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The Metropolitan Police Department in DC has been an essential component of Washington politics since its founding.

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 3h

🗃️ “Whether or not Trump and Congress take further action to overrule home rule and the District government, local policing will remain the foundational axis on which DC is governed as the nation’s capital.” www.hnn.us/article/gove...

Governing by Police

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 6d

An op-ed in the Chicago Tribune claims that computers, “for all of their efficiency in helping law enforcement agencies safeguard the body politic, are menaces to freedom.”
This quote predates the introduction of personal computers, mobile phones, and the internet. www.hnn.us/article/amer...

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

The Women Who Ran Senegambia

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 6d

Read an excerpt from Toby Green’s “The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa.” @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/here...

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

The Women Who Ran Senegambia

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 6d

What was it about daily life in Cacheu that meant many women had such autonomy? www.hnn.us/article/here...

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

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Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com · 7d

new from me! particularly (horribly) fitting to have a piece about Congress legislating in an attempt to forestall harm publish on a week when Congress has instead abdicated legislation in an attempt to cause harm

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 8d

🗃️ Read @jillianefoley.com on the Privacy Act of 1974 and why we should avoid a simplistic view of the past. www.hnn.us/article/amer...

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

The Women Who Ran Senegambia

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 8d

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 www.hnn.us/article/here...

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

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 8d

🗃️ Read @jillianefoley.com on the Privacy Act of 1974 and why we should avoid a simplistic view of the past. www.hnn.us/article/amer...

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

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 8d

Recent news coverage has called the Privacy Act of 1974 “Watergate-inspired,” but such framing misses the big picture. www.hnn.us/article/amer...

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

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 8d

“The history books on anti-queer military policy represent a story of missed chances, of people who elected not to speak up and systems of discrimination that persisted when not enough people pushed back against them. It is a story with clear resonances today.” www.hnn.us/article/comi...

Revisiting the lessons of Allan Bérubé’s 1990 history of queer solders during World War II.

In 1880, the daughter of a Welsh politician turned to fiction to expose perspectives missing from the official record, upending histories for generations to come.

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 12d

Revisiting the 1880 historical novel “The Rebecca Rioter.” www.hnn.us/article/at-a...

“At Any Future Time”

The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 12d

Reconsidering the legacy of “I’ll Take My Stand.” www.hnn.us/article/the-...

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

German Radicals vs. the Slave Power

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 12d

And then visit the back catalog. Revisiting “Memoirs of a Nobody: The Missouri Years of an Austrian Radical, 1849-1866.” www.hnn.us/article/henr...

In Memoirs of a Nobody, Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy.

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 12d

Read the latest piece in our ongoing series of “Reconsiderations” of previous works of history, or works from history. www.hnn.us/article/comi...

Revisiting the lessons of Allan Bérubé’s 1990 history of queer solders during World War II.

Reactionary Revolutionaries

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 12d

“As they sorted out the characteristics of the new order, conservative advocates of revolution professed to be righting all sorts of wrongs, doing God’s work and fulfilling His will. They argued that they were also heeding the people’s mandate.” www.hnn.us/article/torn...

In the mid-19th century, governments on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border set out to recast North America’s political landscape.

Reactionary Revolutionaries

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 14d

🗃️ Read an excerpt from Erika Pani’s “Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867.” www.hnn.us/article/torn...

In the mid-19th century, governments on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border set out to recast North America’s political landscape.

Reactionary Revolutionaries

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 14d

“North America’s reactionary revolutionaries insisted that they spoke for the people — or at least for their true interests and the common welfare. They feared that the people’s voice would prove them wrong.” www.hnn.us/article/torn...

In the mid-19th century, governments on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border set out to recast North America’s political landscape.

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 14d

🗃️ Mollie Davis revisits Allan Bérubé’s 1990 book “Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II.” www.hnn.us/article/comi...

Revisiting the lessons of Allan Bérubé’s 1990 history of queer solders during World War II.

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 14d

“The history books on anti-queer military policy represent a story of missed chances, of people who elected not to speak up and systems of discrimination that persisted when not enough people pushed back against them.” www.hnn.us/article/comi...

Revisiting the lessons of Allan Bérubé’s 1990 history of queer solders during World War II.

Meet Clio, a pedagogical tool that doubles as a travel app to get people hooked on learning history.

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 16d

“If someone clicks away from Clio and ends up buying a book about a topic they just discovered, that’s a win.” www.hnn.us/article/star...

Starting with a Question

Meet Clio, a pedagogical tool that doubles as a travel app to get people hooked on learning history.

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 19d

If historians and librarians designed the technology of our era, how might “smart” devices work to make us smarter and more connected? www.hnn.us/article/star...

Starting with a Question

German Radicals vs. the Slave Power

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 20d

In “Memoirs of a Nobody,” Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy. www.hnn.us/article/henr...

In Memoirs of a Nobody, Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy.

A Republic, if They Can Force It

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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 20d

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.” www.hnn.us/article/a-re...

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.”

Meet Clio, a pedagogical tool that doubles as a travel app to get people hooked on learning history.

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 20d

“In a world where AI can generate essay responses, this kind of project-based learning has been refreshing. And in a world where so many start with an answer and then select evidence to support that conclusion, Clio encourages students to start with a question.” www.hnn.us/article/star...

Starting with a Question

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Daniel Hutchinson @dhutchinson.bsky.social · 21d

I've used Clio for some great teaching exercises - highly recommend for those interested in mapping the past or cool forms of public history.

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 21d

Read @davidtrowbridge.bsky.social on Clio.

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 22d

🗃️ We’re kicking off a new series today on public history. www.hnn.us/article/star...