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History in Crisis: 5 Challenges to Organizing Graduate Student Workers and 3 Ways to Still Succeed

by Kyla Sommers

What panelists at #AHA19 had to say graduate student labor and organizing on college campuses. 

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Trump’s White Evangelicals are Nostalgic for an American Past that Never Existed for Blacks and Others

by John Fea

Indulging the practice of nostalgia is inherently selfish because it focuses entirely on their own experience of the past and not on the experience of others.

Alice Walker: In Her Own Words

by Robert Cohen

By reading a recent poem she wrote we can make a fuller assessment of the charge that she's anti-Semitic. 

A Century Ago We Came Up with an Imaginative Way of Dealing with Refugees

by Michael Goodyear

Why can’t we do it again?

Ok, We Returned the Stolen Bells to the Philippines

by Brian Shott

But we haven’t yet confronted the awful and complicated history behind the theft.

Oh No! The Depressing Truth About the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory Workers

by Donald Yacovone

They were slaves made to look like Sambo stereotypes.

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.