Roundup

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1/2020
  

  The Police Chief Who Inspired Trump’s Tweet Glorifying Violence

  by Julio Capó, Jr.

  Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.  

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/30/2020
  

  It's Been Five Decades Since 1968, and Things are Somehow Worse

  by Julian Zelizer

  For those of us who study the 1960s or lived through those troubled times, it's hard to imagine things could be worse. But they are. 

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• SOURCE: Yale University Press Blog
  5/29/2020
  

  Fake News, Then and Now

  by Tracy Campbell

  Rumor and gossip during World War II reflected currents of racism in American society, as well as many citizens' unwillingness to make deep sacrifices to the war effort. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/29/2020
  

  The ‘Liberal World Order’ Was Built With Blood

  American politicians, pundits and citizens need to understand that the history of American influence in the world has included violent subversion of democracy in the name of American interests.

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• 5/28/2020
  

  Roundup Top Ten for May 29, 2020

  The week's top ten op-eds from around the web written by historians or about history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/27/2020
  

  President Trump’s Demand for a Full Arena Reveals that Party Conventions Still Matter

  by Laura Ellyn Smith

  The president's insistence on holding an in-person convention reflects not only his own love of large crowds but the significance of conventions as political events that let the voting public see the stakes of the election.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2020
  

  Why Does the Minneapolis Police Department Look Like a Military Unit?

  by Philip V. McHarris

  The violent response to protests by the Minneapolis Police Department show how police departments that have been granted subsidized access to military equipment have adopted a posture of battle against civilians. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2020
  

  Trump Keeps Taking Pages From Joe McCarthy’s Playbook

  by Larry Tye

  Anyone hoping the recency of Trump's conversion to Republicanism and conservatism might allow him to govern productively with Democrats should heed the example of Joseph McCarthy, who similary rebranded himself a conservative. Neither moderated because their political survival depended on extremism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/2020
  

  Immigrant Workers Have Borne the Brunt of COVID-19 Outbreaks at Meatpacking Plants

  by Anya Jabour

  The COVID-19 epidemic should remind us of the hazards faced by immigrant meatpacking workers a century ago, and the labor and industry reforms needed to secure their safety.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/22/2020
  

  From Associate to Full Professor

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Although securing tenure and tenure-track jobs has received great attention lately, it is important that historians from underrepresented groups successfully pursue promotion to full professorship in their institutions to diversify leadership in the profession. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2020
  

  Amy Cooper Played the Damsel in Distress. The Troubling History of this Trope

  by Mia Brett

  Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/26/2020
  

  The Link Between the Video of Ahmaud Arbery’s Death and Lynching Photos

  by Grace Elizabeth Hale

  Lynching images can only be created in a context where both killing and observing are allowed by law and society.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/28/2020
  

  The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

  by Nomi Prins

  Monetary policy responses to the current crisis can't fix either the structural problems that make the economy vulnerable to severe disruption or the virus and public health crisis that underlie that disruption. Governments must choose to take coordinated action on multiple fronts. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  5/26/2020
  

  COVID-19 Didn’t Break the Food System. Hunger Was Already Here.

  by Carla Cevasco

  The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the hunger underneath the rhetoric of American plenty.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/26/2020
  

  The Coming of a Social-Distancing Version of War

  by Danny Sjursen

  With U.S. troops still fighting in Somalia, former West Point history instructor Danny Sjursen takes a deep dive into the future of American war in a Covid-19 world.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  5/26/2020
  

  ’A Black Man in a White Space’: America has a Long and Troubled History of Segregated Public Parks

  by Victoria W. Wolcott

  Public spaces are infused with the power of history: the legacy of segregation, police brutality, and white supremacy. If there was ever a time that called for compassion in our shared spaces, it is now.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/26/2020
  

  Understanding the Origins of American Gun Culture Can Help Reframe Today’s Gun Debate

  by Jim Rasenberger

  The past is a morally untidy place. As a result, it is also a place, perhaps the last one left, where we can meet and lower our weapons for a while. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/26/2020
  

  We’re Reopening Notre Dame. It’s Worth the Risk.

  by John I. Jenkins

  The President of the University of Notre Dame argues that the university's mission is a higher good that requires informed and cautious embrace of risk. 

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• SOURCE: Creators Syndicate
  5/27/2020
  

  Baltimore Was a Key Place For Trump, If He Only Knew

  by Jamie Stiehm

  It's odd that Trump could give a speech about Francis Scott Key with nearly all the facts wrong; the slaveowner was a key adviser to Andrew Jackson, the model for Trump's brand of white reactionary populism.

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• SOURCE: CrimeReads
  5/26/2020
  

  How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

  by Paul Renfro

  Concerns about the “safety” and “security” of specific children—particularly those who resemble Etan Patz—played a considerable role in New York’s extraordinary late twentieth-century transformation.