extreme right

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• 8-13-17
  

  Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville: What Historians Are Saying on Social Media

  by HNN Staff

  Tweets and retweets from historians on both the left and the right.

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• 8-13-17
  

  No, Mr. President. This Is Not an Issue with “Many Sides”

  by Ed Simon

  Once again Donald Trump caters to the white racists who helped elect him.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  8-12-17
  

  White nationalists picked Charlottesville for a reason

  Long a haven for racists – it was the last town in America to desegregate schools following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brown v. Board of Education – Charlottesville turned liberal and this spring voted to remove a Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  7-16-17
  

  Medievalists, Recoiling From White Supremacy, Try to Diversify the Field

  The use of medieval references by the alt-right, along with the traditional insularity of the field, prompts some scholars to argue for more diversity among scholars and scholarship.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-8-17
  

  Rolf Peter Sieferle: Germany’s Newest Intellectual Antihero

  by Christopher Caldwell

  The German historian who took his own life last year has become a hero of the extreme right.  But does he deserve their praise?