nostalgia

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• 9/5/2021
  

  Nationalist Nostalgia in Russian Film Mirrors Putin's Political Bending of History

  by Walter G. Moss

  Director Nikita Mikhalkov expresses through film much of the same nostalgic nationalism that anchors Vladimir Putin's authoritiarian leadership in Russia. 

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Nostalgia and Progress: Fake History and the 2020 Elections

  by Walter G. Moss

  Trump's encouragement of a nostalgic, pseudohistorical understanding of the past thwarts both the hope for betterment and the determined realism Americans need at this moment. 

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Nostalgia and the Tragedy of Trump's Speech at Mount Rushmore

  by John Bodnar

  Trump's July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore, like his attacks on historians this week, embodied an escapist nostalgia that purges injustice, conflict, and violence. Abraham Lincoln's brand of nostalgia is more worthy of embracing. 

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• SOURCE: Longreads
  12-27-2018 (accessed)
  

  Memory and the Lost Cause

  by Danielle A. Jackson

  An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.

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• 1/21/18
  

  Hey Historians: Nostalgia Can Be Good for Us

  by John Medina

  Why that’s good news for aging historians.

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• 10-21-13
  

  A Honeymoon in Vegas? Yes, Please.

  by Bruce Chadwick

  This is not your grandpa’s Las Vegas.