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History News Network (HNN) was founded in 2001 to help put current events into historical perspective. In 2023, HNN fused with Bunk, a public history initiative at the University of Richmond. Recognizing historians’ many successes over the prior two decades in reaching broad public audiences, and the simultaneous challenges posed by the fragmentation of those audiences into countless digital ...

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present.

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present.

This is where we excerpt articles about history that appear in the media. Among the subjects included on this page are: anniversaries of historical events, legacies of presidents, cutting-edge research, and historical disputes.

The Battle of Gettysburg at 150 by David Austin Walsh. Hancock at Gettysburg by Thure de Thulstrup. Credit: Wiki Commons.The Battle of Gettysburg marks its 150th anniversary this week (so does the Union victory at the siege of Vicksburg, but good luck seeing anything about that in the media).To mark the occasion, we've assembled a list of resources -- …

This page features brief excerpts of stories published in the news media that deal with issues of significance to the historical community. HNN reposts stories from the mainstream and alternative media, blogs, and other sources. Readers may view the entire stories on the original source pages by clicking on the button at the bottom of the excerpt. Please note …

Johns Hopkins Faces $1-Billion Lawsuit Over U.S. Experiments in Guatemala. Nearly 800 former research subjects and their families filed a billion-dollar lawsuit on Wednesday against the Johns Hopkins University, blaming the institution for its role in U.S.-government experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s that infected hundreds of people with sexually transmitted diseases.

Recovering the Story of the Empress Messalina After a Roman Cancellation by Honor Cargill-Martin. After the empress Valeria Messalina's fatal fall from favor with her husband Claudius, her name and image were stricken from public and private spheres, an episode that reveals the tightly-regulated dissemination of imperial women's images (and puts current "cancel culture" panic and whisper ...