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• 1/20/19
  

  Ibram X. Kendi: Remember Dr. King's Nightmare This MLK Day

  by HNN Staff

  How historians can be inspired by remembering the radical and realist Dr. King.

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• 1/20/19
  

  Dr. King's Legacy and Nuclear Disarmament

  by William Lambers

  Few people know Dr. King was also an activist for nuclear disarmament and urged peace during the Cold War nuclear arms race. 

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• 1/20/19
  

  R. Kelly and the Silencing of Black Women in History

  by Tikia K. Hamilton

  The artist's continued freedom leaves us to question the extent to which legal authorities and the wider public takes abuses against black women and girls seriously.

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• 1/16/19
  

  William Barr Needs a History Lesson

  by Derek Litvak

  When conservatives claim birthright citizenship is not a part of the Constitution, they are ignoring America’s long history of slavery, discrimination, and segregation. 

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• 1/20/19
  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the History of Dance, Gender, and American Identity

  by Lauren Angel

  Because the act of dancing is fundamentally tied to behavior and appearance, debates about dance have historically been connected to representations of race, gender, and even American national identity.

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• 1/20/19
  

  Will Beto O'Rourke Follow the Path of Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush to the Presidency?

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  How previous longshot presidents defeated the odds. 

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• 1/20/19
  

  The Watergate at 50: What the Building Tells Us About the Nixon Administration's Initial Optimism and Eventual Demise

  by Joseph Rodota

  And what that means for our present political moment. 

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• 1/13/19
  

  A Tyrant's Temper Tantrum

  by Ed Simon

  How the History of England's 17th Century Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War Shows the Shutdown's Potential to Spur Radical Change

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• 1/9/19
  

  Congresswoman Virginia Foxx Thinks We Should Abandon The Term "Vocational Training." I Disagree.

  by David Barber

  It's still important to distinguish between "education" and "training." 

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• 11/4/19
  

  Government Shutdowns Illustrate the Pragmatism of the Founding Fathers

  by Dale Schlundt

  While we feel elements of failure and despair during a shutdown, it is also illustration of the fundamental brilliance of our Republic. 

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• 1/13/19
  

  The Myth of the Liberal Professoriate

  by Richard J. Morris

  If you think about it, university professors take a fundamentally conservative outlook.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  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.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  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. 

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• 1/13/19
  

  Is There a Statesman in the House?  Either House?  

  by John T. Shaw

  Now more than ever the United States needs leaders willing to put their careers on the line.

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• 1/6/19
  

  Fox News’s Nefarious Role in Misinforming Trump Voters

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  Those voters won’t change their minds about Trump unless the channel they watch begins reporting in prime time the stories the rest of us are hearing.

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• 12/20/2018
  

  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. 

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• 1/6/19
  

  Do We Really Need Billionaires?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Their vast fortunes were created much like those amassed by the Robber Barons of the late nineteenth century.

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• 1/6/19
  

  How a Harlem Immigrant Views What’s Happening on the Border

  by Eric V. Tait, Jr.

  What the immigration issue says about America.

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• 1/13/19
  

  Lots of People Won New Rights in the 1960s, but Not College Women Athletes

  by John Thelin

  Although the 1960s has been celebrated as a period of concern for equity and social justice, colleges showed scant concern for women as student-athletes.

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• Separating Children from Their Parents Is an Anglo-American Tradition

  by Jeremy Seabrook

  We need to face facts.