violence

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/29/2022
  

  Fantasy Series Take a Selective Approach to Historical Accuracy as an Excuse for Sexual Violence

  Medievalist Eleanor Janega wonders whether the creators of the "Game of Thrones" universe use historical accuracy as a justification to show graphic violence; their insistence on verisimilitude flags in other areas. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  Stephen Aron's Work Examines Moments of Intercultural Peace in the West

  by James Thornton Harris

  Both triumphalist and revisionist histories of America's westward expansion emphasize violence, and disagree about whether to understand it with pride or guilt. But what can we make of the moments where understanding and accommodation temporarily prevailed? 

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• 7/31/2022
  

  The Highland Park Horrors Won't Break the Gun Cult's Mythic Hold on America

  by Thomas Lecaque and J.L. Tomlin

  The myth of the armed citizen has little to do with the American revolution or the vision of the founders. It's all about the right's desire for a revolution to come. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/25/2022
  

  The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer—Now They're Killing Us

  by Ryan Busse

  Aiming at a clientele of isolated, insecure young men, the gun industry began to advertise the killing power of its products and encouraging buyers to see this power as a key to their masculine patriotic identities. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/15/2022
  

  The Right Celebrated Bernhard Goetz as the Kyle Rittenhouse of the 80s

  by Pia Beumer

  In the context of economic turmoil, urban crisis, and racial division, a broad swath of the American public made Goetz a heroic symbol of restored white masculinity after he shot four Black teens who asked him for money on the New York subway.

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• SOURCE: HuffPost
  6/13/2022
  

  The Families of Victims of Anti-Abortion Violence Face a Post-Roe World

  The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival? 

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  6/8/2022
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez on the Border, Violence, and Uvalde

  Michelle Garcia, journalist, essayist, Soros Equality Fellow and Dobie Paisano writer-in-residence, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin, talk about the border security apparatus at Uvalde, and the history of violence and discrimination at the South Texas and Mexican border.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/9/2022
  

  A Marker Recognizing Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi is a Step Toward Justice

  by Keisha N. Blain

  As conservatives restrict the teaching of the history of racism in America, the town of Winona, Mississippi has taken a necessary step to memorialize the state-sanctioned jailhouse beating of Fannie Lou Hamer and other activists in 1963. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/6/2022
  

  Publicizing Pictures of Dead Children Will Backfire on Gun Control Advocates

  by John Temple

  "Maybe one day some editors will have a picture of a dead child even more powerful than the one we published that will finally make a difference."

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• 6/5/2022
  

  There Oughtta Be a Law

  by Jim Zirin

  A veteran prosecutor weighs in on how American law must erase the distinction between "fully automatic" and "semiautomatic" weapons and ban the weapons that are used in massacre after massacre.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/30/2022
  

  In one Family's Photo Album: A Wedding, An Anniversary, and a Lynching in Texas

  by Jeffrey J. Littlejohn

  The author set out to identify the victim of a lynching pictured in a family photoalbum. This project – pointing out the normalcy and pervasiveness of violence as a tool of white supremacy – could be illegal for a K-12 teacher in Texas today.

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• 5/26/2022
  

  Historians on the Latest Mass Shooting and the Politics of Guns

  by HNN Staff

  What are historians saying about the mass shooting in [insert latest location here] and the politics of guns? 

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• SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
  5/23/2022
  

  Teach Black History to Help Prevent Racist Violence

  by David Barber

  The state of Tennessee's efforts to restrict the teaching of African American history seek to prevent white students from developing a historical consciousness that would encourage them to reject white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/23/2022
  

  How Violence Crushed the Achievements of Reconstruction

  by Clyde W. Ford

  Both the formerly enslaved and their poor white partners in governing pursued significant changes in the political economy of the south, but those they won were stripped away by violence. 

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• 5/22/2022
  

  California Isn't a Liberal Sanctuary where Asian Americans are Concerned

  by Hao Huang

  Anti-Chinese racism and violence has always been part of the nightmare underside of the California dream. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/17/2022
  

  Buffalo Shooting Exposes How History Shapes the Present

  by Chad Williams

  "Buffalo’s unique history of African American freedom, civil rights struggle and perseverance in the face of structural racism and economic neglect remind us of why Gendron targeted this particular community and why this shooting is especially heinous."

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  4/22/2022
  

  Politics as Usual Won't Stop Mass Shootings – A Discussion with Gun Culture Scholar Pat Blanchfield

  Our society has developed and institutionalized a set of public rituals of disbelief and incredulity around mass shootings that direct anger and pain away from organizing and let politicians off the hook. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/7/2022
  

  Citizen Tour Guides Protect the Memory of Civil Rights Killings in Mississippi

  "Obbie is of the opinion that if something needs to get done, especially something as important as ensuring that the legacy of your community and family doesn’t get erased, you’d better first employ yourself to do something about it."

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• SOURCE: Vice
  3/24/2022
  

  The Latest Technology Helping Gun Owners Violate Machine Gun Laws

  Nearly a century of legislation aimed at keeping the public from having fully automatic weapons is being subverted by internet trafficking in cheap devices that modify popular Glock pistols to work as mini-machine guns. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/16/2022
  

  Don't Use Anti-Asian Violence to Throw More Money at Police

  by Crystal Jing Luo

  Business interests in Oakland have hijacked the safety concerns of Asian Americans to support arming police in service of real estate development that threatens low-income housing.