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Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.

We’ve never stopped fighting over the meaning of the war.

His name is Henry Walter Bates.  He's finally getting the credit he deserves.

We need to remember that many of these countries helped lead the way to the establishment of republican government.

On the anniversary of the end of the Civil War, it's worth remembering, as we read about other countries facing the challenge of national healing.

It’s because his legacy keeps becoming more and more relevant.

So far it has due to plain dumb luck.  But eventually, luck runs out.

It was the Fort Pillow Massacre. And it was ghastly.

We need to spend more on missile defense.

This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

Trump is self-serving, while Jackson used his power to advance democracy.

How a white eight year old who lived in DC experienced the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

It passes off as fact the myth that Ted Kennedy allowed Mary Jo Kopechne to suffocate.

It’s if a more competent politician who exploits rural grievances succeeds him.

First and foremost there’s his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.

William Pfaff's death represented a serious loss of columnists willing to challenge our politics of war and militarism.

Motels and race relations in the Mississippi Delta in the 1970s.

The change in our political structure that led directly to Trump’s election.

Worries in the wake of the U.S.-led bombing of Syria.

And guess who’s not on the list: the three countries that claim to be the most powerful.

Here's why they aren't celebrating this attempt at a usable past.

40 years after the Bakke decision its endorsement of diversity may have been an ironic legacy of Jim Crow.

The short answer: They’ve already been here before.

What happened at the annual meeting held in Sacramento.

The new battleground is not in some basement or backyard where hate is brewing. It’s not on the street. It’s in your phone and on your screen.