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• 6/16/19
  

  Silent Spring: Why Rachel Carson’s words still ring true today

  by Catherine Whitlock

  Any future US president would do well to heed the likes of Rachel Carson and her successors and invest in clean energy policies, protect the environment, and promote biodiversity.

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• 6/16/19
  

  Are Historians Doing Enough to Address Climate Change?

  by Walter G. Moss

  For too long historians also paid too little attention to the most important topic of our day.

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• 6/9/19
  

  On the eve of Pride 2019, D.C. LGBT Community Reflects on its own history with Lavender Scare

  by Andrew Fletcher

  The film screening gave viewers a chance to ask questions and tell their stories. The Lavender Scare is set to premiere on PBS on June 18th.   

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• 6/9/19
  

  Political Corruption Underwrites America’s Gun-Control Nightmare

  by Thom Hartmann

  The story of the rich politician whose extreme corruption inspired the 17th Amendment--and how the Citizens United ruling allows money to rule politics once again. 

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• 6/9/19
  

  What We Can't Forget As We Remember Anne Frank

  by Rafael Medoff

  Today would have been her 90th Birthday. Here's how FDR could have done more to save Holocaust victims like her. 

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• 6/9/19
  

  Whatever Happened to an Affordable College Education?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Over the past 40 years, the average cost of attending a four-year college increased by over 150 percent for both public and private institutions.  

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• 6/9/19
  

  The Challenges of Writing Histories of Autism

  by Jonathan Rose

  And how historians might overcome those obstacles. 

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• 6/9/19
  

  The President is Disrupting the U.S. Economy

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  It is high time that leaders in Washington acknowledge the risks associated with the president’s trade wars and demand a more effective policy course. 

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• 6/9/19
  

  Women Have Fought to Legalize Reproductive Rights for Nearly Two Centuries

  by Lauren MacIvor Thompson

  The efforts of the second-wave feminist movement transformed older ideas of voluntary motherhood, which asserted that women both didn’t have to have sex or be pregnant, into the more radical notion that women could enjoy sex without fear of becoming pregnant.  

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• 6/6/19
  

  Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again

  by Kevin Kennedy

  The successful Allied landings in Normandy accelerated Germany’s defeat, but they didn’t bring it about.

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• 6/4/19
  

  Why 2019 Marks the Beginning of the Next Cycle of American History

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  America has had four major crisis turning points, each 74 years apart, from the time of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to today.

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• 6/4/19
  

  How Should Historians Respond to David Garrow's Article on Martin Luther King, Jr.?

  by Andrea S. Johnson

  How can and should historians address the history of gender and sexuality when it intersects with the histories of the civil rights movement, gender, American religion, and the development of the surveillance state?

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• 6/2/19
  

  Donald Trump, the Humanities, and the Decline of American Values

  by Walter G. Moss

  We overvalue such things as making money, “getting ahead,” glitz, and celebrity status and undervalue what the humanities and arts emphasize—beauty, truth, and goodness.  

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• 6/2/19
  

  D-Day 75 Years Later and the Quest for Peace

  by William Lambers

  American and allied soldiers lost their lives on D-Day so that others may live free. The best way to honor D-Day veteran’s sacrifice is to work for that elusive, but achievable eternal world peace. 

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• 6/2/19
  

  A Brief History of the Theory Trump and Barr Use to Resist Congressional Oversight

  by Donald J. Fraser

  Unitary executive theory from Alexander Hamilton to Donald J. Trump. 

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• 6/2/19
  

  The Occupation of The Atlantic Mind

  by Walter L. Hixson

  The Atlantic magainze is distinguished by the intensity of its Zionist distortions of the past and present of the Palestine conflict.

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• 5/30/19
  

  What Should Historians Do About the Mueller Report?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  We need to be more emphatic in asserting history's role in bringing clarity to complex public issues. 

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• 5/26/19
  

  Clarence Thomas is Wrong: It’s Restrictions on Abortion that Echo America’s Eugenics Past

  by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Johanna Schoen

  The animating belief of eugenics—the state should control the reproduction of poor people, immigrants, and women of color—is central to current abortion politics.

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• 5/26/19
  

  The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s Imperial Presidency is now just the prelude to a far greater constitutional crisis that is possibly transforming the Presidency and destroying the separation of powers and checks and balances created by the Founding Fathers in 1787.

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• 5/26/19
  

  Leadership and Mimicry: What Plutarch knew about Elizabeth Holmes

  by Jeffrey Beneker

  In business and in politics, philosophers and reporters tell us that no one can hide deficiencies in character forever.