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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
8/15/2022
The Modern City was Shaped by Policing Black Women's Sexuality
by Simon Balto
In tribute to the work of Anne Gray Fischer, a historian of policing reflect on how central the goal of controlling sexuality was to the growth of police forces and the geography of urban America.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
8/15/2022
The Modern City was Shaped by Policing Black Women's Sexuality
by Simon Balto
In tribute to the work of Anne Gray Fischer, a historian of policing reflect on how central the goal of controlling sexuality was to the growth of police forces and the geography of urban America.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/15/2022
The Context of the New History Wars is Our Missing Sense of a Shared Past
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Grievances over secular issues like teaching racism have replaced Christian concerns over evolution and prayer in the battles over curriculum. Have advocates of progressive curricula opened the door to this attack by undermining a shared national historical narrative?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/15/2022
What Justice Kavanaugh Gets Wrong About the Court and Politics
by William E. Nelson
At the founding, the idea that the law was distinct from politics had not yet emerged. Since then, courts have often intervened in political matters, and doing so often prevented worse outcomes.
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SOURCE: Contingent
8/12/2022
The Missouri Social Worker Who Founded the Global Internet Name Registry
by Ayden Férdeline
Marilyn Cade played a major role in establishing the global governance structure of the internet.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/13/2022
Asking Gay Men to be Cautious Over Monkeypox Isn't Homophobia
by Jim Downs
"Protecting gay men from discrimination and stigmatization today does not require public-health officials to tiptoe around how monkeypox is currently being transmitted."
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SOURCE: Forward
8/16/2022
An Honest Conversation about Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
by Jacob Remes
The president of the Antidefamation League recently said the progressive Jewish group was out of line with "mainstream Jewish values." A member and historian begs to differ.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
8/16/2022
Smuggled Recordings Revealed the Harshness of British Internment Policies in Northern Ireland
by Jack Sheehan
Tapes secretly recorded in the Long Kesh internment facility, where suspected IRA militants were detained without trial, revealed the degree to which the British government discarded human rights in its crackdown and speak to today's "states of exception."
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SOURCE: n+1
8/15/2022
Fighting Incarceration from the Inside: Prison Litigation as Resistance
by Charlotte Rosen
The Prison Litigation Reform Act has cut incarcerated people off from their rights to access the court system to seek personal relief from abuse and cruel punishment and systemic change to the mass incarceration regime.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/14/2022
History Exposes the Fraud of Marco Rubio's Populism
by Sean Wilentz
The Florida senator engaged with an ingnominious tradition of disparaging expertise and knowledge as "elitist" when he condemned a meeting between President Biden and a number of historians, including the author.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/11/2022
Treating Citizens as Consumers Results in One-Sided Fed Decisions
by Suzanne Kahn
A set of political choices over the course of the 20th century placed the concerns of consumers over those of workers. While most Americans fit both roles, this priority leaves a great deal of racial inequality in place.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
8/16/2022
Salman Rushdie Changed Everything
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
The novelist's creative brilliance and critical acclaim signaled a moment for south Asian people around the world to see themselves outside the frame of colonialism and to grapple with the subcontinent's ethnic and religious fissures.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/15/2022
The New Era of Political Violence is Here
by Tom Nichols
Rather than civil war, the emerging threat in America is heavily-armed individuals informed by mass delusion.
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SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
8/14/2022
The Inflation Reduction Act is a Legislative Victory and a Vindication of Patient Pragmatism
by Walter G. Moss
While compromise and negotiation are difficult, they have proven necessary for salvaging a large chunk of the Biden domestic agenda, including action on climate change.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
8/14/2022
If American History Needs Heroes, Why Aren't We Teaching about the Abolitionists?
by Stephanie Coontz
Those who feel discomfort over studying the history of abolitionism do so because of their refusal to build on the work of an interracial group of American visionaries.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/12/2022
Monkeypox is a Failure to Learn from HIV-AIDS Activists
by Dan
Attention to messaging – efforts to advise communities of gay men at risk of infection without stigma – has hidden a deeper message of AIDS activism in the 1980s: demands for an equitable and affordable health care system.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/16/2022
The Disturbing History of Sending Migrants to Other States
by Hidetaka Hirota
In the context of intense anti-Irish nativism, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts expelled and deported poor immigrants without due process.
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8/12/2022
The Roundup Top Ten for August 12, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
8/11/2022
"Phantom Catholic Threats" Haunt Ireland's National Maternity Hospital
by Máiréad Enright
Secular Irish health advocates fear that a partnership between the state and religious charities to operate the national maternity hospital will impose limits on care, including abortion access. Is this justified or a case of finding "nuns under the bed"?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/9/2022
How to Fight Inflation Without Interest Rate Hikes and Recession
by Meg Jacobs and Isabella M. Weber
The history of World War II price controls shows that it is possible to fight inflation without imposing recession, if controls are targeted and backed by concerted effort to win political support.