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"We have people coming into the country—or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them—but we're taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals." – Donald Trump, May 16, 2018

Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler (28 November 1941). By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de

Reagan and Gorbachev ratifying the INF Treaty

Recent news reports have presented new evidence that the Russian military provided the missile that shot down a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine in 2014 and new details about the violent clash between Russian mercenaries and U.S. soldiers in eastern Syria in February this year. Those stories highlight how the “new cold war” has become as dangerous as the old Cold War was in 1983, when a Soviet fighter pilot shot down a Korean airliner... Читать дальше...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion with Donald Trump's campaign has just entered its second year. It has resulted in criminal indictments of several individuals and Russian companies and a number of other actions. 

For decades, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, esteemed principal of Rambam Mesivta High Schoolin Long Island, has accumulated his teachings, writings, and those of many other scholars and rabbinical authorities, tracking the history of Israel. His mission was not just to chronicle the dispossession and repossession of a people, as Walter Laqueur did in A History of Zionism, but to go beyond. Rabbi Eliach completes the circle and ties in the religious component— spiritual Judaism itself. The result is a massive and incisive tome... Читать дальше...

Over the course of his presidency, Jewish Americans overwhelmingly supported Franklin Roosevelt, voting for him with wide majorities of over 80% in each of his four elections. They turned to him, as did most Americans, to pull the country out of the Great Depression, to keep America safe, and after December 1941, to fight the war against Germany and Japan. They also supported Roosevelt, in part, because he was the only major Presidential candidate who was friendly with prominent American Jews... Читать дальше...

What girl in America today has not had her parents try to get her to boot her boyfriend, who she loves and they hate, and marry the guy they adore, who is so perfect in every way?

Stephen Aron, PhD. Is Professor and the Robert N. Burr Department Chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also served for twelve years as the founding executive director and then chair of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles. He is the immediate past president of the Western History Association and the author of numerous articles and books, which include The American West: A Very Short Introduction(Oxford University Press); American Confluence... Читать дальше...

His biographer, Lone Frank, thinks so, as she explains in this revealing interview.

Related Link “We Used to Think Only Other Countries Suffered Crises of Political Legitimacy” By Richard F. Miller

Photo by By Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0

Medicine is missing something fundamental today, doctors and patients agree. While we know more about the human body than ever before, treatment and research are increasingly driven by cost and efficiency and less by the time-honored tradition of medical art. The most popular way of addressing such issues has been to teach courses in the medical humanities—almost every elite medical school has them. One of the field’s most enduring and central claims... Читать дальше...

For more than fifty years the National Rifle Association (NRA) has dominated gun control debates. Outside of the Brady Act (which ultimately expired), it has successfully stymied most gun control efforts. 

The summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un comes near the anniversary of one of President John F. Kennedy's most famous speeches.  JFK, in a 1963 commencement address at American University, proposed to the Soviet Union ending nuclear weapons testing. 

More than a few people thought Patrick J. Mogan was crazy when, during the 1960s, he proposed the creation of a national park in Lowell, Massachusetts—then one of the most depressed cities in America. A national park in Lowell? Please. Nothing there resembled Independence Hall or the Statue of Liberty, and there were no battles or presidents to commemorate in such a seemingly undistinguished factory town.

Theodore Dalrymple, the author of The Knife Went In (Gibson Square, 2017) was a psychiatrist for decades working in the UK prison system.

Sociologist James W. Loewen is the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Related Link The North Korean Nuclear Crisis in History (Interviews with Mitch Lerner and David Fields)

HNN Topics:  What's being said on social media and elsewhere 

• Trump's First State of the Union Address 1/30/18
• Mueller Investigation
• JFK Files
• Statues Debate
• Vietnam War Documentary by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
• 9-11
• Columbus Day
• Books
• Arts
• Women in the News
• Black History
• Gun Violence
• Impeachment
• Peace Talks in Korea
• Trump Nixes Iran Deal: What Historians Are Saying

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Cartoon protesting Jefferson’s embargo (ograbme, backwards).

Not long after Thomas Jefferson took office, Britain and France went to war again and both nations began blocking foreign ports of trade and violating American neutral rights at sea by seizing U.S. merchant ships along with their valuable cargoes and crew. Even more inflammatory, the British resumed its practice of kidnapping and impressing American sailors into the Royal Navy. Then, in June, 1807, the British warship H.M.S. Leopardattacked the U.S. merchant ship Chesapeake... Читать дальше...

On March 5, 2016, conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza announced via trailer on his webpage the debut of a would-be expose on the hidden history of American Democrats: Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party.

Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2008.

Related Link Who invented Memorial Day?  

Memorial Day is the most sacred and solemn holiday on the United States calendar. Arguably the most American, as it doesn’t honor a person or significant event in the nation’s history. It commemorates men and women of all races and creeds who gave their lives on the battlefield defending this country. According to Veterans Administration and military records, it’s estimated that around 1.3 million... Читать дальше...

News of a riot at LA's Griffith Park in the era of Mayor Sam Yorty

Memorial Day traditionally marks the beginning of summer. It is a day laden with hopes for a fun-filled summer, but also a day of reflection about summers past. Those memories, however, differ across America’s color line. These differing summer memories may help us unravel a seeming contradiction in this year of anniversaries. In the past decade, culminating in the current reflection on the tumultuous events of 1968, the... Читать дальше...

Families at the Catholic Charities Rio Grande Valley Respite Center in McAllen, Texas. Delcia Lopez / for NBC News