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College Administrators are Falling Into a Tried and True Trap Laid by the Right
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, courts, and police.The Conversation -
Comment
The Plot to Wreck the Democratic Convention
May not amount to much, actually. Chicago 2024 is not Chicago 1968.The Atlantic -
Longread
Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads
As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past.The New Yorker -
Biography
Jack Conroy and the Lost Era of Proletarian Literature
In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.The Nation -
Discovery
He Published the First Abolitionist Newspaper in America. He Was Also an Enslaver.
When "The Emancipator" was first published in 1820, its original owner had to answer for why he owned Nancy and her five children.The Emancipator -
Book Review
From “Boring” to “Roaring” Banking
On the mechanics of Wall Street’s influence on key institutions of American democracy, from the New Deal to today.Public Seminar -
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1968 @50
A year of turmoil at home and abroad.
From the HNN Archive
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The Leaders of Tomorrow
What happened in 1970 after Richard Nixon was told, “I doubt that there would be any problem of student demonstrations in Tennessee.” -
Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms. -
No Place to Make a Vote of Thanks
On the long tradition of Black third-party activism.