1940s 
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SOURCE: Boston Review
8/18/2020
The Conceit of American Indispensability [review]
In his new book, Samuel Zipp Zipp explores the resonance of Willkie’s international ideas through the story of his most quixotic venture.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/12/2020
The Speeches F.D.R. and Truman Never Delivered
by Kurt Graham
Their addresses in honor of Thomas Jefferson remind us that it is possible to cultivate optimism in times of crisis.
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SOURCE: Zocalo Public Square
3/29/2020
When Americans Fell in Love with The Ideal of ‘One World’
by Samuel Zipp
In 1943, failed presidential candidate Wendell Willkie advanced a strikingly anti-racist, anti-colonial plan to bring the planet together.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/29/2020
How to Survive the Blitz
Five lessons from 1940s Britain about national resilience and social solidarity during a crisis.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
1/21/20
The Road to Auschwitz Wasn't Paved With Indifference
by Rivka Weinberg
We don’t have to be ‘upstanders’ to avoid genocides. We just have to make sure not to help them along.
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SOURCE: WaPo
5-1-13
Detroit wall dividing whites and blacks in 1940s remains, spurs art, jobs and object lessons
DETROIT — When Eva Nelson-McClendon first moved to Detroit’s Birwood Street in 1959, she didn’t know much about the wall across the street. At 6 feet tall and a foot thick, it wasn’t so imposing, running as it did between houses on her street and one over. Then she started to hear the talk.Neighbors told her the wall was built two decades earlier with a simple aim: to separate homes planned for middle-class whites from blacks who had already built small houses or owned land with plans to build.“That was the division line,” Nelson-McClendon, now, 79, says from the kitchen of her tidy, one-story home on the city’s northwest side. “Blacks lived on this side, whites was living on the other side. ... That was the way it was.”That’s not the way it is anymore. But the wall remains, a physical embodiment of racial attitudes that the country long ago started trying to move beyond....
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SOURCE: Special to HNN
2-11-13
Ron Briley: Review of Richard Lingeman's "The Noir Forties: The American People from Victory to Cold War" (Nation Books, 2012)
Ron Briley reviews books for the History News Network and is a history teacher and an assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of "The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad."
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