Ukraine

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/5/2021
  

  A Tech-Savvy Holocaust Memorial in Ukraine Draws Critics and Crowds

  “I grew up with war stories from my grandparents’ generation,” said Andrej Umansky, a German historian with Ukrainian ancestry working for the private initiative, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. “But students today don’t have the same connection.... To talk about the Holocaust is the same as talking about ancient Rome.”

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• 6/6/2021
  

  Two Films Show the Historical Toll and Present Danger of Ethnic Violence

  by Walter G. Moss

  Two films show the dire consequences of ethnic antagonism during and after the second world war, and the potential for ideology to incite and justify violence.

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• 4/25/2021
  

  Russia vs. Ukraine Redux? Mapping the Way Forward from the Recent Past

  by Walter G. Moss

  Historical context suggests that Vladimir Putin's intentions toward Ukraine are pragmatic and comprehensible (whether one favors Russian objectives or not); a broader imagination and diplomatic engagement can do more to prevent open war than saber-rattling. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/21/2020
  

  Ukraine Seeks UN Cultural Status for Beloved Borscht. A Culinary Spat with Russia Could be Brewing

  The latest battle between Russia and Ukraine is over which nation can claim the beet soup as its emblematic food. So far, no shots have been fired. 

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Mourning in America

  by Ed Simon

  Historically the powerful have described deaths from disease and starvation as "natural" to hide the political nature of suffering and their own responsibility. To mourn is to fight this erasure.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  5/3/2020
  

  A ‘Holocaust Disneyland’? Historians Say a Controversial Film Director Wants to Turn a Ukrainian Museum into One.

  A Ukrainian filmmaker's controversial methods and subject matter have sparked criticism of his leadership of a memorial project for the massacre by Nazis and local collaborators of 150,000 people (including 50,000 Jews) at Babyn Yar, outside Kyiv.

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• 2/9/20
  

  How Religious History Helps Us Understand Russia's War Against Ukrainian Independence

  by Khrystyna Karelska and Andreas Umland

  In recent months, the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian multidimensional military, political, economic and cultural conflict has made international news. What is less well known beyond Eastern Europe is the important religious aspect of Moscow’s “hybrid war” against Ukrainian national independence.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/10/20
  

  The Iran Plane Crash Could Be the Latest in a Long History of Accidental Shoot-Downs

  Here’s what you need to know about some of the deadliest attacks on civilian aircraft.

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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.