Roundup

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• SOURCE: Hollywood Progressive
  1/19/20
  

  Reflections on Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North

  by Walter G. Moss

  Besides a page-turning novel and discussions of love, death, and the meaning of life, there is much more to value in The Narrow Road.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/20/20
  

  Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

  by Justin Rose

  “I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others…I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/20/20
  

  The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share

  by Richard Rothstein

  Persistent housing segregation lies at the root of many of our society’s problems. Trump wants to make it worse.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/20/20
  

  The National Archives' dangerous corruption of history

  by David Perry

  While the National Archives issued an apology and vowed to undergo "a thorough review" of its policies after the Washington Post first reported on the alteration, having discovered it by chance, as a historian I worry about how many other altered documents the Trump administration has buried in our records. Will we ever know?

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/18/20
  

  Pence's outrageous op-ed holds deeper meaning

  by Jeremi Suri

  Vice President Mike Pence published a powerful, but deceptive article in Friday's Wall Street Journal. 

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  1/19/20
  

  Imagining an Iranian Spring

  by Andrew Meyer

  The recent brush with war between the US and Iran underscores the persistent question of US-Iranian relations: will the two countries ever reach a point of mutual toleration ever again?

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• 1/17/20
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  1/9/20
  

  What Australia’s Fires Should Teach the USA: Be Alarmist!

  by Walter G. Moss

  Most importantly in this 2020 election year, the Australian tragedy tells us we should vote out all the human-caused climate-change deniers and minimizers. 

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• SOURCE: Cambridge Blog
  1/8/20
  

  The 1619 Project and Bringing History to the People

  by Anne C. Bailey

  From my time as an undergraduate till my present position as a Professor of History at SUNY Binghamton, I have been frustrated that history seemed to belong to the few – the few who had made it their life’s work in the halls of academia, some of whom, as I was to learn, spoke more to each other than to the general public. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/15/20
  

  Nigeria Is Haunted by Its Civil War

  by Max Siollun

  The conflict’s legacy continues to hold the country captive, half a century later.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/16/20
  

  Another Disability Disaster in the Making

  by Jonathan M. Stein

  The Trump administration’s Social Security proposal would repeat one of Ronald Reagan’s most damaging mistakes.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/16/20
  

  Prohibition Was a Failed Experiment in Moral Governance

  by Annika Neklason

  A repealed amendment and generations of Supreme Court rulings have left the constitutional regulation of private behavior in the past. Will it stay there?

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• SOURCE: Contingent Magazine
  1/13/20
  

  History and the Opioid Crisis

  by Jeremy Milloy

  In the 1970s, just as now, people living with and recovering from substance use disorders faced prejudice and mistreatment at the hiring stage and in the workplace itself.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/20
  

  The problem with a year of celebrating the 19th Amendment

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  Our entire understanding of the history of feminism is skewed.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/10/20
  

  Boris Johnson Might Break Up the U.K. That’s a Good Thing.

  by David Edgerton

  It’s time to let the fantasy of the “British nation” die.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/14/20
  

  1619?

  by Sasha Turner

  What to the historian is 1619?

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/14/20
  

  The Job of the Academic Market

  by Rebecca S. Wingo

  Over three years, I dedicated 106.5 workdays to getting a job—while working another job. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/13/20
  

  Assassination as Cure: Disease Metaphors and Foreign Policy

  by Sarah Swedberg

  Kinzinger’s words fit within a long historical tradition of badly used disease metaphors that often accompany bad outcomes.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/15/20
  

  Video of the Week: Ken Burns on the ERA

  by Ken Burns

  Ken Burns Argues One Vote Can Change History

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/12/20
  

  How the President Became a Drone Operator

  by Allegra Harpootlian

  From Obama to Trump, the Escalation of Drone Warfare