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So I Became a Historian—Now I’m Telling How It Worked Out

by Vaughn Davis Bornet

Advice to young people considering history as a major.

Why Conservatives Are Right to Stress Moral Education

by Walter G. Moss

As were the Founding Fathers.

We Need to Revive the Nuclear Disarmament Movement Now

by Lawrence Wittner

A practical proposal.

What I’m Reading: An Interview with Historian Walter Nugent

by Erik Moshe

What’s his favorite history book? "Other than my own and my wife's, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel.”

Thomas Jefferson’s Bizarre Fear of Monarchism (and Hume)

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Why Hume was much more “liberal” than Jefferson.

We Wanted to Publish an Illustrated History of the Holy Land. We Couldn’t Make Everybody Happy.

by H. G. M. Williamson

One compromise was to stop our history in 1918.

We’ve Helped Starving People Before. We Need to Do It Now.

by William Lambers

"Across 46 countries, 83 million people require emergency food assistance in 2019, 75% more than in 2015." -- Study

A Less-Kind and Less-Gentle Grand Old Party

by Paul J. Croce

The old GOP is dead. George H.W. Bush’s funeral marked the end of it.

Farewell

by M. Andrew Holowchak

An interview with HNN’s founder and publisher Rick Shenkman, who retires at the end of 2018.

Josephine Baker’s Secret Life as a World War II Spy

by Sherry Jones

A fiction writer tells this story in a new novel.

Was Sputnik Really the Beginning of the Space Age?

by Frank J. Engo

A look at the facts shows what’s wrong with the conventional narrative.

Could Socialites Save Washington from Partisan Gridlock?

by Joseph Dalton

The biographer of society editor Hope Ridings Miller says we can learn from the party givers of old how to get along despite our differences.

When We Really Needed an Anti-Lynching Law Congress Wouldn’t Pass It

by William Loren Katz

This is the man who proposed the first federal anti-lynching law. It was in 1900.  HR 6963.

Alice Walker's Not Guilty of Antisemitism

by Robert Cohen

As a student at Spelman, at risk to herself, she rose to the defense of the Jewish historian Howard Zinn. She remains proud of that defense to this day. 

What Could Be the Consequence of Trump’s Decision to Intervene in the Arrest of that Chinese National in Canada?

by Tom Clifford

We can’t be sure and that’s what’s scary.

What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Stacy D. Fahrenthold

by Erik Moshe

A historian should have “a willingness to fail frequently, and a commitment to failing a little bit better each time.”

Is Monticello Monetizing Race at Jefferson’s Expense?

by M. Andrew Holowchak

The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.

In Memory of the Man Who Was Identified with the “God Is Dead” Movement

by Ed Simon

Reflections on the Death of Thomas J.J. Altizer, the last nonconformist.

Now that the Bush Funeral Is Over with, We Need to Talk Honestly About the End of the Cold War

by Tarik Cyril Amar

And what we got wrong.

The Firing of Marc Lamont Hill Raises This Question

by Michael R. Fischbach

Is there a free speech double standard for blacks and whites?