Current Events that Relate to History
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Antecedent
The Making of the Springfield Working Class
Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.New York Review of Books -
Comment
US President or American Caesar?
American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?History Today -
Comment
What Does Caste Have to Do With Kamala Harris?
This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?Harper's Bazaar -
Discovery
America’s Oldest Surviving Tombstone Probably Came From Belgium
How researchers analyzed limestone to determine the age and origins of the grave maker, which marked the final resting place of a prominent Jamestown colonist.Smithsonian -
Media Criticism
The Polling Imperilment
Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?The American Prospect -
Comment
The 1912 War on Fake Photos
Fake photographs of the US president sparked calls for regulation of analog photo editing.Pessimists Archive -
exhibit
Nuestra América
This exhibit explores the diverse cultures and shared experiences of Hispanic Americans at the polls and in popular culture, at work and in movements for social change.
From the HNN Archive
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The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Overexposed
What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age? -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
Books That Speak of Books
How a subgenre of murder mysteries plays with the way real history is written. -
The Bowl Truth
On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut. -
Mastering the Art of Reading an Old Recipe
For every moment of historical significance, there is a figure — often hidden — who fed the figures we do remember.