modern history 
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SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
4/11/2022
TODAY: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
Today, Gary Gerstle discusses the fall of the neoliberal political order in a discussion with Lizabeth Cohen and Kristina Spohr as part of the National History Center's Washington History Seminar.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/12/2021
Built on the Bodies of Slaves: How Africa Was Erased from the History of the Modern World
by Howard W. French
Popular understandings of history have generally ignored the significance of Africa and Africans in the establishment of the interconnected world and modernity.
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SOURCE: Aeon
9/1/2020
Repetition and Rupture
by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman of UC Berkeley discusses the theories of Reinhart Koselleck, who sought in the years after World War II to model historical research that would not support the great totalitarian ideologies of Nazism or Stalinist communism.
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