Current Events that Relate to History
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Comment‘It Reminds You of a Fascist State’: Smithsonian Institution Braces for Trump Rewrite of US History
Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex.The Guardian -
Book ReviewThe Inadequacy of the Abundance Agenda
Three new books propose market solutions to problems that require government intervention. We’ve been here before. It didn’t end well.The New Republic -
Book ReviewThe One Book That Explains Our Current Era Was Written 40 Years Ago
NYT pundits and NBA writers alike can't stop recommending this four-decade-old book.Slate -
Book ReviewPeaceable Revolutions
Linda Gordon argues that social movements are vital partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.New York Review of Books -
EtymologyUnderstanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular
The Right is exploiting a manufactured moral panic.Academe -
Book ExcerptHow the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 1900s Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza
The public and private battles waged across Europe and the United States during the 1918 flu pandemic.Literary Hub -
exhibitAmerica's Pastime
Histories of big league baseball, from the achievements of the players to the culture of the stands to the stories and traditions we pass down.
From the HNN Archive
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What Is the Role of the Historian?
Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution. -
“A Party for the White Man”
The scene at the 1964 Republican National Convention, when Barry Goldwater was nominated and black Republicans’ worst fears about their party were confirmed. -
Indifferent to the Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters. -
Ohio’s Little-Known Fascist Member of Congress
How a local prosecutor protected white supremacists and went on to a career in Washington, DC. -
When Good Housekeeping Meant Getting Vaccinated Against Polio
The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial. -
The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
The Burned-Over District
The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come. -
Who Built the Panama Canal?
Finding testimony from the Afro-Caribbean workers who changed the Americas forever.