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Objectively Random@ObjRandom30 Sep 2025
America's Privacy Policy | History News Network historynewsnetwork.org/artic…

America’s Privacy Policy

Recent news coverage has called the Privacy Act of 1974 “Watergate-inspired,” but such framing misses the big picture.

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Toby Green@toby00green1 Oct 2025
hnn.us/article/heretic-of-ca… An excerpt from The Heretic of Cacheu in @myHNN. Great thanks to Jaime Fuller.

The Women Who Ran Senegambia

How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.

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The Women Who Ran Senegambia: How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town. An excerpt from The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green at History News Network #slaveryarchive hnn.us/article/heretic-of-ca…

The Women Who Ran Senegambia

How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.

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Howard W. French@hofrench27 Aug 2025
A modest excerpt from The Second Emancipation, focused on the role of HCBUs on forging links between African liberation movements and the struggle for human and citizens' rights by Africans, major theme of the book. hnn.us/article/a-powerful-in…

A Powerful Influence on American Democracy

An HBCU president looks to Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership in Ghana for inspiration.

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Frank Amari@FrankAmari226 Aug 2025
When Good Housekeeping Meant Getting Vaccinated Against Polio The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial hnn.us/article/good-housekee…

When Good Housekeeping Meant Getting Vaccinated Against Polio

The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial.

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📚 #PaceU American Studies Adjunct Professor Philip Kadish examines how government records were distorted to support racist narratives in 19th-century America. Check out "A Mere Mass of Error," an excerpt from his book The Great White Hoax: brnw.ch/21wUIbz

A Mere Mass of Error

Two stories from the 19th century about government records being falsified to foment distrust of nonwhite Americans.

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rhapsodyinbooks@rhapsodybooks22 Aug 2025
Fascinating research on the cookbook’s central role in fashioning and circulating domestic ideologies in the 19th century - historynewsnetwork.org/artic…

Mastering the Art of Reading an Old Recipe

For every moment of historical significance, there is a figure — often hidden — who fed the figures we do remember.

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Emma Garman@emmagarman19 Aug 2025
With Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein out soon, I consider the immortality of Goth Mother Mary Shelley's book, via Frankenfictions from Scotland + Iraq: Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things + Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad — part four of my found documents series, @myHNN (🔗⬇️)
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up now on @myHNN — Henry Boernstein — friend of Marx, one of the first St. Louis novelists, socialist scourge of Missouri Confederates while also being the founder of the Missouri Republican Party
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Eran Zelnik@EranZelnik15 Apr 2025
My piece about the dangerous memory of Lexington and Concord came out with @myHNN today. It will be 250 years to the famous "shot heard round the world" on April 19 hnn.us/article/the-dangerous…

The Dangerous Afterlives of Lexington and Concord

How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.

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Amy Laura Hall@ProfligateGrace11 Mar 2025
“We need to get the bastards out of here.” History matters. historynewsnetwork.org/artic…

Indifferent to the Fate of Freedom Elsewhere

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.

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Cecily Zander@CNZander25 Feb 2025
I wrote about Thaddeus Stevens and the power of the purse for @myHNN. Check it out, if you're so inclined. historynewsnetwork.org/artic…

Thaddeus Stevens and the Power of the Purse

The Radical Republican oversaw federal spending at the dawn of Reconstruction. How did his support for Black equality affect his leadership in the House?

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd@llassabe19 Mar 2025
The answer is because… (I just wrote about this today) hnn.us/article/whose-side-ar…

Whose Side Are College Administrators On?

There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.

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Alex Moskowitz@alexrmoskowitz19 Mar 2025
columbia's endowment is nearly 15 billion dollars. that they don't dip into this to fund the research being cancelled, to rebuke the blatant attack on higher education, to maintain the integrity of their institution is beyond me
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The group that authored the #AHA25 #scholasticide resolution, @Histpeace, has a new petition drive underway to convince the AHA Council to reverse its veto of the resolution and allow all AHA members to vote on it: historiansforpeace.org/2025/…
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up now on HNN, check out the write-up on the KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE — Booth, Bickley, opium, and buried (racist) treasure historynewsnetwork.org/artic… @myHNN
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Bunk@bunkhistory9 Jan 2025
Each year, we sift through thousands of online articles, essays, blogs, and newsletters that deal, in one way or another, with the American past. Here is our annual roundup of 40 standouts from 2024. bunkhistory.org/resources/be…

Best History Writing of 2024

Bunk's editors share their favorite history writing from the year just concluded.

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Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history. hnn.us/article/i-have-lost-a…

The First and Last Queen of Haiti in Exile

Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.

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Read an excerpt from Marlene L. Daut’s “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.” @AAKnopf hnn.us/article/i-have-lost-a…

The First and Last Queen of Haiti in Exile

Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.

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Emma Garman@emmagarman7 Jan 2025
The 3rd in my series on found documents in fiction, @myHNN, looks at arguably the genre's GOAT: Vladimir Nabokov's PALE FIRE, which in his words "is supposed to be the production, without any editorial interference" of a madman who purloins a dead poet's final work (🔗in reply).
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The curious tale of when the Christmas Bird Count sparked a protracted court battle in the 1970s.
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For the Birds

In 1973, the Christmas Bird Count formed the basis for a press freedom case that centered on the impacts of DDT.

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