violence

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/18/2019
  

  Chile’s political crisis is another brutal legacy of long-dead dictator Pinochet

  by Paul W. Posner

  After weeks of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has relented to demands to rewrite the Chilean Constitution. The protesters say they want a new constitution to address Chile’s severe social and economic inequities.

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• 10/20/19
  

  Can Studying Human Evolution Help Us Understand Impeachment?

  by David P. Barash

  What The Goodness Paradox can teach us about the importance of enforcing societal norms. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  How the Long History of Human Violence Explains Why the Internet Causes So Much Chaos

  by Mike Martin

  Why is there so much chaos? The history of violence offers one possible answer.

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  9/4/19
  

  Reviewing Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

  by Tiana Wilson

  Fuentes’ work contributes to the historical knowledge of early America through her focus on violence and how it operated during slavery and continues today through archives. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  8/11/19
  

  Historian Tom Engelhardt Revisits His First Piece of Critical History – 48 Years Later

  by Tom Engelhardt

  How Hollywood created a spectacle of slaughter at the movies in which colonial and imperial history was flipped on its head.

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• 8/6/19
  

  The Constant Threat of Mass Shootings Requires Increased Protection for Presidential Contenders

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  In the not-so-distant past, two presidential candidates running for office in the midst of American chaos and division were shot.

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• 8/4/19
  

  Remembering The Red Summer 100 Years Later

  by David Krugler

  How should the challenging but essential task of remembering and commemorating this troubling history be confronted? 

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• 6/23/19
  

  We Need A Long-Arc Historical Perspective to Understand White Supremacist Extremist Violence.

  by Eric V. Tait, Jr.

  Much like today, in the early 1980s, people of color and the gains of the civil rights movement were increasingly under attack and many Americans wanted to “turn back the clock to an earlier era.”

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Voice
  5/9/19
  

  Sandra Bland Did Not Kill Herself

  by Crystal A. deGregory

  I did not watch the video. I do not need to. I know that Sandra Bland did not kill herself—a morally corrupt justice system did.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/30/19
  

  How a music genre known as black metal came to be related to church burnings

  by Jason C. Bivins

  When three historically African American churches were burned downrecently in southern Louisiana, it evoked memories of the violence of the civil rights era.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/19
  

  The accused New Zealand shooter and an all-white Europe that never existed

  Brenton Tarrant covered his arsenal with symbols and names that medieval historians say are being misused by white supremacists.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Combatting Crimes against History

  by Antoon De Baets

  Those who died while exercising their right to history are testimony to the fact that the historian’s craft is vulnerable, that its integrity needs constant vigilance and protection, that the defence of its basic principles is a duty for all, always, and everywhere.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/5/18
  

  30 years ago Pinochet proposed using violence to change the outcome of a plebiscite on his dictatorship

  Officials refused to implement his plan. He lost and the dictatorship ended. 

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  11-9-17
  

  Steven Pinker: This Is History's Most Peaceful Time--New Study: "Not So Fast"

  War deaths have increased dramatically in the modern era, new research contends, despite other statistics that suggest the risks of becoming a victim of violence have lessened.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  9-28-16
  

  New Study: Lethal violence deep in the human lineage

  Researchers estimate that the incidence of human lethal violence at the time of the origin of our species was about six times higher than for the average mammal, but about as violent as expected, given our great-ape ancestry.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7-22-16
  

  Experts: Violent years, seasons come in waves

  "There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen."

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• 7-14-16
  

  Our Week from Hell

  by Walter G. Moss

  Race and guns, April 1968 and July 2016.

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• SOURCE: Twitter
  7-12-16 (accessed)
  

  Twitter lights up with a counter hashtag: #AllLivesDidn'tMatter

  It’s in response to the AllLivesMatter meme.

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• 7-17-16
  

  The Appalling Violence of the World’s Three Superpowers

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  Russia, China and the USA are among the world’s most violent societies at home and pose the greatest threat to the continued existence of civilization.

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• 1-12-16
  

  Why This Historian Is Worried for His Country

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  As the author of a book on presidential assassinations, he’s concerned the ugly rhetoric of this election will lead to an act of violence.