History Today February 2020

THIS is the second issue of volume 70 of the popular - but not too-popular - history magazine.
Highlights include articles about slavery among native North Americans before and during the early days of white settlement, the disappearance of democracy in Hitler's Germany, and Anglo-Saxon place names.

History … highs and lows

Lowlights include this selection from a Q&A session with Dan Hicks, "professor of contemporary archaeology" at Oxford University.
What's the most important lesson history has taught you?
That anti-racism is more urgent than class war.
Normans or Anglo-Saxons?
Brummies.
What will future generations judge us most harshly for?
For allowing BP to art-wash their disaster-capitalist project in the 'world culture' galleries of the British Museum.