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Around the World, Censorship of Historians is Tied to Attacks on Democracy
Ruben Zeeman
Teachers and researchers of history are under attack – sometimes literally – by regimes who seek to make history a foundational element of their legitimacy and authority.
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The History of DDT Shows Government Agencies Have Responsibility for Today's Skepticism about Science
Elena Conis
The willingness to share information about the toxicity of pesticides has long been compromised by the government's interest in their economic usefulness. From COVID to climate, today's crises show the need for a new balance of transparency and profitability.
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Anne Frank's Next Diary Entries
Bernice Lerner
When I was a teenager, I imagined that Anne Frank was at my mother’s 15th birthday party. After all, they were the same age and they were both in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. How did I arrive at such a phantastic conflation?
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Thinking and Teaching the Implications of Federalist #10 for Democracy
Jeff Schneider
Teachers of Constitutional history must push their students to understand something difficult: James Madison's vision of the "public good" is a vision of elite rule that today stands in the way of democratic solutions to society's problems.
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Ukraine Shows the Need to Break the Cycle of National Insecurity
Roger Peace
It doesn't excuse Russian aggression against Ukraine to recognize that the United States has fumbled the opportunity to forge a global order based on cooperative and mutual security in the years since the end of the Cold War.
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The Roundup Top Ten for September 23, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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What Casey Jones Tells Us about the Past and Present of America's Railroad Workers
Scott Huffard
Although it's difficult to separate fact from fiction around his life, the famed railroad engineer had something in common with today's rail workers: being stretched to the limits of health and safety by companies' pursuit of profit.
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Director Lynn Novick on the New Holocaust Documentary
Robin Lindley
"We decided we had to go back to the 19th century—to the ideals behind the Statue of Liberty and our values as a society. And then we looked at how we lived up to or did not live up to t...
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El Caudillo: Colonialist Violence and the Rise of Francisco Franco
Giles Tremlet
A new book on Spanish history includes an examination of the influence of colonialism and conservative Catholicism on the authoritarian worldview and political ruthlessness of Francisco Franco.
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Boris Johnson's Legacy? It's Complicated
Luke Reader
The British constitution depends on adherence to norms and tradition commonly called the "good chap" principle. Johnson's ministry raised troubling questions about what happens when No. 10 Downing is occupied by a different sort of chap.
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Another Documentarian's Perspective on "The U.S. and the Holocaust"
Martin Ostrow
Like many other Americans, I will be watching closely to see if The U.S. and the Holocaust honestly portrays the responsibility of American leaders, or fails to confront the difficult truths that need to be faced.
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Gil Coronado: The Padrino of National Hispanic Month
Ricardo Romo
After dropping out of high school to begin his Air Force career at age 15, Gil Coronado became the most influential leader in expanding the federal recognition of Hispanic heritage from a week to a month.
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How the Constitution Can Accommodate Divergent Values
James D.R. Philips
When founding the nation, American political leaders had to both leverage Americans’ shared political culture and beliefs, and allow for Americans’ differing moral beliefs and values.
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The Roundup Top Ten for September 16, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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Russians' Disapproval of Gorbachev Shouldn't Dominate How He is Remembered
Walter G. Moss
The combination of post-Soviet hardship, resurgent nationalism, and the destructiveness of the Ukraine war have led many Americans to embrace Russians' dim view of Mikhail Gorbachev. A historian of Russia says the leader had his faults, but his furtherance of humane values has been underrated.
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Songs for Sale: Tin Pan Alley (Excerpt)
Bob Stanley
American popular music didn't start with Elvis. It emerged when musical fads onstage converged with a new mass market for in-home record players to make song publishing big business.
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The Authoritarian Personality and the Rising Far Right
Sam Ben-Meir
This moment of peril for American democracy calls for a return to the diagnosis presented in "The Authoritarian Personality," 1950s effort to develop a social-psychological profile of the people likely to embrace fascism.
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Arena Rockin' The Vote?
George Case
Dismissed, derided, or even deplored by critics, and out of step with the trends, arena rock acts still pack them in in much of America. Is it the sonic key to understanding Trumpism?
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Inflation Opened the Door to American Neoliberalism
Thom Hartmann
An inflationary crisis proved to be the justification for reworking the American political economy in the direction of the vast inequality we observe today.
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Pessimistic Economic Forecasts Ignore a History of Dynamism
John Landry and Howard Wolk
Many economic histories portray the American prosperity of the century between the Civil War and the 1970s as the picking of low-hanging fruit. But the story of entrepreneurial innovation during that time is more complicated, and more relevant to the present, than we think.
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The Roundup Top Ten for September 9, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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