The Roundup Top Ten for August 19, 2022
If American History Needs Heroes, Why Aren't We Teaching about the Abolitionists?by Stephanie CoontzThose who feel discomfort over studying the history of abolitionism do so because of their refusal to build on the work of an interracial group of American visionaries. |
Treating Citizens as Consumers Results in One-Sided Fed Decisionsby Suzanne KahnA set of political choices over the course of the 20th century placed the concerns of consumers over those of workers. While most Americans fit both roles, this priority leaves a great deal of racial inequality in place. |
History Exposes the Fraud of Marco Rubio's Populismby Sean WilentzThe Florida senator engaged with an ingnominious tradition of disparaging expertise and knowledge as "elitist" when he condemned a meeting between President Biden and a number of historians, including the author. |
Asking Gay Men to be Cautious Over Monkeypox Isn't Homophobiaby Jim Downs"Protecting gay men from discrimination and stigmatization today does not require public-health officials to tiptoe around how monkeypox is currently being transmitted." |
Faculty Need Labor Organizing, Not Shared Governanceby Eva Cherniavsky"Beyond the walls of the academy, where the default vision of the college professor is (still) that of an over-educated, privileged elite reveling in the outrageous luxury of career-long job security, no one at all is much concerned with the erosion of faculty power. Yet they should be." |
An Honest Conversation about Jews for Racial and Economic Justiceby Jacob RemesThe president of the Antidefamation League recently said the progressive Jewish group was out of line with "mainstream Jewish values." A member and historian begs to differ. |
Assessing Cornell's Response to Revelations it was Funded by Taking Indigenous Landby Jon ParmenterThe university must account for its role in the historical connection between settler colonialism and the development of American higher education. |
Smuggled Recordings Revealed the Harshness of British Internment in Northern Irelandby Jack SheehanTapes secretly recorded in the Long Kesh internment facility, where suspected IRA militants were detained without trial, revealed the degree to which the British government discarded human rights in its crackdown and speak to today's "states of exception." |
The Disturbing History of Sending Migrants to Other Statesby Hidetaka HirotaIn the context of intense anti-Irish nativism, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts expelled and deported poor immigrants without due process. |
On Beer, or, Why Chicks Rockby Eleanor JanegaThe history of brewing in medieval Europe reflects on the present in interesting ways from the inside of the pub. |