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HNN Sponsor HNN Jobs Board HNN features a Jobs Board.   If you want to post an announcement of a job related to history, come have a look!  Learn More. Featured Job - Early Modern Europe – Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track SUNY Cortland - Postdoctoral Instructorship in History California Institute of Technology – Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences   Hot Topics - Vietnam War - North Korea - Puerto Rico News About the Arts and Books #HNN_arts #HNN_books New on the Homepage What's Missing From the Vietnam War Documentary? by Jeffrey P. Kimball Why the US waged war in Vietnam. Trump's NFL Tirade Is a Distraction from Real News – Like the World Hunger Crisis by William Lambers Hunger threatens Puerto Rico and famine threatens 4 other nations. Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on. Rocket Man Knows Better by Blaine Harden The lesson of the Korean War is that for all its Orwellian blather, the Kim family dictatorship has survived this long by being coldly rational, even as it projects wild-eyed belligerence. Will Donald Trump Destroy the Presidency? by Jack Goldsmith He disdains the rule of law. He's trampling norms of presidential behavior. And he's bringing vital institutions down with him. We don't think Michelle Jones could change because we see black moms as monsters by Manisha Sinha Part of the controversy at the heart of Jones's case is about our culture's differing notions of crime and punishment: While progressives in the United States have tended to prefer reformative justice, conservatives have tended to resort to retributive justice. Medicare for all sounds great, but BernieCare is a political flop by Christy Ford Chapin It fails to learn from Medicare's success and the Affordable Care Act's struggles. The Descent of Democracy by Khalil Gibran Muhammad Trump is indeed a threat to democracy but it is important to recognize that the threats are not new. How Congress Got Filled With Future Ex-Cons by Gil Troy This soft spot for rascals seems surprising in a nation founded by bluenose Puritans and virtue-obsessed Revolutionaries, but charming sinners often trump priggish saints. Recalling Muhammad Ali's Vietnam War Resistance in the Age of Trump by David Remnick What makes modern athletes' national-anthem protests different from Muhammad Ali's resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and his insistence on the rights of African-Americans, a half century ago? If Trump were really President, he'd Forgive Puerto Rico's Debts and Rescue it by Juan Cole So you want to help Puerto Ricans, who are, remember, American citizens? Act like a president. Be decisive. The Post-Literate American Presidency by Jeet Heer Trump is truly the first TV president and a harbinger of the decline in intelligence to come in U.S. politics. Borders are back and a new game looms by Niall Ferguson European elites sneer compulsively at Trump, but polls show that majorities of their citizens would support a similar ban on Muslim immigration into the European Union. World War III With China by Alfred W. McCoy How It might actually be fought. You Might Like Note from HNN Editor: HNN is not responsible for the content of these ads. Breaking News Stay Up to Date!  You can now receive a daily digest of news headlines posted on HNN by email. It's simple:  Go Here!  What follows is a streamlined list of stories.  To see the full list:  Go Here! 7 Things People Get Wrong About American History TIME asked seven historians about the myths they often find themselves debunking — and where Americans' understanding of their country's history tends to be incomplete. The Most Narcissistic Generation Was Born Between These Years And they reject the label. Octavius Valentine Catto honored in Philadelphia Who? That's the point. How One Agency Is Fixing American Amnesia About Reconstruction It's the National Park Service! No, Dinesh D'Souza, that photo isn't the KKK marching to the Democratic National Convention A Case Western Reserve historian spotted the error. The history of singing the national anthem before NFL games The history of playing the national anthem before sports games has strong ties with honoring the armed forces. UN Wants Canada To Apologize, Pay Reparations For Black Slavery Prior to its abolition, slavery was never widespread in British North America, although it was extensive in tropical colonies like Jamaica. Did their school have ties to slavery? Now students try to make sense of the answer. "Now that we have the information, what can we do?" said Hameed Nelson, 16, who also took part in the research. Wall Street Journal study finds that rural youths who enlisted after 9/11 shouldered the greatest burden for the nation's defense Per capita, nearly twice as many small-town Americans have died at war since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks compared with those from large metro areas. The National Security Agency's own history of tracking of U.S. Citizens is flawed The history incorrectly stated that Senator Howard Baker and journalists Art Buchwald and Tom Wicker, among others, were on the Watch List. They weren't. But they were on another equally-questionable list. You Might Like Note from HNN Editor: HNN is not responsible for the content of these ads.

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