Новости за 15.05.2018

Even if it is not immediately a world at war, it will be a sort of concentration camp of terror, enervating fear of accident or design, of death and destruction.

Tweets, retweets, and commentary.

A history of polygyny helps explain it.

No one knows. But because sex fascinates and it sells, Monticello is ripping up floors and preparing to establish a new tourist attraction.

Fels claims New Left historians let a focus on race, class and gender bias their studies, but our reviewer says this is an oversimplification of a more complicated story.

It’s worth remembering his story, too, to show us the danger of superpower conflict.

Don’t facts matter any more?

An Interview with Georgetown University’s Maurice Jackson.

In what might be called infant economics, here’s a brief history of the black market baby trade.

No one’s talking about the violence.

The Cold War brought unprecedented insecurity to the U.S. Let's not repeat that history.

If Trump goes, we won’t be able to say our long national nightmare is over.

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

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

Ibrahim Mammodov of Brooklyn Technical High School in New York for his paper, "Zoroastrian Revivalism and the Rise and Fall of the Khurramite Movement."

Cromwell must be turning over in his grave.

A new production of Tennessee Williams’s “Summer and Smoke.”

Just as Bogart and Bergman always had Paris, we’ll always have Casablanca thanks to Michael Curtiz.

They decided to feed the starving children.

We compiled this misery index to keep track of the ghastly toll the war has taken.

They call it world history, but it’s really just Western Civ. Case study: Massachusetts.

The Carter White House advisor argues his case in his newly-published memoirs.

A centarian looks back.

Tweets tracing the effect of the civil rights struggle on the development of the two party system (1940s-1970s).

John Adams went so far as to advocate the holding of fewer elections on the grounds that would give foreigners less opportunity to interfere.