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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/28/2021
Before the Anti-CRT Activists, there were White Citizens’ Councils
by David A. Love
"Employing the techniques of the White Citizens’ Council, a 21st-century White resistance movement threatens to turn back the clock on civil rights and racial justice and create a new future built on erasing the past."
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
7/22/2021
Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature
In 1829, South Carolina and Georgia responded to a series of fires they assumed were set by enslaved people by banning both the abolitionist literature they blamed for inciting rebellion and the teaching of literacy to slaves. Today's battles over curriculum are likewise about ideas deemed threatening to social hierarchies.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/5/2021
Texas Republicans Rush to Guard the Alamo from the Facts
by Jason Stanford
"The Alamo myth leaves much out, most notably that Texians opposed Mexican laws that would free the enslaved workers they needed to farm cotton."
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SOURCE: The Week
7/2/2021
Texas State History Museum Abruptly Cancels Speech by Authors of New Book on The Alamo
Chris Tomlinson tweeted Thursday night that he presumes the event was canceled because "we don't regurgitate the propaganda that [Governor Greg] Abbott's Texas 1836 Project wants to promote."
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SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
6/29/2021
Does Banning Holocaust Denial on Social Media also Block Education?
Incidents where social media algorithms take down articles that explore legitimate controversies about the Holocaust suggest that the work of controlling denialism and hate speech needs more refinement.
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6/6/2021
Why a Culture War Over Critical Race Theory? Consider the Pro-Slavery Congressional "Gag Rule"
by Frank Palmeri and Ted Wendelin
Like the Southern delegations who opposed discussion of slavery, opponents of Critical Race Theory believe that any discussion of persistent racial inequities in legal and other institutions is unacceptable because it is “divisive.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/2/2021
Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Gets New French Edition, With Each Lie Annotated
The publishers, who will donate proceeds to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, argue that with other versions of Hitler's manifesto circulating widely, a translation that preserves the incoherence and paranoia of the original with extensive debunking commentary is a positive contribution to efforts to fight the far right.
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5/30/2021
Review: Lesley Blume's “Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World”
by Lawrence Wittner
Journalist Lesley Blume's book "Fallout" ably tells the story about how John Hersey and the New Yorker navigated government censorship and political opposition to publish Hersey's "Hiroshima," a foundational work in later movements to prevent nuclear war.
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5/23/2021
The Age of Reason and the Restless Masses: Censoring Class Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
by Eric Berkowitz
The ruling classes of nineteenth century Europe were gravely concerned about the potential of mass media to help upend the class structure or incite workers to revolution. Their actions didn't seek to expunge taboo ideas, but to restrict their circulation to the elites.
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SOURCE: Oprah Daily
3/25/2021
Editors Refused to Publish Richard Wright's Most Important Novel—Until Now
"Though Wright himself considered The Man Who Lived Underground his finest work, its depiction of police brutality was so graphic, his publishers believed that it shouldn't see the light of day. When Wright submitted the work to his editor, it was turned down."
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3/21/2021
The Same Mistakes Twice? Teaching Dr. Seuss
by Walter Kamphoefner
Step back from the current media controversy and consider how Theodor Geisel's cartooning illustrate the contradictory nature of America's posture toward foreign and domestic racism in the World War II era, a pivotal moment for the nation that must be understood in all its complication.
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SOURCE: Iowa Capital Dispatch
3/16/2021
Iowa House Passes Controversial Bill to Ban ‘Divisive Concepts’ from School Training, Curriculum
“This bill is a denial of history,” Rep. Marti Anderson, D-Des Moines, said. “The bill doesn’t want our next generations to receive complete American history education that includes the facts of our darkest hours.”
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SOURCE: Cinejoy
3/16/2021
Atomic Cover-Up
by Greg Mitchell
Greg Mitchell's Atomic Cover-Up premiers this month and tells the story of two film crews, one Japanese and one from the U.S. Army, whose footage of the human toll of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings was seized and suppressed by the U.S. goverment.
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3/14/2021
FDR and the Need for Truth
by Stephen Dando-Collins
Franklin Roosevelt took a novel approach to handling bad domestic and military news in 1943, amid stiff political opposition: showing the public the hard truth about the Pacific War.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/98/2021
Black History is Often Shunned, Like the Book I Wrote
by Martha S. Jones
The historian of voting rights and Black women's activism examines the reaction to a planned discussion of her book through a Louisiana public library.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/22/2020
The Latest Chapter in Mississippi’s Long History of Squelching Anti-Racist Activism
by William Sturkey
The silencing of journalists and academics has always been integral to the regime of white supremacy in Mississippi. Now that new challenges are emerging to that regime, attacks on academic freedom, including the firing of historian Garrett Felber, have resurfaced.
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SOURCE: CNN
11/18/2020
Hong Kong's New Rules have Created Confusion in the Classroom. Some Parents are Pulling their Children Out
While pro-Beijing lawmakers stress the need to promote national unity through civics education, educators, historians and parents in Hong Kong expect censorship and indoctrination under new restrictions.
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SOURCE: Rest of World
10/26/2020
Control, Alter, Delete:Hong Kong Activists and Academics are Hurrying to Digitize Historical Records
Museums dedicated to the struggle for civil liberties in Hong Kong face a crisis to preserve records in the face of new public safety laws aimed at curbing criticism of the People's Republic of China.
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SOURCE: Forbes
9/6/2020
Call Trump’s Attacks On The 1619 Project What They Are — Censorship of American History
The 1619 Project has been published for a year. Why, now, is Donald Trump making a political issue over its use in schools? The author says it's not about teaching history but shaping national propaganda.
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8/16/2020
Who Shaped the Story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
by William Johnston
Most Americans' knowledge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects how American leaders in 1945 wanted the atomic bombings remembered more than their real history.