Roundup: Talking About History 
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SOURCE: PsyBlog
3-5-14
Quirks of Memory Everyone Should Know
by Jeremy Dean
Why we remember and why we forget.
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SOURCE: Johns Hopkins University Press Blog
3-3-14
Returning to Our Cruelest War
by Michael C. C. Adams
Why one of America's foremost Civil War historians is returning to the topic.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
2-17-14
When President Lincoln Wrote Catty Letters to the Editor
by Matthew Pinsker
New historical research has uncovered a cheekier side to our sixteenth president.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2-19-14
Tales of an Indiscriminate Tool Adopter
by Michelle Moravec
How to do a twelve-week digital humanities on the cheap.
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SOURCE: National Review
2-18-14
Lessons of World War I
by Victor Davis Hanson
Much of what we think we know is false; what really happened matters desperately to us today.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2-5-14
Reviving Midwest History
by Michael Dirda
A new book by Jon Lauck argues for reconsidering the history of America's heartland.
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SOURCE: National Review
1-29-14
Totalitarian Troubadour
by John Fund
We shouldn’t forget that Pete Seeger was Communism’s pied piper.
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera America
1-28-14
In Defense of Pete Seeger, American Communist
by Bhaskar Sunkara
Like his party associates, Seeger was consistently on the right side of history.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1-29-14
Pete Seeger's All-American Communism
by David Graham
The folksinger's romance with Stalinism remains disturbing, but it can't be separated from the rest of his work—nor from U.S. history.
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera America
1-18-14
The Horrors "12 Years a Slave" Couldn't Tell
by Adam Rothman
What a Civil War soldier’s diary tells us about Solomon Northup’s ordeal.
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SOURCE: PJ Media
1-19-14
Nelson Mandela Was A Committed Communist
by Ronald Radosh
South African journalist Rian Malan has new revelations about Mandela's relationship with the Communist Party.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1-20-14
The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard
by Sean Trainor
“Washes and razors for foofoos," scoffed Walt Whitman. But the story of nineteenth-century facial hair is more tangled than modern nostalgists may realize.
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SOURCE: New-York Historical Society
1-15-14
Generations a Slave: Unlawful Bondage and Charles Carroll of Carrollton
by Julita Braxton
A half century before, in the courts of the neighboring Upper South state of Maryland, Charles Mahoney successfully challenged the legality of his enslavement.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1-6-14
New York Times Room for Debate: Turning Away From Painful Chapters
What happens when we ignore ugly truths about the past -- when families bury their dark secrets, and nations try to forget their sins?
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1-9-14
Why Presidents Stopped Talking About Poverty
by Jeff Shesol
LBJ was the last president to talk about poverty in a substantive way.
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SOURCE: Deutsche Welle
1-9-14
1914 All Over Again?
by Susanne Spröer
There are parallels between 1914 and 2014, but the differences are far more important.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1-6-14
Facing 2014 with Trepidation
by Adam Gopnik
The last time '13 turned into '14, it didn't work out too well.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
12-26-13
Ten Books Any Student of American History Must Read
by John B. Judis
These are the books that have influenced one writer's view of American history.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
12-19-13
On the 76th Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre
by Stephen D. Smith
Sirens sound around this Chinese city as the last few eyewitnesses of a massacre gather.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12-12-13
Insisting Jesus Was White Is Bad History and Bad Theology
by Jonathan Merritt
In trying to police his depiction, Megyn Kelly is wrong on both the facts and the essential universality of the Christian message.