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2-27-15
RoundupRoundup 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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2-26-15
News at HomeWhy Hollywood’s Diversity Problem Can’t Just Be Solved with Fancy Award Ceremonies and Gold Statues
Cara Caddoo
For most of its history, Hollywood has worked hard to identify—and undermine—the work of black actors and filmmakers.
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2-23-15
News AbroadSeven Reasons Why We Should Not Send Weapons to Ukraine
Walter G. Moss
The hawks who urge us to arm Ukraine say we need to remember 1938. But Putin’s not Hitler.
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2-24-15
Historians/HistoryWhat Would Happen If Humanity Was Suddenly Rebooted?
Roland Hughes
“The entire point of this op ed is to get you, the learned few in the hallowed halls, to focus on gathering all of the basic knowledge in a form which will survive flood, fire, and nuclear winter.”
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2-22-15
News Abroad3 Lessons from the French Revolution European Policymakers Should Keep in Mind
Rebecca L. Spang
The moment has come to diversify our analogy portfolio to include the French Revolution if we are to understand the Euro crisis.
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2-22-15
Historians/HistoryThe Myth of the Rational Actor
Susan J. Matt
Why we need a social history of selfishness.
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2-20-15
News at HomeWhat’s the Matter with Kansas? Nothing
Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban
Working class whites mostly vote their interests, but they define their interests more broadly than many liberals want them to.
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2-22-15
News AbroadAmerica Is More than the 82nd Airborne. We Need to Let the Muslim World Know that.
Greg Barnhisel
Using culture to define us is one of the lessons of the Cold War we need to relearn.
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2-20-15
Historians/HistoryWhy Is a French Library Refusing to Carry a History of Stalin’s Russia?
Michael Dwyer
The book, by Geoffrey Roberts, was published by Yale University Press. Is this a case of censorship?
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2-22-15
Historians/HistoryThe Missing Chapter in the History of America’s Sixties Radicals
Aaron Leonard
Fresh research shows that the FBI had a secret war on Maoists.
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2-22-15
Historians/HistoryWhy History Matters
Charles Spencer
History comes alive when we connect with characters.
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2-22-15
News at HomeWhen a City Turns White, What Happens to Its Black History?
David S. Rotenstein
Case Study: Decatur, Georgia
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2-22-15
Historians/History90 Years Later: Is It Time to Revise Our Understanding of the Underrated and Misunderstood Locarno Conference?
Dr. Yoav J. Tenembaum
As a result of the Locarno Conference, Germany was admitted in 1926 into the League of Nations. Isn’t that worth remembering?
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2-2-15
BooksReview of “The 40’s: The Story Of A Decade: The New Yorker,” Edited by Henry Finder and Giles Harvey
Mark Weisenmiller
Readers and writers should relish this “story of a decade” for it’s education and entertainment.
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2-23-15
Culture WatchWinston Churchill: Back and as Feisty as Ever
Bruce Chadwick
Ronald Keaton is a delight as Britain’s wartime leader in Churchill, written by Keaton and nicely directed by Kurt Johns. Keaton brings the English leader back to life in an admirable show that is extraordinarily informative.
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2-20-15
RoundupRoundup 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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2-17-15
News AbroadTrying to Make Money Work, in the Place It Was Invented
Jotham Parsons
Greece is in trouble. Do Europe’s leaders understand what’s required for success?
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2-16-15
Historians/HistoryThis Is What’s Missing from Black History Month
Mike McQuillan
The trivialization of black history – reducing the movement to MLK and Rosa Parks – denies young people their rightful awareness of Jim Crow racism’s systemic nature.
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2-13-15
News at HomeWhy Aren’t People Up in Arms About Capitalism these Days?
Steve Fraser
Our times are often compared with the Gilded Age of the 19th century, but back then people complained loudly. Why don’t they today?
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2-15-15
News AbroadWhy a Long-lasting Peace in Ukraine Is Unlikely
Christopher Stevens, Ph.D.
In the absence of a grand bargain the incentives for renewed conflict are great.
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2-15-15
News AbroadBoko Haram Is Hardly a New Phenomenon in Nigeria
Moses Ochonu
The surprise is it’s in formal rebellion against western education its members never received.
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2-15-15
Historians/HistoryWhen It Matters that Hollywood Get History Right
Robert Brent Toplin
Even when Hollywood’s got a good story to tell, the facts matter.
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2-13-15
Culture WatchOscars: Real History Is Far More Intriguing than Reel History
Bruce Chadwick
Several Oscar Best Picture nominees have been lashed by critics for their misguided history. These movies are just the latest in a long line of very good films that have been chastised for distorting history.
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2-15-15
Historians/HistoryThe Secret of Abraham Lincoln’s Success as a Writer?
Rosemarie Ostler
He had a reputation as a country bumpkin, but he knew his grammar inside out.
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2-15-15
News AbroadAlong with a Fresh Start in Cuba, We Need a Fresh Start in Mexico
Aaron Brown
First on the agenda should be revising American drug laws.
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2-15-15
News at HomeWhy It’s Time for a New Wave of Constitutional Amendments
David O. Stewart
Four waves of amendments have wrought critical changes in the Constitution. The new Congress should commence a fifth.
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Historians/History
Recalling the First War Against Fascism: Richard Rhodes on the Spanish Civil War (Interview)
Robin Lindley
In his vivid new book "Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made," award-winning historian Richard Rhodes recounts the war through the breakthroughs—military, cultural, medical and more—that took center stage in the bloody worldwide war that followed.
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2-15-15
Historians/History“So Help Me God” and the Presidential Oath
David B. Parker
Yet another legacy of the Cold War
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2-15-15
BooksReview of Andrew Maraniss' "Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South"
Luther Spoehr
What it took to desegregate the Southeastern Conference.
News
- German Historian: Rich Greeks Evade Taxes Since 1830
- UK teaching "invented" history as EU propaganda, says Cambridge professor
- The move accelerates to show that black people have a history
- Eric Foner says he insisted on his MOOC on the Civil War being free
- Ellen Schrecker backs “National Adjunct Walkout Day” as a brilliant tactic
