“When you leave the specifics out of the past, it becomes much harder for students to relate their own realities to it. The Right has shaped — and continues to shape — the United States. Avoiding that history makes it impossible to understand the present.” historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-do…

Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students? Read this week’s newsletter here: mailchi.mp/c61e3417b6c4/w…

An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms, by Lightning Jay. historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-do…

New short piece! If we want history to be meaningful, we've got to teach the Right! historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-do…

“I’ve been to Washington. I hate to count the times I’ve been to Washington on Title IX. I just can’t quite comprehend something this ridiculous being shoved down our throats.”

The history of the battle to keep Title IX out of college sports.

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“I have a vision of the leopard telling the gazelle not to worry,” she wrote, adding, “Anybody who puts the fox on its honor then locks it up in the hen house all night is going to wake up with a lot of dead chickens.” historynewsnetwork.org/article/this-i…

“There are more tunnels in the mind than in the earth; no matter what structures or people we might find underground, there are always more in our imagination.” historynewsnetwork.org/article/tunnel…

'People go underground for a very particular kind of fun, and occasionally because they have nowhere else to go.'
I wrote about tunnels, and fantasies of even more tunnels just a bit further down, for the History News Network:
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“That they exist at all is often development enough; closer inquiry is rarely desirable.” On tunnel communities: fictional, forgotten, or rumored. historynewsnetwork.org/article/tunnel…

In our latest newsletter, a new collection of stories that challenge assumptions about demography as a predictor of ideology. Also — exploring the limits of international law, and our regular roundup of highlights from the history web.

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“I have returned to Brown’s work again and again. ‘When do the new walls become more like the confining walls of a prison, rather than the comforting walls of a house?’ she asks. ‘When does the fortress become a penitentiary?’” historynewsnetwork.org/article/border…

equal (n.) “one who is of the same rank and age.” historynewsnetwork.org/article/age-be…

What role does age play in determining the status of equals? Dartmouth 🌲 professor and “Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea” author Darrin McMahon wrote an essay History News Network on age and equality amid growing concerns about gerontocracy in the U.S. bit.ly/3VtnPUs

“When it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth,” Jefferson told Adams in 1816. “When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.” mailchi.mp/28d25f48dd4e/t…

It ensured that the president “cannot be an idiot, probably not a knave or a tyrant, for those whom nature makes so, discover it before the age of thirty-five, until which period he cannot be elected.” historynewsnetwork.org/article/age-be…