Roundup

The South won the Civil War: White men, racial resentment, and how the Bitter Minority came to rule us all

by Paul Rosenberg

Nixon's Silent Majority, neither silent nor a majority, runs Congress and propels Trump. How did this happen?

Trump vs. the Founding Fathers on Muslims Coming to US

by Juan Cole

Forbidding people from entering the United States on the basis of their religion is inconsistent with the ideals of the Founding Generation of the United States of America.

America's Reckless War Against Evil

by Ira Chernus

Why It’s Self-Defeating and Has No End

Whether to kill baby Hitler might be a political firecracker, but can counterfactuals say anything deeper about the past?

by Rebecca Onion

The counterfactual is a friend to science-fiction writers and chatting partygoers alike. Yet ‘What if?’ is not a mode of discussion you’ll commonly hear in a university history seminar.

How Can We Fight Home-Grown Terrorism?

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Try Civics Class.

Story off the Week: The Revolution's Longest Love Story

by Gil Troy

The longest living American Revolutionary War veteran also had the longest marriage.

Lincoln's Struggle With The Thirteenth Amendment

by Christian Samito

Amending the Constitution broke with Lincoln’s long-held belief that it should not be altered because the work of its Framers could not be improved.

Emperor Weather

by Tom Engelhardt

Turning Up the Heat on History

Why Bernie Sanders Should Embrace European Models of Democratic Socialism

by Leon Fink

American radicalism can’t be confined within US borders.

Woodrow Wilson, Race, and the Depravity of Human Nature

by Barry Hankins

If the controversy over Wilson results in a heightened awareness that all our heroes are flawed, it will be a debate worth having.

Woodrow Wilson Was More Racist Than Wilsonianism

by David Milne

America’s 28th president reversed racial progress at home. But internationally he was ahead of his time.

Why the 2016 Election Will Be One of the Most Pivotal Moments of Our Time

by Sean Wilentz

Every four years the contending political parties describe the impending presidential election as a great historic event – and every once in a while it's true. As Wilentz explains, you can blame Nixon. 

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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

Paris, Trump, Planned Parenthood, Israelis-Palestinians, and more. 

Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This week ... world's largest painting, Orson Welles, Trumbo, Berlin, Ethel Rosenberg, and Jane Austen.

Beyond ISIS

by Andrew J. Bacevich

The Folly of World War IV

How the NRA is harming American Security

by Juan Cole

Mass Shootings as Serial Terrorism

Transforming Higher Education

by Steven M. Gillon

We face a paradox in the 21st century: We desperately need an educated workforce to fill jobs that are increasingly skilled and technological; yet we are making earning a college degree less attainable.

Planned Parenthood attack is domestic terrorism

by Johanna Schoen

It is high time we understand this kind of violence and call it what it is: domestic terrorism.

Woodrow Wilson's other problem

by Chad Pearson

Three of his key supporters favored the open shop, the union-busting position of conservative business interests.