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The Direct Line Between Slavery And Racism In Boston
by Janna Malamud Smith
When you live with a false story about your nation’s past ... developing an informed consensus for action becomes extremely difficult.
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2/21/19
Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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SOURCE: Democracy Now!
2/15/19
Video of the Week: Ibram X. Kendi on Surviving Cancer & His Anti-Racist Reading List for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam
And the legacy of Frederick Douglass on his 201st birthday.
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SOURCE: The Digital Press
Accessed 2/21/19
Protesting on Bended Knee: Race, Dissent and Patriotism in 21st Century America
by Eric Burin
This digital book is available for free download!
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SOURCE: New Yorker
2/20/19
The "Historovox" and the Bad Synergy Between Historians and Journalism
by Corey Robin
When academic knowledge is on tap for the media, the result is not a fusion of the best of academia and the best of journalism but the worst of both worlds.
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SOURCE: History Headlines
2/20/19
A quick response to Max Boot’s critique of historians
by Glenn David Brasher
Aren’t retention and anti-intellectualism the real problems?
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SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
2/20/19
Max Boot’s Screed Against Historians
by John Fea
Boot is the latest public intellectual to chide academic historians for failing to speak to public audiences.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/19/19
What we get wrong about the roots of slavery in America
by Eric Herschthal
How we remember the past shapes the fight for racial justice today
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SOURCE: The Globe Post
2/19/19
Why History is Important Today
by Luis Martínez-Fernández
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/20/19
Americans’ ignorance of history is a national scandal
by Max Boot
You simply can’t understand the present if you don’t understand the past.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/20/19
The Catholic Church is bursting with secrets. Investigating one will unravel them all.
by Garry Wills
Secrecy in one clerical area intersects with secrecy in others.
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SOURCE: The Tennessean
accessed 2/19/19
How George Washington would fix partisan politics in America today
by Eli Merritt
The United States' first President George Washington would prescribe rule of law and emotional intelligence to help us heal.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/16/19
Do American Women Still Need an Equal Rights Amendment?
by Susan Chira
We’re already living in Phyllis Schlafly’s nightmare.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
2/18/19
Why Are We Still Segregating Black History in February?
by Christina Proenza-Coles
Even before the U.S. was a nation, African-Americans played crucial roles in nearly every stage of history in the new world. ‘Honoring’ that history in one month is a travesty.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/15/19
The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers’
by Colbert I. King
Like dreamers of today, those black soldiers and sailors also had families and attended churches; some were enrolled in schools.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
2/19/19
Winthrop's "City" Was Exceptional, Not Exceptionalist
by Jim Sleeper
There are compelling anthropological reasons why almost every society in history has invented “special covenant” and “origin” myths, or “constitutive fictions.”
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2/14/19
Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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SOURCE: Full Front with Samatha Bee
2/6/19
Video of the Week: "Real Black History"
Professors Jelani Cobb, Jamilah Lemieux, Mychal Denzel Smith, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, George Wallace, and Walter Naegle are here to remind you that Black History is American History and it doesn't fit in one tweet.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
2/14/19
Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted)
by Tom Engelhardt
An Obituary for the Republic
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SOURCE: Politico Magazine
2/13/19
The Dark History of Anti-Gay Innuendo
by James Kirchick
The accusation that Lindsay Graham is susceptible to blackmail is historically groundless, predicated upon the same flawed assumption most people held about gays at the height of the Cold War: that they would commit treason in order to avoid being outed.
News
- Timothy Thomas Fortune: A Great, Forgotten Black Radical
- Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts
- Emmett Till's Murder and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments
- ‘Slavery is not a game’: Virginia school apologizes over Black History Month exercise
- How the Republican Response to the Mueller Investigation Breaks With History
- Every Sunday, These Historians Go to the Movies — All in the Name of Digital Community
- History has a massive gender bias. We’ll settle for fixing Wikipedia.
- Historians fight back as TV raids their research treasures for its shows
- "The North Star" Launches with Keisha N. Blain as Editor-in-Chief
- New Interactive Tool Maps the American War on Terror