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This week ... Disney, Black Panthers, Virgin Mary, and more.

Source: Process

Feb 2, 2016

If Trump, and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populist Mean?

by Charles Postel

Pairing Sanders and Trump indicates just how flexible the term populist has become and poses the question as to whether populist has any useful meaning and if so, what it might be.

Source: Informed Comment

Feb 2, 2016

Foreign Policy Winners and Losers in Iowa

by Juan Cole

The Iowa Caucus voters likely voted mainly on domestic policy issues, but it is worth considering the foreign policy implications of the winners of the primary.