"You Don't Own Frederick Douglass"
I believe that it is okay for historians to disagree without getting nasty with each other, and that our disagreements are an essential part of making meaning out of the past.
I believe that it is okay for historians to disagree without getting nasty with each other, and that our disagreements are an essential part of making meaning out of the past.
Alan Singer | Posted 01.05.2012 | New York
Life sized bronze statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass stand at the entrances to the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) greeting visitor...
Maytha Alhassen | Posted 12.01.2011 | World
On November 21, Donald Trump's tweet "Egypt is turning into a hot bed of radical Islam. The current protest is another coup attempt. We should never h...
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.31.2011 | Politics
Our leaders were supposed to be our servants. They were elected "to serve". I'm not claiming the thing ever worked perfectly, but who among us now even imagines that our representatives serve any of us?
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 12.13.2011 | Politics
Two years ago, I contributed a piece, "Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham," to the Huffington Post. This week, I saw a news clip o...
Lowell Thompson | Posted 12.07.2011 | Black Voices
When I first heard of the Occupy Wall Street initiative, I thought it was just a group of overfed and overeducated and underemployed "white" boys trying to get their own generational street cred. But that was just the cynic in me talking.
Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 11.26.2011 | World
Since the recession, bashing the European Union has become a sport for U.S. commentators. Just skim the most recent headlines, and one is led to believe that the old continent is on the brink of economic, political and social collapse.
DeeDee Garcia Blase | Posted 11.11.2011 | Politics
Have we allowed domestic and foreign terrorists to control our policies, and thus allowed them to create a deep-seated fear within us? And have these policies continued to chip away at our freedoms?
Grant Lyon | Posted 11.08.2011 | Comedy
If you believe in freedom of religion but don't understand the irony behind your anger at a mosque being built near ground zero, then you are the number one culprit of dumb nationalism in 2011.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 10.08.2011 | Politics
CONCORD, N.H. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday compared the federal government under President Obama to the British governmen...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.26.2011 | Politics
Too often, we elevate the events of the American Revolution to near-mythic status and forget that the real revolutionaries were people just like you and me.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 09.02.2011 | Politics
This July 4, politics is too important to be left to the politicians. The stakes are too high and the system is too broken. Citizen action is everyone's job now.
Anil Mundra | Posted 09.01.2011 | Religion
America has always been religious -- and also religiously diverse. The historical narrative suggests that it's this special combination to which the United States owes its existence.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 08.27.2011 | Politics
On May 26, 1776, John Adams, who represented Massachusetts at the Second Continental Congress, wrote exultantly to his friend James Warren that "every...
Keith Harrington | Posted 08.12.2011 | World
True democracy will fail to emerge in Egypt unless its people turn their attention to one critical factor that is going largely ignored amidst all the transitional hubbub -- the economy.
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 08.09.2011 | Home
There's no denying it: the digital age is unforgivingly fast-paced. But how can we move forward if we never take a moment to reflect on where we've...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 08.07.2011 | Politics
Occupying the grey area between politics and entertainment has helped Sarah Palin turn what should have been her greatest vulnerability, a lack of familiarity with the basics of American history or policy, into something of a strength.
The Guardian | Jonathan Jones | Posted 07.25.2011 | Arts
It is a custom of state visits for the Queen to show the visiting dignitary a specially chosen selection of highlights that may be of interest to them...
Alison Wise | Posted 06.12.2011 | Denver
I am writing this on April 12th, 150 years to the day the second American Revolution started with years of tragedy, loss of life, and a broken nationa...
Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
It isn't clear what Zenawi means in his repeated use of the word "contract" to describe the relationship between the people of Ethiopia and his party.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Two centuries ago, news of revolution -- and revolution itself -- reverberated back and forth across the Atlantic at astonishing speed. The social media of the day? Word-of-mouth information, rumor, and opinion.
Ehsan Zaffar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Though women played a critical role during last month's protests, their future as stakeholders in Egypt's political process is being marginalized.
Albert Raboteau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Slaves revealed that Americans had a deeply flawed understanding of what it meant to be chosen by God. To be chosen does not bring preeminence, elevation and glory in this world.
Harvey J. Kaye | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Today the political right does its best to lay claim to the revolutionary patriot Thomas Paine and to harness him to the cause of constraining democra...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
When we attach the word "revolutionary" to every new development, we debase its meaning. We become more than a little superficial -- not to say a little more prone to the true revolution we never saw coming.
Alan Singer | Posted 01.10.2012 | New York