Should We Burst the Campus "Bubble"—Or Balance It?
By Elizabeth Stice
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Transgender Youth Have Doubters. They Also Have History
Pax Attridge
Opponents of gender-affirming medical intervention for trans youth invoke "transtrendiness" or social influence to claim that they're protecting youth from impulsively making medical decisions based on peer pressure. To accept this belief is to ignore the historical presence of transgender youth.
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Does Novelist Robert Keable Deserve a Reappraisal?
Simon Keable-Elliott
Briefly celebrated in the 1920s, then consigned to posthumous obscurity, the missionary and novelist, whose experiences encompassed the collision of colonialism, war and racism in the British empire, is overdue for rediscovery.
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An Insider's Look at Congress With Former Rep. Jim McDermott
Robin Lindley
As only the second psychiatrist to serve in Congress (and the first in the modern era), the former representative of the Seattle region offers keen insight into the motives of his colleagues and th...
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James M. Scott's "Black Snow" Traces the Line from Tokyo to Hiroshima
James Thornton Harris
"LeMay’s operation really served as an important trial balloon to see how the American public would respond to the mass killing of enemy civilians.... To the surprise of many in Washington, however, the American public voiced no real objection."
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Professor Adam Winkler on Limitless Political Spending
Skipped History with Ben Tumin
"We're still in the world that Mark Hanna created."
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Projecting the Next Presidential Winner from the Midterm Results is a Fool's Bet
Ronald L. Feinman
Politicians and pundits have begun to make presidential election predictions based on the national and state-level results of the midterms. Most of those predictions will be worthless; few presiden...
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The Roundup Top Ten for November 18, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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A Loss for Bolsonaro is a Win for the Amazon and the Planet
Alon Ben-Meir
Much work remains to preserve the Amazon, but the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro's regime was a precondition to any progress on this key aspect of the climate crisis.
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A Hundred Years On, Tutankhamun's Alleged Curse Still Captivates
Gill Paul
The fevered belief that visitors to Tutankhamun's tomb (and their families) were cursed became a media phenomenon in 1922, but popular culture from the Bible to Victorian serial stories and stage plays had already linked mummies and the supernatural. Today, curses persist alongside conspiracy theories to help ease the randomness of tragedy.
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The Wartime Service and Postwar Activism of One Latino Veteran
Ricardo Romo
For Veteran's Day, a historian shares photos, and the history, of his father's wartime experiences. Like many of his compatriots, Henry Romo was reluctant to discuss those experiences, but drew on them to work for equal citizenship at home.
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Are the Modern Stoics Really Epicureans?
Emily A. Austin
The Modern Stoicism movement has embraced the classical philosophy, often as part of project of disciplining emotion with rationality. Perhaps adherents should consider the rival philosophy of Epicureanism, which is even more in line with the modern embrace of science.
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Doug Mastriano's Political Mad Libs
Judith Giesberg and Paul Steege
"Ultimately, if American political movements decide to mimic Nazis, we should take them at their word."
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Monkeypox Has Been Around for Decades; This Outbreak is a Product of Neglect
Alessandro Hammond and Cameron Sabet
The world's response to viral outbreaks in poor nations demonstrates the hoarding of resources in the Global North, but it's ultimately self-defeating for rich nations, too.
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"Divisive Concepts" Bans Will Undermine Teaching Some of the Values Conservatives Claim to Uphold
John Marot
The story of Frederick Douglass, to single out one prominent abolitionist, is "divisive" in the sense that students engaging with it will find echoes of values claimed by both left and right. That's why this history must be taught.
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The Roundup Top Ten for November 11, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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Russian Soldiers' Calls Home Echo Moral Injury Testimony of Vietnam Vets
Elise Lemire
Translations of intercepted calls from Russian soliders in Ukraine reveal guilt, shame, anger, and loss of faith in national institutions and leadership that echo the testimony of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Will these veterans help launch resistance to Russian militarism?
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The Wartime Service and Postwar Activism of One Latino Veteran
Ricardo Romo
For Veteran's Day, a historian shares photos, and the history, of his father's wartime experiences. Like many of his compatriots, Henry Romo was reluctant to discuss those experiences, but drew on them to work for equal citizenship at home.
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Doug Mastriano's Political Mad Libs
Judith Giesberg and Paul Steege
"Ultimately, if American political movements decide to mimic Nazis, we should take them at their word."
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Understanding the Political Power of Nixon's "Silent Majority"
George Case
Nixon's comment, arguably a throwaway line at the time, has become prophetic as the public across the political spectrum fears they are being manipulated and deceived.
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The Schlesinger Diaries—A Gift to Historians that Keeps Giving
Rafael Medoff
The late historian's diaries highlight discrepancies between Schlesinger's public defenses of Franklin Roosevelt and his private knowledge of FDR's attitudes toward Jews and positions on the Holocaust.
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Eying Return to Power, Conservatism Learns to Love the Administrative State
Jim Sleeper
Some conservatives are turning away from the idea of a government small enough to drown in a bathtub to the idea of one large enough to enforce economic, cultural and sexual orthodoxy in line with their vision of the common good. Will the midterms be their coming out party?
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From Torch to Tunis to El Alamein: Events 80 Years Ago Made the Modern Middle East
Robert Satloff
80 years ago Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, opened a second front against Nazi Germany. Today, it has proven equally important for establishing models for America's relationship to the Middle East.
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Lindsey Fitzharris on the Pioneering Facial Reconstruction Surgeon Who Remade the Faces of Great War Veterans
James Thornton Harris
As one battlefield nurse wrote home, “the science of healing stood baffled before the science of destroying.” Dr. Harold Gillies let the effort to catch up, arguably the only lasting "victory" of the Great War.
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The Roundup Top Ten for November 4, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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