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One 1950 article, “Your Child’s Camp and Polio,” describes panicked parents receiving telegrams that campers had come down with the virus. The author narrates how his own 11-year-old suddenly returned home from camp after two of the boy’s teenaged counselors died. www.hnn.us/article/good...

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The scene at the 1964 Republican National Convention, when Barry Goldwater was nominated and black Republicans’ worst fears about their party were confirmed. www.hnn.us/article/a-pa...

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🗃️ “As the chairman of two of the most important committees in the House of Representatives, Ways and Means (1861-1865) and Appropriations (1865-68), he stood at the center of national politics during the height of his career.” www.hnn.us/article/thad...

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If the president and his wife needed new curtains, Stevens and the rest of the House could put the question up for debate. Only the people’s house could decide whether to cut the Lincoln family a check. www.hnn.us/article/thad...

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I wrote about Thaddeus Stevens and the power of the purse for @myhnn.bsky.social. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/thad...

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A November 1957 Better Homes and Gardens feature writer, advocating for parents to follow vaccination schedules carefully and avoid complacency about the disease, put it best: “Don’t take immunity for granted.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/good...

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🗃️ Today’s hyper-politicized vaccine discourse feels a world apart from that of early 1950s suburbia. But with vaccine skepticism on the rise, we may be inching closer to return of the preventable childhood diseases that plagued postwar Good Housekeeping and Better Homes and Gardens readers.

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In its US v. Thind ruling #OTD in 1923, the Supreme Court revoked the citizenship of naturalized South Asian immigrants. Here, Erika Lee reflects on a letter Vaishno Das Bagai left when he took his own life in protest: loom.ly/fHD-5sY

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www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/good... We need historians (here, Katherine Churchill) because I have no living memory (yet) of a time when I had to consider my kid being stricken by polio as a realistic possibility

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Read an excerpt from Keith Richotte Jr.’s “The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution.” @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/lack...

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"Don't take immunity for granted!" A great piece from @myhnn.bsky.social and Katherine Churchill (not I think on Bluesky? Let me know!) on Good Housekeeping and the fight for vaccinations. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/good...

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“After making my way through dozens of back issues, I remember feeling an aching sympathy for these long-ago readers in their fight against a virus now condemned to history — or so I believed.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/good...

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Read: Historians for Peace and Democracy Responds to the AHA’s Veto of the Scholasticide Resolution www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/01/17/h... #AHA25 @historians.org #Gaza #Scholasticide #HPAD #AmericanHistoricalAssociation #Palestine

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The history of thinking about Abraham Lincoln and affection. www.hnn.us/article/linc...

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Evidence of historical figures’ intimacies do not come to us as unmediated historical facts. Buchanan’s intimacy with Southern men was part of the Democratic Party’s messaging to win over voters favorable to national compromise on slavery. www.hnn.us/article/linc...

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Andrew Donnelly's insights for this @myhnn.bsky.social's piece (a great preview of this forthcoming book Confederate Sympathies) adds so much depth to our understanding of Lincoln, Buchanan, and the post-Civil War reconciliationist culture: www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/linc...

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“Although all historians are shaped by the moments in which we write, we first learn how to look at the world historically through the eyes of scholars shaped by an earlier moment.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...

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Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Read our feature from this week on Lincoln, memory, and the politics of fraternal affection. www.hnn.us/article/linc...

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For the historians in our midst 🗃️, here's an excerpt from @gabrielwinant.bsky.social's conclusion of sorts that considers what was lost and gained in the handoff from social to institutional political historical analysis - and the promise of uniting them. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

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To name Lincoln’s sexuality is to make a few intellectual leaps. At least one historian makes his sexuality a graduate-seminar lesson on faulty historical questions. That doesn’t mean that there are no good historical questions about Lincoln and sexuality. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/linc...

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Former AHA President Barbara Weinstein: the Executive Council's appeal to "the limits of the AHA’s engagement in advocacy is quite remarkable given that... most scholars... were drawn to the study of history by concerns they would describe as 'political.'" www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...

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"Works that appeal to the privileged & powerful tend to be precisely those that condense & confirm their ways of seeing the world." "The historian should be, above all, a disrupter...a scholar who contests conventional ways of viewing the past." B Weinstein www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...

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🗃️ Former American Historical Association President Barbara Weinstein on the role of the historian as disrupter: www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...

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Now up on @myhnn.bsky.social - a past president of the American Historical Association weighs in on that organization's recent veto of a resolution condemning #scholasticide in Gaza. 🗃️ www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/what...

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Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution. www.hnn.us/article/what...

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“For me, the historian should be, above all, a disrupter, by which I mean a scholar who contests conventional ways of viewing the past and the past’s relationship to the present.” www.hnn.us/article/what...

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Former AHA president Barbara Weinstein asks, “what is the role of history, the historian, and the principal U.S. organization that represents them?” www.hnn.us/article/what...

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In anticipation of tonight's #GrammyAwards, check out these highlights from the vast collection of #musichistory writing we've gathered at Bunk: www.bunkhistory.org/exhibits/mus...

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Read stories on the 1776 Commission and past efforts to eliminate history teaching from K-12 schools over at @bunkhistory.bsky.social. www.bunkhistory.org/tags/ideas/1...

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On John Sherman, the McKinley tariff, and anti-monopoly politics. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

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So E.A. Dillwyn had a complicated inheritance to reckon with, when she decided to write a novel about the popular protests of the past. But what about the inheritance her book offers, beyond its afterlife as primary source for historians? www.hnn.us/article/at-a...

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“If the Dillwyns have taught me anything, it’s about just how powerful history can be for identity formation of all kinds: for entrenching a status quo and imagining beyond it.” www.hnn.us/article/at-a...

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Read an excerpt from @eranzelnik.bsky.social’s “American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man’s Democracy, 1750–1850.” @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/merr...

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In 1880, the daughter of a Welsh politician turned to fiction to expose perspectives missing from the official records, smashing boundaries and upending histories for generations of readers. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/at-a...

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“The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it illegal to aid, or fail to arrest and return, runaway slaves. In addition to formalizing the slave-catcher posse, the law ultimately deputized every U.S. citizen as an implicit spy for the plantation system.” www.hnn.us/article/knig...

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On using British Mandate objects and documents — the Palestine pound, the Visit Palestine poster, the Balfour Declaration, San Remo — to construct a past. www.hnn.us/article/the-...

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Read a collection from @bunkhistory.bsky.social exploring the evolving meanings and constraints of American citizenship, and the history of the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. www.bunkhistory.org/exhibits/all...

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“Arising during an election year, the issue was simply shelved.” Read Dana Frank on how a local prosecutor protected white supremacists and went on to a career in Washington, DC. www.hnn.us/article/ohio...

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