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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  5/17/2021
  

  Keeping it Real: Historians in the Deepfake Era

  by Abe Gibson

  "Deepfake" videos threaten to undermine the integrity of primary sources, particularly for researchers and students of recent history. Historians need to be ready to question, verify, or push back against deceptive videos.

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• 3/14/2021
  

  The Birth, and Life, of a Word

  by Ralph Keyes

  One of the most widely-used terms in discussions of American racism has its roots in a campaign by two pro-slavery writers to troll abolitionists through a fake tract promoting "miscegenation."

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  4/27/2020
  

  Does an 1866 Court Case Bar States from Enforcing Social-Distancing Regulations?

  States may in fact use police powers to protect the health, safety, and welfare of persons within their borders.

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• SOURCE: Lead Stories
  4/27/2020
  

  Fact Check: NO Evidence Presidents Lincoln And Kennedy Were Assassinated For Trying To End Federal Reserve

  There is no evidence that both Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated because they wanted to destroy the Federal Reserve system (which also did not exist in Lincoln's day).   

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• 3/15/2020
  

  I Taught my Students to Create Hoaxes in Public. Here’s Why

  by Keith A. Erekson

  The discipline of history has much to offer our present age of misinformation in terms of subject matter and analytical methods.