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- Historians decide to break a contract with a Providence hotel accused of bad labor practices

- Historian Fritz Stern warns we are facing a dangerous period of social anxiety

- The College Board is changing the AP course to reverse the cultural and racial bias found in the art world

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Channeling George: Some Questions About Donald Trump by Thomas Fleming What George Washington would think of Mr. Trump.

Now the British Are Debating What to Do About THEIR Embarrassing Old Statues by Luke Reader What they’re trying to sort out is how they should think about the British Empire.

Why Americans Didn’t Rally Around Ammon Bundy by Matthew C. Hulbert The takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge triggered unpleasant memories of guerrilla warfare from our past.

This Historian Just Got Back from Kurdistan – And It’s Left Him Feeling Upbeat About the Middle East! by Brian Glyn Williams At a time when some American politicians seek to tar whole religions in broad brushstrokes, Islam is not a monolith, it is a mosaic.

Clinton’s Historical Gaffe Has a History. Just Check Her Record. by Martha S. Jones In 2008 she used a made-up quote for Harriet Tubman.

Review of Julie Des Jardins' "Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man" by Luther Spoehr The "Father of Football" and the "crisis of masculinity."

Dreaming of Red Pavilions in Eighteenth Century China (Review of a Play) by Bruce Chadwick "A Dream of Red Pavilions" is a solid adaptation of the novel, with a few bumps here and there, and gives audiences an interesting look at upper class family life in China nearly three hundred years ago.

Can Walt Whitman’s Nineteenth Century Poetry Save Today’s Teenagers? by Bruce Chadwick Throughout the play there is a lot of angst but less grass and little Whitman.

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The Iowa caucuses: An accident of history So Iowa's got an oversized importance in national politics? Blame Jimmy Carter.

Professor Sanders Offers a History Lecture Hillary Clinton once joked that she comes from the ’60s. But sometimes Bernie Sanders still lives there.

Israel releases Nazi Eichmann's execution plea papers Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, protested his innocence in a final plea against his death sentence, newly released papers show.

The latest American Experience documentary tells the story of James Garfield’s assassination James Garfield was an American hero when he was alive, but his life and assassination are now largely overlooked.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Louis Brandeis inspired my work for women’s rights She admired Brandeis for his “craftsmanship, his sense of collegiality and his ability to combine a judicial restraint with the readiness to defend civil rights and liberties.”

Battle Stations—Okinawa in 2016 The year 2016 might turn out to be a decisive one in the long-running contest between the Japanese state and Okinawa prefecture over the construction of a new base for the US.

Georgia State Rep. Tommy Benton: KKK Straightened People Out “It made a lot of people straighten up,” the Republican lawmaker said.

Anne Frank's Stepsister: Donald Trump Is Another Hitler Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, said the U.S. presidential candidate was acting like Hitler, while the world acts as “bystanders” to the refugee crisis.

4 Times the World Came Close to ‘Doomsday’ Scientists say the Doomsday Clock is still three minutes from midnight.

Archaeologists in England Tackle Mystery of Prehistoric Village’s Rapid Demise No one knows why a catastrophic fire tore through the small settlement that rose by a river channel. Yet answers are emerging, piece by piece, some 3,000 years later.

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Historians decide to break a contract with a Providence hotel accused of bad labor practice The Organization of American Historians will boycott the Providence Hilton when it holds its annual meeting in Rhode Island in April.

Andrew Roberts says Trump is the Mussolini of America with double the vulgarity He says Republicans are right to fear demagoguery of the one candidate who makes Hillary Clinton look electable.

Harvard President Drew Faust Condemns Free Tuition Proposal from Outsider Overseers Ticket She said wealthy parents can afford their children’s tuition and should pay.

The College Board is changing the AP course to reverse the cultural and racial bias found in the art world Now students are expected to know about the art produced by non-Western cultures.

Why we need Black History Month more than ever Until we have significantly abolished systemic racism in education, we will continue to need Black History Month and other months which focus on our communities of color.

Historian Fritz Stern warns we are facing a dangerous period of social anxiety “The current political situation is so serious, so destructive, so dysfunctional, that one must deeply worry."

Money for Chattanooga History Museum runs out before any exhibits are built After raising more than $10 million over the past 10 years, the Chattanooga History Center apparently is out of money before it ever opened in the building at 2 W. Aquarium Way it has occupied since 2006.

Is This the End of the GOP as We Know It? Historian Rick Perlstein on the rise of Trump, the fall of Reagan, and the fate of contemporary conservatism.

How A Leading Egyptian Historian Found Himself In The Middle Of A Revolution Khaled Fahmy shares his memories of Egypt's uprising, five years after Tahrir.