Ukraine

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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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• 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: The Crimson
  10/11/19
  

  Serhii Plokhii on Ukraine’s Political Frontiers

  Professor Serhii Plokhii, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard, discussed Ukranian history, the Trump-Ukraine scandal, and the roles that both Russia and the United States have played in shaping the country’s politics.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  10/7/19
  

  Rick Perry recommended former ambassador, historian Daniel Yergin for Ukraine reforms-U.S. Energy Dept

  Perry recommended Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s administration talk with Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer Prize winning energy historian.

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• SOURCE: CBS Minnesota
  10/1/19
  

  What’s The History Behind U.S. Relations With Ukraine?

  For the past week and half, Ukraine has been all over the airwaves. The eastern European county has become the center of an American political scandal.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/2/19
  

  National Security Archive, CREW, Historians Ask Federal Judge to Preserve Head of State Records

  by Tom Blanton

  Government agrees to preserve White House records.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/27/19
  

  Spies in the White House Have a History of Running Wild Without Congressional Oversight

  A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.

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• 9/29/19
  

  Is The Ukraine Scandal the Smoking Gun?

  by James D. Robenalt

  Could this be the moment of clarity that will finally bring down President Trump? 

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/26/19
  

  Before the Trump Impeachment Inquiry, These Were American History's Most Famous Whistle-Blowers

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  The episode that now has President Donald Trump staring down a House impeachment inquiry began, as many important moments in American history have, with a whistle-blower.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/25/19
  

  I Voted to Impeach Nixon. I’d Do the Same for Trump.

  by Elizabeth Holtzman

  The Ukraine scandal has a lot of similarities to Watergate.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/26/19
  

  This Is Why the Impeachment Clause Exists

  by Adam Serwer

  The authors of the Constitution foresaw the possibility of a corrupt president who would abuse his official powers to stay in office.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/26/19
  

  President Trump’s Ukraine call and the dangers of personal diplomacy

  by Tizoc Chavez

  There are no systemic constraints on how presidents engage with their foreign counterparts.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/20/19
  

  It's time the public had a share in the past again

  by Diána Vonnák

  What we can learn about heritage-based urban renewal from Lviv, Ukraine. 

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• 7/14/19
  

  HBO’s Chernobyl and the Rendering of History

  by Walter G. Moss

  The value of HBO’s Chernobyl is not just what it tells us about the failings of the Soviet system. It offers much more.

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• SOURCE: Power Technology
  6/10/19
  

  How Accurate is HBO's Chernobyl? Experts Weigh In

  Chernobyl has been a critical success on HBO, we spoke to experts in the nuclear industry about how accurate the show actually was.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/3/19
  

  Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster

  Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  It’s time to do away with laws enforcing triumphal national histories

  by Matthew Lenoe

  Such ‘memory laws’ have become weapons for right-wing nationalists.

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• 1/27/19
  

  What Do the Russians Think About Trump, Putin, and America?

  by Walter Moss

  Most Americans know little about Russia and Russians except that they might have interfered in our 2016 elections.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-24-18
  

  85 Years Later, Ukraine Marks Famine That Killed Millions

  Ukrainians lit candles on their tables or windowsills to commemorate the famine, called the Holodomor, which means death by hunger in Ukrainian.

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• 10-28-17
  

  Is the BBC Posting Fake History?

  by Christopher Gilley

  Recently, deeply-flawed articles on the website of BBC Ukraine have been passed off as fact.