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Study: More Than One in 10 Americans Under 40 Thinks Jews Caused the Holocaust

A survey by the Claims Conference, an organization that coordinates restitution for Holocaust victims, showed most younger Americans are aware of the Holocaust, but there are substantial pockets of ignorance, denial, and antisemitic explanations. 

Reggae Legend Toots Hibbert Dies At 77

Toots Hibbert, the co-founder and lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, was one of the most distinctive and important voices of reggae and one of its founding fathers.

Glendale, CA City Council Debates Resolution Acknowledging History as a "Sundown Town"

HNN contributor Jim Loewen encourages readers to watch the Glendale, CA City Council discuss a resolution acknowledging the city's history as a "sundown town." 

Edinburgh University Ditches David Hume over Slavery Link

The University of Edinburgh will rename a tower in response to charges that philosopher David Hume endorsed racism.

Warren Harding: Grandson of Former US President Asks to Exhume His Remains

Members of Warren Harding's family have accepted DNA evidence of the paternity of the former president's daughter. Harding's grandson today seeks to have the body exhumed for further testing, possibly to spite the organization that runs the Harding Memorial. 

‘MLK/FBI’ Review: A Damning Look at J. Edgar Hoover’s Attempts to Destroy a Civil Rights Hero

The most revealing takeaway from a new documentary on the FBI's campaign to take down Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t that J. Edgar Hoover used every dirty machination at his disposal to take King down, but that most of the country seemed to think it was the right thing to do.

As Newsom Weighs Reparations Bill, A Scholar Has A Word Of Caution For California

An economist and leading scholar of the racial wealth gap urges California legislators to consider the bill as an effort at atonement, because full and proper reparations require a national and federal response from Washington. 

Arizona has Suppressed Black, Latino and Native American Voters for More than a Century

From its territorial days to the present, Arizona has a history of suppressing votes which came back with a vengeance after the 2013 Supreme Court decision crippled the Voting Rights Act. 

Florence Howe, ‘Mother of Women’s Studies,’ Dies at 91

Florence Howe faced difficulty in teaching in the early days of Women's Studies: a lack of materials. She started a press that changed that. 

John Fogerty Responds to Trump’s Unfortunate Use of “Fortunate Son”

"I find it confusing, I would say, that that the president has chosen to use my song for his political rallies, when in fact it seems like he is probably the fortunate son.”

Eisenhower Memorial, Delayed by Design Disputes, Opens This Week

The opening of the Eisenhower monument in 2020 may make many mindful of the contrast between Ike and the current head of the Republican Party, although the memorial's design has already sparked a bitter battle that fits the temper of our times. 

My Local Confederate Monument

by Casey Cep

The author examines the history and politics of the last remaining Confederate monument on public lands, other than battlefields and cemeteries, in the state of Maryland. 

Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now

Margaret Atwood, Héctor Tobar, Thomas Mallon and Brenda Wineapple on older political novels they admire that have a lot to say about the world today.

James Jackson, Who Changed the Study of Black America, Dies at 76

James S. Jackson pioneered survey methods that allowed African Americans to be studied as a group rather than in comparison to a baseline defined by whites. 

An Oral History of the Onion's 9/11 Issue

The satirical newspaper The Onion struggled to find a way to apply its trademark irreverance to the 9/11 terror attacks. For fans, however, the issue of September 27, 2001 met the grief and anger of the day with humor. 

"GUILTY": Justice for the Jesuits in El Salvador

Applying the doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction for human rights abuses, a Spanish Court found former El Salvador Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano guilty in the assassination of six Jesuit priests and two Salvadoran women in 1989. The National Security Archive supplied hundreds of declassified documents as evidence. 

History and Gentrification Clash in a Gilded Age Resort

A proposal to redevelop a section of Newport, Rhode Island far from the city's typical tourist destinations has generated an unlikely alliance of low-income residents who fear displacement and affluent historic preservation advocates. 

The Debt We Still Owe

Economist Sandy Darity summarizes the case for reparations through the persistent Black-White wealth gap. 

Yakima Sailor's Remains Identified 78 Years After Pearl Harbor Attack

Advances in DNA testing made it possible to identify the remains of Patrick Chess, unnacounted for and presumed dead in the attack on the USS Oklahoma. 

Sewanee Board Rejects ‘Veneration’ of Confederacy

The university, founded in 1857 to provide a college entirely free of northern influence, renounced its prior veneration of the "Lost Cause" myth of the Civil War.