Roundup

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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.