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Martha Hodes Talks "My Hijacking" with HNN | History News Network
<p>In 1970, when she was 12, Martha Hodes was held hostage for nearly a week in a campaign of airline hijacking that captured world attention. She discusses trauma and erasure in the historical record, the roles of remembering and forgetting in shaping views of the past, and how she investigated herself as a historial actor. </p>
New York's Education Wars a Century Ago Show how Content Restrictions Can Backfire | History News Network
<p>Laws enforcing ideological positions in education can gain popularity when they focus on unpopular ideas. But when they take effect to punish popular teachers, the public gets second thoughts. </p>
The Unlikely Success of James Garfield in an Age of Division | History News Network
<p>In a bitterly divided and restive political climate, James Garfield was too old, too esconced in the Washington establishment, and too conciliatory to be a credible candidate or a successful President. But he did ultimately change politics, though he didn't live to see it. </p>
Blaine Harden on the Persistence of Marcus Whitman's Myth in the West | History News Network
<p>"The history we learned was a lie, and it was a deliberate lie, one that had been debunked in 1900 by scholars at Yale and in Chicago. But the people of the Pacific Northwest, despite all evidence to the contrary, had clung to a story that was baloney. That's what hooked me."</p>
Was a Utah District's Decision to Remove the Bible from Shelves a Win for the Anti-Anti-Woke? History Says Maybe Not | History News Network
<p>When citizens invoked Utah's new "sensitive content" law to force the district to remove the Bible from school libraries, some hoped they had achieved a coup demonstrating the folly of the law. But the Bible has long been a part of cultural conflicts focused on schools, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon. </p>
The Army Warned Troops in 1945 of the Danger of Fascism. That Warning Rings True Today | History News Network
<p>As the military prepared for the occupation of conquered Axis nations, it realized that without awareness of the content and goals of fascism, it could emerge at home as "Americanism." </p>
Reading Peter Frankopan's Ambitious Planetary History | History News Network
<p>The Oxford historian's new book is a work of immense scope that succeeds in making human interaction with the environment a central character in history and argues for urgent action against the climate change that could write the final pages of that story.</p>
Jared McBride Sheds Light on the Darker Parts of Ukraine's History | History News Network
<p>The issue of Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi genocide has been a propaganda point in the war with Russia. Historian Jared McBride talks about the complexities of ethnic violence and the complications of archival research in Russia and eastern Europe. </p>
A Historian of Photographic Defacement in the USSR Faces His Own Erasure | History News Network
<p>Like the human rights group Memorial, photographic historian Denis Skopin has run afoul of the Russian state for his efforts to preserve knowledge of Soviet abuses of human rights and historical memory.</p>
California's Collusion with a Texas Timber Company Let Ancient Redwoods be Clearcut | History News Network
<p>It wasn't shocking that a Houston-based energy company would seek to liquidate newly acquired holdings of ancient redwood trees and defy California law to do it. It was shocking that state agencies seemed determined to help them do it. </p>
Maps are the Record of Humans' Imagination of the World | History News Network
<p>World maps have always been made without regard for practicality. Useless for navigation or for demarcating ownership, they are imaginative and expressive of a society's view of the world—which makes them important. </p>
Recovering the Story of the Empress Messalina After a Roman Cancellation | History News Network
<p>After the empress Valeria Messalina's fatal fall from favor with her husband Claudius, her name and image were stricken from public and private spheres, an episode that reveals the tightly-regulated dissemination of imperial women's images (and puts current "cancel culture" panic and whisper networks into perspective). </p>
Comparing the Trump – DeSantis Race to the Republicans' 1912 Debacle is a Stretch... Right? | History News Network
<p>The whiplash of Ron DeSantis's rise and fall against Trump in the polls could be nothing in comparison to the political shockwave that would result if the Florida governor succeeds in taking the GOP nomination, but Trump doesn't go quietly—the falling-out between Roosevelt and Taft shows how it might go. </p>
The Modern Relics in Crow's Cabinet of Curiosities | History News Network
<p>Understanding Harlan Crow's collection, including Nazi memorabilia, as a set of relics (and not trophies or investments) helps to clarify the unease Americans feel about his understanding of power and cultivation of relationships with people of influence over the federal judiciary.</p>
The Power of Dependency in Women's Legal Petitions in Revolutionary America (Excerpt) | History News Network
<p>It's anachronistic thinking to ask whether the American revolution improved women's status; a legal historian's new book seeks to understand change and continuity in women's status through those women's own worldview, which often involved leveraging their dependent status in specific claims. </p>
From "Shell Shock" to PTSD, Veterans Have a Long Walk to Health | History News Network
<p>Iraq War veteran Will Robinson brought himself out of a mental health crisis by hiking more than 11,000 miles of trail from the Pacific Crest to the Appalachian, following the century-old prescription of British military doctor Arthur Brock. </p>
Ayn Rand's Defense of an Anti-Union Massacre | History News Network
<p>The screenwriter and novelist was inspired by the 1943 memoir of Republic Steel head Tom Girdler, in particular his refusal to apologize for collaborating with Chicago Police to crush a march of striking steelworkers and their families in 1937. </p>
The Mexican War Suggests Ukraine May End Up Conceding Crimea. World War I Suggests the Price May Be Tragic if it Doesn't | History News Network
<p>Ukrainian leadership would likely compare the abandonment of its claim to Crimea to be an injustice on par with Mexico's surrender of California and the southwest to the United States. Is it the least bad alternative? </p>
Dangerous Records: Why LGBTQ Americans Today Fear the Weaponization of Bureaucracy | History News Network
<p>Requests made by Texas's Attorney General for information about gender change requests on drivers' licenses and other documents alarmed transgender advocates because the data could support an official list of trans Texans at a moment when the group faces public vilification. History shows that innocent bureaucratic records can be used oppressively.</p>
Texas Judge Revives Anthony Comstock's Crusade Against Reproductive Freedom | History News Network
<p>The career of Anthony Comstock shows what can happen when a highly committed moral crusader gains traction in the political system. His rehabilitation in the contemporary abortion war is cause for concern. </p>
What We Can Learn From—and Through—Historical Fiction | History News Network
<p>"I have written this to praise historical fiction when it respects the line between our times and the past, when it adheres to the known-truth and does not pervert it for excitement—or for book sales."</p>
AI the Latest Instance of our Capacity for Innovation Outstripping our Capacity for Ethics | History News Network
<p>The words of General Omar Bradley are as prescient as ever: "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."</p>
Contemporary Pundits Need a Refresher on Populism's History | History News Network
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">"Elites who tar their critics in the U.S. with the sly pejorative of 'populist' count on our collective amnesia. They’d rather the real Populists remained forgotten, along with the potential they represented."</p>
Stronger Global Governance is the Only Way to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons | History News Network
<p>The war in Ukraine and escalating tensions between the PRC and Taiwan are just two examples of the resurgent danger of nuclear war. A revived movement for true international governance is needed to ensure that the unthinkable becomes impossible. </p>
John de Graaf on his Powerful Documentary on Stewart Udall, Conservation, and the True Ends of Politics | History News Network
<p>A documentarian discusses his efforts to highlight the forgotten contributions of former Interior Secretary to the environmental and conservation movements, a mission that touches on deeper questions about how politics and the economy should serve quality of life over accumulation. </p>