Roundup

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• 11/15/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  11/12/19
  

  History Has a Race Problem, and It’s Existential

  by Allison Miller

  White people dominate the study of history, as students and as those who earn PhDs.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/13/19
  

  The five ways Republicans will crack down on voting rights in 2020

  by Carol Anderson

  Given what’s at stake next year, the effort to prevent people voting will be fierce. We’ve been here before – and we can stop it.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11/10/19
  

  The Greatest Scam in History

  by Naomi Oreskes

  Scientists working on the issue have often told me that, once upon a time, they assumed, if they did their jobs, politicians would act upon the information. That, of course, hasn’t happened. Why?

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  11/9/19
  

  Presidential cooperation: History's perspective on scandal and controversy

  by Stephen W. Stathis

  The American experience is littered with scandals. When presidents have been unwilling to cooperate with an investigation, the resulting confrontation is often ugly and long-remembered, as the escalating Ukraine scandal undoubtedly will be.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/10/19
  

  Don’t Expect Polls to Change Republican Minds

  by Nicole Hemmer

  When it comes to impeachment (and pretty much everything else), the G.O.P. is no longer driven by public opinion.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  11/9/19
  

  From Nixon to Trump, the historical arc of presidential misconduct is deeply troubling

  by James M. Banner Jr.

  Since the early 1970s, the behavior of American presidents has worsened in alarming ways.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 11/14/19
  

  How America Ends

  by Yoni Appelbaum

  A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/13/19
  

  The problem with ‘OK, boomer’

  by Holly Scott

  Generational divides distract from deeper questions of power. Boomers should remember that from the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/19
  

  How racial segregation exacerbates flooding in Baton Rouge

  by William Horne

  Strategies of segregation and secession to hoard resources are leaving the whole metropolitan area unprepared for rising waters.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 11/13/19
  

  The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

  by Adam Serwer

  "The idea that we’re currently experiencing something like the nadir of American civility ignores the turmoil that has traditionally characterized the nation’s politics, and the comparatively low level of political violence today despite the animosity of the moment." Serwer cites historian Manisha Sinha.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  11/8/19
  

  The little Lutheran lady who battled the Nazis on Kristallnacht

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  That autumn of 1938, the prelude to the Holocaust began. Beginning in the evening of Nov. 9, local bands of Nazi Storm Troopers throughout Germany led a willing populace against their Jewish neighbors.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  11/13/19
  

  How we fail our Chinese students

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  If Chinese students spend several years in the United States and decide they don’t like democracy, we must not be making a strong enough case for it.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 8, 2019
  

  The dark history of land-grant universities

  by Margaret A. Nash

  Many celebrated colleges and universities were created at the expense of Indigenous communities.  

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11/12/2019
  

  The key to defeating the far right’s online hate

  by Michelle Kelley

  “History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/12/19
  

  Against Reconciliation

  by Adam Serwer

  The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 09, 2019
  

  Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, a power divide remains in Germany

  by Elena Souris

  Marginalized east-German perspectives could undermine democracy

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• 11/8/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

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• 11/17/19
  

  The History Briefing on Whistleblowers: Historical Perspective on the Ukraine Scandal

  by Julia Brown

  From Snowden to Deep Throat, whistleblowers have continually altered the course of American history and policy. 

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  11/1/19
  

  There Are Only Two Ways that this Ends

  by Andrew Meyer

  If the electorate deems the president fit to serve despite all of his abuses of power, then we will enter a new phase of our history as a nation.